The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-01-09
Crn Lnn.,s Rxpedi1ion.

Gen. Jim, Lane of K ansas has been commits
stoned Brigadier General and assigned com.
mand including Southern Kansas, Arkansas,the
Indian Territory, &c, with plenary powers to
make war upon the rebels and crush the rebel
lion in that section of the Union and as much
farther South as he chooses to- go. ~ His COM
mand, it is said will consist of from $4,000 10.
80, 900 men Ho expects to start from Leaysn-
worth with $4,000 cavalry, 10, goo infantry, poo
flying artillery 1900 fusileers, 1000 loyal In,
dams and l 900 contrabands. Among the dav-'
airy regiments selected by>Gsn. Lane we pn
derstand, are" Col. Daniels" First Wisconsin
Cavalry; now in camp at this place, and Col
Barstow's Regiment in camp at GAINESVILLE. --'
We take the following particulars in refe
ence to the object and scope of this expeditf on
from The Chicago Tribune '." .a'r..< =.
~The immense proportion of drag oons to foot
soldiers shows that Lane intends that celeIity
shall characterize his movements. There win
be no snailpace crawling along, but he will
sw eep forward like prairie FIRE, enveloPing
and Overwhelming all opposing foes, g.
The infantry will be used to support the ar
tilcry and cavalfy in the shock of battle and TO
MIME bullets and a charge Of bayonets Gen.
| Lane will not cucumber himself with nnneces-
isory baggage He will take along no mole than
/ il absolutely needed. He will use the light
wagon of the plains rather than the heavy,
1 cumbersome regulation article. When his draft
animals give out he Will replehish by confsca-
ZION {! ON the rebels He does not intend tode,
pend on Washington for bread or Secretary
Chase for money He proposes TO make the
l.. e.. ~
ses Of the march U is they that caused the
trouble and they must bear the cost of the court
and Jury which will thy the case. ',''''
% Lane has purchased a patent horsepower
saw mill to aid the fusileers in bridge building.
| He has also Bought FIVE hundred hand corn mills
being about two 10 each company, to be run. by
| The contrabands Aregi hent CONES to a c0rn-
field; the contrabands pitch in and husk out tie
corn shell it, dry il on pans grind 1t in the mills
lard hen convert it into hoe-cake.pone and 9TH
er forms of the article. Cattle and hogs will be
| procured by the foragers and reduced to rations
| He intends tn ere shall be no famine in his ar,
nv 1t will have the best the country affords;
| and wherever the secesh can live; there bis
| troops can also subsist. He will take some pro
visions with him atthe start and trust TO the
res ources of the country ana the enterprise OF
4 his BOYS TO collect what they need. The Gov
er nneilt will be subjected to no expense on his
account afte, the outfits provided His men will
/ take care of themselves thence forward and OF
4 the rebels into the bargain T..
The field at operations assigned to Lane by
the President is, Kansas, Southwestern Nilsson
| ri, Arkansas and the Indian Tertitory,as stated
bv telegraph and as much farther South rs he
/ chooses to go After his army starts from Lrav-
enworih, il will quickly sweep Price and his
blltter-uut rabble out of Southwestern Missouri
and into Arkansas. The particular directions Of
his further advance will be shaped by the CIR
cum stances of the case; but it can be told with
tolerable certainty that he will visit Fort Smith
clean out the rebels and establish depot the, e;
that he will quickly pacify, and restore to loyal
lily the Cherokees, Choctaws, Seminoles, Greeks
and other tribes in the Indian Territory which
have been led astray by rebel emissaries.
] A look at the map will show that the road
dswn The Red River, through Northeastern Tex
/ AS into Louisiana, lies directly before him. aud
that New Orleans at the end CT itsand furth .r.
more, that 1t passes through rich aid fertile
country, well stocked with Observation-Disclosures.
What Lanes intentions may be is more than we
know, but we venture to put this prediction on
record that he is going to take his army to the
Gulf of Mexico; that he toH traUel By land 10
the Crescent City and return BY acater, and that
his column of 81, 900 bold, daring, swift, moy-
ing warriors will do more towards striking dis
may into the traitors and crushing the rebellion
that Gems. Mcclellan Sherman, Buell., Lock
wood, Halleck, Grant and Paducah Smith, with
their half million of soldiers, operating on pro-
slavery principles. Lanes men, fighting fol the
single purpose Of saving the Union and employ.
ing the means best adapted to that end, will az
complisll more in given period than ,ntimes
their number, tryingto save slavery along with
the Union. Jim. Lane and his Union saving
army will be more terrible and formidable in the
Eeyes Of JEFF Davis and his fellow corspirator4,
than all the other divisions of the National army
from ST, Louis to Washington and down 10
| Charleston" e:t