Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-01

We are informed from Washington city
thus: "Keep cool out there ia West Viz
ginia aud you will see the end of this re-
bellion sooner than you think for. War is
not the only thing we talk of here now
Higher salaries are under discussion
through the Departments The New York
Tribune hit US blow between the eyes on
the subject to-day. Father Abraham is
again in trouble with his everlasting Cab.
met. Bates is out as you will have no
ticed. The trouble is that Mr.. B. didn't
suit any side; he was 'nething to nobody
he was disguised and tired, and SO were
the balance. His place was still very warm
when the beseigers burst in Uncle Abe's
door before he was up in the morning,
asking for the vacancy either for themselves
or friends. Poor Uncle Abe he simply
waved the cormorants back with both
hands and shook his head, as much as to
say that he had yet to take consult with
Seward and Stanton over the matter. The
they suit him, because they both do their
work well and make no trouble with selfish
schemes. Stanton especially grows in
grace every day, and the President has
been heard to say that he would sooner
lose an arm than part with him. And
Stanton in his turn takes warmly to the
President, and, like Mr.. Micawb Der, VOWS that
he never will desert him. He could be
Chief Justice at the drop of hat if he
wanted to, but such is not his ambition
Even before Seward paid him that compli.
ment at Auburn, in which he said that no
man since the days of Carnot had organized
war equal to Stanton, the latter had been
more than ever bent on organizing it. He
is the fullest team as a man of work and
boiling hatred toward the rebels, in the
city of Washington. Chase will not be Of
fered place on the bench, nor anything
else. Mark thatl Mr.. Lincoln is not a
vindictive man; on the contrary, excessiV-
ly kind hearted but he feels, as he re-
Gently said, that until he and Chase are
made over again they have no business with
each other. He feels that Mr.. Chase played
him shabby trick in that Pomeroy circu~
lar, and 80 he did, one of the shabbiest sort.
By the way, have you ever found out the
secret history of those Claysville, West
Virginia, proc Chase and anti Lincoln reso.
lutiOns yet? They have little bit of Chase
ism in them and were intended to nightly
advance his interests.
"The coming session of Congress is be-
ginning to be discussed somewhat. Some
difficult problems in finance are to be solV-
ed this winter. Our finances are really
our great source of anxiety. Greeley you
notice advocates steep taxation-say thirty
or fifty per cent on salaries, &c. In that
way, or in some other, it will be found
necessary to make important changes in
the present system; radical change is
hardly possible now, The sxpsdients that
might have answered for short war and a
small debt defeat themselves in long war
with debt accommodating at the rate of
from one to two millions per day. 1t is
already said that the increase of duties on
imports has diminished the revenue from
that source, instead of augmenting it, and
that the requirement of duties in gold has
so raised the price of gold and of all other
articles as to greatly diminish consump-
ton. The people are thus very heavily
taxed, and the government realizes but a
small portion of this taxation. A conse.
quence of this abnormal state of things is
the rapid absorption of the wealth of the
country in few hands.
"EVery preparation is making for another
draft. You can count on that. 1t will be
for not less than a half million of men,
AS to how many of them will be actually
wanted in the field depends onlwhat is to
come of sherman's operations and Grants
expected demonstration on Lee. If both
are successful we have enough men,"
Two vessels filed with our sick ptisou-
ers, just exchanged at Savannah, arrived