New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-28
TufE BATTLE I'm PROSPECT.

TBEE BATTLE EN PROsPECF'
That the weakest of the many weak points OF
the traitors is Finance, is everywhere understood.
They had little money to begin with but what
they stole, and that amount, though respectable
for a burglary, is insignificant for war.
Neither their Confederacy nor the Stntes COM
posing it have any credit; the best of their bonds
are worth but fifty cents on the dollar, while the
fact that Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, and (tor
years) Texas, have repudiated their public debts
under circumstances eleyaing them to the acme
of impudent rascaty precludcs all hope ct their
obtaining dollar outside their own limits,
though thcy were to offer their bonds at fifty
cents cord.
They ore thus thrown back on their internal
resources, consisting of few thousand bales OF
last years Cotton, which rightfjllly belong to
their swiudled creditors, and very scanty sup
ply OF coarse Food, which they are rapidly
deyouring. They have a large breadth Of Corn
planted, which, if the season prove propitious
viii carry them through another yeqr unsiaryed;
but their allowance Of Meat Will fall short OF
three ounces per head per day. The negroes
and "Whte Trash must eat their hoc-cake
mainly without Bacon or Lard hcneeiorth til the
war is over.
Now, feld.hands and sandhillers must eat
what they cen get, though the efficiency OF the
former as workers viii be reduced by poor
diet; but soldiers must be fed-to be thoroughly
efficient. must be aceH fed. And where meat is
worth fifteen TO twenty-five cents per pound, the
cost OF supplying pound of good beef or pork
per day each to Two Hundred thousand Men
viii weigh heavily on an empty treasury. Where
specie has absolutely disappeared from circulation,
aud Confederate Bonds will go just so far as
bayone,s push them, the financial difficulty will
increase with every passing hour. The very frst
loan of the Coniederacy though bearing eight
per cent interest, was virtually forced one
II was taken. so far as it was taken at all. be-
cause il must be, ard not because anybody
wanted IT, Who supposes the new loan OF FIFTY
Millions viii buy beet and pork when they are
hardly less scarce than gold
Now. consider that one main element of rebel
strength in this contest is the universal, undoubt-
ING conviction Of the Southern masses that their
volunteers will have no difficulty in chasing four
fines their number of cOwardly Yankees at the
rate OF FIVE or six miles per hour-at least, up
to the top of their gait. Intelligent men smile
al these decisions yet the leaders have 70 humor
and play upon them. If there be Fifty Thousaud
/ men from the more Southerly States under arms
/ in Virginia o-day, Forty thousand OF them hon.
esily believe themselves an oyermatch for twice
Their number of the canting, lying, peddling,
nasally psalm-sioqn blue- -bellied Aboitonists
who have rallied around tho banners OF Lincoln.
Thcse ignorant saDgune " dare-deyils' and
/ inyinciblcs " have volunteered for a fight and
frolic and are VIGOROUSLY deficient not merely in
discipline but in docilliy. They have left their
homes expecting 10 be in Washington in q month,
aud 10 have chased the last Yankee over the
Pennsylvania line within six weeks. Many of
them have already been roughiug it Tor weeks
w;thOu. tents, camp c1uipagc, or even blankets
and knapsacks, and begin 10 find campaigning
not - Oh that fancy painted" As resources
give out, their food is likely to run short, while
pay, even in Bank shinpastcrs, vii recedo fur.
thar and further into lie dim distance. ln short,
those roushand-ready Sepoys Of rebellion must
be amused with fight, or both their numbers
AID Their spirits viii fall OIL aud general conf
dcnce be replaced by general disgust.
We count, therefore, on an early demonstfa-
ton 10 force on some division of tie Union
mics now occupying Alexandria aud Fairfax
Counties ard mcnacing Norfolk and IIarper's
Ferry. Unless they shall be anticipated by a fur
tier offensive movement on our side, the Con-
icderates must attack or confess themselves as
inferior in yalor ard confidence as they are in
resources and capacity for endurance. June has
been noted jOr centuries as the month of battles;
it is likely TO maintain its reputation in 1861.