Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-04

E S. FLINT, J. MUELLER,
WM. collins, DARIUS ADAMS,
M. BARLOW, ID. s. LYON,
c. /. RUSSELL, JARVIS N. ADAMS, Sec. |
Cayahoga County Union Committee
Summit aud Lake County papers please copy.
Rebel Plans and Prophecies.
We are continually hearing of new ag-
gressive plan of the rebel leaders A few
weeks ago We had the Lee and Beaure-
gard plan, which was, to Immediately
abandoa the defensive and adopt the ofFen-
sive policy and invade Pennsylvania and
the West The latest adyices give an i'm
P4s~vs~.-t .Ps- .L~tl - os~~.--s-t
made at consultation Of rebel leaders at
Richmond. The mOdesty of this plan is al
most overwhelming Its grand outline is
to invade the North in three columns, one
st or near Williamsport or Cumberland,
into Pennsylvania, another by way of Lou
isville and Cincinnati into Ohio and Indi-
ana .and the third, by way of Paducab, into
Illinois and the Great West. To carry out
this plan, it is proposed, 1st, to Obstruct
the James River so as to cut off McClellan's
communications 2d, to occupy Yorktown
and the whole Of the Peninsula; Sd, to
recover the whole Of Virginia and to
suppress the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road; 4th to recover Memphis and New
Orleans and the expulsion of the Federal
troops from the Mississippi Valley, as well
as from Tennessee and Kentucky; 9th, to
make the Potomac and the Ohio the bases
Of operations, and transfer the seat of war
from Virginia to Maryland 9th, to hurl
column Of 100000 troops upon Washing
ton from Richmond. This is modest, GER
taiuly, and if the leaders will only include
theoeeupation of Chicago, Cleveland, Buff
falo, New York and Boston, as division
headquarters, and the enslavement of the
whole loyal people of the North, they may
astonish the world with their Great Ex-
pectations" These reports come to us by
way Of Memphis at the same time there
Is partial confirmation of their main fea-
lures in the statements of the Baltimore
correspondent of the New York Herald,
who processes to have the plans of the reb-
els for the fall campaign. He says that
Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile,
Vicksburg, and the railroad from Gordons-
vile to Chattanooga, are to be held and
defended. It is further asserted that until
cool weather, a force viii be kept in Ten
nessee and Kentucky, so as to render it
necessary for the Government to dc the
same in order to protect Ohio, Indiana and
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Unless
q strong Union force is kept there, it is
bAlievei L-st-i1rs-u,-5szi 'UInc1nnati and St.
Louis. The chief offensive operation is to
be an attack on Washington The details
Of the plan have been arranged, and the
particular troops to make the attempt have
been designated. The operations on James
River arc feints, the rebels not wishing to
drive of Mcclellan, but to keep him there
The whole policy of the rebels will be to
menace and threaten as many different
points as possible, in order to distract and
divide the attention of the Government as
much as possible.
According so the calculations of the rebel
War Department, it will require only
l26,00O troops to defend Richmond and to
vancouver in the Peninsula; 25,OOO,to de-
fend the railroad from Gordonsville to
Chattanooga; $1,000 to defend Charleston
and Savannah 25,OOO to defend Mobile;
10000 to defend Vicksburg; 25, 1000 for op-
erations in Tennessee and Kentucky-to-
tai, 1885, 200. For the attack on Washing
ton, 100000 picked troops are now being
massed at Richmond, Gordonsville, Char
lottesville, Lynchburg and Burkesville
Besides all the troops enumerated above,
they have several corps Of reserves, as they
are called, amounting to 1855 900 men but
as this number, with others, would Just
make up the 100000 troops which they
claim to have in arms, the probability is
that they are newly-raised conscripts, who
have been put into camps Of instruction,
and are being drilled so as to be able to act
as reserves. The expedition against Wash
ington is to be commanded by Gen. Lee in
person, General Beauregard, Gen. Jack
son, and Gen Johnston are all to have
commands in it. It is not known when the
expedition will start; but the impression
prevails that it will be soon. It is design
ed to make the whole movement suddenly.
The city is not to be invested, nor is any
thing like regular siege approaches con-
templated. If the present plans of the
rebels are carried out an attempt win be
made to capture the city either by strata
gem or by assault or by both.
These exposures or suppOsitions of the
rebel policy, show that they are still deter
mined to fight to the bitter end, and that
prompt and vigorous measures must be |
taken to thwart their designs. While the |
6rst reports given above, by telegraph, |
partake much of bombast, the other has an
air of plausibility, which renders it at
least worth watching against Our Gov
eminent wants all its force in the field at
once, and must have the three hundred |
thousand It has called for. There is no
time to lose; they are wanted now-
Appointment ofAssOciate Judge Advocate.
The Hon. L. c. Turner, Of n. Y, has been
appointed an Associate Judge Advocate for
tbearmy around Washington. He is charg-
ed with the investigation and determina-
ton Of all cases Of state prisoners and Of
military arrests in the District of COlum-
bia and the adjacent counties Of Virginia,