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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
attention from the blockading vessels, some three miles distant. The South Carolina had up steam and was moving alternately to the eastward and westward. Mr. J. McElroy, of the house of Taylor & Knapp, who arrived last evening from Galveston, via Sabine Pass, and to whom we are indebted for the Civilian extra, informs us thatvessels bound to Galveston from falling into the hands of the enemy. The blockading vessel South Carolina had captured five small vessels — sloops — before Mr. McElroy left, including the yacht Dart, and the sloops Sharp and Falcon, well known in the trade between this port and Galveston. The Vigilance Committee dispatched two messengers to Sabine Pass, in a pilot boat by which Mr. McElroy came passenger, to intercept vessels bound for Galveston. On arriving at Sabine Pass, other messengers were put on board for the same purpose, and, after leaving the Pass, the pilot boat met four schooners bound for Galveston, the Fairfield, Troy, Water-Witch, a