Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-16
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WGraiHefoS. April ls.-fbS Navy Ne
bartneat baa ESesiybi dNsPaleheS IRON
Coullo 1ofa Dlpoat, ehelaSl8g { eO@nu'
aiFtlina . hin tFom Commander 6OrlOa,
dated Q, s, steamer Michigan, March SOth,
from which it apPpars that On Ihs l9th ak,
With The launches and ahoiheF armed 6Oal
Be catered Jekyl Creek Aad proceeded o
DubigaOl't plaza RhePO BE discovered \
dsSeEied battery Of three gunS placed %
aS % command that sirtam, and the ~
mains Of camp Of some 200 mOR. A OOu-
siderable nuRtbtf 0fsattls remained on the
Island, but tbOy we're very Wild uPaa .OuF
appFoa ehtng then,
On The 23d the Bib made her appear
anes and Captain Ballstt a. her comma.
der, placing the buoyS foF the bar and
ehlunsl. Commander Gordon says: Goa.
tfabiadJ continued % come 70 %. ! sent >
nambeF By the PotomskG, PeFdAadlna, and
also, several BY the Connecticut We Ian
dei our 6eld pieces Aada strong force on
Colonies Island, and Ohlalnsd What We
needed, aud that night aitSr agAin hrinG =
shell Al PaVey Bla& proceeded 70 ST. Lii
mans, there lauded all The cOutrAbAads
with ther cora And PrOTlllOpS, tools, &c,
hAving housed them and SSt them 70 work.
already thty have planted their potatoes.
Tomorrow they will bsRlu 10 prepare the
lGHd foE corn. They have set up their
mill, and hhye told them they are TO plant
cotton and thus become Of use 70 thsm-
selves. They seem conlentsd, but without
the protection Of . vessel at the other end
Of the ISlaad, they Ste Ia danger Orbelng
intetlsFOd with By soldiers landing In that
direction aud approaching them a. light
81. LimAnS 10 q 6ae rich Island, about ten
mileS long. Oa the north Il village called
BFedeEiea. Ills Saidto be healthy place.
One thousand blacks could be usefully
employed here and made selI.SuPPortlug.
W4SHtxorOS, April lb.-The steamer
Yankee, Capt. Eastman, arrived al the
Navy Yard a o'clock this morning, hav.
ing left York river at zig O'Clock yesterday
evening.
The Yankee went about eight miles up
the York river on Sunday night and Rneh.
Ored OF Gloucester Point, where The steam.
erS Peuobssol, Marble Heart and WaehaS.
Get were already lyiRg.
The rebel batteries o. the pOlut are said
10 DO very extshSIVs, mounting mostly
one hundred pound guns. They tried the
range Of their gus on the steamers about
three o'clock yesterday AiteFu0on, the shot
falling very little short Of the Marble
Heart. The vessels then dropped down
therlYeF, and about three miles below The
Point discovered party bt 're6tlb build.
iug battery on Che North baak Of THE
river, 90 whom the Yankee opened ies
u q distance Of three-lolFlhs OF y mile.
The rebels seemed 10Th 10 leave tisIF
works, and although the shells Of the Van.
kee fell in their midst they did not leave
the vicinity, bat took Fefuge 10 the woods,
and behind SEINE nelghboring log hOuSe1.
The Yankee, after firing some sixty or sew
elty shot and shell, retired from The scene,
tie other boats hNving come up do thalr
share. Az the Yankee was leaving, the
boats OF the EArblA Heart were % their
W8y,tn sb6Fe 70 burn tho houses behind
which the enemy had taken refuge.
DISpalehes from Old Polut up TO nine
o'clock this morning report all quiet there.
There Were Yarldu6 EumorS aaOAt about
the M4ErtmSc, but nothing reliable, she
had not made her appearance up 10 the
hour aboTV referred 70.