Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-14
A Rosy View of me Rebel Cause
what the London Times Special

TENDER. The writer makes the assertion that the
secessonits are stronger and in better heart than
ever he declares that thew are better provided
with everything than thew were at the beginning
OF the war, aud pronounces the blockade OF their
ports the veriess farce He asserts that on the
facility eIjayed tor running the blockade the
Confederate government found- demand thit
the blOckide shall be declared illegal and non
existent bs the nations of Europe We make
iew extracts:
There are three powder mills actively It work
in the Confectionery. and the daily supply OF pow
der ex cted Tor the Confederate armies IN the held
and Tor the el ports which deien~ively occu
plet. - fully furnished by two OF these mills,
whereas the third and largest has been TOR many
months past engaged ia manufacturing super1u
Gus powder. which has nov grown into large
reserved stock aud is being daily and rapidly
increased. Take another item
There were lost to the Confede7aies in the
first half of july no less than 81 OvO muSkets
The reader will be surprised TO learn thtt July
this amount of mu>kets has. during the las; sew en-
weeks, been successfully introduced through the
blockade TO say nothing OF cannon and mnltltu
dinous other supplies of all kinds. IL may be
conceived what are the Oh tnces of subduing a
rebellion in a country which not only possesses
all the resources Of the Confeieracy. but also
sucks IN supplies to any extent from beyond the
sea
Wilmington. Mobile, Savannah and Galveston
have still To be reduced. and il is believed that
two out of these four places will DEFY the utmost
malice of the Felertls Along the whole South-
ern coast, from the capes of the Chesapeake to
the k'o Grande. there are altogether l-9 ports
aud inetS, OF which ouly An inhnltesimal proper
ton has fallen into the hands of the Feierals.
Whit chance is there of such country being
efieciuilly and altogether cut of rom receiving
fl.r IL.
her alive. and supply all that is requisite for her
re-i>tnnce2
"ln large portion of the Confederate States.
the harvest last year was unusually deficient aud
consequently. during The spring months OF the
present year there WIS considerable anxiety about
the supply ct food. All such anxiety has now
disappeared in presence of the bountlful and
abundant harvest with which, daring THIS current
year. the Confederate States have been blessed.
| AN assured that the abundance of cereals Is
such that it would supply the whole pooulitiOn
for three wears 10 come. Npr is the abuud tnce
confined to cereals. The crop OF vegetables is
such as would amaze any Euglishmau of the
poorer class
The commerce of Charleston is four times
greater than the aggregate of commerce cn-
iOved by all the ports of South Carolina before
the war, and that il amounts TO + $40 .000 per
month. or SIS 600 900 per annum. One circum-
stance has occurred since President Davis de-
livered his message ON January l. which it will
not be easy for European governments to over
look. Early in Januar, the ordnance bureau e
solved To import, in vessels of their own, sundry
government stores which were requisite TOR the
Confederate armv and navv and directed vessels
to be purchaser in Europe with lhis. view. These
government vessels commenced their trips in the
middle of January, and. during the seven months
intervening between that date and the middle OF
August, iugress and egress from Confederate
ports in forty four instances safely effected ::
or, in other words, twenty two round voyages
were made by them.
No vessel belonging to the Confederate Gov
eminent has hitherto been captured by the Fed
erals; il is hardly too much to say that with rare
exceptions. the Government vessels come in aud
60 out without moleStatiun. la answer TO the al
legation OF Lord Russell, that most of the vessels
which are engaged IN running the blockade are
insignificant crafts. which draw only three or four
feet of water. and slip along the coast, statistics
will he shortly laid before the Foreign OH e.
giving the bulk and tonnage Of these vessels
and especially Of those employed by the Con
federate Government.
The inference i irresistible The blockade of
the Confederate ports is the verlest farce
Whether il Is for the interest of England 10 ig-
more the fact abundantv manifested during these
last two wears. that block ide such a. the Feier
ais have manan j. practically imperative
and that m vessels pass i'm will
| Am unable 10 discover but there can be 10
question as To the fact that. unless England j.
able CONTRARY to all probability TO enforce a
very different kind of blockade from that which
the Feierals have maintained, the cogency of
this great of IN irtime warfare - heren fter
at an end New PRINCIPLES of international lIw
will have TO be laid down; hit. in the meantime
the Inconvenience which England will shortly
experience. if she persists in re- irdir the block
ale : effective. cannot fail To be apparen t to
the least intelligent
E,ch month increases the number of Confed-
crate cruisers at sea- and hitherto all the eff rtS
of the Feeras 10 sweep them from the ocean
have been failures. Msnv Of our readers are
sw9re to their cost that the Federals (althoaeh
imbecile against Confederate privateers and men
of war; are terrible against English commercial
vessels. not only when Overhauled between Mas
slu aud the Confederate coast, bur also between
England aud NJ ,deira. and between NJ ,dera aud
Nassau In presence of this fact what is to
prevent "A Confederate cruiser from stopping the
Pe-sii. or the Gret Eastern. when bourd Tor
New York and, in conforming with an undoubtel
rule of International law, SEEING goods
which are comtrab md OF wary The second article
of The treaty of Paris is 20 the effect that the
neutral fig covers enemies goods with the tx
exception of cOntriband of war Ii will he found
il This war last minv months more that the for
be,rance which has hitherto been shown by the
Confederate cruisers, must have limit.