The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-07

Results OF the Hatteras Inlet Victory
Cheering News from North Carolina.
! According to our latest special advices from
! Fortress Monroe, the recent brilliant achieve
ment of Commodore Strlngham and General
! Butlerat Hatteras Inlet has resulted in the
most important revelations to the Union cause.
The rebels at 0cracoke Inlet, taking the alarm
from the capture of their confederates at HATTIE
ras, had spiked their guns and abandoned their
position, so that the two entrances from the sea
into the extensive waters Of Albemarle and
Pamlico Sounds are now in possession Of the
government forces. This not only locks up the
State Of North Carolina, excepting the port of
Beaufort, but it enables the government to
overhaul any stray privateers detained in Abe
marie and Pamlico Sounds, and will compel the
rebels to fortify or abandon every landing,
town and village along the shores Of those
waters.
1t is, therefore, not very difficult to believe
the news that, since our occupation Of Hatteras
Inlet, "over eight hundred men, women and
children" have come to that place Shy land
and by boats, asking protection from the rebels
and taking the oath Of allegiance to the United
States;" that ga large majority of the men wish to
fight for the Stars and Stripes" that several hun
dred come in daily and take the oath of allie
glance, and offer their services to the Union;"
and that assurances had been received from
Newbern that if our flag, supported by proper
force, is raised there, it will be sustained by o
majority of the people. Newbern is an impor-
tant commercial town, On an arm of Pamlico
Sound, and deals extensively in the expectation
of the yellow pine used in shpbuilding, and in
pitch, rosin, tar and turpentine and doubtless
the good people of North Carolina engaged in
the preparation Of all these important ship
building articles are rather anxious than other
wise for the reopening of their old, profitable
channels of trade with the loyal States 'and the
rest of mankind"
But while, from their pitch, tar and turpen-
tine, the people of North Carolina are disposed
to stick to the Union, they have always been
justly regarded as among the most conserva-
tive, law abiding and Union loving of the peo-
pie of the South. In their. last free election
upon the subject they gave large popu-
lar majority for the Union; and in fact,
North Carolina would not have been dragged
into the morass Of this cotton State rebellion
but for that secession mob at Richmond, which
cOerced the Union State Convention there, in
secret session, into capitulation to South Caro-
lima. In this way the loyal old North State was
hitched to the chariot wheels of the JEFF. Davis
despotism. Between South Carolina and Vir-
GINA she was placed as between two fires, and
thus, against the will of her people, North Caro-
lima has been compelled to take up arms against
the Union.
All these things considered, it is not by any
means Incredible that the quiet, law and order
people of that State, with the first Judgment of
our Union forces on their seacoast, should seize
the opportunity to come forward by hundreds
and by thousands to renew their allegiance to
| the Union, and to volunteer their services for
| its defence. We are thus free to conclude that
North Carolina needs only one or two more
Union victories within her borders to bring
over her people almost masse to the side OF
the government, and to make the State an ac-
| tive, earnest and powerful ally of the govern
ment.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that our Navy
Department and War Department without fur
thcr delay, will strike again in North Carolina
while the iron is hot; for the liberation of that
| great State from the rebels will be the liberia
| ton also of Virginia and the end Of this rebel
lion. We can now believe the report that
on the LIST of August, and according to law
there were eight members elected to the Con
| gress of the United States from the several
| districts Of North Carolina, and that the old
State is sound to the core, and anxiously await
ing the hour of her deliverance. No man, after
her repeated heavy Union maorities within the
last six mouths, can doubt the loyalty of Ken.
lucky; but we all know that Kentucky is still
in danger of being entangled in the meshes OF
secession from the reckless intrigues and
schemes of her secession conspirators and those
Of the rebel States.
Webelieve, however, that the last desperate
effort of the Kentucky rebel conspirators to
turn Fremont's proclamation to the prejudice
Of the Union cause there will fail, for we ap
prehend that the danger to the rebels of having
their slaves liberated will be apt to convince
every STAKEHOLDER Of the wisdom of adhering to
the Union, as the best security for their slave
property. All around us the good cause grows
brighter and brighter in its prospects, but this
last intelligence from North Carolina is the
| best of all.
THE New Cry CHARTER.-The commission
for the preparation of the new city charter has
commenced its sittings We are sorry that its
members should be put to so much unnecessary
| trouble The nnhlic does not want To hear