New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-11-11
WHAT THEY WANT.

Copperheads of Ncw-York to the latest lugubri.
ous intelligence from their dear COnfederacy.
Anything with leaner or more hungry look
than tho Richmond newspapers present it would
be impossible to conceive Of; for the editors
really talk as if they would DO. soon driven to
that dire contingency mentioned in Volpone OF
fatting by eating once q month man.
What will make this less tOlerable is that they
will not be able to cot their slaves, for apart
from natural repugnance to black meat, man.
merchandise is ruling at $4,000 per capfor prime
Confederate currency, OF course), which would
make choice cuts more expensive than atolans
or Pergore pies. There will be nothing for 1t
then but for emaciated Patriarchs to draw lots,
like ship.wrccked Jacks in the long-boat, and
for the Inflated to deliver themselves rcsignedly
to the butcher, after taking tender farewell OF
their families. In Richmond, IL il be not bull
"a say So the bone Of contention 10 meat. Beet,
the reporters no longer quote. They might os
well quote ambrosia. The Dispatch of the 3lst
of October calls upon all loyal citizens to turn
vegetarians, and leave what flesh there is for
the army. So the Confederacy--t is no great
news-wauts victuGl.
Then again, 10 90 lower down. Th' Richmond
Dispatch lsments widespread lack of shoes
"Tha, there should" exclaims that paper, - be
n single barefoot soldier in the army which de-
tends Richmond, much more hall brigade, is
shame aud Il scandal" So the COME derscy needs
shoes.
About the next want there is something
dreadful. II il very much a. if Providence, by
a special decree, should withdraw all the oxy-
gen from The Southern atmosphere. /" He who
aspiros to be a hero" said DR.. johnson a; the
Club, :" must drink brandy" That must be the
reason Blagg turns ont 10 better, fOr We find
"apple brandy" quoted in Richmond AT 's.G per
galon-a price sufficient to stagger--or 10 keep
from s,aggering-the most ardent aspirant for
military glory So tie ContedeTacy lacks spirits.
But bread is tolcrable substitute for beef
Most certainly, If a hungry man can get it. This
he will not be likely TO do, when the Price Cur
ren, opens lis quotation OF -four, by stating that
there il none in the market. This reminds one
of the travellers chspter on " Snakes in lee
land" which simply and briefly Was" There
are no snakes in Iceland" Only " an occasional
barrel in all Richmond, at from $50 for super
fine, to $50 per barrel for extra. Corn meel ut
sl3per bushcl. So the Confederacy lacks bread.
This will do for q specimen Of material wants.
Richmond, by the confession os lis own news
papers, is starving. This is the same city III
which, not thousand years ago. the Nirgrian
Jcremahs predicted woe and desolation TO the
North-grass growing in Broadway-uniyersal
hunger gnawiug ~ the Northern vi,a,,-gencral
bankruptcy shaking Che Northern exchanges
bread mobs dominating in the Northern streets
anarchy replacing Northern Governments.
Yet we still live and move and have our being.
We were TO be starved into conccssior--hu The
starvation appears TO he in quite uotherquartcr.
Now let IL turn from the material 10 The moral
eVigencics Of The Coniedaracy. The same
Richmond newspaper from which wc have
quoted already, declares tia, the people will
10 longer volunteer whether i'm men, moncv
~ provisions "The day of compus.on, il
says, "has come" and Il bees The Government
10 compel" discreetiy. When we remember
all the Bobadl hlAster about dying in the last
ditch: when We recall all Tie assertions the
every Confederate citizen would cheer.niiy, nav.
ioyially, submit TO personal ruin and even den,h
iather than retGrn toa detes,ed Mon. VIC must
confess that Obi. compulsory process which +,
proposed vonll s,cm 20 indicate rather morc
than ordinary slayeholdiGg alschood IL PREV.
ous declarations VI hen these theoretical ,taies.
men, VINO have led ;Ac Southern peonle such a
deuce oil dance, come TO the compulsory style
az business, they may possibly find "a resisting
influence quite cc,yc and potent upon the other
side. They say thu the Rebellion IS "revo-
luiionary movement ard tha. .mprc.sinr mcn
moaey sna provisions Is quite regular In such
cases rhis Is very true. Blt Inc managers IN
m R,Lmold may po ubly hayc heard or read
a such things as CONTRIBUTIONS Forced
loans, conscuptons he sciSuro OF private good.
The whole ~ tenn OF cous,rl.n,. dislIaini ard
restraint, will be not unlikely 10 cxasperaie "a
people very lt,l, accustomed 10 sell.controi or
20 any control whatever. In any public disat.
fiction, under such delicate circumstances, he
Richmond megnatcs woali be compelled to
bear the brunt. and they might possibly find to
her sorrow, that while the people became tar.
hulent he army became mui.Aous. such things
have happened before aud may hoppcn again
The Conlederacy lacks united public sentiment
Once more. the Rebels find, ms 1hc weary
months 90 by, that acgoss the ocean, there
comes to them no word Of sympathy and no
sf,rr a. -n,orr.finp fIhnv have epafi, hrilos "a