The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-16


ihc trigate sabne IL al the outer bar waiting for the
steamer Mcclellan, TO supply her with water, She will
eaeh return to the blockade OF Georgetown s. G. The
ssqiehaina left here day before yesterday assist
We blockade Of tho Savannah river, conjunction with
The gsBb0at he Soto.
captain Wyman, of the gunbott pawnec has returned
nome on SICK leave Lieutenant percva bray Of the
gnnboat Pseahontas, will succeed him, and Lieutenant
George r. Baleh, late LIEUTENANT the Sabine will sue
coed him The steamship Mcclellan viii leaye here for
New York IN a few days.
A FRENCHMAN'S VIEWS OF THE PORT
ROYAL EXPEDITION.
COMMENTS ON THE BATTLE or FORT ROYAL. AND THE
AoLupioEs OF THE FLEET ESTIMATE OF COMMO-
BoRE BrPoNr-FRENCn soUvENRs-Q qualities
DISPLAYED BY THE INSTRUMENTATION WITH
NEGRO, Ere.
a French traveller formerly attached 70 the Crimcan
army happening TO be of tho vessels which cap
tufed Port Royal writes to Of friends in this city
letter, from which VIC translate the following extracts
Tho affair which have just witnessed does great cred
10 the American navy. have been particularly struck
with tho spirit OF ~ stem and ens,mI which has nrcsiei
over the operations Of the aeet from beginning to end
The positions taken by Commodore Dupont before and
dnrihs the battle, shows him t. be, only competent
Queer nut nan oil inspHaoh perfectly ained with
the strength " bis resources and trusting in them
FOR the accomplishment Of the most daring deeds His
brcaking the circular line which he first adopted as ms
plan Of battle, and his rushing TO the battctics within
Few hundred 0s Of the enemy as well as the dstrbu
ton OF tho gunboais along tho inlet. the fire of which
taking the rebels ~ $halie, spread death and terror
among them, must he considered strokes His
mannuvrc reminded me of n similar movement perform
ell by tho French 1eet at the siege Of knbrn Crimea
II was, you remember tho proximate neghborhood of
our locating batteries that made fortress
after ve hours Of nbardnent precisely The Same time
which the Americans took render Themselves masters
Of Fort Walker and Fort Reauregard. ], Knburn was
stronger than the sand works erected by the Souhencrs
We must not forget that We possessed advantages which
the tnion fleet had not Our batteries were iron clad
and we had regiment Of sharrshooers shsre whose
re decimatcd the Russian gunners As the Northerners
had lost the greatest part their material of dsem
oarkmen. IN u" gale, they could derive assistance
from heir land tro"ps and is exclusively the navy
that This victory is due. Though acosmopo an in opit
ion caunot forbid certain feeling OF nat pride ut
the idea that the man who planned and executed this
operation-lominodofe lupontis Of French descent:
his anc stos believe to this country little after
the settlement OF Maryland BY Lord Baltimore.
by singular caprice Of fortune is man Of French
extraction who has been entrusted with the command
ofan expedition directed against place formerly settled
aud baptized BY lrcnchmen. Port Royal, as you know,
was settled for the tEst time in 1862 three hundred
years ago. by Protestant colony under the leadership
| Of Ribault, who, finding certain resemblance be-
tween me physical appearance sl that spot and
vent near Paris Of the name q Port Royal ished in
the year 1908 gave that name famous the seal
IT tho French schsm which agi,ae France in the Seven
,eentii century The state oi south Carolina itself re-
ceved IL naiue from fort built BY the same man in
honor &C cfiarl *, ca'lcd ARK Carolina from which
this tefritnrytormerty portion OF Florda-took the
maize Of Carolina. was, you see surrounded by
French Souvenirs Indeed, there a moment when
believed myself transported three hundred wears back
ward among the companions Of Rihaut fighting for the
same casel going TO say for the same principles
In truth was not The religious hcresy of the Sixteenth
cen,sry reproducing s.h before my eyes IL not under
the same name at least under tho moral aud physi
cal aspec, aai attended with the same dreadful conse-
aereesf f"i VIII sat, perhaps that history does not
repeat ITSELF but not tho laws upon which history
rests M same in I'll ages and among all peopc9 And is
not the violation of these laws attended with similar
resulte2
IN my estimation The Northcrners have displayed in
this brilliant aia'r sturdy courage, allied quick
PERCEPTION u maritime evoluioDs and to a great skill
| in tho management Of artillery. Though too far ofr
| % judo" II he soE'he,ners. ! am inclined to think
] iron the way in which they directed their fire
and exposed themselves to that OF the feet that they
we're deaceni in The pointing Of their guns, and quite
their intrcncnants been properly covered and their
trenches differently constructed, Their guners would not
have suffered much and might have resisted longer
However tho fire from the iiec accurate and so
rapid that IL would have been difficult, not to say i'm
pos ble even Ind Their for0caons been stronger
] 10 withstand il aud 70 escape destruction
And now my friend, Jet say word of that
burning question q slavery. which. happily for the fame
] French planters themselves disposed of thirteen
| years ago. say Happily for tho French planters, for
was six mouths in one OF the emanicipated colo
! MES, and could ascertain with my .wn eyes that
she produces now three times much sugar as before
rhe emancipation Excuse me il refer to that event
but cannot iorbear thinking that il The rich soil which
tread cultivated by free hands it would in Il few
years like The French colonies, yield three times as
/ much as does now The negroes who flock from an
Parts q Tho country meet their iberators and who
are surrounding the at Of General She man. have
e intellectual an appearance as any French negro of my
acquaintance. have just talked to French creole from
Louisiana WHO goes body servant to New Orleans
ever, year With his master. He had basket Of orangs
/
ns on the other which he wanted me buy. Seeing
that was talking French to OF the officers he under.
took me ID that language, that Is 70 in creole kind
OF brosue with Which my numerous travels have made
me faniiiaf on cannot imagine how interested |
with his conversation There such feeling of graft.
ttde II his wuoe countenancc, such contchment beam.
I ing into his eyes, that Notwithstanding tic wari-
| ress Of his nature and the simplicity Of his Ian.
| guaee | could not help being moved 10 tears
| lie salt to inc ttlat every negro in the South
I ttrcd every lay his eyes towards the horizon
u whether he you'd not discover the Star Spanged
Tanner looming IN the distance, aud the Yankees coming
4 u denver theu Every negro, male female is
seous 81 the srufsc now gong on between the North
and tie South, and relies upon its results for the
coyery o. his freedom. The expedition OF Port Roy
| fer instance known by them we'll rs BY JEFF.
Davis himself and though they could neither read or
write, they knew b. the tho rebels had be-
tween themselves perhaps through other channels IN
known TO me, the place ading Of the expedition, and
more particularly the name Of the officer who COM
manded IL. II seemed however, that they have
very uxact idea tf time, for when asked the creole
negro how iqhg lie bad been waiting for Commodore
Dupont arrival IL told that he thought he would
hove come SIX nHiiths ago, IN Judy last Though per.
iccty ignorant q The material Of action Of the
blacks in the SoHth, think tiat there is Ia them hid.
den force calculated to display itself sooner or later
which, il The American government chose to use now,
womb undoubtedly transform itself into mighty in
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