The capture of New Orleans is the most important event of the war thus far. There can be no doubt that the rebel defences of the city were formidable, though doubtless not so much so as the rebels would have been glad to have made us believe. The city itself was of too much importance to the rebellion to be given up without such a defence as the rebels were able to make, and we are disposed to believe that the traitors really believed it to be invulnerable from the Gulf. It is the most flourishing and opulent city of the South, and its loss will be most seriously felt by the rump of Jeff. Davis’ conspiracy. The rebellion could have much better spared Charleston, Savannah and Mobile than New Orleans. New Englanders have carried the flag to the Gulf which now floats triumphantly over the Crescent City. One more battle—and it cannot be far off—between Halleck and Beauregard, and the rebellion will be crushed beyond the hope of the most sanguine traitor in the valley of too Mississippi, and that mighty pathway of commerce, from its source to the sea, will own no flag but “Old Glory.”‘
The Daily Green Mountain Freeman, Montpelier, VT