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Loss of the British bark Coronet.
--Capt. Peck, of the steamer Cecile, which reached this city yesterday, from Savannah, via Beaufort, has favored us with the following, which is the substance of a note he received from Capt. F. N. Bonneau, of the Confederate States schooner Howell Cobb:
The British bark Coronet, Capt. Brown, ran ashore on the southeast end of Hunting Island shoal, on Wednesday night, the 15th inst., at 10 30, and is a total wreck; stern post and rudder gone, and eighteen feet of water in her hold.
She is eight miles from the beach I boarded her on Thursday morning offering assistance, but he wanted none.
I again boarded her on the 18th inst, and received the same reply.
I gave him written instructions as to where he was and the bearings of Savannah, and I think he has since dispatched a boat there.
P. S.--The steamer Reliance has arrived, and placed men on board the bark, but it is too rough for them to work to-day.
The British bark Coronet was
Fires. Bridgeport, Comm., Dec. 29.
--A fire was discovered about 1 o'clock this morning in Beer's Building, corner of Water and Gilbert streets, in a room occupied by J. J. Dunlop as a hoop-skirt factory.
Beer's foundry was considerably damaged.
His loss on stock and building is about $3,500, for which he is insured.
Dunlop's loss is about $1,500, and is also insured.
About 2 o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in the china, glass and crockery store of Booth, Peck and Barlow.
Nos. 7 and 9 Wall street. The building and contents were entirely destroyed.
Loss $50,000, of which $40,000 is insured.
Wilmot's stove store was also burned.
Loss $6,000; insured $4,000. The surrounding buildings were also somewhat damaged, with their contents.
Both fires were the work of an incendiary.
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Compliment. (search)
General News.
The American contains the following items of general interest:
The British steamer Bermuda.
Direct communication with a Connecticut graduate, escaped from school-teaching in Georgia, near Savannah, has supplied new and very important information respecting the British steamer Bermuda.
She is an ironclad vessel of about 1,500 tons burden.
Her master's name is Peck.
She sailed from Liverpool on the 18th of August, and arrived at Savannah on the 16th of September, being 29 days on the passage, touching at Falmouth and Madeira for coal.
Her cargo consisted of eighteen rifled cannon, 32s and 42s, and two 168-pound Lancaster guns, with all the necessary carriages and equipments, powder, shot and shell, all ready for immediate use; also, 6,500 Enfield rifles, between 200,000 and 300,000 cartridges for the same, 6,000 pairs of army shoes, 20,000 blankets, 180 barrels of gun powder, large quantity of morphine, quinine, and other medicine stores, and very many oth