Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-02
THE PROSPECT.

THE PROSPECT.
The Status of the War thus far on
the part of the Rebels--Thetr Con-
dItiOn for the Fall and Winter.
rFrom the Cincinnati Commercial
Within few weeks, if there is tolerH-
BILE degree of common sense exercised by
the Administration, and the army is vigor-
ously administered as expected, and our
navy is given something worth while to
do, the Secessionists will be squeNling in
agony of their helplessness. Already our
Southern brethren have been cured of the
notion that they could whip our soldiers
with perfect safety to themselves, and that
one of their men WAS equal to ive of ours.
At the late battle of Manassas, where they
were superior in numbers and artillery, 10
a we'll chosen position, and had an extra
ordinary run of luck, they confess they
were nearly whipped, and their l"sses were
so great as to demoraliZe even the vlctor'-
Gus army, while their Generals dare not,
to this day, publish their official reports:
On our side the whole truth was told, aud
our losses rather mngnihed IN the telling,
and Major General Mcclellan looks upon
the forward movement under mcdowell,
which was turned back from the plains OF
Manassas, ms "splendid reconnaissance"
u
the Federal troops. numbering not more
than four thousand, made the attack upon
twenty thousand, and inflicted such loss
upon their enemies as to paralyze them for
weeks Here again the Southern Generals
dare not publish their loss. AT this mo-
ment, when the United States army is ev-
cry day becoming more cfiicicnt-when it
is being better clothed, fed and armed than
ever before, and when the best officers are
at work perfecting the organization OF all
its departments. and when the season for
most comfortable and successful campaign
ing in the South is opening, we hud the
Southern army decimnted by sickness, and
beginning at last to suffer from the want
of those substnntials which we all thought
would have heen exhausted long ago. All
letters recently written in Southern camps,
are filled with gloomy expressions respect
ing the sickness that prevails. and the ter
rible rant of the necessaries of a soldiers
life, that is maufestly close at hand. Attic
moment when tao Southern people have
exhausted their resources in fitting out an
enormous army, they are called upon by the
Government of conspiratJrs TO receive
one hundred millions of dollars lSo
styled) in Confederate Treasury notes, in
return for tlcir produce. They are solicit
| cd to contribute their cotton to the go'-
ernment, that its credit may be given a
show of basis. They are begged to con-
tribute their grain to support the army in
the field. They are urged 10 send their
blankets and Undertaking to the camp,
and the women are atfectionately and per-
emptorily urged to knit socks FIR the SOL
ders Early in the fall the whole United
States army will be uniformed in blue, and
the best arms afforded by our arSenals will
be in their hands. The seccssiomists. new
er we'll uniformed, are becoming depIorahly
ragged, and it is difficult to see where their
thick clothing and stout shoes are 10 come
from. Now they have roasting-carS and
potatoes they find in the field, and the cat
tie and pigs of the. farms they march
through, to eat. EaHow shall they
be fed in the winter, when the meat houses
aud granaries of the Northwest, whence
they have heretofore drawn their supplies
for their slaves, are closed against them
The blockade instead of being raised is
! becoming more effective every day
There are tens of thousands of people in
the Southern States who believe that Eng
land and France are on the point of rails
ing the blockade, and who are daily i'm
patient that they do not hear of that ''for-
eign Intervention" of which Southern
politicians have heretofore had so pious
horror. But instead of the freedom of
F trade they are looking for. they will find
the screws coming down with continual
Iy increasing power. The neutrality
of Kentucky has heretofore provided
n breathing place for them, but they
have for some time found its facilities
on the dec. ease, and it will afford them
less and less comfort. Up to this time
they nave been, for the most part, in Often
sive attitudes. Once thrown entirely upon
the defensive, they will find its disadvan-
tages. 1t is a very different thing from
waiting for an attack at Manassas. which
they had spent months in terrifying, to
look along two thousand miles of coast,
and wonder where the blow will fall. We
do not know, within forty thousand, of
the number of troops under the command
of General Mcclellan, and we hope that
the exact figures of his command will not
be made public for some time; but it is
cheering to know that his force is so great
that information OF the advance of Beau
; regards army would be good news, aud
that we would not feel called upon tor cx-
pressions of astonishment if we should
hear within less than a fortnight of for
ward movement on stupendous 3 ale.
REASONABLE ten-parties are now sup
pressed in Washington. Rebellious ladies