The national Republican., 1862-08-08
Friday, August 8, 1852.
rHn FORCE OF THE rNEmY.

Ehpi Fo"S ~ VT mn
The annexed article from the New York
Evening Post will attract attention. The edi-
tors Of that paper would not pronounce lnfor-
natios to be authentic and worthy Of trust
without the best grounds for doing 60 And
The information now given corresponds with
ali the iacs about which there is no dispute.
When, in the first days Of June, the enemy
threw himself at the Seven Pines, upon the
detachment cut of from the remainder Of our
army by the swollen Chick ahominy, be must
have done |, with bis whole disposable force
And as he made that attack with only thirty,
OF, ut most. forty thousand men, we have the
limit II bis available strength al that time. 10
the last days OF June, his army was much
greater, but he did not display more than sixty
Thousand men ut any one time, aud that WAS In
hl, grand onslaught upon our right wing
II he had, as pretended, 10000 or 200, 900
Deh ON the first OF this month. why has be
made no movement, since be drove our army
back To the james river
Let us never forget, that thoss who insist
upon these large figures are the same persons
Who iusistsd that there were 100000 men last
winter at Manassas
From the N. Y Evening Post OF August o.
Direct News from Richmond.
We said the other day that we believed the
rumors as to the -ebel strength at Rchmend to
be great exaggerations. Our opinion was
founded upon the statistics Of the fighting pop.
ulatlon Of the States In rebellion. But since
that article WAS written we have received In
formation from source which we are not per-
mitied to disclose, but which we know to be
authentic and worthy OF trust, confirming these
speculative conclusions of our own. The rebel
trmy has NJ no time, since the beginning OF the
war, exceeded the number of three hundred
and fifty thousand effective men. all told, and
including every force between the Potomac
and the Rio Grande. This statement, We have
reason to believe, was originally derived from
The documents Of the Confederate War Depart.
ment.
As H. the Iorces IN und about Richmond, We
learn from the same authority that they reac b
at the highest point, about one hundred and
twenty thousand men. OF these there were
but ninety thousand on the Peninsula, who
were disposed for the repulse of McClellan's
memorable seven days. They were not all EN-.
ployed at once, nor upon the main body of our
army, but about sixty thousand Of them were
precipitated, from time TO time, upon the TANKS
and exposed points. In this way they we're
enabled 10 do immense damage, and to drive
back our poor fellows with apparently over
wbelmiug numbers. twas admirable general.
ship on the part Of their leaders, and won the IN
corresponding advantages.
But they did not assail us with impunity
their own losses were enormous, and the au-
thority on which we rely, states their killed
and wounded al no less u figure than twenty.
eight thousand. Richmond, ever since the
conflict has been one vast hospital. Churches,
hotels, private h' uses, and stores, are all
used for tie accommodation of the sick, and
there are neither doctors, nurses, nor me-
dIcines enough for their use. The illumina
tions winch followed the victories we're them
selves speedily followed by CONSERVATION and
eorrow. Many regiments were found 80 com
pletely cut up, losing all their officers in some
lasrs, that they could not DO reorRanized
There was, at the same time, u great defcen
cy II food and the army WAS not et oil In g
condition tu take advantage OF its successes.
Another authority, no less direct and credi-
Ule thsn the one we have thus far used, Informs
US that tho ,nr great fear of the rebel leader
Is tia. lus threats Of the Northern people &c
interfere .i,h the slaves will be carried into
effect. The very thought Gls them with ap
prehsHsi"n, and they do not conceal fr" m them
selves ths truth, that, in the event of such a
resort the rebellion will be easily crushed
some few speak with reckless bravadO or air
Of indifference, but the more considerate know
what the result would be, and they would
sooner near OF our raising an army Of hall a
million Of men than of our declaring the slaves
emanc pated. A preventive OF the possi
ole influence Of this upon the slaves, they are
t!ling their heads with the most preposterous
stories OF Yankee cruelty and hatred, and ever
invent tales Of the soldiers rising upon tht
Jontrabands to Oayonst them In cold blood