New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-03

guard and treated with many indgnities until he saw
Gen. Huger at Norfolk who exceedingly attentive
to all hs wants. Two Maryland ladies' also came
under the flag of truce.
Five Northern mechanics have reached the Fortress
in small boat from Pungo River North Carolina, a
distance of zoo milee, the trip occupying X days and
nights.
w. II. Wrcgel, Assistant Provost Marshal at the
Fortress, goes TO Washington this evening with I'm al
legged SPY arrested here to-day, and sd ~ bc the same
party heretofore arrested at Fort Corcoran.
Will Fortress Monroe be Besieged f-De-
scrters md Prisoners from the Louisinns q
Zouave es-GcneraI muster-Dny and
Chnnges-Gsn. Dix and Col. Baker-
Regiments md Horses for the FORTRESS
gone 10 wa-bington-An Invasion by
Strangers, all senniors or Generai--No
moro TO come Gen. Butlor md Capt.
Dyer-secrctnry Cnmerou's suiIer-The
Naval brigade armed.
Fron Qua Special Correspondent
PoRrREss HoSRoE, Old Point Comfort,
June 90, 1861. {
Although We are and for come time have been in a
measure invested, or land bockGded, there il no i'm.
mediate or even remote danger that regular olote
siege will lie laid t. the fortress To do this, Jen
Davis first he strong enough TO secure his
an amoet ndt finite extent, ese the besiegers would
soon become the beseged. In no event would the out
let To the sea be oil nterfered with; for
Dictator Davis is minus fleet, by which alone, and
that too more than own that could be at
tempted Matters not likely TO be bad as the writer
predcte Neyertleless with the Gordon Of batteries
drawn arou nj the roads from Linn Haven Bay to q
point on James River high up opposite to York
towns line Of foriicltions now nearly completed
and the neck at the point between York and James
Rivers, commencing st Yorktown, securely fortified
by the enemy with outworks, like Great Bethel and
now and then regiment thrown forward " harrass
our eucampmeDts, and at favonlble moment pounce
| down ON Newport News, which Is the shnost actual
state Of things at the present ume no can for a
single moment fail TO discover that situation while
il is not as bad as the writer in TIE Times contem-
plates il one little less tan a land investment. No;
our wives and iet DIS need have no concern for our
immediate safety for neither 10 be cut off from
the sea nor permitted 10 stray far into the interior
-Four Louisiana IOuayes, two prisoners and two
dessrters from the rebels brought down from
Newport News this morning ndress and appearance
they closely resemble Duryee's They are Ger
mans were pressed into the service at New-0reans
and epretent that there il force Of 5000 between
Yorktown and Newport News, with the intention at
some favorable moment Of attacking our force at the
latter place. Rockets and other signals have been
of late at night, which doubtless have had some con-
nection with their movements. The Louisanans rep
resent tat the rebels are short Of provisions, that
large number of deaths lave occurred from dysentery
and that there is very general purpose among the
men to desert.
1os "a 1ax
which is tomorrow. Consequently, at all the camps
there are parades and reviews Gen. Butler reviewed
the troors in person at Newport News in spite of the
rain The Massachusetts, re iments took up their quar-
tcrs in the village Of Hampton, and the MoChesney
regiment will occupy the place in the fortress vacated
by the Massachusetts, Sd. The piokets Of the new
can pment will extend to Newmarket Bridge. What
people are left in that section will rejoice at the appear
ance of our forces among them who have only " set
their faces az inst injustice and all maraudng 10 cause
themselves 10 be remembered with Thankful ness. The
term Of enlistment Of these two regimens, with the ex-
ception Of three companies Of threeyears men, will
expire on the 18th Of July and the present intention
among the men is 10 60 home wish might say that
the men who irAt TO come into the field, and who
have done well, not the first to leave it. 1t il
not unlikely that Col Wardrop, who is really fine
officer and whose retiring will entail loss, mny gather
from the several expiring regiments O new one, and
return where his services and qualifications
held in high estimation. There will be satisfaction
IN parting with the Massachusetts men, in the fact that
Bngsdier-Gen. Pierce will go with them. He is
three-months' mana bngadier "come before his
tme'and retes not 80 soon, by far as the universal
wish. lie removes his headquarters from the Seminary
TO Hampton, which literally is a deserted village.
The announcement that Gen. Dix will not have the
comuaDd for which he has been talked Of fos the last