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The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
The blockade running business at Nassau. A letter from Nassau, March 13th, gives an interesting account of affairs at that once famous blockade-running port. It says that, by the customs received from blockade-runners, the colony has paid off its debts and has $150,000 in gold to its credit in bank. It adds: The sudden check to business operations by the cessation of blockade running has thrown several hundreds of men, firemen, stokers, etc., connected with the steamers, out of employment. A large number of these are, or represent themselves to be, entirely destitute. They have been provided for by the authorities, who are getting them shipped off as rapidly as practicable. The Legislature has passed an act prohibiting the discharge of persons engaged in the navigation of vessels. As there are steamers still arriving from England which left before the news had reached there of the destruction of the blockade-running business, this will protect the colony against havi