The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-02-05


2 guarding it, while she refrained fro,
nhell practice nI, the batteries until al
. active necessity arose for doing So, con
tentIng herself with mntcly merlacim.
| them and cannona,ling both the bridr @
anu The four miles space intervciiil.
between 1t and the CITY, In what sa,,
Culinary shape the contingency an
peared will presently be narrated.
There were in Galveston, up to with
IN week of tile attack, absolutely n,
troops. the place being held merely b,
The naval arm. Two. regiments hat
been ordered thither, the 42d Mass;,
chusetts, Col. Burrill, the 23d Come:
ticu,, Col. -, with one battery, III,
2d Vermont, under command of Can't
dolcomb; also a fraction of the la
lexas cavalry, the expected nucleus /"
regiment. OF these troops only III,
42d Mas sachasrits embarke,I for T.xa,
ON or ci"rc the 25th of December. TN,
23d C"nneeticu, remaining at Ship L.
land, where it still is. The first men.
TONED regiment went in three trans.
ports, under the Respective charges of
The Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, and
Major. The vessels being slow, oml,
three companies of this regiment, mn
der Col. Burrill, had arrived. landing
on "a wharf near the upper part of Gal
weston. There they took possession
of one of the churches as Il louk.ou,
ami waited the arrival of their com
rades. They were, in all, about 800
men, not enough to establish picke,s.
They relied entirely on The vicinity of
the gunboats for their safety and pro
lection. The Saxon whici, had brought
them, still lay in the farbnr, "n,sII.
The bar in sl,oal watrr. with Cum,no
done Rcn>haw's tiag ship Wcsttield,
the gunboa,S Clifton and Owa-co, il,
addition 1" the Harriet Lane, Keeping
watch and ward ovri the silent city
such was the condition of Galveston
up 1" the 80 at December. | append
a brief list of of the vessels in order to
c"mplcte this part at the subject:
Flag ship Weslftld, C"mmrdorc
Renshaw-3 9 inch guns, 6s pound
er>, 2 rifled guns.
The Harriet Lane, Capt Wainwright
3 9-ncl guns, 30 poun;l rlfled gun.
4 20 Ir"unirrs. rs.
The Clifton, Capt. Law-2 9 incl
guns, 4 32-pounlcrs, l pivot rifl,,i
1lin.
The Owasrn, Capt. Wils"ll-l IL
'nch gun, 30-ppund rified gun, 4 "a
pound howilztts.
VOYAGE OF THE MARY A. BoARDMAN.
The Mary y. Boar,lman, the Hon
duras aud the Cambria, were exrerted.
The first, (a propeller, built for Chinese
waters) was laden with stures and for. |
age; the second carried the Vermont |
battery before spoken of; aud th, |
Cambria Captured off Charlr>i"n( |
81 number of Texan refugees
rnhryo United States cavalrvmrn.
with 1000 stand of arms for the
use of their loyal connir, men. These
vessels were to have lrti New Orleans
"n ar about Dec. 27lh None of them,
got off uutil tw" days later.
when, ~ already related, The Mary A. |
Boarlman steamed southwark .";rr .f;r Gal Gal !
weston, ~ d with her the Honduras,
Itaving the sl"wtr Cambria tn bring
ui..thc rear, full forty eight hours sub
~eqnen,. The Mary A. Bnardman
parted with her companion at the Del |
Ia of the Mississippi, on the bar of the
South West Pass, and henceforwar.l
held on her way alone. At 4 o'clock |
"n the afternoon of Dec. 3lst she ar
rived off Galveston. Here a luminous
sight awaited her in the ruined light
house on Bolivar P"int--a long sandy
reach stretching toward the town from
the east. The upper portion of the
tower, Of whitewashe,i brick, had been
.ies,r", cd, the light extinguished, the
house below burned, az afterward APP |
peare,l, un the night of Sunday, the
28lh, by the rebels, in anticipation of
the arrival nf Union troops. The sig
nal uf the Mary n. Boariman being
by the flagship Westfield,
that vessel came out Ia meet her, and |
Com. Rrnshaw sent an officer and pi |
l"t on board, when the Mary's crew
learned for the first time that Magru.ler
was in colnrnand at Virginia Point,
with heavy ,einforcements, threatening
active hustilities. a ..,, .,e-.
IN GALVESTON HARBOR. & |
The Mary A., B"ar.lman crossed the
first bar "f the harbor in company with
the Wrstticld, just at suiset; the day
dying magmificcn,ly, the declining sun
lighting up the windows of the city
with dazzling hisire. Passing the .im-
nrr bar, she came To anchor up Boil
vars channel, on the eastern side P-li-
can Island, IN the still water below the
town, thu. flag ship ,loIng the like, with
in hailiny distance, only a little nearer
To Bolivar's Point. Srawar,l, further
Down, lay The Saxon. A fine, calm,
moonlight night succeeded the day; il
was little. hazy, bu; without fog, and
very quiet: one could see objrcts dis
tincily, hear the dash of the waves on
the beach, aud their ripple on the bay.
Aud SO the last night of the year set
tied down IN Galveston.
DANGER.
Up to 24 o'clock, y. NJ. everything
remained tranquil, hnt just then, when
the moon was,iisappearing in the west
ern haze. aud The specks of light ON
the vessels burned all the bri.l ter for
the gathering darkness, the Harriet
ane siuuYlletl sutldp,,ix, o,n.,uueiup