Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-19

soMs of the newspapers in rebellion
-mansge to tell great deal Of truth under
cover of satire, which they dare not print
as matters of fact. The Richmond Exam
liner Of the lst, has q very clever burlesque
of the straits to which the rebels are being
reduced, under the title of1"A Modest
Proposal for the Relief of Richmond p
The writer says that by the mastery tao
tics of Pemberton and Bragg, the oonfed-
crate lines have been rapidly contracted
and the necessity of defending an i'm
mense territory obyi4ted. He learns from
the Adjutant Generals. .depAEtnentztha
this contraction will continue until the
erea of defense is confined to the compact
and powerful triangle formed by Lynch
burgh, Petersburg and Richmond, and he
infers that the -,entire population of the
Confederacy will be gathered within these
limits and come chiefly 70 Richmond for
protection. He therefore proceeds, being
a herring packer by profession and an
adept in the business, to propose various
methods Of packing this great population.
he patbetically exhorts the Richmond peo-
pie to ''cast their bread upon the waters,'
and if they must starve; shave one grand
national starvation and done with IT,.
Some of the schemes for accommOdstiuy
the emigrants to Richmond, estimated At
about three millions, are very amusing
he proposes that the negroes shall GO ma
ked, be kept warm by hard work in the
daytime and be slowed in the cemetery
tombs at night. The Yankee prisoners are
to be sent to the coal pits, aud the gam
blers and courtesans of Richmond take
their place on Belle Island, where they are
to be closely confined, and the Government
is to charge an admission fee TO outsiders,
from which large revenue is expeoted.-
The property of the Jews and Yankee
tradesmen is to be confscated, and they
lodged in the mills and tobacco houses;
the mechanics and artiEans and all poor
people to be lodged in empty casks and
tobacco hogsheads; the ONCE holders and
better classes are to have the houses of the
city. AS to food for the multitude, the
negroes can eattdirt, or steal better food If
they want 1t; the Office holders and upper
classes are to have the meats, vegetables
and whisky, and the writer sees no
other resource for the millions of com
mon folks but to betake themselves to can.
abalism and eat each other up, the Jews,
who have eaten the other whites, will at
last be eaten by the negroes $50 that the
dangerous classes will be destroyed at a
blow, and nobody be left but government
and negroes, and the sociology of the South
be established ON the only firm basis pos
sible." The writer fears, however, that
the public mind is not yet prepared for the
proposition of eannibaIism, and therefore
suggests for immediate relief a resort to
confederate notes, as being both abundant
and cheap, and if well creased with bacon
rinds and fried in bran will prove a pala-
table and uncOstive diet: He suggests that
confederate notes will pass in this way if
In no other, and 1t will produce a happy
effect on the. finances by. diminishing the
surplus currency. The pasquinade Is full
Of sharp hits at the rebel leaders, aud I'M
der its, ,exaggeration and grotesqueness
there runs an obvious current Of. fact, re.
yealing the thoughts that now agitats the
southern people as the prospects Of the re-
bsllion dAFken. asA