Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-10-10
The Force of the Rebels.

Among the many estimates of the forces
which the Rebel leaders have now under
arms and actually in the field, the most de-
tailed and at the same time the most pre-
poste!ous, is one which sets forth their
grand total at 100000 men, and gives to
the separate States such quotas as GO,OOO
to Virginia, 10000 to South Carolina,
$4,000 to Alabama, 1000 to Florida, 3d.
600 to Tennessee, and 2l,OOO respectively
to Arkansas and Texas.
Let us look little closely at some Of
these prodigious contingents. South Caro-
lima, which is reported to have sent 20 900
to the field, has, by the census of 1869, a
white population of 29l, 1928. The State
of New Y ork, by the same census, has g.
S36,544 white inhabitants, and therefore if
it furnished troops in the same proportion
as South Carolina would raise about 2G5,-
900. Docs any man in his senses suppose
that New Y ork, with all her wealth and
commercial resources, could put such an
army as that in the field And ifnot how
can South Carolina have raised and equip
ped the force credited to her?
The contingent of G0s000 mon ascribed
to Virginia is still more incredible, if we
consider that ut least one third of her white
population of l,O57,000 is loyal to the
Union. And equally astounding is the
quota of 1000 men which the petty and
remote State of Florida, with only $1,000
white inhabitants, is said to have sent to
the war. But when we consider that, leav-
ing out the loyal population of Western
Virginia, the total white population of the
Seeded States is only 100000, the force
of $4,000 men which they are said to
have in the field assumes proportion
which is really stupendous. France, on
The same scale, with her population of &c.
100000, wealthy and compact as it is,
ought easily to raise IN army of $500, 900;
England, with still greater ease, 100000,
and Germany, with her 45,000,O00 of
population, not less than 3,l5O,O0O SOL
diers.
We have no desire to underratc the forces
or the eyertons of the Rebel States. Con-
sidering the weakness of their number and
their comparative poverty, they have eXhib
tied wonderful spirit and energy-but
there are certain limits of military supply
which no nation can exceed, and which the
South will have reached long before it has
sent $50, 900 men to the battle fields of Vir-
ginia and Missouri.
Tile National RepaJlican, Washington,
contradicting one Of 1Hc Heralds bugaboo
stories about the vast Rebel force in Virgin
in, says:
"That the total forco of the enemy in
Virginia does not exceed 100, 900 men, is
ms certain as it can be made 10y anything
short of an actual count.
If the Administration would yield TO the
policy which the contractors seek to dictate
by their continual panics, we should have
our army here doubled, and then have it
kept in idleness until doomsday. That is
what the contractors want, and it is the
real object of all the panies which they in
stigate through the press, keeping them
solves carefully cone called all the whir.-
But they will find their game blocked 10y
the Administration, which is determined
to bring the war to n speedy close
EoR GENTLEMEN,--Got n portmonale
with a good rheumatic clasp to it--~thosc
purses that are easily opened are easily
empticd.
Don't carry bank bills about with you,
unless You want to use them immediate
ly leave your money at home with
your wife, and it will he a great deal
easier to say NO to those borrowing
friends who como within the Scripture
clause of never paying
If you feel inclined to smoke five
cent Havana, Just put good rye straw
between your teeth instead and 'chaw it
at your leisure. 1t is astonishing how
superior you will find the flavor,
Remember how superior water is to
cherry coblers and brandy smashcs on all
occasions. Let no day pass without lay
ing up something for cloudy weather
Don't think how long you have had
that old coat of yours think rather how
much longer you can mako it last