Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-25

tue v Mon, hut they are too many JudaseS
among them for the safety of the country,
who would gladly Sell Western Virginia 20
Davis & Co.. for less theHlthirty pieces OF
silver, especially ifthey could get the job
OF. furnishing the concern With salt, at one
dollar per bushel, The suspension of their
works, though 1t willdoubtless be so ple cad :
ed in the future, is not 70 be regarded as
any evidence OF their loyalty, but WAS
brought about by the same cause that in
duced the Disciples TO get asleep, on one
occasion - simply because they couldn't
help II. In-thls case, as ia that, It might
be truly, said. "thel spirit was willing, but
the flesh was Weak, -,t
10 addition to the salt taken by the re-
bells, they also carried away with them
twelve hundred headsof beef cattle.N They
took from George Long about 80, 900 lbs.
Of basop from Mr.. Walker, at Maiden,
about 5000 lbs. of bacon. Mr.. Walker
says the rebels stripped no one entirely,
but took about one. .halfIof what each man
had ID fgf.i.g .
The supply Of provisions to be obtained
in the Valley, at the time Col. Lightbourn
left IL, was very limited; not sufficient to
feed the citizens for any length Of time,
much less such an army as Loring's. am
hm satisfied, from what have seen of the
condition of things there, that an army of
ten thousand men could not be sustained
one month, without impoverishing the
country and starving the people; and am
also satisfied thai, had it not been for the
hope of obtaining a supply of salt and of
making a raid into Ohio, the Southern
authorities would nGver' have undertaken
the Kauawha expedition, Failing in the
latter part of the programme, because of
the repulse of Lee in Maryland and Bragg
in Kentucky, and tho rapid concentratio6
of troops hero and at other places In Wes
tern Virginia, the salt consideration was
not sufficient to induce them to remain, ,aud
run the risk of being cut of, surrounded
and captured. Here is the secret Of that
hasty departure for Dixie The horse steal
ling part Of the business was the only one
that paid expenses, and consequently, Jen-
'kinsis the only mau entitled to any credit
connected with the whole entefprise.-
Floyd has, hitherto. been regarded as the
most useful man in the Gonfederacy, be-
cause the greatest thiei; but jenkins has
certainly surpassed him, ia this instance,
and is entitled to tho "horns.' 9.i 57i
During the last weeks stay of Jenkins
Cavalry in the Valley, they were much an
noyed by Union guerrilla bands. It seems
that the loyal mountaineers, to the number
of threc'hundred, formed themselves into
comVRnies and went to bushwhacking in
the most approved style, Whenever they
caught squad OF rebels away from the
mGin command they attacked them. killing
and wounding what they could snd parol.
ing the prisoners. One hundred of Jenkins
Cavalry were badly whipped by these Union
mountaineers. If the rebels sent force
out after them, they could not be found -
They lived in the mountains, and attacked
the enemy whenever they were sure of win
ming. Hanging on the outskirts of the reb-
ell camps, they picked off man whenever
an opportunity occurred.
The enemy, from ALL can learn, were
greatly annoyed by this band of brave,
loyal men, and used every yexertiou to cap
ture them, but without success. Would it
not bethe more effective mode for Kidding
Western Virginia of rebels to authorize
the organization of Union guerrilla squads?
The army has moved from this place,
but what it expects to accomplish know
not. 0ne thing is certain, It will not catch
the rebel army in KauaEbar for it is not
there. ,14s ..,.f.5.. Id
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