Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-16

between disputiug. commauders. and con
4 Iticting commsuds, for which there seem.
ito be no responsibility. The death of the
4 lIself-reliant hero, JacksoDI left the valley Of
wheat aud corn and cattle to be sconrge6
land devastated. " The neglect of TCoIf
lIsland exposed Morris Island to cap.
ture and Charleston to be lombard.
LED by land as well Rs by sea The real
ilIuovement around the Western bend of the
Tennessee has repulsed' and crippled the
IIarmy OF Hood, while Sherman has been
Ileftfree to THREAD Georgia with desolatiou
and 70 capture Savannah, and to threaten
the trnnk and branches of all our Southern
Recommendations. And Eall this time, the
retirement of such generals as Beauregard
from the command of armies in the Iield
eann6t be compensated by his engineering
of Chbrlestous Harbor, or of g. W. Smith
toappot be compensated by his engineering
IN the State Off Georgia. aud Joseph e.
atoms retire ietk can ha ,naa aurad only
7 ny ~ q uses and ntatiors Which have
tol lloSell N Fsir.i 4 6tt = islieIs hf
fallen, and by Grants SeFosstug the Chick
ahominy and the James without blow
Richmond aud Petersburg are both besieEed,
the line of railroad is out and the army is
advancing and threatening from every point
of the scompassa General Scott's prO=
gramme, at the beginning of the war, for
our invasion and destruction, is fast tend.
ing to contamination. We are cut into
fragments of territory, divided by the Mis-.
sissippi, and in every section driver into
close interior and forced to self reliance
apart from all the rest of the world.
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I What they Think OF Each Other.t5
TheLopdon Zndez, the government organ,
or rather bellows, of secession In England,
gives this character. to the Richmond Es.
aEtner, the great blower of secession in
America. Speaking of the late peaCei ru
mors, it says:
!" Weido not intend to discredit altogether
the rpmors Of approaching peace with
which every mail frsm America is now la,
den. Where there is so much smoke, there
may be, and probably is, some smoulderiug
hre. Snll, tits our duty, as conscientious
Journalists, to clear away the smoke SO far
as we have the power to do so. One por.
ton of this smokei is of q particularly acrid
aud noisome description. We refer to the
insane rawlings of the Richmond Examiner
about a convention to depose President
Davis aud make General Lee dictator
These things only prove what freedom, or
rather license, of speech is 10 the Confede,
racy deemed compatible with the carrying
on of a gigantic struggle. 1t is, perhaps,
the first time Since newspapers were in.
vented that a country has been engaged
for years in q great war without finding it
necessary to place some restrictions up.
on an irresponsible public press; aud
that the omissi6RG to do so, however
cpmmeudRhle the - motive or acrn-
pla which caused it, hes foned 10 the
Confederate government certain embarS4
rassment, itwou4d be futile to deny. The
real importance, however, of the thun.
ders of the Richmond Examiner will be
best appreciated" when it is remembered
that they have been launched in turn
against almost every man whom the revo-
luton has brought prominently into no..
tice, and against none more persistentty,
at one ,timej than against General Lee,
whom it now, much to his disgust, recon-.
mends as dictator. The Examiner must be
taken as representing, on the southern side,
nutatiS mutandis, that passionate and reck.
less vehemence which at the North fuds its
exponents Ia, Wendell Phillips, Beecher
CheeVer and Miss Dickinson. Fortunately
in the South this fanstical element is neith-
er largo nor influential, but it is not de-
void of talent of a certain order. Were 1t
not for its utter skepticism of all pure or
honorable motives in those opposed to it,
and for canine propensity to bark, snap,
and worry, we should regard the Examiner
as one of the ablest Journals within our
knowledge. When9it exposes f. humbug
or knocks down dummy, we are always
tempted TO forgive that it does so after the
fashion of the Irishman at the Donny
fair, that it generally hits the wrong man
and only by chance the right one."