The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-05
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
val, Military and shipping News.

NdNalJ ana shipping News.
FORTRESS MONROE, November 3,-The United
States gunboat Rhode Island, Captain Donald
Men. Fairfax, the flagship of the West India
squadron, commanded by Rear-Admira James
f. Palmer, arrived in our harbor late yesterday
afternoon, in ninety three hours from Havana
The Rhode Island left ST. Thomas ON the 18th
of October for Port au Prince and found there
the gunboats Florida, Commander Roland
Mackinaw, Commander Drake; and the Bien-
Prince for Havana in company with these men
ot-war, the Mackinaw going to Curacao, the
Florida TO Santa Cruz, and the Bienville to New
YORK; Ihe yellow fever had broken out on
board the Bicnville, and three cases had oc-
curred-two engineers and the Captains clerk
havIng been taken with it Just before she
sailed. Nine men were buried at Port au Prince
Inc Blenvllle has since arrived at Norfolk. The
yellow fever also broke out aboard OF the Rhode
Island. On the 2Sth ult., while at Havana a
marine and one of the sailors were taken with
1t, and placed in the hospital there. The sailor
whose name was kopp afterwards died. The
ther indications Of the disease have appeared
since she has been at sea, all hands being well
on board.
have returned TO St. Thomas but the yellow
fever rendered it necessary, for the safety of his
othce1s and crew, to proceed to a northern
climate. she VIII await here further orders
from the Navy Department, but her ultimate
destination will be New York. where she will te
put out of commission, and her officers aud crew
transferred to the sloop-of-war Susouehanna.
The Rhode Island reports having passed, the day
after she left Port au Prince, off tue eastern end
OF Cuba, schooner bottom upwards, and the
words London painted on her sSern, the re.
having been rubbed off.
The Rhode Island left New York last septem
Der for 81. Thomas, and has been ia commission
during the past hve years. The following is a
list OF her otficers:- Rear-Admiral James d.
Palmer; Captain, Donald NJ. N. Fairfax; Lieu.
tenant Commander and Executive officer, Ed.
I liant ~ -Torn
Reade;. Master, Henry Taylor; Master Allen d.
Brown; Master, William X. Wheeler; Chief En-
g1neer, George Sewell; Paymaster, James N
Carpenter; Marine CAPTAIN, John Burrough:
Marine Lieutenant j. H. Washburne; Admiraps
Secretary Ford Mason; MidshDmen, r. b.
Bradford, Lewis Belrose, A. K. Fletcher, w. II.
Broomson. ". Fl. Elliott James N. Wilson; FIRST
Assistant Engineer, Henry NJ. Scott Second
Second Assistant Engineer George Holt
Second Assistant Engineer, William A. Wind
sor; ThirdAssstant Engineer, Frederick Schoker:
Paymaster's Clerk, George Jones; Captains
Clerk, Austin Potts.
The steamship Mississippi, Captain George
Summers, arrived here last evening, as an
nounGed by telegraph, from New Orleans.
bound to New York. The Seventh q. s. Colored
Regiment. which she brought up. were transfer
red this afternoon to the steamer City of Balti-
more. and sent to Baltimore, where the troops
will receive their final discharge, their pay
ments, and then disperse 10 their homes.
LUIS regiment mas DeeD III Tue SERVICE over
three years, and participated in several of the
most memorable engagements during the war.
IL was sent to Texas with the 25th Army Corps,
under Major-General WeitZel, and has been sta
tioned, at times, along the banks of the Rio
Grande and at Indianola, Lavacca, Refurgio.
and Victoria, performing excellent duty In a
manner that reflected great credit upon the Off
GERS and the discipline of the troops. They
we're relieved at Indianola by the 39th United
states Colored Regiment and ordered to New
Orleans, were mustered out, and shipped North
by the Mississippi. Starting out with fourteen
hundred men, the regiment has 0een reduced
10 about eight hundred, and on their banners
one so torn and tattered that it scarce holds
together are inscribed many of the well-knoWn
battle.teds of the Rebellion.
There are still eight regiments of colored
iroOps stationed in Texas which will not pro-
bably be mustered out before spring The fol-
lowing Is list of the officers OF the 9TH Reg-
ment United States Colored Troops;-. I
Brevet BrigadierGeneral, James Shaw, Jr.; |
First Lieutenant and Adiutant, Q: II. 9. Brown;
Company A, Captain, Charles L. Rice, First
Lieutenant, James NJ. Calf; Company G, Cap
tain, George Il. Sherman; Company ID. Second
Lieutenant, j. N. Danforth; Company 4, Cap. |
tain II. P. Spaulding First Lieutenant. John +. !
GraVes; Company f, Captain Oscar Engelbolm; |
Company @, Brevet Major William V. Smith
Company ], Captain, Charles g. Teeple; Com |
pany K. Captain, Charles L.. Bjornmack, First |
William +. Noonan.
Barque Maria, from Liverpool for City Point, !
brIgs Lizzie Daniels for Norfolk, and Lizzie Lee,
rom Malaga. fruit, ETC., for Baltimore have |
arrived 10 the Capes OF Virginia, bound to their
IeslinstioDs.