Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-27
FRoa RICHMOND.

Letter from our 12th Regiment
Late and IntereOtIng Extracts from
the Rebel News Columns.
HEADQUARTERS 18TH W. VA. Vol. IRT., !
PATH Army CoHPs,
ARMY OF THE JAMES, March %, '6B.
Editors InteIligeneer
Enclosed send you the Richmond En-
amin.r of this date. Our regiment is in
hourishiDg condition. The health of the
men never was better. Deserters still
continue TO deplete the rebel army. About
forty or fifty come in every night In front
of our corps. From indications in our
front, Think something will be done soon,
either in evacuation, surrender or fight.
News still continues TO be glorious from
all directions.
In haste, yours truly, r. H. BRowN,
Lit. Col. 18th ". Va. Vol. Inf
From the copy of the Richmond Exam.
ner enclosed to US, as above stated by Dol.
Brown, we make the following extracts:
PRIsoNERs TO ARRIvE.-Between nine
hundred and one thousand prisoners, cap
tured by General Bragg at Kinston, North
Carolina, will arrive in Richmond this af
ternoon. Alarge number of commissioned
officers are among them.
The Capitol, the Congress and Legisla-
ture gone, is as deserted and quiet as last
years meet. A visitor misses Ihe stir and
hustle, the hum Of the halls, and the gen.
eral activity of the Hobbies. The wheels
of legislation have ceased to reVolve for a
time, and oil the great buzzing machinery
is still and hushed.
The local troops, especially the LabOra.
tory, Arsenal and Tredegsr battalions.
have responded with great alacrity to the
recent military calls made upon them
Though their services were not REQUIRED.
the pTomptuess of their turnout showed
how ready they were to do their duty at
their county's call. We hope hereafter
that more discretion will be exercised in
calling cut the Workmen of the Government
establishments. They can do better service
al their regular employment in providing
Government material, than in Roiug on
wild goose" chases over AlI the subur ban
country around Richmond. just now the
anvil, the forge, and the workbench is
more powerful than the musket, when the
successful welding of that musket de-
ponds uPou the necessary army material,
which can DO supplied through the energy
OF these Government employees. Unless
the emergency is very extreme, we may
let them alone. They are doing theiI
work, and very necessary work. The
success of a revolution depends not alto
gether on brains in legislative balls buI
mechauism in the workshops.
PARADE OF THE NEGRo RRcRU1rs.-Tht
negro recruits gathered in under the or.
der Of NSjors Turner and Pegram had &
drill yesterday afternoon at the barracks
corner of Twenty fret and Carey streets
The body numbered ssme thirty or forty
and their enthusiasm was said to be some
thing remarkable. They drilled viii
precision and regula rityunder the control O
Captain Boisseux, the officer in charge
and seemed certainly proud of the positio,
they occupied. Later in the evening tbt
recruits sent for violin, aud, with tn,
permission OF their officers, ball was pro.
crossing last night. Mejor Turner, Rhc
has had large experience with negroes, hal
entered Into the business With rim thsI
promises nothing but success, and Wa Ar,
glad to report that the owners Of sI.vs'
are coming up heartily to bis support,
THE THEATRE ON RlRE DURIN0 A PERFoRN.
ANoE-A WILD SCENE OF PANIC AND ALARH
About IL o'clock on Monday night inst
upon the eve of the close OF the perforn,
ance at the Richmond theatre, the ory 81
hre raised BY some Que in the upper tiers
'uS Auulepce into an awful state Of
alarm. Ladies tainted aud screamed, and
men and boys rushed from the parouetts
and boxes, all aiming to gain the stairway
and doors. Some spraug from the window:
At the risk of breaking their ueeks, without
stoPpiog to enquire whether the danger
behind was real OF imaginary. Iua mo.
ment the avenues of escape became choked
up by human beings struggling for esress
The OthceeS of the theatre acted ,,;,L
pLomPIness and energy, aud but for their
efforts serious loss OF limb, if NOT ~ Iit"
must have resulted. 1t was immSSi
atsly discovered that the gallery SO,
apart foe negroes was in aames
aud the negro occupants poured dow
the stairway ont of reach of Rame and
smoke, without making one EFFORT to sup
press the hAmes. The startling intslii,
Sepof that the theatre Was on ere spread
he alarm bell rang, and the fr,