Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-30
Rebel spssuIatIons on the Approaeh-
ing CAmpRIRn,


Prom the Richmond ApquIr0r Of the 18Th.
With what will the President electrify
the country before the meeting Of the next
Congress, which assemblies COW 10 less
thAn thirty days? Wilt be Maximilian's
recoguidonf Will IL be France and EGG
land combining 70 raise the blockadei
Will 1t be VicioryI 0fall the good news
that the President could communicate, a
victory would most elocIrify his fellow
citizens end most deprrsS the public en-.
envy.
Grant is said to be planning another ION
to Richmond" with Smith aud Burnside
upon our tanks or rear. The vast prep.
arations for the campaign are duly notified
to our authorities, indeed, so publicly is
the concentration being made, 30 oSteutA-
tious are the enemy Of all their arrange
ments, that one cannot but doubt II these
indications are not designed to deceive.
The press Of the United States have duly
advised US of the reorganization Of the
Army OF the Potomac, and so eircumstan-
tally and fully that It was no difficult
matter 70 correctly estimate its effective
strength. Gen. Burnside writes letters,
which are Published 10 the New York pa
pers, that he Is preparing command for
early active operations, that Annapolis 10
his rendezvous, aud We are further inform.
ed that North 0ArOlinG Is his destination.
Gen. Smith has been carried 70 Fortress
Monroe 10 the most public msnner, accom-.
panying Gen. Grant, and the two corps
that he 10 to command In 40 expedition up
the Penin,ulA are published 10 the prinei-
pal journals Of the country. and these most
obltgingly brought 70 our authorities by
the enemy's Gag. ot.Irnce boat. II no eff.
forts have been made 20 conceal these pre-
pArAuous, certainly none have been taken
TO prevent Our learning them, for the AAg
ot-IEuce boat has regularly delivered foil
files Of the papers that were known 10 con .
tain then. Why, then, has this publicity
been given to preparations that all mill
tary experience teaches should be most
sedulouSly kept secret?
ID, Can it be supposed that Geo. Grant is SO
confident OF success that, like the Oartha.
geniGn General. he would prefer to ight
two armies to falling upon oneI IBit to
be supposed that he hiss been so intoxi.
Gated by success that he despisea the usual
precautions which the rudiments of mill
tary science demand2 We caE hardly
think so, nor will the authorities of the
Confederate States be deceived by this
shallow device. We see no evidence OF
concentration on our psrt-no passage OF
troops from one department to another.-
BeAuregard still watches the enemy from
the Qualifications OF Charleston. or seeks d
| 6ght in the sWsmps of Florida.
From Southwestern Virginia We hear
rumOrs Of movements into Kentucky and
Tennessee. Pickett aud Whiting still hold
their positions in North Carolina, and the
''Sll is quiet on the RapidAn is uubIoken
by even q rUmor. What efforts, then, are
being made to meet this threatened ad-
vance
We can only conclude that newspaper
strategy add editorial campaigns have fail.
ed to make that impression which takes
action, and that our authorities, in pos
session of better information, are bidinR
their time, and holding positions which
Ike rhatof southwestern Virginia, is poiuu
from which an advance eau be made right
through the centre OF the snemy's lines
and iutO the very heart of his territory
putting in jeopardy the State Of Rentuc.
Ky, turing all positions in East Tennss
see, aud, like Bragg's campaign, throwing
the enemy back upon the Ohio, by threat.
eDiOg Cincinnati aud Louisville.
Gen. Grants presence with the Army oil
the Potomac furnishes no criterion BY
which one should decide that he Is there
for the purpose of commanding another
advance upon Richmond. Having com
manded in Tennessee aud the West bal
very recently, aud having placed ShermAu
in immediate command. all necessary pre-
paratioGs for an advance against Johnston
may be made there, just as secretly as they
have been openly conducted in the East
aud within a few hours the railroad trans
ports Grant aud bis headquarters" from
The "6sld" 10 the East to the ''fisId" il
the West, aud be swept down upon John
1 H.. g.
sLrAining their eyes to sec bis advance, o.
their ears TO bear the distant thuuders oil
his approach.