The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-15

The Impending Capture OF Richmond
and Final Rout OF the Rebels.
All quiet in front of Richmond. Hardly a
musket shot from our advanced pickets has
been reported for several days. In sullen ST.
lence the two hostile armies there confront
each other. A dead calm prevails; but it is that
ominous and awful calm which Immediately
precedss the outbreak and the swift, terrible
and irresistible march of . summer hurricane.
Thus the army of General Mcclellan hangs,
like mass Of heavy clouds, still thickening,
darkening and extending around Richmond,
and the moment approaches when its elements
of destruction will break forth upon and sweep
from that devoted city the last remaining or
ganized vestiges Of that great rebellious con-
spiracy still feebly Haunting itself before the
world ~ an Independent Southern confedora-
ton.
Let our patriotic readers patiently await the
appointed hour. II cannot be much longer de-
layed. In the meantime, as every days prepa-
army Of the Union, while it inevitably weakens
and demoralizes the forces Of the rebellion, we
are steadily gaining ground. Thus, the great
victory which General Mcclellan could win to-
day will be greater victory if postponed till
tomorrow; for we know that another of those
so-caled strategical retreats Of the rebel armies
is utterly out Of the question in reference to
Richmond. That place is their chosen !" Con-
Tolerate" capital; their last remaining army
Of any moment is there concentrated to defend
their capital, and Davis and his ruling asso-
ciates are too well informed, by late events
not to know that if they are driven out of
Richmond they cannot undertake to set up
their tabernacle in any other city, town or
hamlet of the South.
No fears need be entertained, therefore, that
the rebel army Of Richmond one Of these
fine mornings will be reported missing, like
that Of Beanregard at Corinth. If they aban-
don Richmond they abandon Virginia; and,
with that obstruction out Of the way, North
Carolina instantly wheels back into the Union
and a hundred thousand fighting men of those
two States will thus be lost to the rebel army
with the evacuation of Richmond According
~, we may entertain no doubt of desperate
struggleby the rebels to hold their capital and,
in this view, the more complete we make our
preparations for decisive victory the more
the government and General Mcclellan are
acting upon this idea, and that we may expect
when the final assault is made upon this last
rebel stronghold we shall not only carry the
city, but capture the bulk of the enemy's
forces, and perhaps, too, without any very seri-
GUS destruction of human life.
With the fall Of Richmond this rebellion
will be virtually at an end. We shall have
then nothing left to do but to settle with few
inconsiderable fragments Of the two great
routed and broken up rebel armies; and these
demoralized fragments will dissolve and disap-
pear, at the approach Of our superior forces,
from Raleigh to Montgomery and Mobile. We
hear Of some idle rumors that Beauregard is
strengthening the rebel defensive army Of
Mobile, Savannah and Charleston; but with all
his disposable forces thrown into either OF
those places he would be a. powerless against
our gunboats as was General Lowell with his
defensive army at New Orleans.
of the rebellion. With the loss of Richmond,
whether the army of Johnston Is captured or
driven of, the armed forces Of the rebellion
will be broken to pieces, and those two or
three hundred millions Of spurious paper mo-
ney known as Confederate bonds and Treasury
notes will cease to be worth ten cents on the
dollar, even in Charleston. The rebel army
and the rebel treasury depend upon Richmond.
Davis will fight, therefore, to hold it; and so let
US await in patience the great impending
struggle, under the assurance that the more
complete are our preparations the more COM
prehensivs and conclusive will be our crown.
ing success.
Napoleon, England and Mexico-Myste-