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this uoee not alter the facts.
or brigade halts for the night, mag
a; mile of valuble fences to snake
fuel is at hand that is of little valte
and outhouses are sacrificed to t
doors arc wrenched from their hin;
to insure the coveted warmth with
If a house be deserted—as it well
the stanchest Unionists—it is enteeed and stripper
of all that may contribute to the comfort of the
bivouac or the march, and often wanton damage
and ruin are added to a spoliation. Finally, the
premises look too bad to leave as a witness against
the marauders ; so some bold, reckless, villain applies
the torch, and next morning sees nothing but a
wreck of chimney and heap of blackened ruins to
tell that a dwelling stood there but yesterday.
Next night may witness a kindred spectacle further
on, aggravated, perhaps, by shameful insults to
women and ruffianly abuse of their protectors. 'And
thus thousands who were friendly to the Union
cause, or at the worst indifferent, are rapidly trans-
formed into frenzied, implacable enemies. Personal
outrages on the defenceless, we rejoice to believe,
have been very rare on either side, but they are not
absolutely unknown ; while rapine, prompted by
intoxication, is far too common. Commanders will
not believe it; everything is made tide and fair-
seeming when the word is passed that they are
coming; but that matters little. Ride across the
Potomac from Washington, and you will see the
ruins of goodly dwellings—many of them those of
stanch Unionists—that were in good preservation
when the rebels last left them a few weeks ago;
you will see farms stripped of fences and sub-
jected to general devastation ; you will see many
things, but no pigs or chickens; and we are
privately assured that wholesale plundering has
marked the track of two divisions of Gene-
ral Fremont's army in the heart of Missouri.
Of course, the commanders of those divisions
are ignorant of the ravage ; but there is no con-
solation in that fact to the plundered, beggared citi-
zens, who welcome an army of liberators and pro-
tectors only to find them general robbers: The
Secessionists have more excuse for this, for they
must rob to live. The Unionists have generally pay
and:rations, and ought to be scrupulously just in all
their works and ways."
A letter dated Hampton Roads, October 22, gives
particulars of the expeditionary force :
"The fleet that sailed yesterday (Monday) morn-
ing consists of 18 transports, the Atlantic, Baltic,
Vanderbilt, Ariel, Daniel Webster, Coatzacoalcos,
Ocean Queen, Illinois, Empire City, Ericsson,
Roanoke, and Marion, all large ocean steamers, and
the Parkersburg, Winfield Scott, Pensacola, Ben.
De Ford, Belvidere and Philadelphia, steamers of
another class, but adapted for such a trade as that
by sea between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Four
of the transports carry horses and army waggons,
the others are loaded with troops, including two
regiments from New Hampshire, the 3d and. 4th ;
four from New York, the 46th, 47th, 48th, and 79th,
the last now about 500 strong ; two from Maine, the
Bth and 9th ; two from Connecticut, the 6th and 7th ;
one from Pennsylvania, the 50th ; and one fretn
Michigan, the Bth. All these but one, it will be
noticed, are from the Eastern or Middle States, as
is eminently suitable in a coast expedition. At
Fortress Monroe they will be joined. by two steamers,
the Ca Hawba and Star of the South, carrying the
Rhode Island 2d, and the Mechanics' cr Engineer
Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Kerrel, the latter
sometimes known as the ' Mud Sll' Regiment ; two
transports, the Oriental and Matanzas, carrying
1,000 contraband negroes, received at or near For-
tress Monroe, and six transports, the Locust, the
Potomac, the Golden Eagle, the Ocean Express, the
Zero's Coffin, and the Great Republic, carrying stores.
So that the military portion of the fleet will consist
of 18 vessels carrying 14 regiments and one battery,
and 12 carrying stores, contraband and otherwise.
The battery is Sherman's well-known one of six
guns, and. 140 men. Besides this, however, a num-
ber of heavy siege guns are taken, a corps of Sap-
pers and Engineers belonging to the regular army,
large supplies of camp equipage, a body of masons
and carpenters, quantities of brick, mortar, and
large stones, and in fact a complete fitting out of
an expedition about to land on ahostile coast, in the
face, perhaps of powerful batteries, and to intrench
itself on that coast with a view to making its
lodgment the base of important and future opera-
' tions. The negroes are principally for digging
intrenehments, and will, for the first time, consti-
tute an important arm of offence in the hands Of a
National arm's' ; as the example of using that arm
has been so frequently set us by our opponents,
they will not be surprised to learn that we have at
last chosen to avail ourselves of the example, and st
the same time a significant suggestion will be
afforded them of the furtive use that could be made
of the weapon during the war, A thousand of
these contraband articles scattered in the Southern
interior from the point d'appui afforded by the pro-
posed movement, would do more damage to cur
enemies than a hundred thousand cannonballs. We
have too long abstained from availing ourselves of
the means placed so obviously within our grasp ;
perhaps the very natural apprehensions that the
present brandishing of it will awaken in our eit
' Southern brethren,' may incite in them an appre-
ciation of our previous forbearance as well as a
wholesome dread of our future determination. A
large quantity of surf-boats is taken with the ex-
pedition, whose completeness -in all matters of
ordnance :stores, ammunition, and appurtenances
seems admirable. It will be under the command of
Brigadier-General T. W. Sherman, whose services
to his country are too recent and too brilliant to
bear more than a statement of this fact that ho was
the leader of Sherman's Battery at the battle of
Bull's Run. He has now relinquished his battery to
Captain Hamilton, but it is to accompany him
on this precious enterprise. Brigadier-General Eg-
hert T. Viele of New York, Stevens (late Governor)
of Oregon, and Wright, recently a Major of United
States Engineers, are all attached to the expedition,
each having command of a brigade ; all are gradu-
ates of the West Point Academy, and have served
with honour in the United Statesservice. The Ne se
Hampshire 3d Regiment is quartered here ; they
seem a set of cleanly hardy men, superior to the ma-
terial of many regiments. The number of hymns
they know is wonderful—all Methodist ; but I can-
not observe that they swear any less than other
soldiers. Flanders is not the only place in the
world where the armies find that practice indis-
pensable."
San Francisco, California, is
nowwe telegraphics
inir
communication with Cape Race, the
stretch-
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, across
the whole North American Continent, The distance
is estimated at 5,000 miles. The next westward ex-
tension of the line will be by the way of Behring's
Straits to the mouth of the Amoor river, to which
point the Russian Government is already construct-
ing a line, commencing at Moscow.
The horses and mules at Washington had been
i reduced to short allowance of forage, the railway
not being capable of conveying it in sufficient quan-
tities and the Potomac being closed.
The crew of the privateer Savannah were under
trial at the United States Circuit Court.
A letter from Key West states that the Southern
Commissioners had landed at Cardenas from the
Confederate steamer Theodora.
The steamship North Star had arrived at New
York with the Californian mails and 1,026,332 dole.
From New Grenada we learn that Antioquia and
Santander were in arms against Mosquera. The
convention known as the Guardia Murillo Treaty
passed the Legislature of the State of Panama on
the 14th ult., and it was confidently expected the
Governor would approved the same on the follow-
ing day. This treaty virtually acknowledges the
Government of Mosquera, in consideration of liberal
will amount
concessions to the State of Panama. But if the
Constituent Convention which is to meet soon is
Bogota, :does not approve this arrangement.. (and
the whole
ue2.a l adifoari r 'wi
the 10th ult.
ptoroTnbhoae p
nothing.
The will.anl )
a Star
: and
says •
--
~, Mosquera has decreed. an issue of 500,000
doll. in Treasury notes to pay off citizens who hold
1 claims against the Government. Foreigners are not
obliged to receive these notes, but 'their
claims
will
be paid in cash. All the monks
and
nuns in Bogota
have been turned out, and th •property
their confis-
cated by Mosquera, which, • -•
it is said, has caused
great dissatisfaction." •

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