Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-13
THE BATHS OF SATURDAY WEEE


was assigned TO that department which in
clndes Charleston and its defenses,
THE BATTLE OF SATURDAY WEEK.
The Richmond Dbpateh speaks of the
battle of Saturday week as zone OF the
most decisive and glorious triumphs OF the
present war, and adds that the loss on both
sides must have been great, but that It Is
inserted by officers who rode over the held
after the 6attlethat the enemy's loss was
at least five to oue.p
The Dispateh prophecies that sat no dis
tant day We may hear Of another and more
effective blow than even the last"
The Dispafch of the 9Th says: 'We saw
a telegraphic dispatch to a surgeon in this
this city Yesterday, which stated that Gen.
Ewell is at Bucklaud, Prince William
County, doing we'll"
Rebeiiournals say that at Manassas we
lost eight cannon and 10, 900 prisoners.
sPEcuLAroRs AT WORK.
Spectators in goods in this city have
commenced their operations since the late
battles, and are assisted to make money by
foolish people who rush TO buy now for
fear the Potomac may be blocknded again,
or the railroad TO Baltimore cut. Flour,
for example, which three or four days ago
sold for So per barrel, now demands $40 to
$40 so.
Butter which sold for 25 cents now sells
for 80 and 81 cents. Sugars went up in
one day four and five cents per pound, aud
other things in proportion. An inferior
quality of wood is sold for one dollar moro
cord than n week ago, and coal has gone
up about fifty cents and one dollar per
tun, $50
THE ISSUE OF SMALL BILLS AND POSTAGE CUR
RENCY.
The Treasury Department has received
aud disbursed, up to to-day, 81 notes to
the amount of $4,000, So notes to the
amount of $2Os, 900. aud postage currency
| to the amount of S2S7 300 Those who
blame the Secretary of the Treasury for
tardiness in issuing the last named show
their ignorance.
The bills are manufactured under the
| direction of the Post Office Department,
which has failed to furnish on the average
more than half the meager quantity it
| promised. Little, if any, more will be issu-
cd from the Cashiers Office here, the Law
not requiring it, and Washington having
already got more than its share.
The demand is, however, far from salts.
fed as proved by the length of the crowd
this morning, which stretched from th,
desk down the street, and for some distance
down the sidewalk.
AN ERRoR CORRECTED.
Several journals in specializing touching
the consequences OF the capture of Wash
ington have fallen into serious error
Foreign Ministers are accredited by theil
Governments to the person of Abraham
i Lincoln, President of the United States
and must follow his person. They cannot
recognize, as these journals intimate, as {
de tacto Government, rebels who seiz
Washington, since it is not the city bu
President Lincoln that they are accredited
TO. ea @
1t is not likely that any representative o
foreign Power here would take upon him
self the responsibility of recognizing Con
federacy as de .faeto Government, whicl
his own Government has thus far refused
to recognize. .=.l,
PETITION TO BE TRANsPRRRED TO WESTERN
VIRGINIA. 81
Il The officers of Gen. Milroy's Brigad
have petitioued the President to transfe
the Brigade to Western Virginia, wher
most of the petitioners entered the service