The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-25

The Navigation of the Mississippi.
From the New Orleans True Delta.
POPULAR M1sooNoEpT1oN.s .-l

POPULAR MIscoNoEPTIoN.8 .-i
Judging of opiHion In the free States
from the views and speculations of their
press in regard to results anticipated to fol-
low the reduction of Port II Hudson and Vicks.
burg, we should conclude that the expec<
tation is confidently and universally enter
tanned that trade with the Upper M:ss:ssip-
| pi and Ohio valleys would again be reopen
Led, ard conducted on the same grand and
remunerative scale as in times Immediately
preceding this insane conflict. No conclu-
sion imaginable can be more fallacious than
this. The truth is, if the river were opened
in its entire lenth to morrow. no perceptible
change in its commerce, so far as domestic
requirements or demands are looked to-
need be calculated on: for if Western pro-
ducts were ever so cheap. the means to pur-
chase them 10 not exist in the hands of the
popul ulation resident and belonging in this
lower valley. 10 these two districts, ex-
empted by the Presidential proclamation
from con6scation, the disorganization of la
Dor and industry has been so thorough and
complete that there is neither present means
nor future prospects for production to create;
invite or sustain trade; consequently. save
as an easy, expeditions aud economical out.
let for Western prodacts to the sea, no other
advantage need soon be looked for from the
! reopening of the river, if the feat be accom-
! plishable. Nor is it at all likely that, for
| years to come, if ever, trade with this lower
country will be as it was three years ago;
indeed, the probabilities are that it will al
most cease to exist; certainly. IN our opinions
it will so cease if the National policy, as it
is now announced and enforced in this State,
be adhered to. In the districts facetiously
represented as being on the same footingj ia
regard to the rights and property of their
inhabitants as are Mary land, Kentucky and
Missouri, civil government except under
most singular forms, can not be said to have
an existence; and the extraordinary specta-
Gle is presented of people being made di-
rect partcipators; through representatives
elected by them, in the Congressional pro-
ceedings of the nation, who in their own
concerns have not voice.
IF this mode Of conducting affairs in what
is officially considered loyal Louisiana be
maintained, as; from appearance, we should
conclude it will be, how will it be in the
northern portion Of the State and in the Ate
takapas, where sentence of conhscahou OF
! all property, aud the eviction of every fami-
". irrespective of all past conduct and po-
litical antecedent, from their ONES, is pro-
nouuced? The Government journals tellI
with deplors Bile Enthusiastically, low the
m cst fertile districts of Louisiana have been
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and their portable necessares; and in tone
of atrocious iocularitv speak of the utter
ruin that must follow this visitation of DESC
I lation Is it, then, from region SO blastedI
| the West looks for renewal of its COM
m cree, or to find those customers between
| whom and her people so much that was re-
ciprocallv beneficial had been done on the
graudest scale? The West; we repeat, ac-
cording to our notions, is deceiVing, egregi-,
ously deceiving itself, if it for one moment
i'm agines that the reopening OF the Missis-
sippi to trade will prodnce pristine prosperi-
ty; for, in truth, months must necessarily
elapse after the fall of Vicksburg befors
peaceful commerce could venture to Hoao
upon its bosom to the Gulf. - u ..ga.eet
But it is by any means certain that Vicks-
| burg will succumb even before the invest
mept of an officer of great energy, resolution
and courage, as General Grant is admitted
to be? The sanguine character of Wall
! street is not the -accoInpaHim eut Of armies In
| the field and afalla ten percent. IN goldI
based on the expectation of the early and
certain surren ender of the citadel which doml-
mates our great river at Vicksburg, is not by
] auv meaus to be considered an unerriug cri=
| terion Of ultimate success. When General
Butler arrived in New Orleans, thirteen
months ago. and subsequently, there was no
! obstacle to the march of tw wenty-hve hun
dred soldiers from New Orleans to Shreve-
port either by land or water. he strate-
gically, however, allowed the batteries OF
! Port Hudson to be erected, and in Septem.
| Der last General Dick Taylor arrived in
Alexandria, on Red River, to commence the
recruiting of force for the protection OF the
| interior as low down as Berwick's Bay.
! General Banks found on his assumption
of command verv different state of affairs
| from that which existed few months pre-
viously, and he has now under fnnumerable
| disad vantages to undertake the reduction
of place as form idable naturally as Vicks-
| burg fortified under the direction of engi-
neers of this State. unsurpassed IN their pro-
| fessional attainments by any officer OF their
| class in any service, and defended by men
who consider the war 10 which they are en-
gagged one for existence itself. In presence
of facts so admonitory and instructive as
these, the West, which we love so well. had
better moderate its expectations. To see its
commerce with US revived as our heart has
often been gladdened in contemplating It,
would give us happiness exquisite beyond
power of expressions; TO know that the oless-
lngs OF peace were once more Voucnsaieo US
would rejoice every good man: but II tnere
are soon. to be expected in presence OF con-
fscation and rnip indiscrirnlnateiy VlsitedI
God help thesValley OF the Mississippi. and
have mercy upon;the nation, or disappoint-
ment. bitter. affecting aud complete, will :
we fear, be alone realized. r.
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| The following were among tn g N ottoeg
at the great Va'landigham meeting in New
! York city: 'tEa 10
Every man's house is his castle.
i Arbitrary arrests must and shall cease.