The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-05-09
THE FALL OF NEW Or
LEANS.
Lnmenta,ion OF the ssebe, PA.
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The Southern papers are filed with
groanings over the capture Of New Or
leans. Some of those whose comments
we have seen whistle little to keep their
courage up, but the majority do not at
tempt TO conceal their rage aud mortifca-
ton.
The Norfolk Day Book, Of the 29th
says about the only consolation to be
drawn from the report is that the IRON
clad steamer Louisiana is safe, since re-
ported sunk,l and Indignantly asks;--
Safe, howl' Safe, wherel' Was il a
safe plan to send q steamer away from
the city which she was built to protect
Whose laundering management is thisl
Isthe Secretary Of the Navy responsible
for this; il not, who isl' 1t then remarks
that II has heard IL announced that no
iron-clad steamers are permitted to move
unless by order OF the Secretary of the
Navy, and says that il this is the case
they might as well be put in glass cases
at once.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 2sth
,ays, official dispatches confirm the re-
port of the capture Of New Orleans con-
trory TO It's own belief and that of nine
tcnths of the community. It grumbles
that Gen. Lowell should have gone seven
ty-cigbt miles from New Orleans, when
he could have stopped at pontachoulu, a
high and healthy locality only forty-eght
miles from the city. II is at loss 10
know how the Louisiana could be sunk,
as she was tested with fifty rounds of ball
of l54 pounds weight, without damage.
In another article, apparently forgetlul of
its previously asserted incrcdulity,it II says
that il had anticipated the tall of the city,
and that the public were in smsnncr pre-
pared for il. Nevertheless it comedies
its loss to have been heavy blow. 1t
| is not, however, fa:al one. If every
seaboard town in the Confcracy were
captured the issue could not be effected
In second article the Norfolk Day
Book says the orms-beuring portion o
the population must rally to the support
of the Confederate flag, and thus re-
ncunces its allegiance to King Cotton:
We confess that we, in common with
wiser men, were dcluded into the gener-
al belief in the supremacy Of cotton. We
| had nigh authority for the belief The
commerce of the world hangs by q
! thread" said Mr.. Dickens, aud the truth
of this declaration may yet become man
ifcst; but cotton, as political agent, is
| done for. "None so poor TO do il rcyer-
cncc" as blockade raiser, but thousands
to appreciate tn: fact that when the war
docs end large cotton supply on hand
will be large fortune.
The same applies to tobacco planters
in more limited degree. They can nf-
ford to wait, seeing in the future golden
harvest f.r the holders Of these staples.
But to realize, they must actually hold
not as trustees, under the Confiscation
Act, for Lincoln, but for themselves
bold as owners. Todo this they NUT in
tcrpose armies between the enemy and
their plantations, 10 inierpose the arm
les, they must feed them; to feed them
) they must plant cereals, and Let their
dreams of fortune be somewhat modified
in their magnificent proportions.
I rrug anu uvs"i'..- s-a -ra- .s,a-N import
ant than cotton and tobacco, and by the
extent of the supply to be furnished by
the Mississippi region, we must measure
tho extent OF cur calamity. With an am
pic preparation fol the supply of our ar
mics, we shall be able TO achieve our lib
critics.
The Atlanta, Georgia, Intelligencer
had looked Tor a different result at New
Orleans, but the iron-clad gunboats rem
dered the forts useless for defence
Memphis, il upprehcnds, will share the
fate Of New Orleans; any other hope is
folly. Charleston and Savannah are al
so threatened.
The Petersburg Express considers the
capture OF New Orleans, under the C ir-
cumstances, one OF the most extraordina-
ry olents the war has brought forth, but
endeavors to comfort itself with the hope
that Gen. Lowell has carried off all the
valuablcs that the yellow fever will
destroy cur forces aud that Beauregurd
will b. able TO defeat Halleck, and march
across the Ohio. 1t wants TO see two
columns OF 10000 respectively, march
one through the north west under Beau.
regard, and one through the more Easter,
ly States under Johnson.
J The battles of the South must be
ftrght on Northern soil and the capture
OF New York or Philadelphia would give
ua nancc IN nur tprns In fhirtxr dave