Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-10-31

No. The Richmond Examiner says that no cOnse-
quences Of the action reported days ago to the
department by Gen. Magruder, have yet transpired-
The Examiner learns that the reinorcements ordered
some days ago for the Peninsula have been, for the
present. countermanded The impression in weIl-nform
ed quarters in Richmond is that the naval expedition
off Newport News is intended for operations on the
Carolina coast. Winch Carolina the Examiner does
not say. 1t may be either or both. The New York
Express has the following in regard to the great naval
expedition, about which so much has been said -
The great naval expedition intended for operations on
the Southern coast which has been in of prepare
soon leave for It's destination wherever that may bepos
siby New Orleans, Mobile st, Augustine, Bruins
wick, Savannah Charleston, OF the Beaufos
or Wlmngonhe reader IS at liberty TO Fix the locality
for himself. That the expedition will be very formidable
One however is to be doubted Some OF the troops it
Will be seen by our local reports are already embarked
and hear Of preparations for the immediate embaTka-
non OF Others Our Baltimore correspondent notes the I'M
porant fact that Thursday last fifteen thousand troops
passed over The Annapolis Railroad from Washington
bound for unknown destination This large body of
undoubtedly intended to form portion Of this great
expedition.
So it would seem that we not to be forgotten.
The REGULARITY of the position occupied by the
Lincoln States in the present struggle is such at
tract comment Of not the most respectful kind from the
balance of the nations.
outnumber the South over three to one. Even with
these States they would be all of two They have
in their hands all the machinery of the old govern
ment-al the fleets, all the mnts all the prestige and
yet with all this find that they compelled to ap-
peal to other countries for men-for other nations to do
their fighting According to the Dublin Post recruit
ing agents Of the Lincoln government had shown them
selves in Ireland but with little success so far Carl
baldi was offered Major Generashp if he would come
over, and hear about graadsons Of Louis Philippe
receiving commissions, which will no doubt be very
pleasing to Louis Napoleon.
In New York and other Northern Cities all sorts of
appeals made to foreign natonaities SUCH Green
flags are hoised and big green hand bills, orramented
with the Harp OF Erin are posted around to attract
the sons of Saint Patrick while other devices and ap
peas are made to the Germans and other foreigners
aud even Massachusetts, that went far few years
ago to disband all military organizations composed Of
citizens of foreign birth, calls upon them Justify
as though she had burned converts, merged
herself, into big Know Nothing lodge. That
queer and not very credabe but the queerest part
of it is that their calls are responded to- That their re-
giments actually filed with the denounced and pro-
scribed Irish and Germans and sooth to say most
their fighting done by the same people There not
many New England regiments all told, and still fewer
OF these are composed of native New EnganderS New
Bedford Massachusetts, was unit for Lincoln and for
the war; She has twenty thousand population and not
one company in the field. North Carolina, with one
half the white population Of Massachusetts, has about
twice as many men in the field. If the comparison
cluded men OF foreign birth, Massachusetts would ap-
pear to still less advantage IN the comparison Why
foreigners should fill their ranks to such extent is
little remarkable. We rather think they have nothing
else to do and must enlist in the ermy or starve.