New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-25
rwcM SHIP ISLAND.
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,,..,. . a,sun,pg a poI'onioDs asp u On the
-, - a. Goa. TIE monotoDy OF he place wa.
.rrker nv aeveral important arrivals witoin the las
g., Ava ysheh piles up our forces TO about seyen
,bo,s.oJ men. all OF New England prediction.
TIE steamer Fulton Of tho Hsvre line, Captain
wien arrived 90 the Sth, making successful
passeas Of niue days from Nev-ioik. She carried
ogt s,x ooDpsnies Of the l3t1 Name Regim nj,
raised in Augusta, Colonel Neal Dow comm nding,
The celebrated cola-wster sposte. The detlchnent
Was ander command Of Lieutengn'-COloDsi H. Is 'se'
Lieutenant waldo Blossom mex. Oldest oiheei
Colonel Dow, with the headquarters oi Inc iesF
Iaent, is hourly expected on the Mississippi, a he"
steamship, on Ter first voyage out ron pos'o!'
The Fal,op fetched al o the l2lh Connec'ieut he5'
n.eot Colonel II. c. Demng late May or oi it"r''
ford Iisntepant Bogsft. formerly OF The LOU
Il ooklyn Regiment, il now in thus CORPS
IT, .bi, North America Captain Collier. one o. a
A. 90 svs or SIX vessels which lett Boston on the
8tb of February, snived lere on the same day
Fucount,rea head winds all the way. Lost four
no, overheard. Cared out the l4tn Maine Reg
nsut Colonel +. S. Nicks sou. So rapidly can tie
oparteglassters pepartuent m through The process
of deSarka,on tina, thls gtresm OF men were all cs''
red from the ships and Landed in t~else 40 hing
honrs, hi h surf running pa, Of the time. Tie
villa u not finished yet and be THE QoaEiermas er)
hes onlv couple Of supetannuatec lighters, built ~
the yeir to sid hin. TEE rosi comnodiocs is tie
Ie.ie Il L;Qb-pre.sure cotton boat one hundred and
6f,y fee, long, for Nhich he paid $4,000 20 tho
Nav. Size was ceptur o sllo't time aso by tho
eurb,at Nsw-Ioudon with cargo Of sugar anu
rnolasse., while roaming from New-0rleai.s 20 Mo
bile with cen Of sixty men. This Argnseyed
craft Of orr bas done mach 10 cut OF the pryateers
at Petit Bois and Daupin Islands, which lay thirty
miles to the eastward Of tls. She came rolling in
here few days ago hike roilicking militia sergeant
ats esnsal mus er, lugeing by tie ears no ess than
nine f-hug sInscks and tTsdng schooners with Their
hang dog-,ooking c-e8s Tie flagship 0. The fia-
ton, the Richmond, slOc7-ofwar OF t~cnty-siA
guns, threw the protection Of tie United States Gov
erDr1ent over these her children and gave
them their deserts between decks.
The ship Ocean Pearl from Boston, with horses
and the ship Idaho, Capt. Howe, arrived March q,
each being ont q days. The latter Lad The list
Maine Battery, Capt. Thompsoni the Massachusetts
Battery, Capr. Everett ard the I'd Vermont Battery,
Lieut.. Der. Six guns viii c0s1pose each battery.
Tbose with the horses daily expected. The Ida
ho went ashore on Cat Island Flats in three lathoms
water. THIS a very Deceptive sboal, lying five
miles TO the west After exhausting all means at tie
disposal Of the guuboat sent to haul her OF. she had
to throw overheard 400 $50 barrels of beef -FOUR
and other stores, amounting to $4,000, III the hope
OF tightening ber but size is fast on he SAND yet.
Some blame the naval commander here for not send
ing all the gunboats, and even the hee-shp, 10 her
relief Sucs sacrifice provisions is to be regretted
ct this time IS there IS not more than week sup
ply of salt horse and lour the ISLAND. This ],
no laughing matter, with 1850 vigorous men with
vigorous apPetlies.
This place, "a second Coney Island las as il ia
convenient 10 torture siuile, although the sand q
fner. aud seen from distance OF five miler, is GA
white as "a piece OF chalk"-and il has not thotc
muddy InoTasses that are to be found on the north
side Of the sioreraued twC-shilDg Sumner retreat
IL very cheerful sand-bar, wiki lie genial climate
Co, F.hIen cit); bright green watsIs; its snowy
beech, studded with q thousand tents; its delicious
water which can be bad by running barrel down
is length into the sand anywhere; and is unlimited
bathing privileges without the alloy Of undertow
TO give one the entree 70 shsrkdom.
You daily meet old friends from the pacific walls
of life, "seeking the bubble reputation" oSc.-smal
eyed loDg-bired city lawyer blown out into bun!
satertaschei Dragons with faces broad GD'
scorched as suneowers in September, and as happ,
rs basket Of chips you find your whiiou beef
butcher bebutOned al over, griuning recognition
from under pair Of pineapple checks; while far
ther on is 10 be old quack doctor, now MAJ
Of caissons and howilzers inquiring progressively
sfter G corpus lie did his bes, to put Oh crutctes
ayesr ago. You sool find you might as well try e
get away from their embraces d ship from the ana
conda. ike enchantment which Gnf gunboai
throws around every vessel SIZE sights in the horizon
until you told them el about Fort Donelson, their
mothers cough, Commodore Foote's foot their SIS
ter's new baby, the quaDtty OF cigars yoI have ant
show you're of fof soap"
Talking OF gunboats and boarding, the vessel Thu
pilgrim came down on was made u pu, her helm
down and reef sails no lefs than i've times, Srst by
the stupeudous Niagara 80 miesSsou. west Of PEN
saeola, then by the Mississippi eide. wheel national
steamer of Fort Pickeusi after that the Itasca gun
boat 5ombsrding Mobile Bay paid US the usual cou-
plimeBt Of sbOtted gan across our bows and sool
heavy boats crew and Lieutenant, all armed 70 the
boots pushed Themselves on our decks. Number
four was the Hartford and in number i've we found
the acquaintance, in NAL aproDos style, Of that Vi
deco Of these waters, the Eow-LoDdon, al Petit
Bois Island, which came on us " with q word and q
blow" We scudded under dOublcrcefsd maincail
mast breeze on . hazy night, but the blow came
hrst, the word aferward, and from not hearing
what order they halioced as We sped onward, were
being made the target for three six-inch ozenges"
which barely skinned our foresail and put toe crew
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