Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-28
anuTHERn NEWS.

take another view of the matter and pre-.
fer Mr.. Lincoln's election. The Columbia
South Caroiinisp, for instance, says:
eve were inclined, not many days ago,
to wish success to Mcclellan In the APP
preaching presidential election. But we
have changed our mind. 1t has lately be-
come evident that there are many persons
In the South who are disposed to believe
that If Mcclellan, should carry the day, the
restoration Of the Union would DO not
impossible. To such conclusion under
any circumstances to the sacred contest
In which the contederacy is engaged, We
are SO much opposed, that we must per-
force deprecate any event which might
lead to the formation of party, however
small, which entertain the thought OF o
realliancs with the people of the North.
We have, therefore, determined to with
draw the support Of our good wishes from
the Chicago nominee. We are Lincoln
men from this time forth. The re.eleetion
of that unqualified villain will efectualIy
put b stop to the dream Of reconstruction
In the hearts even of the most dmtd
among u.s." irsr..
Davis gets no volunteers. he conscripts
all that can carry musket, who do not
run away, but, according to all accounts,
there is great skedaddliug for the noun
tains and the rural districts. The Rich
mOnd Enquirer of the Goth says:
Everybody in the Confederate States
seems to be shouting at the same time,
that everybody else ought to be in the ar
my, aud still not one Of the stubborn crea.
lures heed the appeal. About one-halt OF
the cute, old, sable. bodies" are stirring up
the other halt, and making them uncom-
Portable. Here's the way 10 seine the en-
tire school: Let's all go in, from the pre-:
sident down to the humblest exempted
wharf rat, men, women and children and
their negroes, throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Now, come In, II you
dare. Say wheuI and wen all start at
given signal"
Confederate Secretary Of the Treasury
Trenholm is indefatigable In his public APP
peals for his department. In his last he
urges the southern people to take confed-
crate bonds, instead of allowing them to
be sold abroad at discount, and to illus
trate the wisdom OF his advice, he relates
this incident:
1.-THE Government paid on one occasion
$500. 900 for certain supplies, and the
party who received this sum bought with
il, from q foreigner, $4,000 In gold, de-
| liyerable in England. With the 100000
thus Obtained, the foreigner then bought
an equal amount of government bonds,
bearing seven per cent. per aunum, inter-
est. Il follows that at the end of this war
for SIS, 900 thus acquired by the citizen,
the Government will owe Q debt OF $780,
O00." ~ @
More properly, It follows that for every
dollars worth of supplies the confederate
government will pay hereafter $40 and In
terest-if 1t pays anything. Its promises
to pay are worth Eve per cent. of their face
now. Under such circumstances the mon
eyed men of the South turn deaf ear 70
Mr.. Trenholm's appeals.
The food question Is beginuingto be Sc
rious one at Richmond. The Sentinel Of the
lsth has .doleful article on the subject,
in whishsit says:
4sfessy yaluSd byghaE twill put-
chase: But hedgsd up and cut Oh -
\ Richmond -oFibhed, eabined and con-
hned -noney can buy but little here, for
\ the feasons We have stated. Flour and
| cornlafe harder.to be obtained here in
adequate quantities than they are in many
Alpine towns, where the only approach is
by mule path. Hence they command
| enormous prices, aud hence the news goes
out that Richmond, which has for time
\ memorial set the markets for Virginia,
values three or four hundred dollars as hut
the fair equivalent for barrel of -four,
and other things in proportion" 70 3,
The Rhig says on the same subject -
"Prices are inconveniently high for poor
folks, but this must be expected 60 long
as the necessaries of life are impressed on
Their way to market by government agents,
| who are too precious lazy TO 60 through
the county in search of supplies. Half Of
the troubles of our army and nearly all the
troubles of the people, are dueto the exis-
tence of these pestiferous commissioners.
II, in their stead, government had depended
upon contracts with individuals to supply
1.-The troops there would always have been
plenty, and would not now be q prospect of
famine. Contractors would produce and
supply their produce to the government
| Commissary Is another name for Impress
ment, violence and waste.H
Just before Hood begun his great flank
movement in Georgia, JEFF Davis made a
speech at Augusta, In which he intimated
unmistakably that the movement was to be
made in aid of the Chicago peace party
BE said:- ls a.f s..-
ave must beat Sherman, we must march
into Tennessee-there we will draw from
co. geo to 10000 to our standard, and 90
strengthened, we must push the enemy
hack to the banks of the Ohio and thus
give the peace party Of the North an 40.
creation no puny editorial can give."
The peace party Of North Caroline was
overwhelmed in the late election. Holden,
the peace candidate for governor, says that
with a fair vote he should have been cleo.
ted; as . matter of fact, he received but
14.4s1 votes 70 5000 for Vance, the pres.
emit incumbent. - "a"
The females in the rebel laboratory at
Richmond. who got s. per day, recently
atrncar fnr 81 hnt did NOT nat IL Thu