The New York herald., 1862-09-05
The Battle Fields Of yirs sinis-Our Illus
trativc Map.

The Battle Fields Of virgini.--Our Illus
trative Map.
We appropriate the last page OF this paper to
an illustrative map of that important military
section of Virginia which lies between Harper's
! Ferry on the north and Fredericksburg south,
| and between Washington IN the extreme east
and Warrenton west-a section memorable ever
more in the history of this rebellion.
With mnuteness which has never heretofore
been attempted in any newspaper map, and on
| a scale sufficiently large 10 render the general
grouping of water courses, fords, ferries.
| bridges railways and common roads, canals,
| mountains, cities, towns, hamlets. railway sta
| tions battle fields, &C.. perfectly clear and in
| tellgble at glance, We think we have accom-
| plished in this map very acceptable offering to
| our readers at this particular time. They desire
| to know something more than has yet been given
| them of the scenes of the late sanguinary bat
ties which have marked the march OF General
Pope's army from the Rappahannock to the
| Heights Of Arlington; something more Of the
| Potomac river as the great defensive line OF
our national capital; something more Of the field
on which the rebel army is operating; and we
| offer the birds eye view Of the whole military
region we have indicated as filling all these
| demands.
Here we see, for example, the importance of
Warrenton to General Pope, in making stand
there against the rebel army advancing from
the South; but after the enemy had gone round
to his rear, by way of Thoroughfare Gap, the
reader will discover from this map that there
was no other alternative to our army than to
| fight its way through. In this connec-
ton we may say, incidentally, that Gene
| raj Pope had taken his precautions against
| this turning of his flank by the enemy, but that
he underestirnated their strength, and seemed
| to think that he had them in his grasp, whom,
| by their overwhelming numbers, they calcu-
| lated upon nothing less than his destruction.
| After his brilliant and successful fight with the
| advanced forces of the rebel army on Friday,
he expected on Saturday to capture the rem
! nants, or to scatter them to the Winds but on
Saturday, borne down by the apparently mex
haustibe reinforcements of General Lee, we
may congratulate our brave troops, their COM
mander and the government that General
Popes army was not utterly cut to pieces.
Returning to our map, from the distance be-
| tween the Chain Bridge, at the Little Falls of
| the Potomac (where the upper river ceases and
| the lower or tide water river begins), to
| Shutters Hill behind Alexandria, and allow
| ing for still larger semicircle on the
other side, the reader may form some idea
of the circuit Of the Notifications around Wash
ington. And when we tell him that around
this circuit of thirty miles these forts command
all the approaches to the river, he will perhaps
| feel satisfied that Washington is safe. If not
there is the river itself, which cannot by any
army be crossed below Washington, except by
boats, nor above the Little to the Great Falls
| in any way on account of the rapids and the
| precipitous banks of the river. From the Great
Falls to Harper's Ferry there is a ford here and
there; but they are oil commanded by our re-
doubts and batteries along the Maryland side.
| Finally, when it is considered that between
| the Blue Ridge and the Potomac, and all the
way to Richmond, the country has been eaten
ont Of its subsistence and laid waste by destroy
ing hostile armies, we may safely conclude that
| the first necessity to the great rebel army of
General Lee will be to disperse or to fall back
to Richmond in search Of provisions.
| OCCUPATION FOR ENGLAND-FAuURE OF THE
HARVEST the efforts of the
English tory journals to disguise the fact, we
have now reliable statistics showing that the
| English harvest is a failure, anu that for some
time to come the population of Great Britain
will be almost entirely dependent on us for
| food. For the last two months indications have
been reaching us that the glowing accounts
| given of the harvest by Those journals had no
actual foundation. They were fabricated to
| persuade us that the export Of gold from this
side was not likely 10 be checked by the export
OF breadstuffs, and that the depreciation OF our
currency, consequent upon the steady outflow
specie, was certain to involve us in irretriev-
able financial snibarrsssments. For all the
abuse and injury that have been lavished upon
US by England since the commencement of the
| war, we have then an Offset in TIE fact that she
will have to depend on US for some time TO
come for the means of feeding her hungry mil
lions.
| There is nothing Of speculation in this as
sumption. Our authority for it is the Gardeners
Chronicle, one Of the most reliable journals in
England in connection with agriculture. The
following is its resume Of the prospects Of the
harvest -
There he doubt that the whe.s harvcs, crop OF
1852 - one OF the worst we have had many years
Thee has always hitherto, the occasion u these an.
nnai turns becn among two hundred correspondents
considerable proportion who have declared the crop 10
beoteT average whore the prepondsrance opinion
and the ultimate srisnce lay all the other way We
have never before had to report that Of hundred aud
eighty eight reporters there IL only who speaks uf
The crop his neiahborhood beng ivory good and
hs - from an Irish county, whose wheat crop has no
xca, influence the general supply OF the ycar And
u is stu worse report Of the Information which has
reached that out Of 1S8 there fewer than 100
who declare The crop TO he Inferior only thirty seven
vno anticipate an ordinary return. Storms oi wind,
causing tho plants TO be roos fallen before the seed