Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-30

The Rebel Designs In the West---Beaure'
gard 70 Rc-Occupy Tennessee and Ken"
lucky.
The Baltimore correspondent Of the N.
Y. Herald gives further information, pro-
Tossing to be reliable, regarding rebel
designs of the campaign. He states that
the reports that " too much Importance
has been attached to the late raids in
Tennessee and Kentucky" emanate di-
rectly from the rebels, and are calculated
to throw loyal men off their guard, which
should not be relaxed for moment. The
writer then gives BtAuregard's plans for
the western campaign, scouting the reports
that he is insane or has resigned" "
or been dismissed from the service He
is now actively organizing his forces for
q campaign of great magnitude, in the
above States
It is understood that the general fea-
lures Of the campaign win be as follows;
To concentrate at Knoxville and at Chat
tanOoga all the troops not required for
service elsewhere, or, in other words,
about 10000 troops at each place. To
take possession, first, of Nashville, Fort
Henry, Fort DOnelsOn and Corinth, and to
attack and defeat, or expel General BuelPs
forces on the line of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad, and thus regain pos
session Of Tennessee. To advance then
into Kentucky in two columns-one by
way Of the Cumberland Gap, Barboursville,
LOudOn, Richmond and Lexington; the
other by way of the valley Of the sequat-
chic river, in the direction of Glasgow,
Bowling Green and Mumfordsyille. Each
one Of these column is to be 1GO, 600 strong.
The ultimate (presenD destination of the
first is Cincinnati of the ether, Louis
vile.
The following estimates Oftberebel force
are added.
"The rebel fOrces,at present in Tennessee
and Kentucky are as follows AT Ghatta-
nooga and between that point and Knox
Vile, and capable Of almost instant con-
centratOn, there are ninety-eight thousand
troops, the best in the rebel army, under
General Bragg, whose headquarters are
at Chattanooga. At Knoxville and vicini-
ty there are thirty-tWo thousand General
Kirby Smith has twenty thousand near the
Cumberland Gap and on the road between
Knoxville and that point. At Decatur, at
Clarksville, at Gallatin, at Hartsville and
at Murfreesboro there are various bodies
Of troops amounting to 50,O00 This makes
two hundred thousand men in arms. It is
understood in Richmond that as soon as
fifty thousand Of the troops that started
with Gen. Jackson for Winchester and
Leesburg shall have returned TO Staunton,
they viii instantly be sent by railroad to
Knoxville. With the fortifcations around
Richmond, and those that they are now
erecting on the right bank Of the Kappa
hammock, they consider their capital i'm
pregnable. They can, therefore, if they
have abandoned their designs on Wash
ington, well spare these troops for service
in Kentucky, and, indeed, they may send
more; but that is all Beauregard counts
on now. These, with fifty thousand new
conscripts which he has raised in the
southwestern States, which are now in
camps Of instruction drilling and will be
ready for service by the time the reinforce
ments from Richmond arrive, will give
Beauregard his three hundred thousand
troops"