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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-08
The nInitary situation before Fred
erioksbnrE.
FFom q Letter IN the Nov York imes-
HEADeUAREKRs AEMT OF THH POEoMAC,
r FALMOUTH, Va, wednesday, Dec. 8, lSG9.

NRAR FALMOUTH, Va, Wednesday, Dec. 3, lSG9
The general military situation and pros
pective strategic and tactical manGuVres,
remain much as stated in my last letter,
barring that they are daily and hourly
more aud more developed and advanced.
To all outward appearance The rebels still
show the same fixed determination to dis
pute our possession of fredericksburg,
they have hitherto manifested and the in
habitAnts themselves, who at hTst had \
wholesale fear Of our batteries, appear now
TO be encouraged by the presence of the
Confederate force aud our own inactivity,
aud insist on its being held. Ilearn from
Mrs. Gillespie, the wife of physician in
the Uhited States service, who has, since
our retreat, last Summer been living with
her mother in fredericksburg, and who
came over in flag of truce boat few days
ago, that the ladies of Frederieksburg have
lately gone out in body to Gen. Lee, and
on their kslees begged him to hold the toitn at
all hdzdrdS, to ALLOW It to be ShelLed, aud, IN
fact, to do anything rather than 10 abandon Il.
What effect this extra military pressure will
have on therebel 9enerAlislmo, 1, of course,
know not; but the INSTANCE Is worth re.
cording AS an authentic Illustration OF the
frenziRd vapors that have risen into the
neAds OF tnese deiuded creatures.
It would, of eourse, be absurd 70 assume
that the rebel leaders are in the dark as TO
what our intentions are. They know the
end We wish to effect; they know the, pos
s!ble ways Of eHectiug that end; they know
the means we have to effect il. There is
no method Of forecasting the movements
of an adversary 50 sure as that Of forming
hypothesis Of probabilities. An army can
operate only upon the centre or one e1-
tremity Of its h6at Of operations, and
there are seldom more than three or four
Suppositions as TO It's movements than can
possibly be made. Il needs no prophet to
ten Gen. Lee that Gen. Burnside { Wfi prob.
ably not throw his troops over the river
directly 10 the face Of the batteries masked
and othesWiss placed 70 reeeiye Us. II
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-08
ErOn The New York TInsE.
MunIhesnt Response to the Appeal
for English Operatives.

for EnRliSh Operatives.
The merchants Of this city, At the meet
ing held At the Chamber Of Commerce yes
terday gave muniieent response TO the
appeals ofthe starving operatives ofthe cot
ton manufacturing districts Of England, as
we'll as to the appeals Of portion Of the
New York Press in their behalf. The pro-
eeediugs of the meeting. and particulsrly
toward its close, were grand aud thrilling.
We cannot, perhaps, describe the thing
better than BY saying that Il was eharae-
teristically A1ieFieGI; or, closer still, that
it was peeuliarly New York like aud espe-
cially after the style that eharaeterizes all
the action o. the entsrpEising and wealthy
mercantile classes OF the commercial Ne
tropolis Of the country. After the speaches
and resoluhons which Hsre ali both
humane and business like, n hrief let
ter was. read from the eminent ahip-
ping house of. Hessrs. n. L. & Geo.
GFisEpld, which contained the following
sublime sentences aAd % earnest df oar
desire 70 further this cause, u behalf OF
ourselves and others, owners Of new ship
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rrAs constantly on hand all kinda fTsas, ooaee,
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Generals Benhaua and Rosecra,,s.

lEtOm the Cincinnati Commercial
The announcement that there is 10 be nc
Investigation into the case of Gen. Ben.
ham, against whom the gravest charges
have been preferred by Gen. Rosecrans
and who has been pronounced a drunkard
and coward repeatedly by his equals in rank
Is disgusting and dishenrteuing. Are We
never to have any investigation into mill.
tary incompetence? Are the hidpous
bluuders by which our Generals dIstiu-
gulshed themselves, never to be exposed Z
It Is certnin that Gen. Roscoraus aud Gen:
Benh1m should not both be left in COM
mand. That one of them is neither an Of.
hcer nor Rentleman, is plain elongh. III
has been repeatedly charged that Gen. BEN
ham Is so great a coward that :be always
gets drunk when there is the slightest np-
peHrnnce of danger. This may be n lie
u tits, it should be exposed. II it is not,
the tAlslty of the charge needs exposure
Gen. ROsecrans says Gen. Benham's refl-
sal to obey orders permitted the escape OF
Floyd FROM Cotton Mountain. Should not
that be investigated2 We happen to know
OF very queer circumstance in Gen. Ben
hams career on the Kauuwha. When
Floyd took possession of Cotton Mountain,
and commenced banging with his six
FOUNDERS Mt Gen. Rosecrans' camp, Gen.
Benhan insisted that our position on the
Gaulcy was indeFensiblc, and that our ar
my must evacuate that part Of the country,
and fall back aud "fortify" Charleston,
thus abandoning the great Kanawha Salt
Works to the enemy. How much GenCr-
alship there is in this, might come out on
Investigation.
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PrI1e Corn Bread.

An organization in New York recently
offered premiums for the best receipts for
making corn bread, and the one that took
the first premium is MS follows:
To two quarts of meal, add one pint of
bread sponge, water sufficiently to wet the
wholei add one half pint of flour, and a
tablespoonful of salt; let it rise; then kuead
well for the second time, and place the
dough in the oven, aud allow it to bake an
hour and half.
The receipt was successful among two
hundred and twenty competitors for the
first prize, and the awarding committee
state that they ate corn bread necessarily
for two days and nights.
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the Star can make anything else out of it.
So you see we have Seer among us.'-
Blu, this is not all. The Star says the .Pi-
per will be to pay some of these days."-
That's SO. And the sooner the better for
some people know. But / fear the Piper
Will go unpaid like good many other
folks, it makes no matter how much YOU
may "shake the dry bones" The "valc.
tlictory' of the Star is in perfect character
With many other of its shining beams, 1t
has said too much-occupied to much
sPace-lct OF too much gas, and has said
great deal more than it or anybody else
can uusay. But it has set. Peace to its
ashes.
Seseshdom still lays its forked tail to
some extent, in this region. in the shape of
Breckinritlger's here and there. You can
hear now aud then of low chucklO from
some Of these WOuld.be uigger owners, who
never did own one, never will, and what is
more, decent nigger is "a gentleman by.
the side of any of them. Don't be surpri-
eed if Marshall Norton las job in these
higgins some of these days.
Yours, &C., INCO0.
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to cover up their selfish designs until Dub.
lie sentiment becomes such that there is M
longer necessity for secrecy. We believed
when we wrote the article alluded to, thar
the plan was laid to deleat a separate
State, and everything which has happcuet
! in relation thereto since, only tends to con.
/ firm us in that opinion. Let the people
reCollect back little. A Convention mel
to form n Provisional Government for
North Western Virginia, with the promise
| that one for the part of ,he State should
be made as soon as the Federal Govern
ment acknowledged the one for the. whole
State-that in order to get half loaf YOU
must first make n whole loaf, although you
bad only flour enough for half a Loaf
The Convention NdiOurned-no New
State; the Legislature met and ad.
ljourned-nO New State. The Con.
VeuttOu again met and were about to ad :
tjOurn, but found the Government was
about to tolter with the demands of the.
people, and passed u bill. with the express
understanding. that "a Constitution waE to
be formed and submitted to the people ON
the tweaty-sixth day of December. This
Convention before adjourning for the holi-
days determined 10 be in session some
months yet, any how, till it is tco late to
have this Constitution adopted and pre-
sented to Congress for admission this
session. This it is well known is Tie
end. All the high hopes of the people of
Western Virginia will have been dashed
TO the ground-nll owing to their selfish
aud verdant politicians. We now assert
what we fully believe, but hope will not
prove true, flor we prefer to see the in
terests of the people conserved than to
demonstrate our own constituency that
the time will come when the people of
Northwestern Virginia will see the pro-
priety of the views set forth in our differ
ent articles on the subjects nearest and
| dearest to their interests Ii really seems
that many of our public men are salts
| fed that the Union is saved and the
new State adopted, SO soon us then
get an office. They think their highest
duty is to receive and appropriate the
emolnments, and seem to care not n
straw for tho interest of the people,
Others there arc who are about MS
| 1T to make laws as n pig tail is to
make whistles. And others again who
have worked the machinery at Wheeling
and will continue to work it till the end,
to suit their own selfish purposes. But
some of these days the PipeT IciH be TO poV
tho people will have to pay him-and
then, when burleueil with taxes and debts
without any equivalent, there will be a
shaking among the dry bones" and many
of our present rulers (instead of servnuts)
"will call upon the ttmouutaius to fall
down upon them and hide their faces"
from tue rage of an oppressed people.
The people should remember that LITER
nal Vigilance is the price of Liberty" and
that ns one of the seutinels on the watch
tower, We have sounded the alarm, but
they needed it not.
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From q .Pennsylvanla volnnteer.


Eds. Inteiliyearer am n member of Co.
y, llth regiment Pa. reserve corps, Gen.
McCal's division, Gen. Meads' brigade, oc-
cupying the right wing of the army OF the
POTOMAC. The camp, now in a manner de-
serted, is situated ut Langley, near Lew
insvillc, Fairfax county, Va.
On the 2lst of December we were order
cd ont to DrainesVIlle, nine miles from
here, on a reconnaissance. We got there
early in the afternoon, and found four
thousand rebel infantry, one hundred cav
airy and battery Of six guns under Gen,
Stnnrt. AS soon rs we arrived ON the
ground. the rebels opened n heavy fire on
our line, which was returned with spirit.
The engagement lasted about an hour and
a hall. The 9th regiment made a brilliant
charge which SO confused the enemy that
their likes were broken and they fled in all
directions. The rout was complete. They
left sixty killed and nineteen wounded on
the field. Their own accounts say that
they had one hundred and sixty killed.
We'caPtured two cannon caissons, several
wagon loads Of corn and hay, and more
blankets, oYerCoNts and other articles than
we could carry away. The General did
not think it expedient to remain on the
battle-ground, AS our ammunition was al.
most exhausted, and we could easily have
been surroundclin in the night. According
y We returned to camp that evening. Gen.
Ord was the lion of the day, although many
others distinguished themselves.
We have no signs Of getting into winter
quarters, and for that reason think there
will be stirring times soon. There are n
large force OF Confederates at Manassas
and Lecsburg, aud we will doubtless have
brush with them soon. Ifsuch is the case,
or anything happens worth writing, you
will hear from me again.
Yours, &C., JIM.
R-Nerrs ranrhel hnrn tl.in nr.nr;...
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The convention ana !. (. tns Prospect 10,

The Convention and the Prospect for
New state.
The following extract is from au article
in the MOrgantOwu Star, to which We have
alluded elsewhere. 1t was a sagacious
motto of one of the old philosophers, to
learn wisdom even from those who are not
supposed to wish you especially we'll
And taking even this harsh view of this
extract, it may be serviccable reading to
the members of the Convention. At all
events We think they should give it their
attention.
alt must have become apparent to our
readers for the last'two months, that our
views have been Festraiued to n consider
able exteut-that owing to the condition
.of the public mind We have not asi in form
er times felt free to express our opinions
on public affairs, and especially the affairs
of our own State. We received warning
Of the state of public sentiment, in the
manner in which our first Article on the es-
tablishment Of the Wheeling Government
was received. We believed that we had
discovered plan to defeat our cherished
hopes and put Western Virginia in a faIse
position before the world. Intensely do
voted to the interests ofiour people, We
sounded the voice of warning, which, by
the work of demagoSues, was construed to
the voice Of treason. In this way, when the
public mind Is excited, dSmagogues work,
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1lll near from me again
I OURS, &c,

n. B.-News reached hero this evening
that au engagement had taken place thir.
tcen miles from Alexandria, but how true
it is can't say. We heard heavy firing
that way this afternoon. j.
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.4a1Ar A2dzApRuo Ko.iq azt14I A
NUMBER 1876. /.

mnst now close, as am somewba,
chilled as the weather is very cold in this
mountainous region.
If anything worthy of note occurs l will
be prompt in giving YOU information of the
facts connected with it.
Yours truly, D. p. LIrrLE.
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The New Paper at CIarkAburE--Ex-
perleMce OF the Editor among The
Tennessee SccessIOnists.
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HEADQUARTERS AanY OF Va, !
WAsHTsaToN. July2l, Ist

To. ne Ion. Il. NJ Stanton, Sse'y Of War.
The cavalry expedition l. directed Gen.
King TO send out on the 18th has returned.
They left fredericksburg att P. ". on the
18th ami a fter a forced march during tie
night made descent upon the Virginia
Central Railroad at Beaver Dam creek, 25
miles west of Hanover junction and 30
miles from Richmond. They destroyed the
track for several miles together with the
telegraph line, burned mp the railroad de-
pot which contained 40, 600 rounds of mus.
kst ammpuition, 100 bbis of flour aud
much other valuable property and brought
in a Captain who was ia charge as prise
soper. The whole country around was
tarown into great state of alarm. One
private was wounded on our side. The
cavalry marched 80 miles 10 30'hours. The
affairlwas successful and reflects credit up
on the commanding officer aud the troops,
as soon rs the full partien lars are received
Twill transmit TO YOU. az sf7s
GSigned ltsyal t'te 9lJoHN PoPE,
E mi. Gen. Commanding.
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From Fortress Monroe.

FoRTREss MoNRoE, July l9.-I learn
from gentleman recently from Suffolk,
that some little excitement prevails on nc
count of rumors that the rebels are build
ing bridges across the Blackwater river,
which is thought to be preparatory TO IN
attack on Suffolk. Our informant thought
the rumors likely to be false, but the SUIT
lers were careful not to keep large stock
of goods OF hand and were advised not to.
The steamship Merrimac arrived mere
last evening from Port Royal. No news
from that section
The mail boat John A. Warner arrived
from Harrisons and reports all quiet. No
news from the army
The rebel army has fallen back 10 miles
towards Richmond. ~.
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LOUISVILLE, July 2I.-The steamer Com
mercial, Capt. Archer, from Memphis, ar
rived yesterday and reports that the steam
ers Courier and Eugene, with troops, were
fred into ON entering the Green river, by
mnsket armed rebel Cavalry. Il is not
known whether either boat lost any men.
miles below New0urg, Ind, the CONNER
cial was fred into by gaerrillas, one ball
passing through the gaugWay without dam
age. 1fHsaH
The steamer, Belle from Memphis to ST.
Louis was fred into by gangat Randolph
NO., result unknown. -lr-.s s. 81
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= 4
B9-Acc DENrALLY Snor.-An evening
or two ago company of the Maryland cav
airy were drilling at Mount Glare Junction,
not far from Baltimore on tue Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad During tho exercises
volley of pall cartridges was fred, and
one of the balls took effect in the-upper
part of the right breast of George Elliott,
a fireman in the employ Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, who was
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engine attached to train, which was ~
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wound, though a painful one, is not at all
dangerous. The ball was not extracted
1t is said that ball cartridges are used dur
ing drill to accastom the horses to heavy
firing. ~
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From Washington.

WAsHINarnN,7 July 2l.-rhe number of
sick and wounded in the hospitals within
the District of Columbia and vicinity, is
$780, aat- -
The following is an extract of y letter
found in the post Office at Jacksonville, N.
Coupon the occupation of that place by
the United States force. It establishes
beyond nll doubt thetruth of the statement
heretofore made as to the atrocities COM
United by the rebels on the dead bodies of
our soldiers: - rffsst sss-y1~,
CAMPsPIcKENs, MANASSAS JUNCTION,
es Dec. I'd, 1862.
g M!y Dear Sir ~ have seen more since l
have been here. than ever expected to see
in my life Invent on the battle field one
day where the great hattie was fought, aud
saw more than Lever expected to see, or
ever want to see again. 1 saw soldiers
from G eorgia grabble up Yankees that had
been buried, and saw them pull OF their
heads and take the scull bones with them,
TO send home for their folks to see. There
was alison great many dead bodiesof horses
.lnying over the field, which caused a terri
BILE scent. Your dear brother,
HYM6N CAToS.
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