Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-04-30

Yankee Congress ed bill AZ It's last hessisn
thoriring the appointment Of Minister To Esy and -
Hay already coored to the Csurt
his Hghness ABEAHAE the st. the tms has OF me when
absolutely necessary for ABRAHAM to his rsprsssa
the Court of that eolored gentleman
President GEfFxARp The Chattanooga Rebel insist upon
ths appointment Of that royal nuato and rsdAAt rascal
FRED DsUaLA. The Rebel then proceeds 10 revive the
following joke about FRED:
at was in the early days of The DoCeLAs 5000 after
he arrived among his Yankee friends he was speaking
highest pitch with the story Of hi. wees, slerinxs and
wrongs, he down with closing fat full OF sand
count the stripes my back you you'd fad bleeding
tesmony to all that have said TO which an irishmsn
mercy, do ye Fredf Oh, yes, often yer back
s Ii. s.sd Win
sid his thigh, ye must have been ID bad niggsr
aE tSs .na n Soe
honin in Ba Frederick will be blessed indeed. We
must again pronounce it a superb app oIntmeat
TIE y1cksBUHG CITIZEN gives the following OF
the re running ofhe blockade at Vicksbnrs by
Der Yankee Gunboss and Transports II is more cir
c1nstantial than any other have yet seem:
Passage OF the Boats.
gathered the best Information could obtain
In regurd The running TIE on the GIT OF the
sounded that the approaching and immediate ar
rsngements made to e!e them an
ton The large number of boats coming down caused the
general belief that assault the city, and an attempt
to land troops to be made One large guneoAt SAID
in the but efore the Others the bend
iumnat river bied gunners to get dis
tinct view. .
COED eert and all of them disabled and unmanage.
able, and compelled drift down with the current With
out ,he ssss-l ce The let comprised six
boats and three Transports The the Caan
natl, Gen. P Tuscunb'a Renon Aleck Scott and La
we're he Henry Gay Fore s oasen and silver wave il
repored that the Berry Clay was sunk ~ our upper
reach here, and from theIa learn the particulars OF
her en uctin 1t aso apPea,s that cur upper batteries
pzHthed the bottom CUT of the gunboat Lafayette, and
in tempting GET back to her landing she sunk out Of
one of tie transports. said be the Silver Wave
by burned to the water edge.
up the river as The ated by the lower batteries This
aGvennre OF enemy esulted in total loss OF three
disabling Of neary all the rest The g1nboass ali went
down below Warren on on the same night and serenaded
obstetrics there they passed The transport lies
s gy and one tied to the opposite shore below Brown
J0hust"ns place
city, aud it casualties to
report. One had leg broken and about dozen of
TIL firing from gurs good, accurate and rapid
To hat ex;snt the enemy suffered in loss of life not
arrived here. is woman who was chamber maid on the
hsD Gay s and sh' @ that five killed on a
number Of her vessels route but the passage be-
SO hot that they were forced TO return up the
they oil succeeded in getting below it was Tho in
tention If the Yankees to the troops the
and attack the place from that auarte This having failed
nay cause another change of program
YESTERDAY forenoon, the 26th instant, Coroner a. K.
PERRIN held inquest the body of a negro man
named JACK" belonging il WRIGHT Esq, of Wayne
county The boy had been up Chatham county was
On board he hurt coming down from Fayetteville the
sEht of the 20th work OF the deences this
'icinity.
When the boat last took wood about eight miles from
Wilmington JACK board. but when she got
own to town about 10 o'clock, p. NJ, roll was
alled he did not answer. There some doubt whether
70 had fallen overheard whether he had gene ashore
It the landing above town, but these doubts removed
yesterday by the body being found in the Cape
ust outside Of Orange street dock The verdict
iienta Drowning daily Journal 27h.