The Military Situation

Krom the RíchmODid Kxani.ntT, August 1. I '10 military situation has no longer fhíit degrée of interest which itpossessod during the past three nionths. Lee has í completed bis retrcat, and liolds bis oíd lines of the Rapidan and Rappahannock iu security. Meade's army is ir. front, fout not probubly rear etiougli to reudcra battle imaii3nt. The general public, in ■whioh we count ourselves, do not anticipato imtnediate or extensivo action in that quarter. Botli armics have bad t4ieir üll of fighting, lstely, and will probably do little or notbiug during the beated uiontb of August. It feared that Meade's inaetion is due to tile delay reijuired by a conecnt ction of tlio cbief armies of tho East nnd W'est; t hnt Grant, with all the forcé to be spared f rom the garrisons of Vicksburg and Port Htidson, will be transfer red to Virginia; and that the ftext bat tic will be fought by a combination oi t'h'e arniy of the Potomac and thatof the Mississippi Valley. Tliis supposition ap pears to be ill supported by any known facts save the oft-recurring report that Grant has wholly withdrawn from tb in terior of the State of Mississippi, and that he is shipping largo portions of bis men up the river. But it is far more probable that these troops have gone home on the furlough promised them, as the chief reward of their late arduous campaign, than that they have commenced tho journey to Virginia. Western troops are averse to fighting the battles of the Eaat. They carne in largo number8 to the boules before .liichmond, and were beaten and slaugtotered even moi;,oompletely thao the truc Jankees, who are, despite the vulgar idea to the contraiy, far better troops than the brutal horde of the Nothwest Since then, a resolution to mind its own affairs has settled in the heart of the Northwest. They will fight for Úm Mis sissippi, but not for the Jame. Grant timself has refused the command of the Army of the Pütomac, and bis troops will decline the bonors of the C'hickahominy. All the forees of the Northwest will be necessary in the Autumn to hold their late conquest of the Mississippi Valley. Vioksburg and Port Hudson were powerful agaiust the navigation of the river, but are worthless to defend it. For tbeso and other reasons, it is thought iinpossible that Grant and bis Vicksburg host will ceer be seen on the banks of the James. But if mistaken we should kave nothing to regret. Lee would be compelkd perhaps to fall back on tho extensivo fortifications of Richmond. But this place eannot be invested ; and if its thirty miles of batteries are manned by the army of Northern Virginia it can never be iaken. While the armies of Grant and Meado would be shattered by assaults and wasted by diease, the Confedérate Generáis of the South would have an opportunity to recover TenneFsee and tho Mississippi, wbich they would not allow to pass un Dotioed. Meanwhile, Bragg and Rosecrans have sunk into a Sumrner siesta. Middle Tennesseo and West Tennesseo are alike under tbo hoof of the invader. The people have taken the oath of allegiance alinost unanimously, and are reported to be worso treated sicco they did so than before. They have been robbedof everytbiog that is capablo of being robbed from men ; have no proteeíion, and scarcely any hope ; are fixed in their miserable homes, sulky and bitter. The latid lies without cultivation. What is the use of produce from it for their Yankee masters to seizo even before it is garnered ? The negroos are gone, and the cattle with them. Br.tgg has abandoned a cousiderablo tract of country, but ho bas at last gained a line which seems to be impregnable. Rosecrans will hesitate long before he concludes to trotch away from his base toward Chattanooga, and knows too much of that position to fancy it another Murfreesboro. Mobile is not threatened, and 8 not likely to be so, during the three sickly months which have now begun. Charleston is ahvays threatened ; now more than ever; but ho!ds on gloriously well. Charleston is safe. It bas lately been represented as a Cañan. Not onlv the citizens of both sexes and all ages, but the troops, from the Generala to the prirates and drummer boy, are said to have ben steeped in luxury procured by smuggling, and blockade running The corruptiou is reported to have extended to all classes, and it was suppoeed that every noble sentiment and gallant intensión had died before the lucre of gain. - Happily the recent events do notconfirrn these glooray views of Charleston. Tbe fire on the altar is not burned the palmelto tree is sound at hearfc, and its roota still hold firmlv. We need never fear an ignominious (.urrender at Charleston ; and while its inhabitants and its army are determined to make use of their means of defense to the last, it will be the block on which as many Yankee heads will be laid low as there are stones in its walls. If it could be seeurely invested by sea and land, Charleston would fall at the appointed time; but it cannot be so invested whilo Richmond stands The United States has not an army of 100,000 men to employon its eircumvallation; and if it bad, that army would be cut into two and deatroyed by an attack f rom the interior. Before Charleston can be invested, Richmond must fall, Eastern Virginia be conquered, and the army tbat aecomplished ♦hese feats might, without doubt, pierce North aud South Carolina, lay siege to Charleston and take it. But before sucb cvents happen, there wil! yet Mapy a knight to eartb be born, And man y a banner reut and torn. It is a far cry to Lochow ; it is a farther cry to Richmond.