Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-16
FHE GREAT EXPEDITION.
DEPARTURE FROM HAMPTON = THE
VOYAGE-THE GALE-THE ARRiFAL
OFF PORT ROYAL.


FROM HAMPTON - THE
VOYAGE-THE GALE-THE Arrival
OFF PORT ROYAL.
NE Reimbursement Of the Eogts-I1 - Ter.
riue STERN q shot nnd sheu-Aee A~oa'
Of the kebeln,
The Great Navsl Expedition, the gTsnds0t
a its proportions that this country ever sawi
nd the most important in its results, has
accomplished Its mission, and its record hss
,sssed into history. Never was there an e1-
,edition which met with more complsts sue
,ess. The Southern coast has been sRcstss-
ully invaded and taken possession of, and
he United States dag floats once mors, after
. banishment Of twelve months, over TIE soil
# South Carolina. The importance OF the
movement however, has been already set
orth, and it remains for US TO give, as we do
below, as full details of the movement the
progress Of the Fleet and the final successful
attack upon the rebel forts, as our limited
spaco will permit. The extracts are from the
very full reports by the correspondents Of the
leading New York journals. Our only spol-
oVy in giving these details is that VS. have
not more space to devote to that object. The
most Of our extracts are from "Doesticks" Of
the Tribune, who was upon the Atlantic.
TIE DEPARTURE.
The Fleet departed from Hampton on Tues
day, Oct %, ct noon.
how THEY SAILED.
Our vessels sail four cable lengths apart
sideways, and one and half cables length
distant, one in advance of the other,
Marine mathematics, being one Of the alb
stfuss Sciences, a reduction OF sea-s'sng to the
veraecular win doubtless crafty ny much
friend, the public. Be It known
then, that a "cable's length" is generally
reckoned at 100 flthoms-that fathom is
yards-that there are l,76O yards to mile
and that therefore the battlefront of th'
Grand Expedition stretched nearly six mile
from wing to wing. From front to rear, from
the stately Wabash to the gunboats NohicaI
and Seminole that protected our rear iron
the desperate ventures Of audacioas priva
teers, the distance is not far from three miles
While IL we chose to extend the lire to tn
little feet of our coal schoOners that follow
on still further behind, we might add anothe
mile or SO to cur figures.
NEW HAMPSHIRE swEARMe.
In the matter of shameless profanity, tn
devil, who invented that accomplishment
owes much, Vsiy much, to the Sd New Hsmp
shire regiment, on the Atlantic, who hav
contrived numberless ingenious variation
and additions. The New Hampshire boy
have doubtless heard that tour army swor
terribly in Flanders" and having accepts
swearing as q means Of victory, they are rem
dering themselves invincible as fest as posi-
bic. If hard swearing really was an armo
of defence, every private in the Sd New HamI
shire would now be bomb-proOf end some
the officers wouldn't be vulnerable to any
thing less than a 32-pOund rifed cannon. A
an Offset however, they sing plenty OF hymns
principally Of the Methodist invention. In
deed, there is a report that an ingenious ser
gesnt, musical by nature and profane BY praC
tice, has succeeded in adapting q string {
original and highly elaborate oaths to th
tune Of 81 would not live Away" and tbs
be nightly constitutes himself the centre {
an admiring and envious crowd, by hi
sWeet-toned swearing in semibreyes. haV
not myself heard this prodigy, and perhaP
the whole story is q scandal.
YANKEE CURIOSITY.
feel perfectly confident that could NOV
70 uproarious mirth the whole immense cor
course of all the readers of the Tribune, if
could transcribe the odd remarks and quRIr
speculatiops Of our New England Yankee
relative to the ship, aud the oceau, an
everything connected Herewith. Few {
them have ever seen g bigger ship than
uUT let Uuem resi- and Their ] snEee pert
naeitE win not let anybody else rest, thei
questions are innUmerable. Every rope an
iron, and step, and hatehway, is a probler
to be solved-a subject for never-ceasin
guessing.
The attention Of every one OF them wa
caught BY the compass-I mean that specis
one that is open to the view of ever
passer-by-snd at least 700 men of th
force Of 1000 inquired of somebody wha
''that brass thing" was. OF course, the sail
ors soon tired Of this sort of thing, and tht
answers they gave to the perpetually-urgeC
inquiries soon began 70 contain information
much more remarkable for novelty than fol
absolute truthfulness. When heard sailor
tall one of the soldiers that the binnacle was
a patent steam howitzer, that the lib was the
Captains table-cloth hung out to dry, and
"a nil ~ her-
purSer's COW, l thought the climax of hard
lying had been attained, but was convinced
that even this could be eclipsed, when over
heard q tough old boatsWsin, With the ut
most gravity, assure one of the band that the
signal-halyards were the ropes that kept the
anchor from blowing over the mainstop in an
sasterly gale.
A most noticeable thing this morning is
The glorious showing forth OF 2 Brilliant
'ainbow which, as there is neither rain nor,
It the moment, sun, seems to US to put in its
appearance without sufficient cause or provo
alton. The officers and soldiers Of the regi-
nent behold it intsrestedly; yogr eorrespon-
lent gazes at it admiringly; tie oHcers of
be ship and the sailors look at it one-sidedlv.
nd not few Of them swear at it sudibly.
lthers repeat this couplet:
"At rainbow in the morning.
Sailors take warning. y
THE GALE.
By 3 o'clock P. ships NJ, which am
iven to understand differs slightly, but per
stently, from everybody else's r., the gale
sd so strengthened as to make the morn.
lg's Iris the psrticOlored subject Of a uni
srsal curse; BY o'clock P. n. (ship's) the
ind had far outgroEn all vestiges of its |