The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-11-27
News from Washington-Will
g there be an Advance?

The Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago, Tines 9writess G4Ie8g "
| The. special meeting of the Cabinet.
lheld on Saturday evening. is understood
ID have had reference to The plan OF the
winter campaign IF the naval expedi'
tion TO Port Royal succeeds in effecting
landing of the troops, it is believed TO be
the policy of the Administration to make
the territory between Savannah and
Charleston the base, Of. very extensive
/ military Operations. A force Of 100000
troops will be concentrated there at once;
buth Savannah and Charleston will be
occupied, 3pnd then movement inland
will be commenced, the ultimate object of
which will be to strike the great South
ern Railroad at Chattanooga or Knox
4 vile. aud to penetrate Kentucky through
/ the Cumberland Gap. General McCiei.
1 Ian was summoned to attend this meeting
and went when this plan was laid before
! him for his approval. Whether or not it
received his sanction, i am unable to say.
! Elt is certain, however; that his military
! iudgmenl at once perceived the objections
Of withdrawing $4,000 more of such
: troops as would be required for .thatwor
! from Washington, and the difficulties oi
. marching an army such q distance througt
! "a hostile country, and that his plan In re-
|, gard to Kentucky is to attack the rebel'
= there from The line of the Ohio and ex
? pel them southwark. hi7i'i' i.9Yif7a9E
But. whatever will be the nature of tn
!. winter campaign at the South. the indl
: cations are that in these parts the 'unio
: troops will soon go into winter quarters
- The troops Of Generals Banks and Ston
have already done so. The men are com
70 fortably hutted at Darnestown, and mos
of the officers are at Baltimore and othe
- places, on furloughs ~ sii1Ea 9i'
!" The papers just now are filed with r.
% ports of the withdrawal of large bodit
Nv Eof Confederate troops from the Low
z1tPotomac 4 to defend heSouthern sea coas
en- These reports are weak iuyentions Of I'll
81. enemy. There is no truth in them wha
ce ever. 1t appears, from the moss )reliab
accounts, that, Gen., Beauregard has sol
at Ito Charleston. most probobiJ sc4see cabo
ns the defenses of that place and Savanna
in, But all the stories about the Goufedera
,m troops weakening their defensive line o
nut fposite Washington, by the Withdrawal
ed any considerable portion of their numb
fly are the purest fctions. 1t is not the I'll
IN time, nor the second, that such ster
;k- have been started {
nd The same canards were circulated beft
TO 1.-THE battle of Bull Run, before the evst
III. alton of Munson's Hill. and before il b
ous TO be sckno wtedged that the COnfedera
uDithad succeeded in completely closing
ker lilavigation of the Potomac. On 1es
ain occasion that portion of the press !, Il
eei. has always despised and Sunderrated
ght strength and resources OF the south,
,ay3 only gave credsnce to the reports,
Ian fused them as arguments to prove that
kes. was the time for q graud forward mo
tain |1ment of the army of the Potomac.
. OF on each occasion few days only clap
led before it was found lhatsthe rebel al
shot was as strong as egsr.9 So it will pr
re lin tn 3 case. AT every point where II
aelylis a Federal and q Confederate army,
the lat, er is either numerically the strong
Fed or else has the best Generals, o. the
they vantage in position. And !. mas gee
the ever since. the war began. This ,ecco'
,rior for the results of the affairs at Big 81
q of ell, yleuha. Bull, Run. Lexington,
hole mont, Bali's Bluff, aud, above ali. for
Ii success Of the Confcderates in holding
,der., right bank of the Potomac below W
any lngtou for the space of seven months
beeur| the face Of the grand Uuiop army, al
sup, openly, delioerately' ahu step oy
,upd- erecting one battery after another.
nong the work was done. and the great av
ener. to the capital closed. This 1 cons
onel, their greatest triumph. Y
COM But what do all these things pr
i That such. arc to be the. results of al