Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-08

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Ths can ioF More Troops.
We published lhs other Doraiug, The
tsnasr Of The Governors Of the loyal STATED
70 The P,ssldsal Of more n,su 70 al,is. ia
bringing to 4 speedy conclusion this rebel,
ilS% The call Of the Prs,Idsnt for $780,.
600 volunteers, on the suggestion OF The
Governors, was interpreted BY the stock
gamblers az On siIasnee o. vlHsal dersa,
bSlote RIrhmoud. Bat The note Of The
Governors TO The PrSldsnt was dated 90
Saturday, The 7s,h, before the recent
movements 10 front OF Richmond bad
bisa made known, and had 10 connection
With those movements. It was merely the
patriotic Judgment Of the Governors, who
kasW Tue sIigpaslsa oI the campaign, and
saw clearly, as did The people generally,
that the success Of the sAmpaIgn wAS like.
" to be delayed, II no. put in doubt, for
iack o. Baaislsa, troops, The rebel con.
Scripton SyitsGi, obnoxious at 1t is to the
Southern people, has given Jed, Davis hall
million troops, while We have not to-day
over 100000 effective ,foOps-Sons say
not over $4,000. They Still Out.numbsr
u1 whenever there Ia Sighting to DO done,
A. they have almost invariably ever uince
the war commenced. Al Richmond there
Is 10 doubt, they have concentrated all
their best troops from the Southwest, and
from all quarters, and they largely out.
number Us. Our men aght nobly, and eau
BE- trusted 10 cope With superior numbers,
but they shoald not thus be exposed to be
ysrbOrns by vast numbers Of the enemy
We saauot aGord 70 risk the result, With
such odds Ia favor Of the enemy.
ills useless noE 70 AJAX Why the rebels
have basn allowed TO mass their lroopsat
Richmond, while ours remain scattered
along the yast lines from the Potomac to
thsloWsr Mlssltslppl-Ol how IL happens
that the southern rebel army was not fol.
lowed up and watched, so that such a
transfer offorce nIgbtnOt have been made
without our knowledge. The stubborn fact
10 that the thing has been done, and Gen,
Mcclellan has bsIOre him the consolidated
armies Of rebeldOm, andsr their most eE.
psrtsnred leaders, aud determined upon .
most desperate attempt TO Oyerpower and
destroy our gallant army, while small re.
inforcsnsa.a have been slowly aud srudg.
insly dOlsd out to Gen! Mcclellan and be
alone seems 70 have cOmptehsnled the
tremendous difiealtIss and responsibilities
oGthe work assigned TO him.
There has been strange faulty aud
mlIuauAgenent from the dst AT the war
Department. whts-9r. Gamsrcn's report
stated our satiss force at coo, 900 men, It
was Impossible to show ftomiths records Of
the Department that. lhsre. were ever more
than two.thirds OF lhs number in the ssry.
Ice. Three mouths ago the ohAiraaa 81
the Senate Military Committee, declared
We had too large al army BY 100000 mep,
and soon alter orders were Issued closing
all the recruiting OEioes, and there was
much glorifCatIou over the supposed fact
: that the government had more men than II
wanted, and had been obliged TO refuse the
passiolcOtisrs Ofths people, Butthsaur.
ryoSsr, StOnsWAll JAeksoas raid soon dis
PEELED thls illusion, aud thea we were
thought to be 10 such esperateStrailsthat
Z militia Of the various States were called for
tohas.sn 10 the defence Of the National
Capital. Before the mlllnawsre mustered
anywhere, except ia Massachusetts, The
panic was over, the call was Withdrawn,
aud the men who had marched 10 offer
themselves to the defense Of the county
were sent home again, ysxed aud plqaed at
the needless excitement they bad under
goae. And although the government slg-
alasd rs willingness 10 accept more yolnn.
teess for the war, the reaction from the
eapssless panic bad so nsptrslised popular
interest aud tnthustasm tAateulis.iue wsn.
on slowly. 1850.
The mistakes made on this vital subject
( 'bythSss whose duty itlwas to knoW The
military condition and necessities OF the
country are ddaeeou6abls. But Il is not
too lats 70 remedy the past, 9wdati Is Gppat.
satatthis moment is, that the government
asedssoo ooom more volantsers--and needs
them at Onee-and that with this number
There every prospect of a speedy and sue.
sesafaltssmiuatiOa Of thswar,
sONr scamp placed aSnaa Of straw"
on theltaskot the Cleveland and Toledo
Road, between Moaroevills aad Bellevue,
Which was ruuoyes and eterribly manvledli