Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-01-16


without murur. 1t oficious act Of nine but H.
asmuch the oath rendered to either of you
hope you will for nsinuatng that it will be equal
y Oicious in you ndct it. although make OBJ
lection to your doing In justification of Col Alfred
nothing to do in administering sad OATH please publish the
foregoing remal ks and oblige. >. a. MAULlSBI.
The Observer fnds mares nest in our copying It's
synopsis of this matter. The thing is plain enough
1t happened to be at hand and the original appear
ed in the standard did not. We copied this "ouuage
Gus piece from number Of the Greensboro Patriot
which happened to be before No mystery about
that.
The Observer will also notice that neither Mr.. Smith
nor Mr.. Maulsby party friends OF ours in party
times, but on the contrary. Personally, we were al
ways as we are now, on good terms with them Poll
cay they belonged to the Observers side of the house
WE HAVE been favored with private letter received
here from the'camp of the 9Th Regiment, from which
we obtain some particulars Of the rather perlous
adventure which Col Radcliffe and some members OF
bis regiment had the afternoon OF the 9th instant
1t would seem that about three or half past three
o'clock in the afternoon Col Radcliffe with Sergeant
Major Brown, officer of the Charleston Light Ora
goons, and some ten or twelve men from the Whining
ton Light Infantry, embarked in boat at the landing
nearest to the camp of the regiment and proceeded down
the river he Coosawhatchie for the purpose of max
ing some observations The boat had gone about two
miles down the river and was nearing a place called
Mackays point, upon which there are two or three
houses when the Col gave the order to stop rowing,
saying that he saw one or two men standing not far
from one of the houses, around WE'LL apparently get
ting water. When our boat stopped it was On the op-
posto side of the river from the point and boys
III A. "a bo At
pull over and go up to the house and who the men
were and if they Yankees as it was thought they
were, they wanted to try and capture them The Col
finally consented but directed b,m pull to point
to the boat ard distance above the houses
where the men were seen When the boat reached the
point aimed for the men found they could not land it
being all marsh. While they we've pulling over, one of
our men, Mr.. Charles Halves, of this town, pulled off
his hat and waved it at the by the house. and
of them Immediately pulled off bis hat and waved it in
return, and Immediately afterwards both Of the
men were seen to get on their horses and ride off as fast
as they could.
After our party found that they could not land, they
showed the boat off from the marsh where she had stuck
in the mud and pulled out into the river again. making
for the opposite shore. They had not got beyond the
mile wide at that place. when one of our men exclaimed
"There come those fellows back again on their horses
And sure enough they did come to the number OF
some ten or twelve presently dsmOuntng and running
down to the edge Of the river to shoot at the boat and
those in it. The next exclamation in the boat was
Look out boys they going to shoot-dodge!" The
words were scarcely said before bang bang went the
guns and whiz! went the balls over the heads of
men. The COL ordered the to pull hard the South
Carolina officer who steering keeping the stern Of
the boat towards the firing party. Oar boat was so
crowded that impossible for the to their
rifles.
The party shore kept up their fire upon the boat
until she bad reached the opposite side when
got ashore Or rather into the marsh where they sunk
up to their waists in mud and water but contrived to
crawl out to where they did not sink their ances
when they all turned round and poured voley at the
friends who had been cunning at them so long, which
caused them to up the hill towards the house near
where the two men had first been SEEN Fortunately
nobody hurt in either party as it turned out that
the persons firing boat Confederate pckets
belonging to Tennessee Regiment stationed at Poca
aligo Col Radcliffe would not let his shoot more
than five Shots because he thought the others Con
hurt the letterwrer says, Mr. eddie Brown, who
had his cap shot off bis head 1t picked up in the
river next morning. and the ball found inside between
the cap and the lining.
Our men found themselves on small island, to get
from which to the mainland they would have to swim
creek and wade half mile through the boggiest sort Of
marsh. This some did, stating to do about night
fall Some could not swim, and the Col remained
with these, until those who had gone to camp could
send boat to take them of, for their boat was
by this time immoveably stuck in the mud, the tide
having left it, By about IL o'clock at night the boat
did come and Col. Radcliffe with the balance OF the
party was relieved from his unpleasant predcament-
When all got to camp got dry clothes and were well
warmed they experienced no evil effects except feeling
very tired. No one caught cold as we can learn. Of
course we omit many details, giving only those necessa
ry to show how our friends got unpleasanty situated
from no fault of theirs.
IT WOULD SEEM that General BurDside's expedition
did not return to Hampton Roads, reported in the E.
ersburg Express by its Geographic correspondent from
Norfolk. We have not heard of its having been seen
along the coast and surely it sailed Sunday evening
at six o'clock it has had abundant time to make its ap
pearauce here which is not three hundred miles distant
Hatteras is less than twenyour hours sail from Cape
Fear than forty-eight.
F1RE-The alarm of fire last night about II o'clock
was caused by the burning of the Lampback Factory
of Mr. F. S. Pratt, located in the Southern part Of
town. The building was entirely consumed Mr. P's
loss is about $4O0.-Da'Iy Journal, 10th INST