New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-20

has seven embrasnres and there are tents Mas.
| by for about two hundred and fifty men. The
Craney Island battery, or fort rateer, is quite
formidable affair, there being four b.rbetts gum,
and twenty-one embrasure., tho guns beinQ all
| OF heavy calber. THIS work is yet incOmplefs
and men are engaged on it. The Rebels seem
to be doing their best t. render an approach n
Norfolk by water impossible. All these batteries,
have been constructed since have been here. ana
under the eye of the fortress-if the fortress has A
eye--and within the observation and almost within
the range of the guns of the feet. Captain Brain
OF the Monticello, with her four guns, alone en.ered
q protest. and by the vigor wi;h which he Dispute,
tho progress of the SewLll Point battery, gave the
Rebels good deal of extra labor, and proved that
had he been as vigorously seconded by the heavy.
broadsides of the Cumberland, the Minnesota. and
the rest of the feet from time to time, little pro-
gross would have been made even by this time in
the works which have grown so formidable, even Il
they are not absolutely impIeenable. I" Is this war
in earnest, or is il mimic war;"
Recent arrivals from the dominions Of JEFF.
Davis bring the information that the State Of
Georgia has recalled her forces from Virginia to
suppress Instruction &C home. The correspond
eHt of THE TRIBUNE is quite right in the repre-.
sentation be gives Of the state Of things 10 The
Old North State. l conclude that she, as well
as other States, will have additional reasons for
recalling their forces from the bstte-felds Of
Virginia.
notice that the finding of telegraph cable in
Mill Creek, near the fortress, continues to serve,
| for sensation paragraphs in the city journals.
| To-day saw the men who Land down the afore-
| said cable, and FROM them | learned that origi-
rally, in constructing the line TO Hampton, the.
| cable was laid ut tue bottom Of the creek aud
the shallow bay for souie distance, but it 5000
parted when it was placed on poles over the
| bridge This is the wire that 6sbed up,
| and portions of which were sent 10 New York.
| Bat no ole ever traced 1t beyond Fox HI"
| or anywhere in that direction. Ii is somewhat
remarkable that nothing was heard Of the mat
| ter here until it came to in the New-YOrE,
papers. Pc s,Ds making the representation
| could not have been IN earnest, or were them
selves deludrd after the most silly fashion. Tho
wire may have drlfted in the shallow bay out Of
its original Course, so as to point toward Fox.
Hill, and this is toe utmost there is in it. Tbs
rest is hunbug.
Everybody is expecting that Gen. Wool viii adopt
the rigid discipline for which be is distinguished.
Not only can he do this to advantage regards tho
troops, but especially in stopping the leakages
whereby the Rebels have proiiied and kept tbema
selves posted concerning movements here inside and
! outside the Fortress. l lresume Gen. Wool VIII
inquire whether known ana ayOwed Secessoniste
do not come and go as frequently as the boats dos
and it is not unlikely that be will make rigid inquiry
into the movements Of some, who, if they are " all
right" viii be able to show that they There ID
considerable looseness which it is presumed he viii
correct, bes de smuggling up things generally
His experienced eye will not fail TO detect wLe.eIe
these suggestions have force IL hiss for some time
| been well understood that if one wanted 10 know
all about what was going on or was about to take
place at Fortress Monroe be need not go further
away than Baltimore to fnd out.
understand that Gen. Wool has signi6ed 20
Lieut.. Churchill that he wished him TO continue,
for the present at least, :, perform the duties cZ
| Adjutant- General Of the Department
Rain, rain, rain: but We will not complain,
for we had been nearly whole mouth without
| single drop. Seeing that we here depend entirely
| (save aud excepting the seven hundred gallons
which the condenser makes daily on cstesnD
Which are repeDished solely from the Skies va
were getting almost into the condition Of the
| Ancient Mariner who had such singular adgene
lures beneath the Copper Sky. Let it pour, and
when the C sterns are full again, We will laugh
sege to scorn. This is tbeSreak point OF Fort"
ress Monroe-water. The dependence is entirely
on cisterns, except what a single CONDENSED
makes. The Artesian well i. now upward Of 800
feet down, but no fountain has yet been reached.
| 1t is q great bore.