The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-09
east of the Mississippi from Arkansas,
Western Louisiana and Texas are now, and
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east of the Mississippi from Arkansas
n Western Louisiana and Texas are now, an'
have been since last July, as completely
!, Ecut off as if the Mississippi were river o
! liquid fire. The army of Bragg, which las
winter was subsisted from the crops ane
cattle Of Tennessee, is now compelled tt
depend upon the scanty supplies of 9eor
fgia. fhe rebel Army Of Virginiais in the
midst of desert, and the demands OF
empty stomachs and naked feet will large.
ly account for the daring forays of rebel
guerrillas withiu the lines Of Gen. Meade,s
plentfnlly supplied army. - -. -, 80 = =:
The area upon which the armies of JEFF.
Davis east cf the Mississippi have now TO
depend for their subsistence is hmited1' TO
Southern Virginia, North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia fand, Alabama; and within
these States, in addition to their own fixed
population, are thousands of rebel white
emigrants and hundreds Of thousands of
negro slaves, from Missouri, Arkansas,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Louisiana, Northern Virginia and Mary
land, on account of the pressure of the ad-
vancing fleets and armies Of the Union
The consumers of food and clothing whites
and blacks, thus added to the population
proper-ef Georgia and Alabama, would
probably, all summed up, exceed two thou
sand souls. And when, in connection with
all these facts, we consider the wastages Of
the rebel armies, their losses of production
from the loss of horses, and that, down to
the outbreak of this rebellion, the cotton
States, excepting the articles Of "hog and
homminy" and sweet potatoes, were almost
entirely supplied with their provisions from
Tennessee Kentucky and the great North
west, it will not be difficult to believe that
the rebellion is on the verge of general
and terrible famine.
Ifany futher evidence were demanded to
satisfy the intelligent reader, we would re-
fer him to those unfortunate Union soldiers
who, as paroled prisoners, were recently
shipped to Annapolis from Richmond, and
who are dying by scores from the effects OF
starvation We would also refer him to
the starvation prices ruling IN the rebel
capital The public journals Of that city
and Lynchburg are beginning broadly to
hin. that the Union soldiers held as prison.
ers in those two cities are not worth tithe
of the scanty allowance of coarse food
which is grudginly given them. We can
hardly regard this matter of astonshment,
when, according to the Richmond Examiner
of the I'd instant, "at an early hour on
Saturday morning the meat supplies at the
city market gave out, and numerous fami
lies in consequence had to dine OF Gra
hamite dinners"
The ssimple truth is that the rebellion is
already beginning to feel the pangs of a
anime, and the winter has not yet set in.
How is the poor barefooted rebel soldiers
amily to live through it, when his months
pay in rebel script will only buy them two
or three pounds of bacon and few pounds
IF -four, or peck or two of corn meal?-
When the meat market at Richmond, even
It two or three dollars a pound, is exhausted
1t ian early hour in the morning, surely the
time is at hand when 'the Yankees" under
3en. Meade will be hailed in that city as a
army. The facts we have recited,
It all events, are sufficient to show the ex-
lausted condition of the rebellion, and that
f within the ensuing six months Of con
sumption without production the reballious
States are not subdued, the country will
heed nothing further to prove the incom
,etency and imbecility of President Lin
,oln's administration.