, 1862-05-26
THE NEW PLAN OF THE REBELS.
Startling Disclosures of the Proposed
Campaign.

IFro1n The shclbyyille (Ky.} News, aist.1
VIC do not desire to circulate rumors or
fears that will cause excitement, or increase
the feeling Of unrest which has taken posses
Eion Of 6o many Of our best citizens. But flcts
are developing, which show that the traitors
are determined to carry out, as far rs possible.
their deliberately coococted plans to keep the
seat Of war from their OWL peculiar soil-the
Cotton States That has been from the first
the leading object Of the Southern traitors who
lead the YIN in the trait0rous attempt to orer-
Turn the Government and break up the Union.
Fooled in their earlier attempts to carry out
this darling object, new plans were recently
formed, and all the energies Of the traitors are
expected to carry these plans into operation
partially, if not thoroughly. The measures
recently adopted by the traitors, and which
they arc endeayorlDg to carry out, may be
stated thus:
!. Withdraw all the forces from the Virginia
and North Carolina coasts, and concentrate
them at Eomc central point in Virginia.
These forces to form one wing Of the rebel
army, to be placed under the command Of
Joseph E: Johnston, and to move in the di-
rccti0n OF Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the
purpose Of invading that State.
2. Withdraw all forces from the coasts Of
South Carolina and Georgia, and concentrate
them at Chattanooga, or some adjacent point
This division to form another wing Of the
rebel army, under command OF Robert E, Lee,
and to move in the direction of Louisville, for
the purpose Of invading Kentucky and Ohio
8. Withdraw the forces from the coasts OF
E1orida and Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas aud Arkansas, and concentrate them At
Corlnth. This wing to be commanded BY G.
7. Beauregard, and to move in the direction
Of P&ducah, with the intent Of invading Hi
nois and Indiana
This plan was formed by full council OF
leading traitors. Tt is unnecessary @ ioc Us = 70
give the source OF our information. Suffice 1t,
that cur informant obtained It from native
Of this State now resident OF another state,
and whose name has often been given IN Inc
newspapers In the Southern States as 4 trusted
and confided agent Of the traitors against
fhe Union. Socially and politically he stood
among thu most prominent before the rebel
The objects to be gained ip carrying outtthe
Dian was, first, to secure subsistence, OF which
fhcre is none, or at least but very little, in the
south-not enough to supply a tithe Of the
ordinary demand; and secondly, to force into
their armies all The fighting men. The sever
al commanders were to push forward their
forces with all possible dispatch, and possess
themselves Of 81 the important military posts
on the rivers aud in the loyal States, before
these posts could be occupied by Federal
forces; and thus, while the Union arm1es
held and occupied the posts Of importance in
the States in rebellion, the forces of the trait
ORE would advance into the yerT heart Of the
country
VIC think the reader will agree with us, that
the recent movements Of the forces Of the
traitors chow that this development Of thei,
: plan is correct 1t is true, that their attemp!
IN forming the middle wing under Lee, u
Chattanoga, has been at least for the presen,
foaled, By the movements Of McClel1Rn. Bu1
news from Western Virginia shows that 10
E. Johnston is concentrating all the forces ht
eau bring against Fremont's command il
that Misunderstanding directly toward Pitts
buEgh- And the evidence is verwhelming thu
all the forces from these States to eonsti
centrating there rapidly, With The design an'
hope Of oyerpowering Gen Halleck's army
and IF successful in the object, then moeiuI
according to their plan They will, by thi
means, cause the Federal authorities to NOV
an army in that direction to meet them, dur
ing which time the traitors will rally, By pei
suasion, impreRsment, and under their cor
BTiptiou Law, to their army every traitor an
rebel In Tennessee Apd Kept1ckY,