The New York herald., 1863-09-24

and tending downward. There was more activity 10 but
ter, which was held with increased confidence whiske,
was less freely purchased. but was dearer TIE maia
business In groceries transacted 10 sugars at roy
ant rates. Spices In demand good inqusr,
existed for talow. Tobacco sought after. Hay
hops and seeds selling TO fair extent al fu suo
tatons Tho auction sale OF boots shoes passed OF
quito spiredy all the catalogue having been sold fan
prices. The freight market active and large
engagements Of -four Effected mostly for Liverpool
Cheering News from General Rssecrans-
| Important Rebel Information and
| Movements.
The news which we publish this morning from
the army Of General Rosecrans Is substantially
corroborated by the official report Of Satur-
days and Sundays engagements from the
rebel commanding general, Bragg and, in
| connection with our reports of Mondays opera
tions, this intelligence dissipates our late appre
tensions, and encourages us to believe that the
day is near at hand when the Army Of the Cum
berland will turn the tables upon the enemy.
After desperate and sanguinary struggle OF
three days, In which the impetuous masses Of
the rebels were baf1ed in all their efforts to
break up in detail or to flank his army, General
Rosecrans on Monday night had succeeded in
concentrating his forces in strong position,
where, 1t appears, they rested all day Tuesday
without molestation.
This fact, together with the postscript to
Braggs official despatch, that "Rosecrans has
been heavily reinforced by troops from Grants
army" we interpret as signifying the with
drawal of Bragg to repair damages, to reorganize
his shattered columns, and to consider the i'm
portant question what be Is next to do. His
postscript is broad hint to the rebel authori-
ties at Richmond that he needs reinforcements,
and that bis we'll contrived plans for the
destruction Of Rosecrans, or for his dislodqe,
ment from Chattanooga, have ended in failure
In every great struggle of the war in the open
Geld, where the rebels have not gained a dec-
sive success on the first day, Northern endurance
has turned the tide against them. Thus It was
at Pea Ridge, at Shiloh. on the Richmond
peninsula, at Antictam, at Murfreesboro and
Gettysburg, to say nothing of General Hooker's
three days at Charlottesville, which closed
with his unnecessary retreat over flooded
river, where his army might have been cut to
pieces had not that Of tie enemy been COM
pletely exhausted and really at his mercy.
So, in a broader view, the spasmodic and
unsubstantial successes Of the rebel armies,
here and there. have resulted only in Temporal
rily checking the irresistible pressure OF the
more powerful forces Of the Union, and the
inevitable contraction on every side of the
boundaries of the so-called Southern confede-
racy. And so this late desperate movement
of the enemy against Rosecrans has only TEN,
porarily arrested his advance into the heart Of
Georgia. We assume that Bragg speaks from
reliable information in reporting Rosecrans to
be heavily reinforced. and from Grants
army. We have had our misgivings that the
forces OF General Grant and Of General Banks
had been scattered about in cotton hunting ex-
peditions in Arkansas. Western Louisiana and
Texas, and that Rosecraus was thus in great
danger OF being overwhelmed by ooncentra-
ton of all the odds and ends of the rebel
armies, guerillas and home guards against him
that could be scraped together from Virginia
to Mississippi
At all events, It 10 certain that had one.
half or one-third Of the army Of General Grant
been promptly moved from Vicksburg to the
army OF General Rosecrans the government
would now have had in Georgia, South Caro-
lima and Alabama much more prolific cotton
field than We are apt to acquire with the
complete possession of the cotton States west
Of the Mississippi. But, dispensing with further
commentaries on what has been done, we
return to the question: what is the administra-
ton now called upon to do In reference TO this
army Of General Rosecranss Gen. Graham
an exchanged prisoner, returned from Rich
mond, says that he saw there the other day
eighty-one cannon crossing the bridge, said to
be going to Gen. Bragg We have no doubt
Of the truth of this report, from the enormous
captures Of rebel field artillery made by
General Grant in Mississippi. Thus Joe John
ston went up to Gen. Bragg with a very
scanty supply, and Lee has been called
upon to make up his deficiencies from vir-
gnia. But can Lee spare even eighty-one--
and he has probably sent over a hundred
field pieces to Georgia-but can he spare even
eighty-one without materially weakening bis
own army? II should be the immediate bust
ness OF the Army Of the Potomac to answer
this question; for a movement Of this army
now towards Richmond is the readiest and
most effective way to strengthen tie army Of
General Rosecrans.
At the same time, against the superior mum
bers opposed to him, General Rosecrans cannot
be too soon or too literally reinforced al
Chattanooga. We presume that the govern
ment is fully sensible of this necessity, and is
acting accordingly; but, In this connection, we
would impress upon President Lincoln the
feasibility and expedicncy Of powerful
auxiliary force Of ninety days volunteers from
Tennessee and Kentucky. From those two
States thirty or forty thousand such volunteers
might be raised In thirty or forty days. equipped
and marched forward for immediate service
In guarding dcpots Of supplies railway bridges