Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-01-30
The burnside Fleet.

The Newbern Progress oil the z1th Inst, says tnaL
the steamer Albemarle arrived at that port Satur
day last between and O'clock having left Ports
mouth N. c., that morning. The Progress learns
" from Colonel Sagletsry, in command of the
expedition that he arrived at Portsmouth Wednesday
evening after tBe storm bad set IN, that it was inn
possible for him to make any observations HIMSELF bat
be saw Mr.. Samuel olson, Mr.. Williams, and 9TH
ers who had been applied 10 by the directors of the
feet to act as pilots and those gentlemen bin
the feet is at Hatteras numbering shout l75 VESSELS
ard represent that their force is 10000 strong.
About one-thid of the feet in the sonEd Tues
day. third in Roads, and onethi outside They
were busy Tightening vessels the swash. aud hey
would clear the entering the Sound others would
come in from outside They said that the Yankees were
very anxious get Croatan Sound and the rivers
which makes it seem roanoke EdentOp, Washington
perhaps other places east OF Is to BE alta ked and
is rendered certain that be visited the fact
that the vessels they Tightening could not attack
place but this These also learned from them
had come to Hatteas Also that New Orleans is to be
tackled simultaneously with the attack here
impossible tell what eff CT the sorm OF Thurs
day and Friday had upon them, but have been
covered with water he thinks they must have suffered
anything their condition later than Tuesday
determined to defe1d he0s Ives he best they The
women are, apparently, In0ch alarmed.
Capt Crosson went down the yesterday the
AIbemarle and will probably to-day, if shall
be able give something further il relation to the
ments Of the feet IN our next
bis really brings nothing newer, or more definite
thar we have had and publishtd more than week ago.
differing in little or nothing lie old account,
in making the numher 49, instead Of l25 vessels. II
is at the best heasay. We give il because it is given
in good faith by Coz ;ong!utary, bat not as really ad
ding anything to stock of tangible knowledge.
While giving this may also give another rumor
from lie Norfolk Day Book OF Monday, the 27th ius
II npag be true but than doubt it. We think
that il there had been a,y truth III ii would have
know it before this time. We need not dwell up the
fac, tie atlerus garrison went to the nearest
,otI the land they must have surrendered to
Mai IT Raj, nho is in command ia Hyde county, The
nearest point oil The main. Still, Gen. Gatlin is COM
inciet, it mi ht be consructvey affirmed that
they surrendered to him. Here is the given for
what it is worth
AFFAIRS BATTERAS.- he freely circulated
h re Yesterday fn4 n, we'll informed
circles to Fede aIiou at HaLeras having been
to bandop their position during the lae gale and
the main land for security where they delivered
themselves to the Confederate authorities prisoners
of
The sum aid substance Of this rumo is tn the first part
of the late gale the Federas that it
with the utmost difficulty they could to keep them
selves alive there This they stood as manfuy as they
picked ear and congratulated themselves on an almost
miraculous But had their congratulations
found uteTauCe when the in with wed fury,
time the tide six eight inches higher,
taking them generally to their waist Finding their mag
aZnes provisions erged and ruiz ed, and the gale
furious to assistance from he vessels they
succeeded i'll fastening toge her quantity OF lumber, old
lighters &c, making three large ratts, which the whole
OF them embarked for the msin land which they reached
without material rjury, only few OF item having be-
lost overheard in effort They appeared it is said to
be willing meet late in the world in order to
the slow and certain death thaS awaited them
HaeIas TLey ale reported to have surrender to Us n
Gatliu
We give this as runor, and because it appears pgo-
babe.
The Day Book adds another rumour which We also
give in lack OF anything more definite. The Federals
may have b3en ghterng the Pawnee to pet her off the
bar but surely with any view of having vessel Of
nearly thirteen hundred tons to operate in the sound
against any assailable point
FROM ROANOKE IsLAND-The steamer Currituck arrived
here yesterday from Roanoke Island, which place she
Friday last. We Learn by her that
seEttowards Hateras Inlet, which returned Thurs
day last. It reported that there
inside the bar and that that day the Federas busy
endeavOripg TO g the Pawnee the bar
into the Sound snd for this purpose they putting
and heavy articles board ofghers She hare
and fast aground the bar when the set in with
ch Jury that cay that the accommodating steamer
had to make her way back to her harbor Roanoke
to escape its violence.