Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-10


The London Star publishes a highly
interesting letter from British army Of
fcer, lately in this country on visit to
the armies of Grant and Butler. Asa man
of military education and experience he
WAS capable of giving very accurate as
we'll as interesting account of all he saw.
He seems to have been struck with aston
ishment at our capacity for war, as well
as our ingenuity in all matters relating to
life in camp, in forts, in hospitals, and on
board gunboats. He thinks the North are
a wonderful people and that their resour-
ces are inexhaustible. He says in his let
ter that be came tc this country "very
good neutral" but that the following in
cident among others tended to make him
well wisher of the Union cause:
EThe Colonel commanding at this fort
kindly gave me three Richmond papers of
that mornings issue. l enclose two ad-
VerIisements, announcing the sale of ne
groes by auction, which cut from tine
Richmond Wig:
AUCTION sALEs-THIs DAY.
SALE OF NIGRoRs, CRoP, STOCK AND PLANTATION
UTENSILS AT PUBLIC AUcTIoN.-Win be sold Monday,
November IA, 1861, at Wards Pork, two miles from
Charlotte Court House, S. negroes including some
good mechanics, 20 sheep, 81 hogs Is head cattle,
IL horses aud mules 80 stacks of oats II stacks fod-
der, about $50 barrels corn, plantation utensils,
kitchen furniture, one carriage and buggy.
TERhs-Credit Of six months, except Tor all sums
OF 500 and less, purchasers giving bond with APP
proved security.
RICHARD v. GAINES, | Executors of RI.
TWENTY NEGKgE3 AT iU6TIoS.IGT' viii sell
| At auction this morning twenty likely negroes
g.. DAVIS CO., Odd FeIlOws' Hall.
Now, think came here a very good
neutral, though confess am more dis.
posed towards the North than before visit
ed it. But the perussl of tkis public IN j..
nOuncement of the sale Of human beings
by auction, in company with hogs, furni-
ture and fodder, at the present time,
and in the actual State of Richmond too,
makes neutrality impossible, unless We steel
our hearts against every feeling of justice,
religion, and humanity. Every one must
wish to see that foul blot wiped out by
some means or other; and, as Gen. Grants
army is battling for the destruction of
slavery, he has my hearty wishes for his
success.
The officer concluded his long and inter-
estiug letter thus:
have travelled upwards of three thou.
sand miles in the Federal States, and saw
very little to remind me that the country
was involved in war, and certainly nothing
indicative of suffering or exhaustion. l
saw the return of some one hundred days
regiments, a force most admirably planned
for spending money uselessly, enriching
clOthiers, and unsettling young men. They
are very uufavOrably regarded by the reg
ular army at the front. have come to
the conclusion that the resources of the
Federals, both as regards men and money,
are practically inexhaustible. And so great
is the advantage they possess in their
navy aud in the monopoly of water trans
PortatiOn, that it will in no way detracV
from tho pluck aud endurance displayed
by the Contederates whenever they d o agree
to terms. Lee, in particular, has display.
ed the very highest order of generalship
and, making every allowance for the as.
sistance he has derived from q thorough
knowledge of the country, and from the
facility with which earthworks, the mark
ed feature of this war, are now improvised,
the length of time he has held the Federals
at bay in Virginia. will forever rebound tC
the credit of his military genius.