The following articles are transcribed from the the New York Times, dated April 9, 1862:

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FORTRESS MONROE, Monday, April 7, via Baltimore, Tuesday, April 8. Nothing has been done to-day in front of Yorktown, with the exception of a reconnoissance in that direction and some cannonading. A telegraph line is built to our headquarters near Yorktown. The Spaulding came in this morning from Ship Point. The rebel works abandoned there are quite formidable. The rebels took off their guns, but left their barracks complete. Ship Point is about eight miles from Yorktown, affording a fine base of operations. A great crowd of Norfolk people assembled on the shore near Sewall's Point on Sunday, including men, women and children, all engerly engaged in watching the Yankees.

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-- The most exciting and important action of the war, thus far, the siege of Yorktown, is veiled in great part from the people's eyes by the mandates of the military authorities, and we only get the dryest and most meagre outline of what is going on. This is all unlike the glowing pictures we have heretofore had of battles, sieges and bombardments, even while they were in progress; and it is to be feared that posterity will lose as much as we do from the lack of special telegrams and special correspondence. But the work is, nevertheless, going on. The progress of the siege dally show favorable signs; and, added to the glorious news from the West, we shall probably soon have news of the fall of Yorktown.

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