Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-28
WAR BUDGET..
THE REBEL TrAsco AT NEW ORLEANS.


advices from the feet off the mouth of the
Mississippi. Commander Holins proves to
have run away almost before he saw our
ships, and to have put back with all speed to
New Orleans. We lost no vessel, nor did
the rebels do any damage to any of them, or
kill OF wound a man. The rebel battering-
ram fouled with the Richmond, and the two
were drifting down toward one of our ves-
sells, which got out Of the way. AS soon as
the ram and the Richmond could be separated,
each turned tail and made O straight wake
for safe port. Holins hardly saw one of
our vessels.
EFFEcTs OF CLOSING THE POTOMAC.
Since the closing of the Potomac by the
rebels, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
necessarily making extensive arrangements
for the largely increased business which it
must do if the Army of the Potomac remains
much longer in its present position. Long
sidlings have been put in at frequent inter-
walls, in such q manner as to substantially
answer the purpose of a double track.
Switches have been laid in every direction
from the depot, and store-houses built for the
reception of freight Itbecame imperatively
necessary that these arrangements should be
made, and it will probably in short time be
military necessity that the War Depart
ment shall resume possession Of the line be-
tween Washington and Baltimore and An
napolis, and SO be able to control the run
ming of trains and the transportation of sup
plies and munitions of war.
AN uNsUoCEssFUI EXPEDITION.
A letter in the Worcester (Mass Spy from
on board United States steamer Cambridge,
off Beaufort gives an account of an unsuc-
cessful expedition from that vessel to cut
out and destroy some vessels, one privateer
at anchor in the Sound, and also to break up
battery said to be erected near the entrance
to the Inlet. The expedition started October
| Z. We quote from the letter as follows:
The expedition was composed of three
| boats from the Cambridge with their crews,
armed with Sharpes rifles and cutlasses,
with revolvers, commanded respectively by
Lieutenant Gwinn, and acting masters
Strong and Eldridge; two boats from the A.
bdtroSs, with armed crews, under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Ward-the whole being
under the command of Lieutenant Gwinn,
of the Cambridge. The night was dark and
the surf ran high. Each boat had binna-
Gle and compass, but owing to the darkness
ard the uncertainty of the exact bearings of
some sand bluffs with relation to the chan
mel through the breakers, they lost their
way and got into the breakers and surf. Most
of the boats were beached, and one belong
| ing to the ALbdtr0sS was stove, and two OF
her crew either drowned or deserted. The
fishermen on the beach whom they saw
proved to be good Union men, gave them fish,
and assisted them to get their boats off. The
officers and men having already undergone
much fatigue and exposure in their endeavors
to extricate themselves from their perious
situation, a further prosecution of the expe-
dition was deemed useless
George Wilkes, Esq, in a communica.
tion to the New York Tribune on the death
of Senator Baker, says:
Upon the writer of this article, perhaps
the tidings of his loss fell with a more start
ling effect than upon any person else. II
was our good fortune to know Colonel Ba
ker well, and we had the honor to entertain
him as our guest at dinner, on an afternoon
in the month of August last, On that oc'
casion, when we expressed lin view of the
recent disaster at Manassas) a natural CON
cern as to the department of his troops, he
said: "Wilkes, have some peculiar notions
as to the part ain to play in this eXtraordi
nary war: and | want you to bear in mint
that what now say to you is not the result
of any idle fancy or vague impression. 1t il
doubtful if shall ever again take my sea
which turned upon him at this expression
he replied, 81 am certain l shall not liv
through this war, and if my troops shoult
show any want of resolution, | shall fall il
the first battle. | can not afford, after m,
career in Mexico, and as a Senator of tn
, United States, to turn my face from the en-
emyW There was no gloom or depression
in his manner, but it was characterized by
temperate earnestness which made dee
impression on my mind.
Lol before October had shed its leaves, hi
sword lies upon his pulseless breast, and hi
toga has become the cerements of the grave
! Good friend brave heartl gallant leader
hail and farewelll'
SHORT ALLOWANCE OF FORAGE.
Q The horses and mules of the army aroun
! Washington are on short allowance. 1t
not possible for the railroad to keep th
forage department supplied. Already
remedy is talked of for the threatening ev
. of short supply of hay and oats, cheape
: and more efficacious, if not more glorou
J than arms can supply-the construction
a railroad from here to nottingham, on th
Patuxent; twenty miles of rails and sill
borrowed from some unused road, would la
the track speedily.
THE BLOCKADE OF THE POTOMAC.
d The Potomac is blockaded at Quantico an
= Matthias Point. The interval between thes
is forty miles long. The rebel steamer Pdi5
J is out from her old lair in Acquia Greek, an
on the rampage among the forage vessel
She varies foraging with she'll and shot pra
!. tice on the Sickles Brigade on the Marylan
- side, and with ferrying over rebel maraudeT
This blockade causes anxiety.
= In General McClellan's report from IL
military Commission to Europe" he recort
. his opinion that the best Russian milital
3 hospitals are, for comfort, convenience al
cleanliness, the model hospitals of the worl
In all of them, he says, the utmost order al
!. cleanliness is preserved, and the greatest a
i. tention paid to the sick. The command
always invested in an officer of the line, wi
has other officers as assistants, while the su
geons have merely to prescribe, order Il
: diet, &c. He recommends this system T
, adoption in this country, sin the event of Il
q establishment of large temporary hospita
2 during war, or any concentration of a lar
" number of troops"
= MILITARY GEOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENTS.
Departalent ofthe EdSt-The New EnglaI
States and the States of New York, Ne
Jersey and Pennsylvania. headquarters
Troy, New York.
Department of the POtomac-The States
Delaware and Maryland, the District OF Q
- lumbia, and that portion of Virginia east
.S the Allegheny Mountains and north OF Jam
"a River, except Fortress Monroe, and SIX
"a. a. miles around the same. Headquarters
OK Washington, d. O.
Department of Virginia- Monr
r. and sixty miles around the same. Hea
% quarters at Fortress Monroe, Va.
lta DeDartynent of FLorida-The State of Fix