, 1863-06-22
THE &IT'UATIQN. 4

able detail concerning the situation, and if
sAerc be any fault to be found with the said
detail, it will be in It's profuseness. Such
rs it is, indeed; there is enough Of it. As
to Vicksburg, the dispatches elsewhere give
Johnston rebel army Of 10000, 6o,000
and 10000. He is preparing to attack our
forces, but is fortifying himself On the west
bank Of the Big Black River, in q purely
defensive position, to prevent our crossing,
and is also at the mouth Of the Big Black,
getting up new structure On the Mississippi
The triple statement as to the size Of his
army, it will be seen, tallies excellently
Tcll with the triplicate positions accorded
to it, and on the whole we are inclined to
believe it. The garrison at Vicksburg arc
TO suffer general starvation in few days,
and yet, with singular disregard Of the
pcrils ofits approaching inanition the rebel
papers say they have no fears as to the
subsistence Of the garrison, which is very
z1nfecling in them To sum up, there are
three statements as 10 Joe Johnstoo's army,
three us to lis position, two as to his in
1entioas, and double statement as to lis
being in command ut the point at all, and
two statements as 10 family marketing in
Nicksburg. From these facts the reader
will make up his own opinion, which must
1nani1estly be resultant OF these all and
Several, and we pass to another part of the
field,
In Virginin, there has been a battle at
Ccnteryille, in which the Federal army has
been repulsed. The reader is not, how
ever, to fall into panic on that account, for:
in reality, there has been no fight at Cen
1crril1e at all. The statement and coun-
Reinstatement stand stifEy up against each
othcr. The headquarters Of Ice are given
with circumstantiality which argues that
The reporter might " an he would" tell US
what tue rebel General had in his stew
Jan. The rebel army is also made to en-
compass our own, roundabout, in a way
not very promising to our cause, but the
gloom is Immediately broken BY the assn
rance that there are no rebel infantry east
OF the Bull Run mountains at all, and only
slight cavalry sHrmishes to mar the
otherwise actual monotony Of military life
on the Potomac. Gen. Hooker is prepar-
cd to assail and cut up Lee, and yet we
are not to expect a battle, the utmost he
intends to do being to defend Washington.
There will not be q general engagement
in that part Of the theatre Of war for "a
v<,,,,1n of 1ov.eH yN1,se eoov,,e -. rn-.+s+x+c
z1l that is actually known of Hooker and
Lee, and no small share OF all that could
bei imagined, or made up out Of whole
cloth. If the reader is puzzled to distin-
guish lhe several styles Of fabric, We pity
linn the more sincerely because we have
fellow feeling in the matter.
LII Maryland and Pennsslvania the dis
patches are equally lavish and the story is
1old in several ways, from which ne leave
our readers to select that which they may
choose to put crcdence in One thing
seems certain, Harrisburg is now fortified,
and tile ESQ rebels who recantly threw the
Keystone State into an ecstacy Of terror,
are gone. There are no rebels in the State
But there are still rebels in Pennsylvania.
The enemy arc marching on Pittsburgh.
The rebel force in Maryland occupies
Uagcrstown-has evacuated Hagcrstown-
consists Of 5000, C,0oo, 1900. The rebels
will not 60 any further North. Though
nothing whatever is known on the subject.
If this brict resume of the dispatches Of
this morning docs not satisfy our readers,
it can scarcely be that they could expect
more variety in single issue. The dis
patches should suit every taste this morn
ing. Amid the military appointments not
before chronicled as such, General Unrc-
liability seems to have assumed charge Of
the war dispatches.
But let not the reader become impatient,
OF fall into loose cxpcctoration Of censure
upon the war correspondents They send
cnly rumors, because they receive on1yru
1nors, the loose stories that float and grow
in the very air around the places where
two tremendous events are preparing. The
cloud hangs tlickly about Vicksburg. The
federal army, strong in numbers, in posi-
lion, IN hope, is waiting to strike blow,
and wary to guard itself against attack.
The loose claf Of news is nil that is
7,ro,,cl,t ,,s. for tic rarneriue Of the solid
-crain of history is not vet, The fruitaco
nf MI this campaigning is not vet red-ripe.
4 rcrr fcw 3nys. n wcek or two at the utr
,,,et nil, ecttle t1,c oreat question of su-
77rcmacy in Mississippi. and with it the life
al many u brave fellow. Let US who watch
Tho tidinrs in homes of peace, wait
and hone and pray, and not fnll out with
1hc r,,1no,s.
Andso too in yirrinia. The rebel army
W ~ so .o..s Nst,s c,-
purpose, and as he swung his great train
I'M the wider arc. Hooker led his forces
,,n,4 ,1rord IN ~, ;,,o- c;rc,a o,uavc 1,aan.
1'o'.a" atu on an 1nnel clrcle' always Keep
ing Washington ut his back and his foe in
front. What will co,a NJ = al, +ha ro~+
-ao,. ~ 49, ,,"..s. ~onts " ~ 49, tno 1eA'
"eeA W t"o nus'' and Will decide. The
vast harvests now 1ipeninr in the cnoat
.rrano,v of Virginia. the shan.a5ns,' %
1anc's ~,.9 ~ NC oncnanaoah