New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-21
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1861
An Ohio come are received, clothed, fed and main

An x,ho como are received, clothed, fed and MAN.
,o;Ded in q generous. Just and systematic manner;
a.. ,oo,oes are made to work, receive SlOper month,
hesSe ratious-s2 in cash. the rest, over and above
the cost of their clothing goes INTO common 1und
70 supnort those who cannot work. Nothing is said
about the future nobody is particularly exercised
about what is to become Of the negroes. Everything
goes on smoothly and each day is doing something to
s,ve the problem 20 interesting, and go liable to be
nterfered with by doing too much, especially in the
way of proclamations and the like. submit whether
better plan can be devised for treating the negro
question than this. 1t will work equally well else
where. Let practical men treat 1t as a practical
question: problem, in the solution Of which its
natural graytaon ought TO satisfy all fair minded
men.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, ne soon as they arrived
here wrote letters to their friends, announcing what
bad happened to them, and that their families had
proceeded to England. Mr.. Mason requested bic
friend TO make further financial arrangements for
them, az the period Of his absence was likely to be
proracted somewhat beyond the time originally con-
templated. Mason is not rich. He isknown to have
said that he did not intend to ever visit Boston or
any other Northern city again till be went in the
capacity Of ambassador from the Southern Confed-
eracy. The suggestion of The TRIBUNE, that the
two conspirators should be placed in the Tombs,
meets with warm response on all hands.
Gen. Wool and his staff were in the saddle between
three and four hours to-day. De Wit Clinton, son
Of the Hon. George W. Clinton, Buffalo, n. y, has
received the appointment Of Lieutenant in the 10th
Regiment, New-York Volunteers, and been assigned
10 place on Gen. Wool's staff.
The Minnesota and Roanoke are alone on the
blockade here. The Roanokes shaft being broken,
she will remain here till another is ready, and then
proceed 10 Nor,hern Navy-Yard TO receive it.
4 private letter from an officer of the Wabash,
giving description of the engagements at Port
Royal-thc very besi description by all odds that
have seen-states that the reason our shipping re-
ceived no greater damage that the rebels did not
dream that they would approach 80 near, and fred
over The writer states that the reason the engage
ment was not continued on "Wednesday WAS that the
Wabash cot aground and could not be brought into
position without running great risk from the rebel
batteries He also says that the order in which Flag
Officer Dupont directed the feet 10 revolve and de-
liver their FIRE was broken up by the gunboats before
the first revolution was performed, that the Flag
Officer carried the Wabash heroicaly throughout,
and that on the third revolution she delivered her
broadsides at GOO yards, mdrderOusly accurate
Coming round again. and nearer still, with every gun
shoted, the rebel flag had disappeared, and though
the universal opinion was that it was ruse OF the
enemy, Flag Officer Dupont withheld his fire,
though his men were reused almost TO madness by
the death of Richardson rather than run the rick of
firing on q foe that had confessed himself beaten So
firing single shot, by way of query, which had no
response the Wabash steamed away the victor.
Those who witnessed the engagement and saw
what terrible thing full frigate is when deliver
ing its fire in its best manner will understand that
while the bombardment of Port Royal was unques-
tionaby an exceedingly fine naval performance and
spectacle that it did not in that respect, equal that
at Hatteras, when the Minnesota, the Wabash, the
old Cumberland with her terrible batteries served
| by crew that was never equaled; the Susquehae-
nah, and iotila of gunboats, for nearly two days
raining. their iron hail on the Rebels There If
marked difference between the two engagements IN
the relative distances at which the fleet delivered
their fire. that at Hatteras having been at more than
600 yards, at Port Royal from COO to 800 yards.
Lieut.. Worden OF the United States Navy, arrived
by flag of truce from Norfolk to-day, in exchange for
Lieut.. Sharp Of the Confederate Navy, captured at
IIatteras. Lieut.. Worden has been in confinement
al Montgomery since the day Sumter was fired on,
on which day he arrested at Montgomery, when
he was passing through from Pensacola, the bearer
of dispatches from the commander of the Union
forces there to the Government at Washington.