19 DECEMBER 1863, Page 2

The Southern correspondent of the Times, writing from Rich, mond

on the 14th November, makes some very remarkable adraist sins. "There is," he says, " something sublime in this shadowik earnestness and misty magnificence of Northern faith and self- reliance." On the other hand, the "Confederate unfaith" con- stantly affects the Government, reducing the value of paper-money, and compelling Mr. Davis to think of taking the supplies he needs with a high hand. The blockade is becoming stricter, the import- ant supplies of food from Florida more difficult to obtain, and the writer has evidently some difficulty in forcing himself to believe that the Southerners will, in spite of all, continue to fight on.