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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Burnside Expedition. (search)
The Yankee Brockaders off Charleston.[correspondence of the N. Y. Times.] U. S. Steamer Florida, opp Charleston, S. C., March 26, 1862. On the 18th inst. we captured a prize — the ship Emily St. Plerre, of Charleston, S. C, 101 days from Calcutta, loaded with 2,176 bales of gunny-bags. We think she has saltpetre under the gunny-bags. We took her crew off, except her captain, steward and cook, and sent her to Philadelphia for adjudication. There were five vessels in sight at her capture, which will participate in the prize money. The Florida, flag-ship, James Adger Flambeau, Sumter, and ship Onward. The vessel is worth about $35,000, and the cargo about $45 or $50 a bale. It cost three guineas per bale at Calcutta. She belongs to Charleston, has "Charleston, S. C.," and the arms of Charleston and Augusta, Ga., painted on the glass of her cabin doors, but has an English manifest, which, of course, is only a blind. We caught her running into Charleston. This success h