CAIRO, March 7.
There is little news worth telegraphing to-day.
Transports are constantly arriving and departing with troops and subsistence.
The highway of travel up the Cumberland and Tennessee is now thoroughly established, and boats are running regularly, and making daily trips.
Everything is quite at Columbus. No further danger of attack is feared, the town being guarded by gunboats, mortar boats and troops.
It is expected that the rebels will make a stand at Island No. 10, and to this end they are strongly fortifying it.
Nothing has been heard from Gen. Pope.
A large number of new boats are coming in from St. Louis and other points up the river, in view of the facilities afforded by the opening of the rivers.
It was the 42d Illinois regiment and not the 52d that accompanied the Columbus expedition.
The body of Sergeant Major Smith of the 14th Iowa regiment, killed at Fort Donelson, passed through here last evening
14 deserters from the confederate army found concealed in cellars at Columbus, where brought here last night by Col. Buford.
Large gangs of men are engaged upon the repairs of the gunboats. A short time will see them repaired.
The utmost activity prevails in every part of Commodore Foote’s fleet.
Capt. Duff’s Battery went to Columbus last night.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 10, 1862, p. 1
