Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-28
MONDAY MORNING, FEB. 3, 1852.
burnside and EsEs Expedition.

From latest accounts through Northern
sources we are assured that the great Burn
side expedition has suffered immensely by the
late storms. They acknowledge that some
forty OF fifty vessels were lost together with
large amounts of men, horses, armaments,
stores, &C. With one vessel an entire battery
and full regiment of Yankee soldiers all went
down to rise no more. The splendid steamer,
Citv Of Nep York went to pieces. The cargo,
said to have been very valuable, is a total loss.
in the midst of the storm when urged to
take rest old Burnside replied, the con-
tractors have ruined me-" This language is
significant What does it mean? We take it
to mean that the vessels with which his expe-
dtion had been furnished by Northern ship
builders were no account and went to pieces
like so much trash. Now the Old Coon should
have been locking ont fo- this for he cannot
be ignorant of the fact that Now England Yam
KEGS will cheat in every possible way they can.
Some of them would even roo their grand
mammals grave if they knew guna had been
enteomed with her person.
The feet has, no doubt, suffered very heav-
ly, and this is unluestionably the reason it Las
not attempted lsnding somewhere before this
We think it no longer remains doubtful as to
where the expedition was intended to operate
and the object it was to accomplish. If any
reliance is to be placed III the No. thcrn press
atall it was evidentaliy the purpose Of Barn
side to attack this place and Roanoke Island at
the same time with a view OF getting posses
sion Of the railroad here and at Goldsboro,' and
by forcing an entrance through the Alberarlc
sounds, to seize upon the roads at " TeldoN.
We think the following extract from the
New York C0ma1erc;a5 ddrertiSer, said to be
one of most sober and cautious Yankee sheets
now in existence, goes very far to strengthen
this view:
Military movements are not generally the
result of accident, especially when they have
been carefully contemplated for length OF
time and extensive preparations made for
them. 1t may not, therefore, be considered
merely coincidence that the Burnside Expe
dtion should have sailed from Annapolis, and
that part of the great Mississippi division un
der Gen McClernand. should have proceeded
from Cairo, to Mayfcld Kentucky, on the 9th
! inst On the contrary considering the magni
tude of both expeditions, and the great objects
/! they are intended to accomplish, these stimuli
| taneous movements must have been intention
al, and the commanding generals have dicec
ted outhanking movements fifteen hundred
miles apart.
Whether or not beth divisions will strike as
simultaneously they moved cannot at pre-
sent be determined. A despatch from Cairo
dated the 18th. gives the impression that ar
engagement was expected at camp Beaure
gard, between Maytield and the Tennessee,
State line, last night. Gen. Grant has the
repu alton of being energetic soldier, anc
has entered upon this movement with abun
} dant means to insure success. Should he &C
complish the destruction of the Confederate
at Camp Beauregard, he will doubtless push
forward to Sandy Mouth, on the Tennessee
river, where he will CO operate with the gun
boat expedition which moved up that river or
the 9th, and thus secure that important point
This is strategic position of much value tt
the Federal forces, inasmuch as it commando
the railroad between Bowling Green and Col
umbus the road from Columbus
south ntersects the Memphis ane
Ohio road at Humbolt, in Tennessee. Th
purpose of this movement of Gen. Grant il
probably mainly to make the attack On Col