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t I. _ ?I III I I . The Capture of the Banshee.?The follow- j ing are the particulars of the capture of the nolo-1 lions blockade runner Banshee, as given Ly the j purser of the FuUon: At seven o'clock, a. m., our lookout at the fore- j topmast head reported a sail live points on our port how, whereupon our pilot, Mr. Mapcs, went aloft to relieve the lookout and to report correctly from time to time on deck to Captain Wot ton the movements of the suspicious sail, and by the aid of the glass lie made her out to be a steamer, painted white, with two smokestacks and burning soft coal. Captain Wot ton ordered chase to be made, winch order v;as immediately obeyed. At this time (7. T;0 a. m.) no other sail was in sight, and we were rapidly shortening the distance between us and the suspicions steamer. At 7.oO a. m . made out r. side-wheel steamer on our port bi am, which afterwards proved to be the transport Thloioarc, Cupt. Tiiton. irom Stono Inlet, bound to Ilaltimore. lathe course of an hour we left her soine distance astern, bhe following in our course, anxious no doubt to see the capture. At hall-pas!. eight, a. m., sighted ft large steamer <01 our port beam, steering to the southward, which afterwards proved to be the United States gunboat <Irani Commander G. M. Ransom, and from oil appearances having a heavy head of steam. Seeing our chase she stood for her ; but ' it was evident to nil on board that, as regards speed, she was no match for us or our game. At nine a. m. Cuptaiu Wotton ordered our riiled gun to be trained upon the cliasc, and our gunner, lur. Clifford soon had a twenty-pouader shell trundling after her. The line of the shot was good, but it fell short of the mark. From this time until she hove to we continued tiring at her, the shot going over and around her, and she gradually widened the space between us and the (hvixl (:rulf, and Hearing the chase, when, after having fired sixteen shots, and after leaving our | competitor far astern, the prize hove to, .it now being fifteen minutes past ton a. w., off Cape Lookout. A pnzo crew m charge oituocinci oiScer. Mr. G. II. Walker, and the purser, were immediately sent on board, after having transferred the crew and baggage cf the prize 011 board the ] >('!:>.}. Captain Wctten had two hawsers attached to the prize, now known as the llanshce. At this juncture the gunboat Grand Gulf and transport ])tla\n:rt arrived off the prize. The captain of the former ithe Grand Cuf) sent his executive officer alongside the prize for the purpose of boarding her, but was refused admittance by Mr. Walker, prize captain, who requested him to communicate with Captain Wotton, on board the Fulton, which he did, and very politely offered a prize crew, which was as politely declined by Captain Wotton. At a quarter to twelve a. jr., the Fulton proceeded 011 her cruise, with the prize in tow. She is a Clyde built side-wheel steamer, built of iron, and about three hundred and sixteen tons, of a tine model and beautiful outside appearance, one year old on the 20th inst, Her present cargo consists of eoUVe, tobacco, drygoods, rope. etc. At the present prices the cargo of the li'inshce is worth no inconsiderable amount, I and probably the officers and crew of the FnUon will realize a snug sum. Pabticulars or ih; Ej-cvpe of Moucan*.?A special dispatch to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, dated Cincinnati, Nov. 30, says : The oilicers who escaped from the penitentiary at Columbus, with Morgan, were C'apts. Bennett. Taylor, Sheldon, lliues, Hacker, Smith, and Mil' 'piv John IT. Morgan, on retiring, changed with his brother Dick from the top cell to the lower of the tier lioor, which is 2 J inches thick, in which a hole was cat running to the main wall around the penitentiary. The wall was cut under and the party escaped into the open country. The night was dark and a heavy rain falling, Not the slightest cine has been discovered of their whereabouts, or the ront they have taken. The Governor has telegraphed to all the military committees of the State to aronse their civil counties, and Col. Parrott, Protest Marshal General of the State, has notified every provost marshall iiia imic/Si^ti?>? <-? cwli,! ?.?u w\Mv?4VAi i>v nvvui. lucu r?v ? L1U1 I districts thoroughly. The most plausible theory"mentioned is, that they escaped in time to tnlce the Cincinnati train via Dayton, which started from Coluinbus at 2 x. m. on Friday night. That their escape was connived at by the sympathisers, there is little doubt. The manner of j escape was ingenious, but after all simple enough, | based upon the almost certain theory that they { were correctly informed as to the ground they had ' to work through. They, by patient labor for nearly four weeks, and by means of small pocket knives, dug through the floors of their cells which were composed of about one foot of sham and brick, down into a four foot sewer. Two weeks ago one of the escaped prisoners ; asked the guard lor a few boards to cover the bottom of the cells, giving as an excuse that the | damp stone was injuring their health. Tut the j real use of the boards was to cover up tL holes tlicy were cutting. Ua the night of their timd ! escape, on returning to their several cell? Dick Morgan managed to change with his brother John from the lower to the upper tier. Alter getting ! into the sewer they crawled to the heavy grating i and masonry at its mouth, and found they could ; not escape by that: they however, made a hole i upward to a heavy pile of coal, which rolled tin ' them to such an extent that they wt io compelled to go further hack into the yard. They tin n excavated the soit earth clear uiuler the main wall, and so correctly was the distance calculated that they came out into the open road, one foot torn the iouudation. One of the party, Capt. Ilines, was by trade a brick mason, and it set-ins he had th? management ! of the whole affair. A note signed by that worthy ! written in a fine commercial hand, was leit be- j j liind, ;u-> follows : ! To Coj lain Marrion, Warden of ti e rt .uicndai ;: ! Castle Maekjox, Cell No. 20, Nov. 27th. lt>G3. j i Nov. 4lh, lsC.'i, commencement: Nov. 20ih con* 1 1 - .1 j elusion. No. of hours per <tay s amor. mice. ' Tools, two small knives. La patience est aniere | ! maison fruit est uonx. "Patience is bitter, but its I fruit is sweet" By order of iny six honorable ; confederates. * T. Hexet Hines. C. S. A. | Publie opinion is divided as to where the blame | rests. It is proper to state, however, that for the j last two weeks several of the most prominent I Copperheads in the State have been putting up at the principal hotels, laying their heads togctner ; without any visible reason therefor. 1 o o? Weite to toe Soldiers.?Occupation is a grand '< thing, and quits as important to the tone and heart of an army as hard bread and bacon. The monster against which Dr. Kane fought so successfully in | the Arctic night, with theatre and frolic, wanders | listlessly up and down our camps. Would yon i believe?and yet it is true?that many a poor felI low in this Array of the Cumberland has literally died to go home: clietl of the terrible. unsatisfied longing, home sickness? Unit it lies at the heart of many a disease bearing n learned name ? It is languor, debility, low fever, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, death, and yet, through all, it is only that sad thing they call Nostalgia, "Who shall dare to say that the boy who 44 lays him down and dies," a-hungered and starring for.homc, docs not fall as well and -ruly for his country's sake as if a rebel bullet had found his heart out? Against it the surgeon combats in vain, for 44 who can minister to a mind diseased ?" The loved ones at home have something to answer for in this business, and it pains me to think that more than one man has let his life slip out of | a grasp too weak to hold it just because Lis dearest friends did not send him a prescription once a week, price three cents?a letter from home. Is some poor fellow sinking at heart because you do | I no write him ? If there is, lay my letter down at ! ! once and write your own, and may He who sent a messenger all the way from Heaven to earth with .dad tidings, forgive yon for deferring a hope to some soldier boy. You would not wonder at my warmth had you seen that boy waiting and waiting, ns I have, for one little word from somebody. Too proud to own. and yet too sincere to quite conceal it, lie tries to strangle tlie t ought of home, and goes in'o the battle, whence he never comes forth. Let me relate one incident. An Indiana soldier was struck in the breast r.t I Cliiekamnuga and fell. The bullet's errand was ! about done when it reached him: it pierced coat i and underclothing, and there was force enough left in it to wound if not to kill him; it had to ! work its way through a precious package ot nine : letters, indited by one dear ner.it aim traced by one dear hand; that done, the bullet's power cx- J pended, there it lay asleep against the soldier's breast! Have yon been making such a shield, ; dear lady, lor anybody ? Take care that it does j not lack ore letter oi' being ballet-proof.?Cor. Chicago Journal. ^ A Characteristic Story of the President is j narrated in a letter from "Washington. When the ' telegram from Cumberland Gap reached Mr. Lin- j coin that "firing was heard in the direction of!1 Knoxville," he remarked that he was " glad of it." j Some person present, who had the perils of Hum-' j side's position uppermost in his mind, could not see irhy Mr. Lincoln should be "glad of it," and so expressed himself. " Why, yon see,"responded tke President, "it reminds me of Mistress Sallic ' Ward, a neighbor of mine, who had a very large i' family. Occasionally one <">f her numerous prog- [. env would be heard crying in some out-of-the-way !' place, upon which Jlistrcss Sallie would exclaim, j 'There's one of my children that Isn't dead ye!.'" ? A bust of Shallspeave has been carved out rf . an old oak beam of the poet's house at Stratford- j npon-Avon. J 1 U-J-X! 1 1J.1 ? J.J JIBJi-'. A Siuedt Pateiot.?The followingstory which we find told of Hon. John II. Botts, shows that the peculiar qualities for which this sturdy Unioniof 1< l>r OA I.WO'WV* ihikt.. ? - ? A joi uiu uvcu ov r>cii ivuuvi ii iui liiilty j t'iwu pilSl. have lost none of tlieir strength with lapse of time or change of circumstances: "This well-known Union man has .suffered terribly at the hands of the rebels. 1 allied at Lis house a fuw days ago, and he told me thai after the Union anny had fallen back from here the last time he was arrested by the rebel General Job. Stuart, and sent under guard to Cu.pepperCourt House, for no other reason than that of allowing Yankee oliiceis to visit his house, and allowing some poor, wounded Union soldiers to be canied theie. Among other things, Jeb. Stuart accused him of dining w ith Major-Gen. Meade, but Mr. Cutis said to riiuai't, that although he had asked Gen. Meudu to dine with lrim, he regretted that that the General could not spare the time; but he hoped it Gen. Meade came this way again, he would do him the honor to dine with him,, providing the thieving rebels lelt him anythingtu cimo witii. Mr. Dolls suul to the rebel General Stuart that, although Gen. Meade could not spare the time to dine with liim, his son, Geo. Meade, Jr., did dine with him ; and he said to Stewart he lelt quite proud to think tiiat he had done so, a? he was one of the hnest looking young oilicer* ho had seen in either army, and luhy worthy of his brave sire. w in ?ammmmwmmmmmwmmm?w wi mmmmmmam ADVERTISEMENTS. AL STIMSON, AUCTION LEIi for the Department of l'crt lioyal, oners Ins sviv.ee.s in making salts by 1 uoiio \ endue, it Jliltou Dead and Deaufort. Address at the Adams impress Oli.ce, eitlmr at Beaufort or hi.toll iiewL Dee. 3 M. Ili A C. FEAl'lii; ID? 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