We have had but one driblet of news from America
this week, which arrived on Monday. It contained the tidings that General Butler was superseded in his command at City Point by General Ord,—so the last of the volunteer generals, the last of those who were not regularly trained military men, has disappeared from high command. The failure in the Dutch Gap Canal no less than in the Wilmington expedition appears to have been one cause for the removal of this great administrator but poor soldier. He is far too able a man to sink out of view. When re-organization begins General Butler will again be in the ascendant. The Times has information that a new Wilmington expedition will immediately be attempted, and that this time it will be assisted by the march of a body of troops across a corner of North Carolina from New- bern (now occupied by the North) to Cape Fear River.
