The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-05
GENERAL ROsECRANS.

The New York Tribune pays a glow
ing.tribute. to this officer, so well known
to the people of West Virginia, and
considers that he has been lily requited
for his brilliant services during the war
by being refused a command and out of
self respect compelled to resign his
Brigadiership in the Regular Army. 1t
thinks that his case will be referred to
in after times as a conspicuous witness
if not of the ingratitude of Republics,
at least of the fact that war, like all
other professions, is a good deal of
lottery in which it is not always the de-
serving who win the substantial re-
wards.
The Tribune claims that Rosecrans
was the victor in the first important
engagement which resulted favorabIy
to the Union arms, and that he was the
planner and executor Of four distinct
campaigns, three of which were emil
nentIy successful; that he was the hero
of several great battles, and that he was
never decidedly beaten in any engage
ment, but that by strange combina-
ton of misfortunes he has never been
in favor with his official superiors, and
has never obtained from the people a
fair recognition of his services. It then
quotes from the record the following
expressions made by Mr.. Lincoln:
''There are two things" said Abra-
ham Lincoln, in 1864, "ior which can
''never be grateful enough to General
''ROsecrans one is the battle of Stone
River, which accompanied my procla-
fNfE
"beginning of our permanent success !;
land the other is his letter to the Indi-
diana Legislature, about the same
time, throwing all the weight of his
name and fame against tie Copper
"heads- For these he deserves the
blasting gratitude OF the nation" We
hope he may receive this gratitude at
some future day he certainly has not
had it yet.
Gen. Rosecrans planned and fought
the battles OF Rich Mountain, and OF Car
mick Ferry, and drove Wise, Floyd,
and Lee out of West Virginia, and
when he had done up the work was re-
lieved OF his command in order that a
Mountain department might be created
for Gen. Fremont. He afterwards
fought the battles of Iuka, Corinth,
and Stone River in the West, three of
the most brilliant victories of the war.
Amer his defeat at Chickamauga he was
sent to Missouri, where he rendered
the most important service to the Gov
eminent in ferreting out the secret con-
spiracy OF the Knights of the Golden
Circle. And yet after all these services
he has been idle since the close of the
war, while volunteer Generals have
hean aaafuual 70
whether Gen. Rosecrans' unfortu-
nate relations with the War Department
and the Headquarters of the Army are
TO be traced to any fault of his own, we
have no means OF knowing. We only
know that of all our generals he has
uniformly been one of the most fortu-
nate IN the field and one of the most
unfortunate everywhere else; and that
his retirement ought to awaken in us
double regret that we have lost the
services of an accomplished officer, and
have rewarded so inadequateIy what
he has done for us hitherto"
%S
THE New York World processes to
see great significance in the Connecti-
cut election. It heralds to the country
that the tide is ebbing and that gem
eral reaction has commenced. The be-
ginning of the end is at hand, and the
Republicans are to go out to make
room for the Democracy. At the same
time nothing is said about the increas-
ed Republican vote in Ohio, and in
Michigan. They have no significance
in the eyes of the editor. His attention
is wholly fixed upon that little ad-
junct, that little garden-spot of New
York City, known as Connecticut.
This is IA curious way to figure out re-
action. AS well, almost, might the
election OF Fernando Wood and john
Morrisey haYe been announced as the
beginning of said reaction.
Intelligent people are not to be de-
ceived by such writing. They under
stood just what Importance to attach to
the election OF n Governor and three
congressman in State by one party,
while the other party elects a majority
OF the Legislature. They understand
that the free use of money was a con-
trolling influence in the result, as is al
most always the case in that closely
contested State. The Southern people
will not be apt to lay much stress on
such victory, when they come to
contrast it with the largely in
creased Union majority in Cincinnati,
where the agitation has been upon the
question OF striking the word "white''
from the Constitution of the State OF
Ohio. Perhaps the World will favor
its readers with some remarks upon
the Significance OF u Union gain under
such circumstances. And perhaps,
also, 1t may be induced to observe that
st. Louis, after all the hum. drum pre-
tensions OF the -so-calIed 'Conserya-
tives," has just elected Republican
ticket. And finally we would like to
hear what it has to say on the clean
Union sweep made in Rhode Island on
"Wednesday. In
THE Athens, Ohio, Messenger saws:
Mr.. John Perkins, of Athens, was (pro.
bablel witness to the first steamboat
explosion that occurred on the Ohio
river. 1t was the steamer Washington.
an unfinished boat, while passing be
low, landed at Marietta and while doing
so the boiler exploded, throwing seve-
raj of her crew into the river, and caus-
ing the deaths of seven or eight per
sons. This was In 1915.
The facts OF the above explosion are:
The Washington was a new boat. COM