The New York herald., 1863-10-12


IL a poem gr pbic, fin aud false ISnini
give, it The lie 1T every ste!'. BIT Ktng'ake
| writes scoOun of battles, and aeVer knows
where he il, where he he ,a% nor where 10 stop.
His accounts are inextrlcaby confused from
| one end 10 tie other. Ru sei's much vannted
| letters TO The London Times from The Crnea
are mere jumbles of rlra>pe.c. No one can mako
out bead or tsi from those letters OF any battle
| t,ey pretead 10 describe. This gentleman
/ wrote an aooonnt OF tbc battle OF Ball ran. In
whGti there is not Oae word about tho battle.
| Let our readers compare our account Of the
battle Of Chattanooga with accounts Of battles
| by any OF these writer's. ard they will agree
| with as that our correspondent is superior TO
| them all ia ovcry respect.
| The Present asc of tho Rebesiion as
fseceivea by john Bun.
| The letter which we submit to our readers
this morning from the Richmond special CORES
pondont OF the London 1H,es. Of August 20, on
the movements and prospeots OF tho rebel
armies, the blockade, and the general condition
of the rebellion, will be found sufficiently anus
ing by tie intelligent reader TO repay an
attentive, refusal. John Bull in Richmond is
stuffed with such information as bis rebel
friends think Ct to give him; and In behalf Of
their cause be faithfully fulfls his mission of
stufllng sympathizing John Bull in England.
The letter In question, to be sure, is heavy
draft upon English oredulity; bat the writer,
he IL remembered, is in Richmond and In tho
service Of TIE London Times.
| Passing over his items Of information. his
arguments and his conjectures concerning the
movements aud efficiency Of the rebel armies,
East and West, let us briefly examine some of
the most conspicuous Of the numerous inapu-
dent flctions with which this letter abounds.
He says, for example, that never since the
beginning Of this war "were the spirit and
temper Of Southern resistance more keen and
exasperated than at this moment He is
speaking, however, only for the cabal at Rich
mond, and he finds It convenient to shut his eyes
to the peace and Union meetings going on in
North Carolina, and to the fact that in Arkansas,
Mississippi and Northern Alabama the work OF
recruiting for the rebel army is extensively
pursued by means Of bloodhounds. He says
next that "no one is now ignorant that during
tho first six or eight months of the conflict there
was not enough gunpowder at any Of the
Southern ports to have supplied the demands
of q single battery for three hours" On the
contrary, we know that there was sufficient
gunpowdcr in the magazines Of the Norfolk
Navy Yard seized by the rebels to supply all
the batteries and field works Of the rebellion
for whole year, to say nothing of the supplies
seized with Fort Macon, Fort Sumter, Fort
Pulaski, and numerous other forts and military
and naval depots, from Virginia to Texas.
We are also assured by this veracious John
Bull in Richmond that this year throughout
the Davis confedcracy "the abundance of CO.
reals Is such that It would supply the whole
population for three years to come" Against
this brazea-facsd assertion the bread riots which
have occurred within the last few months at
Richmond, at Atlanta and Rome, Ca. and at
Mobile, will afford decisive answer. But we
have before us the maximum prices Of provi-
sions established by the rebel government at
Richmond, as reported In tue h&amincr Of that
city, October 2 IA the oARcial schedule the
maximum prices Of cereals are thus set DOWN.
Wheat, Eve dollars per bushel -four, from
twenty-five to twsnty-eight dollars per barrel
corn (ndian), four dollars per bushel; rye, three
dollars and twenty cents per bushel oats, two
dollars per bushel, and rice, twenty cents per
pound. These are the maximum prices decreed
by the rebel government; but they are the mi
nimum prices at which the articles enumerated
are sold, and only at these prices on public &C.
count. Private sales rule at higher figures, to
tho extent OF fifty, seventy y-fve, and even one
hundred per cent
Tho next thing which in this Richmond let.
ter challenges our special attention is ON cap.
peal' from Charleston merchant, exhibiting
the inehiciency Of the blockade aud denouncing
the injustice Of England in continuing to respect
IL. In this exhibit it is shown that during the
present year there have been forty-three arri-
walls OF blockade runners at Charleston and
forty-nine at Wilmington, and the names
Of the vessels are given. But, taking the
case Of Charleston, we find that these forty
three arrivals are limited to some twenty YES
sells, and that more than half Of these have been
captured or destroyed, including the Herald,
the Flora, the Ruby, the Margaret and Jessie
the Antonica and the Eagle. Numerous other
vessels engaged in the same contraband traffic,
and not included In this Charleston list of forty
three, have suffered the same fate in cndeavoring
TO get In OF out Of that port--among them the
fne aud fast going steamer Princess Royal, cap
tured last February, bound in, and valued
ship aud cargo, in Philadelphia, at over o mil.
lion Of dollars.
But this jealous John Bull Ia Richmond in
regard to these Charleston blockade runners
eyectually answers himself; for while in the
body OF his letter be says that their trade at that
port amounts to eighteen millions of dollars a
year, he admits In his postscript that, with the
Union occupation Of the whole Of Morris
Island, Charleston Is completely shut up. The
'maximum prices" established at Richmond on
| imported goods by the rebel government prove
csnclusivey that the blockade along the whole
| coast is indeed stringent one in spite Of the
\ inefficiency OF old Mr.. Welies, and IL sore