Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-09

We are constantly in the receipt of let
tiers from soldiers in our regiments, and
also from their friends at home, as we'll as
other persons, setting forth many COM
plants about various conceived or copject-
ured grievances, immediate and remote,
affecting their interests. We have not and
do not deem it the part of either personal
friendship or public patriotism to publish
many, indeed most, of these letters. We
can see no probable compromising benefit
to any body from their publication. The
remarks of valued exchange on this sub
ject, seem to US SO full of good sense and SO
applicable TO the complaints referred to,
that we reproduce them in this connection
and endorse them as our own opinions
They are from the Providence Journal, and
read as follows:
1t would be remarkable indeed if there
should be any military movement, often
siye or defensive, favorable or unfavorable,
without the grumbliug which has come to
be the customary accomplishments of every
step 10 the war. Aud in this respect the
war is no exception to other wars. 1t re-
ouires many great qualities to command an
army 1t requires as great qualities to pros
vide for its supplies and transportation and
munitions, aud generally to keep it in the
Geld. 1t requires no sort of capacity to
grumble it requires neither intelligence
nor information, nor patriotism nor COM
mon sense. The less a man has of either,
the better grnmbler he makes. 1t is also
the safest exercise of q shallow and discon-
tented mind; for the men against whom it
is directed are SO situated that reply is
often impossible without endangering the
public interests, and also SO iuconvenient
from the pressure of public business as to
be impTRcticAble. If all those who think
that they could conduct the war better than
it is done under the direction of the Presi-
dent and Secretary of War and the Lieut..
General, would enlist in private cspaci-
~, our armies would feel the impulse Of
large achievements, and If they would
fight the enemy as fercely as they growl
at the government their assistance would
be as valuable for it's character as for its
numbers.
To expect the war to be carried on with.
out grave mistakes. is to expect it to be
different from any other war of which his.
tory has left the record; to expect that
among so many subordinates, many of them
In places of great importance, some should
not prove unequal to their commands, is
to suppose that our long peace has devel-
Oped greater degree of military skill and
science than has fourished in countries
where war has been the rule aud peace the
exception. We believe that when all the
facts are known, and when all the circum-
stances that controlled them are explained,
1t will appear that as there has not before
been war on so gigantic scale, taking
into consideration the numbers employed,
the extent and character of the territory
invaded, and the nature of ornaments and
weapons and hostile contrivances, so there
has been no example of an army so we'll
supplied, so we'll cared for. and so thought
fully watched over by those who have had
the management of affairs at Washington;
aud the men in authority who are cou-
stAntly embarrassed by the grumbling and
growing of those who will not take the
trouble to Investigate, and who often lack
the capacity to understand, will hold, in
the public gratitude, the place that they
are now earning, amidst so mnch of abuse
and detraetion.
NoTwlTHsrANDiSG the Aormous are lay
ing up grain for q season of famine, food
Is now pretty well up to starvation prices.
The Deseret Ness, of July 8, quotes -four
At SIS per 100 pounds, wheat So per
hushRl. cnrn . 6O mar