The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-13
Of wagons and horses and quantity of camp

equipage.
The cotton market was firm yesterday and prices un-
changed The salos embraced 600 700 bales about hall
OF whchwere taken by government spnners the
maindor chiefly on speculation. We quote mddlng to
straight lots Of mddlng uplands at 241Sc 24Ac The
decline In freghts impaired rmnssy and activity
TO the -four market with more doing Wheat, owing TO
'he heavy decline in freghts, active firm 10.
&C. per bushel higher Tho sales embraced lots for
nnre delivery. Corn, from tho cause was nrmor
and closed To- higher with sales of shipping
Western mixed at coo. exc Pork quiet and lower,
with sales Of mess at $14 so SIS and Of prime 80 rs
$937k Sugars steady, with sales of 200 800
hhds. and $50 boxes at rates given In another place
Coffee was Arm, with sales Of 500 bags Rio part PRIME
at 151c 16Ac l6c. Freights lower, and wheat
IN bulk and IN bags engaged to Liverpool at Cd and
to London at fohd To Havrc wheat taken At 22c.
Glorious News from South Carolina and
from Kentucky, and East Tennessee In
Motion Against this Rebellion.
We spread before our readers this morning,
from the South and the West, an extraordinary
budget Of good tidings.
First, though not directly from our great
naval expedition ITSELF we have from variety
of sources such mass Of concurrent and parti-
cular information of the operations of our
squadron in the waters Of Port Royal and Beau
fort, South Carolina, that we feel assured of the
complete success Of this important undertaking
Secondly from Kentucky we have some brief
details of a brilliant and decisive victory over
tho rebels in that State, involving loss to them
of four hundred in killed and wounded, two thou
sand prisoners, and the dispersion of their re-
mi irll info ~
the Union citizens of East Tennessee, chatting
under the intoierablc despoti SIN of jeff
Davis, have commenced that sort of warfare
against the rebels which the rebels themselves
have SO universally practsed, to wit: the burn.
ing of railroad bridges and the destruction of
other links of military inland transportation.
This business is one of those dreadful features
of war which can only be excused on the plea
of military necessity; but this plea may be as
justly applied to the destruction of an enemy g
bridge as TO the burning of hostile ship or the
bombardment of o hostile battery.
The splendid military entertainment to which
South Carolina has been invited on the waters
and islands of Port Royal and ST. Helena is one
which she little anticipated in her bombardment
of Fort Sumter The South Carolina conspra-
tors had adroitly contrived to thrust the i'm
mediate burdens, pains and penalties of
this war upon the border slave States.
South Carolina anticipated Il splendid South
ern coup detM in the seizure Of Washington;
or, failing in that, she had counted upon the in
tervention of England and France for the sake
of cotton, and that in the meantime all the
resources Of our government would BIO required
for the defence Of Washington, of Maryland,
Western Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri A
plausible estimate, whereby South Carolina,
the chief instigator Of this rank rebellion, was
to escape untouched by the ravages of war,
while the border slave States, through her
management and for her ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, were
to be wasted by fire and sword.
But this plausible and we'll contrived pro-
been saved from revolutionary coup d'etat,
although this escape is due to succession of
lucky accidents. England and France, ad-
monished by our loyal States and loyal jour
mails, and by the sensible Emperor Of Russia, of
the dangers of Intervention in this American
rebellion, stand pridently in the back ground;
and half million OF our loyal men having
risen in arms to maintain the h-ly cause of
our Union, the government at Washington
is no longer constrained to a defensive attitude.
but is putting forth its strength, by land and
sea, to strike at the very heart Of this gigantic
armed Southern conspiracy in South Carolina
and the other cotton States
N. l.
her guilty head the terrible but righteous retri-
button Of war in its most imposing shape. Her
ewn people Of Beaufort district have now the
question Of Union or disunion before them in
form which they cannot misunderstood Let
them make known their allegiance to the Union
and all their rights of person and property, ne
groes and all, will be respected and protected,
and they will be benefited as they never were
before. On the other side, let them, in the face
of our land and naval forces, adhere to the
hopeless cause of this rebellion, and they must
take all the risks incident to enemies in
ticipate crushing popular reaction against
JEFF. Davis and his confedcrates in the cotton
States with the first positive symptoms of a
general collapse of their sinking cause.
Meantime, Beaufort will be made by our
army and navy base of operations for an of
fensive campaign in the cotton States. First
Beaufort and its surroundings will be held and
fortified by the fifteen or twenty thousand men
under General Sherman; next, the transports
Of the expedition will return and carry down.
under General Burnside, another column of ten
thousand men, and next, under General But
Ter, another column of ten thousand; so that in
FIVE or six weeks we can have land force
holding the railway midway between Charles
ton and Savannah, of sixty or sevcnty-hve thou
sand men, and thus, one after the other, with
cooperating fleet, we can take both Charleston
and Savannah.
To hold them, even for short time, against
this plan of operations, the rebel army of the