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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
his contract, and that he had the contract of lifting all the United States wrecks that were in Charleston Harbor. And I went to work to save the torpedo-boat, and I got on the top of her, and found out the cause of her sinking. The boat is outside or alongside of the Housatonic. She can be lifted any time our people wish. Mallefeil is bursted and out of the way. I have no more to say than that she can be saved, and my opinion is she is as good as the day she was sunk. Yours, truly, Angus Smith, Sullivan's Island. Charleston, S. C., May 18th, 1876. The fish-torpedo was brought by rail from Mobile. The main feature in her construction was, she could be submerged and raised at pleasure, and had sufficient air pumped in to last her crew some hours. After several trial-trips she was turned over to the navy, and a crew was placed on board. While lying at the wharf at Fort Johnson, with the man-holes off, a steamer passed, and the waves from her wheel filled the boat. The of
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Arrival of the ocean steamer Ella Wabley (search)
they beheld what would have been a very plump prize slip from their grasp, we leave to the imagination of our readers. The Ella Warley brings a valuable assorted cargo, consigned principally to Messrs. John Fraser & Co., Hyatt, Mcburney & o., and Kerrison & Leading. Her passenger list is as follows. G. S. Sharp, Lontion; H. D. B. Gorris, Havana, J. S. Murdoon, Manchester, England, H. F. Black, Nassau; Jno. F. Young, Scotland; Jno E. Edwards, Liverpool, Jno. H. Mooney, Scotland, Angus Smith, Scotland, When the Warley left Nassau, the steamship Gladiator and the British ship Eliza Eonsall were both in that port. The U. S. gun-boat Flambean, which had been cruising off Nassau for some time, left that station on last Saturday, bound, probably, for Key West. The want of coal was the cause of her departure. The Lincoln Government had sent out two schooners laden with coal supplies for the Flambean, but the Nassau authorities refused to allow the last named vessel the use
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Southern News. (search)
papers. Laters from Cairo. From the Columbus (Ky.) Confederate News, of the 31st ult., we extract the following: A force was sent out night before last, from Cairo or Bird's Point, and captured some 20 or 30 persons. Of these, all except two were private citizens, two were members of Price's cavalry. These marauders took all the mules, horses, whiskey, &c. they could lay hands on. We give the names of a portion of the captured as follows. Those halth. Frank Goodwin, Silas, Smith, Silas Swann, John Gatey, Bailey Wilkinson, Dr. Guess Mr. Hagan, and James Dalton, John H. Lee was arrested, but made his escape. Thomas McIlwing was arrested, but released with his stock, on the ground that he was a Union man. This foray was at the distance of about, six miles from Charleston, and on the mute must have approached within the same distance of Columbus. After the seizure of the whiskey, the party indulged too freshly got drunk, and the privates quarrelled with the officers,