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ramme for Western Virginia. --It is clear that the "forward movement" of General Lee from the direction of Huntersville and Monterey has been blocked by the judi It would seem from the late advices reaching us from that direction, that Gen. Lee, failing in his forward movement upon Cheat mountain, was turning his attentioek, nearly twelve thousand men, counting the sick and the well, exclusive of General Lee's army from Huntersville. These circumstances show very plainly that thcess of operations beyond Lewisburg, is from the too great circumspection of General Lee. In mountain warfare the learning of the books and of the strategists is of n mountain warfare; the refined strategy of science can have no play. While General Lee was weaving ingenious webs of strategy about Cheat Mountain, Rosencranz was Cheat Mountain, Rosencranz was legging it down to the Gauley. Legs and powder and ball do much better in the mountains than even the science of a Vauban or a Lee.