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The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], British blockade Runners Cornered . (search)
British blockade Runners Cornered.
--A late Northern paper says:
Lieut. D. A. McDermut, commanding United States gunboat Cayuga, reports that on the morning of April 3d he discovered a sail in the neighborhood of the bar off Sabine Pass, Texas, standing to the southward.
He gave chase with the New London and Cayuga, and the vessel, after a pursuit of four hours, was overhauled by the Cayuga.
The vessel proved to be the British schooner Tampico of 70 tons.
Thomas Ponison, master, les of cotton, averaging more than 500 lbs to the bale, and valued, as appears by the invoice, at $16,054.83. Her papers showed that she entered the port of Sabine in August, 1862, and at the date of the 31st January, 1863 had, inconsequence of the blockade, been unable to leave that port.
The case was referred by Lieut Mr. Dermut to the Prize Court at New Orleans for adjudication, and the prize master directed to report to the senior United States naval officer commanding of that city.
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Brutal regiment of Confederate prisoners — correspondence between Gens. Churchill and Hoffman . (search)
France and the United States.
The next foreign news from across the Atlantic is looked for, of course, with much interest.
There is a general desire to know how France will relish the impudent and high handed act of Mr. Adams, U. S. Minister,umption of a right to exercise a surveillance over a neutral port, and to pass or arrest vessels going thither as the United States authorities may deem proper.--Yet, more than to others, is it a direct offence to France, inasmuch as the pass gave u be used by the Mexicans in their war with France.
The mere act is pointed enough in itself; but if it were not, the United States Minister makes it so, according to the London Times, by declaring that he granted the pass "on account of the creditas it peculiarly irritating to the Emperor of France.
Nor is it one of those things which can be explained away.
The United States Minister may in a craven spirit back out and disclaim; but nothing he can do will wipe out the act or efface the impr