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.
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