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NOTES OF THE WAR.
Tlic Now York Jfirald, of tlie 20th uit.?
publishes a long editorial on tlie subject of tlie
groat Yankoe armada. Tne article is interesting,
as showing the Yankee impressions with
respect to the strength of the expedition, their
vie as with reg.ard to its mode of operations
after gaining a foothold on our coast, and their
hopes as to its speedy results in "crushing the
rebellion" and ending the war. \Yc copy
what the Herald says on these points:
OUR FIRST GREAT NAVAL EXPEDITION TIIE
REAL COMMENCEMENT OF TIIE WAR.
Our first grout naval expedition against our
rebellious 44 Confederate States" having set sail
for its destination, we are at liberty to spread
before our readers, as we do this morning, the
element and materials, of the land and naval
forces, of which this formidable expedition is
composed. Our copious and accurate details
cover a large proportion of our available space;
but we cheerfully yield it to the universal and
absorbing public interest which this important
enterprise commands.
STRENGTH OF THE ARMADA.
Nothing to compare with it as a maritime
militarv movement, has ever been witnessed
on this continent. Ships-of-war and transports*
the squadron numbers over seventy vessels, including
many of the very largest in our naval
and commercial sdrvicc. The naval strength
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of the fleet is not less than 500 guns, combining,
to a great extent, the heaviest calibre
with the latest improvements. The land
forces of the expedition, thoroughly equipped,
organized and disciplined for the duties of this
special service, may be set down at about twenty
thousand men, exclusive of a large body of
laborers. The freight of the expedition embraces
horses and cavalry equipments, intrenching
and building implements and materials,
field and siege artillery, provisions, munitions
and warlike stores of all kinds suggesti
ed by the wants of a la rye military colony on
! a hostile coast. The naval branch of the expedition
is under the direction ol Com. Sam'l.
F. Dupont, and the land forces are under the
! command of Gen. Thomas \V. Sherman?
thoroughly educated, experienced and ap
| proved officers.
TilK OHJKCTS IN* VIEW.
From this brief recapitulation the reader
1 may conjecture the objects contemplated by
, this imposing squadron. Many millions of
dollars have hewn required to put it afloat; but
the results, we have reason to anticipate, will
i amply compensate us for these and all other
expenditures incurred in behalf of that great
| and sacred cause,u the integrity of the Union."
AVc consider this expedition, in fact, as practi!
cally marking the commencement of the war ;
against this southern rebellion. Thus far our
battles and skirmishes have been the mere pre
i inninary rcconnoisances, incidents ainl accidents
of a great campaign. If tliey have reI
vcaled to lis an enemy cunning am' quick in 1
: all the stratagems of guerrilla warfare, masked
i batteries, sudden surprises ami mysterious re- j
I treats, the net result is the undoubted supcn- 1
ority of the Union soldiers in courageous fight-j
1 ing and in all the other solid requirements of |
the tented field. Otherwise, excepting the
brilliant little afi'air at llatteras inlet, the campaign
to this day has been nothing more than
a desultory border war, with no results of a
decisive character.DESTINATION
OF TIIE FLEET.
This great naval expedition carries the war
into the vital parts of this rebellion. Where
it will strike it is hardly necessary to conjecI
turc. Among other details upon the subject,
ive give to-day a table of all the ports, bays, j
harbors, inlets, sounds and estuaries of our.
Southern coast, with their depth of water at
high and low tide. From this table, consider- ;
ing the heavy ships of the expedition, and its
objects of a deadly blow or two at this rebellion,
the intelligent reader may take his choice
of one or two from half a dozen different
landing places. The naval department of
Commodore Dupont is limited between JI sit- I
tcras and Key West. Within these limits <
there are two southern ports hearing the name i
of lieaul'ort?one in North and the other in
South Carolina?each commanding a good i
depth of water, and the one or the other, or I
Charleston, or some one of the inlets of Geor- j
gia, would constitute a desirable base of ope- <
rations for our army and navy, in view of future
inland movements into the heart of the
I f All VitilfoC!
TIIE l'l.AX OK OI'KIIATIONS AKTEll LANDING T1IK
YANKEE TKOOl'S.
Let us suppose, however, that in North or
South Carolina, or Georgia, this expedition
lias made a lodgment, the question arises,
what will he its plan of operations? V/e presume
that the land forces will he put on shore
at a point of debarkation suitable for a naval
rendezvous; that General Sherman will at
once proceed to fortify his position against
any probable land attack, and that a large
proportion of the fleet will straightway return
to Fortress Monroe for more troops. In this
way, by the first of J >eeeinber, Gen. Sherman
may find himself at the head of sixty thousand
men, and he may eat his Christmas dinner
in the centre of an army of one hundred
thousand. Then, changing his programme
from occupation to invasion, he may march
through the heart of the Cotton States to the
Mississippi river, or coastwise, with the fleet
co-operating with him, to Charleston, to Savannah,
to Mobile ami to New Orleans. I
T11K EXPECTED EFFECT IN* VHUilXIA.
In either event the war will now be transferred
from the border Slave States to the
Cotton States, where it properly belongs, and ,
thus with or without a blow from Gen. MeClellan,
the great rebel army in Virginia will
soon be demoralized and dispersed. Nor can
there be. in any intelligent mind, the shadow
of a doubt that, when relieved of the rebel
forces of the Cotton States, Virginia will be
speedily restored to the Union, through the
spontaneous reaction of her loyal people. So '
with all the bonier Slave States. The rebel
forces of the Cotton States hold thorn in snl?
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jeetion, and when they arc relieved of their ^
Southern invaders the reign of secession, even
in Tennessee, will he ended; for the Union
forces of the great "West and of Kentucky,
will he moving southward with the retirement '
of the rebels.
Meantime, from the last circular of Mem>
i
ininger, the Secretary of the Treasury of the
rebel Government, that spurious government is
confessedly under a financial pressure which
it can lint, longer sustain while the enttrm ntm.
ters arc arc as evidently on the verge of re- '
hellion against it. Tlioy demand relief; Mr.
Meinminger demands money ; hut how are
they to get it, unless they can sell their cot- ^
ton? Our blockade locks them up ; they have |
consumed their available resources, for themselves
and the rebel annv in cash, clothing and
. . 1
shoes. The winter is upon them. What are
they to do.
HOW TIIK COTTON I'LANTHUS W1I.L UEMBRACE '
T1IE OPPORTUNITY.*'
This naval expedition will settle the <juestion.
It will open one or tvo Southern cotton
ports, and upon the test of allegiance to the ^
I'nion, the Southern cotton planter will he invited
to bring forward his cotton and ship it to
England. Beginning within the lines of oc
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cotton thus secured, will soon spread a whole- <
some infection throughout the cotton States, I
to the extent of a decisive counter-revolution.
We know that the majority of the substantial i
people of the Cotton States were dragged <
headlong into this suicidal rebellion. We are
assured that they are anxiously awaiting the
hour of their deliverance, and we believe they ,
have had enough of Yancey's Utopia of a
Southern Confederacy to rise against it,, with
the very first encouraging opportunity.
THE GLOIUOU8 AND FINAL RESULT WHEN IT
WILL IIAPI'EN.
This opportunity will soon be made mani
test, and the consequences, we apprehend, will
convince even Lord Palincrston of the moral
and material power of the government of the
United Saatcs in this war for the Union. In
a word, from this great scabord expedition,
from our still increasing armies in the border
slave States, from the desperate financiM straits
of the rebel treasury, from the terrible exactions
and sufferings which this rebellion has
brought upon our Southern people, from the I
increasing signs of a Southern Union reaction,
a^d from the approach of winter, with its sc
vere necessities, there is every reason to hope
that this great Southern rebellion will be nt- !
terly subdued and forever extinguished by the
next fourth of March. I
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What tIk* VaiikccH Think of Hatterns?An
l^ueliuntiiig; Spot.
The following letter from llattcrns Inlet,
says the Charleston Mercury, is published in ]
the Indianapolis Journal. It gives a droll, but
we doubt not truthful, account of how the
Yankees are enjoying themselves on the North
Carolina coast.
Four Clark, IIatteras Inlet, )
October 1, 1801. j
After two days of gloomy storms, the sun is
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Miming uu? ii u11 us ? ilii nujMuai iiuai. juicrc I
fire many peculiarities in this isolated spot.
Cut off from the main land for supplies, and
suspicious of the few fishermen that visit us,
we look to the ocean for every new sail that
brings us food and news from home. Our
band is playing "Our flag is there," and it is
>till there on the coast of North Carolina.
The sea bounds the view on ono side and
Pamlico sound on the other, and, in connection
with the beauties of the spot on which we
arc encamped, it bring to mind the hymn,
"Lol on a narrow nock of land, ^
Botwixt two boundless seas I standi" I
The verse need not to be finished, for most
of us arc rapidly becoming Univcrsalists?believing
thjtt we receive our punishment as we
l?o along. The dry Tortugas may be held up
us a terror to offenders. It has no terror to
us?for we arc on the sandy Tortugas, where
>aml craps reign supreme. When it storms
the fine sand mixes in equal particles with the
fain, and a fleet of horizontal rain and sand
tills eves, month and food, with judicious impartiality.
The sugar sands itself.
Fort Clark is built of sand, piled up, covered
with turf to keep it from blowing away. It
mounts ten guns and is bomb proof. Going
along the beach half a mile to the inlet, you
I'oine to Fort Hattcras?a little more sand, a
little more turfi a few more guns. When the
tide rises everything is covered with water;
when it falls everything blows away. So
lreary is the spot that neither will birds sing
nor grass grow near it. The first night we got
here we slept in the sand with 110 blankets.
For a change we now sleep on a soft plank in
i muuii \ . aUUii uiiiV/Uia iii; aj?uuu liiauiuii
till one side gets sore; at a signal tbcy turn
over, ami remain in that posture till the other
ude is worn out. It is a good country for
licalth?chills, fevers, cramp, cholic and other
tnxuriers are plentiful. To-day I saw a tree
three feet high?an evidence of the luxuries
of vegetation. Some of our men had jet
black beards in Indiana, but all are now a sanity
hue. " Sandy" is a pet name in the regiment.
1'arson BkoWNI.ow.?The Nashville Banner,
extinguishes the piospect of l'arson Brownlow
becoming a martyr. It says :
<%A member of the Grand July?a gentleman
of unquestionable reliability?stated tons
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dm yusie rciay uiai wie name oi uiowiuow ikis
not been brought before the jury in any manner,
much more in connection with his arrest.
This statement is cine to the Government whose
integrity Air. Brownlow's card would impeach.
The noisy Parson, has but to conduct himself
with proper discretion, that he may dwell in
unbroken peace, so far as Confederate authority
is concerned/'