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Federal Exaggerations.
--An inadvertent illustration of the style of Federal exaggeration occurs in the Indiana Register, edited by Hon. S. Colfax, member of the Federal Congress.
The Register is defending General Fremont from the charge of not sending reinforcements to Mulligan at Lexington.
It states that five thousand of Fremont's best armed and best equipped troops had been sent to Washington, and that only eight thousand were left at St. Louis, where it was confidently asserted Fremont had forty thousand under his command.
How all this tallies with the Northern accounts of vast naval expeditions, embracing from twenty to one hundred thousand men, now fitting out in Northern cities for various points on the Southern coast, we do not profess to explain, except upon the ground that they are merely feints, intended to divert our Generals from the real hinge of the war — Manassa.