| Show i I 1 I 1 THE SOUTH it acl ACI be some time yet before we receive in detail the southern reports of the recent great battles in virginia but we infer from the pain talk in the richmond papers immediately I 1 preceding the k liing that the present is the momentous epoch in the chances orthe of the confederacy Conte deracy the apprehension of the southerners was leas the arias arcas arnas ot of the nol noi nosta th directly aa the tha terrible scarcity of food fool in i virginia and the general bankruptcy that threatened the Cori corl the sentinel in its issue of april ab h quotes bacon at 7 beef 50 to 4 butter 9 to 10 coffee ato 14 to 18 per pound and new orleans molasses from 40 to 60 per gallon flour to per barrel bugar sugar sugar bugar I 1 8 to ia 15 per pounds candles tallow 8 3 sperm 1 20 per pound the editor ot of five fire days later with a pen more racy and penitent than contented alludes to an an article of former ac aar quain tence I 1 we learn fron from those who use flour that owing to some cause it has baa gone up so high i gy that the expense of buying yeast I 1 is entire r e y saved thi ia is laan iaan an item nat not to be overlooked during these hard tims tim s we have iong ions ceased the use of the cereal mentioned and fallen back on corn cornix which whether taken in a liquid or ar solid state dodgers has been found to agree very we I 1 with the gastric region re glori one of our out largest mills is also aleo patronizing the favorite indian vegetable the examiner editor looking forward to the fhe fight now going on and the results to their cause brings his mind to the agreeable conclusion that this is the ube last year of the war his confession is thus incited indi ted no further success in the west not even another vicksburg can save the government of the united states from the impending doom of financial and political collapse and bank for no wound will there reach the heart or destroy the power of protraction protracting protract ian lan inz ing an endless combat but the overt overthrow drow brow of virginia r would give the abolitionist party and government a new lease ot of life and enable it to make immediate efforts in fidance finance and war even greater than those of 1862 hile hiie while bile the blow would touch the vitals vitala of the south add and adt paralyze its ita limbs with the weakness and tremor of dissolution the issue has beens bettt made up for trial asre we wish that the lists bad had been laid else eise elsewhere whee bat bill since it has baa come let all the south look fairly at it if it we hold bold our own in virginia till this sum iner inen is ended tha the norths Nort power of mischief everywhere will be gone rone if we iose lose the h southa capacity capaci tv for resistance will be broken the confederacy has ample power to keep its ita place lace in virginia if it with energy and cons consistency latency and thia is the last year of the war which ever wins 21 1 one verv very noticeable fact for a long time in the Sout southern brn papers is dhe the almost dpn and direct hostility of vice president stephens to tm the confederate cause he seems beems to ba be pleased with nothing or ro lobody body and speaks with a freedom on the m ana ement or rathar I 1 mismanagement mis management or of that which lis 3 equal to the rankest in the th north worth his charges against altre tre despot despol despotism ism that now controls the confederacy are every thing but smooth and disguised some change has hai to come over the spirit of mr stephena stephens dream or he never be canonized a patriot by the confederacy wa his language langu att ia is worse than a den dosen de defeats feitEL and aaroa I 1 as well aa as at bome home must be withering to tb the e prospects of independence secession and though a its vice nice president ia Is to iiii all ali ay pear bearance pe arance atice alice cold and inimical to ua Us success |
