The New York herald., 1862-08-23


Ricl mond Er1miner OF the 18th inst published
in another column, and that by tie time Gen
Lee or Stonewai Jackson can bring on any
great engagement our generals and our troops
will be ready for it, Al this day along tue
Potomac and the Rappahannock our aggregate
forces can hardly be less than those OF the nd
vancing eneaiy, and the moment lie advances In
force beyoad Gordonsyilie his troubles of sub
sistence and transportation begin.
| Let us not, however, relax our efforts to
strengthen our army in Vitgiaia, under the pre-
sumption that, Washington being well guarded,
wescan take our ow als IN turning back tie
tide of invasion aga t.chmord. The rebel
lea lers have resolved 10 stake everything upon
the chances of their present desperate enter
prise. They have no means for another winter
campaign. They have no time to lose, and
they know it. 1t is now or never with them;
and for foreign Intervention and a Southern
confederacy they recognize their only chance
to be Washington, at all hazards, While, there
fore, the government is cain and confident, aud
the people of Washington feel themselves Sc
cure, and stocks are looking up in Wall street,
it is the duty of the authorities and the people
of our loyal States to push forward their new
troops to Washington as if the safety Of the ca
pital depended upon additional reinforcements
to the extent of fifty thousand men within the
next three days.
Let US push forward our new troops
by day and by night. Where we have
not a regiment, let us send a battalion,
and where we have not a battalion,
company or fragment of o company. They
can be readily fused into the army at Washing
ton. We have the men, means, materials aud
facilities Of all kinds for short and decisive
work with this rebellion; but after eighteen
months Of war we find the rebel army of Vir-
giuia recoiling back upon our national capital.
This army. we believe, is advancing to its de-
struction; but our own forces between it and
Washington should be SO far strengthened as to
enable our generals at once to resume the Often
sive. Fifty thousand fresh troops thrown into
Washington within the next three days may
result in bringing this war to q solution before
the end of August. We have the troops en-
listed. They are going forward at the rate Of
four or five thousand day; but we think that
with little more energy, we might, by land
and water, push forward twenty thousand men
per day.
The crisis and the inoalculable issues depend
ing upon it are worth the effort; and SO we call
upon all concerned to make the trial Of sending
down to General Halleck, within the next three
days, reinforcements to the extent of fifty thou
sand men, Every man of them may thus prove
to be ten times over worth his weight in gold
in the work Of suppressing this rebellion.
The CoRcoRAN REcEPrIoN.-Yesterday our
city poured out its thousands to do honor to
one Of the heroes who have shed upon the pre-
sent struggle no small share of the glory with
which the nations sacrifices and sufferings
have invested it. Until the war broke out the
name of Michael Corcoran was known to but
| few. Now it occupies place In the historic
page of which more brilliant and ambitious
| men might well feel proud, but which is not
| the less due to the qualities displayed by its
| possessor at time when those qualities were
| Just what were required to insure the country
| salvation.
To the patriotism and generous self-devotion
broke out we unquestionably owe much of the
enthusiasm with which our Irish fellow citizens
took up arms to assist in putting down the re-
bellion. His personal gallantry in the face Of
the enemy had also its effect in stimulating his
countrymen to deeds Of bravery; and when his
absence in rebel prison deprived them of his
encouraging influence his name still served as
ll,-sr 10 hof 10 6al
Now that he comes back to US adding to his SER
vices as patriot the claims Of a martyr-for
what martyrdom could be worse than the thir-
teen months slow torture that he has undergone
while in the hands Of the rebels?-we give him a
reception than which soldier or statesman never
received one more sincere and heartfelt. And
yet so great is the modesty of this simple
minded man that he would gladly have shrunk
from it, did not those whose opinions be is
bound to respect assure him that the effect Of
such an example would be beneficial to the pub
lie interests just at the present time.
this there can be 10 question. The moral
influence of such spectacle cannot fail to pro-
| duce its results, both here and abroad. Here,
the example Of man who, starting from hum
bic beginnings and with no other qualities than
a brave heart and firm faith in the destinies
| of his adopted country, finds himself thus re-
warded and honored, cannot fail to stimulate
thousands to follow in his footsteps. Abroad, it
will raise the dropping spirits Of those who
lespair Of republican institutions to find that
the Roman virtues still hold place in our
esteem, and that we are not wholly lost in the
ccrruptions attributed to us. A country that
thus rewards the patriotism Of her sons cannot
be 80 very near destruction.
THE CCERuIAs IN THE SoUTuwEsT.-The news
| from the Southwest which we published yester-
day is of very exciting character. The West
ern papers are filed with accounts Of the opera