New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-29
THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

We beg leave to call the attention Of those
Coppcrheads, who in pursuance Of material Joys
and in support of what may be called breadand-
beef interests, mean to vote what is profanely
called the Democratic ticket at the next
election, to the present economical condition
of the Rebel States, as gathered from Rebel
newspapers. A more dolorous confession Of
desperation and ofdeHituion We DO not rcmern-
Der ever to have perused than that which il
furnished by these fasting journalists. A per.
son writing from 81. Clair County, Alabama.
bewails the perfect emptiness of hcsh-pots in
those regions, meat selling there at 81 80 per
pound, "and scarcely any TO spare with great
reluctance to sell il for Confederate money at
ALL Wheat was held at $40 per bushcl, and
Corn at 81 80 in the heap. Confederate cur
rency was worth only 81 in $40. The pay Of
priyates was worth little over 81 per month in
specie. "Ah!" excams the writer, suffering,
doubtless the pangs Of Ugolino, "men who
would fight for such government as this surely
have not got good scnsA" which is certainly the
most sensible remark which We have had from
pal Of the 18th of October, sings a similar song
Of sorowiul starvation, whereof the burden is
nothing to eati' "The subsistence question"
quotb this astute editor, is very properly
engaging the attention Of the press and the
people" Very properly, to be sure, for if you
cannot subsist you cannot exist, and if you can
not exist you cannot persist, and you cannot
persist, what becomes Of the COnfederacyl
The newspaper last above quoted, lets us into
one secret, Of which it should have been a trine
more careful, and which is that those who are
starving the men, women ana children Of the
South are Of their own kith and kn-Sbyocks
who are amassing fortunes out Of the uniortun-
ate necessities Of the land-yulturcs who are
gnawiDg at the vtals Of their cOuntry-good,
honest, honorable Rebels with Yankee princ-
pies "The figures asked and paid" says The
appeal, care not enhanced by the scarcity Of
supplies. There is no cause for the extOrtion
practiced by the producers and spectators"
The Richmond Dispatch howls heavily " at the
cupidity and heartlessness Of men employed IN
commerce and in agriculture, which are weighing
down the people and the cause" and then it
adds its remedy, as follows: Something must
be done. Produce must be stributcd-priccs
must be reduced-gans be dsgoreed-or there
will be suffering intense, and intense suffering
will beget--whatl Think Of it," We have
thought Of it. Dining and fighting 90 together.
No prog, no pugnacty! "Shall Richmond be
starved 7" asks Tile Ezaminer of that ilk. And
that Richmond is in danger Of starvation,
is very apparent from the pathos OF
its appeal. But what particularly interests us
TO know il, how these extortionists, forcstallcrs
and regraters came 10 exist in Richmond, which
il quite the center Of Slaveholding, and where
the Pa,riarchal system il taught from its legti-
mate pulpit, the auction block, and cultivated
seduously in its legitimate colleges, the bar
racoons And what have We been told over and
over again for the last few years1 Why, that