, 1863-07-06
IMPORTANT REBEL ACCOUNTS,
The Campaign of Lee and
what he Intends to Do,


ltrom the Richmond Enquirer, June eel
Feople In civil life cannot pretend to critl
else. In IT'S present stage, d grand campaign
e9G4 % mat now @ entered upon by onr army
Of Northern Virginia. We do NOT so much as
know its object; and therefore SIN less can
we pronounce on the snitableness Of the
means. some Of the Confederate newspapers
write as II they had expected the cavalry nd,
vance into Pennsylvania to hare been at- once
Let Loose upon a general plundering expedI
tion. But INDEPENDENTLY Of the fact that
useless like indlscriminate plundey, it fs well
to recollect that 1t may be absolutely neces.
sa1y to the general plan to keep TINT cavalry
force well in hand 60 as to cover othe,
movements Of the main body. On The great
chessboard Of VET there Is mighty game IL
Progress; and neither We at home, nor Hook.
er, the opposite PLAYER himself, has yet dl,
tions: It Is true that Confederates owe No
consideration or forbearance. to their enemies,
It ts true, further, TINT our generals owe It to
their oWn people to visit q terrible de7asta,
uon and havoc upon the enemY's country.
whenever they have tho means in their hands
But this is not yet lis case. Gen. HooIer. s,ar.
with a vast army, Is still to be disposed Of,
and every movement Of each command must
doubtless, be calculated with q view to thi3
ncedfu1 preliminary business. It may, be
needful even to deceive The enemy as to the
ultimate object Of the Confederate General.
BY adopting the very course complained Of
that is. fol bearing from p1under now. on the
very threshold Of the expedition. In order
TO do the business we'll and thoroughly the
just retaliation (which we demand and the
foe expects) must be organized and regulated
as deliberately as any other military move
ment, and 1t might be fatal to the whole cam
pa1gn u Jenklns' cavalry were. now permitted
to load themselves with plunder, and so, for
the sake Of the pa1try booty Of Chambers
burg, miss perhaps the splendid prizo Of Phil
adelphia or the crushing bloW at the ene,aY's
head in Washington.
These are some Of the considerations which
should make Us al take patiently, for the pre-
sent. the Well-pleased announcements made
IN Yankee pess about private property
pelng hitherto respected and payment made
In Confederate bills. Certainly If tha expedi.
tion Of Gen. Lee were to end Soft; at the
very moment when hordes Of Yankee brig
-ands are burning and plundering far and wide
over our country, not only stealing, all they
bands Of negroes with bayonets In one hand
ana torches in the other, to the work of H.
discriminate outrage and devastation, our
army In Pennsy1yan1a were to march through
the country just as II 1t were our
own; asking Permission Of Dutch far
mers TO draw water at their wells; press
ing their custom on the smiling storekeepers,
and paying them in the best and only kind
OF money we ever see at home; and should
return so, amid the compliments of Pennsy1-
Taniane, and their heartily expressed wishes
soon to zee again among them such courteous
and liberal gent1emen-in that unheard of and
unsupposable case, the whole world would
laugh us to scorn; it would be said to amount
10 an admission that We do indeed feel our.
selves to be in unjustffable rebellion, and
have no right to presume to deal with our
enemies as they may deal with US. 1t would
be giving up the cause; formally surrender
Ing our people throughout every State to pill
aid aggrayation Of oil the evils OF Invasion,
and virtually offering the nccks Of our ring.
leaders to tie laugmau.
This Is SO horrible to think OF, that ne
may safely conclude it Is not the intention of
the great chicftaln to whom SO mighty task
has mp to this day discharged his task so
nob]y- :His operations for the present we
take to be wholly strategical. :. He NAV pur-
posely forbcar to alarm the hostile popula.
1ions, and give them warning to run off their
herds and tiocks, so as to leave the country
waste before. him, until, Hooker once well
cleared out of his path, he can. throw the
whole Confederate army into Pennsylvania,
wide winged, far stretching, in one vast com
bined movement, enyeloptng Washington on
the one side, Harrisburg on the Other, and So
forward, forward, till onr red battle flag re-
fleets itself in the Delaware.
Even In this latter case-eyen If Gen. Lee
designs to make Pennsylvania the seat of
var, and to make the war support the war,
VIC presume that he would not give hte troops
a general license to pillage. BE would proba-
by order each Major. General to call before
him the Sheriff OF each county on his line Of
march, ahd impose upon each certain proyi-
sion-and no small pIoVision-of beeves,
horses, clothing, silver and gold, all to be de-
.lyeEed ut given points, ut given hours, with
the alternative Of making the defau1ting
county
[The copy Of the Enquirer from which We
take the above ID mntilated, aud the conclu-
sion OF the a1icle is, therefore, lost-Eps.]
TIE REBEL ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
tF1om the Richmond Enquirer, June a6,
We arc in possession Of some facts obtained
from p.isate letter Of late date, to gentle
man in Richmond, relative to the operations
Of our advance army.
We surprised Milroy. and captured nearly
ayailed themselves OF the example set by their
commander, Of an ignomintoua desertfon of
their comrnces In battle.
We captured four Thousand seven hundred
men, one hundred and nine officers. thirty
caDL Lons, two hundred and fifty wagons, four
the public and private baggage, sutlers'
goods, &C. Not wheel escaped Our men
deserve al1 our country can award them,
The. people cay that 1filroy went of in cfti-
zent' clothes; he left Winchester tho evening
before the assault. He who does: that rs q
commander will do anything disgracsfnl. =
The Yankees are In a terrible state Of COM
motion; they cannot imagine what the rebels
are about. Stuart has whipped their cavalry
every day, and sometimes twfce q. day, ever
since he lett Cnlpepper. He has captured 11se
Or si1 hundred prisoners. Mosohy caught
Hookcr's aid with letters Of instruction to
their cavalry commander. They showed that
has done millions Of dollars' worth Of damage
at Cumberland, Nd He has destroyed i'll
the workshops and machinery, locomotives,
cars, &c. there. Every bridge from the Little
Capon river, Tor some distance west of Cum.
beIlana, is completely destroyed; The In
iron bridge" knocked all to pieces; eleven
shots from 13inch rified gun brought the
whole structure-fonr hundred feet of mag
nifcence-into the water. This Is one OF the
WORT blows we hare lntely given them.
Major White has broken the railroad be-
tween Hatper's Ferry aud the Point of Rocks.
He burned one wagon train, but did not get
the horses.
Milroy Is on the Maryland Heights. He has
no communication with my one, aud it ia
probable no one is desirons Of having any
with him.
onr destruction Of railroad property rather
outdoes the grand Stoneman raid and the
email work Of damnge on the Central railroad.
A report 1eached, the city by the Freaer-
icksburg train last evening to tho effect that a
raid was anticipated at GoTdonsTille, although.
nothing was said Of such moyemen. by the
passengers from Gordonsvtlle on the Ceutral. .
Possibly some Of the citizens may opprehsnd
some such dash on the part Of the enemy; but
We are quite sure that their fears are never re-
allied.
No reports, for q wonder, reached us from
Winchester, and the public may congratulate
Itself that through the usual channels {pas.
stDgers) there were none The seat Of war
ia now removed some 200 miles or more be.
Sond the capital, md q "passenger rcport,'
travelling that distance wo1ld not be likely to
contain much Of its pristine simplicity and
The Monitor Torpedo.
(F1om the N: 7. Tribune, July IL '.
Our notice Of the Atanta's torpedo has