The New York herald., 1863-07-29


to lie, and strictly primo sold high as 10. Tho
bulk sold at 90. to 1OXc. and the average price
lower than for long tims previous Mich COWS
steady at $2S q $40 . 500. veals were rather more
plenty and less active, at 4I<c TO 7Kc &c. tho latter
Is tho extreme rate. Shscp and lambs plenty and
shade lower, varying from 50 to IS 50 % rs Swine
were steady Al 6Hc 5Kc. for corn fed, and 4Tc. .
6o. for still fed. Tho receipts S31 boeves 1io
cows, 900 veas. IL ,3A7 sheep and lambs. and IL 800
swine. Full particulars will be Published In the WEEK
Ly on Saturday.
The Rebel Army OF virginia-What IL
tho Prsspccts
The rebel journals at Richmond do not pre-
tend to disguise their qualification over the
return of General Lee to the south side of the
Potomac. still at the head of formidable
army, and with the bulk Of his plunder picked
up in Pennsylvania and Maryland. There is no
ca use for despair, these Richmond journals
argue, with the veteran legions of General Lee
again on the soil Of Virginia, and in a position
from which be may defeat all the calculations
of the enemy, until the weakened armies of the
South shall be strong again, under their new
conscription.
From this 1t would appear that, the aggres-
sive Napoleonic experiments of Lee having 80
signally failed, he is now to pursue the Fabian
defensive policy, carefully avoiding general
battle until his army is sufficiently reinforced
and re-established in every sense to give at
least reaonable assurance of success
Having succeeded in getting his army over tho
Blue Ridge and on the south side of the Kappa
hammock, it remains to be disclosed whether
Gen. Lee will resume his old camping grounds
on the heights of Fredericksburg or take up
some new defensive position, which will better
enable him, while watching "the Yankees" in
front, to take care of the communications with
Richmond in his rear. In any event we hope
that General Halleok has had enough or the
line Of tbs Rappahannock as base Of opera
tions, and of Aqua creek as base Of supplies
to convince him that any other route to Rich
mond is nearer and more practicable than this.
How Is it, by the way, that Gen. Lee can move
an army of q hundred thousand men two hun
dred miles away from his base of operations,
and without any base of supplies, and back
again by the same route, while our army can
not be moved towards Richmond without q
base and store Of supplies close behind it
sufficient for the siege Of Sebastopolf
In this matter there has always been some
thing to as very perplexing and suggestive of
something wrong. If our army, without q base
of supplies, can pursue the rebel army from
Harper's Ferry along the flank of the Blue
Ridge to the Rappahaunock, why not from that
extraordinary river right on to the navigable
waters Of the Richmond peninsula? Will our
soldiers eat any more in a weeks marching on
the south side Of the Rappahannock than they
require on the north side. But there may be rebel
distinctions on the way. Suppose there are,
are we compelled to run our heads against
them, like Burnside, or to halt alongside of
enough and with roads enough to enable us to
turn all these rebel distractions down to the
Chickahominy! But, after oil, is not the road
by way Of the White House or by way Of Har-
rison's Landing the shortest road to Richmond.
and the shortest now to the army Of Lee
We are only apprehensive that to the War
Department the Rappahannock river will now
become again slough Of despond." where
wasting delays or blundering and disastrous
fts of activity will wear away the glorious
summer for success, and the golden autumn,
and another long and dismal winter. We have
reason to fear that the advantages offered from
the victory Of Gettysburg, like those OF Antie-
tam, will be frittered away upon some new and
magnificent scheme Of General Halleck or Sec
retary Stanton. Against any such intermed-
ding schemes we can only rely upon the good
sense and dsinterested patriotism Of President
Lincoln.
The paramount and primary object now to
be kept In view Is a final settlement with the
army of Gen. Lee before IL Is reinforced from
Bragg and Johnston and from the new and
sweeping rebel conscription into an army fifty
thousand stronger than our Army of the Poto-
mac. The rebellion has but this one powerful
army of Lee to stand upon. All the other
armies of JelI. Davis have been broken into
fragments n he, therefore, on bis interior
lines. can hurry up to Lee the forces Of Bragg
and Johnston, and such censcripts as can be
mustered in Virginia and North Carolina, In ad-
vance of another great battle, we may yet, be-
fore the end Of this summer, be startled with
another advance Of Lees army for the rear Of
Washington.
Aud why should not Davis adhere to this
plan OF operations. lie has lost the Southwest,
and his only chance of recovering bis losses
there il by the overthrow Of our Army OF the
Potomac and tho capture OF Washington Des-
peratc cases call for desperate remedies; and
we would admenish tho administration 10 be-
ware lest the desperate remedy Of Davis may
be the rapid concentration Of all the odds and
ends of all his armies In The army under Lee
for another offensive campaign.
GENERALS Wool AND SASpronp AND THE RApr-
CAL JouRSArs--The radical journals have not
as yet published the reports made by Generals
Wool and Ssndford upon the subject Of the
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