Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-05

fnller Information aud o oalmer state Of
feeling before any attempt TO assign praise
or blame is prematureIy taken. n5a
The hopeful feature in regard to the
west Is that the Government seems very
we'll aware that there has been great
want of management and of harmonious
action among the generals engaged in
Western operations, and is earnestly bent
upon introducing an Improvements. In nGd-
dition to the men under General J0hnston's
command, there are across the Mississippi
some forty or fifty thousand men under
General Kirby Smith, an admirable officer;
aud Il is believed that, south of the Mis-
souri, line, General Smith holds the whole
country, with the exception of Helena, in
Arkansas. All the ground which was
gained in Western Louisiana by General
Banks during last winter has again slipped
from the Federal grasp, to be retaken,
possibly, during the coming winter, and to
revert again next summer 70 the possession
Of the cr0codiles and the COnfederates.-
The task Of the Danaid9 or Of Sisyphus
was light aud feasible compared with tue
work on which the Rederals are engaged
so long as the heart and mind Of men, Wo{
men and children along more than thoa
sand miles of the Mississippi remain what
they now are.
MORTALITY STATISTICS OF THE REBEL Army
ARMY LOSSES AND A RIGHTEOUS CON-
sORIPTI0N.
An estimate made by the most competent
authority in the confederacy has been laid
before me, which is not without interest at
this moment. It rules the wear aud tear
in all the Confederate armies from death
and disabling wounds at between seventy
and eighty thousand men per
- AZ
Of boys who attain he fighting age Is rated
at from thirty five thousand to forty thous- |
aud per annnm. The whole fighting pop
ulation Of the South at the commencement
Of this war was about one million, Of whom
less thBu two hundred Thousand have per-
Ished or been disabled, while seventy |
young men have been added to
The fighting population. 1t will be seen,
hen, that TO supply the Southern armies |
In the field there is a population of about
nine hundred thousand men, of whom not |
more:than four hundred thousand are at |
this moment serving in the Confederate |
army and navy.
There remain about half q million of
men who have bought substitutes or are |
serving in civil Offices, or who, for some
cause or other have obtained exemptions,
Or have sbirked the cOuscriptiOn. Before
next spring arrives, over the whole OF this |
large body Of men the CONSUMPTION will If
be vigorously enforced, without |
3 moments thought or apprehension Of
such riots as New York has recently wit
messed; for in the Southern States wives |
and mothers love their husbands and sons
much. but they prize their eOuutry's indie
pendence more. Again, after reorganising
for another weary winter, the two sections
will find themselves face to face with each
other, to resume their old struggle, mark
cd by the same inability to attain definite
results, and TO reVolve in the same mOnOt-
onous circle, until Manassas, FredeTieks-
burg, culpeper Court House and Winches-
ter becomes names familiar to the students
Of military history as once were the cities
Of Belgium when the Low Countries were
the cockpits of Europe.