Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-01-23
Southern News.
THE POLICY OF THE TIES
A SEMI I-OFFICIAL EXPOSITION.


vance sheets an article prepared for De
Bows Review. 1t is said to be sem-ofi-
cial exposition Of the policy marked out by |
the Confederate leaders. We make few |
extracts:-
"E Not needing the essonsswe tried to teach |,
the Yankees at Bethel, at Manassas, and the |
other day at Leesburg, thoughtless people
among us are continually complaining that
our armies do not follow the fatal examples
set by the North, and rush headlong into
positions where they would have to encounter
superior force, strong Notifications and natu.
raj advantages of situation 'Tis the mob Of
the North, and its mouth-piecc the prees Of
the North, that has urged on their armies to
certain defeat
So far, our President and all our officers
have disregarded the senseless clamor Of
housekeeping people, who talk and write ig.
norantly, thoughtlessly and rcckless!y about
the conduct of the war, which they compre-
hend about as we'll as they do the Chaldaic
language or the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Out of dangers way themselves, they do not
feel or care for the useless danger to which
they would expose our troops. Orr officers,
whether volunteers or regulars, have exhi-
bited remarkable prudence, skill and saga
city. As conscientious men they have en-
deavored to gain victory with little loss Of
life. In this they hare succeeded, because
they have fought the enemy at advantage,
and never at disadvantage. An army acting
on the defensive, in its own territory, may
by retreating choose its own position for
battle. The invading army must either cease
to advance, give up its project Of conquest,
or attack it at disadvantage in the strong
position which it has selected
The Confederate States present greater ma
tural obstacles to an invading army than any
equal area of country on the globe. Armies
cannot march down our Atlantic coast, be-
cause of the great number of bays, inlets,
creeks and rivers; nor down the interior.
because Of mountain ridges, impossible roads,
sparse population and scarcity, Of provi-
sons
The Mississippi is narrow, long, tedious
and easily defended, and its valley is subject
to overflow. No invading army will attempt
n serious invasion in that direction. 1t is ouy
true policy to decoy the enemy into the intc-
rior, and then to cut them off, as were Brad
dock, and Burgoyne, and CORVALLIS, and
Ross, and Packenham, and our own troops
in the everglades of Florida. When we have
defeated and captured their armies, exhaust
ed their treasury, and cowed their spirits BY
defensive warfare, it will be time for us to
begin to act on tho offensive and to invade
their territory" :"
The article argues strongly against any
invasion of Maryland at present, and in this
connection says
"Should we be defeated in Maryland, our
whole army, with their ammunition, would
be captured by the enemy. We might in a
short time repair the loss Of our men, but the
loss OF our munitions Of war would inAict
upon us stunning and appalling blow
One defeat in Maryland would do us more
harm than ter in Virginia. We have the
selection Of the battle-ground-wh choose
Maryland =
JACKSON'S EXPEDITION TO BATH.
From the Norfolk Day Book, Jan. %.
LYNcHBURG, Jan. 1.-TWO letters from
Winchester have been received here dated
the 7th and 9Th, furnishing intelligence from
Jackson's command. The first letter says
there has been no fighting beyond little
skirmishing, in which three or four casual
ties occurred on each side, and capture by
the Confederates Of two cannon and ten
prisoners, when the enemy retreatcd across
the Potomac at Hancock.
We have also burnt the bridge across
Mount Cacapon The. cnemys force WAS
estimated at two or three thousand.
The second letter says that Jackson was
on his return, having accomplished the OBJ
ject Of his visit, which was the destruction OF
Dam No. Of the Chesapeake Canal and
Luc bridges Ot tIc onio
road in the locality. Jackson lost in tho
expedition some twenty men. There was
but small force of the enemy in that quar-
ter, and but little fighting. 1t is supposed
we lost more men than the enemy General
Jackson captured in lis expedition about
forty thousand dollars worth Of clothing and
military stores.
On Monday last, some FIVE hundred mill
tia, stationed near Col Blues, on the North
western road, fourteen miles this side Of
Romney, and were soon put to fight, with a
loss Of three or four killed, some few prison.
ers, two pieces Of artillery, and their baggage
wagons The enemy also burnt mill near
by and several dwellings. including Colonel
Blair's, destroying all the private property
and live stock. They shot poor old shoe
maker in bis house and burned It over his
head. Among the wounded is Capt. Alex
ander. of the Arkansas regiment, who lost an
arm.
Our force recently at Hun.erville wss