Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-06

SOUTHERN news becomes daily more 10
terestiug. The depreciation of the currency,
now so great as to stop nearly all trade,
and the consequent scarcity of food sup
nlies in all the cities and towns and in the
sections that do not raise their own pro-
visions, are the engrossing topics in the
rahel newspapers. Various remedies are
proposed, Uut mono of them pracnc"Oie'
and it is generally admitted by the south
ern papers that fearful crisis is close at
hand: that there must be terrible suffering
unless relief comes from some qusrter, and
that there is great danger of violent out
breaks. The Richmond Enquirer OF the
9th ult. says that most of the articles OF
necessary food and clothing are from five
to one hundred times their former pri.
ces, aud prices are constantly inereas
ing. The expansion of Confederate paper
is the acknowledged cause of the evil, and
yet that paper is added TO at the rate OF
fifty millions per month, aud all the appeals
of the government and the newspapers fail
to induce capitalists to invest ia Confeder.
ate bonds. Clearly the moneyed men of
the South have no real faith in tue rebel
lion, and will invest in it only on compul-
sion. The Enquirer may we'll say that the
financial management of the Confederate
government is {" an utter and absolute
failure" The only remedy the En-
guirer can suggest for the relief of the
Confederacy is forced loan, and yet 1t
evidently doubts whether the Southern
people will stand that heavy addition to
their other heavy burdens, aud it attempts
to persuade them to it by the preposterous
hope that they will yet conquer the North
and make US pay the expenses OF the war.
Such facts as these, and the confession
that there is no permanent care for the
fnancial failure of the confederacy but to
conquer the North, reveal the real state of
affairs in the South, and prophcsy a COL
lapse at hand.
The impressment Of supplies for the
confederate army, which has always been
an odious measure, is much more SO now
that confederate money is nearly valueless.
A significant debate on this matter has
lately taken place in the Richmond legiSla-
ture. Senator Grey denounced the meas
ure with much freedom and earuestuess,
and said.
ain the beginning of this war the Con-
federate government asked for the patriot
ic co. operation OF the people Of the coun.
try, and it did not ask 10 vain. Now the
government asks for nothing, but takes all
il wants, we hear of no appeals now being
made to the patriotism aud liberality of
the people. The plan pursued by the Con-
federate government is giving great dissat-
isfaction in the cOuntry-many persons are
Withholding supplies, and many are iudif.
ferent as to whether they will put in any
wheat during the present season. Indeed,
he had learned that one of the most ex-
tensive farmers, on one of the finest farms
on the James river, had not seeded an
ounce Of wheat, and none was intended to
be seeded. And this is caused by dissatis-
faction arising from the unequal opera.
tions of the impressment law. By this
law one man has the whole of his
wheat taken at So per bushel, while his
nOighbor, being more fortunate, obtains
$40 per busheI. Some farmers, residing
on the line of the railroads, had lost the
whole of their crops. Some produce had
been taken while in trGnIitu to the Cities
Some had been seized in the hands of the
commission merchants, while some far