Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-12
EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
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A difficulty seems to have arisen In re-
gard to the exchange of prisoners, and for
the present none but sick and wounded are
exchanged. Richmond is overrun with
Yankee prisoners. and so will all other
military prisons be. Whether this state
of things will continue long or short
time, or whether it is intended by the enc
my that a rule of no exchange of prisoners
shall prevail hereafter, we have no means
of judging. 1t is said that Mr.. Stanton,
Liucoln's Secretaryof War, has been uni
formly opposed 10 all exchanges, judging
that in consideration of our grealy infe-
rior numbers as people, compared with
the easny, the surest way TO cripple Us
and reduce our fighting population would
he to keep all the prisoners thAtaro. cap
blurred. he also calculates that the prisan-
Eers we may take will also tend. to cripple
us by imposing additional and heavy bur
deus upon our meanss Of subsistence,
deerled to be already sufficiently scauty,
We have no doubt In the world but that
Mr. Stanton woald SO reason, and wosa
be willing aud anxious so to act, IL he
could; but he cannot. The service. is
IlaIEeady sufficiently unpopular at the 9optb,
land neither the draft nor calls fcS volun.
teers will serve to fill up the ranks soon to
be depleted by the eIpi :arion Of the term
of enlistment of large number of soldiers.
Let il be once understood that there is to
be no exchange of Prisoners-thst each
gentleman with an azure abdomen who
may become prisoner may stay prison
en- In the South, with the chance Of short
lcommons, and the game of raising new
liarmy in the north is up. In fact, we rath-
Ter think that the stopPage of exchange
would weaken the enemy more than IL
would do the confederaey, and for this res-
son we feel almost certain that some sys
tenn will soon be agreed upon and put in
operation for its resumption. We believe
Stanton to be capable OF most things, and,
were humanity or good faith towards
confederates or the confederacy the only
consideration involved, We would expect
nothing at his hands but his own people,
for their own sakes, will compel him to
have some regard for common decency aud
the rules of honorable warfare,
SOCIAL ROTrENNEss: AT TAz sourH.
The following remarks, embodied in
the correspondence of the Richmsnd Sem
tineI Iare quite as applicable North as
South.
With Gods blessing, southern armies
can never be beaten and subdued bnt by
one power; not by federal bayonets; never!
But they can be beaten, whipped, and de-
stroyed by the southern peoplel IT, while
our glorious sons dare their fate on bloody
fields, and endure sufferings unparalleled
in history, and cheerfully submit to death,
those who remain at home under friendly
shelter, with soft pillows and domestic
comforts, proceed systematically to rob
the soldiers wife and impoverish his chill
dren, and nmaSs Immense wealth and
sport splendid style, by processes Of le-
galzed swinding, bankrupting the gov
ernment and reducing the very nobldst Of
our population to prospective pauperism,
the army win be beaten! There is limit
to human endurance, and those brave men
may yet be compelled to turn in madden
ed fury upon the cormormant traitors left
at home There is no use in mincing
words. These extOrtioners have no ex-
cuse nor reason for teeir conduct but in
fernal greed, a lust of gold, which would
prompt many of them to barter cOutry
for thirty pieces of silver" and sell
their mothers for consideration;
MARKRr nHpoRTs. ~
BIeHMOnD, NoY. 5.-Beans, SIS 70 $40 bushsl.
BrSpdyl sales g 80 o IS gallon. Butter scarce
SIS 70 81 q bushel. Candles, taiIou 81 10 e. g:
Poand ooSo g g Z PSSP 8 S SSss eSs E
dried apples SO 70 s; peaches SI5 e $40 abnshe
RlouF. the reeeiPta continue very Hght, mot enough
foT the Regular consumption, and pEieea have al
Ianeed from so 70 SIS barrel within the last fS
days We note sales At SIS 70 SO for sabeffne SIS
Irish s. 80 70 S. eshtl sweet SO "a so Sol Rics
= 70 y cents per pound Rye, last safes 81 bush.
e. salt - 70 90 cents . poahd. Sugars blown
g 50 70 . pound. Tobacco-the mafket e vsrV
animated q advanced prieo we quote lnEs q % sS
aeeon1tng 2 quality; oomOn leaf Is % 20 good and
40
Wheat, $40 TO S13 bnShel: lin deulapd Wood /
OaE $50. pina 81 4 cord Whisky 49,, "a 10 ~