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he rebellion now is in serious danger of a violent death from strangulation. Grant has it by the throat at Richmond, and cannot be made to relax his hold, except by some desperate and formidable diversion that will compel him, as McClellan was compelled, and as Hooker was compelled, to turn his back upon Richmond in order to save Washington. That this great design underlies all these guerrilla movements along the Maryland border we do most seriously believe. We dare say that Early, Breckinridge, Mosby, Imboden and Company are for the present engaged in the important work of providing, at convenient stations, all the way up the Shenandoah Valley, the depots of supplies necessary to enable an army of sixty or eighty thousand men to move down in light marching order so rapidly as to be in Maryland again in advance of any reliable warning of their numbers or their near approach. In this view of the subject, we care less to know what Hunter, Crook and Averill are doing than what the