The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-11-13


the United States steam transport Union,
belonging to the feet, loaded with horses
and provisions, and that she went ashore
on the night of Friday, the 1st inst. All
hands were saved. When she struck,
she was badly stove, with 4 ft. of water in
her hold She was run square on shore,
and broke in two abaft the smokestack
Capt. Garvin and eighty others were di-
vided in two parties, aud sent to Fort
Macon and Raleigh as prisonert.
The beach was strewn with the cargo
and dead horses. She had 81, all but
Is of which were killed before going
ashore.
The Rebel officers informed the officers
of the Albatross that Capt. Garvin had
said he feared the Winfield Scutt, with
two regiments, had foundered and gone
down, because she was in company short
ly before the Union struck, aud suddenly
disappeared.
1t was at night, and this conclusion is
much doubted. The rebels reported also
that two vessels of the feet were ashore
near Charleston, and others below Hat
teras Nothing was heard of the Ocean
Express, or the names of any of the 9TH
ers alleged to be lost.
The Spaulding has arrived from. Hat
teras. Lieut.. Lowry reports that on
Wednesday morning lest heavy firing was
heard south of that place, and news was
received that the French war steamer
Pronna was On Ocracoke Beach. Lieut..
Lowry, with the gunboat Underwater,
was dispatched to her.
The sea was very high, and we could
not get nearer than three miles. Lay
there all night, making signals. In the
morning, finding the Underwater in a
damaged condition, returned to hatteras.
At IL o'clock the same day, the French
steamer was seen to blow up, with loud
explosion and dense smoke. 1t was sup
posed she had been abandoned and blown
up. This and another French war-steam-
er have been in the neighborhood some
time, but have repelled all intercourse
with our ships.
Before the Spaulding left, General
Williams received intelligence from the
main shore that the Expedition had en-
tered Port Royal and captured the bat
teries and Beaufort. 1t was reported
through the same source that Mayfower
and another ship belonging to the feet
were wrecked
Nothing las been heard from the fleet
except the above. Nothing whatever
has been received here concerning the
the fighting at Port Royal, except the
first report through Norfolk, that one
guuboat was disabled by the rebel guns,
and another aground in a critical stua
tion. Excepting the wrecks, the belief
is that the expedition is successful.
The steamship James R Spaulding
arrived from Hatteras Inlet this morning
with the Goth Indiana Regiment.
A deserter who reached the Inlet in a
small boat, stated that news had been re-
ceived on main land of taxing two Rebel
forts at Port Royal, and the landing of a
large Union force
Beaufort had also been taken by our
troops.
No particulars had arrived, but the
main fact corresponds with the news re-
ceived a few hours since from Norfolk by
flag of truce. Great excitement pre-.
vailed on the arrival of the news at Nor
folk.
From the same source we have rumor
that the railroad above Beaufort has fal.
len into the possession of our troops, with
an immense quantity of stores.
Five deserters, who reached Newport
News this morning, state that the Reb-
els up James River are in CONSERVATION,
and also brings the improbable rumor
that our troops had advanced up the
railroad as far as Charleston.
The French frigate Calabria yes
burned to the waters edge, on Friday
night, off Hatteras. All hands we're
saved
The Captain of the United States gun
boat Albatros reports that he discovered