The New York herald., 1863-08-21

gia and Alabama, and the States Of Missis-
sippi Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas the re-
bellion is substantially suppressed.
With the remnants of the rebel armies escap-
ing the clutches Of Generals Grant and Banks,
we hear that General Joe Johnston-his whole
force not exceeding twenty thousand mems
still lowering near the western border of Ala
bama, convenient to Mobile; that Bragg, with q
force of about the same strength (but which is
rapidly melting away from desertions), still
fingers about Chattanooga; and that Buckner,
with ten or twelve thousand men, is standing
guard in the extreme eastern corner of East
Tennessee over the important rebel railway
communications in that quarter. Against these
forces we have the victorious armies Of Rose
Grams, Burnside, Grant and Banks. at least one
hundred and fifty thousand men in the aggre
gate, on the east side of the Mississippi Our
generals, therefore, from Georgia to Louisiana.
have the rebellion at their mercy, and they are
only waiting the subsistence of these extreme
summer heats in order TO move forward on all
sides and finish up their work
On the west side of the Mississippi, &C altered
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boundary, the rebels have, under Holmes.
Price, Kirby Smith, Taylor, Magruder and
some other officers Of smaller calibre, an aggre-
gate force of thirty or forty thousand men.
But all their means Of communication by water
have been wrested from them, so that their
forces in Central Arkansas are cut off from
Louisiana and those Of Louisiana are cut OF
from Texas, except by long and difficult
marches on foot, over or around a region of
pestilential swamps and Jungle. Next, by our
occupation of the Mississippi all these rebel
forces on the west are detached from those on the
east side of the river almost as efectuaily as if
they were separated by the Gulf Of Mexico. 1t
is thus entirely at the option Of the government
whether Generals Grant and Banks shall
first precipitate heavy column or two into
Northwestern Louisiana, and thence into Texas,
clearing out that section to the Rio Grande, or
move against Mobile, and thence northeastward
to junction with Rosecrans in the heart of
Georgia. Grant or Banks, by way Of the Red
river and the interior bayous Of Louisiana, can
move an army rapidly into Northern Texas;
and, once there, it will be in region 80 abound
ing with corn, grass and cattle az that no base
of supplies will be needed for it short Of Gal
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If there we're no outside dangers in that
quarter to be apprehended, Texas might be
left unnoticed till after dnal clearing up Of
the odds and ends Of the rebel armies between
Mobile and North Carolina. But there is an
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ing up in the figure Of Louis Napoleon. The
loss Of vicksburg aud Port Hudson involved
the irreparable loss to JEFF. Davis unless as
sisted from Europe, OF all the cotton States on
the west side of the Mississippi, in consequence
OF the absolute and permanent occupation Of
the river and the active watch we do aud can
maintain over it by our gunboats. Nor il there
q shadow Of hope remaining that Davis can
rescue from the wreck Of his sinking fortunes
even the limited empire Of South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida aud Alabama without the aid
Of an armed European coalition. involving
division Of the spoils. 8x oar aHT ql AID
What, then. Need we say that, since the out
break of this rebellion, France has had long
ing eye upon Louisiana, but cspe cislly upon
Texas, as . bunch of grapes in addition to
Mexico, supposed to be within her reach! This
foreign coalition with Davis, therefore, is the
very trouble which now threatens us. In his
present desperate extremties, it not altogether
probable that Davis would prefer half loaf as
better than no bread at all! Are there any
scruples Of right or wrong, justice or injustice.
to his Confederate States' or people, that are
likely to stand in the way of such bargain, il
it can be contaminated by Davis and his
clique Of Confederate rulers at Richmond. No.
Our readers will remember, too, that so long
as year ago the emissaries of France began to
put out their feelers in Texas, although at that
time they were indignantly repclled by Davis
Now our latest reports from England and
France speak complacently Of the probable ac-
ceptance (under the protection of Louis Napo-
leon) Of the throne Of Mexico by Maximilian Of
Austria, and with the blessing of the Holy
Father Of Rome. And these reports warn us,
too, of a probable armed coalition between
Mexico (that is, Louis Napoleon) and the Davis
confederacy.
What other incentive or equivalent can there
be to Louis Napoleon for such coalition ex-
cept Texas. There is no other. Nothing less,
at any rate, would compensate him for war
in behalf of Davis with the United States; but
Texas would, IL he should get successfully out
Of the war. There is great risk in the game
but the prize of the immense cotton and sugar
regions Of Texas aud Mexico is great and ex-
ccedingly tempting. Louis Napoleon, too, has
set himself diligently to work to build up around
the world system of colonies for France, with
which to counterbalance the colonial and CON-
mercial power Of England Yet such appears
to be the blind and stupid jealousy of John
Bull against the rising power of the United
States that he seems willing TO consent to the
aggrandizement on this continent of France. his
most powerful and dangerous rival and hered-
tary snemy, in order to insure the destruction