The new South. (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, November 21, 1863, Image 1
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Love Has no Winter.
FKOM THE GEnjUN CF TIECK.
A little bird, one autumn day
Over the hil? and far away
Flying, aang so sweet and clear:
"Farewell! to-day I fly from here.
Far, far.
Fly to where spring's roses are."
1 listened to his song so glad;
It gladdened, yet it made me sad. ?
With painful joy, with joyous pain.
My heart beat high, th :n sunk again:
"Heart, heart,
Feel'st of joy or pain the smart? "
'Twas more of pain; this quick a title
Of tears made plain. "Alas!" I sillied,
The swallow, summer guest, departs;
So love perchance flies out our hearts.
So, so,
Hies away with youth's spring glow."
Fut winter black its round soon runs.
My biru comes back with brighter suns:
He brushes away my tears with bit wing,
" Love has no winter," I hear him ?ng,
" No, no,
Love's spring roses ever blow."
THE FUETO.VS PRIZE 77"
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intensely tAi/iimy vnaic a i Ota i
[From the X. Y. Herald, Nov. Oih.]
Tno Unite ! States transport Fulton, Capt. G. M
Walker, from Charleston bar, arrived at this port
yesterday morning, with the prize steamer ,1/urgtr.t
aniJissit in tow, which she captured on
Tuesday, the Cth inst., after an exciting chase,
which lasted over nine hours.
It is customary in the ship to send a man to
the mast-head at daylight in the morning, nud at
stated iutervals to relieve him, so that during the
entire day, a bright look-out is kept. At about
seven o'clock on Thursday morning last, when oil
Wilmington, N. C., the lookout at the forctop
masthead reported that a large steamer was in
cirrM on thp nort bow. and after a little while it
was discovered that she was painted white and
was burning soft coal, and altogether her appearance
and movements were suspicions.
Capt. Walker immediately gave chase, determined
to overhaul her ifpo^.ble, and if she
proved to be a blockade rireber, to capture her.
It w.is not long before three gunboats were discovered
in chase, one of which was soon left behind,
and the other two?the Kfjston? Shtfe and Kans'moid?
chasing the stranger on different courses,
so as to head her off.
The suspicions of the officers of the ? nllo:i were
coulirmed as to the character of the vessel pursued
when they discoyered her to be throwing over her
car ro.
There was no win 1 in the earlyjnart of the chase,
and of course no a lvuitage of canvass couhl btaken
by either vessel; but after the sun had been
up some time a breeze sprang np. and the Fulton set
h? r foresail, fore topmast staysail and trysails, an 1
the engineer s department piled tiro furnaces with
4-K/a Ail TT-O<5 nnf ennvn \ mi fMO rnnt'lnnfiiT
ril.ll, ilau I..H ? '? ... .. ..... %,.
The chase now became very exciting, ami all the
passengers were perched in places which gave
them a view of the fleeing craft.
When within proper distance Capt Walker ordered
his rifled gnn to be trained upon the rebel
and fired to bring her to. and Mr. Clifford, the
fjurih officer, who acts as tin1 gunner of tho K7tm.
soon hid a twenty-poun !er Pavrott shell
trim llin ? ai'ter her. The line of the shot was good,
but it missed her. Thr e shots Were fired in succession.
but stirl >h? almost flow in her endeavors
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to es *ape, changing her cotirse several times.
All midday was spent in the excitement of the
chase, the Fi jfon firing at inter*. K bnt failing to
': hit her object At four o'clock the prize was close
I to, and, finding that she was I "dug overhauled,
she hove to, although her captain says that had it
not been for the presence of his lady passengers
he would have continued on in spite of his pursu,
ers, but his feelings of humanity would not allow
him tn ricl' flio 11roe nf flio tao lorlioo trltA trorn
i on board.
, ; It was not long after she hove to before the F?l;
ton ranged alongside, and the purser, Mr. Mc
i Manns, was on board with a prize crew selected
i from the crew of the Fulton* The United States
, gunboat Xansemond came up soon after, and the
! boarding officer attempted to hoist the gunboat's
| flag and thereby claim posession of the ship; but
I one of the Fulton's crew cut the halyards and
hoisted a flag brought from the Fulton.
A hawser was now passed''from the Fulton to the
prize?which proved to be the famous Margaret
and Jessie, bound from Nassau o Wilmington. N.
I C.?and the steamer was taken in tow. The Key1
stone State coming up, her eomihander tendered a
' prize master and crew for the prize, which Captain
Walker politely declined, asser'ing "that having
capture ! the prize, ho was al io to take her into
New York."
Nothing of interest occurred raring the remainder
of the trip until early Kund v morning, when
the crew and passengers of the prize were trans
j f rred to the Futon, They arrived Rnfely, and the
j Margaret and Jessie was taken to the steamer's
j wharf, at the foot of Beach street. North river,
.and iko FuHau went awdua^j the East river,
j where at noon she was taken upon the sectional
j dock for repairs to her bottom.
Had the Margaret and Jessie been successful,
this would have been her fifteenth trip between
! Nassau and the rebel ports of Charleston and Wilmington,
N. C., but it has been reserved for an
army transport to capture her, and take from the
rebels not only a valuable cargo, but one of the
swiftest and most sin coasful blockade runners
they had in their line of packets.
Our reporter visited the Margaret and Jessie yesterday.
and found, on going down the dock at the
foot of Beach street, a crowd of curious people,
1 who, attracted by the large rebel flag flying from *
her flagstaff, had congregated to learn the partio-1
nlnrc nnd if rvnssihle cain admittance to the eel- I
' ebrated blockade runner: but the gates were
closed to them. Proper identification gained our
reporter admittance to the dock and ship, the |
; latter lying on the lower side of the wharf head in. j
She is an iron side-wheel steamer of about eight |
1 hundred tons, of a fine model and beautiful out-1
ward appearance. She lias two smoke stacks. ,
Her lower masts are standing; lmt her topmasts !
and yards have been taken down to prevent her
being seen at a distance. She was built for the
line lxt vecn Liverpool and the Isle of Man, and
was the fastest steamer on those channel waters.
She is four years old, ar 1 is to-day in good order.
She has a beautiful pair v?f engines, of great power (
and beauty. She is worth about S125,000.
The vessel as she lay at the doc k was properly !
guarded by the police and officers of the Custom !
House and the United States Marshal, who were j
vcrv kind and courteous to the representative of i
the Ikrabl. and through them he was enabled to ;
visit every part of the vessel.
The dec!; aft was lumbered up with at least a '
cord ( f pine wood, probably to be used in kindling j
the fires under her boilers. Barrels of oranges ,
were setting around the sides of the bulwarks,
some of them open and half gone. Five trunks 1
wore lying amidships, one of which was marked
44 E. Lnfitte, Augi;sta, Ga. ;*' another was marked ;
' A " in a diamond. The deck was covered with .
a damp, slippery slime of dirt at least half an
1i ii i r\ * i 1 1 S i
men thick, .uescenmug inio lac camn ny a doorway
loading through a hatch house, the visitor is
ushered into a large saloon cabin, lit tod up with
green plush settees. The sides of this saloon had
been neatly painted; hut now they are soiled, as
the saloon is used for a cargo rocm. A scene was
unfold >d which beggars desciiption. Sill;.-, gunpowder,
hoop shirts, prints, huts, quinine, ImUcr, ,
brandies, segars, clothing, toys, cases of gin, .
thread, needles, shears, and in fact everything 1
you ec.ii imagine, from a needle to an anchor, are
I heaped together in one disordered mass ; trunks
broken open and rilled, liquids spilled and thousands
of dollars' worth of valuable goods destroyed.
j It appears from statements that when the prize
was pursued the captain gave the most unbounded
liberty to the crew and passengers, onlv asking
them to aid in lightening the ship by throwing
overboard a portion of the cargo, which cost
8300,000 in specie at Nassau. Over 870.000 worth
was thrown into the sea, and a little merchant
brig followed in the wake of the ship, picking up
the cases of silks, Ac., as they floated on the surface
of the water.
The ladies' cabin, which had at or.e time been
i beautifully fitted up, is now soiled and even filthy.
1 A dirty table, with a half finished meal, is there
spread out; bits of bread, ham, dirty plates of
butter and dirty tumblers abound, and empty
I brandy and gin bottles give ample testimony that
| drinking as well as eating furnished a portion of
; their pastime. Throughout the vessel the same
j filthy and disordered scene presents itself?a perj
feet wreck of a most valuable cargo.
The Margaret atid Jessie was commanded by the
well known Robert Lockwood, who was formerly
i the pilot of the steamship Columbia, Capt. Berry,
i running from this port to Charleston. Lockwood
| has an interest in the vessel, as have the purser
i and ctotv-nr/1 All rtf nrn riol> nn/1
! purser was to have retired at rhe expiration of
this trip.
The following is a list of the ofllccrs of the
prize :?Captain Robert Lock wood. Purser >i'. J.
Dortick, First Officer N. Dono'-nn, Second Officer
T. Perry, Third umcer c>. J. rhyiou, Cmef Lngii
ncer G. McDougal, First Assistant H. McLane,
| Second Assistant H. Witherington, Third Assirtant
T. Craig, Steward, N. Fohrenbach. At the
j time of capture she had some passengers on board,
! who are now with the officers, and are in cliargo
of the United States Marshal.
The following is a list of the passengers :?
Miss Maria Sparks, Mrs. Bourne, J. H. Baggott,
A. MoLay, S. L. WaPzf.lder, W. Collins,
J. Burke, C. W. Craige.
Miss Sparks was on her way to her home in
Richmond, having been at school in England for
some time back. She is an interesting young
lady, and is quiet, unassuming, and has not yet
learned to talk secesh like her sisters in the South.
ami*. uu lo <i >?wu?;r., jit."i liiiMMiiu
Laving died only a short time since, and she was
en route to her friends in RelWdom.
The male portion of the p. mongers are Englishmen
and Jew hucksters, who have no particular
history worth mentioning.
Tlie rebels will mourn over the loss of this
vessel more than any other in the trade, and great
credit is due Captain Walker for his perseverance
in his pursuit of her. This line of steamers has
been singularly fortunate, as the sister ship, the
Araqo, captured the steamer Kivih/ only a few
weeks ago. In spite, of the want of fust navul
cruisers, we are gradually but surely breaking up
blockade running.
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JLilA* 1^1.^ JU.'i li 1\ L. i VXUfA* U.iH II,iW V?'t II
for some time pnst a number of adventurous Yankees
in China lighting to aid in putting down the
big Chinese rebellion. England and Trance have
been not a little jealous of the enferpri: e of theso
American r, and they interfered at IV' in to the
injur}' of Yankee influence. There-nlt was tliat
after the death of Waul, the great American Mandarin,
the Emperor became opposed to I'm go vine,
an officer who had always been the companion of
Ward in his campaigns. II" tried to arrange the
mutter with the Emperor, but could not. So 0110
line morning be cooly marshalled his body of two
or three hundred trained soldiers and wt nt over
to the rebels. The Emperor has tl rs j u' his li ot
into a serious scrape, and he is nut': lly gv< ;.t'.y
terrified at the probable resr.lt of E ;r;<vhu s secession,
having already offered a rev>: rd of three
thousand taels for his aprchension. den 1 or alive.
There is no doubt that this bold American will
gather a strong party around Mm, ami unless the
Emperor looks vm shuip hi v. ill l.f a', him in the
Celestial v.rtr; and tlicii Kn^Li.d and 1'ntnce will
!>< still m.ire astonished tind that Russia a:ni
America are carrying everything !.?-lV?re tluiu La
China. " -