Newbern weekly progress., 1862-09-27
G.orgs N. sanders Safe In England.

George N. Sanders. the rebel emissary whose
escape over the Canadian frontier in the disguise
Of coal miner was lately described by cores
pondent, was in time to catch the steamer Jura,
aud has landed safely in England In order to
convey the freshest ''news" at once TO the seces
sonists abroad, Sanders seems TO have gone di
rect to the office OF the Mercury at Liverpool "a
Journal of strong pro.savery sympathies), to the
editor of which he unbnrdsned himself. Here
is the st, ry he told, but his vaticnations con.
corning Maryland are ludicrons enough, now
that that State has refused to rebel:
"Mr. George N. Sanders, late American consul
In London, passenger, arrived incog by under
ground railway direct from Richmond Virginia,
in time for the steamer Jura. Hs has important
dispatches for the Confederate Commissioners,
Messrs. Sidel and Mason. Mr.. Sanders says
Generals Juseph L. Johnston and Beauregard
had 80 far recov cred as 10 be able to resume &C
tive duty tlnt the Confederate army in Virginia,
east Of Petershurgh, under command Of Generals
Lee johnston, Lonestrcet and Jackson. numbers
about 300 ,000 men, including more than four
hundred pieces Of well-appointol field artillery
under General Pendeton aud zen thousand splen.
didy mounted and efficiently armed cavalry
under Generals Stewart and Fiz hngh Lee that
the Confederate army are in fine condition, march
ing upon the enemy and anxious to meet and
give them battle on any fair field; that no one
in or out of the army doubted the result; that
Generals Beauregard Bragg, Price and Kirby
Smith were at the head Of one hundred and fifty
thousand infantry and artillery and twelve thou
sand cavalry, in supporting distance Of each other
in North Alabama, East Tennessee and South
eastern Kentucky. marching to the front and rear
of Buell. and Grants arm. les, supposed to number
less than one hundred and fifty thousand that
the Confederate cavalry under Generals Forest
and Morgan had cut of the Federal reinfofce>
ments and supplies By river aud rail. destroying
transports and trains from close proximity to the
rear that is was confidently believed at Rich.
uond that Buell's army would be captured o,
dispersed that it could not possibly make sue
cessful stand South Of the Oho river; that Gen
eral Humphrey Marshall bad left Arlington, vir
ginia, with his division, entering northeastern
Kentucky for the Blue Grass Region, expecting
to form junction with Gnneral Kirby Smith
from Beauregard aud Braggs army ; that Majol
General Holmes, at the head of thirty Thousand
men from Texas, Northwest Louisiana and Ar
kansas, had passed Fort Smith, and would soor
co operate with twenty thousand State troops ant
partisan rangers already in possession Of tn,
larger portion Of the State of Missouri; that I,
hold st. Louis and Missouri against this rapidly
augmentng force it would require federal army
of not less than one hundred aud fifty thonsan,
men I; that all accounts from Missouri, Arkansas
Tennessee and Maryland represented the younl
men of those States ready to rise and cooperat
on the advance OF the Confederate armies an,
that the Concdcrates calculated upon adding not les
than oas hundred and fifty thousand mcn TO thei
numbers from these States. as they had fuinishe,
scarcely n regiment to the Felsrnl army updt
the recent call.