The New York herald., 1862-11-10

ing esti n fare ~R1rakgsst Very Rad coffee. With
usn brown sQEas; ecefstcsk, muttoo cho.s and
bac~, wbsaSand oosp bread butter and mig raner--
Rosss beei assoa, pork, fresh and poseo-s AID
other vcetablA, sometimes venisoa, uther sAm. ard
poltry bresd. batter add MIX pesser---rras p,es
suppesane ~ breakfast. ;r~h and pc.asoss
plentiful, selling sp,llars psr basns Ap.es
command sin dollars per bofrei Goal worth thirty
dollars gas oossnnsd At the rate q dars
thousand spef N crdles be had and t.ioy
candles sell severity i've per pound. Lard oil is
used extensively 10 tin lamps
The couscysp, law be gut Into operation soon
rs possible and Is caca.a'ed 20 the three
hundred thousana az th increase blt sinail p1
tlon will no placed Ia the eld this winter. the au hori
ties thinking they have ugh AL sady 70 hod the
Onion armss check, and the greater part win
be placed carnia Of ..5irncton aud ariil, where
they wrll be prepared TO ,aga the field in the
spring PArtss!r II Rchnond who should be posted on the
sub eci say the rebei army nambcrs hn'.dcs
and if,y thousand men and that be kep, ~ - nd
that strength durns the wintsr by the re,nliang
sves YET placed The ranks b. The arsr
scrptnB. These troops hoy divide follows Two hun
drcd ard sifty thousand IN virgiDa-onc hundred ard
twenty dve thousand nader Lee the Shenandoah, ory
thousand between Gordoasvills aud the ShnDaio ,h len
thcusand south or fredericksburg aud al Richmond,
twenty Thousand south OF Richmond thirty thousand
oi Richmond on tbs iynchburg Railroad a, Lyncfblrg,
and Lerngs tncw EchosD army IN Western Virginia and
twenty-five Thousand scattered in the hospitals,
guarding the and public property and doing provost
guard duty fftccn thousand In North Csrolns. forty
thousand At Charleston Savannah and Mobile, under
Eeauresard thirty -hvs thousand in the Army the
Mississippi, under Pemberon. lately Lowell seventy
tho sand commanded BY Bragg including Kirby Smiths
and Humphrey Narshals forces twenty thousand under
Hndrnan In Arkansas and twenty thousand in Louisiana
and Texas These figures represent the popular idea
n the south sf the strength Of their armies; bat IL
ID very pertinent 70 remark hare that shrewd and
observing Southern have heen known to laugh 81
their estimates and intimate they gross exagsera
tons There those who should know it, II any DO.
who say that Lees army in Virginia has been much
estimated both Sides bit especially shs and
Insist that while the total rebel force Virginia is
one hundred and City thoacnnd, Zee has not moro
than seventy five thousand troops under his Immediate
command. such assertions as these frequently como
from which should grave doubts Of tho
recness Of the commonly estimated forces OF the enemy
but, after ALL they may be made only with the ohec, OF
delding regarding their real strength.
The Southern people manifest satisfaction Of the pre-
sen. coud tion Of affairs, and appear to be In alarm
about the utureso say those who have lately with
them. They of the disadvantages they Ugh
against; yet the Of the have inspired them
with confidence in Je Davis and their generals and they
believe they will succeed. Many in the ;'orth who
regarded the prospec. at the start gloomy have
become encouraged, and enter into the With zeal,
whereas they formerly ukewnrm. lf We can only
hold out till spring then eli will be right, is the
Sion OF the almost universal sentiment at the South
"ihen say they, Eve will have SIX hundred and fifty
Thousand troops the field. and can't be who cd.'
They appear hold their this winter,
have strong hope of foreign into veniion in the
nns but If that does not they evidently do.
termined to depend upon themselves 20 the ending,
they have done from tho beginning.