Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-17

tual arrangement all firing was TOT ume
suspended, the "Johnnies" being intensely
anxious TO learn the result OF the eiecuon
on the day previous. Enough nad oeen
heard 70 Justify the belief that the Union
cause had triumphed. And the ptoDaDle
result was shouted across to tne enemy
whose ehasrin was finally vented In lauda-
tons of Little Mac" and the application
of harsh epithets to his successful rival.
Thus, the discussion, which, at hrst' was
carried on good naturally, hnally aeeene-
rated into the exchange OF abusive person
alities, and the truce was soon brought 10
by sudden volley rom the
whose evaporation know no
bonnds when from our side three times
three were given for "Lincoln and the
Union" This abrupt response did not
catch our men mapping, however, and the
fash from the enemy's guns had scarcely
disappeared before an answering volley was
hurled back, and for nearly an hour the
rattle of musketry was incessant. Fort
He'll also Joined in the general din and
greeted the enemy with score or two OF
mortal shells. During this cannonade the
novel exhibition of the collision of two In
mense bombs in midair was witnessed by
thousands of spectators.
The result of course was that both shells
"went to grass" at the same time, leaving
a shower of sparks to follow their descent.
Nh. L1HooLH's RE-ILECTIoN.
From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. IL.
We believe that Abraham Lincoln is
Chief Magistrate of the euemy's country
for four years longer. How he accomplish
ed this object-whether the transaction is
properly called an election, or an usurpa.
ton, or coup dstat-is the affair of his
own subjects, and no concern OF ours.-
There he is; and along with him the whole
War Administration, more bent on slRugh
ter and conhscation than ever, aud backed
by the great War interest hungry for new
and more enormous contracts. 1t would
be idle speculation for US to occupy our
selves with the possible revolt of the de-
feated and disappointed party amongst our
enemies, or the probable break down of
their financial resources, with the chance
of riots or resistance to drafts, or conspir-
acies to separate the Western States-all
those things are contingent and precarious;
may happen and may not.
What we are certain of, the real, present,
inevitable fact is, that the whole of the
material resources, the army, the navy, the
arsenals, the treasury, of the Federal States,
all are now firmly grasped and welded by
the hands of those who have vowed to
destroy Us, to sieEe our lands and houses,
to beggar our children, and brand our
names forever as the names of felons and
traitors. This is the "situation." This is
what we have now to deal with; aud on
the way in which we meet it depends the
whole future of our race and nation, II
we shrink from the conflict, better were it
for us and ours that we had never been
born. Fortunately there is no middle
FL Tonat ha viNf0Fa JUa
must be annihilated; and it is better SO.
We are glad that there is no room now for
submission. Submission would be but
running to meet the shameful doom of sub
jugation; it would not save Us one acre of
ground, one right of citizenship; the party
that has placed Lincoln at it's head for
another term is not to be cheated out of
its prey now by compromises or clemency.
It knows what it has staked and has coun-
ted up what it means to win.
The Yankee nation has committed itself
to the game of all or nothing; and so must
we. The only question for US now is,
whether we shall call forth all the ener-
gies and resources of our country, all the
courage and manhood of our race, to drive
back the foul invaders of our homes and
make them expiate their crime with their
own base blood, or whether we shall fly
from our country, take false names, hide
our shame in the ends of the earth, and
''peep" about to find ourselves dishonorable
"graves"-or else remain as q generation
OF serfs, to beg shelter and employment
from Yankee aud negro masters. Such is
the alternative.
But this remains to be said. Although
unsparing war, carnage and conquest may
be the present design or dream of that ua-
ton and its rulers, it by NO means follows
that th ere are to be four years more of war
We do not believe that there can be. Man
proposes, but does not absolutely dispose;
and whether there can be even one other
campaign depends not on the present in
tentions of any human being or human
Government, but on events which we of
the Confederate States have quite as much
power to shape and determine as our eue-
mics have. A strenuous determination
now to bring all our enrolled soldiers to
their post will, even before this year is
out, put us clear through the bloody del.
uge of war, and place us on the safe shore,
from whence at our ease we may look on
at the absurd and strocious Yankee nation
going to utter wreck in the storm it had
ooujured up for our destruction.