New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-22
PROG AND PATRIOTISM.

The altitudinou5 condition Of the Price Cur
rent for provisions is just now no joke any
where; but the advantage which We have over
hungry Rebels is that whereas we can buy good
dinners with o deal of money, they can buy no
dinners, good, bad, or indifferent, even If they
had plenty of cash, of which, to complicate
matters, they have none at all. The Atlanta
Register Of the I'd instant publishes thrilling
appeal, which slides from the sublime to the
ridiculous in the following free and easy man
ner: sour sons, husbands, and brothers, are
to-day forming breastworks Of their bodies for
the protection Of our sacred rights. and the fur
Their and final success of our glorious cause.-..
To effect this noble object as speedily as posi-
BILE, share with them your potatoes, onions,
sduashes, and other vegetables" There may
be something little laughable in this coiloca-
matter to heroes compelled to fight all day long
literally before breakfast, aud with better
prospect of dinner if they are defeated than if
they should prove partially victorious. Instead,
"potatoes, onions, squashes, and other yegeta-
blcs," seems to be perfectly timely--the misfor-
tune being that kitchen gardens cannot be ex-
temporized, nor potatoes and other vegetables
had for the asking.
Every now and then, somebody who has had
or pretends to have had peep inside the Con-
federacy, publishes an extraordinary story OF
the milk and honey Astounding within those
blessed borders, aud tells us that the treasonous
abdomens want for nothing. To diminish our
confidence in these glded tales, VIC have the
ruling prices, automatically printed in the Rebel
Newspapers, aud from these Il Is easy to infer
that tho domestic markets are not afflicted with
what you may call a plethora. The Federal
prisoners, writing home to their friends, invari
ably declare that they cannot get enough to eat,
and can hardly cat what they do get, so shock
ngly bad is its quality: from which we must in
fer, either that the jailors arc remarkably cruel.
or extremely short Of provisions And now we
have this appeal for supplies in the Atlanta
newspapers. Nothing seems TO point 10 very
luxurious commissarat in the Confederate army.
Certainly, it il not TO be inferred from the recent
desperate raid into Maryland, in quest of victual.
No one will doubt that the suffering which
the Rebellion has brought upon the Southern
people has been and is still borne with good
deal Of grim philosophy. But this, however it
may sustain the mind, is pretty poor pabulum
for the body, and especially for the soldierly
body; and nothing being more certain than
that, at least in the regions infested by war,
production must have nearly ceased, it becomes
a question how long the Rebel armies can be
maintained when their supplies are exhausted.
and they can no longer draw them from quar-
tiers as yet unvexed By war. Here. at least, is
a danger which We are not called upon to meet.
We are, il is true, exposed TO the disastrous Of
lects of drouth. but the Rebels must encoun-
ter these and something more. For the Rebel
lion cannot fail TO have derangod their whole
system of production, such rs it was. The
young whites are in the army. The young and
old blacks, the mass Of agricultural producers,
have been scattered. The women who stay at
home may DO little spasmodic hoeing and
spading, but if they raise enough to feed them
selves and their children they will DO fortunate.
Everything at Me North is in contrast with this
The drouth threatens IA, it is true with short
crops, but our short crops would be o laughing
harvest in Georgia or Alabama. Prices may be
very high herc--higher in a year than they are
now hut the resources Of the North are in
finite, and Whatever We may dread,
we most certainly do not dread a
famine like that which already exists In certain
parts of the Conlederacy. There may be EN-
barrassmen, there may be the necessity Of a
rigorous economy, there may be curtailment of
luxures which, through constant and long en-
joyment, have become almost necessities with a
people pampercd by prosperity; but There will
be no starving to death, and in majority of all
our homes, there will be enough to keep the
wolf from the door. The difference between the
LOYAL and the Rebellous States is to be found in
the fact that the former are strong enough toI
encounter short crops. while the latter, CON-
PEELED TO rely upon their own immediate re-
sources, have no reserved strength at home, and
while the blockade continues can hope for no
relief from abroad So situated bravery. sto-
csm, endurance, will be sufficient only to post
pone. not to avert, the inevitable catastrophe.
The insurgents have already done their best
loyal people of the country, if all they have
thus far contributed, of men, of money, of ma
tcrial, were swept away, could, with hardly an
effort, replace all three.