The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-03

vs works weak and indefensible and that in esv.
ting they left nothing which boast except the
occupancy Of the petty village q Corinth As which
OF the two dispatches Is entitled credence tho public
must judge.
But thing Ia certain The rebels have evacuated
the immediate vicinity Of Corinth and General Haecks
army now holds it and its railroad and turnpike ap-
Proachss. Where when or by what means the rebels
where theyave gone what they next
90 do are all hid from perception At present.
tho facv that good strategic points present ths-
selves further to the southwark that strong body Of
rebels have gone TO the northward and another
towards Memphis, that their railroad and river
facilities for transportation are limited and
ordinary carriage still less, and that their
armies would become thoroughly demorazed BY long
retreat IL will be safe that tho Is
yet even tho regions Of Tennessee and Northern
'sissppi We may next learn that tho main body Of tho
rebels have made stand at Grand Junction. Jackson
Tennessee TO which place General Haecks army would
have TO march overland TO dsodge them But the most
plausible theory just 10 that they have gone TO
Memphis in order TO into Arkansas, ross
20 Texas and the Rio Grande before Farragut and Davis
shall have blocked that game by uniting their fleets In
che Middle Mississippi. We have but small force
west Of tho river and that Is the TO which Price
and Van Dorm such ponderous grudgc for the aAr
at Pea Ridge It will be remembered also that these
two worthless told the people Of Arkansas, whom they
lsft that State that they would return In few weeks
% drive the hossians from their borders"
Again, It Is believed by many that Beauregard has
not gone far that he will concentrate his on some
Of the roads close by, whore he easily retreat
again, and thus gradually General Halleck still fur
thor and further from the river until he gets the Union
army into such position that flank movement would
compel 70 turn and fight its way back to the source Of
it, supplies Beauregard Willy fellow and Halleck ls
Ms equal and the chess gamo Of they playing
just now is puzzle to even experts in the science.
By glance at the map which we publish to-day on
our first page it will be that half dozen ways
provided by which the rebel army escape from the
vicinity It Is disposed, and Of places
be found which would AFFORD them temporary shelter
They can take the Mississippi Central Railroad from
Grand Junction northward to Jackson Tennessee
forty-sight miles, At which place that road forms
. junction with tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad; south
ward they 60 by the road to Grenada, one
hundred and miles, whero the great Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad leading from Memphis to New Or
leans ntsrsects and westward hay 60 from Grand
Junction TO Memphis, ffty-two miles, Cornth Is only
Sortyons miles from Grand Junction. South from Gre
NADIA they have uninterrupted railroad communication
20 Canton, Mississippi, eighty miles, where the
New Orleans jackson and Northern Railroad begins and
1t which place railroad runs northeastward to Okla
Iona, tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad eighty nine miles,
whore part Of Beaursgards army is reported have
ned TO- Thirty miles south Of Canton is jackson. Mis-
sssippi at which point the Southern Mississippi road
crosses the New Orleans Jackson und Northern road
distant east from vicksburg forty-cour miles From
jackson they would have direct communication with
Richmond, via Sowashee, Scmer, Jacksonville, Dalton
Knoxville and Lynchburg (ths break Meridian 10
Uniontown being now completely, and by . score Of
!. othsr routes further to the eastward.