The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-05-08
EBENSRURG:
Capture OF New Orleans.

great artery which guards the Southern
passes of the Mississippi--New Orleaus-
are dlssipated by the official announce
ment IN Southern newspapers of the with
drawai therefrom of the Rebel army un-
der Gen. LOWELL, and its occupation by
the Union forces. The Consideration per-
vading Secessia at the event may be i'm
agined, but not described. The doom of
the sham Confederacy is forshadowed by
the intelligence, and 81 D." and his
unholy crew behold their cherished Wis
Ions OF lf-aggrandizement at the expense
OF honor and honesty vanish into thin
air. With the Key Of the Southwest as
ours, and the Rebels pressed upon all
sides at the North, and cut off from re-
treat and all hope of succor, the Rebel
lion may be said to be virtually failure
The Shareholders enaeute is about to be
crushed beneath the upper and the meth
er mill-stones of the great Union army
On the North our powerful fotilla mena-
ces the commercial capital of Tennessee,
and Oh the South, while the loyal senti-
ment of the Crescent City is disenthralled,
and it can shout in gladness,
Recovered is the town of Orleans
More blessed hope ueer did befall our state -
there is nothing which can prevent the
advance of the large fleets of PORTER and
FARRAGUT up the river to sweep from
the bosom of 1.-THE father of waters" eve
Ty remnant of the wicked conspiracy which
has incarnadined its former peaceful flow.
In no part of its programme of operations
did secession commit MORE grave error
than in presuming that it could make
Skaggerack, Cattegat, or an Elsinore at
any point of the Mississippi, and there,
after the late custom of Denmark, exact
dues from all passing vessels and every
ton of freight they contained. 1t was
stupid blunder to suppose that the North
western and the Middle States could feel
a compression of their great aorta, which
might stop the pulsations of the ventric-
ular lakes and arrest the flow of the arte-
rial rivers, without a gigantic effort to re-
sist it. If England shuddered "in the
interests OF civilization at the temporary
stone blockade oc Atlantic har5ors, what
has the world thought of the effort to seal
up Theoretically river, the affIuents of
which encircle our whole continent, and
which presents the only egress for the in
land navigation Of nearly two-thirds of
the States of the Union? Through the
Illinois and Michigan canal the waters of
the st. Lawrence are Joined to those of
the Mississippi, and the union assumes an
insular position. 1t was not to be expec.
ted that the commerce of our country in
circumnavigating any portion of its boun-
Diary should encounter toll-gates or Gus
tom houses to impede it. Frenzy never
impelled a more suicidal act, nor madness
a more confirmed exhibition of lunacy =
the very intensity Of the efforts baked
their effect; the strength of the nation
was aroused to bind down the furious ma
MACS, and they lie subdued at the mercy
of the government they have outraged.
The Mississippi is again unlocked and
the key is now in loyal hands, never to
be again surrendered to traitors We
hold the upper river and its debouches at
the Gulf of Mexico, so that all the inter
vening points must speedily fall into our
possession, as PORTER ascends and FooTE
descends the stream. The sugar planta-
tions of Louisiana are redeemed from the
usurpation of military ferocity, and the
sotsen States of Arkansas and Mississippi
will soon be relieved from the blockade
which has kept their produce, at ruin
GUS loss, from It's natural markets In
few weeks steamboats, will be running to
New Orleans again from Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, ST. Louis, Louisville, and all 9TH
er points their steam whistles will blow
sheir national salutes to Dixie, and CALI
ones -everherate along the leyees the al
most forgotten notes OF the Star Spanglcd
Ranner. The trade of the Mississippi
which has been closed for so many months
will soon be re opened, and let US hope,
.b,t with re. established business associ;.-
ans. there may spring NJ an era Of te'~