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e range of mountains through which a road passes practicable for army purposes. It is some twenty miles above Harper's Ferry. Through this gap parses the main road from Winchester to Alexandria and Washington city. What the movements are, or where the location of Gen Lee's forces, we are not advised. It is by no means improbable, however, that they occupy a position to meet any attempts of the enemy to obstruct their line of communication. The occupation of Sticker's Gap, and no ferry at that point, will be of little consequence if Gen. Lee designs crossing the mountains. He will perhaps take the Front Royal route and fall back on the same roads over which the main body of his troops advanced, crossing the mountains at Ashby's or Chester Gaps. But we have yet no evidence that Gen. Lee regards a further retrograde movement as necessary. It may be that he will await the movements of his opponents, and, if possible to draw them into it, give them battle in the Lower Valley.