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.
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