The Shasta courier., 1861-10-26
The Progress of the Rebellion.

The news we receive by Pony and tele
graph is certainly very unsatisfactory in its
character. Perhaps we learn as much as it
Is right to communicate. Enough, however,
is thrown afoat to show that all the efforts
our noble and peerless Government has made
to sustain its integrity are abundautly sue
cessful. We have not yet lost square fight
OF the number of different engagements or
skirmishesy heretofore had between the Uni
ted States troops and the Southern Abolition
lists, the Government has been successful, in
the ratio of two to one, and when the num-
bers are equal, or not more than three to
two, or two to one, in favor of the beaure-
garders, we are uniformly successful. The
only real fighting that has been done as yet,
was by our troops under Mcclellan, in Wes-
tern Virginia, where he ''wiped them out like
a shotgun by Anderson at Sumter and by
Col. Mulligan at Lexington, Missouri The
capture of Forts Hatteras and Crook was a
decentish piece of work, it is true, and gives
us in many ways, great advantages, but we
had the numerical force and it could not well
be otherwise. Are we saying that the Gov
ernment troops are Drawer men and better
fighters than that crew fighting under j.
Davis, Esq2, By no means. We are only to
be understood as implying that the Govern
ment forces are more to be relied on, that
there is an immense proportion of those fel-
lon, oraA Hox CO.,
bonds for services rendered in the field, who
are heartily sick and tired of contemplate
raid gotten up by few demagogues for their
own benefit, in the tolls and dangers of
which they can participate, but from the
benefits (!) of which they are carefully exclu-
ded. Besides, our troops are well fed and
clothed, while Murrill's-we beg pardon,
we mean-Davis's gang are neither one or
the other. Our toops are paid every month
in,gold. Theirs are paid once in while,
occasionally land every now and then, in
Confederate. bonds. 1t is besides, not the
nature of enlightened humanity to fight very
hard when it knows that it is in the wrong
In minor details, in olatediastanees, the
wicked and neryerse may win,shadowy and
temporary successes, but IN striking the
great balance we will find that the right
always prospers, while the wrong is always
crushed. This we call Providence. May it
Lot be owing, however, to the fact that it
is rule of human nature to never intelli-
gently and earnestly do, that which it
knows to be fagrantly bad
Around the coasts from Cha rleston to the
Rio Grande, there is not a port which our
vessels cannot enter with ease and safety at
any moment. Our feet whitens the waters
of the Mexican Gulf, and
Like long swept wave about to break
And on the curl hangs pausing,
is ready to swoop down and capture, not one,
but all of the ports, cities, forts and shipping
of the Cotton States in that section. This
will be.the signal for breaking up'ths q on
ward to Washington army, now skulking
in Virginia, and 1t acH neser again be re-or
gaaazed. Temporary checks and disasters
may postpone the accomplishment of these
things, but it will be done when, it is i'm
possible to- say with exactness, beyond this,
that President Lincoln will have the honor
of suppressing the insurrection that James
Buchanan fostered and created.