Smyrna times., 1862-01-30
Gen. Lanes Expedition.

We arodelighted says the Bulletin with the
plaBs of General Jim Lane, ex.Senatar and
Brigadler General. We like 10 see some orig.
Inalty in America. The Expedition Of DOM.
phan is one of the most brilliant points in our
history. 1t was ike nothing else in the life of
mankind.
General Lanes movement is something like
Donphan's, with a character ofits own. With
excellent sense, the Adminlstra ton has allsw ed
him to have exactly his own way, without or.
ders, instructions or trammels. Ho goes te
Kansas, where he will raise an army as large
as he chooses. He proposes to get as MANY
men as possible mounted They are to be
Western pioneers, the rihmen of the Mississip-
pi, and the men who have wrested Kansas from
slavery. He has secured, we are informed in
the special correspondence of the World, from
which we take soma details, some very vaIna-
BILE oficers-among them are Jennlson, the Jaw
hawker, and Montgomery, both of whom have
such terrible reason to take vengence upon the
border rufhaas," who have now expanded into
rebels. He has also selected Col Vaughan,
formerly the associate Of Cassius M. Clay in his
emancipation paper. at Lexington Col, Mitch
ell. who led a Kansas Regiment at the battle
Of Springfield Col. Merritt, of the Fret Iswa
regiment, and Col. Fitzpatrick, tried man,
anu OI west fOInl. lie mas also Ia
his suit French Shawnee half. f.breed, of much
influence among the indians, and Brant, a
young Cherokee Indian. of fine intelligence.
Gen. Lane aims TO gather fifty II eusand men,
or as many of them 8 he can raise. He will
march strag light from Kansas into Texas, and so
on 10 the Gulf of Mexico. The distance is about
six hundred miles. In Texas he expects to be
Joined by a mass of Union men, who are only
waiting for tho appearance of an army. He
will rouse the Indians and take them with him.
He will rouse the negroes and set them 10
work al whatever they are fit 10 do, and he will
thus move on, provisioning his army and fora o.
ine his horses in great part upoh the country az
he goes.
Though not fighting directly for the abolition
Of slavery, he Is no friend to that institution.
He will issue no proclamations, bot he will GO
forward taking the responsibilities ofdoing what
ever is necessary to put down this rebe llon.
The Importance of Texas in a slrategical
peint of view cannet be oVerfated With Tex.
as for the Union. and especially as a free State,
we are in position both TO checkmate our South
ern friends and the equally friendly European
powers who are 60 benevolen,ly concerned
about this htinent. We uTe in position to CO.
operate with Mexico, which is perfectly aware
! OF the friendly feeling towards it of Southern
! ilbusters and OF Spain backed Up by Engand
and France. We are in position to interfere
little with that friendly English idea ofa
place dGrmes for the European powers at Mat.
! amOras.
We are already nearly prepared to strike Q
double blow at New Orleans by the way OF
] Ship Island and by the gun boat feet down the
Mississippi. We have blockading x ped ition
at Galveston resdy TO be made effective at any
| moment In short with Lane eucceasful Ar
kansas and Louisiana are in the coils Of the a n
aconda and cannont escape. The rebellion
will thus be driven EastOt The Mississippi