Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-22
The Crop Of White Soldier, Failing.

Not little has been said about the ex-
haustion Of the Confederacy in men left from
which to recruit their depleted armies. These
statements have been denied by some Of their
journals, as well as by their well-wishers at
the North-the bold front they have so gen.
orally made being cited as evidence Of their
ability to keep their armies full and in fight
ing condition. Because the army Of Lee has
been able as yet to save Petersburg and Rich
mond, by defending them from behind forti-
fications which they have been constructing
during three or four years, it has been as
sumed that their supply of recruits has not
failed. We have seen it tolegrapbed that one
of their Generals has ordered the enrolment
into the army of all the male colored men in
his Departments rather plain hint that the
supply of white men has failed, since it can
hardly be supposed that with all the denun-
citation by the rebels of making soldiers Of
the negroes by the Union authorities. them
selves would adopt that policy, unless a
scarcity of white trash had enforced it.
But we have still more forcible evidence Of
this exhaustion from rebel authority, which.
can scarcely be doubted BY any sympathizer
with treason. The telegraph, in its latest
reports, gives us the following:
"NEw YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Yri6tme's
correspondent with Grant says: By reference
to the Richmond Wing, which 1 mailed you
last night, you will see that on!their own cal
culations there remain in the whole South
but one hundred and thirty-two thousand
men between the ages Of sixteen and fifty.
These they style exempts, by enactments Of
their Congress. All residents between these
ages are IN their service. From these ex-
empts only can they recruit their armies.
But these one hundred and thirty-tyyo tbons-
and men are all who have been detailed for
duty, considered up to this time, yirtuallv n.
| important as service in the army, and not an
Of them, nor any large portion Of them can
be spared from present operations-sucb az
oyerseers Of plantations. workmen in ConfedS
crate arsenals, manufacturers of articles
which must be obtained; hence there is no
basis Of addition to their armies" =
II must be recollected that such carnations
as Grant and Sherman have been carving on
are exhausting. Even if two Union soldiers
fall to each rebel, the final result would be to
leave the latter without any troops when the
Federal army would still be formidable and
its supplies not exhausted nor approaching
that state. The South can expect nothing
from immigration. They have not been so
generous and patronizing to foreigners in
times of peace as to entice very large num-
| Der among them, and certainly there is moth
| ing now in the seeded States to induce stran-
gers to Join their armies, could they enter the
country. Hunger, wounds, death and Con-
federate scrip are not very hattering promises
to induce enlistments. This terrible exhaus-
ton would be subject of unspeakable regret
had it not been brought upon themselves in
an attempt to peIpetrate an act which will go
down in history as the most wicked Of which
man has ever been guilty. It is only in its
influence upon the fate Of rebellion that one