The New York herald., 1862-09-22

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The collapse Of the rebel programme Of an
invasion Of the North, from the Atlantic sea-
board to the Mississippi river. Is the immediate
and most important Of the results Of General
McClellans expulsion Of the great rebel "libe-
rating" army from Maryland.
On the 5th Of this month the London Times
published . statement from the notorious
George Sanders, then just arrived in England
a. special emissary from JEFF. Davis, via Bal
timore, New York and Niagara Falls. The
details Of this statement therefore, must have
been officially communicated 10 Sanders at
Richmond, Immediately upon the discovery of
General McClelIan's movements for the evacua-
tion Of the James river psninsula. Subsequent
events, too, have 80 far confirmed these revela-
tions Of Sanders that we here reproduce their
material points, to wit:-That the rebel army
under General Lee, northeast Of Petersburg. in
August last numbered two hundred thousand
fighting men, with four hundred pieces of we'll
appointed field artillery and eleven thousand gu
perior cavalry; thst this grand army was march
ing upon the enemy. anxious to fight, and con-
fident Of victory; that in the West mean
time, Generals Bragg. Hardee, Price and
Kirby Smith were leading their forces, amount
ing to one hundred and dfty thousand men. to
the fanks and rear Of Buell. aud Grant, expect
Ing to capture or disperse their armies; that
General Humphrey Marshall, from Southeastern
Kentucky, was advancing to . junction with
Kirby Smith, while Generals Holmes and Hind
man, with thirty thousand men from Texas, Ar
kansas, DC, were advancing upon Missouri,
where they expected to be joined by twenty
thousand Missourians, aud that in this general
advance northward the rebels counted upon ac-
cessions to their ranks from Missouri, Tennes-
see, Kentucky and Maryland to the extent of
one hundred and fifty thousand men.
What has followed? East and West we have
seen this whole grand rebel programme put in
motion, and in all its details, from Virginia to
Arkansas We have seen it ratified and espe-
cially the aggressive" advance of General Lee
into Maryland, by the rebel Congress. And
what for? According to the best rebel authori-
ties upon the subject this aggressive" campaign
was intended to deliver Maryland and Western
Virginia, to carry the war into the North, to
capture Washington, and thus 'bring the war
to . close upon the spot where it commenced,
and where alone it can be ended" But the
Richmond Examiner, the most jealous, indie
pendent aud outspoken Of all the rebel organs,
discloses these Northern movements Of the rebel
armies as dictated by stern necessity more than
by any other consideration, OF than all other
considerations combined.
Says the Richmond Erominer:-"The grain
growing and provision raising country which
stretches from the Potomac, at Harper's Ferry,
to Memphis, on the Tennessee, is now exhausted
Of its provisions. The armies Of the South haze
consumed everything ia the central portion Of Il;
and lie joint armies Of the tsoo bel;gerem Po,oers
haze consumed the supplies Of the extremes.
Much Of the productive portions of North Caro-
lima and the Gulf States have been also ex-
hausted, and the general scarcity Of all sorts OF
supplies is attested by the high prices of every
thing eatable. Wheat is worth two dollars and
half at Bristol in the heart Of fine wheat
country, and cattle are bringing seven cents
gross in Southwestern Virginia, the chief cattle
raising region for the whole South. Pork is not
to be engaged now Of the pork rsisers of East
Tennessee at twenty-five cents, though one
fourth that figure has always been thought a
good price after il had reached the markets of
consumption. Hay, which used to be difficult
of sale at fifty cents hundred in the interior,
now cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities
to supply the demand at two dollars. Ece,y
article Of farm produce has gone up to these tobs-
ious prices, and tie ready payment Of these tempt
ing rates has exhausted tie farming regions Of The
South of hei, supplies" Hence the stern ne
csssity Of moving these great rebel armies from
the exhausted States involved in this rebellion
into the abounding supplies Of Maryland and
Pennsylvania, and Kentucky and Ohio. The
Eaaniner frankly says that 1.-The campaign in
Kentucky is not only for securing another State
to the confederacy, but for meat and bread;"
and that in the rebel occupation of that State
TO the Ohio 1.-The political advantages secured
to the South would be even Of small account
compared with those she would derive in
sumptuary point of view"-"bread and meat"
That " bread and meat constituted also the
most pressing incentive 10 General Lees inva-
sion of Maryland is abundsntly proved by the
hungry stomscbs of his troops when they en-
tered the State, and by the amounts Of supplies
which they instantly seized upon and devoured
Ragged and ravenous, those rebel 9 liberators'
pounced upon the " bread and meat of fruitful
Northern Maryland like a cloud Of lscusts,
consuming everything in their track. Now,
driven back into the empty desert to which
Virginia has been reduced by this rebellion
what is to become Of this late boastful and
defiant grand rebel army Its only resource
is to endesvor TO get back again, aud as fast as
possible, to Richmond, from the victorious army
behind It, and over the desert country, for army
purposes, OF two hundred miles, which lies be-
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