Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-22


We are indebted to our ever attentive
and obliging friend aud correspondent in
Louisville, for supplies Of Southern pa
pers. We feel especially obliged to him for
Gle Of late New Orleans papers.
Among the most welcome of our.daily
newspaper visitors, formerly, were the
Journals of New Orleans. They were the
most able, wiiie-awake, and agreeable of
ali tLo soathssa PaPo-oI .nd until ,he
Southern Secession frenzy became wide
spread, were civil spoken and friendly to-
wards The North. Now they reach us but
rarely; and only through the good Offices OF
the Express Company. They come to US.
too, boiling over with rage at the Federal
Government, and with sneers aud abuse Of
the Union and the Constitution. But they
come 10 US, also, shorn of their fair pro-
portions, and showing in every column,
how disastrous to themselves. as well rs to
New Orleans, Louisiana and the Southern
States generally, this Secession business
has been. The once pleasant and welcome
PieaVuHe. which used to issue frequent
supplements of four additional pages, now
comes reduced to single sheet, while its
its evening edition is quarter sheet con-
tanning only two pages of printed matter.
The Data Is cut down in the same deplo-
rable way; but Il seems like just retribu-
tion that paper that has so long been fit
nous for its advocacy Of illibusterism and
Southern violence of every description,
should be made to suffer by Secession
The depreciation and decline Of the once
conservative and civil PieGymne are more to
be Iamented. But it is more as illustra-
tions Of the depression of business gener-
ally, than Of the newspaper business par
tieularly, that we look at these shrunken
New Orleans daily papers Look under
the head OF Commercial of the Pea
yuHs Of August LIST, and the frst line We
read is "Cotton-Thus far we have not
heard Of sale,p which shows lively
state Of the cotton market. There are
some small operations in sugar and mo-
Iasses, aud some sales of -four at
from 81 IS to 80 10 per barrel, which
Is Just about double the price in
Northern cities. Hay was "seiliug in
small lOtsat $50 to s35 pertOu," mess pork
at S24 per barrel, and there is nothing
more TO speak of under the PieayuHs' COM
mercial report of days transactions in
what was one Of the greatest commercial
cities Of America. Under the head of "Ma-
rine News" We have the somewhat pOmP-
Gus standing uotiee that Mr. John 8. Wash
ingtoa and assistants are the only author
lied Marine and River News Reporters for
the PieovuRs. Mr.. John s. Washington
and assistants hnvea rather cheerful aud
e1hilirating time, for their business for
the day was to report mo cIearances," and
the arrival Of four small sized river steam
ers. The steamboat advertisements that
used to spread over several columns, are
now reduced to Ave small notices. The
other new advertisements are few in num-
Der. Prof A. H. Wilbur announces ball
loon ascension from Congo Square, ''pre-
poratory TO his departure for the seat of
war" There are FIVE or six military COM
pauy meetings, and there is the usual
amount OF deaths, for the latter business is
the only one at New Orleans that does not
seem to be reduced by the war. Tho adj
ve,tising colums Of the Della look even
more desolato than those Of the PicdyuH,,
There Is one whole column occupied by
an old and now evidently obsolete recital
or the virtues of aSpaldiuRs Cephaiic
pills. and "SpaldIng's Clue There are
advertisements Of peFishRble articles for
sale, that are dated nearly year ago, and
there are many others that are evidently
kept In type and pnt in from day to day,
simply to save the expenae Of competition.
The entire contents Of the copy Of the
DsIta before US consist Of seven columns
OF reading mater and five of such adj
yer,itsmenls as We have described
Al the head OF the paper appears
the announcement, 1--WE have got NO
papers this morning, either by mail or ex-
press which ahoRsa lively coalition of
postal Affairs, aud must be encouraging to
editors and assistants. editorials cou-
sIss Of eIortacatiOns over Manassas and
abuse Of .'oid Abe" THE news consists
Of extracts from private letters from ylr-
Eiuls aud from Richmond papers out Of
date, with few telesrapbie dispatches,
and clippings from old Northern papers,
which have probably bSsu saved from tue
aats bsilira ttmss, TO furnish miscellaneous
aeopy.n Altogether this examination Of
these sleklY New Orleans papers gives one
- 40. -,lrr,,,teaa rleiuRaa vet ufRSaotad nj
he present condition Of thugs Ia that
ouoe proud, busy and prosperous city,
a Patriotic commuRlty.
A subscriber Wrirng 70 rs yesterday
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