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the "objective point," (and it is evident Lee has to make this in order to cover his line of retreat to Richmond,) it is obvious that a force moving to the east of the Blue Ridge mountains, and hugging that range will be on the shorter line as compared with a force moving down the Shenandoah Valley. Lee's route must be by way of Winchester, Strasburg, and Front Royal, and debauching, to make Culpeper, through Chester Gap or Thornton Gap. We, on the other hand, marching by way of Berlin, Wheatland, and Warrenton, have a direct line. Lee has two sides of a great triangle to describe. Meade has but one. Previous to the inauguration of the campaign last autumn it was an anxious inquiry with Gen. McClellan which of these two lines of operation he should take. He at first determined to move by the Shenandoah valley, and a reconnaissance in force was even made as far as Charlestown. This line, however, was abandoned and the other chosen. The movement was made rapidly and even br
ched to the hearse. He afterwards visited Falls Church, and amused himself by taking observations of our new contraband farms. Miscellaneous. A dispatch from Memphis announced that Gen. Hurlbut had sent an expedition to Grenada, Miss., which drove the rebels out of the town and destroyed fifty-seven locomotives and over four hundred cars, belonging to the different Southern railroads concentrating at Jackson. Ex-President Buchanan and suite, en route from Bedford Springs to Wheatland, passed through Harrisburg on Saturday last. After Mr. Buchanan had changed cars, and a few minutes before the train started, a crowd was collected in front of the car be occupied. Just then a soldier, who had lost an arm, began to shake the stump in the face of the O. P. F., exclaiming, "I am indebted to you for this!" (pointing to the maimed arm,) "and the devil will liquidate the debt when he gets you!" At this point the whistle of the locomotive screamed the signal of departure, and