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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for 6th or search for 6th in all documents.
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Yankee gunboats.
--The Houston (Texas) Telegraph, of the 14th ult., gives an account of the capture of the Yankee gunboats Granite City and Wave in Caleasien Pass, on the 6th ult. The following is extracted from it:
The Granite City is a propeller, and is iron plated.
She was built on the Clyde since the beginning of the war for blockade running purposes, but was captured by the enemy in February, 1863, while en route from Wilmington to Nassau.
She is a staunch vessel and the finest ship that has ever been captured in the State of Texas.
Her armsment consists of one 20 pounder rifle Parrot gun, one 12 pounder rifle Dahlgren howitzer, and six 24 pounder smooth bore Dahlgren howitzer shell guns.
The Wave is what the Yankees call a tin-clad steamboat.
She is cased with half inch sheet iron from stem to stern, and is a stern wheel Mississippi steamer, drawing about 3 feet water; her armament consists of one 24 pounder rifle Parrot gun, one 32 pounder smooth bore gun,
Latest from Europe.
The steamer Virginia, from Liverpool on the 24th, via Queenstown on the 25th, reached New York on the 6th.
Pellasier, the Duke of Malakoff, is dead.
The news of the great battles in Virginia, received by the Europe, had caused a profound sensation in all England, and the people are astonished at the magnitude of the losses.
The probable result of the bloody contest is eagerly canvassed.
The Confederate loan receded three percent, and cotton was weaker under the news.
The London Times says: "Gen. Grant has fully sustained his reputation for unconquerable tenacity, and if he did not obtain absolute success, bid for it more desperately and approached it more nearly than any of his predecessors." It thinks it hard to discern the inclination of the balance, so evenly do the scales of battle appear to be counted.
The London Morning Port sees no appreciable advantages on either side, but on the following day expressed a conviction that the Fede