Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-20

| nOfe hSSo!OLe grasp thAl ever On the Rs-
eessaries of lie Non producers. who are
ST the same time uon-speeuFators are suf-
iering more and more. What was once
competence has become poverty, poverty
| has eeeome Peaary, peEary IS iaSDiny into
| pauPerIsu- Auy mechanical Orru parion.is
more profitable than the most jntsIleeI1al
profession The most sccouF Eshed srhol-
ars IN Inc coutsCerHcy woU!5 be glad to
! carter their services Tor food aud raimenf :
and IN the complete nPturnlug OF our social
re!Auons, the only happy peopie are those
who have black hearts or black skins. The
cry Of scarcity resounds through the land,
| raised By the producers IN their greed for
gain. re-echoed by the consumers in their
! premature dread of starvation and naked
ness. We are all in tie dark, acd men are
more or less towards in the dark We do
! not know what our resources ars-and no
one can tell us whether We shall have a
! pound of beef to eat AT the end OF 1864, or
square Ioch of leather TO patch the last
shoe in the confzderacJ.
| Now If We were inclined to be the least
bit retaIiatOry towards our correspondent,
We could with ali his air of satisfaction
aHd sarcasm ask him what be thinks of
this paragraph Il it az Offset TO tie
quolation from the Richmond letter of the
London Fsasss7 We think so most Ger
tainiy- We feel as though We could well
afford TO let ali who il aay degree sympa-
! thize vile the rebellion make the most cut
of the small CT umbs of comfort which the5
are euabled 10 get from English patronage
and from any other source Whatever. The
testimony as to great want, severe depri-
vation, aud an alarming future, IN the
South, is 100 strong aud concurrent to be
set aside By reporter either porposeIy
sent cut from England, or procured IN this
country, to write up the Secession side OF
the war. The bowls of the Richmond pa
Pers, now SO frequent as to excite but little
surprise on this side Of the line, as TO the
almost annihiia;ed condition of their 6nan-
cial system, are as notorious as their un-
Precedeuted market quotations. Neveu-
tu-e the assertion, founded upon what We
have noticed lately, thai three consecutive
Issues Of the Richmond ErGu.:,.sr for the
last two months can not be found in which
10 reference is made 10 the destiIution
already existing II, or imuineutIy over
banging, the South. 1t is simply supreme
folly for any sympathizsr in Wheeling or
elsewhere 10 deIu6e himself that the re-
bslHou Is not II q depleted, we'll nigh ex-
hsasiedr and undoubtedly wobegone con-
diriou. And as evidence upon this point,
we will take the very identical letter from
which our correspondent quotes. Unfa7ora-
blsss that letter was iutsuded to be, il ell
It's statements, arguments and coujectures.
upon the cause of the Uuiou il Europe,
We submit that if there is anything credible
in it, that the feIIowing extract from il
presents avery bleak picture for syupa-
th ,zer here to tsIicitate himself upon. We
quote the close OF the letter, which is as
follows:
If the confederate horizon is al this no
meut overcast it is not oecaase con federate
troops are less valiant than of yore, out
because the confederate people are more
corrupt II Is dIthcuiT not TO curl the lip
when the grasping money gruboing, mer-
ceuzry spirit OF the Yankee is announced
N an atmosphere reekIug with speculation
N ore feverish and eager tnau anv that Wall
street exhioiIs- Go this day 10 the great
. auction sales CT bloCkade-runniug goods
exhibited by Mes<rs- Kent 4 Paine, IN the
principal street Of Richmond, take nole Of
/ the army OF Ioaog and abEe-oodied uzu
who might, II taey were men and not
sharks, swell Lees host 10 100, 900 bayo-
nets, and who are engaged in acrambliug
over each others backs 10 buy silks and
nEslI1s, and 10 invest some OF the coufed-
eraEe notes which they have in two years
and 1aif OF inscriptions greed Amuszed
t IN materials and fabrics which. whether
| the couteCerates sink or swim, mast still
command gold. What may stlII be il store
for this agauIzed and sorely tried continent
I Is more difficult 10 say than when the
| thunder of the first guu which initiated the
greatest rev oEu tionary war OF history reyer-
oerated around the walls OF Fl. Sumter, aud
/ died away on the startled ear; buL If OF the
| Tth OF this CuEreut month the confederate
congress which assemblies TO hold counsel
upon matters OF as grave debate as we're
! er submitted to a deIIberaUive oody, and
vaich, 1t must De owned, has hitherto
| shown little grasp, or earnesSuess, or Ca
| Pacy, fails to rise to the beIght OF the great
argument before II. then may be expected
such misery as upon earth has never yet
7 been knsWB-tbe extension over the whole
area Of secessia of the bloody border war
| fare of Missouri and kansas-a cessation
of the pure aad mild sway OF General Lee
and his initators, and an asceul 10 the sur
face Of QuantreIi. McNeilL Parsou Brown
! low. ana others OF the same brood-the
| dispersion all over the slave States OF at
| least 200 600 border ruti ans or gueriIlas,
more uerriIess than Italian eondottieri,
more steaithy aud willy than the Red Iu-
! dian savage VITO will neEer cease to sIay
and bura until the federals reiinguish their
| grasp upon country of which 1t would
| take :. standing army of 1000, 900 soldiers
to crush the spirit and exIinguish the re-
sistance.
For the relief of our correspondent who
may, in the contemplation OF this last para