New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-09
rRom FORTRESS MONROE.
Return of Gen. wool-IEe will Remnin aud
Gen. mnnsheld go 90 Hntterns-Why
Gen. Wool went 20 washiBEton-The
Battera. POIicy-Thn Reported South
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From Our Special Correspondent
FoRrRRiB hoSRoz, Old Point G.

From Our Special Correspondent.
FoRrRxiB hosRoz Old Point Comfort, Oct. 6, 1907.
Gen. Wool returned from Washington this morn.
ing and it is well settled that be will remain as be-
fore, the commander Of this Department. He was
summoned 70 Washington with reference 70 affairs IN
Missouri, and had he interpreted no objection, would
have been ordered to take command there. Ii s I'M
dertood that affairs will remain they are for the
present only ciat Gen. Mansfield viii go 70 Hat
teras. conclude that he expects TO remain ZONE
time in that saubrOu5 place, as he has sent Tor his
horses and baggage Gen. Williams, who was as
aligned to that command, like Gen. Reynolds before
him. has been switched of for some other duty. AT
ter having been made football for six weeks Hat
teras is about to have Brigadier, who will go on
the Spauldng this evening. Whether another dsap-
pointment takes place probably depends ON the
promptnes5 Of the sailing Of the steamer II 10 hardly
possible that communication from Washington, CIV
ing new turn to affairs reach here before che
gets of. With the exception Of Gen. Mansfield go
ing to Hatteras we are as we werei aud the ardent
wish here is that we may remain 20.
Gen. Mansfield has a wide field for an enterprising
officer Properly supported, he could not wish a
better in which to serve his country and achieve
nown. Energetic action viii achieve everything
We have seen what the contrary has produced. l
do not mean 10 censure Col. Hawkins; he has done
his best and all he could with the materials at hand
Hateras appears to have been unfortunate in having
had too many fathers, for she had at least twothe
Army and Maryland although it was a promising
child, neither did what might have been expected
from parent Its brief history is but another illus
tration Of the old adage "Between two stools be sat
on the oor" There appears to have been little con-
eeption and less care for what was needed Gun
boats were the very fret necessity. These were
for the Navy to furnish. At the end Of six weeks,
two entirely unsuitable for the service were sent
there Another is now here, drawing 30 much water
that ale cannot enter the Soundall Of piece. Hat
tsras has been well guarded but the other nles left
omen. and the Rebels have lately been carrying On
brisk business through 0crscoke the fort and guns OF
which were destroyed and the troops that should
have been left there to hold the place were sent forty
miles away-seemingy for no other purpose than to
come back again to avoid being gobbled up
niece of wisdom that cost us the Fanny, her rich
cargo, and twenty five or thirty men made prisoners.
It'll an easy matter to fndfau but this isnot what
am doing, but merely telling how rich field has
been allowed to run to waste, and how, where the
choicest fruits were ready to fall into our lsp, thorns
and briers only are springng up how the wealth Oh
great victory has well nigh been squanderedi how
the hopes of thousands of true-hearted Union men
have been cruelty dashed down, and glorious pro-
pect Of great State reclaimed Ina been Amos
blasted.