, 1862-03-12
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
THREE BALLS PASS THROUGH her,
Performance Of the Monitor.

FORTRESS MONROE, March 1.-THE Min
nesota on Sunday returned to herusua1 station
at the entrance to the Roads. She Is again
ready for action.
The Monitor came down carly yesterday
morning, and was greeted with enthusiastic
cheers By the various vessels In the harbor.
Gen. Wool and staff, aud Assistant Secretary
Of the. Navy Fox went on board this morn
ing. She was found not to be damaged in the
slightest degree, and is as well prepared as
ever she could be for another conflict. Her
performance was perfectly satisfactory to her
officers and men, and they all speak Of her in
the highest terms Of praise.
The gunboat Whitehall took FIRE at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon and was totally destroyed.
The British eloop-ofWar Rinaldo arrived
here yesterday. She is from off Charleston.
No news.
the Congress is so, including three officers
Lieut.. 20. Smith, commanding, Acting Master
Thomas Moor, and Coast-Plot Vim. Rhodes.
Captain William Smith commanded the Con-
gress until recently transferred. TWenty-sev-
en- are reported wounded, and forty were taken
prisoners Of them officers.
On board the Cumberland, the Rev. Mr..
eanhardt, the Chaplain, was drowned, and
Masters Nate Harrington WIS Killed. But few
Of the wounded escaped to the shore. The
number Of killed and wounded Is about $50.
On the Whitehall, Third Assistant Engineer
~AA10s
0'Cunnor, seamen. were killed, and two or
three wounded On the Dragon, which re-
ceiyed shot in her boiler, three men were
Wounded-no ofhcers. The VIZ Weldon re-
ceiyed shot in her boiler, and the Rescue was
damaged in her machinery. The former was
towed to Baltimore by the Adelaide.
The Minnesota Lost six men killed and sey-
enteen wounded, not including any officers
So far Us is known, she is said to have re-
ceived quite numberof shots; The Roanoke
1,>>&r
occasioned BY them. No casualty occurred on
boaxd, except the falling Of q man from atoft.
It Is generally believed now that the Merri-
NAG must have received serious daraage. It ia
the testimony Of some that she was considera-
bly, listed on one side as she went behind Sew
all8 Point.
WAsH1sGTos, March 1.-THE following is
copied from an official report Of Gen. Wool,
o'a*S SSst6ias sassfi q importance has occurred to-
day. The Chief Engineer Of the Monitor says
that three balls from that vessel passed
very littfe, a1though she was struck twenty
three times"
The officers and men Of the Monitor speak
in the HIGHEST terms Of her performance, and
without much difficulty Il they had been a.
:'Foa .FoaTSEss es w Gosaoa' March 11,-Au pape.s
belonging to the frigAte Cumberland having
gone down ii her, 1t is impossible to Obtain q
correct List Of the killed, wounded and lost.
-: Lieut. selftidge Of the Cumberland has
been ordered to The command Of the Monitor:
A fag Of truce vas sent to cEaney lslaod
I 10 day.
Rebel officers say the Ae1imac, or, ~ they
call her. the Virginia, was damaged, but moth
L ing serious. They admit the loss Of fou1
killed and several wounded on her.
Capt: Buchanan, Who commanded, was ae
siou6Iy wounded In Saturdays tight. Capt
T. The rebel Kunboat Yorktown received
/ shot in;h her boileL ;,
The Norfolk Dig, ,Hsdx of yesterday gives
4 glowing ACCOUNT Of tho a3air, ard gives th