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loyal States of the East and the West. It thus appears that the design of the rebels is to recover the whole of their defensive line, the loss of which in the beginning of the year, by the evacuation of Bowling Green and the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, and other operations on the Cumberland and Tennessee, baffled all their hopes of recognition by the European Powers. It is remarkable that before the attack on McClellan's army on the Chickahominy Jeff. Davis sent a message to Slidell and Mason as to what his army was about to do, and directed them to demand the recognition of the independence of the South. But the plan and its execution differed in some slight degree. The plan was to capture the army of McClellan. That failed, and great was the disappointment of the rebels at Richmond, London, and Paris. They now make a bolder stroke. They attempt the capture of Washington, while at the same time they are making the most strenuous efforts to regain possession of th