The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-21

CQNfIsCATI0N OF TIE Rebels CorToN IN
South CARoLINA.-We learn by intelligence
from Port Royal that fully 1000 bales
OF sea island cotton are within reach
of our troops in the vicinity of Port
Royal, some of it picked, some both
picked and ginned, and some still standing in
the field. The rebels have destroyed portion
Of it already, and they will probably destroy
the greater part of the remainder if active
measures are not speedily taken to prevent it,
The property is lying around, and the officers in
command, being without orders, know not what
to do with it. The government, in pursuance
of the confscation act of last session,
ought to issue orders at once to seize
all that portion of it known to belong
to men in arms against the United States, or
otherwise engaged in promoting the rebellion
and the idle negroes who are thronging into the
camps ought to be set at work upon it to pick
and gin it and pack it into bales. 1t ought to be
then sent North for sale, for the benefit of the
federal treasury, and as supply for our manu-
facturers. The Atlantic brought one bale as a
curiosity or specimen; but with little exertion
thousand bales might in short time be
shipped to New York. and still greater quanti-
ties of it as the army advances into the interior
Of the State The other expeditions will proba-
bly, be attended with the same results, and cot
ton will be met with wherever the Union army
plants its flag. 1t must not be permitted to be
wantonly destroyed, but seized wherever it be-
longs to persons carrying on hostilities against
the government and also purchased from such
loyal men or non-combatants as may be willing
to sell it under the protection Of our army and
navy. The game of the rebel chieftains is to
commit the cotton to the flames rather than let
it fall into the hands of the Yankees. The
policy of the government is to defeat their de-
structive designs.
The GRAND MILITARY REVIEW NEAR WASHING
ToN.-Our telegraphic dispatches give full
and interesting account of the grand military
turnout at Bailey's Crossroads yesterday So
magnificent spectacle has not before been wit
messed on this continent. Until General Nc
Clellan was placed in command, we never, in
fact, had military reviews of any kind. Our
army has hitherto been so much scattered that
enough troops could not be got together to
make anything like respectable display: be-
sides, even if it could have been concentrated,
its aggregate would not have amounted to more
than that of couple of brigades.
When General Mcclellan took command of
the army Of the Potomac, one Of his first steps
was to have the troops reviewed by
brigades. He then instituted division and
cavalry reviews, and now, that the
men have become practiced in these
movements of detail, he has commenced re-
viewing them in large Masses SO as to accus-
tom them to evolutions such as they will have
to 60 through in the field. The effect of this
will be to render all the corps and divisions of
the grand army as easily manageable by their
commander in action as are companies by their
officers. 1t was by similar training that Frede-
rick the Great and Napoleon brought their ar
mics to such o high state Of efficiency, and that
enabled them to win such long series of bril-
liant victories. 1t was the want of it that made
our army at Bull run an undisciplned mob, and
that led to the panic which caused its defeat
There were yesterday massed under the eye Of
the young COMMANDMENTS Chief some seventy
thousand men-nfantry, cavalry and artillery
as large number as will probably be ever
brought into action at any one time in the pre-
sent war. This is but preliminary to that
grand practical review and tournament in
which all will be actors and none spectators,
and which will probably decide in day the
fortunes of the struggle.
THE SorTHERN PApERS ON THE ARREcT or