The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-04-27
LATE WAR NEWS.

4b0 foteWbIhlu&e f6celveQ IOm ine rap.
idan admonish ne 10 be on the watch for
mpvemeni. When il comes it will exceed
IN importance everything which now at
tracts public attention. Very likely before
The next issue of this journal the armies
opposing each other ia Virginia will be in
motion or perhaps in conflict
Virginia is bv thisAtime weil-expiored
battle ground, and General Grant has the
advantage in his campaign of lhe expert
ence OF all who have tried TO take Rich
mond. His object viii be TO get al. that city,
II possible wiihout>a conflict, if necessary,
with one. This General Lee will Try TO foil,
either by pitched battle, or, what is very
probable, by flank attack upon the RaEi-
dan army as soon as Grant shall have snfsi-
lcienly developed his plans. Washington,
Richmond and Cedar Mountain are at the
three angles of q triangle Cedar Mountain
| is seventy miles from Washington and six-
| ~ five from Richmond, by straight lines,
whilst The two capitals are bui ninety miles
apart. Eastward from Cedar Mcuntsia the
Rapican flows, small forks washing both
it's northern and southern base. This al
! present is the dividing line OF the o2posing
forces in thai'quarter, the Federal headquar-
iers being al CuIpepper, eighl miles north
el the mountain, the Confederate al Orange,
| ten miles south. General Grant is tbs at
lacking party, and to do ii has divided his
army Into three portions, A large body is
on the Rapidan smaller ore al Fortress
| Monroe, and siill smaller one is now on
its way under Burnside, TO North Carolina.
Grants intention appears 10 be TO en- pioy
Bnrnside's column in North Carolina mere
| ly rs an army of observation, TO hold in
check the large force of Confederates snp-
! posed TO be there, and 10 keep them from
] going 10 Virginia TO help Lee The two
columns with which he will operate will be
The one at Fortress Monroe, and Meade's
on the Rapidan. With these il appears 10
| be his intention TO make q concerted move
] ment sgainst Richmond. With Smith il is
| plain travelling up the Peninsula, bat as his
iorce rs nearly all Begroes--not very Telia-
bie soldiers-flrey will scarcely be expected
to acl on the offensive. They of course
viii rFy 10 get into Richmond bnt the great
deeds viii. be expected of the Rapidan
army, the other merely endeavoring to draw
as many as possible OF Lees men soulh OF
| Richmond.
The Rapidan srmy will therefore be The
one 10 move first. Everything depends
upon iis celebrity, therefore all superfiuous
baggage, all sick men and sutier. are ban
shed from the camps. The men will be
| upon forced marches all the time, until they
| get into position to besiege Richmond, and
then fighting will be expected. A sort o.
gigantic Sherman expedition seems 10 be
shoat, the Federal fore making as wide 9
circuit as possible around Lees army-and
this will be of course done on the Freder.
icsbatg side---the Madison Court House
route being imPracticable.
This, as near as we can gather il from the
meagre intelligence al hand, appears 10 be
General Grants plan. 1t is scarcely neces.
cary 10 say that il is hazardous one which
General Lee may render ialile, especially il
he knows Il, which is more than proba ble
| He has two modes OF counteractna it,
One is to chase alter the Federal rear wher
il has started and force it into fight. The
other is to begin the campaign himself =
We think that General Lee, having found
out enough of Grants designs to warran
him in acting, has chosen The latter.
Charlottesville is twenty-five miles south.
east OF Orange Cour; House. Snasburg il
in the Shenandoah Valley, twenty miiei
west of Manassas Junction, on the railroad
supplying Cen. Meade. Gen. Eweil, wht
commands Jackson's corps, always the ad'
vance of Lees army, is al Strasburg, where
he has been recruiting during the winter
General Long street with the force which al
ways follows on Ewell's footsteps has come
from East Tennessee 10 Charlottesville, bu
no further There are all kinds OF rumors o
Confederate advances ia The Shenandoah
| Valley, and as thal is always an nntaIin(
means of preventing Federal advance
is very probable that Lee has begun such
movement. IL would require four or f,s
days Tor such a march. When Jackson
marched against Mcclellan, il was six day
from the time he fret set out before he al
tackled the Federal flank.
There is very little means OF judging lht
strength of the opposing forces IN Virginia
The two armies must be almost balanced
as every effor, has been made OF both side
10 bring troops into The field. Sources o
news are SO controlled now by the Admin
isiralion that We will hear of The beginnin,
; oil a movement and lis results almost at the
same time.
, Plymouth, in North Carolina, is at III
head of Albemare sound, aud about fit
miles south of the Virginia line The Con
federate iron-clad and land attack down III,
Roanoke river is confirmed. Three gun
boats are reported sunk, and fears are fel
that the town will have to be evacuated
/ The Confederates are in very strong force.
AL the troops al New York City bein
taken away to reinforce Grant, The State m
liiia have been called ont 10 garrison III
forts.
, There is nothing new from the Red river
The new apporionment bill which wa
reported in the Senate makes Norbumbe