Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1863-07-25
Privateers to be Hunted Down.

Hardly had the steame returned, which weru
sent away few days since, and reported their
failure to discover the whereabouts OF the pirates,
than orders we're received ut New York to pre-
pare once more all available vessels, and to char
acter every fast one to be had Tho steamers
Gertrude and Granite State, both captured prizes,
are finishing rapidly at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
and will be sent to sea Immediately. A tugboat
was dispatched on "Wednesday evening after the
steam irigute San JacintO with orders to bring
her back aud dispatch her after the lacony, but
she was too far out to sea. Yesterday Rear Ad.
miral PaOldiDg succeeded in chartering the splen-
did ocean steamships Atlantic, Baltic, Star Of tho
South, and others
The fleet arrived at the Navy Yard last even
ing and will he outside the lights to-day. The
new steam corvette Shenandoah has received her
sailing orders at Philadelphia, and will join tho
chase; the bark Ethan Allen has gone from tho
Boston Navy Yard, and the new steamer Haw-
quah, built at East Boston by Brown a Lowell,
has been chartered for instant service. The steam
frigate Snsqnebanna which accompanied tho
Niagara on the cable expedition, has been hauled
alongside the wharf at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
to bo fitted out; and indeed every vessel that
possesses any sea-going qualifications will be in
the hands Of the constructors and ilttersout for
the next few days The following is a recapitula-
ton Of the squadlon now about to participate in
tho chase;
Name Description. Whero
!. Atlantic Chartered New York
>, Baltic. Chartered New York,
3. Star Of South. Chartered New York
4. Ethan Allen. Bark Boston
3. Shenandoah. Nayybuilt Corvette pha,
6. Ilawquoh Steam Corvette Boston.
1t was rumored last night that the CumbriI,
Blackstone, and other craft, have been TeChNrter-
cd.
Tie Commandant Of tho Brooklyn Navy Yard
has ordered Lieutenant Commander Fillebrown,
Capt, Nicholson Of tho Shamrock, Capt. Cooper,
late Of the Connecticut and other officers to COM
nand these vessels, aud to use all the possible
vigilance in searching lorthe rebel pirates.
NEWPORT, Il. L. June %, 1863
The schooner Sarah E. Snow has just arrived.
and reports leaving schooner Western Light of
Wollleet at ten clock this morning. with crew
often fishing vessels, principally oil Gloucester
these vessels having been captured and burned
last night off No Mans Land, Vineyard Sound)
the Captain says by rebel steamer. This Is
dOubtlul-probably the Tacony.
NoANE, Conn, June "a.
The crew Of the smack Ia A. Macomber, Pot
ter, of NOank, arrived here this afternoon, From
one Of the crew we learn that their vessel was
boarded June 20, at about half past two o'clock
Pm, by boat from the pirate bark Tacoma not
Iucony- containing five men, under command Of
the second officer.
After learning where the smack was from, the
officer said; "You are prize to the Southern
|, ConGedaacy. give you five minutes to get into
Q your boats and go on board the bark"
!, After getting on board, as ordered, Captain
t Potter requested to be allowed to take his men
and run the risk of getting on board some vessel
|. or lose their lives This was granted and they
4 left, the pirate captain giving them basket Of
, bread and some water,
They allowed the private, after he had set the
smack on fire. &c, to get about five miles off, when
they boarded the smack, hoping to put out the fire
and remain on board until uken or but they
r found The deck gone, and, the pirates being Oh
o served standing towards thom again they Left
. After rowing through the night, they reached the
f South Shoal Lighthouse about six o'clock the fol.
4 lowing morning, having rowed distance oftwen-
l. ty-elght miles. From her they were taken by the
! schooner Antietam, and soon after put Oh board
| the smack Eastern Star, which vessel brought
. them here. They report the pirate to be bark
ofabout three hundred and fifty tons, and think
she has not over 30 men--reguar cat throats-
Nothing was saved but The boats, Quadrants and
the cl0tlel .hev stood in The smack L. A