The New York herald., 1862-09-07

universally stuuymB itS i0asuiVo'
The New Campaisa ON the Potomac
Now ts the 4 ime for Action.
What has become Of the great rebel army Of
Virginia? The main body Of 1t has disappeared
from the bloody fields of Manassas, and Is
probably divided into two columns, one OF
which, 1t is reported, has already crossed the
Potomac at Point of Rocks, and now occupies
Frederick, and the other moving over the Blue
Ridge and down the Shenandoah valley for
some ford between Harpers Ferry and VIII
Transport, from which to make dash among
the bountiful supplies Of horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs, grain, -four, &c.. Of those fertile upper
river counties Of Frederick and Washington in
Maryland.
The amount and varieties Of subsistence pro-
duced by these TIVE counties are immense
Take for example, their annual product Of
wheat and IndisA corn, ~ reported BY the
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In these untouched masses Of suppliss- and
others, such - cattle, sheep and hcgp- tive
counties Of Maryland oner temptations which
are almost Irresistible - the suffering rebel
army Of Virginia. The valley Of the shenan
doah, from the pressure of tho rebel conscrip-
ton and the sp0liations and destruction resulting
from the war, has produced very little food this
year beyond the immediate wants OF its local
population but these two counties aforesaid,
| lust over the river in Maryland, have stores on
| hand sufficient to feed rebel army of hun
c. a;v he xuhI Ia IN
Frederick City and Hagers.own the dry goods
shops would furnish the ragged rebel troops q
very desirable supply of clothing, to say nothing
of medicines &C. Assuming, then, that the object
| of the rebel army is to get in among the abun-
| dant army supplies of Frederick county and
| CITY. while the design of Jackson's column,
moving down the Shenandoah valley, is simi-
lar raid over into Washing county and Hagers-
| town, the question recurs, can the rebels, and
| will they be defeated in these enterprises
| We cannot imagine that, beyond this import
/ ant matter of subsistence, the rebels have
| now any design in their threatened invasion of
| Maryland. They have lost their opportunity
| for a descent upon Baltimore, and doubtless
| they have made this discovery. They are not
| in any way prepared to undertake the siege
I of our national capital and they cannot ad-
| vance very far north of Harper's Ferry without
leaving Richmond subject to capture by .
| column from our army in front Of Washington,
| cooperating with half dozen gunboats. In
any event, we expect that the rebel army will
| soon be compelled to take the back track to
Richmond. In this view the same vigorous
and energetic efforts should be made on our
side to overhaul that army and to cut itup,
disperse or capture it, that characterized the
| late pursuit of General Pope by Lee and stone
| wall jackson.
II is now the 7Lh OF September. We have
| less than three months remaining during
| which We can depend upon the ''sacred
soil" of Virginia to serve as for army
purposes. We must appropriate the In
| tervsl in active work against the enemy
| or we shall find our army again eIobargoed or
| s.stuck in the mud" ill April. We are graft
fed with the assurance that the administration
| General Halleck and General Mcclellan are
| fully aware Of this, and of the necessity
| of Immediately resuming offensive opera
tions, and that they have no notion
1
| quiet on the Potomac" for eight or nine
months TO come. We are gratifed to know
that the government and our principal gene
rails at Washington are working like beavers Ia
! organize our immense forces Of veteran troops
| and new volunteers FOR immediate service ia
| the field; and that il within the next ten DAYS
our loyal States from Pennsylvania eastward
L
thousand additional men, an army fully equal
to rebel army of two hundred thousand will
instantly be on the road TO Richmond, leaving
Washington amply protected on every side.
Much depends upon the Governors Of our
loyal States. They may delay and disappoins
the government, or they may greatly assist il
and facilitate its movements. To this end le.
Governor Morgan and every other loyal Cover
nor send forward at once their new troops on
hand, by regiments or parts Of regiments, by
companies Oh parts OF companies, and without
their tin cups, extra shoes, &c, il they are not
ready, for General Halleck, General Mcclellan
and General Casey viii supply all deficiencies
| Of outfit and organization at Washington.
1t was only the other day that Cincinnati was
aroused by the dangers OF threatened rebel
invasion; and if to-day the rebel General Kirby
Smith, with his boasted army Of twenty thou
sand men, were to appear before Cincinnati, he
| would be confronted by an extemporized Union
army, nearly all crack rihemen, fifty thousand
strong, apd "still they come" Let us of the
East emulate this active patriotism of the West,
and New York alone, Within the next ten days,
will be able to add City thousand men to the
grand army around Washington. Now is the
| time for acton-now or never Onward
GREuEY on GoLp.--The Tribune says we
pointed to the stock market AZ the true barome-
ter of the uublic c0nfdenc0 and referred IN