Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-29


burg man has learned that Mcclellan and
his boys returned, but that Col. Pegram
and Garnett and few more of them did
not. 1t was pity, we acknowledge, that
the beautiful metaphor employed by the
writer had to be sPOiled-but so it was,
and it can't be helped.
The same paper also contains this no.
tiee:
Lincoln has officially recognized the
GOTeTnorship of PeirPoint, selected by the
Wheeling Convention, and has cOmmnni-
Gated to him the apporiionment Of Yir-
GINA for the thirty-eighth Congress. We
have lad the last of the Stuarts, and tue
last of the Mohicans, and presently we
shall have ihe last Of Mr.. Peirpoint
We also Gad this paral .ph:
pay OF VOLUNTEERS.
We have frequently heard the question
asked, "what do officers aud privates IN the
Confederate Army get for their services ~
For the information Of all such, we append
the following schedule:
The Colonies get Sl75 per month.
Lieut.. Colonies SI70 per month.
Major $3.50 per month.
Captains SlOs +"
LIST Lieut. $50 -
I'd $50 Z"
Other Sergrants $I4 per month.
Privates Sill per month, with yearly al
lOwance of clothing and one ration per
day.
Quartermasters get the same as Cap
tains.
,Commissaries the same.
The Southern papers are all great on
original poetry just now-war poetry
urging on ''secesh" in terrible rhymes
Most of it is after the style of the "cate-
CORY" and we can only make it ont in
spots. Gas an idea of development" We
think the whole litter of it ought to be re-
jected.
The Charleston Courier has an article
commenting on the war policy pursued by
the Confederate States. 1t quotes from
the speech of their Vice President, (ste-
phens,) his opinion about the duration of
the war, in which he said that be had no
idea how long it would last-neither would
he know, if he couId-but that he did
know, that it would last until the "enemy
is whipped and driven from oar soil.r In
commenting on this. the Courier says:
With large force of superior volun-
teers, promptly in the field, and dashing
campaign, early commenced, the South
might have shown the North the trouble,
and danger, and loss of the war they have
undertaken. They might have been brought
to their senses and terms of peace But
with the sort of defensive campaign, with
a small force to contend against odds,
what is the prospect? When we aOiH be
able to whip and drive out the enemy from
our soil is, as Mr.. Stephens says, shrouded
d" in the mysterious future" And yet, we
have made no great progress in this way
of ending the war.
One more extract and we shall quit for
to-day. The Is; South Carolina regiment,
it appears, returned home some days ago,
having become tired of operations in East
ern Virginia. The Courier halls them as
brave warriors, just returned, and notices
this circumstance connected with their
march homeward:
1t is with pain we hear that en- the re-
turn of this regiment homeward, through
the State of Virginia, sleek and well clad
citizens of the Old Dominion, accompanied
by their wives probably to secure their
impunity), made offensive remarks and ut
tered insulting cries to show their disap-
probation thereat. Whatever excuse may
be offered, because of their ignorance Of
the circumstances which induced the tenn
porary return of the companies, it is scarce
ly bearable, under any circumstances, that
the people whom our brave men rushed
forward unhesitatingly TO relieve, should
venture even to bestow thoughtless re-
proach. But when we call to mind who
that people was, and how great are their
own delinquencies-hoW few, compared
with their population, are even ut this time
in the field in the service of their State
how strangely surprised they have so
often been when they met the enemy-how
great are the heaped up wrongs they have
endured, aud which they have not ade-
quAtely turned out to avenge-We are dis
posed to ascribe their assumed sneers TO
inherent lack of manhood in the indiYidu-
ais, aud to regard the exhibition as the
walliDgs OF men who fear that every alb
sentee makes an opening for one of their
number.
Refhnnv CoIIeUe.