Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-31

Dy 0ay nor YET Dy night. Lei NOttueft
cities revel and run riot on paper wealth
based on lands in the Southern Oopfeder.
Rcy, or in the moon les the whole YankeC
nation, drunk and mad with passion, rush
along IN their insane dream Of conquest
and triumph and pleasure, TO the very
edge Of the abyss Of peFdiIiOn, and then
down with them all 20 the devil together
It is wholesome for our people TO look
on and see that extraordinary nation, thus
ipossessed by an evil spirit, and running
violently down steep place 70 the sea,
like the swine in the country Of the Gar
darenes. There is small Temptations 70
link ourselves 20 their fate and fortunes
next year there will be still less and II
there be yet living among us any sof head
ed reconstructiOnistS or sHbmissi0nist, he
will then by cured.t
Whereas, We should have dreaded the
evil effects Of Vallandigham and bis cop
perheads, aud his moral suasiOn, united, as
il woule be, with vigorous prosecution
\ of the War--inl0ne hand the sword, in the
piher money brides, party alliances, COM
Z dsfifntional g1afanfiai, and " honorable
ffrm1. Those inii1enGGs would still have
/ found, We lear, certain Of the ueaner aud
more stupid COnfederates ready 70 listen
and respond TO the false promises of YAM
KEGS. A crop of Unionists WOuld appear
/
perheads are Southern bl0ekheads, and
original anti Rxodists would again suuG at
the fieshpots of the Egyptians.
Far better as it is; the present program
me happily iOsuTes to US q complete, final
and irreToCable separation from Yankees,
which is the paramount political good
As the President truly said to Selma, "only
by force of arms could the Yankees be
brought to reason, or their plans for our
subjugation be defeated"
HoUsEROOM IN RICHMOND.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Atlanta appeal, under date of October l,
writes -
The question of hOuserOom is beginning
to assume a more serious and alarming
aspect in the capital than the question of
food. AS the season approaches when all
the summer absentees will have returned
| to the city, and when, in addition to these,
and the very large accessions of fugitives
from their homes which have been made
to the population during three or four
months past, We shall have both houses of
the Congress and the State Legislature in |
session at the same time, the problem of
providing them with quarters becomes |
more and more perplexiDg. Rents have |
gone up to an almost incredible figure. |
Houses in any convenient part of the town |
will now readily rent for more than they |
would have brought at public auction three /
years ago. A single room, unfuFnished,
commands one hundred dollars u month.
know of one instance in which n Two
story dwelling has been rented at the euor-
nous rate of $1,000 a month. Heads of
families are going about begging to be
taken in as bOarders at private dwellings,
at any charge that may be demanded.
This state of things is inevitable to small
town. which all At once finds itself the seat
of government of a great hatiOur aud At
the same time the place of refuge Of thou.
sands who have been compelled to aban-
don their own fresides by the public enc
my. Ordinarily, the evil ofan overcroWded
city would remedy itself by the erection Of
new houses. But this Is new impossible.
Not row Of tenements has been built in
Richmond since 1850, aud, in many cases,
dwellings which have been rooted in, have
been necessarily left in an unfinished con-
dition, for want of materials to carry them
to completion. Nobody can build, aud
nobody can finish what they have already
commenced. What will be the upshOt Of
this unlocked for pressure remains to be
seen. Some departments of the govern
meut business will probably have to be
removed elsewhere. The poorer citizens
will have to abandon Richmond as a place
in which they cannot possibly afford to
keep q roof over their heads, aud this with
out reference to the urgent necessities Of
food and fuel which must bear heavily |
upon the scanty purse when the cold sea-
son has been fairly inaugurRted.
THE MAxIMUM PRICE QUESTION.
From the Richmond Examiner, October ..
The vote cast in this city yesterday
against a maximum price Was even larger
h0f in "A late eVuhaPn0fnFial
election. at an early hour it was aseer-
tained that "Maximum" had received its
death blow, as nearly every vote cast was
s'aRaInst instruction" or ''maXimum."
Total vote was 1853 majority against
instruction, 575.
OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN RICHMOND.
From the Richmond Examines, Oct. -.
Among the objects of interest one sees in
the streets of this city at present are some
fifty or sixty sPleBdidIy dressed mulatoes,
late ushers aud attaches Of gambling
houses, who have accumulated small for
tunes by their services, aud are now adrift
by force Of the law against faro banks and
other temples Of fortune aud depFavity.-
These hifalutin swells pay bat little regard
to the regulations of outdoor etiquette, aud
even OutdO white se0uudrels in impudenee
aud the oecupstion Of the sidewalks, Wher.
| SNSE suSJ HoJ uoPPSu W SS AOSHHHs 1NS+S
are now thousands Of honest faithful slaves
at work on various public works, and it
would be but just, ss we'll as expedient and
proper, to give these fellows little whole.
some exercises Of the same sort.
RICHMOND MARKET ORDNANCE.
From the BiehmOnd Examiner, Oct. g.
The ordinance of the City Council expelI
ing the hucksteFs from the markets went
into effect yesterday. The hucksters, like
the gamblers, Oheyed the Law and closed
up; aud the farmers and country producers,
coming in with their wagons and carts,
supplied the vacuum most aeeeptably.-
! Cabbages that heretofore sold at one dol
lar per head retailed readily at fifty cents.