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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Border. (search)
ved here last night, bringing with him a United States supply vessel, a prize. She was a Lincoln supply vessel for the blockading fleet, but we have her now. The "Manassas," or the steam "Ram" arrived at 3 o'clock this afternoon. She will go in the dock to-morrow morning. Lieut. A. F. Warley, C. S. N., (of South Carolina,) commanded her. She went in among the fleet at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 11th inst., in search of the Richmond, but struck the first one she could, which was the "Preble" sloop-of-war, 800 tons, ship-rigged, 16 guns. --She went into the Preble 16 feet, but the force of the current of the Mississippi took her stern round, and tore open the planks. The Preble then drifted stern on the bar, and there will rest her ribs. She fired fifteen times at the ram, hit her once, and that shot carried away her smokestacks, one of which was lost overboard. The concussion was so great, that the engines felt the effects of it. I never doubted but that she would be a succe