New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-14
TIE TENNESSEE RIVER OPEN TO TIE ALABAMA LINZ
Great Movement Of Troops from Missouri and
Cairo.
fur gICTOGY 70 BE PR0EPTLYFOLLoWED UP
rrnm Onr Sn.cinl Correspondent.

From Our Special Correspondent
CAMP H.1EcK. TxSSESrE RIvrE,
Four miles below Ieuy. Wednesday. Feb 5 1900
{" Y ~ can cOue 100 sOOn: take the hrat traiL'
Thus a journalistic friend il Cairo, who had promised
70 advise me Of any prospective battle IN this depart
p,eut. telegraphed me st ST, Louis three weeks ago.
Obs,n. tie suinm0us h0steued 10 Cairo, in season
10 witness tie departure Of the grandioqnenty an
pouroed reconnaissance INTO Kentdoky. But TIE
mouse which that mountain brought forth proved
infinite .imal and l leiuned 60 ST. Louis With a
heayy eons. nsrt Of Cairo mud, and fresh disaP'
poiu.m-at 20 add to nine months uneuccosslai lur-
suit = a battle.
Las; Monday brought another Telegram from the
same wide-awske source, with The assurance, " No
uiAsfe about !, This time; cone imme d,ately.
Pcrse,efng, mt not gnguue, again took the even
ing lrsiA for Cairo. Sly ries Oh the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad; two hCsrs al Odin--nost ap-
propi.e name for tie portal OF Egypt, especially in
wand night on tie gIea, Illiaois Contra,
brought NE yesterday morning to Che Egyptian
metropolis.
SECRECY AND PROAiPTNEsS OF TIE EXPEDI-
TiCN.
There was indeed "no mistake about it, Cairo
was almost alone in its glory and lie mud. force
sufficient 10 protect u agoins airy sudden eruption
from Columbus, remained under Gen Paine; but
Gen Grant aud staff, Nth &c eral thousand troops
sDd Commodore Iooie. with seven sUnJOais hao
already lett tor The Tennessee river.
Commodore Foote and Gen. Grant, whether great
commanders not, officers Of peculiar reticence.
They believe in The German proyerb that Speech
is silysrn, bit silence is GOLDEN" Their Of
inaupnladug tie expedition affords gratifying con.
a, l..
cuated 81 many Of our enterprises. Up to last Sun
day The wseacres reported all quiet along the
lines, aud predicted that there would he no move.
nent in this department for the next 20 days. Bu,
suddenly ii became evident ttat something WA
going on which meant bus,nefs and tho next day
the expedition started.
4 REMITTANCE FROM DIXIE.
While ] was waiting Tor transportation, in th'
Office Of the pOst-Q usreruaser Capt. A. s. Baxter
thar gentleman received letter from Georgia. II
closing 5000, to pay hun Old debt Tie write
stated that re had been Tor the last four months j.
the Rebel army, bnt he did not hold tie prevailing
doc fina If Dixie, that he war discharged him from
his obi cations as an honest man.
THE OLD FLAG PLANTED IN TENNESSEE.
Taking rsssf &c upon he fret bost-a little, stern.
wh,,' f. etiseamer, ycep, the Lake Erie Mo-, in
whos, lOoy2O cabin % passengers nearly suiiocateG
for seven loufs-a; 10 o'clock last night reached
Paduc,h. The expedition was still ahead as we
learned from Gen. Grant and staff, who had just
returned from up the Tennessee. They reported
thar II daylight yesterday morning it started from
Psda.s.h on eight transports and FIVE gunboats up
toward Fort Henry distant 65 niles by river, and 40
by hand Moving entirely by wo,er, it could afford
l., .-.i.p 20 - A. 4
p H., reached this point, on the east bank Of the
river four miles below the fort and the troops uuder
command Of Gen. McClenand landed, and raised the
8 ars and Stripes over the soil Of TeDneesee. The
course of The river here is due norh with Kentucky
on the west side ard Tennessee on the east.
REBEL GUN sALUTEs CAPT. PORTER.
Three of the gunboats pushed on up the river and
exchanged shots with the fort 10 learn the range Of
its euns. They obtained the very highest evidence
on that point, for wien they ventured within two
and half miles Of il, Just above Panther Isat d.
shot from lis ribed 244oander struck the Essex and
opened route through Capt. Porter's stste.room-a
Temporary affair, built Of wood, on her larbosrd side
near the stern. The projecdle entered in front Just
below the roof where there wss nothing but an inch
pine board 10 resst it, passed between bis clock and
uoibtu NbSoi LILO idOtc, duu ObAppthfeQ
through the rear Of the ROOM near the floor 1t
did no damage except grazing one Of the legs Of
his tabe, aud cutting the feet from pair Of stock.
ings us neatly az il it had been done with sbear.
few minutes before, the money chez, Of the boat was
ssndirg under the table, exactly where the bail
passed, and Capt. Porter removed it. Had be not
taken tia precaltion the missile would have caused
sudden depletion IN that treasury, and transformed
its eontens iatO snkiog fund in The bottom Of the
rVer' Ine practice Of the Rebel gamers was excel
lent aud their aim precise that they will be likely
to eause us a good deal Of damage before we can
shell them out.
HE RETURNS THE COMPLIMENT.
GOOD shooting that, cooily observed Can't Por.
ter, as the ball invaded hi, private apartment Z" now
we will show them OURS" And be made bis nromise
good by dropping slell from one Of bis 9pcL Dahl.
greOs rSlt into the fort where il exploded ;n,, az
IL struck the ground. He then paid bic respec,s ~
group Of Rebels the west bank with another sbsn
which exploded within a few yards Of them. and
hey suddenly scattered in all directions Cant por.
Yer lof the navy hs Georgian, who has three some
In Tie Rebel army. His wife also is in the South,