Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-13

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The American situatIon-VIevvs OF
an Able and influential EngIIsI
EewspRper-The Rebel Defeats and
the New York Riots.
From the London News, July %.
We may fairly ask the Times what it nov
thinks of its allies at New York. They
have shown-not changed-their quality
and their exploits are now chronicles; what
| does our cotemporary think of them now
Their spirit has inspired its New York cor.
respondent, and their rowdy orators have
been extoIled in its leading articles as the
only wise and patriotic men in the free
States. We have known these 'peace
Democrats" many years, under various
names, and the wonder is, not that they
! have now risen to murder unoffending Cit
/ izens and burn down houses, but that they
did not do so at u much earlier period of
the war. They have been the vilest ac-
| completes and most degraded tools of tho
pro slavery party, both in the North and
South. They are the men who formerly
used to break up the anti slavery meetings,
, and pursue the most eminent men of the
| abolition party with threats of assassina-
ton. They are the men by whose aid and
protection New York few years ago be-
came the chief port of the world from
which ships issued to carry ON tho piratical
save trade. Mr.. Lincoln's government has
inflicted some heavy blows on their inter-
ests. 1t has broken up or driven away
their slave expeditions, and it hanged Cap
tain Gordon. 1t is astonishing that they
endured that hard trial. The hour has
come for them to render a last service to
their old friends. 1t is now or never. The
than with Ia prp.
text for raising the mob and causing con-
fusion at nome aud shame abroad And
that it was no more than pretext every
feature of the riot shows. The mob burn
ed down the Colored Orphan Asylum, de-
stroyed several negro houses, and attacked
every negro they could reRch--killing a
considerable number, and, it is said, burn
ing tn death. These performances,
with the attack on the Office of the New
York Tribune, fix the specific character of
the riot, and show who were engaged in it.
The disturbances had been we'll prepared
beforehand.
A Virginian was their chief leader, hav-
ing several hundred agents under his or
ders, and their force was distributed with
some skill over the city, SO as to give the
movement the appearance of a general aud
spontaneous uprising. For two whole days
| they appear to have been uncontrolled, the
| force at the command of the Mayor having
been quite inadequate to overpower them.
During this period they continued to per-
| petrate atrocities worse than auy that are
recorded of the French Revolution. The
negroes were chosen for attack by the
| leaders of the mob, because they are prov
ing an important arm of the free republic
| in destroying slavery, and were assalled
by their ignorant followers from the Wap-
ping and RoLherhithe of New York because
their competition keeps wages within
| bounds The intervention of Archbishop
| Hughes suggests that the Irish took their
full share in the disturbance. Although
this riot is such one as might be got up
in any seaport, it is very disgraceful to the
city of New York. Nobody, however, at
all cuuainted with the history of shat city
for the last then years will feel the least
surprise at what has taken place. There
| is no city in the world of it's size in which
is so completely in the hands OF few un-
principled men. 1t was known month
ago that throughout the North the word
has been given that the last card was to
| be played by the copperheads. 1t has been
played, and lost. This New York riot is a
failure aud also serious binder. The
action of the Federal government will not
be impeded by it for day; not battalion
will delay its march respectable citizens
of all opinions will be drawn closer to
gether and nearer to the government by
the spectacle of violence, which recalls the
flourishing days of New Orleans. And the
riot will as little serve the purpose OF the
Confederate government out of America
as nearer home. No political party will
acknowledge these proceedings; aud 1t Will
be impossible to pretend that they were
spontaneous. This is the last foul blow
struck for desperate and dying cause
and will prove as vain as it is Villianous'
Prom the London News, July 81
Those OF our contemporaries who up to
the end of last week, continued to assent
that the surrender of Vicksburg, sis al
least not certain" must really learn TO
move little faster, or their comments on
the American war will soon be two or three
mails in arrear. Before they have "recog'
nized" the fall of Vicksburg we have the
1 news not only that Port Hudson has un-
Icouditionally surrendered, but that part ol
Grants victorious army under Gen: Sher'
man had marched against Gen. johnston
defeated him in a pitched battle with heaVy
loss, aud forced the only remaining Con
federate force in the West into precipitate
retreat. The news from the East does moi
in the least help to counterbaiance the TO-
tai collapse of the contederacy on the Mis-
sissippi General Lee, instead of remain
ing north of the Potomac and defeating
the federal army by means of the large re-
iuforcements he was said to have received
has hastily crossed the river, and is in full
retreat towards Richmond. Nor is the
latest intelligence from the centre Of this
vast area of military operations at all more
encouraging to the Confederate cause
General Bragg appears not to have paused
in his flight even at the entrenehed camE
of Chattanooga, which we have been re
peatedly told was impregnable, but is sale
10 have retreated to Atlanta, u hrndre'
miles further south. At the same time I
federal force has suddenly appeared bsforr