The New York herald., 1862-02-12

embraced 81 o6S bags while tho stock Of oil kinds en-
bracsd 139 ,672 mats and bags Frsights were more
active, while rates without change OF moment.
The Rebellion Downward-Solcmn Ad-
vice to tho South.
| The occupation of Roanoke Island by the
| forces of the Burnside expedition, in giving us
| the absolute control Of the waters of Pamlico
| and Albemarle Sounds, opens our way into the
heart of North Carolina, and to the back door
of Norfolk and Richmond. The rebel cause in
the old North State-rspulsive in the outset, and
distasteful to her people ever since-will be
very apt now to be trampled in the dust by
them as General Burnside advances to their
protection. This will surely be the course Of
wisdom, as the happy results Of the good exam
pie of the people of the Eastern shore of Virgil
mia abundantly show. But what other course
can now be pursued by the citizens Of North
| Carolina, consistent with their own safety and
the preservation of their domestic institutions?
This question is now brought home to them,
and to the people of every other State commit
| ted to this rebellion.
1t is virtually confessed by the leaders of this
revolt that it is now invested by acircle Of fire
from which it cannot escape; that on all sides
it is hemmed in by superior numbers and in
struments of war; that our blockade and COM
| plete command Of the sea have very nearly
starved out King Cotton; and that nothing now
can save JEFF. Davis and his Southern confede-
racy except the most horrible extremities Of
incendiarism by tho Southern people against
| thavcaalvou Thrs tba xyop, on opd cbi1drau aro
exhorted in Georgia, by Cobb and Toombs
| from Richmond, to set FIRE to their cities and
towns, their homes and their substance, and to
leave to our advancing forces ga desert for their
| occupation more terrible than Sahara"
| Such are the inhuman instructions Of some Of
the principal contrivers, leaders and managers
| of this insane rebellion. Those fellows, entering
into this desperate enterprise with visions of
the great Offices, honors, spoils and plunder OF
new confederacy Of their own making, are
now chiefly solicitous for the safety of their own
worthless necks; and to save them from the
hsneman they are ready for any extremity Of
ruffanism. But the ferocious counsels Of these
utterly brutalized and reckless traitors have
been pushed too far. Every instinct Of
women and children, and of the Chris
tian men Of the South, will revolt at
such infamous instructions as those of Toombs
and Cobb, and at this infamous rebellion which
has instigated them. Rejecting Southern men
will also begin to compare the blessings Of the
Union, of which they have been defrauded by
this rebellion, with the sweeping extortions and
| &c int fo1a Ia
ism, and in this view we count upon grand
reaction all over the South with the first defeat
Of the rebel army, on grand scale, in Virginia
or Kentucky.
Within the limit of sixty days we expect to
announce the complete evacuation Of Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and perhaps North
Carolina, by the rebel armed forces. We have
ness for the work, and those brilliant prelimi-
nary affairs Of Mill Springs Fort Henry and
Roanoke Island show how the tide is drifting
in the West and in the East. European inter-
vention may be talked Of it may be discussed
between Louis Napoleon and Lord Palmerston;
but before they can come to any agreement
against us this collapsing Southern confederaey
| OF DaFls, NODD, lOOups anu Nonpauy VIII Uc
knocked into pieces We have ceased to enter
tain any troublesome thoughts Of European in
tsrvention under this conviction.
What, then, is the course Of wisdom, safety
and selfpreservation suggested to the people
of the South, in view Of the hopeless situation
Of their crumbling Southern confederacy? Their
true course is TO put it and themselves out Of
their misery at once by popular movement
for the Union. Two or three brave and reso.
lutte men, in leading the way, may thus speedily
revolutionize a whole county Now is the
time: for the longer they resist the cause Of
the Union the greater becomes the danger to
our revoltcd States Of war for the extirpaton
of slavery, or of its abolition, as the price Of
European interference. Now, with the return
TO the Union of our rebelious States, they
would return to its securities and guarantees in
behalf of the institution of Southern slavery
against domestic enemies and foreign combina
tions.
The rebellion has failed. Its days are mum
bered. There is not the ghost Of chance fol
it, except through the assistance Of England
and France or one or the other Of those Powers
and even with the assistance Of either or boti