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The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Sinking cause of Jeff. Davis and his Southern Confederacy. (search)
t through Confederate ports. In the next article of the New Orleans philosopher on "The Prospect" he thinks that praying and fasting are not equal to the duty of coping with Enfield guns and rifled cannon for that Providence always takes the side of the heaviest artillery; that our "formidable fleets" have created a terrible panic throughout the South; that Fernandina, Brunswick, Savannah, and other places on the Southern seacoast, are in great danger of sharing the fate of Cape Hatteras, Port Royal and Ship Island; and that, in short, "the prospect" of an independent Southern Utopia within any reasonable period of time is exceedingly gloomy. But the third article, that on "Government Speculation," from our doleful New Orleans contemporary, we are gratified to say, reveals the fact that all the swindling jobs of government officials, contractors, bucksters, sharpers, and rogues are not confined to the public service of the United States. Judah P. Benjamin, the head of the rebel D
Late Northern and European news. the arrival at New York of the steamer Oriental--Gen. Stevens--the Burnside expedition — great excitement — banks of New York decline the Government Loan, &c., &c. [Special Dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Jan. 12. We have received Northern dates to the 10th inst., by which we learn that the steamer Oriental, from Port Royal, had arrived at New York, and that General Stevens still holds the main land awaiting reinforcements. The Burnside fleet was rapidly concentrating in Hampton Roads, and the excitement with regard to the destination of the expedition is intense. For the next two weeks no words can foreshadow the expectation of the people. On Saturday last the coast guard at Sewell's Point, reported 13 steamers and transports in the Roads; and more arriving. The Baltimore Commercial says that little or nothing new is occurring at Fortress Monroe, except the assembling of a large number of gun boats.