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Eieitij AAGHEEGEIT QICITT OS 1j à tit i à SiltiBh x The Conféderale Army. Ils pover of :Concentras. tion,=—The Nashville conespondantofthé Philadelphia Inquirermakesihe: following:important statement: ::.25 «The rebels are advantageously situated as regards the sendinghither and thither of reinforcements, and doubly so in the safety of their lines of communication. The,army under Géneral.Beauregard.is tlie most serviceable corps in the Confederacy. ; Its; numbers, counting-in-the conscript.andinew recruits may be estimategl;at, 25,000 men, four-fifihs of, whom ray be spared.: at a0ÿ; titup, more.esperially at, tbe. present, when neixr, ther our own folks nor our enemies have any hopes or

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the capital in three days. In two days that same body of men may reach Atlanta: Therefore, whoever fights Lee in Virgina. or North Carolina, or East Tennessee, . or Joe Johnston in: Georgia, may expect at least 0 have to fight Beauregard’s army at the same time. As an instance of this, when general Stoneman made his raid up Richmonl last year, Beauregard and portions of his forces turned upthe next day. The late affair in Georgia gave painful evidence ofthe truth of my asserlions ; and since thât battle, we, hear nf Gen, Beauregard in Mobile. The correspondance whic you published a t-w days ago as passing between Jeff Davis and Joe Johnston, exhibited the fact that the latter in his Vicksburgh campaign, received eight thousand reinforcernenis from Beauregard. E:think the above instances strictly prove that the army in South Carolina is really an “army of accommodation.”

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