New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-04

purchased in the East, have been carried into the
State through Baltimore, and their whole army is
now well armed Manassas Junction has been viz
tpaiy abandoned, there being only q guard left
there to look after the guns Of The batteries. The
principal body Of their forces has been pushed for
ward to the Upper Potomac, to be thrown across
into Maryland, for which movement column Of
10000 is prepared with pontOon bridges, upon
which they can cross at any point they hnd the
least defended. They are determined to make an
attempt to get Maryland in their possession, and
trey believe that will insure their ultimate posses
sion of Washington aud all the immense accunIula-
tinn Of supplies here, thus enabling them to trans-
fer the war from the Potomac to the Susqehanna,
and secure to them their recognition by Europe.
This programme has been decided upon.
BY he following, from the New. York Tribune,
the leading organ of the Abolition party in The
North, it will be seen that recruiting for the army
in that city is dead. Although they Offering to
pay two dollars per head for recruts, they can find
none who will enlist. Where will they get the
$4,000 they promised 10 raise in few days?
During the last two Or three days the recruiting
business in .rew York has been very slow and ap-
peafaLces indicate that there will be a cashng be-
| tween the United States and State recruiting Or
ganizations With q view Of speedily filing up
their quota, the State authorities now preparing
TO pay the two dollars bDunt" formerly paid by
United States recruiting officers, and abolished at
the recent session Of Congress- In the opinion of
military authorities, if recruiting continues as slow
as herGtOt0fe the process OF drafting Will nave TO
be called into requisitlOn.
The total number Of recruits as compiled from
official sources, now in this city, is as follows In
United States regiments. G.84t; mustered under
State regulation, IEl- TEis includes the regiments
ordered Oh during the present week.
| "CAHRYING TEE VAR INTO AFRICA - Gen. Lee
| Proposes 10 TFt'Ac' in Ohto.-The correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette writes from CIarksbpyg
| Virginia
IL. r
| not known to lie making any remarkable progress
through our lines, are at seast-uot too modest in
| their expectations. Lees troops now boast that
they intend to winter in Southern Ohio,
| Provisions, transl ortation munitions of war, all
abound across the river, and across the river they
| mean to 60 before the winter sets in.
| Certainly al this sounds like ridiculous fusti2n
| and yet We have been driven lack from Manassas
| we have been driven badkirom Springfield: every
where the substantial fruits of victory remain with
the rebels. Is it to be wondered at that, knowing
| these things and knowing that o1e Of tho mos
prominent Of tie relel Generals Las been sent will
a large force to their relief, the Sccessonists Of
| Western Virginia should believe, as thev do thar
IN less than a month their country will be freed
| from the presence of the invaders /"
IN Western Virginia, our army has to protect the
| Union men cf onetrd Of the entire Stale from the
| Secessoni6ts, against whom they are too weak o.
| too cowardlv TO protect themselves, anG in az
UOn to tbs has 10 maintain line Of strong rosts
stretching from Gauley Bridge northeast in a ln'
parallel With the mountain ranges to Piedmont OIL
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad To keep up til
line, and yet to have a Gsposable force ready t.
meet Lee. General Rosencranz needs more tooIs
In nearly every instance thus far. the rebel
haye met us with more troops than we expected
To-day they present to the world the extraordinar
spectacle of an insurrection which has on foot NOR
troops tl-an the Government whick proposes t
suppress il has raised, after months of prepaIa
ton. And, setting aside ali questions Of proba
biIities for the present, what assurance have W
that Lee may not have silently concentrated
fierce double the strength we have been supposine
and that by well planned movement, he n!ay nc
rush upon DER line at some one Of its weak points
breaE through, and rapidly attack our troops
their scattered detachments.