The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Vandal blockade.

--Our telegraphic dispatches of Sunday last, says the Memphis Appeal, of the 23d, contained the announcement that Lincoln had purchased a large number of schooners loaded with stone to sink in the inlets of the Atlantic. By the paragraph which we publish below, from the Tallahassee Floridian, it will be seen that the Lincolnites have already commenced their novel mode of blockading Southern ports:

‘ On Wednesday last, the steamer Mohawk brought the sloop Sloat, lately captured by her, up to the outer buoy below St. Marks, where the crew of the steamer scuttled the sloop and sunk her across the channel, first having cut her deck in pieces with axes. The steamer then went out again to her old anchoring place. A boat from Fort Williams went to the sloop, and succeeded in getting off her rigging and some other articles. The place where the sloop was sunk was four and a half miles from Fort Williams, out of reach of the guns.

The channel at the mouth of the St. Marks is very narrow, so that, we presume, the of a hull in it will effectually obstruct the passage of vessels into that port.

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