Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-29
wORCE RR:
TUESDAY, APxIL. 80. 1859.

THE CAPTURE OF New ORLEANS is in
many respects the most imror ant success Of
the war. 1t will have a greater influence ON
opinion in Europe than anything else we
iave done and it will have powerful infiu.
ence on the operations i'll Tennessee, where
4. tue armies under Halleck and Beauregard
are about TO engage in conflict that will de-
eide the fate Of rebellion in the south
west. The issue of that conflict can
not well be considered doubtful. Gen
eral llalleck is equal TO it and ready for
it, The surrender of New Orleans makes
the situation very uncomfortable for Beaure.
CARDS army. A defeat at Corinh will be
likely to annihilate it. Gen. Mitchell cuts of
his communication. He could not safely 20
down the river if that were possible. He
cannot retreat in any direction without being
successfully followed aud routed or captured.
Should lie 90 TO Memphis and make stand
there, his whole force will be captured
1t was not so difficult TO approach and cap.
ture New Orleans as we all supposed it would
be. The rebels. pursuing their favorite "qua.
ker gun policy" had told fearful stories of
taeir preparations to defend the city. The
tales they invented for circulation at the north
gained much mure belief than they deserved.
The Picayune Of the 9th instant repeated
them, saying:-
The Mississippi is fortified so as to be i'm.
passiOle for any hostile fleet or foliIla Forts
jackson and ST. Philip are armed with one
ulutlrel auI h.o
ers, riled by Barkley Brlion, and received
from Ensland), The navigation of The river
Is stopped by dam OF about II quarter
OF mile from the above forts. No hotilla
on earth could force the dam in less than Two
hours, during which il would be within short
and Cross range OF one hundred and seventy
guns OF the heaviest caber, many OF which
would be served with red hot shot, numerous
furnaces tor which have been erected in every
fort and battery.
In a day or two we shall have ready two
IRON cased floating batteries The plates are
four and half inches thick, Of The best ham
mer'd iron, received from England and
france. Each iron cased battery will mount
twenty 6o-pounders, placed as to skim the
water, aud striking the enemy's hull be-
tween wind and water. We have an album
dant supply of incendary shells, cupola fur
naces Tor molten iron, congreve rockets, and
1re ships. Between New Orleans and the
forts there is q constant succession OF earth
works. AT the Plain OF Chalmette near Janin' s
property, there are Iedoubts armed With riiled
cannon, which have been found to be effective
al live miles range. A ditch thirty feet wide
anu twenty deep extends from the Mississippi
to La Cyprierc.
In torts ST. Philip and Jackson there are
oOOJ men, OF whom goodly portion are ex
perienced artiilerymen and gunners who have
served IN the navy. At New Orleans itsel
we have 900 infantry, and as many more
CHARTERED in the immediate nrighborhood. Ii
Yankees"
hese things were said, not bvcau,e the
were true, but because The rebels hup,d ,
scare our forces away from that np,ghborhuo,
They were quaker gun stories, and the eai
with which our Aotilia went up the riv
siienced the forts, defed all tue tabled "f
ships" iron batteries, and Internal machine
and captured the city, shows how false the
were. 1t is said that the rebels burned ii
cation, boats and other property and carrie
oil the gold and silver coin belonging to II
banks. We presume the "vigilence comm
toe" aud their minions, who have held Il
city nnder reign OF terror, ran away as ia
as possible. Fellows who so richly deser
hanging, would not be likely TO remain the
long after the federal gunboats came in sigl
TIE people of New Orleans, left to tibet
selves, would MOI have been likely to join II
seceSsiOnisS. fhey would have adhered
tne Union, and probably the greatest joy tn,
many of them have known during the pas
year was when the city fell into the hands r
the federal forces Its stated 10 IA letter t
the New York Evening Post that ten thol
sand troops went up the river with the doli
la II this is correct, our commanding officer
had everything that was necessary to an in
mediate landing aud occupation OF the city.