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George N. Sanders Safe In England

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Day
3
Month
October
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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George N. Sanderf, the rebol emissarv "'hose escape over the Canadian frontier in the disguisu ot a coul-miner was lately described by a correspondent of the Ecening Post, was in time to oatch the steamer Jura, and huslanded safely in England. In order to convey the freshest " news " at once to the secessiooists abroad, Sanders eoems tn huve gone direct to the office of the Mtrcury at Liverpool (a Journal of strong pro-elavery sympathie), to the editor o! whioh he unburdened himself. Here is the story he told, but his vaticinationa coucerning Maryland are ludicrous enough, now that that State has refused to rebel. "Mr. Geo. N. Sanders, late American Consul in London, arrived passenger, incog, by 'underground railvvay,' direct irom Richmond, Virginia, in time for the steamer Jura. He has important dpatchee for the Confedérate comniiesionerf!, Messrs. Masón i.nd Slidell. Mr. Sanders says Generáis Joseph E. Johnton and Beauregard had eo far recovered as to be able to roeume active duty ; that the Confedérate army in Virginia, eat of Petersburg, under coiiimand of Generáis Lee, Johnston, Longstreet, and Jackson, nurnbers about 00,000 men, includiog more than 400 pieces of well-apjiointed field artillery uuJer General Pendletjn, and 10,000 splendidly-mounted and efficiently-anned cavulry undor Generala Stuart and Fhzhugh Lee ; that the Confedérate army are in fine condition, marching upon the enemy and anxious to meet and give them battle on auy fiiir field ; that no one in or out of the army doubted iheresult; that Generáis Beauregard, Bragg, Price and Kiriy Smith were at the iiead of 150,000 nfantry and arlillery and 12,000 cavaly, in supporting dfetance of eacl) other in Nortti Alubama, Eust 'l'ennestiee nd Süutl.eastern Kentucky, marching 0 the front and rear of Buell and círant'8 armies, supposed to number ess than 150,000; the Confedérate javalry under General Forest und Horgan had cut off the Ftderal rein'orcements and supplies by rivar and ai!, destroying transports and trains rom close proximity te therear; that t wasconfidently believed at Richmond ihat Buell's nrmy would be captured or dispersed ; that it could not possiblv make a succe.-sl'ul stand sonth of the 3hk R.ver; that General Humphrey Marshall had left Abingdon, Virginia, with bis división, entering Northeastern Kentucky for the Blue Grass re?ion, expecting to forrn a junction with General Ki:by Smith irorn Beauregard and Brugg's rmy; that Major General Huimos, at the henil oí thirty ihoueand uien from Texas, Northwest Louieiana and Arkansu, had passed Port Srnith, and would soon co-operate with twenty thoimand State troope and panisan rangers airendy in ponsession 01 the larger portion ot the Sta'.o of Missouri ; and to bold St. Louis and Missouri against the rapidly augmenling force it would require a Federal arrny oí not les than one hundted and Sfty thcusand men ; that all accounts Irorn Missouri, Arkansng, Tennessee, and Maryland represented the young men of those States ready to riso and co-operate on the advanae of the Confedérate ai mies ; and that the Confedérate caculaled vpon addng not less than one hundred and fifty thowiand men to their Tiumbers from these States, as they had furuished 6carcely a régimen1 to the Federal ar.ny under the recent cali.

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