Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-25

: and heavier ordnance, but the numbers ar
not there yet, and the hopes Of successful
It defense have grown with every day sinc'
n the beginning of the siege, and so has thl
: strength of the position. The Charleston
Q ians don't believe shat their city will b,
8 taken. and We shall not believe it until i
t is dOne.-TeLsgrGPh.
[ American Affairs In Europe The
Gloomy Condition OF the SOutherH
Z OOnfederacy.
+ From the London Star, August Q.
I The cause of the Southern Confederacy
) is past help, past hope. The most infatu
ated, the most interested partisan of thai
' cause in England, can no longer close hil
i eyes to the impending ruin. We need nc
copjectures, no speculatiOns, no cOmpari.
Z sons Of our own to prove the fact. It ii
proved, il is acknowledged, In every line
/. which has just reached US, telegraphed
/. from the columns of Southern newspapers.
The Southern journals do dot effect 70 be
under any delusion. They no not attempt
, TO keep up the deception which was main
tanned in England until it fairly collapsed
under the pressure of overwhelming facts.
From Richmond, from Montgomery, from
Mobile, we hear the same story. The
Oonfederacy is playing its last desperate
game. The Southern organs do not indeed
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peace; but they speak in tones which only
tell Of disaster and defeat irretFieVable.
Peculiarly significant are the utterauces
of the Mobile AdueTtiser. 1t is too soon,
says this journal, to talk of submission
yet. "The Southern cause does not look
dark enough yet to justify those who are
ready to submit and anxious for peace"
There are then such, after all, even among
the indOmitable, the irresistible C0nfed-
crates, over whose supreme success some
London journals were shrieking with ex-
ultatiOn only q few weeks back. And all
the answer which the Mobile papers can
make to those who talk of submission is,
that the cause is not quite dark enough
yet to justify surrender Truly n pitiful
rallying cry, not likely to inspire the hear
ers with much fresh enthusiasm. Cold,
too, is the consolation which the same
journal finds for the fall of Vicksburg.
Had Vicksburg not surrendered just when
it did Johnston would have marched upon
Grants intrenchments, and must infallibly
have been cut to pieces. How differently
this sounds from all that we used to hear
five weeks ago about the impossibility of
Grants sustaining himself against john
ston whenever the Confederate General
chose to march to the relief Of the belea-
guered fortressl
The Richmond Whig speaks of the loss
es caused by the evacuation of Jackson,
and the immense railway rolling stock
thus thrown into the Union hands, As in
calculable aud irreparable. The Mont
gomery AdUertiser tells it's public that
Bragg's retreat before R0sccrans opened
up the northern counties of Alabama and
-0OOEsfu- 60 EB1 eueEpy, ana tnaG tliepo VIII
presently be Union army in Alabama, ia |
face of which every man must grid up hts |
Ininl tn int
for mere existence. In RichmoDd, at least, |
there seems to be little inclination to enter
into the despairing struggle. The Rich
mOnd Enquirer raises q frenzied Outcfy |
against the Southerns who will not fight. |
Immense crowds of foreigners, says this |
journal, are thronging the Provost Mar
shAl's Office, clamoring for passes to pro-
coed North-aDyWhere out of the limits of
the warlike Confederacy. More than that,
the same journal says that at least loo 900
men throughout the South have hired sub
stitutes for military service, aud will not
fight.
They used to love to read the brilliant
accounts of t'StOnewalr" Jacksou's daring /
sWoops and Of Lees successes; aud they /
exulted, no doubt, over the impregnability |
of Vicksburg, and possibly rubbed their |
hands over the expectation of a captured |
Washington. But these golden dreams are |
gone, gone and the cold, uncomfortable,
ugly reality succeeds; and they see only
ruin before them, and they will not fightI
Therefore, the Richmond Enquirer urges
that q clean sweep should be made, and
that all miscreants should be driven to the
war. All, ALL it demands-no exemption
for any, even the foreigners; let the entire /
country be proclaimed under martial law,
and every one who demurB be impelled |
into the battle by the force of the bayonet. |
Should even this fail, as the Richmond |
Enquirer seems to fear that it will-should |
the armies Of the South be s'disintegrated" |
should the Government have no spot to |
rest ON aud forced 70 become ''itinerant" |
these are the words Of the Southern |
journal, not ours-Why, then, what chance
do our readers suppose will remain A |
guerrilla warfare can be kept up on the |
seal
This is the sole hope which the distin- |
guished refugee who edits the Richmond |
EagtireT has to offer to his adopted coun- |
trymen. The tone of frantic vehemence
and bitterness in which this nonsense is
poured out proves plainly enough how lit.
tie hope It's author has that even in Rich
mond his demented counsels will be ae-
cepted as anything buC the shrek Of des.
pair.
We do not know from what elements in
the recent news the London champions Of
the slaVeowners-more Southern than the
Southerners themselves-can extract the
customary assurances and encouragement. |
Perhaps they may fnd consolation in the
fact that the New York Herald cries ont |
for peace at home and war against France
and Bngland. ~
The correspondent Of the Times q day or
two back spoke Of the Herald as q semi
Official jOurnaI-an assertion which might |
have been taken jocular II any one could |
believe that the correspondent in question
had ever attempted to joke In his life
Perhaps, therefore, we may be told that
the New York HeTaId is, as well our read
ers know, Just as much an official organ as
The infareafinn, mobilization nalIad pafnr