Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-31

All honest hszTts is lot VII share
Aud faiI0s il 70 Death o. Fame.
N5 osE can read the eoPious extracts
which are taken by the loyal press from
the Southern papers without being struck
BY tie great amount Of croaking in them
There Is occasionally cheerful and even
a jaoilaat article. But the general tone Of
the Southern editorials which have reached
Is indicates nervousness, an anxiety,
diseou,en, among the people We have
priutsl several which show that Jeff Davis
is the subject Of very severe criticism 90
the part Of some OF his constituents; that
the army Is in denoEalized condition
that the term OF service OF many regiments
is soon to expire that the more intelligent
rebels feel that they are surrounded by our
arafes, and that heir condition is becou-
ing desperate; that the iucoayenieuces
caused by the blockade are serious; aud
t4at there are Union uea even in the very
capital Of rebellion.
We have now before Us, several more
extracts from Southern papers, cOnfrna-
tory Of those We have printed writer
in the Norfolk Day Book. himself "a vol
uateer, wh9 has served eight moaths coo
miles from home confirms what the
Richmond Examiner has said Of the de-
morAliZing recklessuess and decline in
spin, Of the Confederate army and uu-
der,akes to account for it. He says that
officers have lorded it too much over pri-
Yates who were OF higher social position
before the war than the officers He also
complains that the War Department has
been too stringent in regard to furloughs
He says:
81; properly IS going to waste it makes
no difference. II wives are dying and
children furnishing the order is ireGOrable,
and the disheartened soldier has to stand
10 his arms, aud yet be condemned as de-
mOralized If he utters complaint. 1t, ma
der these circumstances, our rulers expect
TO continue an effective army OF volunteers
ia tue field, il is the opinion OF an humble
soldier, who has rendered willing service
10 hi= couutry for eight months, that they
orerrite 10y far the patriotism of the chiy-
alrous South
Whatever may be thought of his e1-
PLANTATION of the trouble, his testimony to
The fac, must be accepted.
The HeaPklI AUaIIErhs bears witness to
the existence OF party opposed TO Davis
by au attack upon them, beginning thus :
There is little squad Of malcoutents,
who have recently undertaken TO disparage
President Davis and his administration
Il Is true, the slime and fifth which these
drspicab!e creatures lavish upon the Pres
iient eau no more aItaint the purity OF mis-
character than the brightness of the moon
can be dimmei hy the wolves that howl at
it +; bUt every effort TO sow the seeds Of
discorI aud dissGectioG should al once be
crushed ont. This much the people owe to
themselves, and they will faithfully per-
form their duty, as is evinced BY the scowI
of Indignation which NANTES every honest
mans brow on reading these shameful as
sAul,s upon the administration
The New Orleans Buiistm gives express,
sion tothe uneasiaess of the Crescent city,
respecting the continuance of the block
aie. 1t says that the great part Of New
Orleans has been Theoretically sealed TO
the commerce of the world for six months,
and 0eseeches the State or city TO raise the
blockade, as the Confederate Government;
does not undertake il.
Minor troubles too are multiplying
New Orleans has for months been without
lighted streets. Richmond, too, is about
TO go into eclipse. \ member of the COM
mon council of that city announced last
week that lin consequence of the failure
Of the manufacture of the tiles ordered for
the works in August last nearly all the re-
toEts were burned out, and that unless a
supply was received soon there would nee,
in two weeks, be enough gas to light the
private dwellings in the city Unless then
Gen. Wool or Gen. Burnside or Gen. Me-
CIeIlau opens the way for tiles, Richmond
must soon be in the dark
Quotations ofrhe kind we have spesi6-
ed might be multiplied indefinitely. But
we do not fAtter ourselves on this accoun
that the rebels are exhausted and are in
capable Of great efforts. We believe that
nothing but hard lighting and decided and
repeated victories will bring them to terms.
But the embarr=ssments which they are
suffering are of such nature that when
they begin to go down before our over
whelning power, their fall must be rapid
and complete.
The RItehIe Democrat.
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