The New York herald., 1862-01-20

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KEY rrfsr, Jan. 1852.
Vsssls n HavSer At Ky w-SYyencdA Of tie Secession
Ns~ssss-LasSs Nsmt1s Of xscAasies ~ Board As
PostsasStA-Imprv. .emexs Of officers and Men n Naval
Dru-Sea SieanAs-FSeneA Vessels for kesioo, &c., de-
We arrived hare on the sth inst, after quick and
unusualy PLEASANT passage and found In port the gun
boat Haska (waitng for the return Of some Of her
cinery from Havana, where it had been sent for
pshrs), the quondam SLAYER Nightingale, and the famed
yacht Wanderer. The steamer Rhode Island arrived
about three hours after and will take mails North
to-day The steamer Flambeau in yesterday
morning from Nassau and brings the intelligence that
the Gladiator, loaded with arms and munitions Of war, 10
now lying there, waiting for opportunity to run
the blockade The secession feeling il strong Nassau
and when the officers OF the Fambsau first went ashore
they insuted by boys running before them waving
secession flags The Flambeau also states that there
two privateers at Nassau, and that Of them
went to sea, in hopes that they would give chase and
enable the Gladiator TO leave The Flambeau remained
until her coal was nearly all gone, and had barely
enough to last her here, and when she returns in all
probability there will be nothing there We have been
very fortunate having had pleasant weather entire
passage; for II we had had any heavy storm think IL
extremely doubtful whether / should be writing this
letter. unless there accommodations for doing at
the bottom Of the briny deep, and submarine mail run
ming to New York. Our crew is very much like the
Massachusetts, regiment which be found
chancs OF every description, with only this slight
difference between the two-the Massachusetts men
W0r mi mr. nd "
ours miserable mechanics, and make worse sailors
Owing, however to the untirng and unceasng efforts Of
our First Lieutenant (than whom no better odcer or
perfect gentleman trod ships quarter deck)
begin to act like sailors than they
be moulded into some sort Of order and hope il we
have an opportunity TO participate in the festivities OF
bombardment none Of them will be found to have an
antipathy to gunpowder.
Our officers with the exception Of the captain first lieu
tenant master and mdshipman, have never been in
manof war before and are consequently green in the
ways of the service. Imyse although had madeit my
especial study to become perfectly conversant with naval
etiquette and congratulated myself on my proficiency
quarter deck in straw hat, instead Of cap and
requested to remove it, and array myself in the regulation
head covering, the inventor Of which regulation
cap may congratulate himself having made the ugest
and most uncomfortable skull protector possble and
auathemas would consign him TO place consi-
derably warmer than Key West ] In vain pleaded the
heat ana the necessity Of keeping my head per
SO was obliged with regretful tear TO consgn my
obnoxious straw hat to oblivion. Nothing sworthy Of
note occurred on eur passage down. except the frequent
visits Of that welcome guest sickness Only
those who have been to appreciate the intense
seonzng struggles of some poor unfortunate not to ap
pear sick until finding the task too Herculean for him TO
accomplish, IN an agony OF despair he wishes himself
dead and fully enter into the feelings Of the person
A life on the ocean wave
The man who wrote 1t was green;
The author had never been TO sea,
And storm he never had seen.
Almost all OF our crew, and am sorry 70 say some OF the
ocers so far forgot themselves as to indulge in
amusement but they all sailors, and when they
get home will talk about the poor were sea sick
as il they had never been troubled with the affection
themselves On the Sd instant passed onefarge ship
oftheline, four frgaes and tive gunboats al Of which
destined for Vera have little with
the Aexcans. They all steam vessels and carried
powerful batteries that il the Msxcans very
agreeable the visit may lead to unpleasant results We
VIII remain here only long enough TO take In water and
then 20 immediately TO Pensacola 70 report 70 the Com
modors. cannot what possible sailing vessel
can be on this station, vessels constantly run the
blockade where steamers stationed, and If
should have calm could do nothing 1hope when next
write be able to have something interesting totel
you about; but as yet we have done nothing and
The Weather l. hot and as nv sheet !.
fun shall not spin my yarn any longer-til next time
UNrxp STATES s1rAnKa AIARAnA,
orr CHARLESTON, s. C., Jan. II, 1862. J
7ves Months Experience Blockader-A Specimen Of
Southern Shoes-Arriuai Of Confrabands-zdsoWs Nos
quito F<d-Nio Crders-The LregMlayity Of the 4ails
Treasury Notes in Demaxd-Am UxsSccesGfHi Rxse, dc.
II would seem Flag Onccr Dupsnt's report tho
department sulogizng the services and efficiency Of the
Alabama and other steamers Of the class iswsl
deserved during three months that she has been
commission she has assisted n blockadng the different
ports and hsrbors between Charleston and Fernandna
besides capturing two and destroying valuable vessel
and cargo mention "totsing frgatAs from
uy~ b.wa To- FsnS kaou0 0xnpS
stant CO. and were not for bright snticipatons con-
cernng prospective prize money blockadns upon such
cheeress dead. and alive looking this would
prove excessively humdrum andlmonotonous. As it 10,
we would ike have occasional hand In Of the
more exciting expeditions that and then fitted
out but that work generally entrusted TO the
tract gunboats, whose light draft Of and long
range guns render them peculiarly adapted opera
tons upon the Southern Mails very seldom como
direct and wben steamer is expected TO 70 North We
have cur letere already written often several days
advance ready TO send away at . moments warning.
Hence the abrupt termination aud closing up of some OF
my communications
Another dsagreeabe feature connected with the block
aiding is the fact that isundresses taiors and
shoeakers present Indigenous our cruising
grounds and the gradual dimnution in the supply OF
clean linen has caused the practice Of many ingenious de-
ceptive little arces tnoTn only TO the initiaed) TO
| remedy and conceal the want.
wish that Of the people who imagine that "se
cesh furnish their troops with good comfortable cloth
ing could the soldiers Shoes taken from schooner
burned near Cumberland by the Alabama. They were
very coarse unganly arrangement manufactured from
common half tanned yellow spanish leather with single
thin sole, and neither lining, binding heels, evidently
costing not than twenty cents Iair. On sunday
the 9th instant while lying in Warsaw Inlet observed
number Of conrabands making signals on the beach
abreast OF and although II raining at the tne
boats put of from the Seminole and took them OF 10 that
vessel. together with four In which they (egh
al bad padded all the way up from Brunswick Ca,
distance Of about seventy miles The next day picked
up very intelligent yellow fellow who had made his
cape from Savannah and professed TO be the servant OF
captain In Of the forts The stories that he told
differed from those Of Of the others for he stated
that Tstnal at Savannah with the mosquito feet Of
seven steamers among which the Everglade samp
son, Columbus, Huntress and Uncle Sam, the former
being one OF those that down Augustine river every
day. communicate with tho fort at the head OF War.
saw Sound. Free negroes made 10 work the for
catiops bot slaves hired from their masters and II
they attempt leave and get caught death is their in
evable portion Rebel officers and shareholders will
allow either soldiers servants 20 gain correct inorma
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