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hen press down the Mississippi, whilst the Atlantic and Gulf seaboard must be assailed and a column landed in Mexico to cross the frontier of Texas. "The most effectual way, perhaps, of defending Washington, capturing Richmond and subduing Virginia, is by the way of the Mississippi." Attacked, in the seaboard, the Gulf, and the Mississippi says the Herald, "the rebels will retreat rapidly southward to defend their homes, and will leave Virginia to her fate." By the first of November, Mr. Secretary Welles will have from twenty to thirty new gunboats at his command. With the first frosts of autumn the sea-coast of the South will be relieved from its deadly summer malaria, and then a movement southward by sea, combining gunboats and land forces, in conjunction with the movement of a Union army down the Mississippi, will leave poor old Virginia an easy triumph to fifty thousand men advancing from Washington and Fortress Monroe. Meantime, if the rebels attack our lines in front of Washing