The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-09
THTa wAR Nnws.


The prccIpitate retreat Of General EABLY's
forces up the Shenandoah valley took every
one. By surprise, and we are at loss to assign
9 cause for It beyond the fact that the Rab,l
leader may have been apprized in some man
nor of ths.vast preparations made to attack
End possibly destroy his army. 1t will no
Doubt be. General snERIDAN's work to At out
~ expedition for. operations in the valley of
Virginia, A heavy column moving in that
reglca could be made very useful, in connec
tlOn With the movement upon Petersburg AMI
Richmond. We are Of the opinion that Gen
OrAl MEADR has an ample army already, and
thai any losses can be made up to him In
short time With troops from the new levies.
In this,case General SHERIDAN can organ
Use an army in few days and be doing good
work In the valley Of Virginia before the be-
ginning Of oeSeptember. The subsistence of an
army about Lynchburg would not be so diff
ficuls now a. when HUNTEB moved forward,
a. this Is tho season for lngatherlng and
thrcshlpg Che wheat crop in virginia, and the
corn harvest viii begin in October We
believe H. would be feasible now, also, to seize
and use sthe Virginia and East Tennessee
Railroad, ,drawing supplies for provisional
army Of ordinary proportions from Knoxville
and Chattanooga Once In Lynchburg or
StauDton, we need have no fears of being
driven 0ut
The advantages to be derived from such a
movement, under great military genius for
leader, amount TO important results, bearing
directly upon and potently tending to deci-
sive conflict and final victory. 1t would be
the means of dividing and weakening LEES
army by drawing OF portion Of 1t from Rich
mond and Petersburg, and would also secure
from Il its fall and winter supplies in great
measure, In addition to this, 1t would pre-
vent any diversion in favor of General HOOP
in Georgia, which General LEE might desire
10 make. Thus much to-day, with our article
in yesterdays TsLEGBAPH, will show clearly
10 amy unprejudiced mind that our prospects
for nnal victory and peace were never more
promising than at the present moment; but we
want men, and the arguments of great orators
have failed TO call them forth plentifully In
dsys that are gone.
We must now look TO our duties at home
here In the North. We ought to raise men
great many. How shall we do it? A great
military genius says that nation can only
raise a second army from the people by two
Implements ofinfuence blending in operation
--they are money, and success in the field.
These results or features of a Governments
working only can manufacture or augment
public confidence. The former we have in
abundance the latter we certainly have had
in very respectable number of instances and
If not as clearly defined and decisive as we
could wish, we certainly are not left
without future of great promise in the
hOiu' NOsViM NhhNi hsS auOptcu BItul
military economy in prosecuting the war, and
his demands upon us are as contracted as we
can desire. He has reduced the entire war
20 two grand theatres--one at Atlanta, the
other at Richmond. Another act in the
drama Of the Rebellion will close the doors
at the former place, aud then he will only
ask for additional supernumeraries at L he lat
Ger point to give due effect to his grand de-
nOuement, the great closing tabeau Of the
war
We have abundance Of material, A friend
las suggested, upon careful observation
that there are in the city Of Phildel-
piia enough young men who could be spared
from Che city and from their relatives aud
friends, ior year, without serious dehiment
80 public or pIvaie interests, to form a
diyision and in Philadelphia, New York, and
lIroolSiyn, enough 20 form a handsome and
effective army corps! We ought then, to
-oe tbat our quota. are prompty dlled by Sep,
ieu.ber s. 1t is quite probable, coo, that the
wm win not lasl mare ihan three months
lCrgcr.
The news that Admiral FARRAGUT had
passed Forts Morgan and Gaines, and was
bombarding the city Of Mobile, seems to have
been founded merely upon the knowledge Of
the Admirars excellent preparations fol an
attack upon that place; but we are glad to
find, from an official despatch of the Rebel
General DABNEY II. MAURY, that Admiral
FAnRAoUr's feet is actually before the city,
flushed with q grand naval victory.
u our operative armies are now grouped into
three grand military divisions, viz. The
Army Of the Potomac and its eontingents,
under Major-General MEADE; the Grand
Division Of the Mississippi, including the
Armies ofthe Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee
Mississippi, Missouri, of Arkansas, Kansas
and the Gulf under Major-Gensra W. n.
SHERMAN; the Grand Middle Military Diyi-