The New York herald., 1862-10-26
Another Victory i'm the West-NOw for
a Movement in the East

Union victory at MaySvllle, ARKANSAS
Hindman utterly routed-''all the organized
forces of the rebels driven back into the valley
of the Arkansas river Thus ends the whole
rebel programme of their invasion, liberation
and winter occupation Of our loyal border slave
States, from Maryland to Missouri Lee has been
expelled from Maryland, Bragg from Kentucky,
and Hindman from the Missouri border.
Hindman has been so completely cut up that
Gen. Curtis may now walk over the course in
Arkansas. Bragg would have suffered SINH
lar decisive chastisement but for some misad-
venture in the combinations of Gen. Buell.. The
government, which is doubtless in possession of
all the facts, has fixed the responsibility upon
Buell.. He has been superseded, and from the
victorious field of Corinth Gen. Rosecrans has
been summoned to the command of our magnif-
cent army in Kentucky. The country will
approve this change, inasmuch as Gen. Buell.,
with the finest opportunity for the grandest sue
cess, has failed, while Rosecrans, on all ooca
sions, whether in the mountains of Western
Virginia or among the hills of Northern Missis-
sippi, has been signally successful.
We are sure that. with Rosecrans at the head
of our great army in Kentucky, tse armed
forces of the rebels will very soon be utterly
expelled from Tennessee. In fact, the work of
putting down the rebellion in the West, with
our late victories in Mississippi with the defeat
and :etreat of Bragg from Kentucky, and with
the rout and dispersion of Hindman's forces in
Arkansas, is substantially accomplished. All
that remains to be done is the gathering up Of
the broken and demoralized fragments of the
late insolent rebel armies in that quarter, and
the Southwest will be swept clean, from Ten
nessee and Arkansas down to the Gulf Of Mexico.
But from q glance at map of the United
States it will be seen that the great rebel army
OF Virginia is now, by an air line, over two hun
dred miles north of any other rebel force Of any
consequence in the field. To be even with our
armies of the West, our grand army of the East
ought now to be pushing after Lee across the
North Carolina border The general demand
therefore, of our loyal people for an immediate
| advance upon the rebel army Of Virginia is just
| and reasonable. The universal desire is TO
hear, not that 'the Potomac is well guarded" :"
| but that the menacing rebel army on the vir-
| gipia side is defeated, routed and dispersed.
| We are taught, too, from our last years dis
couraging experience, that If within very short
| time our Army Of the Potomac does not
advance it will be embargoed by the
rains and frosts and thaws and mud of Virgil
| MIA winter, until the return of spring We
know, too, that while our occupation of the
rebel capital will at once put an end to all
| European agitations of Intervention, recogni-
| ton or mediation, we cannot make decisive
| impression upon the masses Of the people of our
rebellious States, nor upon Europe, while JEFF.
| Davis issues his deerees from Richmond.
We hear Of no dissenting voices to the re-
ported army changes in contemplation at
Washington, embracing the return of General
| Halleck to the supreme command in the West,
the restoration of General Mcclellan to the post
Of General-in-C Chief, and the promotion of Gene
raj Hooker to the command of the Army Of the
Potomac. 1t appears, also, that both Mr..
Seward and Mr.. Chase are in favor of
these proposed changes, and that this chap
py accord" between the conservative and the
radical wing Of his Cabinet has settled the mind
of the President upon the subject. In any event,
while an advance upon the rebel General Lee
is Of all things the one thing deemed most need
ful by public opinion, the delay Of our army
until compelled to 60 into winter quarters is
universally regarded as the most dreadful mis-
fortune that can befall u.s.
Let the Army Of the Potomac be thrown for
ward upon the enemy. Now is the time. The
prestige Of victory has returned to our banner.
Our soldiers will surely win under the in
| spring influence Of our late successes, while
our chopfallen and dispirited enemy will as
surely be defeated. Let the army of Lee be
routed, and the moral influence throughout
the South Of our late and approaching Northern
elections will do the rest, in Southern
popular reaction for the Union. Penn.
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana have spoken
decisively against the violent. ferocious
! and exterminating war policy Of our abolition