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

. S'7iss U ne I ooEi stephen L. Boyd and
Nicholas ZedikeI, CoaslabIes, J. T. Cor
and B. W. Price, Inspectors of Elections;
n r Sh4rtuek, County Treasurer.
As aGouymons correspondent calls our
attectiou to 1 letter in the London Tine,
dated at RiehGo1d, Nov. gath, and jus,
published within a day or t#o in this
coGatEy- Oar notice is directed especial
,y 70 ths following passage in the letter:
There Is, oeiieve- II The confederacy al
iaI- moment 10 man OF thogshituIaesz and
re1=rtou who would rot solicit tie pas
sage throughout the i1=urgert states OF
any heDorsoie commissioners IN whom
the North would cO06i-, AID wbo would
ret ao!1- cE tb=-re pert ofthesea aconuis-
zIGl=rs ss 10 Tue ability Of the SUuthernzrs
10 natuta5c this stEuggle fer ten years
and YET IA the lace OF faccs which are
patent 10 all, win au entire absence OF
ue1tEcarcy aad Essui1g want from or
Streets ihe \ 9rIh Is for the twentieth time
stIsnaiatLng its courage aud reEITiug its
crooPiEg faith by the assertion of ir
journals Ihst Richmond is starving, that
10 fs mIly mas more than uae meal per
dieU, that gauGt tau.ae l. giaring OF
southern highways ana Threatening south
eTu h5ESehgtd= aud that resistance naIr-
tatEeu 20 the utmost stretch of ecd1rauce,
Is about 10 give way duaIy and forever
| have now been quite long enough in tie
south TO estimate and understand the
amount Of pressure tjch it * necessary
for confederate armies ali Confederate
citizens to endure, aud / can safely say
that, aithoagh they have been severely
tried, their suf=riags are light and trivia.
nsuy other nations. There have been
moments il the receut history OF Eoglaud,
sach as 1901, and II The history Of France.
such s. 1913, when national distress
weighed far more heavily and national
peTp,exIty anc gloom surrounded more
OcErure-y the future. Want OF food il
such q d-g-ee as Eog.aId experienced
II IN the year IN question has
never been dreamed of II the
cOntederacy. Il Is difficult TO meet general
asseruous - tie effect L1aI I've or slI mil
lions OF people scattered over AZ enormous
area are Starving, O hsrwise thao By asser
vaIions that such Is not the case IwaI
eudeaver 70 mention two or three facts.
v1:ch will treugJhsa and sustain nv de-
Nal. IN tie first place the signt of nan
( or woman begging IN the street is as IN
I known IS n cid days It wzz in The most
. Y
thzr= u nOt religions dissemination IN
this city OF which the ministers do not as
ser' that never N thsir recoIIectIons were
there 30 lev applications 10 them fer reiI=f
II wss mentIoeed 10 ne last night by Dr.
inge [Eho has recently returned from
EogiaEu), that the principal Pres esbyteriaR
mfcister Of RGchmodd, DR.. Moore, aaucuuc-
ed last Sunday 10 his congregation that
there were no poor in his parish suing for
relief, and thar be would therefore devote
the collection CT that days aims TO the
wives Ct a cavalry rrgiment. Thirdly. the
daily supply of iocd offered in the market
knows neither stint ror stay. Prices, Il is
tr0e- sre eaorDoUs- II the Gotiar Is sun
posed tc be worth A. they are very small
if the dollar represents its true value.
y hIch l. between Sd and 4d- English
That dollars are pieutifuI enough where
there ar GG0 millions Of them IN circuIa
tion will easily b believed.
We are asked II a tone of evident salts
faction by cur correspondent, i: the above
statement does mot go a considerable way
to upset the stories daily pzh!Izhed about
rebel destitutiou." We shall try to be as
candid es cur .ssynPzthizing" correspou-
dear could desire, aad We shall therefore
answer promptly that such statement
does most certainly 90 some way to DIS
prove all that Is reported aud published
concerning rebel des5itutfou. At the same
time We shall ask cur correspondent what
he would have Us to think Of the reports
which We almost daily read in the Rich
mond papers themselves concerning that
destitution. Such reports are direct aad
positive. and rot remote aud round about
as IS the evidence enclosed To Us from the
London Timss. UnIy Few mornings ago
We copied from the Richmond Erauiner
dated Qee-zsIzt the last day OF the old
year, an article headed stThe Situation, a
10 which there Is evidence of destitntiou
quite g6cient TO Offset all that the cores
poudent of the London Times ventures to
say OF behalf Of the Southern country and
people. The expressions of the ednor of
the EEaHsasT were must decided as to a
rapidly eliminating condition OF general
destitutiOu. For the bepeft of oar cor
respondent We viii quote paragraph fEom