Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-09

I9E toltleat Meetings to be charged In a
Marriages, NoHCeSOS Funerals, and announcement
o. sermons, 90 cents each. ~ 1 nonvlI-'60
sL tDIstress In the North.,' p
,-f. From the Philadelphia North American. .-
On reading words like those abova
which is a standing heading in British
journals, the FIRST thought of an Americau
reVerts to his own country, andihe. feels
anxious to know where, in our northern
States, exists the distress inferable from
such an announcement. But a second
glance will show the distress is in England,
and that about 295, 600 persons yet REQUIRE
public charity because of our American
troubles. Happily the pressure is abating,
and gradually all those poor people will
probably get into other employment, or
return once more to their cotton looms
when our civil war shall be ended. f
But what an anomaly is herein present.
ed, for the consideration of those Europe
an publicists, who descauted SO solemnly
on the ruin which awaited US, if we dared
to resist the rebellion, and of that bust.
ness dependence on the south which rem
dered its interruption the herald of desti-
j totlon or starvation. Bread riots were to
I [convulse our northern cities, paralyzinp
the arm ofslegal authority. Tnsurrection
In every free State was to aid in the work
of national sdisintegration, whilst the
southern shareholders were to pursue
profitable agriculture, and derive from for
elgn markets every requisite fabric for
/ peace or war. Such were the confident
prognostics of foreigners, re-echoed, with
numerous embellishments, by our copper
head politicians at home, who had SO long
been toadying to the slaveocracy, that
they had ceased to see the superiority of
the north, in each particular thing that
constitutes national strength, dignity and
permanence.
The servitors of the man-owners assured
us that. even in the eventOf a peaceful sep
aration, so essential to US was commerce
with the South, thatits partial curtailment
alone would suffice to involve us in extreme
distress. Grass was to grow in our streets,
and starving population was to over
throw the legal government. If resistance
were made to Southern traitors, then their
military superiority would be proved by
successful invasion, and our commercial
marts we're to, be, sacked and burned by the
Southern braves HHtsB# 4lHH :
In all these calculations, both our Euro
pean and domestic enemies spoke rather
from their inclinations thanfrom sober and
mature judgment. The 6rst knew SO little
of our country that they seldom Ventured
W.
i such ludicrous combinations of blunders as
to deprive them of all weight with intelli-
gent Americans. Our own mousing poli--
Gcians, who throYein small way by gath
e1ing Southern votes, were altogether in.
capable of estimating the effects of a COL
lision between the North and South. They
had no leisure from their pettifogging avo-
cation to examine the statistics which
would have taught them that their own
section, rich in natural resources and me-
chanical skill, is not only independent of
our own slave States, but in great measure
of all the world besides. Here are con-
centrated the cereals, the coal, the iron, the
gold, which in the hands of Northern free
men, Will command and summon hither all
else that the earth can produce, even in it's
remotest extremity. Twas such a com.
munity of strong and self. sustaining peo.
pie that was to wilt and cringe nnder the
threatening withdrawal Of Southern trade,
though but tithe of its business came
| from that source, and all its main interests
were strictly within its own limits.
No wonder is it, then, that monarchists
and aristocrats who looked on from a dis
tance, and disaffected croakers among our
selves, who never truly comprehended
their own country, are equally surprised
and disappointed, because the evils they
predicted do not come to pass. They see,
instead, the storm breaks elsewhere-over-.
whelmingly, on those slave plantations
whose masters hoped to ruin and distract
the'North, and severely on those European
shores where busy intermeddlers are al
ways conspiring against human freedom.-
i We do not, indeed, escape sore suffering;
for what can bemore affective than TO see
thousands, of our noble soldiers perishine
on. the battle field, or in Hospitals? Yet
even in this there is Arrangement, for their
names will be inscribed forever ON the roll
OF honor, and held by their conntrymen, in
lsacred remembrance. But the Jet greater
evil of intestine tumult and anarchy, with
which we were menaced by the two classes
OF our toes, has happily been averted. The
peaceful aTocations of life go on as usual.
1 Agriculture still furnishes abundant food
for ourselves and much besides for ship
rent elsewhere. The mechanic arts are
well rewarded, aud our manufactures ad-
vance prospetonsly to excellence aud per-
manency. In Lancashire and Yorkshire ia
heard the cry Of destitntion, aud from the
ports of Great Britain thousands of exiles
are fleeing to that land which the tools of
despotism are beseeching them 10 avoid,
Whilst the hyPoeritical foes of human
freedom are declaiming over the dreadful
condition Of America, ravaged and desc
lated throughout its whole extent, the
Ipoor emigrsnts whom they thus attempt
to deceive have positive knowledge oflthe
utter falsity of all such tales. They have
letters from their kinsfolk here, informing
them that peace and plenty reign in all the
loyal States, and, in many cases, enclosing
money to bring across the ocean ali their
lremaining relatives. Evidence like this
can never be contraYened by English
scribes, who write 70 sarHe their aristo.
cratic employers, but who do the work so
blunderinkly that its purpose is frustrated.
|. They would caiole British artisans to en-.
bark on the tedious voyage to Australia,