New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-31
gug DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA
APRoSpECT OF SHARP WORK
From nnr Speoinl Correspnndent.

or CARE HArTsRAs, Jau. i2, 1862.
Az we lay at anchor Yesterday morning oil ror'
Monroe there was as fair prospect Of our remain
ing a week as one could have wished. Tue whole
aset had 10 be supplied with water, mort Of the
steamers with coal, come of the force had rot AZ
rived one important officer had gone on special bus-
pess 10 Rhode Island TO return tie 10Th, ard there
eeemed IN amount of work to be pushed through
chat every one expected would seriously delay NJ.
We counted without our host, and here we are of
the stormy Cape, waiting for daylight and plot to
get through the Inlet On STORE tuere were all sorts
of rumoIs, md az contradictory as they were numei-
GUS. / have always though, had a tolerably gooo
acquaintance with Gen. Burnside, bn considering that
men of his own S ali didat know when we were {
start, will frankly confess that believed we would
remain at Old Point Comfort Il week, at tie RISK OF
beng thought neither prophet nor the son oil a
prophet Ats .. M, went ashore In the second
cu,ter with Ms Carpenter, and on cur return we
took the Picke. in way 70 ask the General, IN
behalf of the reporters, 10, permission 10 pub our
correspondence when The feet should have left Fort
ress Jbroe Ithen learned, tony uttersurprise, that
we were 10 get no steam and rail le.ore midnight.
We hurried back to the Cossack snd Us we rounGed
her stern we saw the Waterfront alongside putting
our supply on board. A litrle while after another
boat came off with fresh beef, and at 81 o clock
Lieut. b. f. Reno, of Gen. Rcpo's Stat, hailed us
from a sma boat, and delivered sealed orders for
Col Harranit Of the Jlst Penny lvania. Capt. Ben
nett, with TN eye 10 windward had ordered
the fires lit al o'clock, 50 tast within TWEEN
~ minutes after the dispatches were re-
ceived we bad weighed anchor, and got ouI
paddles in motion. At midnight We were abreast OF
the light-shp, and pu, of Our bay pilot. This opera
tcD, simple as it reads in this narrative, came near
losing Us our second cutter and tic boats crew. 70.
the Tea was running very HIGH and tie boat wa
three parts full Of water before she got half way
back to the ship. Tie night Was wild, and when
the cutter came alongside under tie davi's sic
pitched and tossed that lie falls could With dill
cuhy be attached. Mr.. Buckley, tie second officer
who was in the boat shouted TO the Oh deck 10
lower the falls, but the order nsconstrued aud
they hosted away SO as to raise one end almost to
the perpendicular, aud spill all inside into tie
After much trouble, the boat was hoisied inboard
and we proceeded once more Toward morning 70,
gathered, and at a. IN. the fires were deadened
and steam almost shut oG-bu, why, il would be dif
fcalt to say, since not in the way Of meeting
many vessels hereabouts, and steamers are safell
run with good pilots through foes quite thick,
over shoals quite as dangerous. BE this as it na,
the delay of two hours so caused Just spoiled GU
days run, and doomed us TO u whole nights runDin
kither and t0ither in a stormy sea, ard norbeas
yale. At 10 a. IN. We came TO in FIVE fa;homs water
thirty miles northeast from Cape Hatteras, and blew
our fog whistle ST intervals that strained ear
drums, seemed continually growing briefor. Are
While We heard an answering whistle of our ar.
board quarter, and coon lie trim little Picket
scndding through the mist steam up and al sails set
SIZE crossed our bows some lengths ahead ran back,
and came up to leewaId to speak US. Gen. Burnside
with lis Fra DavOo hat looking more ike c brigal 4
than bri .adier, stood by the picthouse ind gave
directions as TO our course and piloage but
his last words borne down the wind as the little
craft moved on ahead.
TIE fog lightened enough, by noon TO warrant our
proceeding, and at q ?. N. the wind was blowing a
gale from the Southwest. At 8 O'Clock we sighted
Cape lfategas aud at 4:30 as 1t ygas too late in the
day TO venture on entering the Inlet We wore ship
and stood TO the norhward. The sunset was o
ncmoEable one for its gorgeous gliding Of the tky
and the effect upon the surf beating high on the
sandy coast. the breakers between u, ard the sun
looking Ike molten bronze tipped with fringe Of
delicate .issue We stood On cur course till 10 D. ~.
when we wore ship again aud stood for the Cape,
of which we came abreast early in the morning.
TIE gale from s. w. still blew hard, but by Q a. m.
when we were oil the mouth Of Hatteras Inlet, the
wind blew funously from n. n. E.. nigh. in our
teeth. AT $3.50. crossed the Der and entered the
Inlet tie sea breaking all about US with the roar O!
heavy cannon, and the wind blowing terrible gale.
The water was dashed into foam, and the nonEtrors
combeTs" dashed against rs with such force "a TO
make the snip stagger and culver from truck to
Gelson.
Think the passage, while it lasted, was far more
exciting than the shoot down Lacbine Rapiss-per-
a.is because we had expected nothing Of tie sort,
eno were therefore In condition 70 enjoy the whole
sabhnity Of the scene We had been hailed Outside
Ahe breakers by the pilot, who asked Us how much
"aer"e drew. On being told seven fect he .sid,
lou hN better not 20 in now; thee is too much
ee io' yoa on the bar" But Capt. Bennett seeing
'e naii s'esmer s. r. Spauldng boldly walking
-nionah Tue nlri, concluded that be could follow
where che would lead, and trying found II so. The
nue. hAg-yacht h'ket boldly went in by our aide,
ano lie steamer Ge0hge Peabody wa nearly abyeau
On Der starboard aide. We 90, in first and a. ,oI
0c'ock dropped ANCHOR ID 81 fathons. In coed emo,