New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-31

The Picket came next, the Peabody third, the East
ern Oneen fourth, Eortherner next. and then hall
dozen more followed suit. II was not long before
our clear berth was ioued by lot OF steam and SAL
cralt that with miles upon miles Of water ali ABOUT,
seemed bent ON coming to close quarters with the
Coosack. BY noon, the gale lad risen 20 that We
let 90 our second anchor and veered out thirty faith
oms OF chain. AZ .. 10, when we we're all watch
ing The vessels coming through the Inlet, we saw
the u. 5. steam.transport City of New-York strike
on the BAR and it hardly needed the prophecies OF
Mr.. Walton, the pilot to convince US that she wa'
doomed chip. A. O'Clock, the Spaulding sailed
with the mails for Port Royal Al in the evening,
Il commenced raining, and the gale continued with
out abatement all night.
TUESDAY, January H.
Morning. was ushered in with rain-aquslls, and the
norih.eas.crly gale is as fierce as ever Turning our
glasses seward We cOunt seventeen yorsc.s Of The
Expedition at anchor outside tie bar. TIE City Of
New-York has shifted her position from undetermined
70 tie leeward, and now lies helpless wreck in
breakers that are truly mounlain-ligh. We sec
them strike her asoln With the force Of Tiians, aad
break clean over her. Her fate i ,ealed. No hu.
man power cen get her OF, ave her from going %
yioces. The ensign bangs in the rigging, Union
down in toaen Of disiress. 1t 9 O'Clock hey cn'
away her foremost to her, but this proving of no
avail the smoke-,sck GOES by the beard ~ 10 O'Clock
Ia this condition she lay all day, no ore going 70 her
assistance ID small bouts, because no saall boat can
i've in such a sea, and no one seemingto care enough
for Che human Lives in peril 70 send steamer Oh 10
her. As lev at our anchorage vessels were knock
Jog into every side, among tie mort annoying IN
these collisions being tie new gunboat Delaware,
Which was afoul OF us = dozen times before night
At o'clock in the evening the gale began to sbate
is fury, and ut we turned in with tolerable pros
pee. Of smooth water in the morning.
II viii be noticed that my narrative has given no
rictue Of great armed aud unarIned 1otiil. going
10 sea in line Of battle, with troop Saips in the CEN
ter, AID hollow square Of gunbosts, all ABOUT e
drive off maraudug enemy. leave II to you u
infer Why this has not been done, and put the ques
ton, whether the experience Of the Sherman expe
dtion did not demonstrate its uselessness, vhethe
Burnsides horror of empty disIlsy has not mad
bin hurry bis feet to rendezvous each chip doing i
best TO get there safely, the perls Of the to tn
contrary notwithstanding So Ear from Burnside
being one of your strutling gold-laeed Brigadiers
| challenge Lis worst enemy, if be has one 10 poin
to single Instance Of lie having done anything 70
chow. Here, as at Annapolis, he is ~ and at worl
before dsylight-long, fancy, before Of hi
officers have slept through the first Of their mornin,
dreams There are not tie same facilities for runniuJ
about through The feet that he enjoyed at Annapo
lis for Of Eve tugs that were chartered at doutl,
prices to come here, not ons has yet made her ap
| pearance. Ills ia serious matter in more way,
than this one. Tho vessels outside the bar should
all be lowed into hasbor, bad it is at once fol
they have on board various stores-ammuntjon
comrnssary stores etc.-which we need; and in O
miserable hole like this where a fleet OF seventy
vessels are huddled into the anchorage Of twenty,
and where four.Enot current races ssaward or in.
ward with each change OF tide, collisions are OF
hourly occurrence Scarce steamer in the feet but
has had its guards broken, its padoe-boxes smashed
It's decks torn into splinters. The Eastern Queen
| las & hole in her starboard wtcel.house, that
makes it look like great mouae-eaten cheese; the
Admiral has been wounded in half dozen places, a.
if she had been under fire, and the Cossack gas bat
tered astern to-day by the broken stump Of briggs
bowsprit, Until her promenade deck, aft. was hall
destroyed, and half dozen state.rooms strippei
clean into one. Things got to such d pass at las,
that Capt Bennett could stand II no longer. 20 he
went in his gig to take sounding, aud we are nov,
anchored in clear spot, nearly mile from the fag.
ship.
"WEDNESDAY, Jan. IL.
This has bcen day Of disasters. TIE morning
broke warm and cloudy, but the gale had spent lis
force last night and this morning The water Inside
the bar would be glansy smooth bnt for the ground
swell that follows every heavy gale. The wreck
seems in much the same condition as yesterday, her
uizzen-inast and nain-naast still standing, but TIC
tea making clean breach over her as she lay broad
side to IT. At o'clock a. N. four men in lie-boal
came alongSide and imploIed our captain to procure
assistance for their surviving comrades the wreck
They slid they were oil safe, yet being lastcd
in the rigging ont OF the reach of the sea, but
wet with the spray at every wave; that they had
no food for DAY and hight, and that they would
perch unless az stance were soon sent Capt. Ben.
uett, who had BEEN bemOsning all day yesterday
the neglect q tie peKpns in authority ~ not send.