The New York herald., 1867-02-07
NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORRESPONDENCE.

The Bark Delaware Got on Cape Henry and
Towcd into Norfolk-Entcrtainment Inside
tho Fortress BY Sam CoIly er-Mas sque Grade
Ball, &c.
FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. s, 1857.
Better crowned the efforts got Of the bark
Delaware. ashore Cape Henry than anticipated
the time Of closing my letter Of yesterday. The pumps
at length got the water sufficiently low with the high
tide to enable steam tug TO pull her into deep water
and then her into Norfolk She got free about
O'Clock this morning. On her arrival 1t Norfolk
there twelve feet OF water in her hold. The
good thing for her owners, she being uninsured few
days labor In repairing and the expenditure OF few
hundred dollars win put her In good order she
The public room in Carroll Hail. inside the fort, was
dsnsely filed last evening to witness exhibition BY
pleasing enssrtainmspt, having : travelling troupe
science sp.ing and welding the Indian war clubs
showed him In his BEST character ~ . pugilist and
brought down the house. He shows no marks Of his
recent mill with McGlade and from hundred and
weighs one hundred and sixtytwo pounds II he goes
on increasing nesh and muscle at this rate he will
a. . contestant for the championship Of the heavy
weighta
In my last letter Iforgot to mention grand ma.que-
Fade ball a. Carroll Hel Friday evening Nearly all
the officers and ladies IN the fort participated in IT.
great variety of quaint original and yet tasteful and
Il supposed that the George Leary going up the
bay on Friday would return this morning; but she has
failed 70 make her appearance. No explanation Of her
failure TO return has reached here.
Arrival Of a Colored REGIMENT from Tcxms-
Replacing Lighthouses. Light ships and
BuOys Displaced by the Ice, &c.
FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. L. 1867.
The Nineteenth United States colored regiment,
Coenel Perkins commanding, arrived here this morning
ON the steamer Mississippi, from New Orleans, which
place they left the 2sth ult, intending 20 Bat
for final payment and discharge There being no
steamer here to convey themo their intended
owing to the irregular running Of the Baltimore
account Of the ice in the Chesapeake Bay 1t was
found necessary disembark troops here and order
them to Camp Hamilton, where they will be paid of and
discharged within two or three days This regiment
numbers about hundred officers and men They
ssd1s from s. He hsSs been
comDandsnt Of the department. Few coored regiments
have more gallant record than this II with
the army before Petersburg and went to Texas with the
Twenty hfh army corps, where 1t has been on duty
since.
Of Captain Beren United States Navy, has commenced
replacing the large number OF buoys in the Elzabeth
Nansemond and James rivers and Chesapeake Bay,
removed from their positions by the floating ice Nearly
all were removed from their paces Steps will also be
speedily taken 10 replace the shshps and lighthouses
carried away in the late ice blockade.
Captain Bakeman, the late popuIar commander OF the
George Leary has Just taken command Of the Nagara
and Captain Russell given command OF the George Leary
Few captains have larger experience than Captain
Brakeman He is careful and discreet and thoroughly
up in the duties Of navigation, and bis new position
will add largely TO the popularity Of this outside line
kilograms received from Baltimore and Annapolis this
place Of the steamer George Leary leaving here on FRI
day evening As the George Appold has been tele
graphed arriving at Baltimore Saturday, diff
cult TO conjecture the cause Of the non-arisa of tho
Leary, unless she has met with some disaster
The schooner Bucephalus, Captain Mcintosh, with as
sorted cargo from Providence to Baltimore, in at
tempting get 70 Baltimore got bockaded in the ice
and badly cut She was also driven ashore Tangcr
Island by the moving ice but got on without much dam
age. Her disabled condition has compelled her TO turn
back put into Norfolk for repairs Several schoon-
leaving here recently for Baltimore, are bockaded
In the ice and some considerably damaged
The steamer Virginia Is announced as having made
the trip safely up the James river TO Richmond This
shows the breaking up Of the ice in the nver