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any reliable warning of their numbers or their near approach. In this view of the subject, we care less to know what Hunter, Crook and Averill are doing than what the Administration is about at Washington. When we were satisfied that General Joe Johnston had been removed from the command of the rebel army of Georgia and recalled to Richmond, we guessed that it was for more important service nearer Washington. We showed, too, from his military experience and knowledge of all the country beour, confederacies of the South American order. In view of these results, cannot Lee undertake to hold for a few weeks the defences of Petersburg and Richmond with even twenty thousand men, while, with sixty or eighty thousand, either he or Johnston is sweeping down the Shenandoah Valley for the vulnerable north side of Washington? Can this idea never be impressed upon the thick heads of our War Office: that desperate men, in desperate extremities, are always ready for, and are often succe