Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-17


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The 10th Sub. district is out altogether,
as we have already announced.
IT is estimated that when the present
call for three hundred thousand men has
been answered the United States will have
under arms fully eight hundred thousand
men. The Baltimore correspondent of the
New York World come days ago estimated
that the number at present was Eve hun
bred and thirty thousand, and he, with his
rebel proclivities, would not be likely to
over state the mark He estimates that
the rebels have all told 24s,O 900. and that
OF these Lee has only rs, 900 at Richmond.
Grants army he puts down at 125, 900
men. AS respects these two generals we
presume that he is not far from correct.
We suppose that of our eight hundred
thousand fully one-third will go out of
service by reason of expired enlistments
this spring. This will leave us say half o
million Of men. The rebels will do we'll If
they keep up the number now credited to
them. More than one.third of their entire
force is placed by the correspondent al
luded to west of the Savannah river, as in
Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas and Alabama.
We presume, however, that Hoods
force will mostly fiud its way to
the Atlantic States and will co.
operate with Hardee and Beauregard in
the attempt to battle Sherman. The dis
patches now coming to US each day from
the South leave little doubt that the rebels
are planning q withdrawal of all their
coast forces. We presume that Mobile has
been virtually evacuated. Itis more than
probable that the same thing is to occur
at Charleston. Where will all these forces
be coucentrated2 With Sherman driving
them nOrthwArd, and SchofeId and Terry
threatening them from the direction Of
Wilmington, they will be placed between
two dangers. Their country is being con-
tracted, and while they may be able to
subsist themselves as regards rough food,
where arc all heir other immense necessi-
ties, such as horses, cattle, powder, lead,
salt, wagons, shoes, clothing, leather,
medical stores, &C., to como from2 II
Wilmington falls, our army there at once
intsrposeS itself between the force opposing
Sherman and Richmond, and North Caro-.
lima will be practically cut off as source
OF supply to Lees army. Scho6sld and
Sherman then have an enemy between
them as a common target, aud we may de-
pend that while Grant holds Lee fast they
will not be idle.
Things look as if the blows that are to
crush the coufederacy might come thick
and fast. We are hurryiug new troops to
the Geld every day. Our ranks will be
falleE perhaps by the 6rst of April than at
any Zine during the war. Such q weight
OF numbers, supplied as they will be with
the beet of arms and all the appliances of
war that money can furnish, mast tell ir-
resisubly against foe so broken up, di-
vidSd and dispirited as the rebels. Giving the
rebels all the credit for vaIor to which they
are richly entitled, they are unequal to the
odds that will be opposed to them. Read
the speech which We publish this morn.
ing as to their proposed slave arming poll
cy, and compare it with Mr.. Beujamin's or
the other side, published yesterday, and
then judge how desperate must be the
situation of those whose leaders claim on
the one hand that recruits must come from
the slaves and on the other that such q
policy will be certain death to the eoufed
sFscy. Every extract from Southern pa
PeFs nowadays goes to show that despe-
ration possesses the rebel mind. A despe-
rate enemy may Of course fght desperate
", but in the very necessity Of tAinga
such srsUEey is short lived. No doubt
Lee and all his cooperating Generals win
die hard. They will not easily give up the
contest. rssy arc prepared to sacrifice
thousands of lives and they will DO it,
Their numbers are sufficient to bstls three
or four times their Aggregate for weeks,
perhaps mouths, aud they may move in
such uuexPsotod directions and under such
cirSunssAaess As to delay the fats of the
rebellion longer than We now expect. Blu,
ell the sSidsaes that the features Of var
ever furnished 10 advance, is on our side
and We feel Asaased from recent articles in
the LOodOn PaPees, that the bes, military
minds OF FasOPe s1PeC, to see the armed
power Ofthe CoufsdesaSy Over,hsOun With.
10 the present. yeas.
Sm0E the seusFai agency OF the Seven,
Thirty loan has been placed il the hands
OF Ns, Jay Cooke, We feel assured of the