The New York herald., 1863-11-06


Brown. Of Georgia, OF the stock Of bacon
(Which ID eaten morning, noon and nigh, by the
Southern people when they have ~ s'shows
the well nigh exhausted condition Of thai State;
and yet. beyond peradventure. Il is les nearly
exhausted than any other State in he con-
federacy"
Such is the testimony given in April last
by the rebel Commissary General of Bubsist-
ence touching the prospects Of Sou thsrn sub
sistence through the coming winter ana spring.
He presents dismal picture to the rebel gov
ernment, and the six months which have since
elapsed have only contributed to make it
darker and gloomier. Immense corn crops
were planted last spring on the rich alluvial
bottoms Of the YazOo and Big Black rivera In
Mississippi; but they have been devoured
or destroyed by the contending armies that
have desolated that State. The abundant
supplies Of wheat corn, beef cattle, sheep and
swine which last year were brought to tho
rebel armies east Of the Mississippi from Arksn-
sas, Western Louisiana and Texas are now,
and have been since last July, as completely
cut off a. If tho Mississippi were river Of
liquid fire. Tho army Of Bragg, which last
winter was subsisted from the crops and caltle
Of Tennessee, is now compelled to depend
upon the scanty supplies Of Georgia. The rebel
Army of Virginia is in the midst of desert,
and the demands of empty stomachs and naked
feet will largely account for the daring forays
Of rebel guerillas within the lines of General
Meade's plentifully supplied army:
The area upon which the armies Of JEFF
Davis east Of the Mississippi have now to de-
pend for their subsistence is limited to South
ern Virginia, North and South Carolina
Georgia and Alabama; and within these States,
in addition to their own fixed population, are
thousands OF rebel white emigrants, and hun
dreds Of thousands Of negro slaves, from Mis-
souri,, Arkansas Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, Northern Virginia and
Maryland, on account of the pressure of the
advancing fleets and armies of the Union The
consumers of food and clothing, whites and
blacks, thus added to the population proper of
Georgia and Alabama, would probably all
summed up, exceed two hundred thousand
souls. And when, in connection with all
these facts, we consider the wastages of the
rebel armies, their losses of production from
the loss of horses, and that, down to the out
break OF this rebellion, the cotton States, ex-
cepting tho articles OF "hog and homminy"
and sweet potatoes, were almost entirely sup
piled with their provisions from Tennessee,
Kentucky and the great Northwest, it will not
be difficult to believe that the rebellion is on
the verge Of general and terrible famine.
II any further evidence were demanded to
satisfy the intelligent reader, we would refer
him to those unfortunate Union soldiers
who, as paroled prisoners. were recently
shipped to Annapolis from Richmond,
and who are dying by scores from
The effects Of starvation We would also refer
him to the starvation prices ruling in the rebel
capital. The public journals of that city and
Lynchburg are beginning broadly to hint that
he Union soldiers held as prisoners in those
swo cities are not worth 1.-THE of the scanty
allowance Of coarse food which is grudgingly
given them. We can hardly regard this mat
ter Of astonishment, when, according to the
Richmond Examiner Of the I'd instant, "at an
early hour on Saturday morning the meat sup
plies at the city market gave out, and nume-
rous families in consequence had to dine OF
Grahamite dinners"
The simple truth is that the rebellion is
already beginning to feel the psDgs Of q famine,
md the winter has not yet set in. How is the
,oor barefooted rebel soldiers family to live
through it, when his months pay in rebel scrip
will only buy them two or three pounds Of
,acon and a few pounds of -four, or a peck or
wo Of corn meal? When the meat market at
Richmond, even at two or three dollars q
pound, is exhausted at can early hour in the
surely the time is at hand when "the
Yankees" under General Meade will be hailed
in that city as libsrating army. The facts we
have recited, at all events, are sufficient to
show the exhausted condition of the rebellion, =.
and that, if within the ensuing six months Of
consumption without production the rebellious
States are not subdued, the country will oeed
nothing further to prove the incompetency and
imbecility of President Lincoln's administra-
tion.
The CALL FOR VoLUNTEERs-The response
to the Presidents call for three hundred thou
sand volunteers is likely to be all that could be
wished, and it is not at all improbable that New
York State will be ahead Of all others in fur
nishing her quota. The .bounties offered are
most liberal. The veteran volunteer who has
uarvad haforo v;ll raoa;yo tha ann, of Sdno ond