New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-26

Quart retail 1.-The Set ), had big thing OF IL on
the storekeeper, who will keep his eye skinned
hereafter, especially when amateur circus do1ngs
are going on. .......
If I have nothing more important or serious to
scrbble about, / will hereafter tell more OF the
innocent waggeres of camp life. 1ou Will pear IN
mind if you please, that the fun of the Continental
Guards has not run, and will not run, in the above
way O.
a Wall from the Enemy. Il
MORE MEN =! MORE FORCES
From the New York World, Sept, ls.l
1t is now five months since the bombardment of
Sumter, and the great uprising, as it is termed, OF
the Northern people, How stand we? The rebels
absolute masters of eleven States, in half posses
sion Of the twelfth, pressing upon our borders,
threatening our capital, and we on the DEFENSIVE,
wondering when and where they will strike! Who
that heard the burst of patriotic wrath last April,
and the great rallying cry that swept over every
Northern hill and valley, could have believed that
this September sun would have risen upon such a
position? We boast of our great doings-exult
the millions of money raised, and the hundreds
of thousands of men armed, equipped, drilled, dis
ciplined but, boast as We may, the fact still re-
mains that M the enemy is m at our threshold ana we
| superior population, superior wealth, superior
| credit superior intelligence, superior morality,
| superior physical condition of our armies superior
| everything and yetshere we the defensive!
| We have heaped all manner of denuneiation and
eXecratian upon-the rebellion, stigmatized it as
| the most nefarious and accursed that human de-
prayity ever conceived, sworn before high heaven
that it shall be put down, and the priceless heri-
tage Of our fathers saved-and yet here, we are,
| the rebellion looming week after week right at our
'front.' and we on the defensive!
Now, we are not going to take up the insensate
| cry for an advance, which, seven weeks ago,
drove the national troops to such disaster and dis
grace. Heaven forbid! Our troops are not pre-
pared for an advance. There is not one of their
| commanding generals-neither Mcclellan on the
| Potomac. Fortress RoapD-
crantz in Western Virginia, nor Fremont in East
ern Missouri-who would be justified in pushing
forward his columns at the present time, for, there
is not one of them who would not be opposed by a
superior force of the enemy iHsuperior position,
and the stake is of too vast moment to be need
lessly imperiled. But why this superior force on
the part of the enemy? How is it that our twenty
one millions, after these five months, have under
arms a less number of soldiers this day than the
eight millions of the Confederacy? We must say
that the Confederate Government has used con
| straint, while our Government has not. But the
fact is that the great body, the immense majority
Of the Confederate soldiers, enlisted voluntarily
as our own. Even were it otherwise, our question
would still be unanswered. It matters not how
jeff Davis has raised his immense force. There il
is, and it has been our business to outnumber it.
No sane Northern man will affirm that we have
been unable; why, then, has it not been done
, We have met reverse after reyerse-Great Bethel
| Bull Run, Carthage, Springfield-have suffered
| Missouri to be overrun, East Tennessee to be,trod
den under, have failed TO follow up our advantage
in North Carolina, and refraned from all like de-
| monstrations eseWhere-and all for want of q
, sufficient number of men. And what is still worse
, | there is not even now, when all the hard conse
, quences of the deficiency have been brought home
to US. any adequate means in operation for 1T
remedy. Congress contemplated and authorized
the raising of five hundred thousand men for the
, speedy suppression OF the rebellion. We have no
onehalf that number on our rolls, all told and, a
the rate we are now enlisting vii! not much more
thar keep good even that poor figure, against thu
current casualties Of disease and battle. 1t take
: months, as we have found to our cost, to maxi
8 available soldiers. One would judge from th'
present progress of the North in enlisting that
had made up its mind to go through the ,winte
. | campaign with force not materially larger thai
g the present. and take the chances. If this is in
i deed So it reflects miserably upon our patriotism
VI Had we the half million on foot which Con
l. gress voted, or could we be assured of them b,
; the first Of December, it is morally certain tha
: the rebellion would meet its end before the heat
8 of the next summer. With our present force, n
r man can say when it will be Effected, or indee
IS that it will be effected at all. We are simpl
=; fighting the rebels on equal terms, with one qual
Ii ter of our real strength. In suoh a cause as W
d haVe--the very existence OF the nation at stake
l. the North ought to find no great difficulty in pu
It ting million Of men under arms. The Frenc
If Republic of 1913, with population but little et
" oeeding our free States, raised twelve hundre
l. | thousand men to repel the European coalto
| which was threatening its destruction. 1t is tru
1t they had Carnot in the civil councils who wa
', able both to infuse courage and enthusiasm int
|
J. unity and effect. We have such inspiring
q commanding, ability in our public administration
s But we have-what opght to be worth far more
a a people of unequaed Intelligence, who have hat
o for three generations, the richest experience c
d the blessings of constitutional freedom.
Is 1t is idle for the Northern people to wait for an
/ new impulse from high places. They ought to fin
d their stimulus to duty in their own bosoms; or,
n an external monitor be needed, the mere sight
e the glorious stars and Stripes in danger of bein
humbled and buried forever, ought to be enoug
h This enlsting must not lag as it is doing II
| people everywhere must wake up to the real n
If cessites of the Government, and rally to the owe
IS throw of its enemies. The present defensive pos
Of ton is shame and danger We ought to hay
D. armies that can afford something else--armies
e fore whose superior strength rebellion will quf
y and COVER, instead of amazing the world, as it no
g. does with proud defiant front. We should remel
,r ber that every day this fell treason keeps its stan
is the good name of the republic. If we crush tt
er rebellion with one quick, decisive, overwhemil
re blow, we shall take higher rank than ever amol
" the nations. If we allow wavering, draggin
10 lingering strengthening Cn the defensive as lo
a. as we can and in attack never assured of succe
to we shall wade through dishonor, and probah
in come out in defeat. Triumph is sure If we will
d. but we must show ourselves more in earnest
to must put forth more of our strength.
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~ THE YANKEE PRISONERS. We ascertain fro
n official sources that the health of the Yankee me
- cenaries, whom the fortune of war have subject
-, to our control, continues to be quite good, notWlt
~, rn standing the many disadvantages to which tho
he entrusted with their care are necessarily sublecte
ao m Upward of 100 Yankees are now confined in tt
~ tobacco warehouses selected for that purpose, al
n5 some idea of the care and the expense involved
Iu nr their keeping may be gained from our stateme
m t of the fact that within the past ten days 500
an u been expended for bread for their consumptio
and $4,000 for meat 1t is estimated in official cirel
q that the aggregate daily loss of these prisoners
G er the Confederacy must border closely upon $l5t
# # or nearly $ll 900 each week.
at5, 1t has been found necessary within few da
past to discontinue the rations of coffee and sue
o hitherto allowed the prisoners, and the depriV
~ ton is said to have told more uDon the spirits