Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-09-25
FROM THE NORTH.


A despatch from Washington, September 10 b, says
that the night OF the 18th the Oonfedarses blew Up
the piers of the new bridge at Hsyper's Ferry.
They also destroyed everything that possible to
be destroyed at Hsrpers Ferry ard along the line Of
the road 10 hartDsburg, including the splendid bridge
known - the Pillar Bridge that point. This morn.
ing there remained only small foIos Of rebels Boil
var Heights, and one company at Sandy Hook.
The came despatch gives the following dispatches
from Mcclellan:
HKlDo'Rs Army OF rHs Peroxlo
Sept 1913 80 IN.
Hrjor Gen. Hallsck, Gener.lin Chief:
but little occurred yesterday except diminishing.
List night the enemy abandoned bis poi ion leaving
his dead aud wounded on the field.
We are again 10 pursuit.
do not yet know whetl he is falling back 70 an ir.
terror position or crossing the river. e.
We may ely claim victory
Gro ECCLrLLAS, MfjoI General
= BIADQEs ARMY oF THr PoToNAc,
Sept. 1910 80 An.
Major Gen. H. " HdIisek G,oersEin Uhkf:
Pieasan' o. i, driViI the enemy sTosI the river.
Oar victory was complete.
The enemy il driven buck into Virginia.
Maryland and Pennsylvania are now sa'e.
GKo. B. hcCLtLLAS Major Genera.
A despatch FROM Hnrburs, The 10, Gays
Information just received from the battlefield SAYS
victory ia complete, and that General Peala1ton il
ia hot pursuit of the enemy and driving them the
Potomac.
The whole Uaion army is in good condition, and the
enemy has been badly punish
IHE HERALD IN IosTAoIIs- GLAND PROGRAMME "CHAIK
I'D CUT"
The New York Herald, with "inexpresstl, grstifca.
ton" announces its readers tie great victory OF
Gen. Mcclellan and bis noble army 1t says:
l. was but the other day that the rebel General Lee,
al the head OF COUNTLESS hes, menacrg cur national
Ca pita and Northern ctes, entered Maryland with
all the airs and presumption OF coIqIsror and dclsor
Nov with his grand army beaten again and sgiin dec
ma ed, denorsliz I'd sad chopalen. he ANONYMOUSLY
ellad from Maryland, and in full retreat on tie
tr soi" Of Virginia
Thus at length, the backbone Of the rebellion is bro
ken. We have only to follow up this victory with
zeal and activity in order 10 br this to rlcse be-
fore the meeting Of Congress in December. While TIE
amy OF Gen hcCle Ian is prshing energetcaly forward
alter the broken columns oil Lee up The Shenandoah val
10y, single amy corps Of fifteen or twenty thousand
msD, BY way of Fredericksburg, or from the head OF
York ryer may row, almost without resistance, march
INTO the civ of Richmond General Hsleck, We doubt
not, will sezi The opportun for this important
prise. Lei him take X chnoDd without delay and by
reno ring the obsrco from the river beor singe
nbOat will cradle him to hold the CITY, Beet Of sll,
hi, promp, occupation Of edmond VII leave the frag.
msnts Cf Lees army no place OF refuge, and they will
be dispersed.
With Virginia tins completely liberated and reinsts-
ted uuder tie old flag" the work Of recovering North
Carolina and OF settling with Charleston Savannah aid
Hcbls will be comparatively easy; and equally feasible
Il be the advance Of land force from Virginia and
Kentucky down to the Gulf Of Mexico The whole pro
grsmme thus indicated may now be contaminated by
December. |. will, in fact, be virtually accomplished
WI the capture or dissolution Of this main reoel army
o! Virginia To feet this essential Of .ct We rely upon
the ACTIVITY Of General Mcclellan and the ssgacity
corresponding energy Of General Hasck and the War
department..
Thus anticipating the speedy recovery Of ou- rev led
States, bepioping with Virginia. wha: 10 tn, policy sug.
sased to p eden Lincoln Il ia TO &c ~ the opening
with the recovery Of Virginia. o' proc sms'ion to her
peotle assuig them with their submsson Of the pro-
lection of the Constitution Of the United States NrIt
az soon ss practicable With the recovery Of our rebel
cus States after Iother let the Presiden, provide
for elections therein for Senators and representatives. in
our next Congress-; and meanwhile let our Conservative
Union men OF all parties in NeE York aud the North
combine to return TO this next Congress set Of
men, in place Of dsunion abolition radicals aud the
trilmph of the Union and OF honest Abraham Lncolns
administration will be complete.
Then, with our glorious Union renssted in full
rsngh, aud Iu'ged of the dsorgsnzOg dement's Of
Southern secessionism and Northern aboiionsm we
shall be prepared at to ct stonement and reps.
ration from Englspd aud France for the insults which
they have c.Gd upon ia, and for the aid aud
which they have given TO our enemy In q thousand
devious ways since the outbreak Of this rebellion Tten
we snail be prepared try the force OF republican
ideas and Institutions in Cauads and to see thai stce
ia done to Mexico.
Such the grand and comprehensive results in our
domestic and foreign reslioIs foresh, allowed ty this
great triumph Of army 10 Maryland, and their full
lme1t i, but QUESTION Of time. This Southern re
belon IL doomed, and with it, extinction rsd,smed
coultry will rise at once in tho nj sty Ct III, most
powerful nation in tho world. ~