Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-06
The News from YORKTOWN.

was ulRuly interesting AlAuOuHu u tuIeW I
no especial light upon the ultimate iuten- (
ton of the rebels. 1t is plain however,
that they left because they had to leave and
not because of any discovered opportunity
to make sudden dash at any of our other
columns now menscing Richmond. The
news would seem 10 indicate that they left
in a sorry plight that they were down at
the mouth and down at the heel and run
down generally. General Mcclellan was
pursuing them with Cavalry and Artillery,
and had strong hopes of engaging their
rear and throwing it into panic.
We do not see where or how the rebels
are to better their condition There is no
good place for them in Virginia that We
can see, and. for that matter, nowhere
else. # looks as if they were efectually
broken IN both power and spirit. 1t could
not well be otherwise. If our Union army,
with all its numbers and resources, and
its good cause, had met with such con
slant succession of reverses. and had been
compelled to give up position after posi-
ton, as the rebels have done, they would
have been. sadly out of effectiveness. This
We all know; and how much more must it
be the case with the rebels. who are fewer
in numbers, and SO poorly of for resources,
and for something to fight for.
We may safely say that the end draws
very near Richmond viii speedily be
taken. and so will Memphis, and then
where will the rebels go? We will be after
them post haste, and our advancing col
umus will meet them in front, IN rear and
IN flank. We are daily narrowing the
circle, wrestling their supply districts, and
compelling them to leave cannon and
forage and -four and provisions of all
kinds behind them. They are ia = bad
way, and the way is getting daily more
aud more crooked and tangled. We be-
lieve that before the summer comes, short
as the time will DE, that the infamous con-
spiracy will receive its death blow.
"
The "SkedRddle'' OF the North West
from Richmond the other day.
1t would be an amusing sight, we dare
say, if Charles W. Russell, member of the
Confederate Congress from hs district,
could be seen now. According to the
Richmond Examiner he and a whole lot of
his bogus Congressional brethren "skedad-
died" from that city the other day on the
strength of a rnmor that Mcdowell was
approaching. Only imagine the member
from Wheeling of the Confederate Con-
gress, that chivalric body that has been pin
ing to die in the last ditch, beating two forty
time on the tow path of the canal. Alas!
for the reputation of Charles. He wanted
his rights; he has never had 'em for many
years, and just at the critical moment he
ran off for fear he was going to get them.
We wonder what became of the repre-
sentative of this county in Leteher's Lee
gislature-JOe Psndletou. We wonder if
he didn't run too, and run faster than he
ever did for Office here-especially for
Prosecuting Attorney and for the Conven-
ton. Perhaps his craving for additional
rights has been aPpeased before this time.
Wen bet it has.
What, does any one suppose, that swear
ing, drinking, loading DIR. White, of Wells
burg, was doing, when the news Gamer
He took drink, we venture, if there was a
drop left in the cauteeu, aud he put out on
mule or a jackass, or anything else that
could carry a load of whisky. We won
der If he had all the oatbs he took and
broke over here in his pockets, and wheth-
er his accumulated guilt of perjury
weighed anything, either ON the mule or
the jackass, or on his conscience, as he
proceeded on a log trOt along Russelrs
tow path.
We wonder what old Zed Kid did
when he heard the news: Was there any
delicate aperture handy, we wonder, for
him to crawl through again, and did his
green specs and his raven tresses get
bleared or odorized in the least, by the
operation. That's what we would like to
know.
Wherewas Alpheus Haymoud-the son Of
Thomas HaymOud-the militia Major Cen
eral-during the fray, we wonder Was
Alpheus, the son of his father, also ON the
tow path: Wemean, was he sober enough
to be there. If he was, he was there. and
being Clipper built and very light at the
top, he would get over ground "like thing
of life" We fear, however, that the news |
found Alpheus in his cups, where to the
grief of his friends he has been these many |
years.
Aud where, oh where, was Leonard
Hall, of Wetzel, that bantam rugged eubOd-
iment of "cOmpromise, who took up
whole days time in the Richmond COuven-
ton abOutthe sins of the abolition Wheel
ing Latetli-ger." We wonder if he can say
IHts'ligeHetr now. We wonder II he saw