Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-12

The following extract Of letter, written
by an officer of one Of United States ships
engaged in the expedition for the taking of
Forts Hattaras and Clark, appears in the
Philadelphia Inquirer:
HATTERAs INLET, N. O., Sept. 3, 1861.
We are beginning to receive gratifying in-
telligince of the effect of our expedition upon
the State Of North Carolina. Two vessels
have arrived with Northern fugitives from
the interior, who inform us that the forts at
Oregon Inlet, forty miles to the eastward,
and at Ocracoke Inlet, twenty miles to the
westward, have been abandoned, the guns
spiked and the State property destroyed.
The rebels, surprised at this attack, and as
founded at their great loss, while we lost
nothing, have yielded the whole coast from
Cape Henry to Cape Lookout. Besides they
are alarmed at the prospect of advances upon
their cities that communicate with Albemarle
and Pamlico Sounds, Edenton, Washington,
Newbern (their military head.quarters,) &c,
and are calling upon all citizens to arm and
fortify them. As all are equally threatened
from this position, they must all attend to
their own defenses and can not assist each
other. There will be no more musters of
North Carolina troops to march into Vir-
ginia, but those now at Norfolk will be re-
called, and probably those at Richmond and
Manassas also.
Luz HuBlOlN6b JSll u5 Judb Jub " uIOu l66lluS
has been suppressed in North Carolina but
not extinguished; that most Of the actiVeLy
secesSive volunteered for service some time
since, and were marched away without cal
cutating the defenseless condition of their
own borders; and that the Home Guards"
contain very many who will not fight
against our flag, and not few who have
been drafted, and although not refusing to
enter service, are ready TO join as if they have
the chance. A Union man told US last night
that his brother commands company in
MiadletOwn, thirty miles away, and that he
and his men are ready to take the oath of al
legiance as soon as any United States officer
can administer it. You can imagine the eff
feet of this movement upon the Southern
States also. South Carolina can not, with her
guilty consciousness, feel very comfortable,
while formidable squadron is operating
within days sail of her coast. If the Gov
eminent please it can threaten her in such
| style that every South Carolina regiment
will be recalled from Virginia in week
and the feet that is signaled from the Char
lesion battery tonight, may be off Tybee
Light tomorrow morning, to threaten Sa-
vannah also. This is the true method of
conducting the war. Had we ten regiments
of the troops that are about Washington (for
fear Beauregard should come to take it, with
a few transports, and our present naval force
we would occupy any and every desirable
| point from the Chesapeake to Key West.
| They would never know when a feet of
steamers would attack, and SO would be al
!, ways anxious, and unable to concentrate any
| force Of dangerous magnitude. Besides, in
such movements of alarm, with their fami-
lies and property in danger, words of reason
would be listened to, and sentiments now
| forbidden would be outspoken.