The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1862, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9273. IMPORTANT FROM SAVANNAH. Communication Between Fort Pulaski and Savannah Cut Off. SPLENDID NAVAL MOVEMENT. i MAP OF THE SCENE OF OPERATIONS, Rev her dee ‘We have received some important news from Savannah Dy the way of Richmond. ‘It appears by rebel accounts that the expedition which has been, fitting out at Port Royal by Commodore Dupont and General Sherman has sailed from that point, and had succeeded in getting in the rear of Fort Pulaski, com- pletely culting of all communications between the clly of Savannah and that important fortification. > The rebel despatches are as follows:— First Despatch. THIRTEEN FEDERAL VESSELS OFF SKIDDAWAY ISLAND. ‘A RECONNOMSANCE—-ENEMY DRIVEN OFF. Avovera, Jan. 27, 1862. ‘The Savannah Morning News of this morning says thay thirteen federal vessels, seven of which number were steamers, were reported to be off Skiddawny Island on yeaterday. Fifteen were also seen from Fort Pulaski, bound southward. ‘The Confederate steamers Savannah and St. Johns have reconnoitered Wall’s Cut and found the enemy trying to remove the obstructions placed in that locality. The Confederates discharged muskets at the Yankees, who quickly fled, leaving ther provisions, bedding, blank- ets, &c, Second Despatch. INTERESTING FROM TYBEE ISLAND. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PULASKI AND SAVANNAH CUT OFF. Avcusta, Jan. 28, 1862. Intelligence from Savannah states that aix federal ves- sels entered the river on yesterday, back of Little Tybee, and passed up tothe north end of Wilmington Island, thereby cutting off communication between Fort Pulaski and ay, Betas ‘The enemy Wilmington Island and fired on the Confederate steamer Ida, but no injury was done. Com- modore Tatnall's fleet was at Thundorbolt, but arrived safe at Savannah. The enemy is trying to remove the obstructions from the river. Fort Pulaski has provisions enough to lasi them siz ‘sionths. The Rebel View of the Movement. One of the Richmond papers consoles itself this wise:— {From the Richmond Dispatch , Jan. 29.) THE NEWS FROM SAVANNAH. A gentleman now in this city (Richmond), a resident of Georgia, and who is familiar with the approaches to Savannah, suggests that our telegraphic correspondent is im error in his statement of the effect of the present Position of the enemy at the north end of Wilmington Island. Granting that the enemy bas passed up around Little ‘Tybee Island, and now holds tho north end of Wilmington Island, still the communication between Fort Pulaski and ‘the city remains intact, Indeed, jt would appear that the fedoral steamera-bave not entered the Savannah river proper at all. Entering at Warsaw Sound—into which St. Augustine creck (one of the numerous mouths of tho Savannah) empties its waters—these vessels sought to turn the fort by one of the outlets of St. Augus- tine creck. Should they succeed in passing the batteries along this creek, they would have still to go some miles farther before they would reach the river above tho fort. ‘Until they shall haye done this the communication ‘Detween the city and Fort Pulaski! will remain open. The ships, it is understood, ‘in endeavoring to pass around the north side of Wilmington Island, are trying to avoid a battery which is on St. Angustine creok, sonth wardly from the island. They had encountered obsta eles, as already stated, which they were endeavoring to remove, and which labor may be one of more difficulty than is supposed, Fort Pulaski‘is upon the Savannah river, in a northerly direction from the present position ‘of the Yankee vessels; but between them and it there is an impassable mar Should the Yankee ships succeed in passing above ‘Wilmington Island, and proceeding on to the Savannah, they have still most serious difficuities in the way. Fort Jackson is on the Savannah, immediately above the point where they would enter it, while above that fort again there are batteries enough to muke it a serious under- taking to proceed to Savanuab. When at Savannah, what have the Yunkees aitained? ‘The people there will hold no intercourse with them. Were the trading Rhode Island Senator there with bis vessels, he would find no one to open a trade with him. ‘There is, indeed, nothing there. ‘here is no cotion in Savannah, and the banks have transferred their valuables to the interior; 80 there is nothing for trade and little wheroupon to employ the other predominant passion of the Yankeo:—stealing. ‘They may burn Savannah. ‘Well, let them, if they can reach it, It is not as big as Now York. When we do begin to retaliate we cam have Jarger ci(is than Savannah to burn. The Defences of Savann ‘The importance of Savannah as a port of entry, pos- seesing a spacious harbor and a very considerable trade, not only with hor sisters in the Union, but with foreign @ountries, and the consequent fourishing condition of the city and the wealth of its citizens, rendered it a national Becessity to have the harbor well defended. In January Jast the New Yors Heratp laid before its readers a map of the harbor of Sayannih, with diagrams and full de scriptions of its defences. We deem the subject of suf- ficient interest at this time to republish a description of ‘these fortifications, as considerable improvements have Been mado to them, and the more particularly as in a few days our fleet may be heard of in that quarter. Wo also givea new map of Savannah and its surroundings. Annexed is a doscription of that fortification and of Fort Jackson, near Savannah:— FOWT PULASKT. Fort Pulaski guards the city on its sea approaches. It fs built om Cockspur Island, fourteen miles from Savan tah, at the month Of the Savannah river, The site of the fortification was selocted by Major Babcock, of the United Staten Engineer Corps, about twenty six years ago, but it was not till 1831 that the work of erecting the present massive masonry fortification was commence! fm earnest. In that year Captain (now Quartermaster General) Mansfield took charge of its construction. ‘The fort was finished a few years ago, at a cost of 19963,000. The fort is of pentagonal form, covering @everal acres. Its walls aro forty feet high, and present ‘two fails on the sen approach, with rangos of fire ra- Giating at opposite angles. The fort is embrasured on ‘the front and channel side for one row of guns, under Bombproof casemates, with an additional tier of guns open or, en barbdeite., The salient points and flanking ap- Proaches.on the roar of the work have no embrasures for heavy canvon, but are thoroughly covered by en- ‘Mading musketry loopholes, which renders a landing or @ecalading extremely hazardous to an enemy. The full ‘armament of the fort will consist on the lower tier, of sixty-five 92-pounders (iron pieces), and the up per tier of fifty-three 24-pounders, four 18-pounder flank- fag howitzers, one 18-inch mortar, twelve 8-inch colum- leds and seven 10-inch mortars—in all 160 guns. Tho Columbiads are heavy and very destructive weapons of Yong range and adapted to use spherical shot or shell. ‘They are capable of an clovation of 180 degrees, and a wortical fire of five degreos, depressed to thirty-six de- ‘Sreen elevation. The interior of the fort is well supplied ‘with massive furnaces for heating shot, Oicers’ qnar- fers, soldiers’ barracks, and an immense sapply of shot, powder ané muskets, A wide ditch surrounds the work, which, when dry, can be used by sharpshooter, or could, if necessary at tho approach of an enemy, bo easily flooded. Beyond thoditoh js a glacis, or inclined Dank, which is en@laded by the guns from the Jower OF Caremata row of the fortification. Tho full war Of the fort Is eight hundred men, but one-half me NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1862, PRICE. TWO CENTS. that number could hold it successfully against a very large force. Vessels of any considerable size in beating up the channel to Savannah, are obliged to approach within seventy yards of the fort, and at this point many guns of largo calibre can be made to concentrate their fire. Tho fortification is pronounced by expert army en- gineers one of the strongest and most perfect of its kind on this continent. It covers a larger area than Fort Sumter, but has one tier of guns less. FORT JACKSON, ‘This is a small work, built on alow marsh, four miles from Savannah, on 4 site near the bend of the river, and commands important points on the channel, on the inte- rior line of fortifications. It is built of heavy brick ma- sonry. Its armament consists of ten twenty-four pound- ors (Iron guns), three fleld pieces, tive eight-inch howit- zers, one ten-inch mortar and one eight-inch mortar. It cost the government $80,000. There is also an exterior line of fortifications erected to protect the mouth of the Savannah on its sea approach at Tyboo Island. OUR IRON CLAD VESSELS. Launch of the Ericsson Iron Steam Bat- tery—Deseription of the Vessel—Its Ar- mament, &e. An act was passed last summer by Congress aut*oriz- ig the Secretary of the Navy to adverti:e for proposaig for the construction of somo iron-clad vessels-of-war, those making proposals in all cases to furnish their own plans. In order to provide for the building of such as should be accepted, the sum of $1,500,000 was appropri. ated, and the following naval officer. were appointe! an examining board to look over the plans that should be offered, and select such as should be deomod expodiont:. Cuptains Joseph Smith, Hiram Panlding a:d Charles H. Davis. Out of many plans offered but threo were accepted, and they were all of a different pattern. One of the de- signs accepted was from Capt in Ericsson, the well known engineer. Captain Ericsson's inventions are many and valuablo, He has introdcced most important changes, not only in the naval service, but also in our morchant marino. In designing the present battery he has taken an entirely different courso from that of his predecessors of other countries, and the model and appearance of the battery differ so much from anything before seen as to prove a greatcuriosity. The construction of it has, like that of the well known Stevens battery, been carried on in secret, We donot mean by this that the workmen em- ployed on her had to take any vows, as was tho case in the building of the othor, but it was carried on in a house built for the purpose, and the eyes of the public were Off it uatil such time as it should be ready to launch. The work Bas been so rapid on her that, to the astonishmeat 07 all, she was dsclarod re dy t > enter her new element on Thursday, and accordingly everything was got in readi- ness, and afew minutes alter the hour appointed THE LAUNCH took place; and it was undoubtedly one of if not the most important ovents that has occurred to our navy, usher- ing in, as {t dces, a new principle in naval architecture, and forming the first step for the building of one of the finest navies in the world, and enabling it to successfully cope with the boasted vessels of Europe. ‘The hour and day appointed for the launch was at half- past nine o'clock yesterday morning; and although the day was anything but pleasant, curiosity appeared to be largely in the ascendancy, which was clearly proved by the presenco of many hundreds of spectators, among whom were many ladies, who, wich a praiseworthy courage, braved the siorm and cold, and patiently waited to ace the strange shape glide into the water from the walls that encompassed it, As a reward for their courage, they bad but @ short.time to wait, as, with an unusual | punctuality, the battery left its ways before ten o'clock. There appe.red to be a general impression that the vessel would submerge itself greatly , if notdive into the depths of the river altogether. To prevent this (tho first, not the last) from happening, two water proof boxes were placed at her stern to buoy her up, and they acted like a charm, ag she glided as smoothly and as swiftly as any ordinary vessel, making very little commotion in’ the water. As she emerged from her wooden walls she was received with the most enthusiastic shouts of welcome, which, of course, were responded to by thore on board; but the party wes very small, being composed of only five or six persons. Among them were Captain Ericsson, Isaac Newton, United States Naval Fnginecr, who has been as- sisting in the superintendence of the battery, and our re- porter. A party of friends were waiting on a propellor ont in the river for her to come to them, and the moment she touched the water they steamed towards her and towed her beck to the Cock, where she will remain until finished. The ways on which she was launched were the ones ured on the General Admiral and the Adriatic. Among the spectators of the lauch we noticed many of the naval officers attache’ to the various vessels in port, and naval sea captains: ‘The launch took place at the yard of Mr. Rowland, at Greenpoint, L. 1. ‘THE BATTERY. We have before published a full description of the Friesson batiery; but at the present time a sho:t and succinct history of it cannot but be acceptable, serve to freshen the public memory, and besides the bat- tery will no doubt’ be in action in Jess than a month, Tt is a broad, long, flat-bottomed vessel, with vertical sides and pointed ends, requiring but a’ very ‘s depth of water to float ia, though fieay ily loaded with an impregnabje armor upon Its sides, and a bombproof deck, on which is placed a shot proof ravolying turret, that will contain two very heavy guns. It is so low in the water as to afford no target for an enemy, and every thing and everybody is below tho water Jixe,’ with the excep. tion of the persons working (he guns, who, we stated before, are protected by tho shotproof turret. To give the upper portion of the vessel the proper powers of locomotion, there is suspended beneath it another one of lees strength, safticiently narrow and glop- ing at the sides that if the enemy's balls should pass be- low ptproof upper vessel (hese sides can only be hit at seach an acate ae ‘that no har shall ensue, ‘and in its length approeching the bow only so far that its raking stem may receive the shot fired from directly aheud in tha #ume way, and at the stern giving suileiont space to permit the shot cor rom directly aft to pass under the shotproof end without hitting the rudder, which is abaft the propel'er. ‘The sites of the vessel are first formed of plate iron, half an inch thick, outside of which is attached solid white ok twenty-six inches thick outside of this again is rolled iron armor tive inches thick. The bombproof dock i supported by heavy braced oak beams, upon which is lait planking soven inches thick, covered with rolled plate iron one inch thick. ‘The turret cousists of a rolled plato iron skeleton, one inch thick, to which are riveted two thicknesses, of’ one iueh rolled iron plates. Outside of this again are six pintes of rolled iron, all firmly bolted together with nuts inside, so that if’ a plate is started itean bo at ones tightened again. The top is o vered with a bomb- proof roof por forated with holes, The lower part of the gun carriages consists of solid wrought Iron boams. These aro planed perfectly true and are placed parallel in the both of the yuns pointing In the same direction, s through the side of the tanuel are only large enough to permit the muzzle of the gan to be thrust b Inside of them are wrought iron pendulums, jose them against the enemy as soon ag the gun recoils. ‘Two of the largest Dabigren guns will be piacod on by ‘The whole is mate to revelve by a pair of stoam engines placed beneath the de k, ‘The lower verso) is of irom, one half inch thick, and made ia the usual manuer. It will carry the machinery, coal, &e., a(t, and forward the officers? quarters, armu: nition and stores, ‘The two partitions of the vereel are separated by @ wronght iron bulkhead. ‘the offi. cers’ quarters are very roomy and handsome, and are ventilated and lit by openings from thedeck. machinery consists of two horizontal tubular boilers ,containing 3,000 square feet of fire surface, and two horizontal condensing engines of forty inch diamoter of cylinders and twenty two inch stroke of piston. The lor is nine feet in diameter and sixteen feet stroke, it has four blades, For the better ventilation of the vessel there are two fan blowers drawing air down through bomb proof gratings in the deck. ee, toattain a epeed of seven miles an hour, Though not intended for a sea veasel she can proceed to rea, or to any point along the const, without doing her the foast inginy, she wiilearry three months’ provisious, and be suppl! with « con- densing apparatus for supplying fresh water. As an evidence of the rapidity with which she has ‘been completed, we would state that her keel was Jaid on the 25th of Ustober, 1861, and steam was frat applied on the 31st of December the same . She was launched on the 0th of January, and will procecd on her trial trip in about ten days. will be fe epees vores Nea. ready for active service ‘Tho following is a table of tho size of tions of the vessel ot ee : lower verse it LU Beam of lower veasel at junction with upper Beam at bottom. Depth of lower vessel Diameter of turret, interior Height of turret. Diameter of pilot house, Height above deck.. 1@ pilot houre ia only a few fect abeye the deck, = 24 ce a 6 20 9 6 & Fittieltttal THE NEW EXPEDITION. Scene of Operations of Commodore Dupont and Gen. Sherman’s Expedition to the Rear of Fort Pulaski. man standing on « platform below it. It, with the tur- ret, are the only things above the surface of the deck. ‘The trial trip will be anxiously looked for, not only by the public, but by Captain Ericsson and Alban C. Stimers, Chief Engineer United States Navy, together with Isaac Newton, First Assistant Enginoor United States Navy. Under the care and superintendence of these two last gentlemen the entire vessel and machinery have been uilt, they acting on the part of the government, havi been detailed from the frigate Roanoke for that especi Purpose. IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI. OOQUPATION OF LEBANON BY THE UNION FORCES, Tosa, Mo., yan. 29, 1862. The Jatest information from the West is that our army is encamped at Lebanon in considerable numbers. Major Wright's battalfion fs quartered in a house lately occupied by a secessionist, but the greater portion of the troops are encamped just beyond the town. No troops except scouts have advanced beyond that town, nor is it proba- ble they will until other regiments en the way shall have arrived. From a gentieman who has recently arrived from Webster county, I learn that Captain Freeman, who has been carrying on a thriving business in Webster, Douglass, Wright and other coun: ties, was killed about a week since in a skirmish which took place in Webster county between some Union men and rebels, Tt was at first reported to be Colonel Free- man, of Polk county, which proves untrue. The Colonel is a more influential but no meaner man than this Free- man. General Curtis anc staff departed several days ago to join the army in the feld, This would indicate that the ‘campaign is to be pushed forward with energy. General Sige! has arrived from St. Lonis, and it is un- derstood he will go forward with the expedition now un- der way. NEWS FROM THE UPPER POTOMAC. THE RETREAT OF THE REBELS FROM BO- LIVAR. Saypy Hoox, Md., Jan. 30, 1862. Since the retreat of the rebels from Bolivar the weas ther has been too foggy to observe their movements. There was a heavy snow storm here this forenoon. Tt is now known that our shelle on Tuesday were not Without effect. Several of the rebels were killed and wounded. ‘The shells of the enemy were harmless. There are no signs of the weather clearing up at pre- sent. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE, Forrress Monon, Jan. 20, 1862. Some negroes arrived here at seven o'clock this morn- ing, having deserted in smal boats from the opposite shore. They were cooks in the Third Alabama regiment, is encauiped in the vieinity. nogroes report that the last of the iron plates for the Merrimac was put on yestorday, and that she was to be launched to-day. A large steamer, reported to be the Merrimac, but probably erroneously go, made its appearance at Craney Island yesterday afternoon. ‘The troops at Newport News slevt on their arms last night. A flag of truce to-day brought from Norfolk Lieutenant F. Connolly, of the New York Sixty-ninth regiment from Columbia, The tugboats James Murray and £. H. Herbert, of Bal- timore ,&nd Joseph P. Levy, Alert, Alida and Champion, of Philadelphia, sailed this afternoon for Hatteras, to Join General Burnside’s expedition, The Eastern State eailed for Hatteras this forenoon. John McMahon, a recruit in company F of the Union Coast Guard, shot Michael Dolan, in the same company, this morning. The act was done deliberately. The mo” tive is said to have been an old family gru The Hartford arrived from Philadelphia this afternoon, BROOKLYN ACADEMY oY Music.—The “Trovatore” was given last night to an exeelient house, with Mise Hink- ley, Madame Strakosch, Brignoli, Mancusi, Sueini and Barili in tho principal roles. Miss Hinkiey’s Leonora was, 80 far a8 vocalization js concerned, everything that could bo desired. She sang charmingly, and morited the applause which she received. The Manrico of Brignoli i a role 80 familiar to the public that it is scarcely neves- sary for us to say that it was perfectly rendered. Man- cusi’s Count de Lana was lacking somewhat in spirit, and wo could have wished a better Azacena, but on tho whole the opera wont off well. ‘To-night the ‘‘Trovatore”’ will be repeated at the Now York Academy, and on Saturday “Martha” will be given at Brooklyo, iret concert is announced for the 11th at Court Calendar—This Day. Common Pi8as.—No, 126. The Massachusetts Leg ture. READING OF THE BIBLE IN THE SCILVOLS, RTO, oN, Jan. 80, 1862, In tho House to-*ay a bill in relation to the reading of the Rible in the schools was passed, requiring that some portion of it shall be read daily, omitting the words ‘in the common nyt sh version,” ko that the Dovay version may be road if th: 3 hool Committee require it. A venulution was receives {rom the Governor concern- Ing the enlistment of persons ina corps of Sappers and Miners wh wore takon to Baltimore, where thy found they had heen deceived, and that the pretended ‘officers had no authority for making avch enlistments, The Le. gisiatnre in called upon tw prevent such iliegal pro ceedings. Accounts by the Rebels of Union Naval Operations Along the Coast. THE FRENCH LEAVING NEW ORLEANS, The Case of the Schooner Wilder. ' Developement of Gen. McClellan's “ Military Cordon. THE REBELS IN A TIGHT PLACE. A DYING WAIL OF THE REBEL PRESS, &e., &e., &e. Telegravhic Despatches to the Richmond be Dispatch. BURNING OF THE STEAMER CALHOUN—PRINTING OFFICE DBSTROYED, Avavera, Gas; Jan, 27, 1862. The New Orleans Crescent says that the steamer Cal- houn entered a Louisiana port on Thursday night, where she accidentally burst a boiler and became unmanago- able. The captain, fearing a capture burned the vessel. ‘The cargo was very valuable Shortly after the commencement of hostilities the Cal- houn was fitted up at New Orleans aga privateer. Sho made several trips, and succeeded in bringing in a num- ber of rich prizes. Her loss is to be regretted, but it is &@ matter for gratification that she hag not been taken a prize by the enemy. The printing office of the Sumter Republican, at Ameri- cus, Ga., has beon destroyed by fire, SAFE ARRIVAL OF A CONFEDERATE SCHOONER AT PENSACOLA—ANOTHER SCHOONER BURNT AND ABANDONED. Monixe, Jan , 26, 1862. Tho Mobile Register states that a private despatch from Pensacola announces the safe arrival there of a Confede- rate schooner. The Yankees fired at the schooner, but sho escaped unhurt. ‘The schooner Jeesic Richmond, while attempting to run the blockade, got aground. The captain and crew aban- doned her and burnt the vessel, including about one hun- Gred and (ifty bales of cotton on board, FIFTEEN THOUSAND FEDERALS ACROSS GREEN RIVER VESSELS SUNK IN RATTLESNAKE SHOALS. Nasuvitee, Jan 26, 1862. Private despatches from Bowling Green announce that fifteen thousand federals crossed Green river yesterday. It is also understood that more crossed to-day. Avavera, Jan, 27, 1862. The evemy have sunk four vessels, and have four more to sink in Rattle Snake Shoals, VETO OF THE LOUISIANA COTTON RELIEF BILL. Bator Rover, Jan. 21,1862. The Governor to day sent to the Legislature his veto of the bill to loan to the cotton planters seven millions of ‘State Treasury notes. This gives the measure a quietus, ag there {g not sufficient majority for it in either house to pass it over the veto, BRITISH DEMAND FOR THE WILDRR—NINE FEDERAL BODIBS PICKED UP ON THR BRACH. Mone, Jan, 26, 1862. ‘The Mobile Tidune states that there have been nine federal bodies picked up on the beach, killed by our men in the taking of the schooner Wilder, and expresses the opinion that at least thirty of the enemy were killed on that occasion, ‘The British Consul at Mobite has sent @ messenger by flag of truce fo demand the liberation of the schooner Wilder, which is claimed as a British vessel. THE PARTICULARS OF THE CAPTURE OF THE WILDER. The following particulars of the capture of the shooner Wilder, returning from Havana with an assorted cargo, by the federals, is from the Tribune. The schooner sceing the fedoral cruiser approach, made for the beach, but had no time to save anything before the cruiser camo withia range The fe lowered their launches, boarded the ered the colors and commenced disc to their launches within three hundred yards of the beach. Captain Ward of the Willer eays he had eet Englieh colors before he left. As regards the fight he says, that the enemy came up in their launcher. Some of Captain Wm. Cottrill’s scouts mot them and Brod a few volleys, but did little or no dai . A despateh was sent to the Captain, who cam ‘At about aight o'clock in the oyening with reinforcements, and weut into the engagemont in good carnest, killing about twen- ty-five or thirty, that is, ail that were in one launch, and some others in another launch. The federals Gred sey. eral rounds of shots and shells from the eteamer, au: also several rounds from the howitzers on tho launehes and musketry, but not doing the slightest damage toany one on our side, Oneof the steamers drew off, and her place was filled by another, which also took the engagement but with no effect. At night t Moe came alongside and towed the schooner off. Afterwards Captain Cottrill’s men picked up oue of their small boat which was pierced from stom to stern with bullets. Daring of Federal OMicers—French Resi- dents Leavi: New Orleans. ‘The New Orleans correspondent of the Charleston Cow rier, gives the following interesting paragraphe under date of the 18th Inet. Wo have a story in cireniation,and it scoms to be pretty well anthonticated, that three officers from the redeval leet paid our city @ clandos.ino visit, disguised ag oyste;mon, on the 8th, What was to be accomplished by the hazardous adventure passes our comprehénsion, unless it was to communicate directly with the station ary spies here, of whom there are many no doubt, and Perhaps to witness the spectacle of the celebration of tho anniversary, falling on Thursday, with a view of measuring our military strength, ‘Before leaving, one of them dropped a note in the Post Office to a military offi. cer, with whom he was formerly acquainted, bautering him upon the laxity of our guard, and promising another call at an early day, under circumstances not constrain- ing a masquerade, ‘The Captain ot the French war steamer Milan, who was here a few days, has left for Havana, to charter a mor- chant ship to carry off a number of French residents, who desire to leave in consequence of the difficulty in procuring employment here. He declared his belief that the collision of ‘the federal war-ship De Soto with tho Milan, by which one wheel of the latter was torn away, could not have been otherwise tha intentional, and was very much irritated. whe hesperation of the Rebel Cause. THE FEDERAL MILITARY CORDON-—A WAIL FROM REBELDOM—THE WAR DRUM TO BE BEATEN—PLENTY OF WORK FOR COURT HOUSE AND CROSS ROAD ORA- ‘TORS. {From the Richmond Enquirer, Jap. 27. If the plans of McClellan are indeed now ike reloped, and if he has been placing a military cordon us, mune view Score, us by a fea nr . a, as the ang:ovds crushes its icine clement of resistance the force of which he has not for. The very Rifictilties with whicn our enemies hope to sur- round us—the very danger with which they urge us on every side—will ada to the hercism of our fighting and the enrgy of our movements, Press the war home upon us, cut off alt retreat and all temporizing, cause every man to see and feel that his immediate safety depends upon his instant success, and it will add vigor (o our buwws and an endurance to our courage that will make every soldier count at least double. Pen up even a coward, and will fight. Make a brave man puleand he is irresistible, History furniehes many examples of the extraordinary rowess produced by the presence of extreme peril, and of the deliverances which a few, in such circumstances have won for themselyes against the efforts of armod multitudes. But we will not go outside of our owa ro- cords for an illustration. ‘The army with which General Scott marched against the city of Mexico was simply ‘‘aforiorn hope.” All its comm inieations with the seaboard and with the United States were lost, and it was necessarily a self sustaining machine. The enemy was behind and before and on each hand. Our soldiers were in an enemy’s country, anit comparatively they were but a handful, When they entered the basin which embesoms the city of Mex‘co. they numbered less than ten thousand men. In front them was a city of one hundred and eizhty thousand in- habitants. It was admirably situated for defence, and was strongly fortified. Thirty-five thousand sutdiers, lod by Santa Anna, with a hundred pieces of heavy ordnance 80 planted as to sweep the apprcaches, wore. there to re- s'st them. ‘The Americans hadto take the city, or suiler terrible disaster, if not annihilation. They took it. They tcok it, but not withont terrible and epi a jog. ey had won many previous successes, but they had not been improved ‘by their commander, They had guined’ little by them, save the prestige which defeat fe bravely in defen Fineie apital cans fought very brav co ir capital city. The records of the battle fields show that the Amorican ti underwent a fearful ordeat and suifered a terrible slaughter. In We we made many sad blunders, in the opinion of military writers. ‘The opera- tions were marked much more pacers nr oe than by skill in ig. It was the fighting the men and the heroic and unskilful lead of the inferior officers that won the war. The fortifications of Chera- busco were stormed—but it was by a day of furious fighting, and the loss of no Jers than one thousand killed and wounded of our little band. Among them were se- yenty-six officers. Mowed down by the fire of the in- trenched enemy upon whom they charged, they fell in heaps; but they wavered not. Next came the térrible blunder of Molino del Rey. By Scott's order, 3,447 men were driven against aforce of ten thousand, occupying a position of great strength, and defended by heavy batteries, that poured a cross fre upon the assailants. Our troops made the 1 almost entirely with the musket, They won it, but ‘& pro- tracted fight and a frightful loss. Killed aud wounded we lost 787 officers and men—almost one out of every four engaged. ‘The above victories were thrown away by non-im- provement, and our thinned ranks were again led forward to the renewed battle. pong ey was sormed 08. the city taken by the 6,800 men ‘et bore arms, with @ logs in killed and wounded of ‘We have had no sch fayting ‘as that in the present war. it may come. aay has not made such obstinate fight as the Mex:cans We ourselves have not been in the urgent of inded remastances which surrou! our army in Mexico. Hence tho battles have not been very bloody. If the enemy gutround us and press upon us ihe alternatives of victory or death, success or subju- gation, we, too, shall have our Churubuscos aud Chepul- tepecs. Nay, the name of Thermopyle may be won for some mountain pass, and the legions of Lincoln, like the hosts of Xerxes, bo made to melt before the martyr courage of herole men fighting for liberty and for home, Jn the threats that fall upon ont ears, tind in the great flocts and armics which they are sending to our various frontiers, our eneinies are giving us acall toarms that should rouse every spirit intha land, ‘Their great boasts and gmail performances heretofore, in the true style of Mexican grandiloquence, have tended to make us careless ‘and almost lethargic. We have learned. to despise our enemy—always « source of danger. We have heard his battle sound so often when there has beon no battle, that we have ceased to notice it. There is peril in this, The enemy know that what they purpose to do they must now do quickly. Their own people are dividing. — Some are weary of an inglorious and fruitless war. Others are in despair at the dilatory proceedings. The funds are fast failing. Europe, too, is weary of waiting,and will som in, terfere in behalf of the interes's of commerce. The appear- auice of vigor is absolutely necessary to keep the cotion manvfacturers from outbreak. ; Hence McClellan is moving his legions, and probably in earnest. Are we waly? The war drum should sound ho jhout our confederary. te wor spirit a t be revived. We want war speeches at our court houses and cross roads, Our people should rouse up and organize a8 one man, and prepare for the determined war. See ye not the circle ‘f fre that is wi around you? Hear ye not the tramp of th: on.my’s ad- vancing lines, and the rush of his coming steps? The shock of tremendous strife is upon us. Asa free and independent people, we have either to conquer or to die, and we are re- solved not lo die. The time is come when every one who hat the spirit of a man, must show it. ‘The men who car- ried me to Mexico, are the men who have kept me back from Richmond’’—so Scott is reported to have said to Lincoln. as bitter. Scott is @ traitor to his State, MeClelian i: raitor to the principles he formerly avowed. Companiots in in- famy, let them be consigned to the fellowship of defeat. Loss of the Austrian Brig Gtorgteto. HER ENTIRE CREW, CONSISTING OF THIRTEEN PER- SONS, DROWNED—THE VESSEL GOES 10 PIECES OFF BARNEGAT. A despatch dated Mannabaukin, N. J., appeared under tho head of our shipping news yesterday, stating that a vessel came on shore on the night of the 2ith instant, abont six miles south of Barnegat, when she almost im- mediately went to pieces, without a single perzon on board being rescued from the watery grave which awaited them. A portion of the wrecked vessel still re. maine in the surf, and numerons pieces of timber and water casks have been washed ashore. On the lid of one of the latter articles was found painted the name “ Giorgicto,”’ which leaves no doubt that this was the name of the fated craft. Added to this, @ large quantity of corn was washed eshoro, the Giorgieto being laden with that article before leaving thia port. to was an Austrian brig, 430 tons burthon, and owned by Sisuel Giovanni, Stiglich @uilto and Goln- brich Francesco, of Biceari, Austria, She was built in 1864, at Pecchini, and her estimated value is $25,000, She arrived in this port on the second of Docomber, Inden with ballast from Antwerp, Belgium, and was im- mediately sopplied with twenty thocsand bushels of corn by Messrs. Craig and Nickel,of this city. The Giorgietto took her departure from heuce on the 16th of January, and has not since been heard of until the news arrived from Barnegat announcing her total loss. The most lamentable portion of the whole affair is the Wrowning of the entire crew of the voreel, there remaining not the remotest hope of their saf broker in this city were Messrs, Hollombe & Reaver street. ‘The following is alist of her officers and crew :— Name’. Nativity. Gospich. Derma. lowt mated Jors, including ea The Parana Outward Bound. Hauirax, Jan. 90, 1962, ‘The steamship Parana will sail for Liverpool to-morrow (Friday) evening. Hor minits will be made up and closed at about six P.M. Despatches loft at tho Commercial Agency of Mr. George Stoker, No. 145 Broadway, New York, up to four o'élock on that afternoon, will be sent out in her, ‘The steamship Adriatic will leave North Sydney for Liverpool some time next week, of which due notice will be given. The Anglo-Saxon’s Mails. Porton, Jan. 90, 1862, ‘The mail# por the Anglo-Raxon from Portiand, together with the newspaper bag for tho press, toft in the half-past eight o'clock train to-night, which is due in New York at an early hour to-morrow morning. “THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. — The Official Despatches of Commo- dore Goldsborough. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS. News of the First Blow Daily Expected. MORE REBEL ACCOUNTS. Their Exaggerations and Pre- parations, &e., Official Despatches from * Goldsborough. Wasmatow, Jan. 30, 1862. Official despatches from Commodore Goldsborough, dated January 26, addressed to the Navy Dopartment, ar- rived this morning. Seventeen of the naval vessels were at that time in theSound, over and beyond the bulkhead, under immediate command of Commodore Rowan in full readiness for operations of any kind. General Burnside was preparing hts forces to move in connection with the fleet. Commodore Goldsberough says things now look hope- ful, and sincerely trusts he will soon bo at the enemy. Any decided approach now to this quarter on the part of the rebels, with all the force they can muster, would, to @ moral certainty, result in their speedy capture and de- struction, In addition to the despatch from Flag Oificer Golds- borough, private letters to the government, under date of the 26th inst., also received to-day, give the most cheering intelligence relative to the progress of the military and naval forces, then in full possession of Pamheo Sound. BR was expected that a blow would be struck in about twa days. The men under Gencral Burnside, and under Flag Officer Goldsborough, were all anxious for a a dash at re- Deldom, and the opinion expressed by both military and naval officers is, that the expedition cannot but prove a success. It ig probable that ere this a demonstration has taken place whice will proveof the highest importance to the government, THE REBEL ACCOUNTS. The Burnside Ficet. COLONEL SINGLETARY’S RECONNOISSANCE—THE PEDE- RALS THIRTY THOUSAND STRONG—ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE VRSSELS—WHERE THEY AR® STATIONED—THE REPORT IN GOLDSBORO’, NORTR CAROLINA. ‘ seamen Papeete iy a tion of the Burnside or other federal feet is at ‘Havtoras and in Pamlico Sound. one! Singletary, who commanded a reeonoitering ex- tion , informed the editor of the ogres that he ar- rived at Portsmouth, North Carolina, on’ ejnosday even ing, after the storm set in, rendering it {mpcasible to mako observations himself;’ but ho saw Samuel Tulaon, Mr. Williams und others, alf reliable men, who had been ‘applied to by the directors of the fleet to act ag pilots, ‘These assured him that the fleet is at Hatte ras, numbering one hundred and seventy-five vessels ‘They represented the fedoral force at thirty thousand strong, one-third of which was w found on lay, one-third in the Roads, and one- third wae outside bnsy in lightening vessels over the swash. As they cleared the Roads by entering Pamtico, others would come from the outside. ‘They raid the Yankees were anxious to gt pilots for Croa- tan Sound and rivers, which induces the belief that Ro- anoke, Edenton, Washington, an perhaps other p'aces east of Nowhern are to be attacked, It is rendered cer- tain that Nowbern {s to be visited, from the fact that the vessels the Yankees were lightening over could mot attack any other place but that. He algo learned Crom the kees that they had lost three vessels and three men since reaching Hatteras. bats also statel that New Orleans was to be attacked simultaneously with the attack on the sonnd. ‘The effect of the storm on Thursday “aud Friday upon the Yankees must have been severe. Pi rtsmouth was completely covered with water. Nothing of the condition of the Yankee fleet yas been Jearndd later than Tuesiiay last. ‘The Goldsboro’ Tribune of to-day soys that a gentle mau who left Portsmouth on Sanday on the day previous there were ninety and s’camers, that couli bo sean at Hatteras fro lighthouso. Ten or fiftean appeared to be ag ound. Twen- ty vessels wore in the Sound, Only ono steamer stcam up, and appeared to bo trying to get a stranded vessel oft, ‘Tho pilots, who wore released, anil left Hatteras on Tuesday, the 2ist, report that they were told that a regi- ment was missing, and t was feare, was lost. A vessel, with one hundred ersons on board.had been cast ashore at Chicamacomico, [From the Richmona Dispatch, Jan. 29.] BLOCKADING CHANNELS. Wo are glad to hear ‘ha! sunken vessels and other obstruc> tions have Leen placed in the chinnels ngar Ranake Island, and in sundry ether waters. If the Rappahannock and other streams which prosent easy access to (he enemy aro not similarly obstructed and lined with torpedoes, it ought to be dove without delay, FROM ROANOKE 1SLAND—THE PAWNKE AGAIN. Frot the Richmond Dixpateh, Jan, 28.) The Norfolk Day Bork levne that ‘on ‘hurstay last twenty-one of the enetny's vessels wero inside the bar af Hatteras Inlet. They were trying to lighten the Pawnee over the bar into the sound. She was fust aground whep the storm set in. FRIGHT OF THE REBELS. Nonvoux, Jan. 27, 1862. Information was received hore to-night, which scema entirely reliablo, that from twenty-five (> thirty ginboate wore ia Pauniico Souud. ‘The people of Flisnbed City, Fdenton, &c., were sending away the women and \- dren and scrvants. Une family arrived here this evening from Elizaboth City. REPORTED SURRENDER AT HATTERAS, ‘The Norfo'k Day Book of the 27th inst. s\ya:— The rumor so fresly circulated here yesterday we find gains credence in well informed circles as to the faderal garrison at Hatteras having been forced to abandon their Position during the late and g0, over 00 the main the Commodore nd for security, where they delivered themeclves up to Confec rate authorities a8 prescners of war. ‘The storm raged with such ‘ury that the water rose to their waists. Finding provisio. @ submerged and ruined, and the galo so furious an to Vent assistance from tie vesve’s, they succeeded in tity of Jumber, old Ighters, Xe.» rafis, on which the who'e of ‘them embarked for the main land, which they reached with- - ‘out material injury, only a few of them having boem lost overboard in the effort. Thoy appeared, it is said, tobe willing to meet any fate in the world in order to escape: the slow torture aad cortain death that awaite! thom at ee They are reported to have surrendered to Gen, The Mysterious Disappearance of Can- field, the Brooklyn Stevedore. THR MIESIN@ BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER. young man who, with Mra, Schoonmaker, accompanied Canfield to the Hamilton avenue ferry on tho night of bis