From Fortress Monroe

FORTRESS MONROE, April 15, 8:40 P. M. – Nothing has occurred since my dispatch of this morning to disturb the quite. The unprecedented fine weather is very favorable to the operations at Yorktown, and it is probable that Gen. McClellan Will soon be able to open his batteries on the fortifications of the enemy.

The French Minister honored me with a visit this morning. He has gone to Norfolk and will go to Richmond. On his entering the port, I gave a salute of 13 guns.

(Signed:) John E. Wool, Major General.

FORTRESS MONROE, April 15. – This afternoon the Gaseni, the French steamer, went up to Norfolk with the French Minister on board.

The Union and Lincoln guns were each fired to-day to try their range. The shot from the former fell within a short distance of Sewall’s Point.

A flag of truce from Norfolk, to-day, brought down two ladies and also the sword of the Captain of the French vessel [Pronia], which was wrecked on the North Carolina coast.

A rumor was brought from Norfolk, which was current there, that General Buell had been killed.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862, p. 3