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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tennessee and Kentucky. (search)
el armies. In the meantime hundreds of Maryland Secessionists are gathering upon the eastern shore, for the purpose of carrying out the programme indicated several days ago, of cutting off direct communication between Philadelphia and Baltimore simultaneously with the passage of the rebels across the Potomac. Under various excuses, numbers of men have procured transportation across the bay in small boats, for the purpose of joining this expedition. At the little town of Easton, in Talbott county, these arrivals have amounted to as many as fifty per day. The rebels are in such a condition that they are compelled either to attempt to advance or to retire from the Potomac. The resources of this region are exhausted, and they cannot much longer subsist their immense force on the Virginia side of the Potomac. They must either avail themselves of the riches of the splendid agricultural district of Western Maryland, or fall back at least upon the Rappshannock. Their desperation