The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-10-01
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
How Matters Appear q. Richmond.
IFrom The Redmond Enquir July 14,h-I

IFrom the Richmond Enquirs- July IithJ
The facility with which the people and the press OF
the United States pass from the deepest de<pOndency
20 the highest point Of coufierte, has again been
sxeDpIi6ed in the recent 5 -ccesseA which their armies
have met with The press Of thu United States now
confidently assert the certain Overthrow and utter
a1nihIEfi"u OF the rebellion within the next SIX
EOnths- The fall Of Vicksburg. The retreat Of Lee.
the advance On Charleston. are the events upon which
these e1travagant anticipations are 80 confidently
based These are all serious transferable most
serious that have attended our al lbs since the begin
ming % the war. But do they IT, goIve any irretriev-
able calamity The fall OF V;cksburg opens the
Mississippi TO the army Of Grant down TO Port Hud-
son IL has been open 70 bis gurboais TO that point
for many mouths. II has been open from Port Hui-
son 10 It's month for more than s year IL hss been
closed 10 Us throughout its length since the fall OF
New Orleans To commerce IL Is douoly closed
closed By the proximity Of our asmies TO It's banks,
and closed by the utter want Of every article OF COM
MERGE IL will remain closed 10 Commerce during the
war. notwithstanding Port Hudson should fall. No
cotton has been grown On its lar IS since the war
began, aud what remains on hard has been, or soon
will be destroyed. Of what avail, then, will be the
opening Of the Mississippi in a commercial point Of
sies!
Ia its military aspect /; presents DO greater eucour-
zge2ent- To reap the fruits Of his success at Vicks-
burg. Gen. GRAFT mus; nov encounter all those seri-
Gus d faculties tina; have Overthrosn Mcclellan. Pope,
Burnside aud Hooker, aud which have 10 this time
p~sTalyzed Gen. ROsecrans. Gea. Grant must now
advance. He must either hug the banks OF the river,
aud lose all the practical fruits If his victory. or he
must march his army into the country in search Of
Ms eutbEs 10 iuFtueE conquest thSH re IenreS
the Tirer and enters the cane1r1kes, bayous and
tGso0as Of Mississippi or LoutsiGn1. he uiH en-
counter difieultiss befoTs uhich re uiH succumb.
The retreat Of Bragg l~engthens Rose'rans's already |
long line, and leads him through A wasted and de-
vastaied country to an impreguable position on the
Tennessee river. This new acquisition Of territory
involves increased dangers TO Rosecrcns's lines Of
communication, threatened as they are at every mo-
ment by incursiOns from Confederate cavalry.
Serious az the loss Of FicksbITg has been to toe
Confederate cause, IL by no means involves \ disaster
that IN the least compromises cur ultimate success.
We have not underrated the magnitude Of this disas-
ter; but We have presented il 10 our readers in all its
full force and significance. We nope that much good
may ultimately result from the present aspect OF
Affairs. Our people have go long enjoyed continued
success, they have been so long accustomed TO the
shouts Of victory, so used 20 the practical fruits Of
war, IN prisoners, arms. artillery, clothing. wagons
and horses, as trophies Of Con federste valor and
proves. that all possibility Of reverse had departed,
and they looked On the contest as one Of assured
success, which required no further effort at their
hands. Ii the disasters that new cast their gloom
the country shall have the effect OF calling back
the people from the pursuit Of wealth to the cause Of
their country, they will be the means Of grasping
and complete victory from the jaws Of defeat.