Smyrna times., 1862-01-02
ANOTHER EXPEDITION FOR ANNAPOLIS.
Delaware Affairs,


are permitted to have the small Sibiy Tent.
Several persons OF the 1st Delaware Regi.
ment have been pronounced un6r for the usage
Of soldier, and been mustered out of service.
Fort Delaware is now ready to receive its
entlre armament amounting to l35 large guns,
beside twenty fanking 14.peund hswitzers.
Applications are now before Congress for a
grant of money for completing the barracks uc-
cOmmodation.
Garret Fowler, of Greensborou n. Md, Gu,
his throat on Saturday week, wlile labering
under an attack of mani.potu.
Edmund Townsend has been appointed
Quartermaster Of the Third Delaware Regi-
ment, winch is encamped at Camden Station.
II is stated that it numbers between 500 and
700 men.
1t stated that DR.. Houston is not recognized
as surgeon of the Second Delaware Regiment,
and that DR.. Whits will hold that Office. There
has been much man9uvering in REGARD to this
post, which we hope is now at ar erd.
The TAHoMA.-This vessel which was Quilt
by the Messrs. Thatcher of Wilmington, has
been completed, and left Philadelphia on Fri.
day. She carries four guns, one OF which is
ten inch pivot shell gun, one a riaed 20 pound
Parrot gun and tive "a pound DLalgreen how.
ilzers.
MAIL AND ENoBABLE TELEaRArH LxE
THROUGH THIS SrATR.-The Government, saw
the Commonwealth, is about constructing q
telegraph line through kewtown to EastvIl,e,
IN Virginia, sn this Peu insula, and, more than
probable, throu h the counties of Maryland and
this State to PhiadeI 2aia. This would give
us line Of telegraph through our whole State.
connecting oil our principal towns with PhIIa-
deIphia, and enable the Government TO conve,
intelligence to Fortress Monroe from Washing.
ton IN about two hours, or the time it would
take to convey the MESA ge across the mcuih
Of Chesapeak Bay, from Cherrystoae on th3
extreme end of the Peninsula to that Fortress
on the cther side. Intelligence would, of course,
be as rapidly convened to Washington and New
York. The Government hae already made ar.
Tangements to convey the mail in that way,
and in future The letters frsm Fortress Monroe
will come up over the Delaware Railroad.
Government could not do better thing than
in the completion OF this road 10 Ch errystone
orAnnamessek. Troops could then be convey.
ed from Philadelphia to Fortress Monroe in
about eight or niue hours, which cOnld be Icle.
graphed for In about two hsurs. Thus in ten
or eleven hours from the time an attack was
made on the Fortress, or there should be ne.
cessity Of troops, they could be sent from Phls.
dslphia. They could be on The spot before the
battle was decided. We do not see why the
centTaban nds could not Dc employed in this work.
II would add mere 10 the strength ofIhe Gov.
ernment than anything We can imagine at the
cost of outlay.
The road now runs to Salisbury. II is gra-
ded considerable distance, we believe, below
that point.
CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL-This
canal will remain open all The winter. II is
used By Gsvernment 10 transport immense
quantities of hay and military freight. Several
big beats are required 10 transport the heavy
draught, and frequently the entrance locks al
Chess peake and Delaware cities are besieged
by q score Of vessels Much Of this freight is
shipped from New York. passing by barges
through the Raritan canal, then wn the Del
aware, when it is tOwed by steamers 10 Del
aware city. The greater part Of it is Ia AIDED at
PerIyVile. at the head Of the Chesa psake, but
much ia also for warded to Anna polls or Bslti.
more. whence by railroad or steam it ID trans
pelIers between Philade phia and Baltimore u
slmost insufficient to accommodate the i'm
mense amount Of freight that goes toward
Washington daily. Horses in large quantities
are placed every evening on bosrd these boats
at the foot Of Chestnut street, and innumerable
suffers from New Jersey and the interior of
Pennsy lvaula take passage in this way. with
their conveysnces and merchandise, tor the seat
Of war.
SHARP Practice deputy OF erifr fran
Mary nd came over TO Milfsrd on Wednesday
week last for the purpose of arresting negro
who had made bis escape from his mast er, Ia k.
ing with him a valuable horse The negro il
appears had taken up his residence some three
or four miles from the town. The officer
learning his whereabouts proceeded 10 the house
to secure him, and while the officer was lnside
the negro jumped in the SherfF's carriage and
drove off. The Sheriff reached the door Just in
time TO see the fugitive make his escape with his
team. Cunning niger that
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