New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-01
GEN FREMONT AND HIS DEPART
MENT.
From 7hs Waeelfng Iateil.grweey, AcrG 80.

for. or what route he will take, and where bis main
operations will commence, remain, Of COURSE q -,
eret as yet His department is large one and alto
pether different from any Of the others. dis troops
will have a different kind Of work to do from cthss
troops. Skirmishing and putting down guernllas.
restorirg local law and order and reassuring Unioa
people over large tract Of country, seems TO b
chiefly the work of bis command. He has great
field before him in South.Western Virginia-a sec.
ton as vet held in undisputed sway by the Rebe'A
lie will, no doubt, make haste to remove from oar
peope there the iron yoke of the Reoets' Wem may
derend upon it that the May days will witness
complete ridding out Of the Rebels from sil parts
We.tern Virginia.
In the mean time we presume preparations are
going on to relieve the East Tennessee people. AL
the country eaot Of line drawn north and south
through Knoxville is within Ger. Fremonss De-
partuent We know that it is his special desire and
ambition TO go as speedily as possible to the rescue
of tho noble patriots there who have suffered -
much and 80 long at the hands Of the Rebels Parsoa
Brownlow has told us that Gen. Fremont is q favor
tie there and be and all bis fellow-sufierey In thas
section will enthusiastically rally round the Generals
banner.
Gen. Fremonts etsy in Wheeling has beer logger
than he expected The reason has cen that hs
found that he had to organize his whole Department.
In thousand particulars be lacked facilities for car
yvipo ont ,be work before him. lie has been labori.
ously ENGAGED ever since be reached the city. Nc
man could show more untiring Devotion 10 MS QUIZ
ness What h, has achieved in the work OF military
ORGANIZATION, aud n tie frrtaerance OF civil Jaw IN
West Virginia, will never be known until the ON
cial record cones TO he made up. specimen OF II
yas published yesterday in the findings Of his cours
martial, and in sentencing three murderous bush-
whackers 10 death.
Th.se desperadoes are finding out that there 10 .
Covcr,msnt and that their game is dangerous
one. II IL Gen. Fremonts intention TO put them
down or ex,errninate them. Very few Of them viii
trouble the Court officers from this time or. The
swear.and.et-go practice has been entirely aban.
dored. Tria! by court-martal and death by hanging
are 10 lie the order of the day. The g1erriilas msy
a. well make I'd their minds at once to this fors
stem viii is after them.
When Cen. Fremont cane to Wheeling he haA
more nreiudice 10 encounter, we suppose than any
man who ever came here. We hear Of no instance
in which uersonsl or has no. broker
down that peudice IL is only those who read, hear.
or zee but one side, that retain It, His quiet, unas
cunning manner, and his devotion to his work, have
Impressed everybody who has had anything TO 90
with him. All the foolish talk about his inaccesn-
b.ty has been found untrue. no man could DO more
accessible who has the same business to do.
He has no time. and never did have, to waste on
reople. bu. be has tins for all persons who have
business with him. aud the good use he makes OF his
intercourse with every individual has been many
-imss remarked. He studiously CLEANS every part
c, Of nfornation that concern. his Department from
every one VINO has it to give, aud on all occasions 10
has shown himself only too glad to consult the wishes
OF our Western Virginans in every matter that ooa.
cerned them. Indeed, for one who has the Ecputa-
ton among his enemies Of being insubordnate, the
delerential and subdued mannerism Of Gen. Fremont
is a natter Of note.
What particularly arrests the atter,ion Of con
yerser with the General is the fact that he has moth
inc 10 say about himself either incidentally or d.
recily, and The fac! also that he speaks mildly AMI
with apparently no feeling in reference to he attacks
upon h,a in and oui Of Congress. He wsars the aif
al. The time Of a man vino is content 10 labor and
10 Uai.. and who in the meanwhile is assured be-
yoai doubt Of bis anal triumph. One thug i' 1sf'
tain, ne any one see, that Gen Fremont mas con-
quered himself and like thai character III scripture
who was pronounced greater than he wLO esp'uFsd
city, he rules his own spEit.
We are nor ut liberty Of course 10 spSak IN fe-s''
cnce to the number Of troops in the Mountain Depart
rnent. Suffice it 20 cay it is much greater than many
reople suppose. Somo four or five Brgsdier Zen
eral. have commands within il. TIE conbinstons
which will be made are dependent on operation.
within Gen. Bankss Department, and the gener"
requirements of tho service along the line Of the
Potomac and the Raprabsnnock. Gen. Fseuont
may at any time be ordered TO act in corjnnctsa
with the movements that look toward Richmond. os
he NAV be left TO pursue operations within hs own
/ Department
! For the present be is doing busy work, as we
have stated, with guerrias and local Rebels Of AL
kinds. Gen. Schenck, for instance, is securing the
country thoroughly as be advances Up through Hardy
and Pendlcion Counties. We have understood thai
he mas complete lists of s the grades and cias'es @
local Rebel. tha, iafes, that county, and that wneo
one IS bfough, before him, he knows just at once
what to DO with him. Gen. Milrcy is active ale me
time. Nearly every day he bags or kiis "' |"
these villains and bis troops sFe fast rediei' u"
country 10 condition Of security fox lie sad pop
ery.
Tnere is Inc OF operations from ths kanawaA
Valley Though the Big Sandy to Cumberland fo'I
True, that line is moi heard much from thes' Vlic'
but it is a very impor,ant line Notwithstanding. aus
norton Of country through which 1t eXtea1' nae
bsep hodv used up ly the Rebels. The people pavs
Ds.p so,,oralzed owing 10 the Doubtful tenure BY
,hcb !, Las alternately been held by our forces and
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