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The New York
Herald, of the 3d, furnishes us with some additional items of news:
Presentation of a sword to Gen. M' Clellan — fears in regard to the Federal fleet, &c.
The
Washington correspondent of the 2d, to the New York
Herald, says:
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General McClellan received yesterday a splendid sword, presented to him by a committee of the City Council at
Philadelphia.
Upon accepting the weapon
General McClellan said that he received it, not for what he had done, but for what he hoped to do. He added that all that was necessary was patience and confidence, and that the victory would eventually be ours.
The Powhatan arrived at
Washington yesterday from
Annapolis, passing the rebel batteries on the
Potomac without being attacked.
Several vessels passed down through the
Swash channel yesterday, however, and were fired upon, though without receiving any damage.
Several shells were thrown from the rebel batteries to our entrenchments on the
Maryland shore, but they did not impede the progress of the work on our fortifications Some of our thirty-two pounders answered with three or four rounds, but whether they took effect has not been ascertained.
We have no intelligence of any movement in the army of the
Lower Potomac yesterday.
On the
Upper Potomac a shell was thrown across by the rebels, and struck and officer's tent on the
Maryland shore, opposite Edwards's Ferry, wounding a soldier inside — No other demonstration was made in that quarter.
Some fears were entertained that the prevailing gale would seriously affect the progress of the great naval expedition, and this idea gained strength from the fact that the
Roanoke, which has just arrived at
Fortress Monroe, reports that she experienced very heavy weather on her way from
Charleston, which compelled her to keep outside the track of the expedition.
The
Ethan Allen, which has also reached
Fortress Monroe, states that when she left the fleet, off
Cape Hatteras, the two boats formerly belonging to the
New York and Brooklyn ferries — the
Eagle and Commo ore
Perry, had been separated from the squadron.
But by the arrival of a vessel at
Baltimore yesterday afternoon, we learn that the fleet ‘"was off
Cape Hatteras on Wednesday evening, at which time the weather was remarkably fair, and the squadron was moving along finely.
The captain of this vessel reports that the gale commenced north of
Cape Hatteras, and gives it as his opinion that the fleet did not encounter it at all, as the ships had passed south of that point before it commenced."’
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