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t would not be fair to disclose what few grounds for opinions as to their destinations have leaked out. Suffice it to say that everything looks well, and that the recent Union victories at the polls will soon be equalled — not eclipsed — by others in the field. Unless all signs fail, the rebels will not pass a 'Happy New Year.'" With reference to the "closing up" of Wilmington, a Washington telegram says: The remark of Mr. Seward, in his speech last Thursday evening, that if Secretary Welles would "close up the port of Wilmington he should have a good deal less trouble with his foreign relations," has excited some remark. It should be known, in justice to the Navy Department, that it has been ready and anxious for two years past to attack and close up that great entrepot of blockade-runners; but the War Department has never been prepared to co- operate. The navy is ready now to do its part towards accomplishing what Mr. Seward and the people have so long desired, and if i