The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-09-27
From the New York Herald, 99d. Z
Our Late Vietory; IN Maryland.

The collapse of the rebel programme of an |
Invasion Of the North, from the Atlantic sea-
board to the Mississippi river, is the immediate
s-...osA l.: =. ~ ss'~ .~n..'s. ~ Gsnaral
On the 9th Of this month the London Times
publishes statement from the notorious Geo.
Sanders, then Just arrived ia England a. special
emissary from JET sDsvis, via Baltimore. New
York, and Niagara Fslls. The details of this
statement, therefore, must have been officially
to Sanders at Richmond, imme-
diately upon the discovery Of Gen. AcOlellan's
movements for the evacuation Of the James
river peninsula subsequent events, too, have
go far confirmed these revelations of Sanders
that We here reproduce their material points,
viz. That the rebel army under Gen. Leo, north.
east of Petersburg, in. August last numbered
two hundred thousand fighting men, with four
hundred pieces of we'll appointed field artillery
and eleven thousand superior cavalry; that the
grand army was marching upon the enemy an
1ious TO fight, and confident Of victory; that in
the West, meantime, Generals Bragg, Hardee,
Price and Kirby Smith were leading their forces,
amounting to one hundred and fifty thousand
men to the Hanks and rear of Buell. and Grant
expecting to capture or disperse their armies
that Gen. Humphrey. Marshall, from Southeastern
Kentucky, was advancing to . junction with
Kirby Smith, while Generals Holmes and Hind
man., with thirty thousand men from Texas,
Arkansas, &c., were advancing upon Missouri,
where they expected to be Joined by twenty
thousand iissourisns, and that in this general
advance northward the rebels counted upon ac-
oessions to their ranks from Missouri, Tennessee,
Kentucky and Maryland to the extent Of one
hundred and fifty thousand men.
What has followed! East aud West We have
seen this whole grandrebel programme put in
motion, and in ell ito details from Virginia TO
Arkansas. We have seen it ratified, and espe-
Lee into Maryland by the rebel Congresa And
what for :? According to the best rebel author
tiles upon the subject, this !" aggressive cam
psien was intended to deliver Maryland and
Western Virginia, to carry the war into the
North, TO capture Washington, and thus bring
the war to close upon the spot where it COM
menced, and where alone it can be ended" But
the Richmond Examiner, the most zealoue, in
dependent and outspoken of all the rebel organs,
! diecloses these Northern movements Of the re-
bel armies as dictated by stern necessity more
than by any other consideration, or than all
other considerations combined.
i SAYS the Richmond Examiner : 1.-THE grain
growing and provision raising country which
stretches from the Potomac, at Harper's Ferry
to Memphis, on the tennessee, 10 now exhausted
| OF Ito pr0vlolO00- Xuo ARMIES VI Tue SCUM Oev(
consumed everything in the central portion Of it
and the joint armies Of the two belligeren
Powers have consumed the supplies Of tho e.
tremes Much of the productive portions o
North Carolina and the Gulf States have beef
also exhausted, and the general scarcity Of al
sorts of supplies is attested BY the high pric
of everything eatable. Wheat is worth two dol
lars and halt at Bristol, in the heart of FIN
wheat country, and cattle are bringing sever
cents gross in Southwestern Virginia, the chic
cattle raising region Of the whole South. Porl
ID not to be engaged now Of the pork raisers Q
East Tennessee at twenty five cents, though on
fourth that figure has always been thought
good price after it had reached the markets TO
consumption. Hay, which used to be difficult 0
sale at FIFTY cents hundred in the interior, nov
! cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities =
supply the demand at two dollars. Every artf
Gle Of farm produce has gone up to these febu
. | lous prices, and the ready payment OF ines
> tempting rates has exhausted the farming re-
: piops Of tho South Of their supplies" Henc
. the stern necessity Of moving these great rest
armies from the exhausted States involved
!, this rebellion in the abouDding supplies Of Mar!
= land and PenpsylvAnis, and Kentucky and Ohi'
:. The Examiner frankly says shat the eaupaig
4 in Kentucky 10 not only for securing anoths
: st.ss 20 ,hs Contsdsraey, bat for meat An