, 1862-01-13
CAIRO MATTERS---THE EXPEDITION
"A GUHB0AT FtehT---FE0-
ERALS VICTORIOUS,
Illinois State Gonventfonx.,
Saturdays Proeeedinps..,
Formation of Committees.


t ~ LIZ S1tteaSu 1f1ptQe.
/ mAsHNGToK, Jan. 111pH
Aaer adv'ces from Port Royal say that it
was dupont who censured Sherman for mae.
t1V1ty, not Sherman who ccnsured Stevens. a.
telegraphed. Pegrnm has gone South to no.
gotlate his own exchange.
III. Cheever, in his lecture last ninht m
Inc justice and necessity Of immediate militia.
y emancipation, maintained that slavery was
annlhnafed bE the act Of rebellion TINT the
government could only crush the rebellion nv
eonquerlng the rebel States and reducing them
10 territories; that our armies .9ere aetna
o"fy as a police force, to guard the ghost Of an
| institution that las had no existence under
our government; that loyal Slave States
were denying the progress Of our arms more
Us friends than they could as open enemies !.
that NC should arm the slayes and pror1a;m +
not by the President, then by act Of CONGRESS
Tue freedom Of every Individual in the land
VINO yields allegiance 10 the country,
Ihe lecture was received with rocjf4ro,s
applause.
Count Richbutgh has written instruct;,,,=
~ Tue Austrian Minister here similar to those
OF 1houvenc1, On the seizure Of Mason and
SlideI. '~l'>N
without going into argument he nronounccs
the proceeding not in ccnsonance with inter.
national law. Similar views arc expected from,
Russia and Prusei;,.
The Committee On the conduct of the v,r
examined Fremont yesterday. He read an
elaoorate defence Of his Missouri campaign.
Jeti. Davis has ordered Gen. MagrHder to
ontn 1orktowh upon the approach of the Fed
eraa fect- The rebels persist in believing Nor
'olh or forktoWn to be Bnrnside's point of
attack. Banker Smiths son, under arrest
will be trcated::ae spy.
senator "1isa, has resigned his position On
Met1eIlAn's staff. McCleIlan's health. IL i'm.
proving so rapidly that it is thought lc will
pe able to take tho field next week, # RI.
quired.
Inc Pensacola started down the river this
morning, whether to run batteries Immediate
", or anchor this side, is unknown.
Inc rebel batteries on the lower Potomac
are very quiet recently. On Wednesday thre,.
vessels OF the lower hoti1la shelled lar-c
rebel eneampment opposite Boylc's Hole and
aqua Greek batteries, receiving no response.
1t is said that Rowland d. Aspinwan were
e1npsoyedl by the War Department to pur-
cnase Burnslde's vessels, spending one mil
non dollars, and receiving twenty y-tlye thousand
dollars profit.
flas officer Dupont, in transmitting Com
mander Rogers's report Of the fight at Port
ho5al Terry, says that his OWL attention had |
1of some time been drawn to the enen,y's de-
E!sn OF shutting mp our troops in Port
Royal Island by placing distinctions
in Wosaw river, and Whale Branch: by CON-
strueting batteries at Port Royal ferry, at
seabrook, and near Boyd's creek: and by ac-
eumulltlng men in the vicinity in such a nan.-
ncr as to be able to throw twenty-five hundred, |
or three Thousand men upon one of these |
points at short netice.
On December 2sth Gen. Sherman informed
eon' dupont th2t the time had arrived TOR +
arfest1ng nerempterily the cnemy's designs,
and Tor doing it in such manner as would |:
ensetuany serve their subsequent purpose,
1ne account Of the battle adds no neys.
Stevens expresses great admiration of Rogers.
and dupont heartily praises Stevens, some>I
can see in this good feeling back handed blow
Ut sherman, whom Dupont is since reported
us eensuring for inactivity.
AN onaeer who was in recent skir1nish at
Little Bethel is really to make affidavit tl,t
lne enems's force was composed of SO negroes.
talked by White zcbels, and willie the whites
who tel were left On the field, the negroes
we're carried away.
we learn from Alexandria that the rcportea
lt.empt to blow up the hospital was Ill mis-
axe. The barrel Of safety fuse found, and
OF boxes Of matches, were left in. the
building by former occupants. Pieces oGf,se
we're 1ound Lighted, but By whom or for what
purpose is unknown, but there were no CON-
'ustibles prepared, and no train hid.