Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-04

every house top, aud every breeze fi1uuted
the hideous ensign in the face of the pas
ser by. But as all the poets of the land
agsee that soon 1.-The Stripes and Stars"
would bow to "the stars aud bars" it be-
came an ensign of some importance. The
supply of provisions was enormous beyond
all precedent The levee at New Orleans
was piled mountain high, aud every ware
house there was filled to OVERLOOKING.
Many merchants, fearful of the future, were
forcing their goods on the market DIT great
sacrifices, and certainly secession looked
quite comfortable. To make this more so
the belief was widespread, general and
universal, that Europe was not only Will
ling aud anxious, but would be compelled
by the want of cotton to acknowledge,
and even, if necessary, to assist, the con-
federAcy. Said the Rev. G. K. Marshal, u
very eminent divine, on the occasion of a
Gag presentation to new company
"Soon, very seen, you will see the queen of
all the isles, on her knees before the infant
giant 1.-THE new confederacyl begging him
to let her hare bis cotton" This belief
had been generated and fOstered by all the
speakers aud papers throughout the land,
and being very agreeable reflection WAS
| Immediately adopted aud implicitly be-
lieved by the people, aud what is more
remarkable, soon became to be relied on
by the leaders themselves. With this in
PRODUCTION will pass over the history of
the war tor the first ten mOnths-with
which every reader must be fAmiliar-and
will attempt description of the situation
of secessia and the sentiment Ofthe people
after the fall of New Orleans. At that
time the rebels had been defeated Mt Fort
Henry and Fort Donaldson; Nashville had
| fallen, Columbus ami Island No. 10 were
gone, Price, Van Dorm & Co. were whipped
at Pea Ridge, Fort Pillow was virtually
| captured and the fall of Memphis beyond
| doubt. In the midst of this gloom came
the terrible news of the fall of New Or.
leans, and to add to these cumulative hor-
rors was the announcement that Behure.
gard could not hold out over three hours
against general attack FROM Halleck. In
| North Carolina defeat had followed defeat,
Fort Pulaski, in Georgia. WAS gone, and
! Florida furnished her full quota of disas-
tiers. The fall of New 0eleans and Menu
phis took with It the loss of Louisiana,
| Texas, Arkansas aud Missouri. Mobile
was hourly expected to follow the train
of disasters, which would ensure to the
federAls the quiet possession of the States
Of Alabama aud Mississippi. Savannah was
Il hopeless hope, and thus was the State of
Georgia, to be added TO the towering pyrA-
VI GlSASLcES- uG TESulN VI
this state of things can easily be imagined.
general gloom pervaded the country. The
authorities at Richmond could afford no
hope. Their condition was desperate. Cut off
from the supplies of NOrthern Louisiana and
Texas it was an impossibiIity to maintain
an army in the Gulf States, and secession,
dixie scorpion grit by fire." had no al.
Tentative but sting itselfand die. The case
was desperate, and required desperate
measures. Having 10 idea of the import.
ant ally soon TO he found in the vasCilatiug
aud inactive policy of the Federal authori-
ties, it was finally determined as forlorn
hope, to fortify Vicksourg, on the Missis.
sippi river, IN order to obtain, il possible
those supplies from the west of the river,
without which supplies the rebels would be
compelled TO abandon the entire territory
over which they claimed to hold authority
save that portion enclosed within the line
OF pickets around the city OF Richmond
After the passing away of the first gloom
the people began to look TO the future
Further resistance was out of the question
the terrible war, so destructive of every in.
terest of the South, was at an end, the
dawning of better aud much happier dar
, lighted up the future, inquiries as TO thu
amount of tonnage We're instituted prepar.
atOry to the shipment of the great staple
the upward tendency of prices on all arti
cles was checked, and n generll, genia
and thankful feeling took the place of the
: former terrible dependency. But t.
all these hopes and anticipations there wa
! in store for the people terrible disap
. pointmeut. Soon the do-nothiug. strate
: getic, conic-section policy of the Fedora
commanders began u manifest itself. The
Notifications at Vicksburg were allowed Il
progress in the face of an immense fleet
which could have caused their surrender
in half nm hour. Eleven weeks were afford
ed TO the rebels TO recuPera;e. and their Ru
7. thorities to reiustaIe the feelings of :hei
followers which had been SO ruthlessl,
severed from their grasp by the preViou
activity of the Union forces. AT the enc
of that time the flOtilla lifted tue siege AM
the joyful intelligence was waited from on,
extreme of the country to the other. Mo
bile resolved on like determined resist
auce, New Orleans became SCOT for he
easy surrender, while Savannah sent greet
ing that she should never, never, surreu
der. The trade with Texas was opened, th
troops west Of the Mississippi who had beei
previously disbanded were reorganized,
commander was sent there to organize tn
'.Trans- Mississippi District" and the eutir
ground is now to be fought over.
! RESOURCES OF The coUSTRY.
The scale of prices which maintain
: throughout the country will give fair in
+ dex of the condition Of affairs in the Gull
} States. Army shoes are worth S25, boot
$50 TO SIS, according to quality, coats ST.
} to SIPS, common shirts $3.50 dozen, ba.
! con Toe per pound, brown soap ST bar
thread ST spool, pins 81 paper, calico
$3.50 a yard, -four $50 barrel, candle!
S4,75 pound, and other things in proper
Sail yph rOyHy
be out of the question were it not for the
supplies obtained from western Louisiana
The corn crop throughout the country /:
, large, and corn can be bad for ST. IS pei
bushel. The prices above mentioned ART
not occasioned by the DEPRECATED state o.
the currency, but are regulated wholly 81
the ordinary laws of supply and demand