Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-05-21
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Richmond Enquirer on the "Sit-
uatiOn.o

WASHINGTON, May 16.-The following dis
patch was received here last night:
FORTRESS MONROE, May IL, 0 7. M.-lhe
Richmond Enquirer OF the 18th instant has
been received here. and contains the follow
ing editorial article:
There is evidently to be an active summer
campaign. The plan of the enemy seems to
be TO Keep our attention constantly excited
at every point at once, so that no part OF our
whole wide frontier may be freed from the
urgent, immediate apprehension OF an attack
Then they can strike where they think our
line is weakest or our defepccs least prepared,
and if repused, can retire and direct blow
at some other quarter. In the meantime,
they can bag much plumber and cause much
sorrow and heart break to our people, by eX-
petitions through thinly populated regions
destitute Of troops and also force more and
more of our people within their lines to take
their hate oath for a quiet Iife and to save
their property from cnufscation. Thus they
can both demuralize and rob us within our
own border, preparing all the while serious
assaults, and delivering them just when they
are ready and where they choose.
at is hard to FAY at what point they are
most active lust now. 1t one looks south
westward. it would seem that the State of
Mississippi Is the region of most extensive
operations. Immense armies are gathering
around Vicksburg, and while preparations
are in progress for a new assault upon that
place, tie back country is devastated and
the people plundered by cavalry raids But,
at the very same moment, Charleston is Kept
on the 9ui rire by energetic preparations Tor
another attack by sea or land, or both al
once The object may be only to prevent
| Gen Beauregard from sending away any OF
! the troops which now defend Charleston AT
the same instant Burnside threatens East Ten
nessee, and Hooker, largely reinforced, is eX-
pectcd to cross the Rappahonnock somewhere
| or anywhere from Cupcpper to Port Royal.
/ To keep some of our forces employed in de-
/ fence of Richmond, renforcemeutS are sent
to Fortress Monroe, and lest any part of the
country should resist. the enemys guuboats
are h ,rrassing North Carolina.
.'Iu the Raleigh Progress, of the 18th, we
read Guuhoats continue to prowI up aud
down the Chuwan amt PerqulmuuS IivcrS.-
! They steal negrres, siverware, jewe.ry and
everything they can lay hands on. and have
broken up number Of fisheries. They stole
some four thousand dollars worth of jewclry
from man named Cook, breaking up his
furniture. &C., and committed other leprcda-
tiuns. In ore instance they entered sol
dier's house, and broke the furniture, crock
ery. &c. Five or six thousand Yankees are
reported in Plymouth, and several guuhoats
in the Sound. There is no enemy AT Eden
ton or Elizabeth City. They recently burnt
a mill on ChowaD, the property 81 Mr..
Hayes, situated mile below Niht"h. Some
persons entertain the idea that the hFcc al
plvmnuth mp,litate an pypcditiOn IN tie
Roanoke.
1.-THE great numbers Of the enemy forces
and mpIttpdes of their shining make it
's,, t'r ,I,nr, :, carry ON sinin'taI,cri. liz all
.t',,o ',,aro,;.,ns and ,hov do mot core fer
."ISo ol''";'o, a,,i n.,,a ara .,,c..r;,,.,
"eI"S' ."r 1t ~, 10 o"' l''PII ,c.
not theirs. Inc longer 'hiS S's'e -, "'I''
lasts, the greater Will be the mass 81 pun ''I
carried North the more oi our n,lIiS, ms
Chine-shups, aud railroads they Will have lie