Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-31

whish Sl II rejected now is assuFsdly lost TO
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PETERSBURG. HARDr Co., WRsr Va
December 25, 1862.
Editors EH!eHigeneer:
Gen: Cluseret, with the Second brigade,
had left New Creek at my last writing, for
Komuey, as then supposed and stated
subsequently, aseertained, however, that
be followed the Romney road only to Bur
lington, distance of thirteen miles, where
he changed the direction and came TO
this place. From here he went to Moore
held, whence he proceeded east to some
point N the Shenandoah Valley, General
SiIlroy soon advanced. alss, TO Moorefeld,
via, Petersburg, to be Immediately follow
ed by the Third Brigade, under command
OF Col Washburne, of the lI6th U. VI
a portion of this force has since gone to
alooreheld, where it now remains; while
Gen. Ailroy has returned to Petersburg,
and'is endeavoting, as he expresses it, to
make the crooked ways strait P' JudR-
ing from appearances, he is meeting with
no ineonsiderable success, in SO Arduous
an undertaking; and were he clothed with
proper authority, aud sustained by ade-
quate means, there is no reasonable doubt
out be would soon clear this part of the
State of treason and rebellion When the
General succeeded. after a great deal of
military diplomacy, in obtaining permis-
sion TO move in this direction, he enter
tanned strong hopes of getting clear OF the
othelAl thraldOm which had so long held
him in State of inactivity, alike detested
by him and injurious to the cause of the
country, But the fortune which has so
generally attended the "fshtiug men of
the Union army, like an evil genius seem
ed still TO follow him; aud while his plaus
Tor roofing out of this part of the State
the rebel land pirates that everywhere in
fest 1t, were yet half executed he was
oyertaken by torders," which again put the
bit 10 his mouth, and brought him to a
sudden halt! For the present, therefore,
any important movements in this Division
are rendered impossible. All this | ure-
sune seems for the best, to those who sit
IN quiet ease within the limits of a loyaI
State, hundreds of miles from the scene OF
Operations and issue orders, with but the
slightest apprehension, evidently, of what
IS to result frsm their enforcement; but to
the earnest men who entered the army TO
"suodue' traitors, aud conquer rebellion,
II appears to be remarkably strange
method of accomplishing so desirable an
end. Should the splendid campaigning
weather with which we are even yet favor
ed pass away like the last two months, al
most wholly unimproved, let not the blame
OF such biundeF fall upon Gen. Milroy,
out rather on those by whose orders his
hands have been SO effectually tied ever
since he entered upon the fall and winter
campaign. "Render unto Cesar the things
that are Cssar's," and let 'eVeu- handed
Justice be meted out to ALL
THE NEW srATs.
The passage through Congress of the
bill for the admission of West Virginia in
to the Union as new and practically free
State, was the signal for an expression of
the most uubounded and enthusiastic de-
light by the Virginia soldiers in our midst.
Bonhres, speeches, and cheer upon cheer
were some of the many forms in which
they manifested their JOY at the long
wished deliverance from seeessionism, sla-
very and the ruinous, unjust taxation,
which has so long hung like the "scouTge
OF God" upon them. Nearly every Vir-
ginia soldier is warmly in favor of this
measure. The desire for its passage, and
the consequent redemption and regeuera-
ton of the West, from the intolerable bon
dage in which it has so long been held bv
the slaVeholdIng politicians of the East, is
second only to that felt for the suppression
of the rebellion itself Were the President
10 veto that benefcent measure, he would
do more to dishearten the loyal men OF the
State, and strengthen the hands of their
| Immediate and deadly enemies, than could
be effected by the entire Withdrawal Of the
Union troops from their midst. However
such rebel sympatizers and tools of trail
tors as Carlile and the conductors of the
| Wheeling Press may feel, the loyal Virgin .
ians who have shown their love for the
Union by enlisting in It's armies, regard
the triumph of the new free State bill as
so closely allied and interviewer with their
hopes of future prosperity and greatness,
AS to telieve that the defeat Of the one, in
evitably ensures the almost total dcstruc-
ton of both the others. Il is hoped and
believed that the President will not permit
his ''scruples" to crush the rising hope OF
noble and free people, and refasten upon
them the iron grasp of an usurpation as
reientless and uufeeling as the rule of the
despot who sits enshf0ned at Richmond, on
the rnined prospects of deIuded people.
Rather let him listen to the imperative de-
mands of substantial justice than 10 the
views" Of interested politicians, whose
principles are scarcely less doubtful than
those OF many of their late associates now
In the rebel army. PuBLIcUs