The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-08-10

1sskou ana oring hoettes to close. Recent events
nave certainly, TO all appearances justified the
which has been taken by her Majestys government
During the past week intelligence has reached Europe Of
Southern confsderacy The fa Of Vicksbg and Of Pert
Hudson with tie loss of ne command Of the Aisssspps,
aspsnas's'y @esr 'mpoytanos. a'as1pascaay con-
erm armies WhicA might Be considered omsnoss If
tie oar Was one ohich Continued to Be regard
protracted long enough 1t matter OF arthmeca de-
monstraton that the belli9erent possessing the
however. the North, by its refusal 70 assent
CONSUMPTION, has Enthusiastically evinced its determination
not 70 carry on Although therefore the present aspect
OF affairs In America may appear gloomy for tho South
ern C0nfederacy and may indicate the soundness Of the
policy pursued by the British government, still we may
be permitted TO hope that, before the reassembng of
Parliament peace will be restored between the begerent
federations and at the league may oain from the
parent stem, and from the rest Of The World tie recognition
lFrom the London Star July 27.l
Again the friends OF peace and freedom may rejoice and
sures presage OF returning tranquility The fall OF Port
hudson has quickly followed that Of Vicksburg. We
have Southern authority for the announcement OF its
conditional surrender on the 9th OF July II Ia probable
from tho interval Of time between tho two events that
either detachment from Grants army had arrived to
the aid OF Banks that news from Vicksburg smote
the garrison OF Port Hudson with despair The whole
OF the mississippi Is thus restored to tho authority
o. the Union no. only ts vessels traverse the great
river unmolested BY rebel batteries but every place Of
Importance on both banks by this tme occupied by
Union troops Midway between vicksburg and Port fud
y
60 In the South and capable OF defence But
we have heard nothing of any attempt 70 make OBJ
sructon to tine passage Of federal vessels and II is
tainy too late now TO crown its overhanRng bluffs with
batteries and link them together with forts OF earth and
timber Mr.. Russell described Natchez two years ago as
utrasecessionists but remarked that It's citizens and
the neghbohouring planters held the power OF the North
and its loyalty to the Union. at far too cheap rate
IN hs so
for Virginia. leaving their propert the and
the negroes. Since then the Mississippi gentry have
the emphatic language quoted by our New York
correspondent, Jefferson Davis warned them that
that tho perpetuaton Of the ceniederacy depended
chcdy upon the possession Of the river that rolls
past their estates They have lost that central artery OF
the continent Bavey have they ought for ii but the
bloody arb1ter TO whom they appealed has given his de-
cision against them. They may now, they
please bring forth their boards Of cotton and reload the
fifteen hundred steamers that have been lying idle or
have been turned into vessels Of From tho lakes
the Gulf the Mississippi is once moro loyal; and we
heartily pray It's waters may never again be furrowed by
the keel Of gunb0at or OF mortar vessel
Tho Mississippi has been lost to tho confederacy, not
from want Of fighting bat from want Of lighting
Southern resources. General Johnston unable
70 attempt anything against Grant, and is now
fleeing before sherman. Bragg has boon com
fore Rssrcrans. Both suffer heavy losses from capture
and deserton they CO. Nor is the greatest OF
tho commanders and armies OF the south exempt from
this compusion. We may be sure that nothing but a
nscious inierorty Of foces hopeless aud permanent
nfsriotywould have induced Gelera Lee 70 return to
enforcement by forty thousand men under Beauroaard
turns out ompty the Richmond fabrication of Lees
enough to do TO defend Charleston ngaBs the ndom,
assailant that has found way bring his clads
almost 70 tho rear Of Fort Sumter We have II on the
have gained footing on Morris Island, and
have i've Monitors engaged 10 bombarding For,
Wagner-wthin easy range Of the weak side Of the fort
that was the 0rst Confederate trophy and the first
stimnlat 70 Northern loyalty No doubt both Bcaure
gard and Bragg had contributed from Aer armies to the
RYf n fart nnIxh ripo
into stronger light the inability Of the Condeeratcs
maintain tho strusgc against the ppsus States that
vania they wcrc hard taxed make up The invading
army, how must be the eject their losses since
OF their Losses since that date which Vii OF course be
denounced ns trans atlantic and transcendan exaggcra
tons, but which II will hot be disprove. On
the most moderate computation the army Of Virginia has
lost by fighting BY captures and by uesertion twenty
Avc thousand men vicksDurg and Port Hudson
have yielded to the besegers thirty thousand more
Taking the scattered losses In Arkansas Tennessee
and At Charleston at ten thousand the Confederate
must have been diminished BY sixty i've thousand
since the commencement OF tho month. The North
could hardly afford so rapid waste Of material To the
South II must result In exhaustion, prostration sub
II will perhaps bs said that the riots In New York are
ample of against the heaviest the Confederate
the sentence OF the doom which those disasters
iorbode While we equally dcpore and reprobatc
that devish ouiburst Of savage barbarism In Of
the capitals OF civilization. cannot shut our eyes
70 its compromising results II Is but q symptom
the most violent but the most exhanstive-or
the maady that would havo eaten the heart the
Union IL II had not by repeated eruptons been
ont 10 the surface Evcry great city ia at the for
eight forty hours its subtcrranean casscs There
are ruians enough In london Liverpool TO repeat
scenes OF l7SJ 1t would DO days sndnights before
responsibility scared and disguised, would collect It's
But the repression Is always inevitable In New York
the revolt TO have its unopposed
from tho morning OF Monday the 18Th. 10 the night Of
Tuesday the l4th Then authority began TO exert itself
in earncst, and the rioters wcre checked in
the cooscripton. 1t extended itself to brutal
aggression upon the negro population and their
friends lnsiisated, and ~ perhaps organized, BY
cecded all political guidance or control It's leader
virgnan Its agents those invarabc constituents
OF New York mobthc roughs, rowdes, and immigrant
ahorcrs whose hatred TO the negro only oquaed by
their love OF drink and riot II not the nature OF
such 10 be with resistance TO an obnoxious
though lawful process ncendarism aud murder Is the
pastime IN which they indulge when prirucd by gin and
whskey TO their awless work. Aided at nrst by the
connivancc or men politically disafected they soon
began to indulge In brutslities the mere suspicion OF
concurrence IN which would be fatal to political
in this awful carnival OF Southern sympathy and city
savagcry II may be hoped that he report Is greatly Ia
excess Of the fact but no doubt that unhappy people
have suffered greatly Policemen soldiers and citizens
have also been killed Public ana private buildings have
been burned. rne nrbune once has been attacked
There but one power In the civilized world that would
have guided TO dccds Of such strocy Is the Old pro
slavery spirit. NO tong dominant, but lately subdued
the issue NO one cSn hay" dor naf
may or may not proceed in New York But Of this we
are sure every negro murdered by the pro slavery saw
ages Of that city viii be worth thousand soldiers 70 the
cause u the Union and the proclamation OF freedom
Henceorth II win be point Of honor with every decent
citizen TO stand by the government that assaed BY In
ccudarics and butchers.
From tbs London Star, July 2s.l
1t s almost incredible that any English newspaper can
regard with compaacencv event dsgracefu as the
New York riots IL is true indeed that toryis ism aud row.
dy ism arc old slcs. Il has been the habit Of the
mbcalled conservatives ~ defame tho people by
conounding them with the popuace. aud use the lat
ter ~ the nsonsae instrument o interruptions designs
Church and king mobs have played considerable part
In tho political history Of our country and is quite
conceivable that aristocratic gold may again be EN-.
poyed 70 instgate temporary anarchy the cause Of
order" But our upper class politicians have h,h
crto patronizcd the ruanly element In foreign COMMUNE
tics Neither have Engishmcn. IN their frsnzics
been BY the erocous cowsrdce cruelty
OF the "Bowcry boys" We do not remember an
English riot In which assassination added TO incen
disrism, and men were burned ~ we'll ~ houses. We
cannot conceive even Of the ries and sayrs Ratcne
highway dcmolishlng an orphan asylum hunting
out Of thor h0mce the women and children Of obnor
ous quarter rhe very worst Of rougha content
70 make war upon men and upon property They not
oxtend their drunken rage the helpless and poor