Year: 1862

Texas to carry him safely into Mexi-
co. But be has no time to lose. Com
modore Farraguts gunboats from New Or
leans are steadily moving up the Mississippi
few days more and the gap between them
and Memphis will be closed-an operation
which. il he does not move at once, will en-
close Beauregard, and cut off his escape in
that direction and his present sources of sub
sis.ence.


In his camp at Corinth his principal sup
plies-collected in the surrounding counties Of
Tennessee and in Arkansas-are drawn from
Memphis, because the cotton region Of country
ago, short of provisions for its local population,
although receiving constantly large amounts,
now cut off, from Tennessee and Kentucky.
OF course then, with the country south Of him
exhausted and with the region to the west
ward, which only scantily supplies him
now, in danger Of being cut off, Beaure-
gard must move forward and fight or
our impression that he retains the bulk Of his
army, in order to work his way to the right
bank Of the Mississippi before it is too late;
and the probability ia that he has commenced
that undertaking.


There is nothing to eat for his army of
10000 men to the eastward, or we might
assume that he has been and is moving it to
form junction with the rebel army of Rich
mond. We dare say that the chief object Of
these late rebel raids in the Shenandoah valley
and in the mountains of Virginia farther west
was the capture of our depots of provisions
at various points; for the rebel army at Rich
mond is upon short rations, if we mag judge
from the famine prices of provisions of all des-
criptions there, as published in the Richmond
newspapers.


But whatever the designs of the rebels may
be, East or West, we see from their recent
operations, from Winchester back among the
Virginia mountains almost to Kentucky,
that they exceed us in numbers at every point
of collision. 1t follows that if, with half q
enough from other quarters to overwhelm at
every point the rebels in Virginia, the Pre-
sident has acted very wisely in calling for
more troops from our loyal and patriotic peo-
pie to supply all these deficiencies in Virginia,
from General Banks to General Fremont. We
hope, therefore, that the President will en-
courage the splendid volunteering now going
on until at least two hundred thousand addi-
tional troops are in the field; for then we can
SO strengthen our surrounding Gordon Of armies
in every quarter as to enable them to move
all together upon the beleaguered enemy, and,
in single dash, to crush out this rebellion and
utterly destroy its means for any further re-
sistance, even of guerilla warfare.


We are prepared, meantime, for such news
from General Halleck and General Mcclellan
at any moment as will substantially end this
war; but the complete work will only be the
more speedily and cheaply accomplished with
an additional army force Of two or three hum
dred thousand men. They can be raised in
thirty days. Our late expensive reverses are
due to the malign influences, intrigues and
schemes Of the abolition faction Of Congress
against General Mcclellan. We have had
enough of this. Now let US 60 forward and
put down at once this rebellion, and thus put
an end to these abolition schemes for the de-
moralization of our army and the overthrow
Of the Union and the government.