The New York herald., 1862-04-22

without change Of moment.
The Rebellion COrnered I'm tho South
west-Bea auregard i'm a Panic.
We are grati6ed at length with the fullest
conviction Chat, while the great rebel Army of
the East at Yorktown is destined to suffer dis
astrous defeat if not the capitulation of Lord
CORVALLIS, the great rebel Army of the South
west is driven into corner from which it can
hardly escape.
In support of this opinion we find the most
satisfactory evidence in the confidential de-
spatch of General Beauregard to the War
Office at Richmond, which we published yester
day, but which is so full of important admis-
Stops and suggestions that we reproduce it here
as the text of our argument:-
CoRN1H, April Q. 1862.
To General SAMUEL COOPER, Richmond, Va
All present probabilities are that Whenever the enemy
moves on this position hs will do SO with an overwhom
ing force Of not less than S5 900 men. We can
siby join us in few days with about 900 Can
not be reinforced from Pemberons armyf II defeated
ws 70 h
Charleston and Savannah for the purpose OF defeating
Buss army, which would not only insure the valley
' ~ o w. G. r BEAUREGARD.
Our copy of this despatch was received from
one of our army correspondents in Tennessee,
and we have every reason to accept it as genu-
inc. General Mitchell, in his despatch of April
IL to Secretary Stanton, says that his advance
guard, 'aftsr forced march of incredible diff
Guilty." &C., "entered Huntsville this morning
at six o'clock that "the city was completely
taken by surprise;n that I'VE have captured
about two hundred prisoners, fifteen locomo-
tives, a large amount of passenger and box
platform cars, the telegraph apparatus and office,
and two Southern nails But here the ques-
ton may be asked, How was this despatch of
Beauregard of the 9th intercepted at Huntsville
on the l1th! We answer, that the operator in
the Office at Huntsville must have taken copy
of it as it passed through, just as despatch
sent from here to Washington may be copied at
every intermediate station; for the vibrations
of the main wire are carried to all its branches
Thus satisfied Of the truth of this despatch of
Beauregard, the question next recurs, Can its
representations of his weakness be true? Sub.
stantially, we think they are. He is writing
after his repulse from Shiloh, or Pittsburg
Landing. 1t is generally admitted that his ag-
gregate force in this bloody two days struggle
was at least sixty thousand men. His losses
in killed, wounded and missing made consid-
erable reduction, which, with the demOraliza
tons of bis defeat, and the expiring terms of SER
vice Of his sixty and ninety days men, will &C
count for his setting down his effective" force
at thirty-fve thousand. He expects fifteen
thousand more with Van Dorm from Arkansas;
but Van Dorm may be too late at the Mississippi
river at Memphis to get over.
Beauregsrd, anticipating an attack by eighty
five thousand men, under General Buell., wants
something more than the reinforcements of Van
Dorm. "Can we not be reinforced" he asks,
"from Pembertons army Where is Pember-
ton? When last we heard of him he was
at Orangeburg, South Carolina, and this
hint of Beauregard indicates considera-
BILE rebel force in that quarter. He says,
furthermore, that 1--WE could afford to lose,
for while, Charleston and Savannah, for the
purpose of defeating Buel's army, which would
not only insure us the valley of the Missssip-
pi, but our independence" Here the supreme
Importance of that valley is very emphatically
confessed; but we apprehend that the PROPOSE
tion to abandon Savannah and Charleston in
order to secure said valley will make won
derful change among the South Carolina chival-
ry as to the patriotism and military genius of
Beauregard. He seems to have strangely for
gotten the facts that this rebellion was devised,
arranged and precipitated upon the country by
South Carolina, and for her particular benefit,
and that she expects to be defended though
all the other Confederate States may be
abandoned.
General Pemberton, of course, will find it
utterly impossible to send any reinforcements
to Corinth. There is no help for the rebel
cause in the Mississippi valley. 1t is doomed.
The army of General Halleck, with that accom-
plshed soldier in person at the head of it, will
be too powerful to be resisted at Corinth or
anywhere else by all the forces which Beaure-
gard can muster in the Southwest, supported AZ
Halleck is by the splendid Mississippi army Of
the victorious General Pope, and the co-operat-
ing gunboat Gotilla of the fighting Commodore,
Foote. who knows no such word as fail. Co
rinth will be turned by our occupation of Mem.
phis, or rice versd, and then our way will be
opened to New Orleans, and this rebellion will
be crushed in the Southwest
1t is truly desperate state of things which
calls for the abandonment Of Charleston and
Savannah to save the valley Of the Mississippi
but. whether this expedient shall be adopted by
jeff Davis or rejected, the result will be all tn,
same. The Mississippi valley will be wrestet
from this rebellion, and Savannah and Charles
ton will be, and old Virginia and North Caro-
lima. and every other hole and corner of the
South The only question is. Where will thu
great work be first accomplished? 1t may b'
at Savannah, IL may be at Yorktown; but con
sidering the concentration Of our onward West