, 1864-03-30

WAs2c:3roa. M.rch q, 1851.
REFINEMENT oF, N'oLEL14AN: GEHEHAIs-'
TIC consolidation Of the Army Of the Po-
tonne into three corps-sccond, Filth and
Slxth-nnd: tie retirement Of 6lx Of tae old
Mcclellan generals. lnve reused the fre Of:
the Coppcrhcads. against Gen Grnnt. They
really anticipated different result. They
fondly Imagined that Grant Was such .
ert;enborn as to give McC cClelsan the command
Of the Potomac army, The shock to thelr
nerves 1T tho Withdrawal from active duty,
in this part of the field Of military opera
t1ons, of Gems Sykes, French, Newton, Ken
1y and spinola, was alarming. Gen. Grant
has the fate Of Gems. Pope, Burnside and
Hooker before Ills eyes, and is too shrcWd to
permit rlyalfies and jcalouEles to continue
to destroy the efficiency Of the Potom .c
army. Had Pope, Burnside and
Hooker the power. TO-, do what Grant
has now done, it is certain the disasters Of
their campaigns would have been, to a great
extent, avoi.ed. There is no earthly doubt
but that two, II not the threc generals, hero
named, were sacrificed to the spite and per
'son2l ambition of McC1ellan. l notice, from
Ills parting address to lis troops, that Cen.
Sykes Was wholly unpreparcd for his rcmoy
al from command. Doubtless the same Was
tic casc with the others. Tho Copporheads
arc endcavoring to make out that these
chaugcs are solely to bo attributed to tho
President. happen to know that they are
sol ~ to be attributed to Gen. Grant him
eelf, fao has always exhibited as much sa; !
cacitf h the chsice of hts subordln ltcs rs
Ee LAs in the conduct Of his campaigns.
REoRGAs1zATlox OF TIE ARMr-rRErARA-
. r1oSs FOR THE oAMP41GH. .-----~.~
Gen. Grant has already commenced tile re-
organization Of the Army Of the Potomac. It
Lzs been much crippled Of late, 1t Will be
seen, by the orders retiring the generals
above mentioned; but the n 4rk Of filling up
Of soldiers are arriving daily; troops ut this
and other points are being sent forward to
the front, rc-enlisted veterans are 1eportIn.
themselves, and all is hustle and preparation
for the oamraign- Tho roster rolls Of newly.
enlisted regiments arc coming In in large
numbers, At the Adintant Generals office. :.
Yesterday the sick and wounded were Or
.ered In from the front and placed In the Va
s:u,.s hospitals in this city and Georgetowa.
Indeed everything gives token Of vigorous
preparation for the campaign, But tho pub:
lie must not be too eager. i5It Will require
considerable preparation Jet to enable Gen.
Grant to get his plans into proper shape for
the operations OF the campaign, which must
not be commenced till those plans can bo
carried out to completion at ever point He
should have at least, including reserves, two
hundred thousaud men. for proper and sys-
tematic attack an Richmond. Each adyanc-
ing column should be heavy enough to en-
guge Lees whole army successfully. Hsuch
is the case the rebel General will be forced
within his Notifications, and once there Grant
has him where he wants him. He can starve
him out or fight him By regular approaches,
Is be thinks best. There is no doubt but that
large force Of the veteran troops Of the
West will take part in the new eastern cam
paign.
THE CAMPAIGN OF TIE corrERuEAps.
While Gen. Grant is 'marslaling his army
for the campaign against Richmond, Gen.
Mcclellan is lnaIshaling his for the campaign
against Washington and the Administration
here.
Gen. Grant is arranging his forces on tho
tedr and Gen. Mcclellan his on tho pace plat
form. The latter has thrown himself body
and soul into the hands OF the peace sneaks,
aud there is no doubt be sril be nominated
by acclamation at the. Chicago Convention.
And what are to bt-the. component parts Of
that Convention? One has Only TO look to
the complexion Of the delegates from New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, to answer. It
is to be composed Of peace men, Of fdelegates
nominated BY the secret society which Aow
carried all before it in those States. In Ohio
every delegate is Vallandigham peace man.
The came will be the result in Illinois aud
Indiana, where the X. G. C.>g have it all their
own way, as is acknowledged By some OF the
Copperhead Congrcssmen from those Stntcs
The secesh Democrats are determined to de-
. uand q peace platform, If they must yield
on the candidate who is to be nominated
merely to catch the soldiers vote. Then
will commence the old system OF fraud aud
deception, for which the party has been long
noted. The war Democrats vii be told that
"littio Mae does not care 5traT for the
Platform, that he lis only cheating the peace
be is '*all right on the goose" and only Just
enough OF 9 var men to fool the; Democrats
Of that stripe. But whoever the candidate
Of the Convention, and whatever is the plat
platform, she Union men may rs well make
up their minds to the fact that their triumph
Is the triumph Of the rebellion and the fore
ehado#ing Of the dissolution Of the Union.
LEE WILL HOLD on 10 VIRGINIA TO TIE
LAST.
Some Letter writer's, and newspaper-men,
generally, have been asserting that tho rebels
were about to cyaccate Virginia. This Is q
great mistake, as Z hare heretofore pointed
ont. They will hold On to that State with q
death,Erasp, for many reasons. First, its
strategic Importance. It Is admirably s1tua-
ted, sud It's surface remarkably well adapted to
oflenee or defense. It picrccs, and thus
thrr atens, tic Northern States. Second, tue
moral effect Of its being successfully held, on
which / need not enlarge. Third, its I'M
;mcnsc resources for supplying an army. On
this point have heretofore written, and now
i have the Testimony Of The last State census,
From this 1t appears TINT comparison Of
tho census Of 1850 and 1868 shows that only
ia. S03 slaves have been lost In three years
above the natural propagation. OF horses,
in that portion Of the State under rebel con-
troll, there have heen lost IS col. In 1860 tho
number OF cattle in the entire State was
1,R1, ,1$o OF ninety-scyen tor every one hun:
cattle in that portion Of the State under rebel
control, was 547, al which IL ono hundred
and five to every one hundred inhabitants
There il an increase Of y $50 sheep, and q
loss Of 15G, $40 hogs in the counties uudor
rebel control. I iiad heard these statements
Heretofore confidently made by Southern
men, but nc1cr saw the Official figures,
Wh;q. So that If Lee and his army are driven
from Virginia, they are driven from that
which is yet one Of the most productive and
prosperous rebel States,
THREATENED REBEL RAIDS.
News from the South, and the boastfnss of
rebel sy symrathizers. in this city, would .indl-
cate the intcztioR Of tho rebels to make
some extensive :ralds into : those
Statee, and parte Of States freed from
thsl1 r .,aG swaGy aa ks1tHehy Rsas, Is the great
leaders Of the reported expedition into TINT
State. It is even said that Lee also meditates
another move into Maryland aud Pennsylva-
mia Harrisburg to be lis objective point, In
conjunction with the Kentucky enterprise.
The rebels hare been induced to believe, by
Copperhcad rcprese entations from that state,
no doubt, that kentucky is ripe for insurrcc-