New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-05
EhSiish Comments on the Baft,e or Feea~
burg, or BnlI's Bluff %at

From the London Times November Of /. .
7, IL Is now plain that this must be gigantic war.
~ is put iouf Or hye months since we were tatd
that single encounter would decide rnatters
dhose VINO professed to know the characters Of the
Sontherner and his opponent assured us that the
az. h.er WAS was mere noisy swaggerer, who might
snt pretty Weii tor single day, but would be soon
oVeftnrown by the stern moral man Of The Norfh
.hoM . complete has been the mistake of those who
s eook this view of the combatants, NAV be indeed
rom m the present state of the Campaign. g.
but the event from which we can gain tbe baet
lussns INTO the course of the campaign issthe se
ssle ueeat winch the NOrtherners suffered at Lees
Iowsd anu hu Wa,sh 1 later rumors be true, was fol-
two afterward. The wellwritten narrat; &c aS @ ~
gave OF 1t was taken from the New York T,ribpna
Whch can not be suspected of aay favor toguard
NEE me enemy ana It may therefore be concluded that
:nese Iacts are sufficiently accurate In this bloody
encounter, one must readily admit that no d;sarac
a1tached 70 the Northern troops who seem Ia have
doDe all that can be expected of men Rnttbe laz
~ son shoulo not be lost on those who have been all
ther ilyes boasting of the repulses which thew have
infflcted on British columns. The battle was The
usual American battle, such as has been fougbt In
three great wars already, and is now likely Ia de-
termne the event of fourth
In fact, the account we published vestardav
might, with changed names and numbers anniy
almost accurately to the battle on the Mononra-
hela; In which Braddock was defeated more than a
, nunureu years ago, and which first brought the
veteran, who with his head full of the art of war
marched through the wilderness as FIT were Fian,
ders, and had half his force DESTROYED by sharn
shooters from behind trees was but the forerunner
OF bargoyne and Packenharn, and now he has
successor in Federal commander. One cannot
read without pity the fate of these unfortunate
men. 4he end was perfect rout. The drowning
OF the men IN attempting to recross the river was
dreadful incident. Out of 1900 men, the lcss,
according to the official report, was $780, This hat
tle IS important as being, perhaps, the type of
tnose 70 come What can The Federals hone for
IN country like Virginia but success ion of Lees
oasgs, fought against enemies strongly posted, and
ehains IN defeats or dearly purchased victories
almost as fatal as defeats? The terror inspired bv
enough IN reality, are immensely exaggerated by
southern report, will make virginians sell every
M lnlle OF their country dearly, and. leave nothing
1 put q desert as they retreat. The blood of the
south has been thoroughly reused against the in.
Vaders," and the way in which the Confederate
soldiers :. crowded the high bank and poured an
lneessant ire into the scattered ugtves, !, who
IN which the war will be conducted. Well NAV
our Government and people be content that tfey
have, as far as is in their power sought to put .
stop to contest which is lighting up the fercest
passions OF people singularly irritable and vim