New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-04
CAPTURE OF FoRr uArrERAs.

According to the felegraphio report, the yam.
KEGS are In a wonderful state Of exultation over
their great achievement in capturing Fort Hat
| teras, on the coast of North Carolina. Their
papers are allied with glowing accounts of it, and
the air is rent with the hurrahs of the nopulaee.
Pieayune Butler, SO lately under cloud, is now
the hero of the day, and we are informed that a
| new department is ito be created for him." He
has issued bulletin, wherein, with fine poetical
inspiration he declares that the Cape Hatteras
light will again send forth its cheering ray to the
stornl-beaten mariner.N
We are not surprised at the glee with which this
Intelligence has been received throughout the
North. 1t has been so long since anything has
happened to cheer up the dropping spirits Of the
Baboon dynasty, we almost felt sorry for them. 1t
was streak Of good luck that they OPPORTUNITY
had, none the less enjoyable because entirely un-
expected. @aa 9s@ w
! We suppose they will proclaim 1t as one of the
most wonderful deeds of daring that have ever
been performed. Four of the largest war vessels
OF the Federal Navy, backed up by a fiotilla Of
ganboass, with four thousand men, and full sup
plies Of heavy guns, small arms and ammunition
have actually captured three hundred Confeder-
ates in arude fertilization recently built and with
only twenty rounds of ammunition. Wonderful
achievement, indeed! 5sasa. "a 4
The glory of the one hundred braves in Balti-
more who, taking their lives in their hands, sur
rounded the house of Secessionist in that city,
when he was alone and asleep ia his bed, and won
a splendid victory over him, bearing him off in
triumph as prisoner, has been already heralded
but that exploit must pale its Intellectual fires be-
fore this last. event. where three hundred Confed-
Iarafa an w anf1.s fsaf frnn
fercements and supplies of ammunition, were gal
lantly encountered and defeated BY naval expe-
dition hardly less strong than that which stormed
and captured The city of Vera Cruz.
1t is characteristic of all semicivized nations,
Ike the Chinese and the Yankees, to make prodi-
gfous boasts and indulge in insane exhibitions of
Joy over petty successes and trifiing advantages
The Chinese celebrate victory, no matter if the
odds are a hundred to one, by the beating Of
gongs, the Changing Of Shields and all kinds of hor
fribe and diseordant sounds. The savages of the
forest tie their victim to stake, and dance around
him with demonae yells and shrieks. The Yankees
WHOSE standard ofeisilization is in many respects,
not so high, celebrate the capture of defenceless
garrison with demonstrations OF joy as extrava-
CANT as if they were Maiays running muck
against a flying and terrified foe. @|
We may learn from this what the Yankee mode,
OF fighting will be inthe future. Bitter and bloody
experience has shown them that they cannot safely
encounter. as on land with equal numbers and on a
fair field They viii sneak about with their vessels,
finding out the weak places upon our coast and
gailantly charge on us wherever they find that
they haze men and guns in the proportion of ten
to our enc. ss .fTm - nj .5f
After all, the capture OF Fort Hatteras practi-
cally amounts to little or nothing 1t is situated,
not upon the mainland of North Carolina but on
The long narrow strip of land which separates PAM
leo sound from the sea. There is an interval of
several miles between the Fort and the coast. The
situation was only valuable to us in that it COM
manded one Of the dozen inets whereby our .pri
Fateers can send in their prizes. As for its being
a base of operations for offensive warfare against
the people of the State, the idea is wholly mprac-
ticable. IF Pieayune Butler who has held Fortress
Monroe for four months, has been afraid to ad.
vance into the interior of Virginia. still less can he
advance into North Carolina from Fort Hstteras
with sheet Of water Of dangerous navigation in.
teryening, and the shore protected by the natural
defences of morass and swamp. Nor can he keep
his vessels safely in that tempestuous locality not
Sithstandng his fne poeticai conceit about the
cheering ray Of the Hatteras light to the storm
beaten Mariner"
Still, unimportant as is the advantage that has
been gained, we have no doubt that the noise the
Yankees will make" over it will be terrific. They
will extract consolation enough from it to salye
over all the bleeding wounds and sores of their de-
feats at Manassas and Bethel and Oak Hill. Their
insoenee will be greater than ever, their threats
more terrible But Fort Hatteras can be rescued
from them, and Fortress Monroe, and every other
place In the South where they have a foothold-not
by direct assault but by expelling the whole flock
Of unclean birds in Washington City from the seat
of their power We have no navy to defend our
coast and what has been done at Hatteras may be
repeated at other points. We must put stop to
this by striking at the yitals Of the enemy, and
Washington City is the place which holds them /