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an incredibly short time. Then taking the road to Lexington, after riding all night, reached that point at daylight, capturing a number of supplies and destroying during the night the depot and track at Vienna, on the Jeffersonville and Indianapolis Railroad--Leaving Lexington, passed on North to the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near Vernon, where, finding Gen Manson with a heavy force of infantry, we skirmished with him two hours as a feint, while the main command moved round the town to Dupont, where squads were sent out to cut the roads between Vernon and Seymour on the west, Vernon and Laurenceburg on the east, Vernon and Madison on the south, and Vernon and Columbus on the north. Not much brighter were the bonfires and illuminations in celebration of the Vicksburg victory by the Yankees than our counter illuminations around Vernon. Many old ladies were aroused from their slumbers to rejoice over the brilliant victories recently achieved. Surmises were various and many One ol

racticable, without much danger from its fire. At all events, we have inflicted enough damage upon the fort to justify us in regarding it as practically reduced, and incapable of inflicting serious harm upon a fleet. If the navy cannot now pass the work, we may as well regard that arm of the service as of little value. The long looked for moment will soon arrive when a second attempt to pass it by our iron-clads will be made. The first, on the 7th of April last, by the squadron under Admiral Dupont, although one of brilliant dash, boldness, and vigor, failed for reasons well known to the public. They were not owing to any lack of courage, skill, or determination on his part, or on the part of the gallant officers who so manfully supported him, but solely to the vessels themselves, several individuals to the contrary not withstanding. Of this no one who knows the circumstances of the case can doubt. This, the second attempt, is under more favorable circumstances. Sumter is o

Poor Old Dupont. --Admiral Dupont, who was kicked overboard for failing to take Charleston, in response to an invitation to partake of a public dinner in Philadelphia very significantly says: It is very gratifying to me, gentlemen, that y the following comment on the above: It will be remembered that after the unsuccessful attack upon Fort Sumter, Admiral Dupont was very violently assailed in several widely-circulated Administration papers. It was alleged that on that occasionst inevitably have fallen. It was these statements which confessedly led to the substitution of Admiral Dahlgren for Admiral Dupont in the command of the South Atlantic squadron. The experience of the past month is a triumphant vindication of Admirpast month is a triumphant vindication of Admiral Dupont. It is now clear that he could no more have taken the monitors abreast of the city of Charleston without the cooperation of the army, than he could have made a voyage with them to the moon.

ion of the Yankee Congress, there have been some very interesting documents communicated with the report of Welles, the Secretary of the Navy. That worthy, it will be recollected, had strong faith in the iron clad monitors, and insisted that Admiral Dupont should "occupy and hold" Charleston by their aid. The contractors for building them, having more faith in than knowledge of them, also clamored when their costly work was disparaged. Between the two acts Admiral Dupont got into hot water, anAdmiral Dupont got into hot water, and the Yankee nation let his reparation down a few pegs. But the information given in his report shows that he was right and his detractors wrong. It will be of considerable interest to the reader to know what that report embodied on the subjects and, accordingly, we make some luminous extracts below from the officers commanding the vessels. We preface them with the following extract from the New York Journal of Commerce, which, like the rest of those papers that lack full faith in the wisdom

Secretary Welles on Admiral Dupont. --Secretary Weltes is not always as placid as has been believed in a letter to Admiral Dupont, published in correspondence submitted to Congress, he thus walks into the Administration. Your prompt abandonment of the harbor of Charleston after a brief attack; your disinclination to occupy the harbor; your declaration that the monitors could not remain there with safety; your doubts and misgivings in relation to those vessels; your opposition to a navAdmiral Dupont, published in correspondence submitted to Congress, he thus walks into the Administration. Your prompt abandonment of the harbor of Charleston after a brief attack; your disinclination to occupy the harbor; your declaration that the monitors could not remain there with safety; your doubts and misgivings in relation to those vessels; your opposition to a naval attack; your omission to suggest or devise any system of naval proceed age; your constant complaints; the distrust that painfully pervaded your correspondence; your distressing personal anxiety about yourself, that seemed to overshadow public duty; your assaults upon editors instead of assaults upon rebel batteries; your neglect of any reconnaissance of the harbor obstructions; or if such was ever made, your neglect to inform the Department of the fact! These, with quornions and conscious ch

f the trial. It he fears to meet these vessels down the river where his own boats lie, when may we expect that he will go up the river and fight them where they are supported by batteries on shore? If it be urged against his advance up the James that the obstructions are dangerous, and that the fite of the forts is too severe, it must then be admitted that iron clad vessels are a failure, and that the immense sums spent in their construction have been thrown away. Early in the war Admiral Dupont silenced shore batteries under a terrible fire with only wooden ships. Admiral went to New Orleans despite obstructions in the river, and perfectly constructed forts. with wooden ships. --He ran the fire of the Port Hudson batteries with wooden ships, and Perter ran past the formidable and well served Vicksburg batteries with even the army transports. If so much more can be done by some commanders with wooden ships than, can be by others with iron ones, we ought either to waste no