Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-14
MY BUDGET.
cHARLEs O. RouTELLE.

CHARLES o. BoUTELLE. A
A very prominent officer in the great ex-
pedition Is Colonel Charles o. Boptelle. lie
holds the post Of coast survey officer, an
advisory one, and his services will prove in
valuable to Commodore Dupont and the
other officers in charge. Colonel B. is in.
timately acquainted with the intricacies Of
the ATLANTIC coast, more especially the shores
of South Carolina and Georgia, and will,
doubtless select the points ofsdisembarka-
top, knowing thoroughly the soundings of
the bays and rivers and the complex and
! diversified channels which afford facilities for
the passage of the feet therein Colonel B,
was employed in the coast service in 1852, in
which year he made a survey of the shore
| extending from Cape Fear, N. O., to st.
| Mary's Sound, the point Of division between
the States of Georgia and Florida.
The importance of this survey may be es.
| timated from the fact that it is the standard
for reference in the Navy Department at the
present time. In the prosecution of his la
boIs, he was assisted by Lieutenant Bank
head (now an officer of the fleet from whose
| Typographical description of Bull Bay we
have heretofore given extracts in the col
umns of the San. Under the guidance of
these two gentlemen, the fleet will not only
become acquainted with the safest, but most
eligible harbors in landing, troops for future
operations. Hf
After making a survey of the New Eng
land coast, during the subsequent year, Col
onel Boutelle, in 1854, was directed to make
a still more particular survey of the coast of
South Carolina, which duty he most satis-
factorily performed, giving the minutest de-
tails. His report in this matter is, at this
juncture, invaluable TO the Government
particularly as Charleston harbor and vicin-
ity received, during that year, his most par
tcular attention, as did also the harbor Of
Georgetown, s. O.
In 1856, he pushed his investigations
further southwark, and completed survey
of Savannah harbor and its coast vicinity,
the partial publication of which has been
highly seryiceable to our merchant marine
trading with that port, and others south Of it.
In 1857, he reported and extended still
| futther his South Carolina survey, before
| making his final report thereon to the Gov.
| eminent, which is now pronounced to be the
most accurate and perfectly reliable one in
/ the archives Of the Navy Department Since
1857, he has been actively employed on other
| portions of the coast. rN'
| Colonel B 8 appointment to his present
position Isl as will be seen at once, not only
Inappropriate, but almost matter of necessity
to the success of the great expedition. He
is, emphatically, the right man in the right
place" -. ...s
EFFECT OF MILITARY OCCUPANCY.
correspondent Of the New York Tribune
writes from Paducah as follows: s-.
Il l formed the acquaintance of an old resi-
dent of Psducah. he resides in the suburbs
of the city in an elegant mansion, surround
ed by fruit and shade trees. His lady had Q
passion for raising awberries, and she has
an acre deputed to this purpose, the yield o.
which is so great that she sends them tt
Cairo and other markets. Your CORES pond
ent being interested in the same manner
easily formed an acquaintance, but withou
daring to make himself known as having
scarcely ever seen the Tribune, for their idel
OF it was that it is sheet which is in favo
of dispossessing them OF the best part of thei
property. ... ...
The lady informed me that her husband
gave her five slaves to work her strawberries
and that they were busy all summer in keep
, ing them clean, a work which one person
, should be able to do in less than half th
time. But mention this gentleman and hi
place for the purpose of showing what effec
a military occupancy has. The ratification
. for the defense of the place run through thi
gentleman's grounds A deep ditch has beer
, dug through his orchard and garden, anC
other grounds, which he has been improving
more than twenty years, his dwarf pears ar
) uprooted, and a beautiful grove has beer
leveled to the ground. He estimates hi
damages at $4,000. Appraisers were ap
pointed to find the damages, and when b.
was informed it was $3.50, he told Genera
Smith he might keep the money, for he ha(
8 no use for it. To satisfy him, perhaps, othe
, appraisers were selected, when they decided
upon SIP, the value of the trees cut dowI
, being estimated by their worth as cord wood
A vast number of similar estates are dam
aged in the same condition. The Marine
Hospital on the river, most elegant anC
spacious erection, is surrounded by earth
! works and is TO be demolished and converted
into fort. The defenses of the places en-
, tirely surround the city, and are held b,
} about eight thousand troops, about one thou
, sand of which are cavalry. From this, on
may get slight idea of the determination Q
the Government to bold Kentucky in tn
! Union, and can see, too, that while there
: no middle ground, they who have favore
the rebels have not suffered without cause.
The Methodist clergy seem to be doinl
3 their whole duty in the National crisis will
exemplary zeal. The Rev. j. II. Perry, a
we know, commands the Regiment of New
YorkVolunteeIs inGeDeral Sherman's South
ern Expedition. The Rev. Alfred Kendall
of the Genessee Conference, is raising com
pany OF light infantry, to be commanded b.
himself, or by one of his clerical brethren
g under whom he may possibly take the plac
Q of Lieutenant. The Rev. E. H. Chaplin, TO
I many years leading preacher in the Blac
4 River Conference, but obliged 70 leave tn
s ministry on account of his health, has raise
7 a full company of cavalry in Sandy Creel
E N. Y, for Colonel Munson's regiment Q
= Northern Black Horse Cavalry" The Rev
. james NJ. Fuller, of the Genessee Conference
/, will resign his. position as Presiding Elder t
0 take the field. He has, as we learn from th
:, New York Methodist, all the high qualitie
d requisite for an efficient soldier, and wi
speedily be at the head of as fine regimen
as ever fought for the Stars and Stripes.
THE FLoTILLA. .r.
b The fotilla of the Potomac consists Of
: dozen small steamers, tug-boats and Ne
j York river crafts which have been purchase
# or chartered by Government, mounting frol
: one to four guns each. There is the YGHke
t Resoluts, FTeeboTn, DasOn, Ptssey, PoWhGta
p and others, some side-wheelers and som
| propellers. A portion of them are below th
rebel batteries, in the vicinity of Matthia
: Point; the remainder lie near Indian Hea(
d opposite the mouth of the 0cooquan. The
= are out of reachof the rebel batteries, "
e sufficiently near to watch the movement
Q upon the Virginia shore.
I - The Portland (Me) Duck Co.'s Mills al
! running on extra time to fill large Cover
mant enntranfa which will annn1ov fba e.,