New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-14

master az Uncle Samuel and deep is bis purse,
he has need 10 have come one 10 look out for even
the small savings this expedition. The two
steamers, Baltic and Atlantic cost the Government
81 800 per day each, merely for rent besides which
the Government has to supply their coal Tie other
vessels cost in proportion, and Uncle Samuel pays
daily the snug Of than $4,000 for the hire
Of the ships in this feet. To this add the pay OF all
tie men employed the cost Of their food the cost Of
coal, and the other innumerable expenses Of the
tiP and it will at once be seen that great Naval
Expedition the size Of this present one If it be toy
and plsything is one fully worthy the great nation
for whose amusement it has been called MO ex'
istence.
TIE special order, directing that all the military
bands shall play in the open air three hours every
day, is a matter Of great delight 10 those who have
the fortune 70 have good bands on their ships We
# the Atlantic are specially favored IN this regard
The band Of the Sd Hampshire Regiment Is one
Of the best connected with the Expedition and boasts
clarinet-player and performer on The cornet who
have few superiOrs even in great cities. As We
steam away, merrily enough, though but at quar-
ter speed the soldiers muster in crowds their per
mited decks; the officers Of the ship, and staff, and
the guests Of the ship throng the exclusive wheel
houses and take their last look at the rapidly retreat
ING shore, while the band, brissy group the
quarer-boa pour forth the enliyenng strains Of the
" Sar-Spangled Banner and Hail Columbia"
and, as the low, surrounding hills and the threaten
ng ramparts Of Fortress Monroe fade out Of sight,
the air changes to the extraordinarily strains Of
Sweet Home, >" which brings q shade of more than
earuestness scross the brown face Of many listen
ing soldier; but the music ends 2yfuy after ALL and
the soldier is sent 10 biz bunk with different thought
Of home in bis heart for the concert closes with that
ever grateful and suggestive air, ornamented with
hundred thrills and variations from the silver cornet Of
the leader, and the flexible clarinet of the other
ter player, The Girl Left Behind Ne"
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30 1861.
feel perfectly confident that could move to up
roarious mirth the whole immense concourse Of all
the readers Of The TRIBUNE, if ! could transcribe
the odd remarks and quaint speculatons OF our New
Hampshire Yankees relative 10 the ship, and tie
ocean, and everything connected herewith. Few of
them have ever bigger ship than canal scow,
or sea more extensive than u mill-pond, and as
their Yankee curiosity will not let them rest, and
their Yankee pertnacity viii not let anybody else
rest, their questions are innumerabe. Every rope,
and iron, and STEP and hatchway II problem to be
soved-a subject for never-ceasing guessing.
The attention Of every ore Of them was caught by
the compass mean that special one that is open to
the view Of every passer-by-and at least 200 men
Of the force of 1000 inquired Of somebody what
"tbat brass thing was. OF course, the sailors soon
tired Of this sort Of thing, and the answers they
gave to the perpeualy- inquiries soon began to
contain information much more remarkable for now
city than for absolute ruthfulness. When heard a
sailor tell of the soldiers that the pinnacle
patent steam howitzer, that the jb was the Captains
tabe-coth hung out to dry, and that the pot-bouse
was the stable iorthe pusers COW Thought the climax
of hard lying bad been atainedi but was convinced
that even this could be eclpsed, when overheard
tough old boatswan, with the utmost gravity, assure
one of the band that the signal.halyards were tie
ropes that kept the anchor from blowing over tie
main-top in an easterly gale.
But last night the phosphorescence Of the sea ex-
cited their special wonder and the thousand surmses
and speculations scarcely exceeded by the inn
measurable questions, which were only equaled by
the strange and wonderful answers made by the ac-
comuoiating sailors whose information on the sub.
iect far exceeded anything ever saw laid down II
the books.
OF course, our first lookout this morning was for
the feet. The vessels had kept admirably together,
which fact was owing firstly to the low rate Of speed
which had enabled all the slowerpaced boats to keep
up, and secondly to the signaights occasionally sent
up by the Wabash and other leaders Of the line, and
lastly to literally put the first last to the Gne
ness Of the weather and brightness Of the night A,
9 o'clock there were visible from our wheelhOuse 80
sail Of vessels great and small, the Wabash in her
proper position at the head OF the feet The steam
er that were intrused with the towing of the sail
ing vessels did not seem TO find them much Of 10
cumbIance, but were up TO their places with tier
respective charges. The gunboats, being propelicTs
and having no paddle-boxes 70 steady them, were
easily affected by the sea- and rolled heavily from
side to side with the rising wavss for the wind
Just beginning TO fresben INTO breeze, but they
lily kept up.
By noon the wind which had been steadily in
creasing since sunrise, bad risen TO brisk breeze
and had succeeded in raising heavy swell which
tumbled the vessels about in the most unoeremonioas
manner. Here the peculiar propeler.buiId of the |
gun-bosts made them show to great disadvantage. |
They rolled and pitched until, to unaccustomed eyes,
it seemed as if they would roll their chimneys
board They would rise on the crest Of wave
until the copper would show nearly to the keel, and
then settle down in the trough if they had made
up their minds quietly to sink and be heard Of no
more. AS we constantly had several in sight, we, .
Of the more grim and ess-easy -mOyed Atlantic, had
a fair view of all their antics.
But even the Atlantic soon became 30 much de
urbed aud shifted her respected center Of gravity
rapidly from side 70 side that there soon were an
mi.takable signs that a new malsdy hal broken out