Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-22

1t appears that Richmond has been over.
ran with speculsters, who caused house
rents to advance 10 eIorbitant rates. The
Republican of that city says:
Ship loads ofsmerchandizs are now
leaving Richmond in search Of a better
market. Merchants who opened important
branches Of business here q few months
ago, are now selling off their stoeks at
cost, aud prepartng 10 leave the city, not
10 return. The cry ia that rents are so
nlga and property SO dear, they can do
notnlng here but make fortunes for their
landlords. Thess thiugs are omiuous.
They speak poorly for the good sense of
the men who control the interests and
prosperity Of Richmond,
eippderstsRqdhaf Q the high rents are
aolng something more than driving away
g epeEsssaesdise Phey are 5productog kidd
Of occupation unknown hitherto in this
community. Thisis the business of bro
kerage in all the departments of supplies
and oulht. II man, for example, wants
q SUIT OF clothes, he need not 20 10 q mtr.
ehant clolhier or tailor to, purchase them.
or order them to be made here, but he goes
to broker in that business, gives his meas.
ure' aud orders the garments to be sent
MN from New York or Philadelphia BY
express SO With b1ots aud shoes, ladies'
dresses and bonuets, and supplies of all
KINDS The broker rents small room at
lew dollars per month, aud his customers
ootain hls articles from a distance, minus
tne extra per centRgs that would be put on
tnem II the goods had been sold from
costly storeroom on Main street, hired at u
rent OF four, six, eight or ten thousand
dollars year. The brokerage aud express
freight is slight charge compared with
the tax the purchaser would have TO pay,
as a contribution for the rent Of the store.n
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The status, feelings and failures of mem
bers of the late rebel Congress is spoken
of below by some correspondent in Rich
mOnd, Charley Russell among the rest.
Charles played for high stakes, but it
seems he lost everything. TIE poor fel.
low will never be a member of any sort of
Congress any more, nor get his much GOV.
eted foreign appointment.
"The members of the late rebel Con.
gross, 80 far ns / can ascertain, regard
themselves as entirely beyond the pale of
preterment for any position of public trust
in the future. They have no hopes and no
aspirations, in q political sense, and,
strangely enough, they realizs, for the first
time, that they will be much better of in
their newly allotted sphere of peaceful se
olnsion. Many Of them, no doubt, will
feel bitterly disappointed at this change in
their condition, for they prided themselves
in the conviction that bright era of pros.
perity and high political distinctioa was
dnwning upon them, and they worked
xealously to establish their claims to high
positions under the new dispeusatio6s.
RUSSELL Of Wheeling, who made himself
the peculiar otgSpSpf Je5f. Davis in me
House of 1tspEEte9t atises, locked with GER.
tainly for his sppointmeut to some high
foreign mission, and Semmes, of Louisians,
Davis organ in the Senate, regarded bis
appointment to the mission to Rome as
certain beyond question. There was rcarce.
~ member in either House who did not
look forward with more or less cer,ajoty
to somo place of Importance. The Ken
tucktans had an eye to the positions offer
ing the best prospects for theft. If Ken.
lucky has many more of the stock which
assumed to represent her ip the rebel Con-
gress, she had better lock her treasury
door carefully.