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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

Impending Downfall OF seeessIon.
Occasional, . the well posted Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, predicts the speedy downfall of Sc
cession. He says.
In proportion as the Southern Confede-
racy proves its weakness and exposes its
salient points, the leaders become more
and more desperate. Those of them in the
Border States who calculated thar seees-
sion would crystalline into a great triumph,
finding that they cannot be sustained, are
getting up meetings, in order to deceive
still more the people of the Cotton States
and to encourage the responding spirits OF
the eonspirators, in which theY give utter
ance to the strongest expressions of sym-
7pathy forssecessiou; but when Mr.. Pryor,
and Mr.. Bocock, and Gov Wise, of Virgin
ia, and Gen. Ashe, of North Carolina, and
Robert N. M'LSne and Philip Frank Thorn
rs, of Maryland, are tried at the bar of
public opinion, they will receive such a
rebuke as has never been administered to
faithless public men. The end will be that,
whether Mr. Lincoln calI-an extra session,
or whether he waits until December, NOT
a Secessionist will be found in the House
of Representatives, aud those who have
been proclHiming disunion doctrines 10 the
Senate will be instructed on the right side
Or forced to resign.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

merchant of New York who had be-
come SO involved TINT the proceeds of the
sale of his property would not save him,
devoted his talents to the devising of some
means whereby he could save them. Amer
much deliberatlOn he concluded to convey
real estate aud stocks to one of his clerks
who had solicited his daughters hand in
marriage some months before, and whose
suiths bad then Indignantly refused. His
FesOlut Ons having been taken, he eek
planned matters to the aStonished clerk,
who readily fell in with his employers
plans. The property was soon transfer
red the merchant failed-"losing every
thing baf his honor" aud the clerk, having
as soon as possible sold the real estate and
stocks Tor what cash he could get, fed to
Cuba, leaving the merchant to mourn over
the sad lack of integrity which is so apt
to be developed in clerks whenever an uu-
usual trial or temptation Oyertakes them a
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

THE susceptible wife of James g. King
an actor In one Of the New York theatres
committed suicide because she found an
other 9th l'dys glOre IN her hnabapd's I.Oek-
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

Tbs ',lOear' Of the Philadelphia North
-4"er'ean thinks ''the day may yet come
when men,qre propelled by steam b6Ssz
the boilers being placed ia their coat tail
pockets"
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23
A conRrspoSDrNr Of the weiIsburg Nes-


a CORRESPONDENT of the WelIsburg Ter
aid, thus describes two of the prominent
men of the Virginia Convention, Summers
and Tyler. He says Of Summers:
He spoke two days, aud made decidedly
the speech of the session. he gave the
immediate seeessiOuists . death blow.-
Perhaps many Of your readers have seen
the Judge, as he is called. BE Is Of medi-
UNI height-dArk comple1iOu-and has
face peculiar to the KAnaTha people-giV-
ing you the impression that common sense
aud good humOr are the chaFaeteristics Of
the man.
He has evidently been good liver,
in his day--to such an extent that he is
compelled to throw hack his head and
shoulders TO preserve his Equilibrium
II takes him long time To get fairly
under way, but when he is once thor
oughly aroused he carries everything before
him. Ex-President Tyler took two days 10
reply to Mr.. Summers. II is hardly nsces-
sary to describe him, as every one has seen
his portrait among those Of the Presidents of
the United States. The thin face aud
prominent nose of the pictureAr true tolife.
He was listened to With attention, from
his past position and because he was con-
sidered the representative of the secession
party. But he could not be heard more
than half the time. He speaks with y
smile upon his counteuance, alludes often
to the houors that have been heaped upon
him, suggesting To the hearer that he also
received some curses in his day, and
makes use of that style of argument, if it
may be called argument, employed by
.virulent partisan press. What he was
years ago, when be was n young man and
had enthusiasm aud physical strength,
know not; but what he is now viii mot
say, having too little sympathy with him
aud his cause, to do him justice,
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23
The so-Called gonthern ConfedeTaoy.
RFom tie Tennsa Whig.l

IelAHlll. IN LlEI
We frequently receive Is many as a half
dozen letters ina day from the different
Principalities ID the Soulhsfn COnfedeFAey,
threatening us with deatlia the mosthor-
rible forms. These rev6iting States are
swarming With desperad0es aud assassins,
who would be altogether happy In BATH
ing their hands in the blood of Union men.
A more ferociouS and malevolent barbar-
ism cannot be found on GUd's green earth,
than that now dominant in this "Sonthern
Confederaey.n PfiEsfe worth, public. Vir.
tue, age and experlehce-none Of these
eau soften or restrain. the mn ltiplying aud
relentless brutality which Is eugendgred
by the mob spirit Of this thew form of
civilization Talk about, riding q Union
editor upon a rail Why, the Prince OF
Peace, if he were upon earth, again, could
not traverse the dominiOps, OF these Yam
ceys, Rhetts, Davisess Slidells and Wig
falls, and live, without rcpudinting His
Sermon on the Mount, and proclniming
this Southern ConfedetaSY to he God-or-
daiued, ehrist-begO apd Rehveh-ap-
proved
JEFF. DAVIS. ~ 20 s=-7s =
[FfOnl the same psper.I g5..s
The so-cAIled Southern Gonfrderaey was
conceived in sin, shapen ia intquity, and
born our of due time, because it was
rushed into the world With indecent haste,
expressly to prevent the people from be-
holding its deformities. No man, living.
or dead, is better adapted to preside over
such an organization than JeE Davis. He
Is Us vain and proud as Cottonocracy itself.
He Is as. weak and tunrudent us he is am
bilious and nhprincipled. He has been
producing discomfort aud teaching treason
ever since he has been in public life. A
vile traitor, trained rebel, and an inflat-
led higot, he as richly deserves to be hung
as ever old John Brown did.
This Is the blusterer who, ms public
speech q tew years ago, slapdered the Ten
nessee volunteers, when it is notorious
that Tennessee eau whip ont the whole
Southern Confederacy. And yet, Tennes-
see Is asked to go into the Government
over which this traitor presidesI
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

TRERE are now no Cadets At ives, Po,.,-
from the seeedsd States. The las. Of the,s
fiedgltpg traitors has a1ttered on % DE,
aspnny sOash.e
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

Or Monday night tramp stole rail,
rad ride from Albany to Springfield By
getting iutO car Oiled with live hoes.-
The trip took eight hOuss, the '.tranp' fell
asleep, and The hogs came very near eating
him up. one ear was bitten Oh, his face
dts6sured, his boots EsaWed from his feet
and bis whole personality ruined and de,
6lsd beyond all description 81 :. E
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23
Broadcast Seed S0MerI

FHHE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE PURCHASED TTTy
y right for HANE,S SEED EOyGRR yFhirl, jeoI[s
AZ Eins Of Grain and Grtss Seeds IN the most Usr
teet manner ltis simple IN its eoiistruetio, Sni
the seea eIsaly upoa The surface uti1s,at ths yr1
and labor peculiar to habd sowing. OrISrS EoF
SoIIeEa win receife pruIlps attention. 5slEi7.
lal,o - t SMITH 4 GoRREIIa F
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

THE exrnse offered for the decrease of
1000 votes in the lA,e contest for Governor
In New Hampshire, is that they were ab.
sent at WashingtOn for oaiees.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

THE AississiPPiaa published At Jackson,
Miss. says that "tAs Coas.itutiOn for t6s
PsT|aaeat GsresNsHt6.tors Nlssi,sigpi 6s-
cones PartytO tie eOapset, uiUst BE su5ui,-
ted dtCeetIV q "a yOts eftRsi people Of ne
SattS Slf It Is not done, The question OF
the right Of The people to form their own
government may require practical solution,
before the new order is fully established.
They win not hold themselves bound by
Government which they will have had no
hand in creating re
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

\ correspondent of the Savannah Re-
publican inquiries whyit would not be best
to assess upon each State its proportional
part of the revenue required, and ask it to
furnish it in its own way. The RfpuJli-
can answers:
at was fully tried under the old Con-
federation, aud abandoned from its uncer-
tainty and utter ineficiency as revenue
system. The treasury was bankrupt, and
every interest depending thereon languish-
ed during the whole period of its exist
ence."
Didit not occur to the editor when he
was penning those lines that the old Con-
federacy itself was abandoned on account
Of its utter ineficieney 'as government
and the Union was established in its place?
Yet the South wants to go back three quar-
tiers of century, and establish a con-
fsderacy which any State can break up ut
will.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

PErERsox's MAGAZINE continues to main
tain its rank as one of the first of the,
Philadelphia mOntblies. The number for
April, is quite up to the average; the ills
tratiOns are excellent, the literary contents
various and generally meritoriOus. The
following from poem entitled '.ly Castle
is exquisitely melodious:
Ny beautiful Castle. afar. afar. -ts- s.
Ny Castle I've budded IN air,
lis Of airy mould and twill never grow old
But WIN SVeE BE bright and GlIF; ----l-
EhS flowers VII not farle, and the sun and Ehaia
Will he ~ to-day forever;
And the muses. song Uill be rirkfn. atom,
Ia my Cattle by the river.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

If is related at Washington that recent
" al ofise-seeksr called upon Secretary
Chase having with him his wife and chill
dren, and expected as hs expressed it, to
be set right TO work. Hs came from Iadi-
ana. The children, wife and the baggage
were an Up TO the seCeeiary,a Osise. $
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

R'PE strawberries are on sale At New OR.
leans, aud the Pic. is as pleased as sP ainHe6 S
tSODt il
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

PEESTIcE defines what man gGnts-.n
he eau.Eet What woman wantsLall n.
cant get. 7 s. 81. A. g.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23
THE GREATENGLIsH REMEDY,
SIR JAMES CLARKR'S E $50
Celebrated Female Pills.

PROTECTED NJ ROYAL LETTERs PATENT.
Fr'Paredy roa a Fa,serifIt iol etsr JIrEs cLAakE,
Nd, PaySfefaH EEtTaorfiaaFy to ne QuAea.
This invaluable Heiieine q unfIling In the cure Of
all thoss painfaI and dangerous isees to which the
female Constitution Is subject II raodsFatel an sr.
GEES aud removes al 6hgtr6etIoni abd speedy cure
may ~ relied ca
H. TO MARRIED LADIES ~
y Il peculiarly snited II viii In bert time bring
on the uaoathIy period with regularity. ttf
Zach hOttIe, price One Dollar baiu the Govern
ment stamp Of Great Britain prereni eOuntsrIeita
These Pss ikSi5td ~ Il AK Il Is t.uare, l.,iso
tAs FIRST LHREE N0iS51HS n FrsgaaRey, a. t6ev
arc a.Te @ 6TiEg o. Ai'alTyisse bat a any otter
tt1le taSy drs S4Ie-
In an cases Of NeFEoas aud spinal Aaeetions Pain
in the Back and Limbs, Fatigue on sllght s4ertion
Paipiaiioa Of the Heart Hystsres and Whites tless
Pills viii sfFoes eurs when an other means have
flilsd; and although powerful remedy, % not con-
tHtn iron, elosl, ahtinOny, anything hurtfuI to
the constitution.
Enli GiTeetio1s IN the pamphlet arouId each pack.
age Thich should BE carefully pFessrV 81
sole AIOnla flF kls unitad Stats and CSahaA, "a q,
JOB NosRs, Gate ! c. Baldwin Cod +
NRAsl,Do aud Postato staIapa sscieSsi 70 ~,
alth Agent. VIII iDsHO bottle einiaIulnf g
sofa By LAu9HLISs BUsHFIRLD ana = n
LOGAN : CO. anS3-6oa-dGg.ly.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

Nor long since N. Jacquet died at Rouen,
leaving all his fortune to lady in Paris.
Singular 70 relate The dled about tue
same hour leaving to ". Jaequet all her
money. The heirs of both are to contest
which was the survivor.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23
Rare Business Opportunitv,

= tNHk SUBSCRIBERS HAVING DETRRNINRD
Whole9ale DTI Goods baEiDess otISr he It6ek ana
800 YIN @ their uEocsry pelaTtltltt Or sale ~
eIelA !llntug - eoGllEllnea OF extend \ n
Gala GFpeesy b1SI1e6 q OFheeliaE VII 61I fbis -,
SpPortullty ven uutttl their aftautioh-tiS 500
hghf and desirable aud the patronage vnl,lIhlE
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23


IT now appears that the Petersbnrg cleo
ton, which, by the adoption of Mr.. Coll
lier's resolutions, was claimed to instruct
Mr. Branch to vote for Immediate seces-
sion, did no such thing. II was Thought,
by the opponents of secession, that the
resolutions might be construed TO mean
that, although their advocates denied that
Construction. Accordingly, resolution
declaring it inexpedient TO instruct ME.
Branch AT all, Was printed on tickets and
called .ERoIIings Substitute and on the
bols0mzOf the ticket. against Colller's
resolutions" This was the ticket run
against thur headed ':fOr Golfers resolu.
tions." The last named was elected, but
It will be seen. by the following resoIution,
printed at The bottom of the ticket used by
the voters For Golfers resolutions, that
even they did not propose TO instruct Mr.
Branch at all:
'trhe resolutions offered at the meeting,
and which are to be voted on by tie Peo-
pie, do not propose instructions to Mr.
Branch. any more than they propose to
instruct the Convention, 70 which Mr..
Branch is requested 70 present them. The
whole proceeding is merely intended to
be, Is 1t only is, an expression of opinion
in \ primary meeting of the people. The
whole tenor and purpOrt OF the resolutions
are denial Of the Black Republican creed
that negroes are not property under aud
by the Constitution Of the United States"
SO the story Of the wonderful revolution
in favor Of secession at Petersburg, falls to
the ground. fi{.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-23

TuE n. Y. Herald says of the money
market: "Giltedged paper is much want
cd, and can be passed, at per cent. Some
of the brokers have more money LEFT with
them at than they eau use. In the open
streets 9 is the gtner4l tats,"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04
Personal Intelligence.

Captain Wises and wife waited on yesterday by
several # most prominent citizens. Commodore
Stringham and large number OF naval and military
officers also called at the Brevoort House during the day
to nay their respects the gallant Captain and his ANITA
bic wife.
MAYOR General Fremont received visitors up 20 twelve
O'Clock yesterday at the Aston House. After that hour
he was oat attending private business acccmpa
med by Mrs Fremont.
Fix senator Gwinn, Calhoun Benham aud J. d. Brent,
the gentem who recently occupied apartments In Fort
Lafayette, IRE now stopping Mt theNe York Hotel.
Hon I. b. Lawrence, T. l.. Motley, W IL. Robson o.
Boston: Professor Mather, Of Amherst; IF Turner a
Iinahamton and j. NJ Lewis aud Edward Ogden Of New.
port are stopping at the Brevoort House.
Dr. johnson, OF the United States Navy; Lyres and
family and &. W Day and family, Of New York: D. G.
wilcox and James d. FAIRY, of Connecticut NJ. K Cady OF
New Lon ION and g. Benjamin, of England, are stopping
a, the Isiargo House
JF Hintington Of Hartford; s. W. Bowes of Boston
II " T. Pellen and Il. J.. Arnold, or New York arc
stopping nj the Gramersy Park Hotel.
Cautau Messenger ard ;. ~ Bowman, Of tho United
siatas rny 8 W Hart. OF Missouri a. w. Montgomery
of canada O. Gordon OF Newburg Lient Curtis. OF
Rson W. Newcomb ana wife, OF Louis vile: j. >. Chap
man 81 England and A. Dali, Of lLmore, topping
| AZ tho Firth Avenue Hotel
tientenant T. Abbott, United States Navy; /. lHsdp
| nc Hartford Ju8ge Grover aud wife, Of Angelica n Y.
n Stafford Of BRIDGEPORT roan e. Cook, OF Iowa Rus
sell sage ana wu. Mason, o. Massachusetts, ara " ?
| c.nn Of California, stopppg at the -, Sichola
! Hotel,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04

SOUTHERN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ill
the interdictions Of communication between
North and South, we have already seen
between fifteen and twenty shinplasters OF
different denominations issued for small
sums, in various States of the rebel con-
federacy. We may therefore infer that they
are exceedingly abundant down South, and
that the statement is true that they are
issued by nearly every corporation, bank,
railway, hotel, barroom, eating house and store
in Secessiondom, and in numbers that even ex-
coed those of the worst days Of 1887, when they
were to be found in nearly every mans pocket
1t used to be the boast of the so-called chivalry
that pennies were altogether too insignificant
for them to touch; but we have heard on good
authority that shnplastcrs for one and two
cents are now current among them.
We give below copy of a twenty cent shin
plaster which we have received from Port
Royal. It is issued by the Bank of South Caro-
lima, and printed on a fragment of an old twenty
dollar bill of the Commercial Bank of Macon
Georgia From the size it is evident that one
of the original bills serves to make three shin.
plasters; and this affords good instance of the
shifts to which the chivalry are driven for
nnuar.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04
Thc Telegraph and tho Message.

The Message OF President Lincoln was tesarapheI TO
all parts of the loyal states yesterday The Message
contains Thousand five hundred and seventy eight
words and was all received in ills city in hour and
thiTytwo minutes feat Of telegraphng unparalleled in
the Old or New World Mr. Sanford the President or the
American Telegraph Company, and his able suporinten-
dents and subordinate operators, entitled 10 the
hghcs, credit for thus accomplishing such stupendous
work IN such short space OF time. The Message was
m,no'ee by the Associated Press agency in til sity
ard placed the hanis Of the printers Of the various
newspapers in loss than hours from the commence
ment Of its Transmission.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04
THE NINTEl NEW JERSEY REGIMENT FOR
rfiE SEAT OF WAR.

TRf.Vr0N, \. ), Doc. 3, 1851.
The Ninth regiment Of New Jersey Volunteers leave f
the Of tomorrow with 15n ne1 eighty horses
twenty-five wagons and Ave Ambulance IS, completely sg
nished in every part. Tho following the oilccf'-
Jos W. Auen Colonel. Lieutenant. Colonel appoic ed,
Charles A. Hickman, MAJOR; Ahran zalnaski, Adj 4ant
Samuel Keys Qusrtermaster; Frederick 5. willer sur
gcon; Lewis eraum Assistant Surgeon; Thomas Rrsunin,
Chagaiut WIN. a. Guycs Sergeant Major; Joba Bran
ford al termasiers Sergeant, Smith Blderbas n, Com
nissar9s Sergeant; John W. Lewis, Hospital Steward,
Isaac " Eayre Wagon Master: John w. Johson, Drum
MAJOR.
Tho whole train viii b. charge OF Coloaes Hasiead
and i cy.. and Major Aci ~.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04
NEWS FROM PORT ROYAL.

Ann'vAL OF THE TRANSPORT PATArScO.
i"0 ni'ed States steam transport Patapsco B,srss,
"'Neu " TINS port yesterday morning from Fort Royal
after passage Of throe days.
On tho IL. INST, on Charleston, tho pa,apsco spoke
United states gunboat ,-sguln, cruising.
The raapsco sailed from POI. Royal few hours after
the steamship Mcclellan.
Nothing new had transpired OF interest since Lon
ailing.
Tho health OF tho troops was good.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04
RAILS FOR EUROPE.
The New York Nerald-EGslt.
Erprnna

The New York HeraId-EGssi5sI -.
Europe.
Tho Cunard mail steamship ASIA Capt Lott, win lcavs
this port to-day for Liverpool.
The European mails will close In this city eight O'CLOCK
this morning
The EUROPEAN EDITION or THE HERALD win DO publsheA
NJ seven O'Clock III the morning. Single copies, in wrs
pers, ak cents.
The contcnts Of the EUROPEAN EDr1oN OF rs IIgsALs
VIII combine tho news received by mail and telegraph
the Office during the previous week and up to the hour u
publication.
Sampson Low, Son 4 Co., No al Iadgate nm, London,
England, will receive advertisements and subsc .Is
for the uElAip
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04

WINTER GAnpEs.-Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams are
playing this week the cnmedctta Of Latest from
Now York" and tho former alone in his favor,e cha
racter Of the Irish soldier, Phem ODonnel. Iu the
last character ample scope is Afforded for the display Of
his mrt-provokng qualities, while tho combined Efforts
OF both husband vile in the first named piece prove
source unbounded amusement aud perfectly convulse
the house. A burletta entitled Secesh }" waspro-
duced Monday night, With Mrs Barney Williams ia the
nrncpsl character Il met with indifferent success and
was only saved from utter failure by tho excellent acting
OF Mrs. Williams.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-04

The MISSISSIPPI EXPEDITION AND THE DTFFlcuL-
TIES 1T Will HAVE 10 EscouNrER-The idea Of a
great land and water expedition down the Mis-
and was one OF his leading projects for sub
DUNG the rebellion. At first preparations to
carry it ont were made in secret, and it was
contemplated as it wa, certainly desirable, to
maintain that degree of seeresy which would
tend to make its success more certain. One of
the abolition papers Of this city, however, ac-
tuated more by a selfish feeling than by any re-
gard for the national cause, published whatever
facts had come to its knowledge on the subject.
and the consequence was. as communication
between the Northern and Southern States was
hardly Interrupted at the time. that the rebels
were put in possession OF important intorma-
ton, and Immediately set to work to intcrpose
obstacles to the expedition. The Notifications
that have since been erected on every az ailable
bluff, from MeEphis, Tenn, to Columbus. KY
distance Of some three hundred miles--testify
to their energy and resources and prove their
determination TO contest with us the pathway
to the mouths of the Mississippi The extent
locality and armament OF these Qualifications
thus raised by the rebels are described in an
article and series OF maps which we publish
to-day, furnished to us by an observant and in
telligent correspondent who has recently been
over the whole ground and made notes of i'm
portant points.
The preparations for the expedition are being
messed forward at ST. Louis and Cairo. Gen.
Fremont is known to have devoted his almost
exclusive attention to it, aud now Gen. Halieck
is continuing the work relating to the army
while Commodore Foote is overseeing the con
struction aud armament Of the gunboats and
transport vessels. The exact strength oil the
3and and river forces is as yet unknown; bht II
viii be commensurate with the magnitude oil
the undertaking and with the serious character
of the obstacles to be encountered. 80 far as
we could be of service in pointing out where
and what these obstacles are, we have per
formed our duty in the premises. Our descrip
ton Of the Notifications, armament and reDe
forces may be relied upon as generally accu
rate and we hope that the information whci
we thus furnish will prove of great utility t.
the commanders OF the expedition. The perio
for starting upon 1t has not yet publicly trans
pred; but we presume that Secretary Sewar
NAV not be far astray this time when he say
that in ten days we shall have joyful news
Whether that news may be grand and success
full movement of our army on the Potomac, Q