Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-08
FROM LATE SOUTHERN PAPERSB

The Richmond Sentinel says that there in that
city about eight nine hundred captured officers and
eight thousand prvaes prisoners of from he Union
rmy. This number it Gays, Will be largely increased in
day two, by further arrivals from the South.
THE SUFFERING AT RICHMOND.
The Richmond Journals though defiant in tone, longer
attempt to conceal the restitution and suffering which now
prevail throughout the Conlederacy The Sentinel of
Saturday last in leading article says The rapid ad-
vance in s the neccssaries of clothing and subsistence
threatens the people with great distress There dis
gutng the fact defeat the battlefield could hardly
bring more suffering" 1t then adds in vein of mingled
eureaty and alarm Produce must be distributed prices
be reduced gsns must be disgOrged or there will
be suffering intense and intense suffering will beget-
what Think oft"
The paper in it's issue If the "a Instant under the
head of /" What the Government Must Do" says:
Tax as high people can bear. Reduce the volume
of the currency By every possible Suppress high
prices by law
Under the head Of " What the People Must Do" it
adds:
PAY taxes cheerfully. Sell to the Government and
the people promptly and at fair prices Be content with
small profits. Lend rs much money az possible to the
Government by investing ns b. nds Hold property and
personal service at the call the need of the Govern
ment."
Another indication of the straened circumstances of
the people furnished the fact that the Legislature has
been compelled to resort to suwpuay measures Tor the
regulation Of the prices Of all articles produced manu-
featured the State and the sale Of all other goods
an merchandise in the same A bill introduced in the
Assembly fixes the following schedule of prices:
Flour twenty weight dollars barres corn four dollars
bushel; bacon one dollar a pound wool, three dollars
pound beans four dollars bushel potatoes four dollars
and I've dollars bushel salt FIVE dollars for bushe
Of fifty pounds brown sugar one dolar; coffee, three
dollars tea dollars and candles dollar pound
moasses, eight dollars gallon The prices OF other ar
cles are fixed at proportonaby e1orbitant rates"
And this is the result Of all the ford promises under
which the Southern people seduced into rebellion
They must pay taxes cheeriuy with starya-
ton standing at their doors Those who have any posses
sons remnants of former prosperity, must sell to the
Government t terms matter though they take
the bread from the mouths Of their own hou schools II
any have imprudeny put any thing by for rainy day
they must lend it to Davis and bis fellows in namy that
they may still manage to hold in their rebeous course
DEFENCE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
The Sentinel has editorial rebuke Of grumblers and
defence Of Cen Davis or the croakers-meaning those
who refuse to approve every thing the rebel chiefs may
dot says:
They have but result to accomplish before
thectng ruin aud they to be laborng diligently
for that They have but to satisfy the soldiers Of what
they constantly dir gng in their that Mr. Davis
who President for the next five years is unequal to
his position aud deserving only of the abuse of the press
and the people Introduce this sentiment among the s
dierslet them lose all confidence in the intelligence aud
he pAtio Of the magistrate who directs their valor
aud needs prophet 10 tell what viii inevitably and
speedily follow Thus far the patriotism and good
OF the army has been proof against all the appliances
the stay.a home croskers But these baefu influences
will have their effect after while. Continual dropping
away stoues Indeed it s alleged in the army itse
that much evil has already been produced among the so
diers from certain place where the cause Of croakne
was most common. THIS is the natural tendency and in
evtsbe result, and we may expect il larger and
general scale il the continue. The habual reck
ess indiscrimnae ASSISTANTS 0f the President and o
every body and every thing, injurious than
the armies Of the enemy. They stl at their work