Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-02-11
THE HARRIET LANE NOT ESCAPED FROM
WESTON
The Navy Department to-day received the
following dispatches:
FLAG SHIP HARTFoRD, D
New ORLEANS, Jan. -, I-cS.

In" Navy department to-day received the
following dispatches:
FLAG SHIP HARTFORD.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. -, I-tS
Sir: have received dispatches fr 1m Com
mCdore Bell and Lieutenant Commander Rid
On the coast OF Texas, extracts and copy of
which here with IN LOSE, by which YOU will
See ti.at our disasters on that coast ar not yet
crGed.
As had already anticipated, il appears that
Il enemy came OFT OF Sabine Pass with TWO
.'Cot'on fortified steamerSCn certain morn
Il g, and ran out 10 sea some gelve or fourteen
mIips wher. the Morning Light was The latter
soon got nndrr way, hut by the rebel accounts,
taHd We have no other,D they gave Chase, soon
came UP with and captured her without losing
man. The same course Of non resi- stance ip.
PEARS 10 have ben pursued by the officers aud
crew OF Tat vessel as was pursued by tho-e of
he " eet ii, Id and Harriet Lane Tn Shooner
N'loci y was soon made also 10 surrender aud
was taken INFO pOlt.
am very thankful tina. they did not get the
guns OF the Morning Light, as il would Ia We
enabled them to erect battery Of great siren 9Th
in such \ shallow pass.
YOU WILL NOTICE that the guns OF the Morning
Lieht were loaded, and went OF when they be-
came heated; by which circum stance l nudge
the men did not even fire their last charge, but
Surrendered without a struggle.
1 .m pleased to SEP by Comm iore Bell's ra.
rorf hat the Harriet Lane is sill In q alive ton
hartor, although Thy have tried I'd i'm press US
with The idea that she had run out during tie
lass gale, WIN h is now known not 10 be the case
Your obedi-nt servant,
DO. FARRAGUT, Rear Admiral.
Hon. GIDEON WELLEs, Sec'y Navy
L. =. have just learned TINT the Morning
Light Was captured in dead calm, by The
81; amer coming up astern of her,
ID. G. FARRAGUT, Rear Admiral
L. s STEAM SLooP BRooKLYy
OfF GALVESTON, January -, lo6l. (
Slr: L am very confident that the harriet
Lane Is within Galveston waters. The SEA
broke heavily on the 18th and 10th from one
tnn OF the shoals to the other, and nothing
drawing over six feet WAFER could have posi-
hly crossed the bar, and nothing could have
passed through the gunboats anchored there
without BENG seen, although the night was
very dark. Subseq uently the office accom-.
panylng the fags OF truce tried 10 create the
impression that She is out-one of them saving
SO plainly. i don't believe IT,
This morning Lieut.. Mitchell reported that
he could zee square-rigged vessel, sails
loosed, from the maintopmast head, which he
takes 70 be the Harriet Lane. She lies bsyond
the upper b arbor, in the direction of VlrgIni,
Point, and " as doubtless carried over the shosl
waters ny the rise during the heavy eas terly
weather.
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
n. II. BELL, Commodore.
To Rear Admiral FARRAGUr, &c, SC.
Lieut. Reed, of the U. s gunboa. New Lon.
don, in the dispatch referred to in Com. Farra.
CUTS report states that he was ordered, in
to Sabine Pass to the relief Of the Morning
Light Rachel Seaman and Velocity, block.
aiding there, reputed captured by the rebels
At l2 IN. on the I'D January he discovered the
MerninE Light. A steamer was Just leaving
her, and In few moments the former wa, dis
covered 70 bs on fire. The Cayuga was or.
dered forward, but IL was impossible To save
her The fire was started In the after part OF
the ship.
The enemy lowed her In ten feet of water,
perhaps with ths hope OF getting her over the
bar into the Pass. Four Of her guns were dis.
charged by the heat, three on the port side and
on The starboAYd side. thu lattaY n a N llsn
into tho held, and the shot coming ont iust
above her copper, one beat being near at the
time. Two OF her she'll exploded. The enemy
had undoubtedly removed the powder from
the magazines, as NO explosion took place az.
cept ths eups and she'll.
II 10 thought that the enemy did not ee, any
Of the guns of the Morning Light
As to the schoOners Rachael Seaman and
Velocity tho former Lieut. Read had learned
has escaped; the latter was captured with tho
Morning Light