Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-02-06

march Of the Confederate Capital. This i
nc fiction. Ii is fact so positive that nom
can deny it,
Nor is this all. The President tells rs, il
hiss message, that the troubles with the Indian
tribes have been removed. aud no further diff
Guilty is anticipated The intelligence we Oh
tain from private and trust worthy sources does
not confirm the Presidents sanguine assef
tions. The trouble with the Chcr.ikees was
in great part, due 10 the fact that some sew
en- or eight thousand Of them, row in arms
had nat received a cent OF pay for fourteen
months. 1t IS true that paper money hae
been sent them and ere now, it is to be Hoped
has reached lis destination. But Indians dc
not Ike paper money. Still, it would answer
the purpose if Gen. Albert Pike remained tC
disburse it, and to alIay the prtjulices, which
he, of all the men in The Uoniederacy. il best
able 10 do Pike, however, has resigned for
good reasons, doubtless, aud person said to
he not the least competent is left ia bis stead
Under these circumstances, we shall be FORUM
ate indeed if we escape further troubles with
The Indiaus. Moreover, we get from Missouri
members and others, distressing accounts ol
the condition Of affairs in Arkansas
General Hindman IS very far from being a
| favorite, even among his own people, and SC
destitute are some Of the new leYius who have
! volunteered to come out OF Missouri to j3in
our armies, that whole battalions Of them have
been seen marching barefoot through snow
three inches deep. Add to this the fact that
so far as the public IS permitted to know, New
A -. tI,o Yt, hoi,
lost 10 US, and that the state of dissatisfaction
in I nnessee and Mississippi growing out Of
the u a,lpoutiment Of incompetent officers and
tie lancied neglect of that country by the Con
ftderate Goyernment-no from any lack OF
fcrvor in the cause.) which President Davis
visit was intended to heal, is likely to revive
under the depressing inAuenc of Bragg's
retreat and his contnsance in command
add all this to the foregoing, and it will be seen
that the Yankees have much TO encourage
them in the prosecution Of Tie war, and we not
little TO excite serious apprehensions as TO
the future.
The remedy for this state OF things is OBJ
vious. 1t lies in the extension and rigid en-
forcemcnt of that law 10 which we owe our sal
vation. We must bring out the conscripts
chapter Of failures in the Southwest will
come to all end. The history of tie battles in
that region has been sufficiently uniform to jus
lify conclusion which shall not be chargublc
with the vices of hasty generalization. 1t has
not been so much for want Of brains for u
want of men that we have been Compelled to
lose the fruits OF some Of the best fighting that
has been doue in this war. At Duneson, at
shiloh, at Perryyiile, and at Murlrceaboro, tue
story has been always the same-yictorios a
chieved against great odds, snatchcd away by
overwhelming reiuiorcemen's to the enemy.
As the past has been, so will the fa.urc be.
unless something is done, and that speedily, to
fill up the shattered ranks Of our armies IN The
West Exemptions must be diminished. The
system OF details must be adopted. Young
men must not bc permitted to eyade their duty
ny slipping into safe places, Comp!aisant
iricuds must turn deaf car to their entr"at-
leg. Ahle-budied men must not b. allowed
TO stay at home on the preteXt of attending to
twenty negroes. Here in Virginia there arc.
in many places, contiguous plantations, num-
bcring in the aggregate hundreds Of slaves,
without solitary man te guard them. The
gentle authority OF ladies has been lohnd am
ply sufficient to control the obedcnt African
population.
With the first opening Of spring comes the
last tremendous shock Of this war. Many OF
the Yankee troops are nine months men,
More are enlisted for two years, their time ex-
piring in May next. Up to that time they
will be available, ard we may be very sure
that all the fighting that can possibly b. got
ten out of them will be had before they are al
lowed to go home They out lumber us two
to one. Tuere is Il limit to tic endurance Of
the brave men at Tu!lahoma, Grenada and
Vicksbnrg. They must be tanned strength
oncd, reinforced Ifuuhin The nert ilro mcntis
tre DO not adj seventy fire or a hundred thou
sand mn TO our force an tie Soutt-toest 1rc
shall come 10 grief. If we do add them, we
arc safe beyond rreadventure, and next sum
mer will witness the final triumph Of our arms.