Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-04
A Wall from seoessia.
From tho lIomphis Apneal.l !


Price IS In full retreat sonthward.-
Price Willprobably continue in full retreat.
for there are several-indeed, no less than
three-Federal armies, each as large, bet
ter armed. and better equipped, conyerginp
upon him. His past victories have been
rendered yalueless. Federal forces have
been massed in Kentucky too great for a
man of Sidney Johnston's calibre to VEN
ture to attack, and the paralyzing of Price
through the withdrawal ofAIcOullough has
rendered tho oTerrunning of Missouri to
the Arkansas frontier nu1easy task TO the
Federals We're forced back out of Mis-
sourt-check-mated in Kentucky. Chase
mas as. obtained his money in Wall street.
The blockade is nnbreakable by MS ms
yet. In one word, we're hemmed in
We've allowed the moment of victory tn
pass. We were so anxiously Watching the.
operations of England, that we stand
aghast on turning our eyes homeward
again to find ourselves tenfold worse OFF
than we were ere the Commencement 5of
Prices lastforward march, and that accurz
sedly used sensRtionism, the arrest of
Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Day follows
day, and in lieu of being weakened. we
ind the Federal armies, at all points. be-
ing strengthened, almost every article of
manufacturing and domestic necessity
quadrupled in price, and our money will
soon be exceedingly scarce, for lack of pa
per and pasteboard wherewitti to make It.
Mepay fifteen cents apiece for sperm
candles, and are told we ought to be glad
to get them at that. Oar twelve months
soldiers time will soon be up, and we can
not helP asking, as they do themselves,
what have they been permitted or led to
doH II Is an old and ,oYer-proven truism.
that, whore two nations are at war. II AZ
which has the least means must find snc.
cess in early and rapid action, for it can
gain little by time, while the other finds
IN time the power to bring into efficient
use his more varied means.
Cabined, crtbbed, confined MS NC were.
and evidently would be, our shortest.
clearest, and most noble policy wa5 to
md IN the rapid use of our carly ReTolu-
tionary enthusiasm an oYermatch for the
slower aud less spirited but more eritfur,-
ing North. Where shall We ask reliefS
Where should We ask It save insthe Caruus
ON whom have been lnyished our hearts,
blood, our Hopes, our wealth, our whole;
Wnere out 1pon the banks of the PotomacY
Mhen shal we see-Ru end of the farce
there being enacted at our expense?
Indirectly, every modthful we eat Is
taxed our baotes wear taxed caps ana
shoes, our boys write on taxed paper. our
girls wear taxed calicoes, our men do n
taxed business, and hopelessly ride in q
taxed hearse to q taxed grave, and We, for
sooth, are hurting the sscauseo if we dare
70 turn from Messrs. Mason and Sifdelf to
look at the country we were born and bred
IN, and, having looked, we are hurting the
cause If we dare tell what we see. =
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The Richmond Dispatch of the 27th inst.
has an editorial on the blessings Of peace.
The snbiest is treated in a scdptural tone,
and compares the rebels and their cause 10
the Israelltes in their pngrimagety Ca
.naan. eta-tssfili4 80 -.