Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-22
W have ttusi1ed DOS .oue upkpogp

We have teseiSsd tfota some unknown
friend quits batch 81 sputhetn ueRspa.
pers, Including cobEs s 3 tho Rich mopSS
Eh7aFtF, 6sstihsl. ami Esaniasr, aid of the
Southern illustrated Nsss and de Rich
thOnd Paash. We have bad but barely.
time to scan the contents of these papers.
The most noticeable item in the Richmond
sheets tS the following which We clip from
3.he Sentinel.
+ IaE MARkETs-Prices of dry goods
fang very shigh.ai There Ia buerlittie change
II groceries. Provisions, continue scarce
aud high-country dealers holding back
lnpglies until after the first OF April. Flour
selling yesterday at S275 to $500 per
baFrelis bacon 81 to So per lb;. dried beef
$3.50 per To-, fresh beef S 81; butter So to
$40, according 70 quality corn. meal S46
per busheli beans $50; peas $40; dried
apples 500, and dried peaches 500 per
bushel.
aheAt q loss 20 know what more stinp-
ing and ilspAr ging and ifatalcOmment
could b siltsn upon the rebellion than
iS Contained n tie teseeoIng market quo.
tatiens from pape psintsd 10 the capital
Of tHst rshsiiiun: a6y man among as!
be bis sentimspt o. Biz sympathiss What
they naSsiu Eespsst 70 the war thatis
being esed for The preservation of the
Union can I'd aug5t IN the S6oge for his
envy. OF lis ADMIRATION he mdst be OF that
peculiar scot Of ancient garden phiIoso,
pliers with whom ia unusual misery. Was
an unusual iey Think of -four at three
hundred dollas barrel, and every o,Ker
neessslly Of lie ID the same extrayagant
proportion. And compare with this the
meagrs pay Of rebel sOIdier-sIeten dol
larsper month. Aud ali for WbsY Let the
secessioptst in this still blessed section Of
peace and plenty answer for what. Is II
for better condition oflife in the coming
hereafter, either for himself or his chill
dren, that the poor deludsd wretch is in
arms earning scarcely enough money in a
month to afford his family one respectable
meal! Men have noblysuFeredand sacrificed
even still more than the rebel soldiers are
suffering and sacrificing in many times pas,
for the sake ora principle the value Of
which is not to be reckoued BY present
gain or loss; bat why 10 the name of all
that is plain and reasonable is it that men
in this age and in this country can be held
together in the midst % SO much, sacrifice,
when there is no promise OF prospect, be-
tore them save hopeless impoverishment
andlPerpethal degradation as members OF
society2 The Southern leaders have nsy-
ter once yet made a claim that their rebol.
liontWas undertaken in the interest Of free.
dom-iuithe interest of abroad catholic
humanity! SO far from that they have one
and all, from their Vice President down,
said over and over again. that it was, to
vindicate their right to hold men i n sla.
yety-to entail a more perpetual and pos.
tive condition Of bondage in their midst,
that the rebellion was undertaken They
asserted as dogma, worthy of religious
Ind political aceeptatiOn, that their iust 4.
tuition OfSlAveFy was divine, that it ought
30 DO made enduring, that freedom for the
Psopie' including =their.fres -eduCatiuu-a aud
their sovereignty ri thSs Ballot boz. was a
glittering delusiou into which the fountl.
ers of the government hada fallen, and
which 1t was their mission to Fectify by
means of secession from The. free States.
That our fathers may be coufoundedi in
their theories-that slavery may be proved
divine and made dominant and perpetual
on this continent-that the many may be
subjected to the fsw-tbat, in the language
of Mr.. Hunter. "oapital may naturally and
fighttulIy own its or"-ths poor wretch
es of the South, who own no slaves. who
are disparnged by the! slaves themselves as
''poor white trash, /" whose posterity. are
to suffer untold woes If this rebellion sue.
ossds, are in arms at elsfysni dollars pei
month, attempting to subYert q govern.
ment that never pressed within weight tbs,
could be felt upon It's humblest citizen
under which every man was the equal. il
The exercise of,eyery political, social aud
Religious right. of his fellow, be his oppor.
sunities or his petition what they. might.
IL is strange, passing strange, indeed
that such u scene, so contradictory. g
hnnilistlpg, 80 aiseouragtlg, should pre-
sent itself In plain view before us afte,
such an experience as the whole people o.
this favored land Of ours have. had. oul,
IN one way can q rational man look up50r
Il with oompOsare and Fssignatiou, ], 5aui
that wy is this. that the great auss of al
this war, of all this blindness, of all thil
strange anomoly of men fighttng not 70,
freedom but for SLAYER 81 has tSS The span
OF existence that for some wise purpos.
was allowed ii BY thse Almighty, land 4
nov 70 be s4tsrmin ated forever q 4 ttS15it
and Eeproach from among the stStes &
this Union IN oEdsr.athat they may be ia
the future what they have not bss6 in ~.