New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-07
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
THE hang of Cemmand mt Fortress
Mraroe-saiIinE Of the ~. Lawrence
--1snIeasss OF n Prize taken ut Hatterns
-gflnuflNture OF Rihed Cannon.

From O.. Specis SCoTTespondent
aTKEss $osHoE. Old Point Comfort, oo, . 1861.
The ,nheral sd appearance Of Gen. Mansfield this
mornirs and she announcement that Gen. Wool
would cave iIS the evening for Washington, cansed
no iitgr excites,ent.
Ihs,s are Slew points in the movement wherein
to haS q CON .ture that scarcely anybody has an
opinip to Civ (, Of what is in the wind. Gen. Msns-
field . lust s'enty minutes notice before leaving
and & = Woe would leave on even less notice waS
there 10Y wa,E Tor him to get away before the regular
event boat II s conjectured that Gen. M relieves
Gen ". but smporariy; that the latter ia called TO
Was.., g,on fs consultation, which may eventuate
in seh5ng hils 10 the West in the place Of Fremont
or D. ,be th the conference has reference 70 mat
tsrs his d. jartment looking toward Yorktown, or
more kelly, Cooking toward the southern coast.
Thos, who re-. ard themselves cute incline toward
the ifs that 5ibs,itutes Wool for Fremont, though
the ;i.neraif great age though in extraordinary
vipof would seem 70 oppose the idea II is suggest
ed IT,; Cen sIutler will return to this Department
Tive was 10 arrival that / can hear Of in the
RoaGa from Savannah within the last three weeks,
certs gly not iince the 18th ult. the day which
the savanDal paper reports an engagement between
the neon feet and the fort at Port Royal" About
three weeks ago there was rumor here that certain
ship of the Blockading Squadron then leaving the
Roas were TO rendezvous of Savannah, though
navii men, asually well informed place no conf
dencD in il.
Tie ST. Lawrence went 20 to-day for the South
ern soast. The Minnesota is the only frigate re-
manning in the Roads except the Cumberland and
Congress at Newport News.
One Of the prizes taken lately a. Hstterss, towed
up by the Cambridge, has been released by Commo'
doye Goldsborough, as being Illegal. Her clearance
was from Barbados 10 Baltimore though there eI-
sts little doubt that che really intended 10 run into
Hatteras TO some one Of the North Carolina ports,
where she is owned Il is alleged that there are at
present large number Of Baltimore merchants in
North Carolina awaiting the arrival Of csrgOes
similar 10 this The Trick IL intended TO be played 30
as TO win either way, though the intention IL to
make the gains via Iiatteras.
Two flags Of truce were dispatched 10 Norfolk,
or Craney Islsnd, rather. large mail accompanied
the morning boat.
The work Of rifing cannon is going on sncoess-
fully al the ordnance shop, under the direction Of
Lieut.. Bayhs, who is now at the head OF the De
partmen'. number Of smaller guns having been
rifed preparations nearly completed for putting
32-pounders into the lathe.
4 -Four eight-inch columbiads and shot ard shell
TO match, have been shipped within the last few
days 10 Baltimore, FOR Tie new Notifications lately
constructed on the outskirts Of that city.
A boat bearing flag OF truce came from Norfolk
this afternoon, having many persons, men and wo-
men, on board. On boarding her il was found that
only two of them sll-gentlenen with baggage indi-
eating them TO be Englishmcn-=had proper papers,
consequently they only were taken off, The board.
ing officer said he would report the cases Of IL" 9TH