Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-01

learn that they still live. Our sutler. II. o.
Clark, is now on board, having arrived at fort.
ress Monroe just in season to join US before we
sailed, but he has no goods, and of course is of
no account.
MORE OF THE STORM.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, Jan. Is. - The
storm continued all day yesterday, and the
steamer City of New York became wreck
and was lett to her fate on the bar, the men
having been taken off by one OF the ferry
| boats, and our whole fleet remained through
the day and night all jammed together, stavng
OF the ratings and light works all around.
Our two companies on the Zouave, which
sunk, lost all their ratinns, and were not able
to get TO oar boat, for supplies until
at night, yesterday, when it took eight
men to row Lieut.. Spaulding to US. Ev-
cry time the tide changed, in or out, we had
great hustle, as all the fleet would swing round
and we could hear the cracking OF wood work
far and near. Quite number If our boys
had all OF their knapsacSs packed, ready to
leave, expecting that we should be wrecked
and have to be taken off, but this morning the
storm has abated, and our band is On the up
per deck, giving us some music in dense fog,
which we trust will lit up before long, that
we may go on our way. We have been pack
ed on this boat ten days, and are heartily tired
OF it, and ache to be moving,-even on Charles
ton or Savannah-rather than remain here
The steamers have all kept up their steam
through the whole storm, in order to save
themselves when their anchors should drag.
Thus has ended ouI experience Of a storm at
sea, and we are rejoced to tell our friends at
home that we are all safe ,.a4t! as ever are
ready to make our mark in the land of Dixie.
1t has come off pleasant, and the small steam
ers are now running about the harbor, visiting
all the vessels of the feet.
THURSDAY, Jan. 16-When l wrote the
above we expected to sail at once for Newbern.
The storm has again been raging, and the
wreck of the City of New York has proved to
US great disaster, and she now lies upon the
reef a total wreck. She had on board 1900
new Sibley tents, 1900 mimic rifles 400 barrels
of powder, 800 shells, and very large guam.
tity of provisions for the expedlion-pork,
beef; hard bread &c.
Quite number of the vessels of our fleet
have not been heard from since the storm and
may be wrecked, and thus instead of moving
on the rebels, we are detained here, while YES
sells are sinking all around US. Another
schooner has just gone down, very near us,
and the large steamer Louisiana, with her
whole regiment, has been aground for two
1
are disheartened by this disaster and long de-
lay, and we are all heartily sick of life on
shipboard, with such gloomy scenes all about
us, flags at halt mast with the union down,
and no one 10 render assistance, with the TWEEN
ty thousand able bodied men looking on. We
are all aching to set our feet on land, even if
our tents are all lost, for as we now feel we
can fight our way through anything, and find
quarters in rebel towns and cities. Only give
US chance, and this disaster will be forgotten.
By the sinking OF the Zouave our regiment
lost onehall of our provisions, part of which
was five thousand pounds of hard crackers,
&c. All Of the StoveS were with the Sibley
tents Every thing in the steamer City of
New York was marked for Hilton Head, and
she cleared for that port in order to keep the
destination of our expedition a secret.
STUDYING TIE SITUATION.
FRIDAY, Jan. IA steamer has Just ar
rived from Annapolis, with the mails and com
missary stores, and during the night six or
eight vessels OF our fleet came in. Gen. Burn
side has just passed us, and the soldiers far
and near have been cheering him. And we
hope to move very soon. Nearly thousand
letters will go from our regiment by the mail
that takes this, bearing no news of the success
OF the expedition, but only revealing to you
the darkness which always comes just before
day" And you can rely upon it, that sunlight
and glorious victory are before us, and that
the next news you get from US, will elecrify
the whole army, and immortaIize in history,
the Burnside expedition.
Our fleet now consists of one hundred and
| four vessels, besides those thai were sunk, and
they are being taken over the bar by tug boats.
The large steamers will all have to be unload.
ed before they can get over; in day ortwo
we shall make push for Newbern, and shall
take it.
Hundreds OF tons OF pig iron have been
thrown overheard from the vessels, which was
used ballast, so as to tighten them sufficient
| ly to cross the inner bar, where the channel is
only seven feet deep
The New Hampshire sixth regiment has left
our fleet to-day, and have gone twelve miles
up beyond the fort, to relieve the New York
ninth, who will join us.
SUNDAY, Jan. 19.-It will be a week to-mor-
row since we came to anchor in the inlet, and
two weeks since our regiment came on board
this steamer. We are beginning 10 get tired
oft The steamer Louisiana has been left on
the bar to her fate, the whole regiment having
left her, and she is given up as lost. The
steamer Northerner has been aground two
days, on which is the Massachusetts twenty
first and cannot be got off. The United States
mail steamer SuwaneeI which arrived here on
Friday morning, with $50 tons of commissary
stores, and 27O boxes OF shells, gun carriages,
powder, and thirty six nice horses, has been
aground ever since she arrived, but she is be-
ing unloaded as fast as possible, and it is hoped
she may be saved To-day being Sunday, we
are to move, and are all 10 leave the steamer,
with knapsacks and equipments, in order to
tighten her sufficiently to enable her to cross
the inner bar, when we thall make a strike for