Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-10

Marriages, NoticeSOf FunsralS, aud announcements
Of sermons, so cents each nouvlI-'59
WILL Gen. Mcclellan raise the stars and
stripes over Richmond by tho e5th? 1t
was said that before moving the grand
army into Virginia he assured tue Presi-
dent that such was his expectation. He is.
doubtless going that way, aud Geu, Wool
thinks there will DC little resistance. Tue
valley of the Shenandoah having been spe-
cinlly assigned to Gen. Banks, and the
country west of Alexandria to Gen. Nc
Dowell, the inference is that Gen. McClel-
Ian is with the division that has been land
ed near Fortress Monroe, aud of which the
telegraph continues to announce daily that
it is progressing favorably. The impress
sion gains ground that the rebels will only
make such resistance as is necessary to
cover their retreat, and that they really
mean to abandon Virginia. The govern
meut seems to have tue utmost confidence
of the. success Of tho present movement,
aud the determination to accept no more
volunteers is declaration that the war is
drawing to a close: D
On the Tennessee, iu Northern Alabama
and Mississippi, the rebels are preparing to
make final stand, but even there they
are likely to be outlanked, aud driven from
their last line. Before Nashville was
taken the Richmond Examiner said:
aft Nashville is taken, and We lose iu-
consequence all the country of which
Nashville is the center and capital, it is n
question whether the Southern forces
would not be better able to carry out the
defensive ideas that have hitherto repula-
ted this war. They would then go to the
water sheds which divide the rivers that
flow North, like tue Tennessee and Cum
berland, from those that tend toward the
Gulf OF Mexico. They would surrender
the greater part of the State of Teunes-
see, aud concentrate the whole energy of
the Confcderacy on the defence OF the
South proper. They would in this posi-
tion ronder the road from Virginia by
Chattanooga to Georgia imPreguablc"
All this hasIhappened, aud more, but our
joint armies under Buell. and Grant seem
to have separated the rebel forces, and cut
their railroad connection, SO that we seem
to have the key of the position, provided
our forces are strong enough for tue work
assigned them. The disposition of the
rebel forces in that region, week ago,
was thus stated in their papers:
"Gen. "A. S. Johnston's whole force has
been withdrawn from Decatur. There is
hardly corporals guard ut that point
The forces of Brig. Gen. Oheatham were
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Polk has passed Il large portion of his army
to the same point, leaving Brig. Gen. I. i.
MCGOWAN in command at Island No. TO-
Gen. Bragg holds Humboldt with the ma
jority of his spl didly drilled men from
Pensacola. 1t Is said that these are the
finest troops in the confederacy, and are
10000 stroug."
A Union man, lately escaped from the
rebel lines, states that on the gath ult,,
there were from 1000 to $4,000 confede.
rates, under Beauregard, along the new
line Of defense, and within % or 80 miles
of Corinth, and reinforcements were pour
ing in from the east, west and south in
large numbers. Arkansas will be COM
pletely drained OF troops in few weeks,
aud large numbers arc coming from all
parts OF Virginia-cven from the army be-
tween Richmond and Mhnassas-thc con-
federates having determined to abandon all
tlfe border states, and make stand ut Cot
tOutOnia proper. There are not, he says,
10000 men in all Virginia, and it is the
confident belief of the people of Mississippi
and Alabama that Montgomery will again
be the capital of tue "confederacy' in less
than sixty days. The rolling stock on tho
East Tennessee railroad is all impressed
into the government service, to carry can
non, troops and ammunition from Virginia
to the new Notifications, iu process of con-
structiou in Mississippi and Western Ten
nessec. The rebels are anything but con-
fdent of victory indeed. in the ranks,
there exists general despoudency. The
ofticers do all in their power to rally the
men, but in vain. A bloody defeat at Cor.
inthi and a sudden advance upon the COM
paratiVely unprotected state of Virginia,
would speedily overthrow the rebellion.-
Deserters from Beauregard's army at Cor
inth, report great dissaG aGsfaction among the
rank and file. -fi H.
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