Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-14
The Daily. News.
Extracts from Mr.. Russell'S Last
Letter.

We extract the following from
Mr.. Russel's letter of the 29th July
written from Washington: ..
The world sees that the North has
not treated the Southerners as rebels
we will not say it has not dared
to do so. But the Federalists have
treated the Confederates. up to this
moment as belligerents. Rebels are
hanged, imprisoned, and shot at dis
cretion. Their flags are not received /;
the exchange Of prisoners with re-
bells is ridiculous. A regular "hlocil-
ade'' of rebel ports is quite anona-
lous. 1t remains to be seen, after
Mr.. Davis recent hints, what the
Government dares to do in the case
ofthe pirates whom its cruisers
caught in the act, red-laanded, of
privateering policy. Meantime the
arm raised to chastise and subdue has
been struck down, and the attitude
of the North is just now defensive.
There will be on the part Of the one
people whom the American press has
most insulted and abused every dis
position to give fair play and to lis
ten to the call for "time." But the
quarrel must have it's limits-the
time must be fixed, and the sponge
must be thrown up ifone or other of
the combatants cannot '.come up" to
it; nor does it seem case in which
anv amount Of ..judicious bottlehol-
ding" can prolong the fight. Now,
at the present moment, the North is
less able to go into the contest than
she has lost morale and materiel. Be-
sides killed, wounded and prisoners,
cannon, arms, baggage, she has lost
an army Of tilree-months men, who
have marched away to their homes
at the very moment the capital was
ilfthe greatest danger.
-4nother .Sucer at the Federal Rein
.jorcemcnts.-Up to this period the
reinforcements received do not bring
up the Feder;.lists to the strength
they had before the fight. No one
can or will tell how many have stay
ed away and gone off from their
regiments since they returned to the
camps here, but the actual number
OF men who have come here are less
than those who ohave gone away home
by fully 5000 rank and file. And
the three months men at least had
been three months under arms. They
were probably at least rs martial and
as ready to fight as the rest of their
people. Just as they are most re-
guired and likely not be quite unser-
viceable, they retire to receive ill-de,
served and ridiculous ovatiens, as
though they had been broken and
routed fugitives, who marched of
from Washington when it might be
expected the enemy were advancing
against it. In their place come levies
who have not had even the three
months training, and who are not as
well equipped, so far as I can see,
as their predecessors, to face men
who are elated with success and the
prestige of the first battle gained, and
to be associated with regiments cow
ed, probably, and certainly in some
instances demoralized by defeat.
The artillervmen who cut the
traces Of their horses from caisson
and carriage the least knew more
about guns than the men who will
be put to the new field batteries which
. Government are getting up as fast
81; they can; and the muskets, of the
best description, left on the field OF
taken cannot bs replaced for a long
time 70 come.
In fact, much Of this army must
be reorganized in the face of an enc
my. That enemy is either incompe-
tent or artfnl; it is quite certain he
is not act,,ated by clemency or a gen
ercus pity. Engineers are had at
work strengthening the position on
the south, bank of the river; but the