Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-11-11
OUR MILITARY BUDGET.
Latest from the Grand Expedition

OUR MILITARY BUDGET.
Latest from the Grand Expedition
1T Is A COMPLETE SUCCESS so FAR-IT
TAKES TWO FORTS AT PORT ROYAL
ALSO THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT-ALSO
TAKES POSSESSION OF TIE RAILROAD
BETWEEN CHARLESTON AND SAyAN-
NAH-ALsO A LARGE QUANTITY OF
STORES-A FRENCH FRIGATE BURNED
OFF HATTERAS.
The following dispatch from Baltimore reached
the Navy Department this forenoon, Immediately
after the arrival Of the Old Point boat:
BALTIMORE, Nov 1O.-News has been received
at Hatteras Inlet through dsserters of the taking
Of two Confederate forts at Port Royal and the
landing of large Union force at Beaufort
From Norfolk we have similar tidlngs, with
accounts Of intense excitement there. The rail-
road near Beaufort, with large amour. Of stores
has fallen into the hands Of the Union forces.
Deserters coming into Newport News report
that the Union troops were believed to be ad-
vancing on Charleston, and that intense excite
ment prevails in the South on account of the ope-
rations, so far, Of the combined feet and army.
Only single vessel was wrecked on the North
Carolina coast, The Union. The Winfield Scott
Cof the exTedttion). is, however, supposed to be
lest also
The French friga,e CLEOPATRA burned to the
waters edge, OF Haiteras, but all on board of her
were saved.
FURTHER NEWS EXPECTED.
The Navy Department is momently expecting
the arrival Of a steamer at Annapoli from Port
Royal with full accounts of the operations of the
combined feet and land force in that quarter
Il is thong ut there that the steamer Rhode Isl.
and, regular naval supply ship, has been de
tanned by Commodore Dupont OF that entrance
TO perform thai service. She was OIL her way ur
the coast from further south.
LATEST FROM GENERAL RosyCRASs's ARMY.
The War Department received a dispatch las.
evening from Gen. Rosecrans, Of the day before
herein he states that his position is
perfectly secure one, end that he courts an attack
Of any force the enemy may have, upon 1t.
He says nothing whatever concerning his late
alleged battle with the enemy, or of the laiter's
IMPORTANT CONVICTION.
The Secretary Of the Interior, we understand,
has received official sdviccs from New York Of the
conviction there on Saturday Of Nathaniel Cor
don, charged with being engaged in the African
slave trade. Gordon was captain Of the siaveshio
q Erie, !" which was captured In August lest on
the coast Of Africa by the U. 9. steamer Mohican.
with 900 Africans on board, the survivors Of whom
teoD Were taken to Liberia and delivered over to
the U. 8. agent for liberated Africans
The penalty Of the offence of which Gordon
has been convicted is, by the sct Of Congress of
1870, death, and this being the first conviction
had under that statute, among the numerous pros
ecutions under IT, fully attests the energy OF the
orncers Of Government in charge Of such matters,
and especially the zeal and ability Of the prose-
cutting attorney, Mr.. f. Delaaeld Smith, Us
District Attorney for the southern district of New
York.
Arson Stager, Of Ohio, has been appointed a
Brigade Quartermaster of Volunteers Mr. =
has been assigned the duty Of experimenting the
Management Of all the Government telegraphs I'm
the country.
The Secretary Of War has appointed Nelson
Thomasson, Esq. Of Chicago, Ill, a member of
the Sturgis Rifles, to a second lieutenancy in the
18th infantry regiment, U. s. A. The young lieu
tenant Is, we believe, the son of Hon w p. Thorn
asson, ex-M. C. OF Kentucky
NEW BRIsADIERs.
Among the recently appointed brigadier gen.
erals are Morgan, Of Ohio, Grant Of M.
and Col. Philip st. George Cook, who recently
brought hither his cavalry troops from Utah. He
il native Of and appointed from Virginia.
RETURNED.
Adjutant General Thomas has returned (from
New York to Wsshington.)
NAVY YARD.
There have been no arrivals from the hotiIla
since our last report.
The steam ferry boat George Washington Parke
Custis, which will be remembered by our read
ers, has been transformed into a lighter for the
nse OF Prof. Lowe. The accommodating balloon
with gasgenerating apparatus, &c, was put on
board the lighter yesterday, and towed down to
Indian Head by the steamer CGur de Lion which
took the Professor passenger
hospital for the sick soldiers has been e.
aolshed in the cid Naval Hospital, corne, Of
Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue-the naval
patients having been removed to the Insane Asy.
lum- The new hospital is to be supported by the
voluntary contributions Of the workmen in tn.
Navy Yard, and the idea wa, first suggested bv
she East Washington Library Association. The
men in the yard have nobly responded to II
a Committee was appointed, with Mr.. Donald
McCaihren as chairman, to make the necessary
arrangements, and the hospital was opened one
week ago with six patients, and now contain.
twenty. The establishment 10 under the general
Of DIR. McRim, voluntary surgeon, but
the patients are attended to by the regimenta sur
geons.
The seaTnen In the Yard, under the direction Of
Drill-master McCathTan, are making commend
able progress in infantry tactics and at the bat,a
lion parade on Friday last acquitted themselves
in an excellent manner. They are also getting
proficient In the management Of the field howitz
en.
Mr. James Drain, Of the gunners' Department az
the Yard, died day or two since, and his funeral
yesterday afternoon was attended by the Red Men
and Brotherhood Of the Union also, a detacb.
ment Of seamen from the Yard. 3
The seamen in charge Of the naval batteries q,
II rts Ellsworth and Dahlgreen are to be trans.
feired Immediately to service on the southern
coast, and their places in the forts will be SUD-
piled by the volunteer soldiery
The contagious disease on the Harriet Lane