The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-21

varously placed apertes In the wall an enniading IRE
enemy seeking 10 cross the ditch from the glacs
lighted and capable In time OF exigency OF afording
sleeping accommodation 10 large number OF troops
This year glacis extending towards the lighthouse from
the fort will b. graded and put In order. The various
slopes land side forra splendid ncnes Of great
length giving al the time all the requisite cover
the fort No armament has yet been mounted. and
the likelihood but the heaviest ordnance viii be
used Captain cuyer is tho engineer in charge OF me
works
like most Of the other forts projected NJ time
when clads and faen inch shells yet In the
Is n on IN ~. anS ds
Long Island Sound, and commands by its position the
entire width Of the channel 1t scalled three Fashioned
fertilization, built usual with granite in tiers Of case
mates, sumounted by parbette Of considerable eeva-
ton from whence pupgng IRE Of steep descent 3 IN
mounted In casemates containing In all over ninety
guns ranging from the old twepyfour FOUNDER 10 the
tennch ROdman and one hundred FOUNDER Parrott inc
outside upper tier barbete holds forty guns giving
total OF hundred and thirty The improvements
last year confined the construction OF four ser
ps.a and tho ohes under and also the esaS
lishment Of an outer wall, together with the demo-
it0n OF old stone Paraps' . ana sns o ou.
Tho garr,on under the command OF General Hoskins,
comprises three batteries Of the First artillery number
which, during the war had ON average two thousand
time, holds at present but few patients
from the garrison The Congressional as,
mado $76 alterations essential 10 the efficiency
Of the fort are under consideration.
wnIEr's POINT
This fertilization has been advanced during the past
year the second tier Of classmates on the water 'front.'
az s0S or Little Teck Bav on Long
and directly opposite 10 Fort Schuyler Begun In Au
gust 1862 has been steadily progressing through the
seasons, employing force OF five hundred men Very
recently however, order received to cease opera
tons masonry owing certain notifications In the
original plan being deemed advisable but no decision
ne made known. Next To Sandy
Hook this fort viii embrace greater than any other
in the harbor During the past year large force OF
for spring operations: very little actual building was
DONE awaiting the proposed alteration There is good
and that or Fort SCHUYLER. The land has the
same bleak aspect and undergoes similar
depression at tho neck Either fort could be insulated
ny cutting canal the neck that forms the inland
connection wleps Point 10 q depot for storing all
kinds Of engineer materials force Of four hun
dred three companes called sappers and miners
under command OF General Abbott occupy quarters
at the Point, In what formerly general hospital
Their dr has for It's object the attainment Of practical
knowledge OF sappBg siege works and laying pontoon
trains, bridges, &c.
Among the visible improvements introduced on this
work the iron embasures for the instead OF the
old fashioned concreto or stone This substitution OF
iron is regarded advantage that might well be APP
piled 70 all the forts 10 the harbor bias not yet been
work, and disposition seems to prevail Of awaiting the
results arrived At by the Board Of Engineers at Fortress
Monroe in their artillery experiments upon wood and
iron Between tho Two forts Il hardly conceivable
how any living thing In the shape OF war vessel pur-
suinR as II mHst intricate channel, could Withstand
the concentrated fre Of such powerful works
The fort 10 under the command Of General James 9.
Duane Tho appropriations last year were $50, O00-a
entirely inadequate for operations Of the magnitude
contemplated Unless literally aided, II win be
years this fort take s place among the rest
Of our harbor defences
YoRr AT HOOK.
This work commenced In the year 1857 and has
been continued progress or construction 10 the
present date 1t ID built far Of the ordinary granite at
The extreme point Of the Hook, commanding the main
ship channel Whom finished, will be the largest fort
IN the country, with the exception Of Fortress Monroe
II onclOees exept Of surface which. in the
stale Of incomplete operations the great piles Of
out and endless rubbish srewn bewidering
confusion. u will be armed with guus Of the very
barhssts WIN probably be completed IN about hve
yeara when Tho season u fAvcFabss over three hum
force is oosspisd. The appropriation lass year
$5NOoo, the greater portion Of which has been e.
pended n N'ss