The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-06
The Capture OF New Orleans.
BRITISH ANTICIPATION OF THE vICToRy--A FAN
IDEA OF TIE IMPOnTANCE OF TIE TRIUMrH.

IDEA OF THE IMPORTANCE OF TIE TRIUMPH.
from the London Times, April Is.
Tho Americans In the North on the tptoe Of ex.
pcctation for bews Of tho fall Of New Orleans This
Inc ner thrust or TIE sprfh Tie ,chlle The fed
erals are So eatcd with their recent successes that they
are impatient Of any pause in the course OF victory They
chafe under the delay in clearing the Mississippi and at
being checked at point five hundred miles above its
mouth but they their igncrant foreign critics.
that they have already in all probability gained posses
sion New Orleans. Tho force at the mouth OF the
Mississippi is strong enough to strike terror wher-
ever there Is hrman life to DO extinsuishod and
property to be plGnde.ed The American papers boast
that it Is the most formidable naval force hos
tie errand in modern tines In an age which remem
beers fleet that spread itscf the Black Sea the
yaunt sufficiently bombastic but still 1t Is tremen
eous force when directed against enemy which has
rayy and can keep up no dockyards, and which de-
ponds upon smugged supplies for its powder AID its
guns comprises terrible mortar feet OF the heaviest
ordnance which can DO bought or made In the North !,
and more than 300 vessels including the largest
frigates in the federal navy. "The world we are told
viii be asunshod at the force tho federal government
has against this reoe.lious city, and il will take
the American people by surprise when they learn
its extent and Importance
The Northern conqusros do not osr-es,imate tie mpor
lance Of The conquest for the tding IF sctich they
mrat,srt New Orleans the comm arcia metropolis Of
HE South and the West II is the emporium OF the
tracts travesed by the Mississippi and all the great tr
butaries Of that most mighty Of rivers hhas greater
cop,nad Of Internal navigation than any in the Old
New World In ITSELF city, IL is little worth. Built
upon fiat below the level Of the risen river, it would
perhaps DO to the permanent benefit Of its inhabitants
r the dykes cut and the stream allowed
TOW ovor it. To friend 10 foe it's atmosphere alike is
lever and death. and even among the accimated New
Oreanss annual mortality is three times that OF
ton II is not the city but tho position at the point
that commands all the internal navigation Which Is so
important The southern papers pertinentiy remind its
defenders that superior cheapness OF transportation
water thithsr all the cotton produced ia Middle
and Western Tennessee, Arkansas Eastern Texas ami
Mississippi while the tobacco hemp and cereals OF tho
vast Western empire find their way thither from the
same cause" The occupation Of Nslc orleans Coiid be
toaiquet tiaasted ocsrtA sa artgef de sscsedS
This important place attacked both by land and
by water. Butler has strong land force under
his orders and Captain Porter with hs ortar and his
frgaes has already passed the bar at the mouth OF the
river Nothing was wanting but that the Mississippi
deet should down by the upper river aud the city
woad DO surrounded and mist fall Bat even without
this aid hopes high New York that by this tie
New Orleans is IN the Ii nds o! the imper .ai North
Perhaps the OF city where yellow fever and
cholera have Ia years destroyed tenth OF tho
whole population the best revenge OF invaded people
would let the invaders ;akc and h Id IL. such,
however does not appear TO DO The intention the Con
federatss They thor side also have their boasts OF
assured victory Commercial writers Of the frst autlio
ry have predicted that New Orleans is destined 10 become
M nDoruns net ony Of the Southern ard Western Stes
Of 4nsr;ca bit also of the ,cois spord aud that when
the uncu,ivated aud unoccupiet basins OF the Misss
sppi and Missouri are peored and titled, this city or
one placed some happy neghborng site, viii
eclipse all the present msgnihcance Of the ports or
the North. The confoderatss are as sangune that
they will DO able TO preserve their COMMERCIAL capt.
they are even certainly Wrestling u from them.
New Orleans Is hundred miles from the mouth OF tho
river and the banks fortified all the way down Az
a convenient point there arc forts armed with tho
heaviest guns and commanding an arthc al dam stretch
cd tho rivs aud which IS calculated TO delay any
naval force under tho guns the forts for sufficient
time for the artillery sink ths. These deiences, so
described are suspicousy ike those which were pre-
sh and french fleets up the Peho and which, ashougn
temporarily ssfu readily when the
leaders had learned 10 respect their enemy But in ad.
don TO these there arc, we are told two roncased
floating batteries carrying heavy arnsnens and gar
rison OF 80 eager for the appearance OF the in
yadsrs The New 0rleansts say they mad with
cfts nd heir
furnaces in complete preparation and that tho Yankees
Whenever they come, viii receive hot reception.
The gsmo Of brag both sides 10 played with equal
snterpriss Events will tell which side tho
power Of execution lies. Times are much altered since
an English Admiral and an English General quarreisd
and buuged the spot and were lured on by the
most Transparent tricks to disgrscofu dofoat Near half
century has sufficiently improved the art Of war 10
mako certain that General mansfield lovs VIII NOS
haze an opportunity saving New Orleans by the simple
tactics Of General Jackson, but there be any truth IA
tho loud cries OF defiance Of the Southern press the con
auest OF this city Is not absolutely certain 40 the
Northsrnsrs think IL may be attacked either from the
sea or from the river tho fsdcrasts think i better
10 force their gunboats and steam fgatcs the river
their success must depend upon their being able TO
tho gauntlet Of forts and batteries Once past these
there dssp water up to the city quas and many miles
above Arrived at these, New Orleans 10 their own.
But n they strong enough by land there an inlet
OF the sea which reaches within ak miles Of the city
and from this they may dobark their land army and
attack tho city BY land The thirty.two thousand
In garrison ought to DO able to give good account OF
theso invaders fthat garrison exists In any other CD
lumns than those Of tho newspapers II is suggested
that the attack is to DO made in concert, by General
Butler overland debarking from the lake rather gull
OF Pontchartrai and by Captains Porter and Farragu
up the river ftheTs be any real fight IN these begc
rents this is al impending event worth our interest,"
suFerings or the People of England.
WANT, AND PAuPERIsM OF the WHITE ToILERS =
"A FINE CHANCE FOR ABOLITION CHARITY.
lFrogn tho London Times, April 40
~ ia almost ncossant rain has abated the sky soy
am bright tho spring lowers are ont III splte OF N
i'd aud tbs bloom - on every sbfub ana irG % irin
tree SO far there never plessaneF Easter, ~
while the seasons run their course there - ono seaso
4 that ~ no; returning. population IF mtl'on Is NJ
suffering az much as II ne had rstfpeardl shorn
Laf is teaas ~ mature had suddenly sbooa sigp Of decd
terrible ,oion death depIfves countless ha ids, Mroal
popuo,is districts and croydcd ctie hfveons al ear