The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

VOYAGE OF AN IRON-CLAD.

A letter from Port Royal, South Carolina, of Jan. 19,
says :—" The iron-dads have made their debut in South
Carolina. The Montauk arrived here this morning at one
o'clock, after a rough passage of 40 hours and sailing a
cruise of 300 miles. After waiting for a north-east blow to
pass off we left anchorage in Beaufort (North Carolina)
harbour at four o'clock on the afternoon of last Sunday,
Jan. 17. The Passaic, with her consort, the Rhode Island,
preceded us, and soon after the Montauk and James Adger
followed. Arrived outside the bar we took the Adger's
hawsers, and making them fast, steamed out to sea. As we
passed the Passaie and Rhode Island we discovered the
latter at anchor, and concluded, it being a little rough, that
the first attempt to get her hawser to the Passaic failing she
had come to anchor for the purpose of accomplishing her
object. At dusk we thought we SANT them steaming attar
us, since which time we have seen or heard notbing of
either of them. Sunday morning we found a heavy sea, a
cloudy sky, with the wind in the north-east, where it re-
mained till noon, when it veered around into the north.
Anxiously we watched the little pennant over our heads,
and as anxiously watched and waited for the long low arc
of clear sky on the western horizon to get the mastery over
the clouds which hung like a leaden pall above us. The
Adger had out SO fathoms of hawser to us, but has not
towed us a mile during our passage, but with the hawsers
slack in the sea, merely maintaining with wonderful accuracy
the distance between us. This was as intended, for we were
making seven knots easily, with 45 revolutions of our en-
gine, and were anxious to avoid the sudden tightening and
relaxing of the hawsers that we experienced off Hatteras,
and which would have resulted from a greater speed in the
Adger. Fortunately the sea was with us, and the Mon-
tauk, with peculiar buoyancy, rose and fell as easily and
gracefully as a yacht. At 12 o'clock last night it cleared
away, but with the wind rising, and point blank north-
east, and an increasing sea. I was awakened early this morn-
ing by the steamer's pitching and plunging through the sea;
and going up on the turret found a cloudy, stormy sky,
a violent north-east wind, and a heavy sea. The light-
ports through the deck were closed from below, the iron
scuttle sot in above, the hatches bolted dcwn, and the deck
smooth and clear, and most of the time submerged. Around
the staunchions on the turret is a broad band of canvas or
weather cloth,' a shield from the wind and sea, yet not
much shield this morning, for, as the sea dashed against the
turret, clouds of spray were thrown over us, not at all agree.
able in the cold north-east wind. As we looked from off the
turret this morning—our deck entirely out of sight, the sea
making over it four and five feet deep ; now plunging head
first into the ocean, completely immersed, and then rising

from it, the water pouring in torrents from off her :sides,

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billows ahead of us hiding from our view the Adger to her
main yards—it was, indeed, a sight terrific and sublime,
sufficiently satisfactory with one experience. At 8 o'clock
we made the lifeboat off Port Royal. Soon the pilot steamer
came out to us, but, finding we wanted no assistance, ac-
companied us in."

GOETHE'S CORRESPONDENCE.—The private cor-
respondence between Goethe and Karl August,
never published before, will soon appear in print. The pre..
sent Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar has entrusted Dr. Vogel
with the arrangement and publication of this correspon-
dence, which, it is said, comprises about 600 letters, and
will be ready for print in the course of the season.
HOCUSSING AND ROBBERY IN A RAILWAY
OnU R-
th
RTAGE.—On the arrival of one of ithtewtraints he
ettee-
e
South-Eastern line at Strood, in lidierente,tedas
to a respectably
tion of the station-master was
odirected
third-class carriage, who
dressed woman, an occupant
insensibility, and apparently
was discovered in a state
of
lifeless. The only other Person in the carriage was a wo-
man, the fiorstePe
tocall the attention of the ticket-
h
collectorum to the state of her companion, at the
same time impressing her belief that she was dead. Mr.
Price, station-master, immediately had what appeared to be
who
at was
ilig
the dead body of the woman removed from the carriage and
placed in the waiting-room, and in the meantime sent for
medical assistance. On the arrival of Dr. W. Brsven, that
gentleman pronounced the patient to be dead, and, indeed
to all appearance she was so, as no motion of the heart could
be detected. After applying restoratives without any effect,
Dr. Brown advised the removal of the body to the dead-
house. Notwithstanding the assertion of the medical gen-
tleman, the porters at the station, assisted by two females,
continued their efforts to restore animation, and despatched
messengers for Mr. Steele and Mr. Langstone, surgeons.
The latter gentleman arrived, and after about two hours
signs of returning animation began to appear. After some
Itime the woman ai;ain breathed, and the same night was
sufficiently recovered to be removed to the Strood Work-
house. On regaining consciousness she stated thatf her
name was Bell, and that she had but recently arrived from
rorn
the United States, on a visit to her father at
asshGaela-ws9ogalier. At
on her
answer to further questions, she stated
who
oawt
way to Chatham to visit her brother,
ewd woman entered the
Gravesend station a respectably
conversation with her. After
asked her to give her
carriage, and commenced
the train had left the stat
pretence that she had not put-
change for a eovereign, on with
ticket. Having complied her request, tae
chased her
to partake of some brandy, which she at
stranger asked her
first declined doing, but on being pressed she partook of
half a glassful. The instant she had swallowed the
about
she became insensible, and could remember nothing
drug,
until she found herself in the infirmary of the workhouse.
The person who had given her the brandy had robbed her
of her purse, containing 305., together with her muff and
shawl, the female escaping with the whole during the ai
n tderes
con-
fusion which prevailed at the Strood station. Every effort
is being used by the police to trace the woman who perpe-
trated the robbery,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIs DAT.-3.dorning, 12h. 14m.—Afternoon, 12h. 50m
To-mounow.-Morning, lh. 18m.—Afternoon, lh. 43m.