The New York herald., 1863-08-27

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We NOTICE among those 6lafted on Tuesday
last in the Eighth district tho name OF W. s
Opdyke, Fifth avenue" This 9utleman Is the
Mayors SON.
The Breaking Down or the soueAern Con-
federaey.
Within the present narrow limits OF the
Southern confederaoy there are one hundred
snoasand men who want to get out" Like
the starting In the story, they have just now no
other ambition but that they have made ap-
plication to the authorities at Richmond for
their passes, and say that they are foreign
ers"-subjecs Of the emperor of China"
perhaps. Now, the men who make up this hun
dred thousand may never nave formed the
most respectable portion Of Southern society.
Many OF them are of a GLASS that the Southern
papers least delight to honor-merchants, 30
called; speculators, sharpers who have made
fortunes out of the miseries Of the Southern
people. and fellows Of that class generally.
Others of them may be better men; but we
may class them all together as the rats who
have lived down in the hold Of the Southern
confederscyr aud their present desire 10 get
away shows what their opinion Of the ships
| condition is. Sometimes the rats know more
about the ship than the sailors do, and very
often the sailors follow the rats Some Of the
Southern sailors can trim their courses well,
| and are possessed Of the great wisdom to know
! "whats what Toombs went out Of the fight
long ago. He saw ultimate failure from a
great distance, and left the army as
soon as he could find pretext. Cot
| ton, which has served so many other
| purposes, served his Sterling Price has
resigned-and the chivairy takes it as the re-
cognition that rans-Mississppi Secessia 10 lost
to the Southern cause-ali those ''pretty chick
ems and their dam at one fell swoop." The
second Garnett brother to the one killed at Car
riok's Ford, and son-inlaw of the irrepressible-
Henry A. Wise, has taken the oath Of allegiance.
and settled down to q quiet life. And Roger
A. Pryor, brigadier general and the very pink
Of roysterers, full to the lips ofswagger and gen.
tility has left the Southern army resigned
gone home-desres in future to be 'scountsd
out" Alas. for young Secessia! In what dhec-
tion shall it look for q leader now? Where
shall it find another so able to assert its rights
becomes gentleman and so ayerse to ali un-
comfortable carnage! Toombs, Price, Pryor,
and the hundred thousand rats, are but 80 many
instances Of detection that is universal through
out the South, and under which the confederacy
even now crumbles away hour by hour North
Carolina, agreeably with her history, is bolder
than the rest, and we hear more from
her than we do from other States, but only on
that account Elsewhere as we'll the convic-
tion grows every day stronger that the confede
racy is done for. Every soldier who deserts
from Lees army carries to his hat in the woods
and to his small circle the 0rst news of the
Gettysburg defeat, and Q most contagious dis
gust for the war and for life in the army. II is
the same with those paroled from Vicksburg,
with those who were under Johnston, and with
those in retreat before Rosecrans. Southern
soldiers at present not only desert to such an
extent that it is hardly possible 10 keep an
army together, but they tell at their homes
| such stories about the war a. will effcctually
| open the eyes Of that fraction of the Southern
| people that is left with eyes to open.
And, with all this behind 1t, the coniederacy
has still got Uncle Sam in front-bigger aud
better for the poundings be has had and the
exercise he has been compelled to take. Gill
mores guns sicken the hearts of the Charleston
people ~ we write, aud the fall Of that birth
place Of the dogma of secession will have an
effect toward the final and complete demorali-
zation Of the Southern people that no other
event could equal Rosecrans is on march
that threatens another Division { the Southern
territory. Grant is loose somewhere in the
open country and will be kicking around
frightfully in the Conf edsrate China shop be-
fore they know it. Between conscripts and
volunteers-more Of the latter than of the
former-the Army Of the Potomac will be filed
up in time for active operations in the fall, and
will finish its ancient enemy in one last battle,
and with it the war. Active operations begun
| in our various armies next month will close up
| the war by November, and by that time the
| fifty thousand veteran soldiers now in this
| city will be ready to land at Vera Cruz and
look after Johnny Crapeau.
HoRRoRs or PARTISAN WARFARE--The mas
| sacre at Lawrence has naturally excited deep
| feeling OF horror and indignation throughout
our community. The idea of such needless
and unprovoked slaughter occurring to embit-
ter the contest just a. it seems to be approach
ing its close is deeply TO be deplored. But at
| the same time 1t should not be forgotten that
in the partisan operations encouraged on each
side it is impossible to entirely prevent such
incidents. All history teens with them, aud
there is not a country which has been the
theatre Of civil strife which does not offer one
or more examples Of them. The wars Of the
Fronde, the religious contests IN Germany the
civil wars in England, the rebellions in Scot
land and ireland, the last war in India, aud the
struggle which is at present being carried on
in Poland, all bear evidence to the impossibility