The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-08-28
Strength of the Rebel Army at Richmond
| DMring the Six Days Ei2htiM2.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, hitherto the mos
spiteful advocate and defender of strategy,
as illustrated in that campaign on the PENN
sula, has the following advices from what il
deems trustworthy source:
We learn from Richmond, through Gen. Lee
himself that the ,ohole efectice force cfhe Teb.
els achen the assault aoaS made upon our Tight
,oing at MachanicsUiIte, aoas but $4,000. From
the st to the 9Th of August they received from
the South and Southwest $4,000 new troops
we'll clothed and armed. They now have about
10000 electives, but many of them are fresh
troops
Lee considers them better than ours, because
there is:no compromis, no surfender-each one
being impelled by an intense hatred of the
whole N orth that can never be concilated.-
Lee entertains no hope of reaching Pennsylva-
MIA, but does expect to take Washington. The
idea of an invasion of the whole North is still
kept up through the army. All their wrath is
now vented upon Pope; Mcclellan seems to no
longer occupy their attention. jeff. Davis
boasts that he will carry out his threats upon
Pope's officers, and seems bOyant and confident
| of success. He considers Richmond as safe
for them as we do Washington. 1t has never
been evacuated since commotion there in
April, when it was entirely unprotected
Gen. Lee says they have plenty of arms and
ammunition; that he has million pounds of ba-
|
a. the idea of starving them out. He says if we
had followed them last March, when they re-
treated from Manassas, they would have had TO
surrender or disband. as they were nearly out
of ammunition and had none of any account fer
the artillery; now they have no difficulty in
running the blockade.
jeff. Davis says Lincoln dare not draft, that
he can get no more volunteers, and that the op-
position to the party in power will prevent a
draft by force if necessary.
The New York papers and the Philadel phia
journals are received as regularly as the day
comes.
A returned prisoner recently went down
from Baltimore with $4,000 of gold lace upon
his person.
No hopes have been entertained of the me-
diation or armed intervention by England or
France, since the arrival of the steamer on the
9th of August, and they are denounced as free
| ly now as the yankees"
Lee is now the popular general, and conf
dence in him and Davis is unbounded. Magruder
was tried by court martial, TOR being drunk at
Malvern Hill, and acquitted. He denied Eav-
ing touched liquor that day he says he has
sworn to drink no more until the war is over
Beauregard is still an invalid at the springs
| and his physician says he will never recover
sufficiently to take command of an army. Wits
key, excitement and exposure have brought dis
ease to his Vitals that he can never shake off.
The line of works around Richmond are now
all heavily mounted with 32-pound guns, and
to carry it by assault would cause the loss OF
80, 900 to $4,000 lives the guns have been
mounted and the works completed and extend
ed since their retreat from Yorktown.
No fears now entertained of their slaves
being interfered with. They say the time has
gone by for that that no proclamation, no act
Of Congress, would strip them of their services,
or induce them to fight against them, for U.S.
They have on all occasions and in all places an
nounced to them that we intended TO take them
and sell them to pay the expenses of the war
and that we intend to commit all manner OF
atrocities upon them.
The recent negro riots in the North are used
to show that the North are no friends of theirs,
and that they have nothing to hope for except
in the repulce of the Yankees.