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Washington will be able by the leverage which this Drainsville business will give them to force McClellan into the field. Trusting to a large superiority of numbers the enemy seem steadily to be pushing forward their troops in Kentucky for an attack in force upon our army under Gen. Sydney Johnston. From all the indications in that quarter, a grand engagement within a few days seems unavoidable. Thus circumstances all combine to bring about two great engagements on either side of the Alleghanies, which, but for the relations of Great Britain to the North, would be decisive of the war. If the South should be beaten on both fields, she could hardly expect for some time to get together two armies of any magnitude; and would have to depend altogether upon the virtues of a Fabian policy, and a general system of skirmishing against the enemy. If the South, on the other hand, should gain both battles, the North would be compelled to desist from aggressive measures for such length of