Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-30

at she rate OF i've miles day, don't take
cities or beat armies.
Some rebel straggler from the scene, or
what more likely. some one who was not
near 1t, has furnished the Dispatch with
some cOugepial items of gossip about the
recrossiug of our army to the north bank
of the RoPpahannOck. which it, in its turn,
cooks aud dishes up to its readers as fol-
lows:
YANKEE DoIsos IL FREDERICKSBURG.
We had conversation yesterday with a
person who remained in Fredericksburg in
charge of some property, both ON the oc-
casion OF the occupation last summer and
on the late occasion. He says that the
Yankees were most awfully logged on last
Saturday, and that the slaughter was aw-
full beyond conception. He says they must
have lost at least 10000 men, and that
this is not a mere random guess OF "a per-
sou unaccustOmed to military estimates, is
sustained by the opinions of an intelligent
gentleman who had opportunities of know
ing. and who likewise estimates the loss at
$4,000 10 10000. He says that when he
left the place, after the Yankees had gone,
there were large numbers OF dead lying
unburfed in the streets. he says they re-
turned from the field in tho widest dis
order. II was found impossible to re-
strain them. il any attempt was made
All discipline, all subordiDatiOn, was
gone. They piilaged every house in town,
ransAcking the whole from garnet to cellar,
smashing the windows, doors and fnrni.
tnre, of every descriptiou-aud committing
every possible species of outrage They
broke the chiuaWare, smashed the pianos,
aud annihilated the chairs, tables, and bed
steads. They cut open the beds, eDptied
the contents in the street, and burned the
bedticks. They stole all the blankets,
sheets, counterpanes, and everything they
could use. They broke into the cellars
and drank all the liquors they could tiud,
so that the whole army became a drunken
and furious mob He thinks that not
single house in town escaped. This infer.
nal carnival was held throughout the
night of Saturday, all day and all night
Sunday, and until the evening of Monday
| At that time, from some cause which be
could not understand, they seemed TO be
suddenly taken With panic, and continued
Ia terrible state of alarm until the eVac-
cation commenced. From the account of
our Informant We should infer that they
were marching down TO Port Royal. Such
are the savages sent to teach US ciyiliza.
Iion.
As if the above aud such other items as
we have already quoted would not be like
ly to tax the credulity of the rebels far
enough, the Dispateh publishes rumors
from the North to the effect that an order
bad been issued fromIthe War Department
for the arrest of John Van Buren,, in New
York, aud that it "had met with such fu-
riOus resistance as to prevent its sxscu.
ton" Great excitement ais represented
to have existed in New York on the an.
nouncement of the order, and amoug the
CONSERVATIVES the determination was geuer-
al that it should not be carried into effect -
Gentlemen who prevent the execution of
the orders of the War Department are call
ed CONSERVATIVES" by the rebel Dispateh.
They are trying to conserve the rebellion
and its success, We suppose. The Dis
patch adopts the name Conservative as
they themselves use it, end such employ.
ment of it ought to open the eyes OF all
loyal men to the meaning that lies beneath
it.
The rebel war authorities have a way of
dealing with delinquents that our authori-
ties might follow with great profit to the
service. AS an instance, We quote the fol.
lowing paragraph, headed
GOOD MOVE
The Secretary of War has dropped five
officers belonging to the 57th North Caro-
lima regiment, for prolonged and unneces-
sary absence from duty" and they are or
dered TO report as conscripts. This is an
excellent beginning to a rule which, If car
ried out, will soon thin the streets OF their
tinselled promenaders.
If such a thing was done or ordered to
be done, on our side, there would be an i'm
mediate aud blatant outcry from the Icon
seFvatives" before alluded to. The rebels
manage things differently. They suffer
precious little Outcrying. They "conseripr'
most anybody and everybody without much
ado about it. If our governments could
from the start, have borrowed some OF tho
Vigor and determination that the desperate
rebels have employed, we would have
been good deal farther along than we
are now. War is "iFOn handed" but our
people, even yet, have not learned the
fact.
There is no end to the terms "aboliuon-
ist" and yankee" in the Di,pGtch. 1t
mixes them 10 almost every little item. It
says our army has adopted the song abou,
old John Brown as national anthem, and
it says that mo one can dispute the pro.
ptiety of the selection" 1t farther says
that