New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-10-26
An Outcry Against the Federal Admins
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mat clafnOfOu9 Abolition SneeL, the Clhciltilau
Commercial, beabors the Washington Government
in fine. style for its failure to wipe out the rebels
and its inattention to the threatening aspect of
affairs in the West. It does one good to read the
article, and probably it did the writer good to re-
lieEe himself Of piece Of his mind: A .,-, H.. d
5LSFATUATIoN AT WAsHINGToN.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Commercial tele-
graphs the following remarkable statement: &c The
recent battles in Western Virginia are supposed
to render that entire section secure to the Union
cause.H r -...
Now, il there is one thing more disheartening
than another in the conduct Of this war; it is the
seeming ignorance or Indifference at Washington
to the periis and difficulties that beset the armies
operating in distant fields. They are keenly alive
to the importance of self preservation. If Gen.
Beanregard 50 much as makes demo nstration in
dicating an attack the gigantic force that in
vests and protects the sacred city the country is
electrified for its safety. The official dry bones
quake with trepidation, and horse, foot and dra-
goons arc hurried forward the wings of steam
to keep the capital from falling into the hands of
jefferson Davis. 1t is very doubtful if an army as
multitudinous as XerXes led into Greece and forti-
tcatlons as impregnable as Gibraltar, would save
the country from periodic sensations for the safety
OF Washington, which have become chronic by
their very frequency.
1t happens now that blissful feeling of security
peryades the West End. An army of contractors
sWarins from Wizards to the War Office breathing
a rosy atmosphere Of satisfaction that they are in
no danger Of being hanged-by the rebels--as
as a beggar may be supposed to appropriate
pair of .cast-of shoes, and at no expense beyond
a few lives which blunder of brigadiers saved
the enemy the trouble of taking; and it is salts
tactOry Observation-Disclosures be praised that
oyster sloops can still navigate the Potomac with
no mortal risk of the bursting of the shells.
.. We wish with all our heart that Gen. Rosencrantz
and his ragged and ill-supplied army, shvering in
the keen air, and drenched with wintry rains
among the inhospitable mountains of Western
Virginia, could share the sweet assurance that
makes glad the hearts of the perfunetory agents
and executors Of the Union at Washington. Safe,
indeed And Lee and Floyd, reinforced by six
regiments from Richmond, moving down upon the
little army that holds outposts in Southwestern
Virginia, with force of not less than thirty thous-
and men. Secure to the Union, forsooth! With
not more than twenty-five thousand men to guard
line of at least one hundred and fifty miles sur
rounded by spies, marauders, bushfghters hav
ing to protect extended lines of communication,
and aborng under obstacles in procuring supplies,
such as it never entered the heart of an Office
holder to conceive. /. r-. .t-r r.
The Administration should, once for all, under
stand that SO long as the enemy is permitted to
extend its lines from Martinsburg to Manassas,
and westward to Lewsburg, with nothing to do
but eat their ratons and reinforce Lee and Floyd
at pleasure, Western Virginia is not, and cannot
be safe and the war will be procrastinated there
till doomsday, or till the gallant men under Rosen-
crantz and Reynolds are exhausted and overpow-
cred.
Even now, while we get this cool assurance from
Washington, comes intelligence, which we are in
cllned to credit, that RosencrantZ and Cox have
been compelled TO fall back than thirty miles
before an overwhelming force, to save themselves
from destruction. While the patricians and plebs
of the capitol are being treated to the grand re-
views of infantry and artillery, that " for splendor
and magnitude were never excelled on the conti-
| nent,' and the Jenkins of this military pomp is
| fairly bursting with fat adjectives that shall be
adequate to its description, the battle fields of
nh SrH Frps anS 10
| Ferry, remains disputed ground, and are held by
earnest, brave and suffering men in the face of
desperate chances
FROM PESsAcoLA.-The Mobile Advertiser pub
fishes the following letter from its Pensacola cor
| respondent:
| PENSACOLA, Monday night, October 21.-Ths
morning Billy's big guns announced that Mr.. Will
son and his braves were to be found at their old
] quarters Their new cloth houses look quite neat
and nriti71g Whether our folks have any need of
them, now that they are being housed after town
| fashion, am not able to say.
| The name of the Confederate gunboat " Ewing''
| has been changed to the Bradford and the steamer
''Neate'' will hereafter be known as the Nelms,
in honor of the brave Capt. Bradford, of Florida,
and Lieut.. Nems, of Georgia, who fell in the battle
| of Santa Rosa. more appropriate device in per-
petuatng the name of the fallen braves could not
| have been adopted.
| The military spirit of Pensacola is aroused to the
fullest extent In every direction, of afternoon,
the drum beat is heard calling the home guards to
the plaza or summoning the soldier to his quarters:
Capt. Farrand, of the Confederate Navy, arrived
| to-day from Richmond, on business connected with
| the navy department.
SIGNIFICANT TALK,-An able article in the Lon
don Review upon American affairs, closes with the
| following significant remarks:
| The South can act on the defensive without a
| ruinous money cost; the North cannot act on the
| offensive without ncurring liabilities that will
break the back of the Republic. A thousand men
defending their own soil are equal to ten thousand
men who carry five and sword to invade them
All experience proves it and when the country tc
be invaded is as large as five or six great European
monarchies, the invader should remember the fate
| of Napoleon in Russia, and pause ere he commit
| his fortunes to so desperate an enterprise, ant
much as we abhor negro slavery in the South, We
| must confess that we should much prefer to see i
left where it is for time and circumstance to rem
edy or overthrow, to seeing the North reduced tt
the humiliatng position of military autocracy il
| which the liberties of white men would be annihi
lated without the slightest increase Of the liberties
| of the blacks.
The North may be assured of one thing, which
is, that if the war last much longer, and the Soutl
continue to win all the battles, the Kingdoms ant
States of Europe-and Great Britain among tn.
number-will be compelled to recognize the South
ern Confederation as de facto Government. Ii
our day, Governments cannot listen to debates
upon the de jure when the de facto is before them
for if they did they would be involved in a success
sion of wars. The King of Italy is recognized BY
England and France because his Kingdom is {
fact; and the Southern Confederation bids fair tl
be acknowledged on the same principle.
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THE GREENsBURG EXPEDITIoN.-The Louisville
Courier publishes what is probably the correc
account of the operations of and the result of tn
expedition sent out from Bowling Green last week
Thus: ..sH
1t seems that Gen. Hardee started from Bowlin
Green on the 22d, with 1900 men, destined 70
Greensburg to break up Federal encampmen
at the latter place. He was delayed in his marc
by sudden rise in Little Barren river, which pre-
vented his force from crossing, thus giving the
my time to effect their escape, which they did il
, real Bull Run style. Some two hundred and ift
Of the cavalry succeeded in eifectng a crossing
and proceeded to Greensburg, but the Linconites
some fourteen hundred in number, having bee
advised of the movements, precipitately fe
towards Lebanon The cavalry then occupie
, Greensburg, where they Remained on Monda
evening. But for the nopportune rise in Lttl
Barren, the surprise of the enemy would hav
been complete, and their entire force would hay
been captured. Gen. H, with the remainder o
the command, was at Munfordville.
FROM MISSOURI AND KeNTUCKY,--A gentema
who passed through the city yesterday trow Bowl
ing Green, reports that deserter who had reache
, that town from the Federo1 lines had brought til