Arrival of the ocean steamer Ella Wabley
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Running the Sham Blockade.--In our issue of the 3d inst., we announced the arrival at a Southern port, in defiance of the ‘"effective"’ blockade of
Abe Lincoln's fleet, of the ocean steamer
Ella Warley.
The following interesting account we take from the Charleston
Mercury, of the 3d inst.
The good people of
Charleston woke up yesterday morning to be hugely delighted with the news that the fine ocean steamer
Elia Warley,
Captain Swasey, from
Nassau, N. P., had entered our harbor with the first rays of the rising sun, and was already safely moored to our wharves.
At early dawn she appeared off
Charleston entrance, in full view of the blockading vessels.
These immediately gave chase, and commenced a rapid fire of shot and shall, all of which, however, fell short.
After passing for several miles under the enemy's fire unharmed, the noble steamship finally came within the protecting range of the guns of
Fort Sumter, and swept majestically up the city.
How far the
Yankee naval officers indulged in profane expletives as 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 of the harbor for the purpose of coaling.
One of the coal schooners was the
E. W. Perry, commanded by
Captain Adams, well known here as the former master of the schr.
Geo.
A Tittle.
The
Yankees reported that one of their transports was leady, and hoped by this dodge to get permission to transfer a portion of her coal on board the
Flambeau within the harbor, but the trick failed, A number of the enemy's vessels have lately been seen near the Bahamas.
What Lord Derby, and the owners of the
English cotton ships, and
John Bull generally, will say, when they hear of the
Ella Warley having steamed into
Charleston harbor in broad daylight, with the
Southern flag flying, and in wilful and contumelious disregard alike of stone and paper blockades is likely, we imagine, to be a little stronger than anything they have yet said.
