The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-14

Carolinn-Now Push On tho War.
| The complete success OF our great naval ey.
| petition in the waters of Port Royal and Beau.
fort, South Carolina, marks, according to on,
anticipations, the beginning Of new campaign
against this colossal, reckless aud desperate
| Southern rebellion.
| The capture Of forts Bcanregard and Walker,
| at the entrance of Broad river; the precipitate
and undigniied flight of the South Carolina
cAvalry; their abandonment Of their arms,
equipments, ammunition, stores and property
Of all descriptions; their exodus from Beau
fort, leaving only one white man, and he
Jolly" in occupation of the town, and the con-
sternation created among the inhabitants OF the
surro unding country, as indicated by the plan
tations deserted, except by the negroes, will
convey some idea of the tremendous moral Of
feet in the South which has already followed
this Lincoln invasion" and occupation of the
sacred sofl" of the Palmetto aristocracy. Not
| one of all the numerous battles, commandments
! and skirmishes Of this war presents more in
| glorious running away than was in this case
achieved by the self-conceited and clustering
o.
tons ofasuperior bravery are suddenly de-
stroyedsth prestige of an invincible prov ess
is gone, and they can no longer turn up their
| dainty noses at the warlike nicriorty of the
rebel soldiers Of poor old Virginia. In fact,
Commodore Dupont has stripped off the lion 8
skin from the long ears of South Carolina, and
she stands ont in bold relief, very foolish
donkey.
But what next? Gen. Sherman is engaged
with his land forces in strengthening the admi-
rable naval and military strategical position
which, in the occupation of these deep
and comnlodious waters a Port Royal
and Beaufort, has been secured. I'm
qnestionably we shall thus hold this
position to the end of the war Nor is this all.
Beaufort is to be made a military base of active
operations in South Carolina and Georgia, by
land and sea- To this end we may expect the
immediate return of the transports of orr great
| squadron to Fortress Monroe, Annapolis and
| New York in order to take down another col.
! nmn Of ten or fifteen thousand soldiers TO Gen
| Sherman, and SO on until he shall be sui.
| fciently reinforced for an overland movement
upon Charleston or Savannah. Nor is there
anything, except the chances of the weather, to
| prevent the increase Of General Sherman's col
umn to fifty thousand men within the next two
weeks for we have the men armed and equip
ped to spare, and the ships for their transporta-
ton. But, then, JEFF. Davis may push down
seventy-ive thousand men from Virginia, by
railway to the defence of Charleston and Sa
vannah. So much the better; for this will put
an end to the rebellion in Virginia, without
even the necessity for battle.
Meantime, we presume, General Sherman
will push up from Beaufort to the occupation
of the Charleston and Savannah Railway, al
| Coosahatchie, and occupy it, so as to hold the
command Of that road He will doubtless
also proceed at once to apply the Union test OF
coniiscatiop to the planters of Beaufort district
and as, in all probability, they are all dyed-in.
the-wool secession conspirators, it would no,
be matter Of surprise if bis penalties of con
| 6scation were to sweep away all the property
of these Beaufort rebels, cotton, rice, corn, live
stock, lands, chattels, negroes and all. We
dare say, too, that one sweeping experimental
' Union lesson Of this sort would have pro