Running the blockade
--
Arrival of a Splendid Steamship.--The British steamship
Memphis,
Captain Cruikshank, from
Liverpool, via
Nassau, arrived at
Charleston on Monday last.
She has on board a most valuable cargo of British goods, such as we stand much in need of at the present juncture.
Passengers by the
Memphis report that the
British Government has made a peremptory demand upon the
Yankee authorities for the surrender of the British steamer
Bermuda, captured as a prize some time ago. The Charleston
Mercury says:
‘
The
Memphis had the misfortune, while coming into port on Monday, to get ashore on the beach of
Sullivan's Island, where she remained several hours, but was finally towed off by the steamers
Marion and
Etiwan.
When she first got aground she was approached by one of the blockaders, which fired a number of shells, most of which struck on
Sullivan's Island, but none of them hit the ship.
The Yankee gunboat was finally driven off by a riffed gun on
Fort Beauregard, which discharged but one shot at her, when she retired.
The
Memphis is a new
iron ship, on her first voyage, and was built at
Dumbarton, on the
Clyde, is a most sightly vessel, of good speed, about 800 tons register, but is capable of carrying the cargo of many a vessel of 1200 tons.
She made the passage from
Liverpool to
Nassau in 164 days, and was boarded off Abaco by the Yankee steamer
Quaker City.
Left at
Nassau, on the 19th inst., the steamships
Hero,
Herald,
Nashville, (now
Thos. L. Wragg,)
Lloyd, Kate, and others.
The
Cecile had left
Nassau some days previous to the 19th for an unknown port.
The Yankee cruisers keep up quite a sharp blockade off
Nassau, and board nearly all vessels bound in or going out.
The Hon. Mr. Ward, late
Minister to
China, and
Major Bateman, came passengers in the
Memphis.
’
