Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-01

A New Ram aud Rebel Guzb0uts on the
MissiasipPi--1The RRemy's Mali COmmu-
( niOalieh. A
The Ship Island correspondent Of the BOs-
ton Journal writing under date Of January
Q, gives an interesting account Of affairs on
the gull. We copy 8 few paragraphs
Intelligence has reached here Of the APP
pearanOe on the Mississippi river of new
rebel tram, !" ''turtle," or nondescript war
steamer, from New Orleans. About noon on
the let Of January, q steamer came down TO
Pass L'outre, and lay alongside the river
bank. During the afternoon men went on
shore from her and burned the light-keepers
house at that point Late in the day four or
five other Confederate steamers came dowu
to the mouth Of the Pass, and then over to
Pilot Town. The bark KingHisher, blOcka-
ding Pass q L'outre, was at anchor about
four miles from land, in five iathoms water,
and apprehensiOns of en- attack during the
night induced Capt SelfridRe, Of the Missis.
sippi, also blockading at that point, 10 run in
and tow her outside. The enemy did not
however, come within range. Nevertheless,
the Kingfsher came up to Ship Island to re-
port the facts 10 the flag officer and obtain
assistance in repelling an attack. The de-
scription Of the tram, given by the officers
of the KingHsher, agrees with the account of
that obtained from the French captain Of the
fishing smack "Slide Along captured by
the New London a few weeks since. The
steamer Is represented as being two hundred
feet long, cigar shaped, sharp at both ends,
rooted over in the shape of turtles back,
| with plate iron, having side wheels, with two
smoke-stackB abreast and moving through
the water with great rapidity. She was
built at Algiers, opposite New Orleans. Few
men were seen on board of her.
The French fishermen gave informa ton
of the building of two rebel gunboats, also
side-wheel and sharp at both ends, at Bayon,
St. John, on Lake Pontehartrain, one Of
which had been launched. Two others we're
building on Deer River, where steamers can
be launched drawing one foot more water
than can be carried into Lake Ponchartrain,
the depth being nine and eight feet respect
lively. From the above it appears that the
dAOsquito Navy" is fast assuming the pro-
portions Of a considerable swarm.
NAIL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ENEMY.
since the interruption, by the federal gun
boats of the line Of steamers between New
Orleans and Mobile, through Mississippi
Sound, the rebels have been compelled to
carry the mails between the two cities and
intermediate peints on a small sloop, which
plies between Pass Christian and Pensacola.
This learn from Travers Drongoty, ne
gro, formerly slave TO the Post Master at
Ocean Springs, and who, when the mail was
| ,o--;n1 OF - ko1- L., L.
from the boats to the office. His master
was appointed by the United States Gov
ernment, but now holds commission under
the Ooniederacy. People living fifty and
J sixty miles from Ocean Springs go there to
/ get their letters and papers. The rebels
have repaired the telegraph cable across the
Bay Of st. Louis, which was cut by an ex-
peditiOn from the steamer Massachusetts,, and
now communicate between Mobile and New
Orleans.