The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-04

= oeon VIZ PIisoBers, ana Obtained an ac
u count OF their cruise from Lieut, Read wht
i courteously answered all Questions. hav,
= corrected ms report with all important me-
morandum, from his private notebook
furnished me by the commander of the
7 fort, as follows:
Lieut.. Read reported on board the Flori-
7 da, in Mobile at the close of 1852 He de-
scribes her as a small sloop-of-war. with
rifted guns and 100 men. On the 10th of
January we left Mobile Bay, with steam
and every sail set TO the Notwithstanding
sail, making IA! knots.
On the 18th, at daylight, saw big sloop-
of-war, supposed the BROOKLYN, which pas
SEQ within half a mile; he showed three
hghts and passed to the northward: 10Th,
burned the brig Estelia; early on the NOR
hlng OF the I'D left Havana, and steamed
10 the eastward: burned the brig Wind
Ward, letting her crew go in a small boat:
OH Cardenas Light, burned the Corris An
I'd she drlfted into Cardenas Harbor 3lst
, was chased by a Union gunboat-had the
neels OF her; Feb. II, captured the clipper
snip jacob Bell; burned her 3Oth March
o. captured the ship Star of Peace: burned
ller at p. m.; March IL, burned the school,
h her a = March %, captured the
vette Oreto, and she captured the shin Com
monwealth, 18th April, bonding Query
purnln?) her; the Lapwing was afterward
burned; 18th March, captured the bark NJ
.. cOlcord, ana burned her April 18th :
April 80, burned the bark Henrietta; oath
burned the ship Oneida May 9Th, latitude
2.a south, longitude 4.23. captured the
brig Clarence; christened her G. s. cor
Vette Florida. No. 2.
Lieut.. Reed states that the Florida can
.ured fourteen vessels in all, up to this
time. The Kate Dyer was one: the others,
names / could not learn.
Lieut.. Read was transferred to the brig
clarence, with crew, as before reported.
She was then off Cape st. Rouue: ran IN
North TILL June s, when. off Cane HATTIE
ras, burned the bark Whistling Wind, with
coal for the United States navy. 18th can
tured the schooner Alfred II. Partridge
and bonded her; 9th, burned the brig Mary
AlVlna, loaded with comnissary stores:
18th, latitude SO N, longitude $50 80, w.
captured the bark Tacony: finding her.
faster than the Clarence, transferred ey-
erythlng, and burned the Clarence; chris
tened the Tacony the bark Florida (which
accounts for the steamer Florida being
reported OFF our coast; same day, captured
the schooners M. A. Shindler and Kate
stuart; bonded the Kate Stuart for s., 600.
and sent all the prisoners aboard; burned
the NJ. A. Shindler; same day, captured
ana bonded the brig Arabella, with a
neutral cargo; passed a gunboat without
bemg noticed: June Is, latitude $40 49,
longitude 700 30', burned the brig Umpire:
June 20, latitude 400 so, longitude 500 O4',
bonded the ship Isaac Webb, with $50
passengers; wild Irishmen; at 8 .. M.
burned fishing sloop, name unknown;
June q. latitude 40, longitude 800 1O,
burned the ship Byzantium; enlisted three
men from her belonging to New Orleans:
same day, burned the bark Goodspeed:
June Ed, burned the fishing schooner Ma
rengo; same day, captured the schooner
Florence; put all the prisoners aboard of
her, including the crews Of the schooners
Elizabeth Ames, Rufus Ch0ate, and Rip
pie, which We're captured and burned the
same day.
On the Sd burned the schooners Ada and
Nanderer; oath, lat. 43o TO-, Ion, go 10, cap
tured the packet ship Shatemuc, from I.iv-
erpooI to Boston, with $50 passengers. VAS
anxious to burn her, she being loaded with
IRON plates, &c.-tried to catch schooners
TO put the passengers aboad, but failed. and
had to let her go, bonding her in Sl50,0O0;
same day, captured the schooner Archer.
chased the Shatermuc, and put the Archer's
crew aboard; hearing that Union cruisers
We're after the Tacony, and fearing recog-
milton, burned the Tacony, transferring
everything to the Archer, thence came di1
rect to Portland; picked up two fishermen
for pilots, but they would not serve: took
the positions from the Coast Survey charts:
got Ill at sunset and anchored below: had
no communication with the shore. From
this. 1t appears that the reports that the pir-
ates were ashore in Portland are unfoun-
Lieut.. Read also says he watched till
$50 a. m. when the moon went down:
hen rowed direct to the cutter Caleb Cush-
ng in two boats, with muffled oars; boar
led her one boat on each side, seized her
rev without any resistance and ironed
hem; captured Lieut.. Davenport as he
anne on deck; weighed anchor, being I'M
'b!e to slip the cable, and started at 8 a. M,
;oinS out by Hussey's Sound, towed by
he boats ahpo2 fplln,-ol
IS fast as her limit would permit, laid to
outside waiting for the Archer When the
steamers attacked US we could only fire
ound shots, and were obliged to fire stones
md pieces ofirOn.
Lieut.. Read belongs in Mississippi, near
'icksburg, and graduated from Annapo-
is in 1860. He came in with the intent of
'urnlng the shipping and two gun boats,
which he learned were building here from
coal-laden English schooner bound from
Teton to New York. He also intended
catch the steamer Forrest City and burn
Ter.
All the Tacony's crew came out ofMobile
a the Florida, except the three taken from
be ByZantium.
The Tacony passed many steamers dur
hg her cruise. On the day the Byzantium
no Goodspeed We're burned, "a large steam
r, showing the French flag, sailed around
he burning vessels, examined them, and
asSed on.
Capt. Gould who died this morning from
n accidental shot aboard the Archer, last
lght, was stevedore and pilot, and not
onnected with tug boat as before stated.
lie was one of Kit Carsons old men.
The Rebel prisoners are strongly con-
ned in Fort Preble, with double guards.
Cor. ". I. Tribune.
FARM CROPS IN THE FREE STATES
according to a report of the United States
agricultural Bureau, it appears that there
q greater area of land under cultivation
his year than last year, in the free States.
otton has been planted as far north as
Minnesota and Michigan, and in Illinois
be success of last years crop has induced
ae farmers to plant at least eight times as
ltch this year. Indiana, Missouri and
.entucky, double the amount of cotton
lanted this year; and in Kansas the
rea covered Is nine times as great as
st year. AS for sorghum, that has be-
'ne staple crop in the Northwest, and
lere is prospect that, whereas last year
re farmers raised sufficient to supply the