Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-21
Metes and Bounds.

very soon De lnulSpenSaoie. Al lne pfeS- ent moment the facts on which 10 base that map are incomplete, but sufficient is known to enable us, with almost positive certainty to sketch the outline.
 Assuming, as matter of course, that Tennessee and Arkansas, which have just seeded from the old Union, and North Carolina, which will undoubtedly secede immediately after the assembling ot her convention on the 2Oth inst, will be at once admitted into the thriving family of Confederate States, the metes and bounds of the Southern Confederacy, on the hap pening of those quickly coming events, will be as follows:
 Our coast line on the Atlantic Seaboard will extend from the capes of Virginia to Cape Sable; and, in continuation, on the Gulf of Mexico from Cape Sable to the mouth of the Rio Grande. This exten- sive coast line is spread over more than eleven degrees of latitude and twenty-one degrees of longitude. It embraces the well known and important ports of Rich- mond and Norfolk. Va, Elizabeth City, Washington. Beaufort. Wilmington and Smilhville, N. C.; Georgetown, Charleston and Beaufort, s. C.; Savannah, Daren, Brunswick and St. <Mary's, Ga; Jackson vllle, St. Augustine, New Smyrna, Key West. Charlotte Harbor, Tampa, Cedar Keys, St. Marks, Apalachcola St. Joseph and Pensacola, Fla; Mobile, Ala; Hands boro' (Ship Island) and Shieldsboro' !, Mss Pontchartrain, New Orleans and Franklin, La; and Sabine, Galveston, Matagorda, Indanola, Lavaca, Corpus Christi, Brazos Santiago and Brownsville, Texas; with numerous smaller and less important ports
 This coast line includes and gives us command of the waters of Chesapeake Bay. Hampton Roads, the North Carolina sounds, Cape Fear, Great Pedee, Santee, Ashley, Cooper, Edisto, Savannah. Alta naha, St. Johns, Suwanee, Chattahoo- che, Alabama, Atchalalaya, Sabine, Bra EOS, Colorado, Nueces, Rio Grande. and many smaller rivers with their innumera- ble affluenls. More important for purpo-
 
 the waters of the mighty Missssippr.
 From the grand lndentatIon made by that great inland sea, Chesapeake Bay, 10 the mouth of the Rio Grande, the coast hne abouuds in noble bays and sounds and fine harbors. Some of the latter are, for naval as well as commercial purposes, vastly important, We need only mention Hampton Roads, Virginia, where the com bined navies of the world could ride safely at anchor sheltered from the rude storms which so often vex old ocean; Beaufort Harbor. South Carolina, and Brunswick Harbor. Georgia, whose great Cd abilities for naval purposes the Confederate States will doubtless in good time take the prop CT measures to develop; Pensacola Har- bor, the importance of which IS known throughout the world and Key West and Torugas IIarbors, the twin formidable na- val outposls on the Gulf that guard the gates of the Mississippi.
 True, at present. the Confederate States have not Yet obtained undisputed possess sion of Pensacola harbor, and they have vet to wrest from the Northern Govern ment the command of Key West and Tor tugas, but the accomplishment of these things IS only question of time. While il IS absolutely necessary that the Con- federate States should possess the great naval station at Pensacola, 1t is equally necessary that they should possess Key West and Torlugas for the freedom of our commerce, and for purposes of defense.
 We have occupied so much space in thus sketching the metes and bounds of our coast line and it's most prominent fea- lures, that we must stop here. Tomorrow we will resume the subject.-[ N. o. Pic- ayuue. M