Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-01
TelegraphiC.
LATEST NE Ws.
The state OF Analrs in tho south

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NEw YoRK, July 3l.--The Worlds CORE
spondeut writes a long letter commenting on
the condition Of affairs in the South. he
Gays the South is exhausted by her tremen.
dous effort fret and last More than a mil
lion Of men have been in the ranks
Six great States, Virginia, Georgia, Ala
bsma Mississippi, North Carolina and South
Carolina, have furnished from eighty.fve
Thousand TO hundred and twenty thousand
men to the Confederate Army independent Of
militia. Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Texas and Florida, furnished fifty to eighty
thousand, and Missouri aud Kentucky forty
thousand each.
Maryland, still less; although the muster
rolls Of Adjutsnt General at Richmond
contained only four hundred and fify thousand
names at the evacuation of that city, Of which
not quite half we're on duty in the field, yet, 10
January, 1853 the rebel army numbered
seven hundred and 6ity thousand men, most
OF whom we're in actual service.
BY laws subsequently enacted, every man
capable Of bearing arms, with the exception
Of few civil officers aud professional persons
we're made soldiers.
Numbers Of maimed crippled and wasted
forms are everywhere TO be met with, so ii
indicates that nearly every family ia in mourn
ing, sometime for two, three or four victims
| The total loss is set down by good author
ity at one hundred thousand killed and died
| in service, and one hundred thousand perma
nently disabled, while there we're, perhaps,
two hundred thousand suffering under various
degrees of disability.
10 Virginia, there are thousands OF miles
of fencing destroyed, and millions OF acres in
rank weeds Further South the damsge is
greater. Through South Carolina, Georgia.
and part Of North Carolina, the cotton fields
are almost like primitive forest Gins sheds
sheds, barus and even wells aud csterns have
been destroyed Many farms are uninhabi
table Alabama has suffered in the destruc
tion of cotton, railroads, workshops, foundries
and in tho cessation Of all industry beyond
the vital needs Of her people. So Of Lousi
ana and Mississippi, though more fortunate
in getting back earlier into harness.
Texas though hardly touched by the foot
Of our soldiers, has been prey to the rava-
gss Of guerrillas more destructive than the
enemy. Arkansas has been eaten out, and
has but little left ber but naked territory and
its rude habtations
Gov Vance, of North Carolina, and Gov.
Watts, of Alabama, we're originally accounted
ed Union men, but sWayed round after their
accession TO office.
lmmaterial and irrecoverabe is the one
thing over which they grisve most. The
South has lost its independence, which it
might Willingly have surrendered after it had
been obtained, but it has slso lost prestige,
and power, and name aud fame. compared 10
which oil other sacrifices are az mere Sihes
in her estimation; all dangers, all labors, all
hardships, an all losses might have been
borne more cheerfuly Il they had not been
in vain.
Aquiet, but considerable interest is mani.
tested in the fate Of Davis. His death would
be the bappiest solution Of trouble for his
friends. as either hanging or banishment
would be very seriously taken to heart by ell
classes.
Next comes the question Of negro suffrage
There is no doubt but this measure is looked
upon with the utmost alarm and horror at the
South at present. They are unable to see it
10 its true light They have not yet begun to
distinguish between the propositions that the
negro has no right to vote, aud that be is not
6t to vote. Very few of the negroes are ca.
pable Of exercising intelligently political
privileges,
This objection the Southern States will
make and can sustain. II is not improbable
that they may find it to their own interests to
give q portion of the negroes votes The
general amnesty should prevail ss early as
possible. 1t is remarkable that fighting men
on both sides agree TO forget that i'll feeling
which the war may have fostered should be
allowed to decay.