The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-26
4 New PIrE n 1Es KE.E.

The most significant document which has
yet been published by the enemy, is the pro4
clamation of Brigadier General" John B.
Floyd. the gun stealer, dated WytheVille,
June 4th. He says:
have this day received information
that large force of the enemy are rapidly
advancing from Ohio, by way Of Kanawha
and Fayette Court House, with the view of
taking possession of this region of country,
and seizing upon the Virginia and Tonnes
see railroad, so as to stop the movement of
troops for the relief of our Eastern frontier"
Floyd is scared-and with reason, as the
reader will comprehend if he will take a
map and examine the situation of Wythe-
vile. He will see that it is evidently en-
braced in the great strategic movement of
Gen. Scott for surrounding the foe and cut
ting off his supplies, which Floyd has dis
covered too late for himself and too late
for Davis.
Wytheville lies in the southwestern part
of Virginia, on the Virginia, and
Tennessee Railroad, which is the prin-
cipal channel through which Davis
draws his supplies not only of men and
arms, but of provisions from the South 1t
is almost the exclusive line of communica-
ton with Tennessee. Mississippi, Alabama,
Louisiana and Texas. The southwest, on
which Davis relies for all his subsistence
and reinforcements is accessible to him
only by this line of railroad. The health
full and sslnbriOus region, where he might
find refuge for his armies during the sum-
! ner heats, is open to him only by this road,
while it is also his only safe line of retreat.
If this retreat is made Immediately, he
may yet be in time to keep open the south
western road if it be delayed, as it most
! likely will be by the unwillingness of his
forces to back out without a fight, be will
scarcely be in a state 10 make an effective
/ stand at Lynehburg, should he get 50 far,
and be will then be speedily swept out of
J Virginia.
East Tennessee, like western Virginia, is
| loyal to the Union. The mountaineers OF
| Eastern Kentucky are also determined
Union men. They will rally to the pursuit
of the retreating foe if he escapes. They
will aid in his destruction if his retreat is
successfully cut off. And lastly, if Davis
should determine to fall back into South
Carolina, we may leave him there to starve
or die of the fever, which his fellows have
more than once boosted of as their most eff
fcieut weapon against our troops.-N Y
! Post.
This movement of McClellans. if vigor.
Ously CdTTiSu Out, duU Will Auc1udtc
will do more to paralyze the secessionist:
than any move on the chess board of tht
war. Rev. r. J. Breckenridge, in his glori
Gus letter to the Louisville Journal, point
out the occupation of the region which
/ Mcclellan will command, if he succeeds II
this expedition, as the very means necessary
to break the back bone of the rebellion anC
to support the Union feeling of the South
which is mainly concentrated in Eastern
Tennessee Eastern Kentucky, Western
Virginia, Western North Carolina, ant
Northern Georgia and Alabama. Besides
a speedy movement on Wytheville mus
distract the rebel forces, and aid the attacl
on Richmond when the time comes to max
it. Let him have men, and the means G
transportation, and we will see the fer.
circle closing with fatal rapidity round tn
Rebellion.