The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-06
Tho Arrival or tho Great Naval Expedi-
ton In South Carolina.


The cheering intelligence which we received
yesterday from Fortress Monroe, of the safe ar
rival of our great naval expedition of Bulls
Bay, on the coast Of South Carolina, has re.
lieved the public mind of its late anxious mis-
givings touching the safety of the squadron. II
was the impression of Lieutenant Braine. of the
Monticello, very intelligent naval officer, that
the expedition, which he left near Bulls Bay on
Saturday afternoon, would enter it and make q
landing there twenty-five miles this side of
Charleston) on Sunday moaning.
Assuming that this Judgment was effected, the
question recurs. what can be the objects of the
military occupation of Bulls Bay and Bulls
Island, considering that all this region is but
thinly inhabited. and that said bay and island
are hanked on the mainland by the marshes and
jungle of He'll Hole Swamp? We answer that
Bulls Bay, with its eighteen feet Of water at
high tide over the bar, and with its twenty-five
feet anchorage inside, is desirable place to
as a base of offensive military operations.
Upon Bulls Island defensive works may soon
be thrown up, which will enable thousand
men to hold it against ten thousand. But, per-
haps, as at Hatteras Inlet, there may be upon
Bulls Island and Raccoon Island opposite. a
fort or two to be reduced before entering into
the bay. IF So all the better: for then, as al
Hatteras Inlet, we shall be saved the trouble of
building a fort OF two, and may capture some
thing worth having in the way of artillery, mu-
nitions of war and prisoners.
We also entertain the opinion that this great
expedition will not limit its immediate opera
tons to Bulls Bay, but that, leaving SUM-
cient garrison there, and gunboat or two the
squadron will push on 70 The beautiful harbor
of Port Royal, some fifty miles below Charles
ton. and make Judgment there, and another
base for future inland operations Tins Charles
ton will be placed between two fires Mean
time, supposing that these two indicated naval
and land stations viii be occupied by our war
ships and land forces whas next 10 to be done !?
Ten thousand soldiers will be sent down 70 ;oin
The fifteen or twenty thousand which will have
already been divided between the two stations :
and 80 on with another and another shippent
I'd ten thousand, until fsay about six weeks
hencc) We shall have an army Of one hundred
thousand mon upon the sacred soil - of South
Carolina, and perhaps considerable de.ach-
ment in some one Of the convenient inlets Of
the coast Of Georgia.
With our occupation Of Bulls Bay and the
beautiful inland waters Of Port Royal. or either
of those places, the neighboring cotton planters
(sea island) will be invited, we dare saw, to
come in under the flag Of the Union with their
cotton, and ship ii Of IN our transports 10 New
York, at fifty cents per pound for sea leland
cotton, by our hist advices, commanded in Enc
land rs much a. fifty-two cents pound. and
was still tending upward. If such chance for
turning their cotton into gold and silver docs
not produce'a tremendous reaction far the
Union among thc soreiy oppressed sea island
PLANTERS of South Carolina and Georgia. we
shall, indeed. be very much disappointed. At
nh event, rom every considc.ajon of sound
policy md CSpeliency, ths experiment of turn