Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-23
Letter from Oumberland.
ounBERLAsD, Nd, Sept. :
Editors InteIligencer: $40

Editors IRtelligeHcer: e64
In respect to news, there is nothing new
at this point to communicate. There are
enough troops here 10 make things secure
under ordinary circumstances, and no enc
my nearer than Jackson's army so far
as known. No danger has at any time
been apprehended from that direction, but
from the force which Imboden brought
down to Romney, andwith which he is sup
posed to have gone on east to join the main
rebel army. ~
1t is said kilograms have been received
here to-day from some point down the
road announcing a battle to-day near Mar
tinsbnrg-- corps intercepting the
retrestiug rebels. It is understood that
Sigel now holds the extreme left of Nc
Clellan's army, which is wheeling down
into Virginia, pressing the rebels before it.
II true he has made junction which will
be highly serviceable, and secure him
agSiust danger of being cut of. But II
this news be true you will have correct
statement of it long before you get this.
Cumberland you know is Onthe Potomac
and everything is quiet here, so I suppose
| might say TALL quiet on the Potomac" Mt
this one point at least. To-day being
Sunday, the subscriber with a colnpan-
ion spent good part of the afternoon
latter going to Church in the morning re.
member) in strolIing around ON some of
tho hills that surround the place, enjoying
the magnificent scenery which in every
direction presents itself.
Cumberland is nestled down here ia a
pretty little valley, surrounded on every
side by an amphitheatre of mountains,
which rear themselves In peaks and broken
ranges at all points of the compass. AWAY
m RI IL. i
of the Old Dominion and the eve ranges
freely across the landscape, farther and
farther beyond the billoWy outlines of
mountains till vision is lost in the clear sky
beyond some line of faintest blue, twenty,
perhaps thirty miles away. Whatever Cum
berland lacks in other respects, 1t docs not
lack hne natural scenery, or healthy, iu-
MIGRATING breeLes. l only wonder the peO-
pie do not avail themselves of both their
advantages and pleasures, but not a soul
was out to-day on the hills but myself and
companion. The town viewed from snri
rounding heights presents a very pretty ap.
pearance, showing as every part of it does,
toithe best advantage. What particularly
stuck me was its neat, fresh, cleanly look,
just as though it lived out in the country
and didn't know what it was TO be soiled By
hlthy SCOT aud coal smoke. No doubt most
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Cumberland on account of the great coal
mines in this region; but the coal is not
consumed here. There are no factories to
'r4nsform it into soot-uo great iron
mills with their dozen hues nor steam.
boats with their yawning chimneys.-
OF course Ii won't compare in re-
spect of cleanliness with the Western
towns where they burn wood, bat speak
oft relatively as compared with Wheeling
or Pittsburg. The place is about half as
large as Wheeling, and very Conveniently
scattered over good deal of ground. with
the utmost regard for irregularity of streets.
Il has many handsome churches and other
public edifces, aud the residences in a large
portion Of the town give evidence of wealth
and refinement. OF the citizens it may be
sufficient to say that they are intelligent
and courteous. and almost universally loyal
to their government. There are few reb-
sls here bat they are every quiet 1 was
assured that since the great raid into Mary
land they behave Hnneommonly we'll, aud
'wopldn,t consider Il such a bad thing to be
for the Union after all. They see how. their
friends suffered about Frederick and Ha.