Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-22
The Great Expedition and its
Successes.
Terrible Betribution for the South Car.
Olina Traitors.

/ Terrible Rstribution for the South Car
| Olina Traitors.
The New York Post of Monday eve
ming: in an article headed "The Begin
ing of the End, " thus ably discusses the
operations Of the present expedition and
OF others now in plation:
This grand expedition, whose success
at Beaufort seems to be confirmed by
our dispatches to-day from rebel sources,
originated exclusively in the Navy De-
partment, to which the credit of the en-
terprlse-of the enormous difficulties
overcome and the incalculable advan-
tsge likely to be achieved-is due
Gen. Sherman, who conducts the mill
tary advance, was scarcely apprised of
the nature of his duties until the hour
of embarkation. Both he and the other
! army officers engaged, however, have
co operated with the designs of Mr..
Welles with cheerful good will and en-
ergy. General Burnside and others,
who are charged with similar petitions,
lent similar assistance, and whatever
good is accomplished by the combined
exertions Of the army and navy will be
! the common glory of the whole service
! On this, as on other points, the Admin
istrati0u is harm monious, and means to
labor with all the zeal and force it can
command for the speediest suppression
of the revolt.
| We have spoken of other expeditions,
and we may add, without betraying any
| confidence, that the sally against Hat
teras was but the first of series Of ma
val onslaughts upon the Southern coasts.
This Beaufort armada was the second,
and others are to follow as rapidly as
the circumstances require. Some of
the dispatches speak of the probability
OF our forces making their way inland
to Charleston. But we doubt whether
this will be attempted at present. The
principal object of the movement has
been to acquire a secure naval station
at the South, where our fleets might
rendezvous, and where the army could
entrench itself to possess grand base
Of ultimate operations. Beaufort once
impregnably in our possession, it would
not be difficult to threaten both Charles
ton and Savannah, so as to force them
to keep large armies for their defense.
In the meanwhile their harbors will be
efectually closed. An expedition is
now prepared, if it has not already
sailed, which will seal those cities be-
yond all peradventure to the entrance
or exit Of every future Theodore or
Nashville.
In addition to the above, we are per-
mitted to state that fotilla Of thirty
vessels is now in this port, armed
manned, and ready to sail for the Gulf
OF Mexico, where it will perform such
services as its own acts will in due time
disclose. The vessels are peculiarly fit
ted by size, draught of water for har-
assing the coasts of Loursiana and Ala
bama. Commodore Hollins, who was
so inflated by his little accidental sue
cess at the Southwest Pass, may have a
better opportunity yet for displaying his
skill. Nor will this enterprise exhaust
the labors ofthe Navy Department, which
means to inhict one blow after another
until the rebels shall learn the full
power Of the Government they have de-
rided and provoked.
Nor will the Government hesitate in
the policy to be pursued in these South
ern campaigns. 1t sends its troops for
ward to restore the Union, to maintain
the integrity of the nation, and to re- es-
tablish its authority; whatever stands in
the way of those great ends will be pros
trated; the vigor and vindictiveness Of
the rebels have made the war of neces-
sity an offensive one now; and the strong
and weak places Of the insurgent power
will be assailed by the heaviest blows,
without regard to other consequences
than the speedy termination of the con-
test. We have already played long
enough with revolt the earnestness and
extent Of which we scarcely conceived at
the outset, hut whose determined, re-
lentless character We now fully under
stand
The World makes the following an
nouncement which may be regarded as
semi official:
No General has yet been invested with
so large discretionary powers as he who
is at the head Of the army just landed
upon her shores; and neither he nor they
are in temper to palter or temporize
with her blackest treason. Nothing but
speedy and unconditional Submission
,oiU sare South Carolina from loss Of
property and a sacrifice of life, before
sohich all the calamities IN this r0ar, thus
far, aoiH sink into insignifcance.