The News.
The telegraphic dispatches this morning give us the first intimation of the impression produced in
Europe by the news of the
Federal defeat on the 21st of July. Coming through Northern channels, these dispatches give but an outline of the facts.
The blockade question is still agitated in
England, and the London Times fears it will lead to ‘ "difficult complications."’ In this connection, we have an important opinion from the Premier of
Great Britain.
The
London Herald makes the announcement that when
Napoleon heard of the
battle of Bull Run (
Manassas) he resolved to recognize the Confederate Government.
The details by this arrival will be looked for with cager anxiety.
We have a confirmation of the
Federal defeat in
Missouri, with a brief statement from
Gen. McCulloch in relation to the affair.
A telegraphic dispatch from
St. Louis informs us that
Gen. Pope is making immense preparations to retrieve the disaster, but we think the
Lincoln Government is nearly played out in
Missouri.
The statement that
Gen. Siegie's location is unknown at
St. Louis, confirms our belief that his command has been captured by
Gen. Hardee.
The Federal statement of their loss in two regiments, though probably below the truth, would make an aggregate much larger than the
Northern papers have yet admitted.
The movements of
Gen. Lee in
Western Virginia seem to be conducted cautiously, yet skillfully; and though nothing is accurately known, it is confidently believed that the result will fully retrieve the disaster to
Gen. Garnett's late command.
It appears from an article in the Cincinnati Commercial that
General Rosencranz, the
Federal commander in
Western Virginia, is likely to meet with poor success in his call for troops from
Cincinnati.
A correspondent of that paper writing from
Clarksburg, Virginia, on the 9th inst., says
‘
The necessities of the case consist in the fact that
Gen. Lee, the ablest of the rebel commanders —
Beauregard only accepted — is at
Huntsville, not more than forty or fifty miles southwest of
Huttonsville, undoubtedly with a powerful army, because
Lee's character and antecedents show that he never moves in an enterprise unless he is satisfied he has power enough to make accomplishment reasonably certain.
It is rumored that he has forty thousand or fifty thousand men. If he has half so many, readers will assent that his demonstration is sufficiently formidable, and admonishes the country that the next campaign in
Western Virginia will not be a trifling expedition.
No intelligent military man apprehends defeat of our army; but it is within the range of possibility, and it should be guarded against by every possible precaution.
What would be the consequence of our defeat?
Overthrow of the
Western Virginia Provisional Government; exile of the
Union citizens and confiscation of their property, or the conversion of indifferent into rebels; the capture and destruction of the
Baltimore and
Ohio and
Northwestern Virginia Railroads, which are so important to us; the capture of our vast army supplies, which are so necessary for the rebels; and the defeat of any enterprise the
Government may contemplate in reference to
East Tennessee.
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