The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-02

All OF the transports were fully armed, and
a crew on board TO work the guns. Several
additional transports were afterwards added.
There went in the vessels of the Expedi-
ton, between 10000 and 10000 picked SOL
diers, half of them the best trained troops in
McClellan's army. There were also not less
than 500 surf boats on board, and large num-
bers of Cape Cod, Cape Ann, New Jersey
and Long Island seamen who are at home
in the surf, to man them. The transports took
three-and-a-hal months supplies of food for
the army that should be landed, beside the
rations for the troops while on board. One
ship carried a cargo of fresh water; others
carried live stock and still others took i'm
mense quantities of shovels, picks, hoes, carts,
brick, cement grindstones, lumber, timber,
frames of houses ready to be set up, saws,
sand-bags, etc.
The Tribune October 2Sth) says that the
MatanzaS and Oriental expected to take 300
contrabands each from Fortress Monroe, but,
to their great grief, could get only SO of them.
The Post October 26th) was in receipt of a
letter from a naval officer who was to accom-
pany the Expedition, which limited that guam
titles of bright Zouave clothing We're taken
along, with the intention of forming the ne
groes of the coast into Zouave regiments and
that perhaps the only way TO avoid the dam
ger ofnegro instructions was Just this. The
brilliant colors of the Zouave dress would
appeal very powerfully TO the negroes love of
display, and assist the work of organizing
them into companies, where thorough drills
would soon make good soldiers of them.
Among the curiosities of the materials of
the expedition were several hundred foot balls,
TO furnish exercise for the soldiers that
should be left in garrison. There were also
on board 200 professional stage-drivers from
New York, to drive the transport wagons
also, scores of New York, Boston, Jersey
and Hell Gate pilots, and as many more
tough old coasters, who, with their eyes shut
beside the old fireplace at home, can tell to
an inch the depth of water on every sandbar
along the Southern coast, and need only
quote the Coast Survey to back then. "p after
wards. On board the Great Republic, Van
derblt, Ocean Queen, Baltic and Ericsson,
were some 800 horses, and the oats, corn
and hay for their munching, of course, were
not neglected. For heating shot, 1000 bu-
shells of fine Cumberland coal were taken,
and three or four transports were mostly
loaded with friedrich, supposed to be intended
for furnaces for heating shot.
Com. S. F. Dupont, the Flag-officer,
a New Jersevman by birth, but now hailing
from Delaware, has been 46 years in service,
of which % were spent at sea, and pa in our
various navy yards. The Fleet Captain,
Commander Charles II. Davis, is a native of
Massachusetts, has been IS years in service
at sea, and was the last Superintendent of
the Nautical Almanac.
The command of the land forces on board
entrusted to Gen. Thomas w. ShermGn,
native of Rhode Island, who enteerd West
Point in 1882, and was brevetted for gallant
in the battle of Buena Vista. His
headquarters are on board the atlantic. Brig.
Gen. Viele, a graduate of West Point in
1912, who was late Chief Engineer of the
State of New Jersey, and who had the prin-
cipal responsibility of laying out the New
York Central Park, has charge of the 1st
Brigade. Gen. Stevens, best known as late
Governor of Washington Territory, leads the
and Gen. Fl, S. Wright, late Professor
N the Military Academy, commands the Sd.
But no full account of the troops on board
has yet come TO hand,
Just before the Expedition left Annapolis
or Hampton Roads, the smallpox broke out
n two of the regiments. From the Maine Sth,
ONE Z or s men were brought up to the
hospitals, but the surgeons on board having
made such arrangements that they did not
loubt they could control the disease, prevent
Is spreading, and properly separate those in
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est of the corps were not restrained from
proceeding on the Ariel.
The account that we give above, we have
from many columns that it occu-
lies in the y. Y. EUening Post and Tribune.
That all this grand preparation was not in
ain, was demonstrated by the first report
hat came back from the expedition after its
eparture from Hampton Roads, and that we
Don shall hear of more of its brilliant ex-
Lofts and noble services, there is no reason
doubt.
1t has often been questioned whether this
reat fleet deserves to be compared, for SIM
lie numbers, tonnage, the sailors required to
ian it, and the troops it carries, with the
treat Armada ofhistory, the Spanish arma-
tent SEM by Philip II. Of Snain in 1888.