Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-10
THE Us. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,
The Van Wyck Investigating
Committee.
Senator's Polk and Johnson, OF
NO., to be Expelled.
Rebel Batteries on Potomac shellod.
THE GREAT CAIRO EXPEDITION
ABOUT TO MOVE.

Tresl9eht hubbard, Secretary Poor, Treas
urer French, and nearly all the old Vice
PRESIDENTS, The Executive Committee was
Teorgsnlzed, and consists of Marshall P.
Wilder, of Massachusetts,; Frederick Smytb.
OF New Hampshire; Isaac Newton, of Phil.
adelphia; Charles B. Culvert, of Maryland;
Legrand Byington, of Iowa; J. II. Sullivan,
of Ohio, and N. Myers, of California.
President Lincoln's recommendation for
the establishment of an Agricultural and
Statistical Department, was commended,
ano a, ne was elected an honorary member.
The suggestions Of the Presidents address
were debated and indorsed, and a large edi-
ton was ordered to be printed The estab
lishment of an agricultural department was
discussed and recommended There was a
decided expression of opinion against ma
tonal exhibitions, unless they can be held
at Washington.
NEW YORK, January l0.-Specials from
washington to the morning papers state that
members OF the Van Wycke Investigating
COMMITTEE have been to Boston, New York
and Philadelphia, sharply looking into the
ways unpatrjotic men have of making money
out OF the Government in the night of its
dead hug with rebellion, to the shameful
Developments already published, and they
will add enough to iphame the disposition
which now exists in Congress to punish with
death frauds committed on the Government
in time ofwar
The Judiciary Committee this morning
authorized the Chairman to report resolu.
tion expelling the two Missouri Senators.
Polk and johnson.
The Colonel of regiment stationed at
Hilton Head, who came up on the Vander-
but now here, says he has no doubt of his
ability to take Charleston with his single
regiment, SO great is the Southern panic.
Houses In the interior are known to have
been abandoned by their owners and left in
the same condition as the Beaufort residences
were found.
On Monday night council was held at
the Capitol between all the members of the
Cabinet and the War Investigating Commit
tee. The session lasted three hours. The
proprlety OF silence as to the debate and
conclusion it was brought to are obvious.
1t is stated that the Cabinet officer whose
life has been spent in courts of law, led the
demand for immediate battle, and that the
counsel for delay came from the heretofore
belligerent member of the Administration.
On Wednesday morning, several hours be-
fore daylight the FFee6orn, Island Belle and
Sateshte, under the direction of Lieutenant
Magaw, commanding the lower department
OF the Potomac flotilla, shelled the epcamp.
ment OF rebel regiment near Foak's Land
ing just about day break, on their return to
Liverpool Point. They ran within about
three quarters of mile of the Acquia Creek
Gattery, ana threw in some thirty or forty
sneiis, e, WIN what effect is not known. The
CHIcAGo, January l0.-A special to the
ITi6ane, dated Cairo the 9th, says: Sowing
to the dense fog prevailing here, the expedi.
ton Soutbward has been delayed. A portion
ofthe force, however, have been dispatched
to the starting point. The weather permit
U,ns .ne remaining portion VIII get under
wy iyCo;rn w. noILow. -,
orroo-a O P.eSsnteu an unusually Warllke
PREiaa I''uS.syio,,., ~ NY
,-oa dnt,.S Ve nun9teu ' u9llars worth OF qulnine
Tos,r;.ET u '"o oaJs ago Oh tne steamer
r.
has rissp on5 iiVm th CaIlo to-uay says tne iog
sta,t tO do unu sne e4PeuItioh VIII PROBABLY
siTiS oiI ~ lay ar9ops ana transportation are
reoSH 70 Taauo anu s'ealuers anu guhDoats
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OF. LOUIS, January lO.-The Cairo corre-
spondent OF the Republican telegraphs that
the great expedition is ready to start.
All the soldiers and most of their wagons
have embarked on steamers, which will leave
as soon as the dense fog which overhangs
the river is dispelled.
The troops are in the highest spirits and
impatient to be OH. The fleet will ascend
the tennessee River for some distance, but
the hnal destination OF the expedition is not
known. A considerable body Of cavalry
Will start at the same time from Birds Point
ana proceed through Kentucky, joining the
nam army at the point of debarkation on
the Tennessee River.
HARTFORD, Jan. l0.-Colonel Samuel Colt
oled at nine o'clock to-day, of an acute at
JACK upon the brain. bis decaase was rather
sudden, though not wholly unexpected. He
mad been i'll for several days.
SEDALiA, January 9.-lntelligence known
Soro De f.or1 anu srTe nas Just peen received
q nsrt Of ISnniao1 nnSoh CounSy 70 tne eHeGt shat
and tbat 3bnH %ad iuS,5nenI rS I %as az holuen,
Tna .nsy hau tLa Ha1e uescent on the
,.'ato b'r WI Mnete sne u9Vernmeht wagons
poosf uu, anu nay nreu Ine houses OF the
nnos. Riontnen. .i teIels engageu IN mat AFFAIR,
TosnS &c as 3hnS 1 osNod nsSaSH hongnS com
Au IT, "S SnS SneS pSSssIu .i tnele:
ereI Mstbod;at VIC nsonoh nosOIious ara C1ck-
RradIev MsthnSist o,ass IaoJ ani t.IIPAlns an @
cbnTcS has bean frsS tono,bar r IVth sIe sane .he
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