The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-19

and hopeless cause, and it will probably
soon appear that many Of the SOL
diers, impressed into their service, are
cordially devoted to the good cause Of the
| Union.
We anticipate browning triumph over Beat
regard and Johnston, and such . popular reac-
ton in Eastern Virginia against the grinding
despotsm Of jeff. Davis as will open the gates
OF Richmond to the glorious old flag OF the
Union, without awaiting even our preparations
| for bombardment. Meanwhile, there is cor
ner of Southwestern Virginia which is still dis
pnted against the Unionists by Ex-Governor
| Wise. At the last accounts he was at the head
OF seven thousand men, pushing to the eastward
| up the Guyandotte river; but as General Cox,
with Union column Of some eight or nine thou
sand men, was hot upon his track, we expect
soon to hear thai Wise's progress as military
chieftaiu has been ended by his capture OF by a
| crushing defeat.
Thus, within few days. we shall most proba-
! bly, be enabled to congratulate our Union low
ing readers upon the virtual restoration OF Vir-
| GINA, east and west to The Union. With the
removal Of Wise, the last impeachment in the
western section OF the State to the loyal Union
| people in that quarter will be out of the way,
and those people will then take care of them
| selves. With the overthrow Of Johnston in the
| valley, Mr.. Senator Mason will find that he is
| no longer wanted In that section; and with the
overthrow Of Beauregard we dare say that the
occupation of Norfolk and it's surroundings will
become an easy matter to General Butler.
Next in order, stretching FIVE hundred miles
or more along the Ohio. river to Its junction
with the Mississippi, opposite Missouri, lies the
State Of Kentucky, loyal to the Union by an
overwhelming majority of her people, though
sorely annoyed by restless clique Of scheming
rebels, with her disloyal Governor Magofiin at
the head Of them. This State occupies sort of
neutral position generally regarded as dis
creditabe and one-sided; but still, if it holds in
check the armies of the Union on the one side,
il holds back the armies Of the Davis despotism
on the other SIDE Passing, therefore. west
wardly over this neutral ground of Kentucky, we
next come into Missouri, the great Northwestern
outpost OF the slave States.
Missouri, for the last ten years, has been con-
trolled by her Southern rights democratic poll
ticians of the secession school. They are in a
paltry popular minority, as was shown in the
last Presidential election, but between the Lin
coin party, the Douglas party and the Bell
Everett party, they oontrived to smnggle in a
secession Governor and Legislature. Know
ing that they could do nothing in a State con-
vention, they proceeded, through their
Legislature and Governor, TO arm their con-
federates in the State, their purpose being the
subjugation Of the loyal majority of its people
by force Of arms. But through the vigilance
and activity Of such Union leaders as r. P.
Blair, Jr., and of suoh infexible Union soldiers
as General Lyon, and with the timely "anau-
eial and material aid" rendered them by tho
city Of New York, this rebel scheme Of pushing
Missouri out Of the Union by the bayonst was
defeated.
But, though thus defeated in their grand
design, the Missouri rebel conspirators, arming
and supplying themselves from the State
arsenals and the State treasury, including the
annual school fund of half million, have not
abandoned the field On the contrary, though
ANONYMOUSLY routed by General Lyon, and
severely cut up by Colonel siegcl and other
leaders Of the Union forces, we still find Gov.
jackson and his confederates b,sily at work
in their desperate enterprise of wrestling the
State from the Union. At our last accounts he
was in the southwest, near Arkansas, with a
body Of armed followers amounting to fifteen
nD{ oft
with body Of twelve thousand men, including
large proportion of regular United States
cavalry, artillery and infantry, under Major
Sturgis, while there were additional Union
army detachments in other parts of the State,
amounting to thirteen thousand men. Hence
we may conclude that Missouri is perfectly
secure.
From Maryland to Missouri, it will thus be
seen, the Union cause, under skilfnl generals
and brave soldiers in overwhelming numbers,
is steadily advancing; so that with the expulsion
of Jefferson Davis from Virginia, We expect
such decentralization of the rebel armies, and
such popular reaction throughout the revolt
ed States, as.will soon put an end to this whole
rebellion Let us hear of the overthrow of
Beauregard, and we shall soon hear that the
Southern Union sentiment is not extinct even
in South Carolina.
The British Government and It's Organs
COslfmg on.
Among the remarkable effects springing from
the sudden vigor Of the American government
in graphing with the Southern rebellion there
is none more evident than the changed tone of
the British press. Inproof Of this, we refer TO
| an article In annthar column from the London