The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-11-16
THE NAVAL EXPEDITION.
Nom bardment OF Port Royal..Ihe Re.
UulG NOT known. ,aEGH

Fl. MONROE, Nov. IA physician OF Tue
U. s. n, sent to Norfolk on Monday with flag
of truce by Gen. Wool, on some business Of his
o~n, was brought back this p. m. BY rebel
flag Of truce. He reports that tslegraphic dis
patches we're received to-day at Norfolk; that
our feet was there the 9Th inst bombarding
Port Royal, 8 a., and that the work Oh beth
sides was verp sharp, and that two Of the trans.
ports, one supposed to be the Ocean Express,
having ammunition on board, and the Union,
carrying horses. were lost during the gale.
The telegraph at Norfolk is in constant opera
ton, bringing from the scene of operation dis
patches, The widest excitement pre- walls among
the rebels in Norfolk? iso among the people
at this point.
The Union was a new vessel, built in New
York, and intended for the use Of the Quarter
masters Department here. She was very fast
sailer, and was proposed to be the return vessel
to bring the news of the result
The supposition is that Port Royals reduced,
and that our troops had effected landing by
| this time. Tomorrow we expect Particulars as
. vessel lie hourly expected. eia ,4ss 'f
FosrREss NoxaoE, Nov l0.---The stcamship
S. r. Spaulding, arrived from Hatteras Inlet
| this morning with the goth Indiana Regiment.
A deserter who reached the Inlet in small
| bost states that neYs had been received on the
| main land Of the taking of two rebel forts at
Port Royal, and the landing OF q large Federal
| force Beaufort also had been taken by our
troops No particulars have arrived, but the
/ fact corresponds with those received from SOr
| folk BY Gag of truce. Great excitement pre-
vailed OF. the arrival of the news at Norfolk -
From the same source We hate ruinor that the
railroad above Beaufort has fallen into the pos
Session ef our troops, with on immense quantity
Of stores.
Five descrters who reached Newport News
| this morning say the rebels up James River are
| in CONSERVATION, and also bring the improbable
rumor thu: our troops had advanced up the rail
road as far as Charleston.
The French frigate Calabria was burned to lbe
waters edge, off Hatteras, Friday. night. All
hands were saved.
The captain of the gunboat Abatross reports
| that he discovered the Union ashore on the 9Th
inst, about so mics eastward of Boguc Inlet
but in consequence Of the heavy weather bad
| no communication with the shore until the fol.
lowing day, when he landed with Aug Of truce
and learned from the rebel captain that the
Union was run ashora In sinking condition and
soon after broke in two TIE GREY, q in mum,
Der, and Is horses, were saved; are prisoners
at Fort Macon and Raleigh n. G. Large guam
titles Of stores were seen piled up on the beach.
! The steamer Winfield Scott was in company
4 WttS Jig OutOu hC Coptuiu VI JIG OutoA ~ a.
she was lost, haying suddenly disappeared.
| Nothing is known concerning the rumored
loss of the Ocean Express. There are rumors
4 Of three Federal vessels having gene ashore.
BALrINoax, EoT. l1.-An officer of the goth
Indiana Regiment, from Hatssras Inlet, arrived
! here, says he had long conversation with the
party who brought the news to Hatteras-he was
not dcserter b9t a citizen and man Of con-
4 siderable intelligence, who had crossed the
| Sound at the risk of his life 70 bring neys to
/ us. The officers report of his conversation cor.
| responds exactly With what has already been
transmitted by telegraph. Outside of this state.
ment there Is q report that in taking beaufort .
! large part of the town was burned.
BALTIMORE, Nov. lit is reported by the
boat from Old Point that steamer came in the
4Capss lest evening and continued up the bay
Ewithout stopping. She was thought to be the
Vanderbilt With dispatches from the great feet
1 Nothing has been beard Of her arrival at An
! napolis. There is nothing but outside reports
| to warrant the statement that at last accounts
our troops had advanced to Within twelve miles
4 Of Charleston.
WAsHIHeroS, Nov. ll.-Thereis most intense
! excitement here to bear further particulars in
| regard to the great expedition
/ Groundless 'rumors are in circulation that
| Charleston has been bombarded, 10y
/ No intelligence whatever concerning the
great expedition had been received in any quar-.
| ter no to noon to dav, additional to what has
] already been telegraphcd fta