Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-05-29
From the Charleston Courier

later from Nassau.
Information has reached this city from Nassau N.
Pr up to the Goth Instant
lhe following vessels we're at that port Schrs. w.
Y Leach, Experiment, Harriet Lowndes, Julia Mar
sbaIl Morning Star, Adela and Patriot British steam
ers Thomas L. Wragg, Hero, Mimic, Miana, Stelllng,
Cambria, Miramon, Oveto and Nelly.
The British steamships Southwick and Gladiator had
sailed for Europe tie former with 100 and the latter
with 900 bales Cotton -s .es =
w. A rurnor prevailed at Nassau that the steam ship
Bermuda had been released by the Yankees.
The brig Fanny Lewis Mitchell, from Liverpool and
schooner Albert Erickson from Havana, bad arrived
at Nassau.
Some Egyptian Cotton seed and several Cotton gins
have lately arrived at The Bahamas, and they hope to
cultivate Cotton with success.
be British steam ship Tubat Cain was expected at
Nassau from Liverpool.
The ship Eliza Bonsa had arrived at Liverpool from
Nassau.
We subloin sach items as are of interest which we
fDd in our files OF Nassau papers
YANKEE lNsoLENcE The arrival of the screw steam
er Hero last night, eighteen days from Queenstown,
IraaDd something the annals OF speed worth re-
cording. We have been politely handed K gish papers
to the 26th nit. by Capt. Peat
he Hero was boarded by The Federal gunbOat Mer-
cedea @ euns) no less than three times 80 miles II. n
E. Of The HOe-ln-the Wall Is this outrage to be
peated nd hbitunl2 We have before had occasion to
remark that the port of Nassau effectually
b0ckaded by FEDERAL gunboats than that OF Charleston,
aud stall be compelled repeat this assertion 1t
is not long since one of the Federal ganhoats actually
came up mouth of our barbOr and Gil again
without even saying How do you do p 1t is true
H. ILL., s. Steady went out as Tar as the Berry Islands
after her. but she escaped with impunty Surely it is
high time that had gunbOats stationed
between the Holeb- he Y all and Berry Islands, to
counterfeit this growing evil and protect commerce.
he uHeUYiable manner Ia which the Bahamas have
been shown up by dastardly and designing persons,
whose espionage system is just beginning TO be found
out By OV6r-cOnldng population, demands US TO
speak out. We rejoice that we are lVl0g IN land OF
beT,y where everything Is above bOarda liberty lar
gleater THAI that OF the land OF boosted freedom whose
honest citizens eXpatrated Tor daring TO der with
their fellows Oh "A point OF Government. Had any Ba-
namian actci The United States as some Of the ct
Of America have ac,ed here, be would have suferd
the penalty OF riding the RAIL- aud been emersed In that
adhesive liquid which the teathered tribe have he.
qu2nily added extra coating.
Nassau Guardian, l7M INST
The THOMAS l.. WRAGG.-'IEe British steamer
Thomas Wragg, on her passage out of this port the
other day, chased 10y an American man-o war and
fired at as she was passing the Island OF Abaco They
kept up pursuit Tor successive hours but she
finally succeeded Guiding them and safely reached the
port she steering t.r. We nave been shown let
ter from d pelS ID Great Harb0r Abac0 to iniu-
entia mercantile house this city, In which the writer
says good sized armed steamer, apparently American,
has been cruZlng around here for The past two weeks
often speaking vessels, and generally going farther
UrJh than the Elbow, always proceeding Southeast
evy as il bOund TO Hafbor Island and returning from
the South He ACIDS, her maLGeYres creating con-
siderable curiosity amongs5 u.s. and OF opinion
we as fully bockaded as the Southern States 10
Were the relations charged, and it was
English vessels cruising and intercepng the commerce
III American waters, what would not the American
journals be tiled with Nassau Herald, 7th iatSl.
| TIE BLoCKADE.-Severa vessels having reported
that they had b5en fred in the nelghborhood OF Aba
and the Berry islands, IL. NJ :. Bulldog, Conman-
der Mckli0p, lett haroor at O'clock L. d., yes
terday, order to the oggressors No coors
Informed, shown by tie ships which fired
at these vessels By this il appears that the blockade
is extended to the Bahamas while it is badly kept al
the ports Of Souta Carolina sixty vessels have arri-
we'd here from the last mention ed cast since December
and five have in with Cotton already this week
Nassau Qua, dlun day 8.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE TO THE BRITISH ELAG-ihe
schooner Albert, which arrived here yesterday, from
! Havana, brings intelligence OF an American man-o-
war having captured AID carried into Key West the
British sttamr Bermuda, bound to this port from Lv-
erpoul, when eff the Holein-the- Wall. We received
! tbs from reliable intormalion.-NdSS0u Herald, It'll.
! We are informed that tie Journal Of Commerce
one of the best and abless papers OF New YoIk-has
been suppressed ~ order OF the Fedecasts. We hope
the statement may MT be true but did not re-
c2iyc usua! exchange files OF it by the mails have
every reason tor believing the contrary.
Nassau Guardian.