Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-09-05

HE STEAMER PENGUIN AND THE CAPE FEAR River
-Ihe y, Fortress Monroe correspondent of the New
I ork Tribune, writes:
commander j. w. Livingston, of the steamer Pen
gun VINO mas been attempting to blockade the mouths
OF Cape Fear River forty miles cruise apart with an
enemy at the Lighthouse, who indicates by flag or sig
MAJ hight at which port the bockading vessel is and
W1om he managed to deceive by conceang bis position
Sho running at night has come up to Hampton Roads
or coal he reports that the 9th lie took on board
-FOUR intelligent negroes who pulled from shore in boat
One who said he had been the pilot of the steamtug
uncle ben, on the river, heard her captain saw he
would arm her, the steamer North Carolina and anoth
er propeller all of which have been seen near the fort
and capture the Penguin
The negroes also stated that there wer, tuUo nrvs
teers theI Mariner and Gordon, at Beaufort, which
Whlte pc pie call the best place. as there's no block
aoe there On the morning of the lth, Commander
Livingston chased schooner on reef near the Cane
Lighthouse, distant about three miles from the fort
one soon hled with water, the sea running high and
became wreck, both vessel and cargo The negro
pilot above mentioned knew the vessel to be the Louisa
ABOUT zoo tons, which sailed from Wilmington few
weeks since with lumber for the West Indies and was
10 nave brought III return a load off coffee.
A CONFEDERATE PR1yArEER--A liberated prize
prisoner furnishes the New York Herald with the fol-
lowing descriptions of one of the Southern sea wasps
That are singing Yankee commerce to death. 1t will
DE remarked that the Confederate officer rebuked his
men Tor bringing out handouts to put his prisoners
irons alter boarding the captured vessel which was the
schooner Protector, of New York:
| HE PIRATE VESSEL AND HER CREW-When our
captain turned his back upon the officer Of the steamer
the latter named person said to of his men, For
Gods sake put those irons away out of sight, referring
to the handcufs AS walked forward | then saw thai
the prlvaeer had one twentyfour FOUNDER the for
ward deck and two guns at-eighteen and twelve
Founders. The steamer Gordon is between four anC
five hundred tons burthen, and is very fine looking
craft; she draws eight and half feet of will
fuel 1t is said that she formerly called the Caor
ma She is commanded by James Lockwood SO | wa
told. This same mand used to be Captain of the Co
lumbld, running between New York and Charleston
He is also reported to have been Charleston pilot
His native place is supposed to be Smithville Mort
Carolina. de is man between thrty-fve and fort
years Of age, as l can judge. His officers an
men did not wear Uniform, but looked like laborin
men, being clad in Scotch costume. They were arme
with horse pistols with flint locks, which about
foot long. They also wore cutlasses, which looked
though some country blacksmith had made them W
were about twenty miles from Cape Hatteras when W
were captured. We were informed that the steame
would sail about twelve miles an hour. l should thin
that about her rate of speed. She is side whe
steamer, and her machinery-of the walking beam bull
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