Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-04

serViccable to them in times like these.
Florida, South Carolina, Alabama and
Mississippi and part of North Carolina
Virginia is the only country they eau really
be said to hold. Think of how fearfully
fast the resources of such limited country
must be absorbed by an immense army.
All accounts agree that planting and reap
ing have been but partial in those States.
There was cohfiict early in the season
between the government and the planters
as to what they should raise. The negroes
in their clumsy way have raised insignifi-
cant supplies of corn. How long will it
last, now that -four and meat aud yegeta-
bles are so scarce and so high? Even a.
cabbage-head quotes in Richmond at $3.50.
Other necessities are in proportion. A
pair of boots are worth $25; pair Of
shoes $12. How long can people hold
out who have such scanty, such decreasing
supplies, and at such fabulous prices?
RecOllect a;dOllar there, worthless as it is
must be earned just as slowly and just as
hardly as a good dollar. A private gets
but the same pay as in our army-Sl3 a
month. This would not buy his family a
half dozen cabbage-heads. A whole years
pay would not provide clothes for his fam
lily. Think of what terrible want is in
store for their neglected families.
1t is the concurrent testimony of all our
paroled or exchanged prisoners that terri
BILE times are in progress in Richmond. 1t
must be SO, and it must be SO everywhere
throughout the country controlled by the
rebels. They have no bacon-no salt-ro
medical or hospital stores, Surgical aid
and surgical instruments are widely scat
tered and terribly needed among them
Such necessities for tho camp and hospital
as Observation-Disclosures, &C., have dis
appeared from among them. The men on
duty have but scanty supplies of clothing
Their prospect for any wooden goods this
winter-for blankets-for oil cloths-fol
tents are slim indeed. Without these com
forts-without any sufficient nutrition:
food, they must shudler at the thought o
another winter. The means of maintaining
health among them are absolutely wanting
Their resources are about dried up.
No wonder then the rebels fight desper
ntely. No wonder. as is reported, that Jack
son made speech lately to his men tina
they must win now or never They mus
: indeed. Full well the rebels realize tina
; fact. Against our 100000 men-suppliet
and equipped as they will be, what posi-
BILE chance will they have? They have
raked and scraped all the country uude
their control for everythiug-for men-fO
! horses-for mules-for beef and for bread
What hope have they when once they ar,
!, pushed offtheir line of railroads aud de
pendent on wagons for transportation
Why they have not the leather to make an.
more harness or saddles, or brides. TIL
:, Richmond paers quote leather as out Q
the market.
Now what cause is there for despon
| dency2 Washington is not taken, neithe
will it be. Every hour strengthens on
t force there. The whole army of the Pc
. uinsuln is there now. At least fifty thou
5 sand new troops are there in addition
j The city is fortified on every side. Tn
5 recent heavy rains reported East haV
, made the Potomac impossible. VIVA
. cause have loyal men for anything Xix
: dependency Are we less patriotic
9 less enduring than the rebels. They di
+ not despair when all seemed gone or goiu
e last Spring and Winter. Why should We
: when all our prospects are rising; whe
t such an immense levy of men is comm
rapidly into the ield-when we are 5
y rich in all the necessarics for equippia
) and supplying these men; when we hav
a such unbounded resources for all the want
s of the field and of camp life.
Rest assured, loyal men, that our chez
J, is but temporary, 1t is only for "a day
I We will go forward conqueriug and t
} conquer in little while, as never yet
. nation went forward.