The New York herald., 1865-12-04
NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE.


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Condition OF the Wrecked steamer Seaay
Pentx and Her Cargo-Safpmcns OF
Sample Gums 90 West Point for 49, %
sCsdsts-AnOsher Meeting OF Frses@en-
Twentieth New York Mfiiti" ne1mehs
vce~fm~ Here-Arrfysl from Hilton
Head, DC.
ora eonrREss MONROE CORRESPONDENCE.
FoRrREss MosaoE, Dec. l, 1865.
na, p,unt ouarterlraster here Is doing all that
"a done 10 save the remnant of remaining on the
wrecked Nelly before she to pieces, OF which
shera IS momentary expectation gang OF men Is stiii
nj work and has been from directly after the news OF
,be wreck reaching here fishing up the cargo from the
hold The pork Of which several hundred barrels
were shipped and half thrown overheard in the attempt
70 save the vessel win about the only thing worth
saving 1t is expected that most OF this can be saved
Tho cargo is being put the barge Reliance As for the
steamer she Is beyond redemption. never saw more
thorough and hopeless wreck Her engines machinery
are reduced 10 the mnimsm value OF old iron. She
totally unfit r sen and her owners and those charterng
her should made the sufferers and the government.
The wreck lies in the place reported yesterday
sn Lynn Haven Bay. II supposed that the under
writers would have taken action before this
thing fDcm the debrs 81 the wreck; but nothing has
done thus far. Meantime the beach is alive with
partes-princiraIly negroes-anxousy waiting the
Aoating cargo
GUNS FOE 1HE cArETs
n has It's lessons guns doubtless serve the pur-
pose OF good text books 70 the military student striving
master the mysteries of the art OF war Samples OF
complex variety OF gsns-some u9cd by our armies
dnring the war, and some by the rebels-are being
shipped board the barge Isaac Ogden preparatory to
being to West Point for tho use OF the cadets
Among these guns the James whitwoth cannon that
Obep
near Dutch Gap Then there Is nondescrpt affair
With which the rebels used to hurl chains spikes and
like agreeable missiles at our naval vessels; Cat
Jing's revolving gun. capable, 1t Is said, OF throw
ing two hundred balls minute; the memorable
called conee mill gun, claimed to possess like pro:
Sectie capacitysand Williams breach loading gun OF
rebel invention and two batteries OF which sent
90 General Floyd, are among the list The samples
embrace about varieties It is to be hoped these
important anxiliarcs thorough study and conpre
henson OF the science Of gunney will not be lost our
cadets
second edition Of the meeting OF freedmen held lew
nights since ut Camp Hamilton held last evening
riccrs in the fort of it had fine opportunity to
exercise themselves the oratorca art, and they i'm
now becoming an old story and what il is feared will be-
fore long become much older and sadder the com
pusion OF the freedmen 70 reliance and sclisuste
through stern and unendng labor As on the Tor
mcr OCCASION the meeting orderly and the speeches
and suggestions listened to with becoming At
rwESrTErH NEW YORK MILITIA
II reported that this regiment is coming here to take
Il
troops from this department pursuant to recent
egal order. The Twentieth New York is now, under
stand In Richmond
HILTON HEAD
The side wheel steamer Lewsburg Captain Dale, has
3ust arrived from Hilton Head her way TO Washington
70 sold She left last Wednesday, and encountered
special rough weather. Near Cape Henry she saw
1ermaphrodite brig and schooner, both in disabled con-
-dtIon
Winter made hs advent bore with lamb like gentleness
Tho weather day has been mild and baimy almost
~ IN carly autumn
Ths Press Despatch
FoKrREss MopRoE, Dec. a. 1856.
The English schooner ~ g K Thorn, from Greytown,
SsE New York, is ashore Cape Henry.
The propcllsrs Keasngon, from New Orleans for Bos
Son. General Cnscy from Mobile, for New York. put
n 20 day, short Of coal Nt
The steamers Joseph Johnson and Thomas Collyer left
to-day for New York
The Ninth Vermont regiment left to-day for Burling
son, via Baltimore, on the steamer Thomas Kelso
Tho Thirty ninth Illinois regiment viii be mustered out