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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Another blockade auction. (search)
Another blockade auction. --A large amount of valuable merchandize, a part of which was a portion of the cargo of the steamer Kate, was sold at auction in Charleston, S. C., Monday. The Kate was sunk in the Cape Fear river by a snag, after passing the dangers of the blockade, and her goods were mostly quite wet. She had on board a most acceptable cargo, which would have brought one million of dollars had it reached port in good order. The Government obtained from her about 10,000 blankets; and a large and valuable quantity of flannel, so much needed at this time, was among the goods sold. The following quotations will tell their own story: Light brown sugar, 49c per lb; copperas, $1.15 per lb; matches, $10 to 25 per gross; black ink, 1.10 to 1.50 per gallon; tallow candles, 1.01 per lb; toilet soap, 1.75 per lb; wax candles 1.20 per lb; family soap, 75 to 87½ per lb; tobacco, dark and light, 57½c to 97 ½c per lb; spice, 25 to 26c per lb; cloves, 20 to 22½c per lb; Congo
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
shed. The attack on Charleston has not yet commenced. Charleston papers say neither the Indianola nor Queen of the West have been destroyed. A captured rebel officer states that negotiations for peace have been under consideration for the past three weeks at Richmond, but the fact had not been permitted to go before the public. The British steamer Queen of the Wave ran ashore near Charleston, and Dupont was using every exertion to save her. The British steamship Douro, captured off Cape Fear on the 9th by a U. S. gunboat was brought to New York on the 12th as a prize. Her cargo was 420 bales of cotton, and some turpentine and tobacco. She ran the blockade at Wilmington and was making for Nassau. Gen. Hunter's quarrel with Foster is still unsettled. Hunter has ordered Gen. Neglee to New York, and in his farewell to his division he predicts that "truth is mighty, and will prevail." The prize steamers Adela and Virginia and bark Moblen Williamson and brig J. W. Sawye
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Perfidy among the blockade Runners. (search)
Perfidy among the blockade Runners. --"Dixie,"the Richmond correspondent of the Atlanta Appeal, writes: The loss of the Venus a week ago at the month of Cape Fear river, was a severe blow to the Quartermaster General, and the casualty was the more lamentable because it was the result of treachery. I have seen and conversed with a gentleman who came passenger on the Venus, and he me that the vessel had nearly got through the blockading squadron without discovery, and in five minutes more would have been safely out of range of the enemy's guns, when some traitor among the crew rang the steamer's bell, thus giving the Yankees the alarm, and indicating in the darkness the exact direction in which they should open fire.--This they did with such fatal accuracy that three men on the deck of the Venus were killed by the first shot. Two other shots successively struck the vessel. At the moment of firing signals were made to all the other ships of the fleet, several of which mov
The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Florida.--the last fight. (search)
From Wilmington. Wilmington, March 9. --One million forty-two thousand two hundred dollars have been funded here up to 12 o'clock to-day. The Federal blockader sunk off Cape Fear proves to be the Peterhoff. She has gone to the bottom totally.
The Daily Dispatch: May 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fire at Wilmington, North Carolina. (search)
The fire at Wilmington, North Carolina. The estimate of ten millions as the loss by the fire at Wilmington, N. C., on Friday last, seems to have been somewhat exaggerated. The damage reaches about $4,800,000. The flames broke out in a shed at the depot, on the Southern side of the Cape Fear river, and spread with amazing rapidity until every building on the Western side of the river south of the depot of the Wilmington &Manchester Railroad was enveloped in lames. For a time the whole Southern bank of the river for several squares was one line of flame, and it was feared that the Railroad depot, with the workshops of the Company, would also be destroyed. The destruction of property is very great. We sum it up as follows: The Confederate Government lost 800 bales cotton burnt, of which about 200 were Sea Island — say $800,000. It lost also in materials and work in progress at Beerys's Ship Yard about $100,000. T. Andrea lost 2,500 bales of cotton--300 of it Sea Island — say
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y away the cargo, and among others one of the rams that came out a short time since. The ram, after loading with goods from the McCaw, and on her return trip, jokingly, and with sportive gesture, when abreast the Dacotah, fired a shell, which exploded about eight hundred yards distant. On the night of the 4th, the McCaw still preserved her position on even keel, portions of her cargo — which must have been large — plied up on the beach, steamers constantly plying between her and the Cape Fear river, where her cargo was delivered. In this instance, it is the unanimous opinion of all who witnessed the circumstances I have narrated, that the Georgiana McCaw could have been destroyed without the slightest hazard to our vessels. The murmurs of the officers and crews of the blockaders are, if not land, very deep So utterly indifferent and so contemptuously do the blockade runners regard our apology for a blockade, that they feel perfectly safe in running the Gannett with steamers capa
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
hout the day; that, under cover of the fire of the fleet, the enemy landed an infantry force above Fort Fisher, which attacked the fort on Sunday night, and were repulsed. Fort Fisher is situated on a sand-spit on the right bank of the Cape Fear river at its mouth, twenty miles below Wilmington. The enemy, we presume, reached their position above the fort not by passing up the river, where they would have been obliged to run the gauntlet of the guns both of Fisher and Fort Caswell, on the left bank, but by landing on the beach west of the mouth of the Cape Fear river. The enemy's having effected a lodgment above the fort is a serious matter. It will cost double the force to dislodge him that would have prevented his landing. Colonel Mosby reported killed. It was reported on the streets yesterday that the daring and distinguished guerrilla chief, Colonel John S. Mosby, had been killed by the enemy. The story was that he had been surrounded while dining at the house
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y assault. We stated yesterday that they had been repulsed in every assault. When it was first announced that the enemy had effected a landing, we feared that they had come well supplied, and would entrench themselves between Fort Fisher and Wilmington. This would have been awkward for us. Yesterday the Yankee fleet was reported to have hauled off from in front of Fort Fisher, after having made two feeble attacks on Monday night. A word on the topography of the mouth of the Cape Fear river and our defences there may be found interesting. At the bar, the channel runs within fifty or sixty yards of the shore and close under the guns of Fort Fisher and Fort Lamb, while, at the western bar, Fort Caswell guards it equally well. Beside these main defences are several minor batteries strung along the beach, located at points that, to an engineer's eye, seemed to bear most upon the track of vessels coming into the river. There is, also, close by Fort Fisher, and on a point of
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
n yesterday.--The usual desultory cannonade was kept up on our left, at Petersburg, with the usual absence of result. Military matters seem equally at a stand still in other parts of Virginia. In the Valley, there is nothing doing, and Stoneman has fled from Southwestern Virginia, after doing much mischief. From the South. We published on yesterday a telegram from Wilmington, announcing that the Federal fleet, carrying the army of Batler had drawn off from the mouth of the Cape Fear river and disappeared. An official dispatch to the same effect was received at the War Office on yesterday. Nothing is said — nothing, perhaps, is known — of the direction taken by them. The general impression seems to be that they have gone to aid Sherman in an attack upon Charleston. Although, doubtless, Sherman will require all the aid he can obtain when he undertakes the attack upon Charleston, yet we think it quite as likely the Porter Butler Armada has gone in search of some quiet p
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
produce a decidedly and to affect gold, that public pulse. During days of this week there was a very decided apprehension in the community that Wilmington, our last seaport, would succumb to the immense force sent against it, and the immediate effect was, that specie disappeared from the market; but the enemy, having expended their utmost strength on Fort Fisher, an outpost of Wilmington, and been disastrously beaten, it again crops out, and was on yesterday offering at forty-eight, with few buyers. The opinion now is, that Wilmington cannot be taken. Its approaches, on account of the dangerous coast in the neighborhood of the mouth of the Cape Fear river, cannot be subjected to a regular siege blockade; and that they cannot be taken by assault has just been demonstrated. If the Butler- Porter expedition failed, it is reasonable to suppose any similar one must fail also in an attack on Wilmington. Never again, it is believed, will they find its forts so slimly garrisoned.
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