Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-17
STATE OF socrsTT IN rHs SOUTH.
/. Prom Tho Richmond Enquirer.

are all pegtnntuS 10 De PalntuIY htlSs u
the enormity OF the glowing evil, aut
each Of us zeAlous and urgent for the re-
formation or condign punishment Of the
vices of all the rest. Blockade runners
seattle aud denonnce the extortioners-
meaning the farmers-and call for sharp
penalties on the greedy wretches. Far
mers pOur their imprecations upon the
extortiOners-meauing the blockade run
ners-and want to know how long their
crimes are to go unwhipped of justice
The man who 10 amassing hogsheads full
of Confederate Treasury bills, Indignantly ,
wonders why every one else does not fund
his paper to an enormous extent, knowing
that the more bills are funded BY others,
the higher will be the value Of his hogs
heads full. Planters pass resolutions, Ia
most excellent spirit, pledging everybody
to sell his produce freely, at Government
prices; each planter knowing (aias shat
we should say SOY that IL all the others
sell cheap he will have the more to sell
dear. We will praise with our whole
might the virtue of patriotic self-sacrifice;
and are most happy to see It exempltted
10 other men and uuafectedly wonder
whether those who trade and make money
upon the necessities Of their country, think
they have souls to be saved. OF late there
has been great manifestion Of patriotic
rage against every sort Of iniquity, and to
judge by our neWspapers, never was surely
community In this world so welded TO
purity aud virtue, so scandaliZed ct the
shadow Of vice. In the very crisis and
pRroxysms of the French revolu tion, when
traitors were plotting against the eoayen.
tion, when aristocrats were threatening an
Invasion across the Rhine, and farmers
worst of ally were hiding their grain in.
stead of bringing IL into market, decree
was proposed by a conventioner "fcr the
arrest Of all the scoundrels and thitVes."
He hoped that his zeal at least would ex-
enpt him from the arrest
We are of purer eyes than to behold
ipiquity. 1t Is not enough to whif gam.
blers-nobody will pity them much, those
who patronize them least Of all; bat now
another eegeor nloram at the Press, fred
with zeal for morality and virtue, calis
loudly for o law to aog those helpless fe-
males, fair but all too frail, who are as
inyariable and necessary concomitant of
large armies as the cultures aud the bug
yards are. We formally object to this
aogging. It is true we bate vice ourselves
aud love to punish the vicious, but a line
must be drawn somewhere. and we draw
Il right here. Whip gamblers If you will;
they are men. They, If they don't like
that usage, can quit being gamblers aud
become members of the Legislature, and
of Congress, where they will have q chance
of whipping others, and can even propose
resolutions for the s'arresI of all scoundrels
and thieves" to their own great satisfac-
ton and the vast improvement Of their
kind. But let It be recollected that women
are rather too much at our mercy; we
make all the laws; we mould and govern
the whole economic structure of society,
and by our arrangements in those depart.
ments, we compel certain per centage OF
the poor girls (the exact proportion is
known to statistfcs) to sell themselves TO
us for our pleasure. We doubt II It would
be brave or gallant to turn upon them at
terwAed, and apply TO their poor white
shoulders so many scores of lashes. we'll
laid on. Oh, ye Legislatorsl Ye members
of the universal society for. suppression Of
vicel We should wish to see the voting
upon the hill; aud how each law-maker's
cheek would aush with dusky red as he
recorded the coward VOTE
But we are told that these poor souls
make public scandal by the outrageous
extravaganza In which they live. and out.
shine on the public streets, with their
blockade-run finefy, the modest aud vir.
ttuous maidens and matrons Of the city.
'Tis true, tits pity; but it was ever SO, and
ever will be.
ras PRISONERS,
The Examiner of November 2 says:
"0n Sunday, four hundred and fifty Of
the Yankee prisoners, taken in the fight ct
Philadelphia, Tennessee, were received at
the Libby. About three hundred more are
yet to come, and will probably arrive to.
day. 49,
There are twelve commissioned officers
among those already arrived.
Yesterday one thousand additional pris-
oners were added to the number on Belle
Islse, making its population about four
thousand six hundred. They are accom-.
modated in additional tents. lj7I5t5
The officers at the Libby we're yesterday
/ supplied with blanket apiece from the
large consignment recently received from
the North. u. llS ELtittt (
In the Virginia House of Delegates on
November ,I5g5.
Mr. Raymond called up the resolution
offered early in the session, making In
quiry Of the Confederate Government o
the number of paroled Yankee prisoners
going at large In Richmond, and the ma
ture OF the oath they have subscribed to
Mr.. Raymond said he had understood
that there were at least two hundred and
fifty of the creatures In the city.
Mr. Brooke thought the House had bet
ter let that subject alone. 1t was one tina
belonged eminently to the Confederate
Government The House had already thi
session been embroiled in one difficulty o
misunderstanding with the Goyernmen,
and he was Of the opinion that they hal
;. better cultivate amicable relations. H.
4 The motion to take up the resolution wa
withdrawn. ....-
The Eaqprer has these items:
. 1.-THE gratifying Intelligence is at hand
, announcing that about 6ve thousand 9
the Yankees, now quartered in Richmond
: will be immediately shipped TO Danvill
, audtypehbsrsA-2, ,oso TO the former, Al
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