New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-30

men. We do not want TO boast over Eastern
men-that nld be improper, even if we had
grounds to do 70, which we have not-but it stands
to reason that men content with corn bread, bacon
and coffee are more easily supplied and can at first
endure more hardships than those brought up in
factories and in towns and cities, and used to the
comforts and luxuries of Life. We should always
except the Fire Zouaves, who are used to hard
ships, and the whole country says, honor to
them to the end of time. As . general thing
the volunteers from the Southern halves Of the
States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois fare full
90 well in camp as they ever did at home.
| The gun-boats which recently arrived hther
are sharply looking after river affairs, and every
day increase the strictness Of the blockade. AT
| tho mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland
Rivers they are taking some valuable prizes
| Recruiting is actively going on in Southern
Illinois, and the people are beginning to under
stand, that though it is dreadful thing to tight
their relatives back in the Slave States, these
relatives were the ones who ought to have looked
| out before they commenced the fight, not they
who had no hand in it, JEFF. ID. has had spies
| through this country this Summer, who pretended
I they were Union men, driven out of the low
country, but they met with no success; indeed,
| they were soon discovered, and have left Such
men can always be detected by their being so
strong for the Union, stronger than anybody
| else.
A great change is coming over Kentucky, and
| il ia probable that In very short time she and
Tennessee will attack each other; in fact, this
seems inevitable. Kentucky must do one thing
| or the other, and che sees there is no help for
her, and she can but go for the Union. In this
| case she will extend hand to Eastern Tennes-
| sec and Western North Carolina, and the noun
| tain regions of four or FIVE other Slave States.
| When old Kanetuek counts herself in, you may
| look for some hard fighting, and also TO SEQ the
SecessiOnists of Tennessee hide their heads
Kentucky is the very best Of all the Slave
| States.
The crops this year in .he whole Southwest
| are better than they have been for five or six
! years, and for the next half of the year the
| rebels will have more TO eat than they will have
during the rest of it, for they will soon begin to
Kill their little hogs but they have no stock
| hogs, and have always depended upon Illinois
and Indiana for them. Their greatest difficulty
is going to be in subsistng their armies, for they
| have no region in which large supplies can be
| produced. In addition, they are destined to be
barefooted and ragged, AID there is no possible
| help for it. Their Eastern armies may be shod
but those in the West cannot be supplied. How
Al al in all thar an
BIO seen. Next year viii be worse than this, for
the farmers will not plant in those places where
| they have been stripped of everything.
Illinois is rapidly increasing in population, AZ
are all the Western States, and every year each
farmer clears new land This State has the
ability, within herself, to support twenty million,
| Of people. Let the one who talks Of the South
whipping the North look at the following
| figures.
The gain in the population of the Northern
States during the last ten years has been about
| ten millions; at the same rate for the next de-
cade it will be fifteen millions, for the natural de-
crease caused by war will be fully balanced by the
exit Of many thousands from the Southern States
and by tho many thousands who annually 60 thith-
err. IL we gain fifteen millions in ten years, as
we are quite certain to do, this is q million and
| half year; but call it million and quar-
ter. This, in round numbers, will be 100000
q month, or "a, 900 q day. II is more than L.
400 in an hour, more than % in a minute, and
more than in every three seconds Of time. OF
| the whole number, that is million and q quar-
ter, 500, 900 young men will come Of age every
year, and we can easily spare of these one-iourth,
that is 1885, 900, which will be new recruits every
year. This is saying nothing at all of those now
in the field or who are ready to take it.
Now, if / am not mistaken in my figures, and il
I am, the mistake is so slight as not to affect this
general conclusion we fight the Shareholders in
Just such battles as we fought at Bull Run, and
lose from 500 to 1000 men oftener than twice a
week, year after year; and yet, annually gain in
population more than three-quarters of million.
Meanwhile, what will be the result with regard
to the rebels Excluding those who are Union
men, and never will fight for them, and those who
are forced 10 take care of the slaves their popula-
ton is less than quarter of ours; consequently, il
they lose no more men than we do, their population
will decrease annually more than sixty.iour thou
sand; and as these will be out of their best men, il
follows, if this war is to last any number of years,
that they are destined to be sInihiated.
FROM KENTUCKY.