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try to storm the fortified Cheat Mountain Gaps, but would endeavor to cut a new road over what has been supposed an impassable mountain range, and make a flank movement on the forces that were awaiting his attack in front. Then little or nothing was said of his movements, but now the air is thick with rumors that he is cutting a road through the mountains; that he is delaying until he can draw our forces to the Gaps; that he may then make a rapid rush past them, to Beverly, and hurry on to Grafton and the key to our railroad communication. Of this plan — if plan it be — and of our movements to resist it, or any other attempt that the enemy may make, it need only be said that General Rosecranz is supposed to be maturing ample preparations. Meanwhile the reviving hopes of the Secessionists may be observed in an infallible barometer. Those who are familiar with the Philippi, Laurel Hill and Rich Mountain campaign, will remember what an outburst of guerilla fighting there was through