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es" were merely grooved a few inches from the muzzle. It is found in practice that grooving the smooth-bore Springfield musket greatly increases the danger of bursting the barrel, &c., and in this view Captain Dahlgren stated, at the beginning of the war, that even cannon would not well bear grooving, unless cast specially for that purpose. A dangerous crisis at hand. An officer from Cairo states that he visited Columbus lately under a flag of truce, and had an interview with Gen. Polk and others, who expressed a firm reliance upon aid from Great Britain at an early day. The Trent affair was their opportunity, but its conclusion is, as the London Times remarks, an omen of their defeat. The same officer mentions that a citizen of New Orleans and President of the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad, against whom sympathy with. Federal prisoners had been alleged, gave the opinion that the financial embarrassments of the Confederates and the necessity of reenlistments would p