The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-23

armies Of the North and OF the South, what .
stupend0Ss array Of force won Id be- presented
to the word! Over one million of brave ant
we'll disciplined soldiers would .be ready t.
sweep away every vctige Of foreigAl rule Ee
tween the NortA Pole and the Isthmus of Pana
ma, aud the whole of North Ameyica be united
None vast and insincble empire.
C~a< Army I'm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Wise
and HIS Oyster FssssGisins.
oysters Reader, it down with It's to dish
OF Virginia oysters. Our army Of MaryLand is
IN occ'pation of Accvmac and Northampton
counties Of the Old Dominion, lying between
Chesapeake Bay and its numerous creeks on
the west, and on the nlcts.and cstuaries Of the
Atlantic Ocean on the east, all swarminy with
fish, fowl, crabs and oysters.
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are indis-
pensable to New York, in view of this single
item Of oysters. With the loyalty Of Maryland,
this glorious bay, on both sides for hundred
miles and more, with all its afluents, and its
delicious shad, canvass back ducks and oss-
ters, has been secured to the glorious cause Of
the Union. With the good footing. thus esta-
blished in the oyster fundum Of the Chesapeake,
New York could fee, easy on the score of oys-
tiers. But from the mouth of tho Potomac, for
sixty or seventy miles down to the sea this glo-
rious bay aforesaid, on both sides, was occu-
pied by the rebels, excepting that snug little
corner of Old Point Comfort and Fortress Mon
roe. Now, with old Accomac and Northampton
counties in our possession, the entire eastern
side Of the bay is ours down to the ocean, and
all the estuarics of the ocean on the other side
of the peninsula, with all their water fowl, fish
and oysters.
All hail, Old Accomac a name which has be-
come familiar from its connections with Henry
A. Wise. In Accomac is the home of tho re-
doubtable Ex-Governor, and to his long resi-
dence there we are indebted for his learned
messages and speeches on crabs, hard shells,
soft shells and shedders, and on sea fish, water
fowl and oysters. Our readers will remem-
Der that some two years ago he submitted
to his State Legislature scheme whereby tho
oyster fundnm of Virginia would relieve the PEG.
pie of the Commonwealth Of all their State taxes,
including the interest of the State debt. His
scheme was tax upon oysters exported to
other States-a levy upon all "outside bar
barians" and their schooners, sloops, and punr
gies, gathering oysters in the sacred waters of
the Old Dominion. His statistics of the Vir-
ginia oyster crop exported would furnish
annually pyramid of oyster shells as high as
Cheops. But his scheme of an export duty fell
like wet Blanket upon the oyster dealers and
oyster eaters of Gotham. Happily the Virginia.
Legislature. gave the cold shoulder to this crue
scheme. of taxing the Yankees for their Virginia
oysters, and SO they escaped an oyster extor-
ton Of o million and half or two millions of
dollars.
Secession has temporarily robbed us of on
immense area of the oyster mines or fundum Of
Virginia, embraced in the tributaries and creeks
Of the Chesapeake, on its western side, from
the mouth of the Potomac down todd Point
Comfort-a point 80 named from its de-
licious hogfsh,. sheepshead, sea trout, soft
shell crabs and comforting oysters. Still
we have the lions share of the good things Of
the Chesapeake; including, with the new sup
plies of Accomac and Northampton, an abun-
dance Of oysters, to the end of the war. Gen.
Dix invites as to the waters of Pocomoke. Chin
colleague, Puncoteague, Chestenessey, Broad
water, Waswadox and Ocohamock, of the Vir-
ginia peninsula. Let us rejoice that the Union
for tho purposes Of this war, has not only the
heaviest artillery, but the heaviest oysters, and
three-fourths of the fundum of the Chesapeake,
and old Point Comfort, too.
We believe that Southern Maryland and
Southeastern Virginia, tributary to Chesa-
peake Bay and embraced in its oyster fundum,
will experience great work Of regeneration at
the end of this war. With the kindly soil, the
genial climate, the good and convenient mar
kets, the navigable waters, and the cheap lands
of this region made manifest vast Northern
emigration will pour into it and occupy it. And
the oysters Where the waters swarm with the
finest fish and water fowl, and where the bot
toms Of creek and river are literally encrusted
with oysters, can such a country be any longer
permitted to run to seed? Our soldiers have
opened the way; they will return to us at the
close Of the war, only to report their dis
coveries, and thousands Of followers will go
back with them as permanent army of occu-
patton.
Then, and not till then, will the great oyster
fundum of Chesapeake Bay be fully worked and
cultivated-then fried, roasted and stewcd, and
raw upon the halfshell, and in smoking pies,
we shall all luxuriate upon cheap oysters Then,
we shall remember, with something Of forgive
ness for his treason, the learned messages and
speeches of Gov. Wise on crabs and oysters;
and from his late residence at "Only, Near
Onancock," renovated by some Long Islander
or Jerseyman, Gov. Wise will be proclaimed as
the Christopher Columbus of the Chesapeake
oyster fundum, and he will have monument
of oyster shells reared there to his memory.
Ben, bring us in a dish On the halfshell of the
best Pocomoke or Nanticoke oysters.
ENGLISH MISUNDERSTANDING DEyEL oPE-
MENrs.-We publish this morning an important
letter from Mr.. George Francis Train, dated
from London, giving some valuable information
regarding the extent to which laid and COM
fort" is being afforded to the rebels in England