Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-01-14
LArr rNrnLLIaENcE.


1t is stated that 25,OOO troops are on their
way to Kentucky, from different points and
as soon as they arrive Il column from
10000 to $4,000 strong will march from Pa
ducah, under Gen Grant. The destination
of this force is understood to be Nashville
when, if junction can be made with Gen,
Buellis command, the entire army will pro-
ceed to New Orleans.
The gallant General Milroy has entitled
himself to the thanks of the country for his
activity in the Cheat mountain region
From the post he held at HuttOnsville he
has advanced with victorious energy at every
camp the rebels dared TO locate near him,
and has in every case beaten and dispersed
them. Supplies had been gathered by them
at Huntersville, an important town for that
upper country, lying southward near the
Warm Springs and Lewisburg line, along
which Wise and Floyd marched and coun-
termarched so imposingly during the autumn.
Thirty of the counties of Kentucky are in
possession Of the rebels, and eighty are
loyal.
The numerical military force of the five
great Powers is as follows Austria,
1884 men, 1883 guns Prussia. 1902
men, l444 guns Russia, $4,000 men, ll60
guns France, 626, ,4s2 men, 942 guns Great
Britain, Gncludiug India, colonial corps,
etc.,) 534,527 men, 30,O72 horses, 672 guns.
D.. ..-oJ,t,ia fcr borna dafanca OD9
240 men.
Preparations are making at st. Paul's
Cathedral, London, to exhibit to the public
the Wellington iuneral-car 1t will be
placed by the side of the tomb Of yelling
ton in the crypt The car is already at ST..
Pauls, but in pieces.
The Mayor of Windsor Canada West in
a note to the Detroit Free Press, denies
that there are Notifications of any kind in
process of erection at Windsor, and says
there is no present intention of erecting any.
He also says that neither has Sir F. W.
Williams, or any other military officer, been
on the frontier since the war in the Union
commenced, and that no suggestions have
been made at Windsor or Sandwich for lay
ing ont Notifications, batteries or anything
else
Col. Garfield, with four regiments oi
Union troops, having to attack Humphrey
Marshalls rebel force, that worthy sent out
flag of truce asking if matters could not be
arranged without a fight, and being answered
that the choice was fight or surrender, called
his men together and gave them theh
choice. They burned their wagons, tents.
&c, and scattered in confusion, carrying of
their cannon. This story is doubted.
Great preparations are making at Norfolk
in anticipation of an attack by Genera
Burnside's expedition. The Captain of til,
French steamer Catinet has gone to Nor
folk under flag of truce, with dispatchei
for the French consul. The Norfolk Ia,
Book states that U. S. feet OF twenty gun
boats has entered Pamlico sound and com
menced operations Fifteen fugitive slave
have arrived at Fortress Monroe from
Roanoke island in an open boat
The immense size of the national army
says the Philadelphia Anerieda, the vast re-
serves upon which it draws, the boundles
resources of the country, and the enterpris
and ingenuity of our people, are leading Il
expeditions in great force against th
enemy at all points, so that the fate of tn
war may not depend upol great battle a
a single point. The thoroughness of til
preparations for all these expeditions, thei
rapidly multiplying number, and the numbe
of guns, vessels and men they demand ar
far better calculated to give Europe on ide
of our capacity for war than march of 4
army 10 attack the enemy upon a battlefield
of tLeir selection.