Newbern weekly progress., 1862-05-17
The RcbcF Prcss on the Fai, Of
NcW Orleans.


The rebel journals are iull Of lamentatonI
and woe. From every quarter, chorus o
groans throbs and pulses on the air. Th'
leading organs in Richmond appear to be par
tcularly blue. The Dispatch, bemoaning th'
sad reverse to the Southern cause, ychemently
demands an explanation Of the mystery" 0
the surrender, intimating that there has beer
somewhere gross ngdoing, for which th'
offenders should be held to stern accounta
biliiy. 1t maintains, however, that the rebel
must not despond,-for says the disconsolat'
editor, il every other resource shall fail, "w'
can, as other nations have done before u.s. re
seve ourselves into guerilla force, composed
Of the whole country, and fight the battle fol
life or death throughout million Of square
miles" The Norfolk Day Booh says the fall
of New Orleans is BY far the most serious re
verse of the war. 1t suggests future privaior
and want to all classes Of society; but, most
to be lamented Of all, it threatens army SUP.
plies! Nor is this all when the Yankee
have completed their ironclAd navy they will
take every important point upon the coast, ,ex
cept in those cases where wise discretion
may permanently obstruct our barbor" The
Day Beoh, in the same article, confesses that
cotton is no longer king, saying:
1--WE confess that we, in common with wiser
men, were deluded into the general belief in
the supremacy Of cotton. We had high author
ity for the belilf The commerce OF the
world hangs by a thread said Mr.. Dickens,
and the truth of this declaration may yet be-
come manifest; but cotton as political agent
is done for None 80 poor as to ,do it rever
ence' as q blockade raiser, but thousands to
appreciate the fact that when the war does end
large cotton supply on hand will be . larsv
fortune"
Further on the editor says, "hog and HON
my arc far more important than cotton and
tobacco" and maintains that with an ample
supply Of these articles "our liberties may
yet be achieved" II this is the only depend
ence of the coDfederacy, its fate may be regard
ed as already sealed, since even the Doy BoOh
has admitted that scarcity every where pre-
walls, and it is difficult to "see where and how
the people are to be fed"
The Atlanta (Gs.) h'telligencer, after admit
ting that the Union gunbOats cannot bo resisted
by anything the rebels can bring against them
says:
"Mcmphis, we apprehend. will share the
| fate ol New Orleans To delude ourselves
with any othcrhopc is now II folly. We ought
and must prepare for tho worst. That worst
is the occupation OF most Of our cities, with
water approaches, by the enemy. A sound
policy would dictate, what patriotism and sell!
preservation demand, the destruction Of every
species of property that would benefit ths
enemy ere they get possession ofany city, and
the removal thereirom Of everything of value
10 ourselves. Let nothing fall INTO their hands
of value to tbem-saye al We can Of value tt
us"
The Petersburg Elpre's charac,erizes th'
capture Of New Orleans as tie "mest cxtraor
dinary event Of the war" and asserts that tn
blow is one Of terrible severity to tho rebels
Still it maintains that they can never be sub
dued, though in the same connection, II make
this curious admission: 'ut
I'VE have long since fled our mind dow'
10 the belief, that il the cause of the South i
Dvneiy founded it will and must triumph
II not, it will and must perish, were it sup
ported by millions of armed men and hundred
o. iron-ciad war vessels Of the most powerful
description"