Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-07
Capt. GouIdIng among tho Rebels.


Capt. GouIdIng among tho Rebels.
Capt. G. N. Goulding, who was General
Pope's Chief Quartermaster in the field,
was taken prisoner upon the occasion of
Stuarts noted raid at Catletts Station is
now exchanged and has just returned from
Richmond. His account of the boli adven-
ture of the rebels agree with those before
published. 1t appears that, being in COM
mand, he considered the position exposed,
and telegraphed to Gen. Pope for permits
siou to remove the valuable trains to a
safer place. He was ordered, in reply, to
remain where he was.
Although apprehensive of danger, yet
the persons iu charge of the trains were
completely surprised by the silence and
celebrity of the attack; they were suddenly
surrounded, and the camp occupied before
they had time to escape or destroy the VAL
liable papers and plans of the Commanding
General.
The rebels took possession of everything,
official documents, kilograms, plans of the
campaign, the personal baggage of several
Generals aud that of their stats, and all
the money of the Quartermaster and Com
missary Departments, amounting to some
$I5, 900.
AT Richmond twenty-six of Pope's Off
GERS were confined in one room, which they
were never permitted to leave for single
moment for any purpose Whatever One
meal per day was all that was allowed them,
which consisted of bread, meat and water
II may easily be imagined, in view of JEFF.
Davis retaliRtory order upon all of Pope's
officers when taken prisoners, that their
prison life, with its attendant circumstan-
nd a
especial zest was sometimes added to their
experience by some such lively incidents
as the unloading of ninety cofins at their
door, or the narrow escape from a bullet of
some careless companion who had thrust
his head outside the window.
Capt. Goulding also relates an inciden t
which reflects Geeat honor upon General
Prince and the other prisoners. When
they came to be paroled they were chat
eChised as to their age, birth, height, &c /,
ending with the question, "What are your
politics?" To the latter query, General
Prince, who had been Breckenridge DEM
ocrat, at first replied, ga Democrat ~ but
instantly seeing the object of the inquiry,
corrected himself. "No," said he, "put me
down AbolitIonist" The majority of the
prisoners made the same answer
Capt. Goulding, who WIS once an earn
est supporter Of Douglas, but whose polit-
ical opinions during his brief soiourn in
Dixie seem to have heen altogether revolt
utiOnized. added: 81 am no hog, and know
when am filled.n He states further, that
tt is the firm conviction that the rebel lea /.
ders will not accept of any terms of peace
which look towards n Reunion. They are
resolved upon absolute aud entire separa i.
ton. Ifthey have any relations with the
North, it will be only as our conquerors
aud dictators. They have as little faith and
less respect for Wood and Seymour than
fer Greeley and Philips The only two
persons spoken of with any favor were VAL
landigham, aud one other whose name es-
capes ms. We beg the gentleman's pardon
for our inability to elevate him to such rare
distinction.
Captain Gouldiug had several interviews
with Jackson, and formed high estimate
of his capacity. jackson told him that
during the entire war he had never been
SO hard pressed ns he was by Fremont in
the Shenandoah Valley; that he never was
in such dangerous position as at Cross
Keyes and Port Republic; and he freely
admitted that he would have been captured
army. bag and baggage, had Fremont been
reinforced or supported by Mcdowell.
In view of the immense armies pouring
down upon their wasted fields from the
NoEIui tuey uIu not seem over ana ABOVE
confident that JEFF. Davis could be king
just yet. Bat Captain Goulding found the
belief to be universal that the French
would Intervene actively, not only acknowl-
edging the independence of the Southern
Confederacy, but that they have taken or
will take measures to establish it by armed
Intervention.
Ma. GoGeIN of the rebel Congress iu-
forms the Confederate States that their