Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-12
Rltter AttaeL on Ien: DavIa.

| The Richmond Examiner of the 5ih con
tnins a letter from Mississippi, bitterly at
tackiug jeff. Davis administration. We
extract the concluding paragraphs:
The people are weary of the fragrant
mismanagement of the Government. The
spirit of resistance is as strong as ever,
and the devotion to our cause as tervent
and unshakeu; but we are disgusted and
disheartcnrd at the course pursued by the
Administration. The causes of popular
disc6nients are not new or recent; uVtor-
tunately they have too long existed. But
people have wai.edaud hoped for change,
deemineit inexpedient 20 complain public
ly; unit the abuses and grievances have
grown colossal and national patience is
exhausted. Look beyond the Mississippi !
What a bumiliatiug spectacle meets the
eve? Missouri, the uoblest of all the Bor-
der States, (saye Virginia,) utterly aban-
doued to her prosecutors; while Missouri's
blood was poured out in Vicksburg, and
Missouri's troops, who never surrendered
before, were made TO stack their arms by
order of General Pemberton A large por
tion of Arkansas oveFrun and held in Fed
eral bondage, simply because Mr.. Davis
protege No. 2-Generai Holmes-is kept in
command, in despite tho prayers of the
State, and the irrepressible complaints OF
the army If General Holmes be not in
his dotage, the English language possesses
no synonym to indicate bis stupidity and
inertia. The Administration is not iguo-
rant of the disgraceful fact that the army,
which numbered thirty thousand when he
assumed command of the Department,
dwindled down without a battle, and sole
Iy from discomfort, unpunished desertiOns
and mismanagement, to seventeen thous-
and, Mr.. Davis knew that the Trans Mis-
sissippi army longed for General Price, be-
Iieying that he would lead it TO victory
Wby was he subordinated to such Cen
erai as Holmes-himself i substitute for
HethP For the saUe reason that General
Pemberton was made to rank him, be-
cause he does not possess the favor OF the
President Does any man doubt that had
General Price been placed in Gen. Holmes
position, he would ere this have redeemed
Missouri
will no one who has the Presidential ear,
render the Confederacy service, by re-
mindiug him of the celebrated auecdote OF
Louis MI. which he must have read when
he studied Yattel2 That monarch was
urged to prosecute an old personal fead
but he steTnly and indignantly replied
" The King of France does not revenge the
INJURIES tue AAhC 'SAANNAS'
the people dreamed that Mr.. Davis would
carry all his chronic antipathies, and his
bitter preiudices, his puerile partialities,
and his doting fayoritisms into the Presi-
Dental chair, they would never have allow
ed him to fill it. Little did they imagine
that some of our noblest, Pnrest patriots,
greatest statesmen and ablest Generals
would be immolated to the obscure hatreds
of provincial politics, or the forgotten
quasrels of the War Department at WASH
;ngion He seems to have mastered but
one axiom of Maohiavelli: The dissen-
siops of individuals contribute to the well
fare of the State" Owing to the inveter-
ate characteristics OF the President. some
of the most Important, Eay vital portions
of the land, have been eoofided to the
bands of officers WHO fill all of SheFiddn's
famous categories: "Men of tried inabiIi-
ty, and convicted detfieiencyiiof contrived