New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-18

Third. .Be@ InteileoN. This confirms the opin'
100 which we had bekore formed. Skill in pol
itics is pro-eminenuy Oommon-sense in full Do
velopmeut, and DO man Of commoo-sensc would
for . moment have lent bis name or bic ca'h
70 this rebellion. The disclosure Of The En-.
cs;rsr IL valuabIe, a. it goes to prove that a'
least in tho Cotton States there must be q
large GLASS Of BY no means Insignificant mon
who hsve kept Themselves alOof from tho
schemes Of such desperate sdvenurer %
Floyd, and who do not think Il respectable to
bave ought TO do with speculation in treason
When pacihoatou comes, theso men will bs
rated at their true value, and il will not b
low ono.
Another writer, in Tie Richmond E1aminer,
discards Intellect and calls aloud for GunbOsts.
Ho is q Charleston man. and he informs bis
Newspaper that al up and down tho usually
quiet streets Of that city men are bawlng pas
sioustely for GunboatI Where are our Gun
boats Why are we not building Gunboats
Whereupon, as we are told, tho Indies Of
Charleston have taken the affair in hand, are
selling their spoons and brooches. with the in
tention of investing the proceeds in Gunboats
How many spoons will build one Gunboat, we
have no time to compute. We leave the mat
ter here. Best Intellect excluded. and no
Gunboats
But more than this remains TO be stated.
1t ia clearly no joke when you want railroads,
for the construction thereof costs good deal
of time and of money. On the Sd inst, in the
COnspiratOrs' Congress- the incomplete coodi-
ton of the Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
was tho subject Of anxious debate. Hero was,
however, another instance of Southern pro.
clivity to disputation. Mr. Clay did view the
read "ss a military necessity" Mr. Barn
well did not view tho road "ss . military
" necessity" Evidently. a deadlock. johnson
of Arkansas, however. settled the matter by
startling suggestion: for he said I" be did not
" know how Senators wore to got home. unless
q" tho road was built at OpCe." Senators are
thinking Of getting home. then Is the climate
of Richmond promising to become too bot for
these potent graves We don't know. We
only know that "the bill was Immediately
" passed" Whether its passage will complete
the road, lie o question for civil engineers.
Another Confederate want, is the want Of
money. Paper they have in great plenty, some
Of it as genuine as it can possibly be, and
some of it spurious imitation of the original
swindle; but people, even in that enthusiastic
lard, IRE finding out that when whole bat
full Of dollars is not worth the hat that con-
tains them, the further emission Of such funds,
Or tokens Of value, should be arreeted. The
Examiner tells US that S., 100000 are added
weekly to this pleasing ideal currency. which
il thinks, should be absorbed" How this IA
to be done, it does not say. The Guberna-
toral Pettus OF Mississippi has issued Procln'
nation melting q general combustion Of cotton,
and an official conAsgrstion is also recon-
mended in Florida This is undoubtedly the
way 10 make tho Confederate paper currency
as good a. gold. Burn up all the property,
and these notes, purport.ng TO bo the repre-
.ents,iyes OF value. Will represent-whht
Really, We do not know. It's none OF our
tusiness. We have none OF them ia our hat
We suppose it is needless to add rs we
M ght ca,ly do TO this catalogue OF Confederate
Wants. We have no disposition to snecr at
the distresses of men wno arc engaged In
Good Cause. The want Of that, by the Con
.p,rators, is tho last which wo shall mention.
Men cannot long fight who have nothing to
6rbt for. Those who hare something To hight
for are never 80 poor but they have 'ome'h'ng
to fight nth. 1t is only Bad Cause in diff
culties that ia iudicrous.