Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-13

on the fourth page of this paper.
IT is certain that in the southern cities
there is real suffering from the scarcity OF
food. Read the following from the Rich
mond Whg: -
the conmittee appointed by the City Ooun.
Gil 10 obtain supplies Of food for this com;
munity have thus far not been attended
with success. Mr.. Garrett, the agent ap-
nointed BY the committee has just return
cd from a visit TO Louisa and adjacent
counties, He reports that the farmers IN
tbat section have nothiag for sale. lie Will
next visit the Valley-the Goshen OF Vir-
ginia-apd it is to be hoped he will meet
with more success in that productive re-
zion. Farmers who have any surplus
efiibIes for sale should not wait to be
cslled upon, if they are a! all 9lsposeu
IN avert the fearful condition OF things
which we now tell them in all candor
threAtens to Oyertakc US ere long. "hst
will our enemies think when they READ
such paragraphs Us this-penned from
sense of duty to this community ana 10
the cause2 1t is useless TO mtnce WORDS
it were folly to remain silent when we see
ererv day evidences of an approaching
6rsod famine in this city, whilst within tue
limits of the State, it is believed, theFe Is
food enough for all the people Tor Twelve
months. The population OF Richmond can
not live upon air, and whilst the mHJoI!y
would be willing, we are sure, 10 suos's'
on half rations of bread, there Is AZ pre-.
eut no prospect OF obtaining '"'' A1
during the winter"
In Lynchburg the case is equally bad SO
that tho citizens think the presence otthree
thousand prisoners will cause starvation
in the place. AT Charleston, at Atlanta
at Mobile, the condition of affairs is sub"
stautially the same. The breadth otground
which was planted, was not great. "A let
ter witten at the close OF last April by the
rebel Commissary General OF Subsistence
to the rebel Secretary of War, and which
having been intercepted, is now published,
proves this. The writer, l.. 3. NorIhrop,
writes from Athens, Ca, where he had
met the Governors of Ale5stua1 g sessia
and North Carolina. He Baya that Laey.
all agree that the appeals OF, Jeh.
Davis to the planters n19Rt mess
than tho usual area With corn and
wheat had proved unavOiling, and that
in one of the best corn districts in Georgiu'
not one acre in fifty WAS planted with corn.
alt is obvious" he continues, "th"t some-
thing must be done Immediately, or both
the people and army must starve next
winter" Gov. Brown, he reports had
taken an inventory of the bacon and live
stock in Georgia, and had thereby shown
the we'll nigh exhausted condition OF the
State, which was yet the least exhausted OF
any State in the coufcdcrHcy. Mr. North
rop concurred with Gen. Bragg in recon-
meuLing that the government shonld take
possession of the plantations and employ
the negroes in raising grain. We may see
nv tue desperate nature of this remedy bow
desperate was the evil.
Not only was small quantity of land
planted, but there is the greatest difficulty
in securing the distribution OF the crops,
which have been raised. The owners Hre
afraid that the government will impress
the grain. They do not want the worth
less and rapidly depreciating currency
They had much rather have tho corn and
meat, which they can eat, and which is
constantly rising in value. Then there is
the impossibility of finding adequate trans
portation. The railroads are SO dilapidated
and they are so constantly occupied by the
government, that they cannot be employed
sufficiently in transporting flood for the
people. The districts near the cities ore
therefore almost entirely stripped of food
A fortnight ago no meat could nc pur'
chased in Richmond. If now such is the
condition of things ut the close of harvest,
what will be the situation of tue southern
people before the winter is oVerH This is
the question which the southern Journals
arc now anxiously discussing.