Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
From the Blockading Fleet.
ARRIVAL OF CITIZEN OF NEW oRLEANs-NEp
DIRECT FROM THE ENEMY.

We had the unexpected pleasure Of re-
ceiving a visit from our worthy friend, DR..
II. Lefebpre, who had just arrived in this
city, direct from the blockading feet, and
was in high spirits at having escaped
from an imminent risk of visiting Fort La
fayette. He was set adrift in small boat,
with MIR. Fernandez, of this city, and cap
tured sailor of the schooner Isalda, who hap
pened to be q Maltese, at sea, FIVE miles off
Fort Livingston. They rowed to the Fort
and came up from Barataria in the little
steamer Bee. Last evening they reported
themselves to Gen. Lowell, at the army head
quarters.
DR.. Lefebvre was on the schooner Joseph
81. Toone, treeaptured by Commodore Hel-
lins) coming from Havana, when she was
captured at half past seven O'Clock il the
evening of the LIST of October, forty miles off
Barataria. Capt. Pennington and the crew,
with Messrs. Theodore Lewis, (brother of
Major General Lewis,) Aymar and DR.. Lefeb-
vre, of this city, as passeng re-, were held
prisoners on board the South Carolina, where
they found Messrs. Butterdorf and Fernan-
deg, who we're passengers on the Isaida, cap
tured by the South Carolina on the 80th of
September. This schooner was returning
prize of the Sumter, and Lieut.. Hicks, of the
Snmter, and prize crew were aboard and
taken prisoners.
The English schooner Edward Bernard,
Capt. Watson, who had left Mobile on the
18th with cargo of turpentine, was cap
tured on the 18th, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, be-
tween Pass aLoutre and the Sound, thirty
miles from land. The master and Captain
Wright, who was aboard, and all the crew
were made prisoners.
The Joseph Toone had cargo of arms and
munitions OF war, valued at $40 900, that
would have been worth four or five times
that amount had she run safely into Barata-
ria. DR.. Lefebvre had nothing on board un-
der his name, and was fortunately provided
with French passport and French patents.
So when be was informed that he must con.
slider himself prisoner of war, be waxed
wroth and indignant. showed his country
passport, declared it to be an outrage upon
France, aud demanded to be-eent ashore.
Mr.. Fernandez was likewise provided with
the papers of Spanish citizen, and thew
we're both promised TO be liberated, and in
the meantime treated with great courtesy
and confederation. They were informed
that while the South Carolina had been on
this station she had captured seventeen
prizes from as, all email craft.
On the 18th instant, the day of Commo-
dore Holiin's attack on the enemv at the
Head Of the Passes, the steamers South Car
DINA and Mcclellan, which were then cruis-
ing OF Baratarla, we're sent for to come to
the assistance of the vessels in the Mississip-
pi. They responded without loss of time to
the call, and found the sloop-of-war Vim
cennes bard aground opposite the telegraph
station She threw overheard her entire ar
mament. consisting of twenty heavy guns.
before she could be pulled off,
DR.. Lefebvre was told by the United States
naval officers that neither the Richmond nor
theWater Witch, the Vincenpes nor the Preble
had been struck at all In the might attack,
but it was the schooner Joseph 81. Toene
(Which our readers well know is now living
below the city without scratch) that was
run into By the Turtle. He did not zee the
Preble, and was told she had gone to Pensa-
cola. DR.. Lefebvre says they were In a
state of high excitement, and entertained a
perfect terror of our little ram, and especial
~ of the Gre ships He is sure they will not
enter the river again, but will content them
selves with cruising off the mouths. This
sentiment hardly comedies with the assertion
that .nebody was hurtu In the naval action.
Every day, the Doctor says, our little gum
boat Ivy runs ont to sea q abort distance and