Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-01

GRs, EARLY's last and most crushing de-
feat has made him decidedly garrulons:-
Indeed, bstWeeuithe apple brandy from the
valley stills and Sheridan's canister diet,
Jubal has apparently become most uncOm-
fortabIy bilious. He froths and fosms at
q terrible rate, and unable to vent his
spleen upon the Yankees, he turns upon
his own troops, aud lashes them after
most unsoldierly fashion. Itisfnot enough
that the poor fellows have been whipped
and driven day after day BY the Yankee
General, but they must needs undergo The
additional humiliation of being styled BY
their own General; asset Of plundSFsFsi no
better than so many camp thisVss'ahd fol
lowers. In general order to his troops
last Saturday, Early says to them: e0l.
Ihad hoped to have congratulated you
on the splendid victory won by you on
the morning Of the, 18Th, at Belle Grove,
on Cedar Greek, when you surprised and
routed two corps Of Sheridsp's army, and
drove back several miles the remaihtng
corps, capturing eighteen pieces ottartil-
lery, one thousand Eve hundred prisoners,
o number of colorst . large quantity OF
Small HHEVA1 o1A A4SA-
lanses, with the entire camps Of the two
routed corps; but have the modification
of announcing to you that, by your subse-
auent misconduct, all the benefits OF that
victory was lost, and g serious disaster in
CURED. Had you remained steadfast 70
your duty and your Golors; the victory
would have been one OF the most brilliant
and decisive of the war; you would have
gloriously retrieved the reverses at Win
chester and Fishers Hill, and entitled
yourself to the admiration aud gratitude
of your country, But many of you inclu-
ding some commissioner officers, yielded
to a disgraceful propensity for plander,
deserted your colors 70 appropriate 70
yourselves the abandoned property of the
enemy, and subsequently those who
had previously remained at their posts, see-
ing their ranks thinned by the Rbsance of
the plundefers, when the enemy, late in the
afternoon, with his shattered columna made
but o feeble effort to retrieve the fortunes of
the day, yielded TO a needless panic and
fed the ifeld in confusion, thereby convert
ing splendid victory into disaster. Had
any respectable number Of you listened 70
the appeals made 70 you and made q stand,
even ct the last moment, the disaster would
have been ayerted, zaad the substantial
fruits of victory. secured; but under the
insane dread OF. being fsnked, and q panic
stricken terror otihe enemy's cavalry, you
would listen TO no appeal, threat or order,
and allowed small body of cavalry to
penetrate TO our train and carry of q num-
Der of pieces OF artillery and wagons,
which your disorder left unprotected. You
have thus obscured that glorious fame won
in copjunction with the gallant men of the
Army Of Northern Virginia, who still re-
main proudly defaut in the Itanehee
around Richmond and Petersburg. Before
you can again claim them No comrades you
will have 10 erase; from your escutcheone
the blemishes which now obscure them; and
this you can do If you. will but be true 70
your former reputation, your country and
your homes. ''s5 ie---
This must be decidedly comforting to the
rebel eonscripts, who, according to o
Southern account, have been during q
months time marched mp ,apd down the
Valley. to the extentof over Eve hundred
miles, and braVsd the storm Of death In
four different engdgements. A few days
since the Richmond papers twitted them,
with being more eager to charge the cider
presses in the valley thanthe foe, and now
JubaI himself tells that they area dis
grace to the service. JEFF. Davis accused
Bragg's entire army Of cowardise after the
rodt at Missionary Ridge, and he bag
since declareai that two hIrdsoE the Con-
fSderate forces are skulkers and dessrters.
At this rate the,rebsl authorities aud sol.
diers will, between them, eventually, coll
lapse the boosted ooufederacJ.