Show i PROGRESS OF THE WAR IVAR ai the war continues to progress progress with as much vigor r and rap city as the coat cont controlling roling circumstances ata n tes lis atte iDding it will permit and that so i far as regards the arching marching in of armies and the driving of the enemy to the wall by force and arms is is comparatively slow siow and there is so duitch secrecy maintained in re a tion to what tew few movements have been made by the federal armies in virginia along the Atla atia atlantic itic and gulf coasts and on the mississippi end and its tributaries tributa ries rles that nothing very dr dt finlee finite is known to the public concerning them gen burnsides rapidity in putting ile tle ar arny army my of the potomac in motion after he be i 1 succeeded Bucce eded to the command commands which so bo aston j j fished his ilia friends has not resulted resu lied so far a aa a I 1 known in auy any rapid movements long marches or bloody conflicts conflict as yet but it is generally understood that a great strategic movement has been inaugurated by the concentration of an overwhelming force on the left bank of th the i Rappa rappahannock hannock bannock at Fredericks fredericksburg bur which has hail been bien so beautifully and mysteriously arranged as stated that the confederate generals with all their reputed sagacity have not been able to comprehend the magnitude of the scheme expected to result shortly in the occupation of richmond by the army organized for that purpose in the early stages cf of the war if it be ba a fact that gen lee and the confederate government are puzzled lyp liy the strategy of gen burnside thus I 1 far ar the plan of operations for the taking of richmond may be consummated at an earlier day thin many have supposed and the city occupied without the Bli sil edding shedding of blood as the enemy may not be prepared for defence at the point where or from whence the attack will be made until it will be too late to make successful resistance and vacate without giving battle that they mav may may live to fight another v poth erday day at latest dates from the seat of war it itwara was waa inder understood stood that the main body of the army of f the pote poti mac mae was on the north side of 0 the the vicinity fredericksburg arld that the confederates occupied the th south bank of the river with an army sad sa d to be one hundred thousand s rong there has been some loiue fi fiburg bair 7 done in southwestern south louth western missouri within the last three w weeks beeks with no very deci decisive siye sive results the enemy however in every evary instance as reported have been repulsed and forced to fall back towards boston mountains which have become noted in the annals of the war I 1 the confederates rates in mississippi are rep arted to have fallen back on the approach ch of the fedela federal 1 I army i but by tearing up the railroad iracks tracks and otherwise obstructing the pursuit of tit the ibe 1 yankee they have rendered it I 1 laa iha fI fusible sible sibie for the pursuers to overtake the pur put gued and to bring on the long expected engagement ani ga ement which has been predicted would woula mea when fought annihilate secession in that sec see dhere chere there has nothing transpired of late concerning gen McClern anda expedition that ct often gen banks ia Is announced to have balled a few dayi days bince |