New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-18
FROM CAIRO.
The Great - Nashville Expedition How
the Reports Originated Gathering Of
she Journnii.i--GiG NJ Cairo Progress
OF Preparations for Attacking Column
bus-anfc Memphis Pspers-A Cincin-
natl Paper Friendly to the South"
Prom Orr Special corfe'pond,r,.

Como H.. Monisy jan. ~ 1919.
The telegraph has been advising you tlc'c three
days that -, coo soldier, were on their way here
nom 81. LOUIS and that great expedition. sixty or
seventy thousand strong, was abou, starring nom
Cairo Tor offensive operaon- with Nashville rs it,
probable destination.
The repot has excited intense interest throu Lout
the Wesi. The Cincinnati, 81. Louis, and Chicago
papers speak OF the expedition az ore Of the met
formidable movements OF the war, and nj onr la'est
advice. were waiting with baied breath for further
intelligence from il. Correspondents come focling
here by every train, until The bohemian Brigade '
at Cairo already mu-ie-iveniy strong, andseversl II
the leading journals Of Nev.York and he Western
cities have each two OF three Representatives here
Blu, they lind that the dispatches which brought
them thither rest upon very sligh basis Of truth.
There are probably no troops whatever on their way
from 81. Louis 10 Cairo. There are certainly no
sixtv, or thirty, OF fifteen thousand men about rsr,
ing from Cairo for anywhere; and - for an early
attack upon Nashville from Tie point, why, one
upon Kcokuk, Iowa, is quite probable al present
writing The first DISPATCHES a. 10 the size and dos.
iinaion Of the expedition, Were not wViten By the
representatives. OF the press, but by officer OF Zen.
Grants staff, snd transmitted a. hi. request by
order II il understood, OF Gen. Hsllecs.
All the facts upon which they rest - vet, ARE that
900 men have leie Cairo, and been transported by
river 10 Fort Jefferson mot a iortihcalon, but an old
Indian post, on the Kentucky side OF the Mississippi
seven miles below here, where they are now en-.
camped excep, 1000 who have advanced two miles
10 the eastward; aud that 5000 left Paducnh two
DAYS ago, destination unknown. For tie lat two
days it has been given ont that Gen. Grant who
commands here was int about embarking, with Lii
staff, to oin The Fort Jefferson expedition, aud lead
it-nobody knows where. Meanwhile the journal
isis in their wooden shirts, and other camp hab
meins. with blankets and portfolios packed. have
been waiting in state Of great expectancy, holding
themselves in readiness to join the General and hi
staff at q moments notice.
! But the notice don't come, and they give vent IL
their Indignation if not their Impotence in inaledic
tons upon Cairo, which il the drearios, tho mud
diest, and the most unlovable town on the Nortl
American Continents and upon its only hotel, which
six stories in hight and crowded with unhappy
guests 10 certainly one OF the noises, most con
fused and most uncomfortable in the civilized world
OF course, the proprietoIs are "polite' and gen
tlemanly"-as what landlords are not and any
where else, probably, they could keep hotel;
bul ia Cairo all general rules fail. Its atmosphere
seems to destroy the connection between cause and
effect. You st down to paatable.looLiDg meal
and find the chickens ligneouo, tie beef spongy, the
coffee bitter and 10 oil 10 the end Of the let. You
pull away at yonI bell-cord for half Nh hour, in the
delusye trust that il win produce result. So il
does too, but the result is only the breaking Of the
cord or the los1 OF your temper. You commit youI
boots with their twoinch coating Of the free soil Of
Illinois, TO the booi-black, and even cross his palm
with silver; You may see either The boos or the ser.
want again before you have broken the fourth cons
nandment Tor two hours. but il 20 you will be more
happy than IN unfortunate roommate of mine yes
erday. lie looked Ike an exemplary, decorous
Internationally style Of citizen, as no doubt hc
Is; but even job with all his trials, never stoppeC
at a Cairo hotel.
Bot the expedition. Wien II il 10 go, where Il 4
~ 10, VI wusln.y " ~ ever ~ " snywtsrs, sr'