, 1863-06-29
BEING CHASED BY 4 FEDE--
RAL STEAMER, THEY
BURN HER,.
The Pirates all Captured,
including the Captain of
the Pirate Tacony.
THEY ARE SAFELY LODGED IN
FORT PEBBLE.
The Rebel Pirate Florida In
TIC OGinE.

Ao"Iae' 0te1MtIs were lMmcl111clT aant II
pursuit, and the two are now engaging her
The guns can be distinctly heard here:
PORTLAND, Ne, June o7.-The United Safe:
-rcvenue cutter, which, as we reported this
| morning, was rua out Of this harbor, AMI pur
sued by two steamers, it is now ascertained,
apparently came to anchor and took in sails,
and coon after was discovered to be On tire.
At twenty minutes past two o'clock she blew
up with tremendous report, and nothing Of
her is now visible. From the observations it
is supposed she WAS blown up By the crew.
The steamers arc returning.
PORTLAND, Nc, June 27-P. M.-The crew
Of the cutter Caleb Cushing, seem to have cs.
capped, before she was blown up, In boats
probably to schooner near By, as the Forest
City chased one down towards Green Island,
caueht her, and Is towing her In The Forest
City had only twclye.pounders, and the Cles.
apeake only sfx-poundcrs, but their intention
WAS to run the cutter down at once, as they
were no match for her thirty-two-pounders.
PORTLAND, June q, 6 p. m.-Captain Les
comb, Of the Forest City, says he came with.
In gun-shot Of the Gushing half m hour be-
fore the Chesapeake came along. The Cush.
ing fired at the Forest City six times, without
showing any fag Whatever. The Forest City
then Ibid to, waiting for the Chesapeake to
come M. When the Chesapeake arrived, af
ter consultation, 1t was agreed to board the
Gushing. The Chesapeake took the lead in
this, being propeller, md also being pro-
tected by cotton bales. The rebels perceiying
the intentions Of the Chesapeake and Forest
City, became frightened, and abandoned the
Gushing In two boats, and sent of third
boat, with the regular crew, whom they had
placed in irons. This Last boat was almost
Immediately picked up By the Chesapeake.
The other two boats, with the rebels aboard,
Eteered for HnrpsweN shore, and were pur-
sued end picked up By the Forest City. The
rebels proved to bo twenty-three in number.
The Forest City also picked up small
boat, containing Mr. Bibbcr, who had. been
set adrift from the Gushing. Mr.. Bibber and
his partner were captured yesterday, By the
rebels, while in small dahlng boat, of Da-
,ners Cove Island. 3{r. Bibber informed Capt.
LeEcomb that he Was captured BY the schooner
Archer, of Southport.
The schooner Archer came In last night, and
anchored below Mlnoo, intending to burn two
gunboats building in Portland, and cut out
the revcnue cutter Gushing, ard steamer For
est City. This they found themselves very
much troubled to do; but at 2 o'clock this
morning the5 boarded the Gushing quietly,
and seized small portion Of her crew then
aboard, put them in irons, and made their way
ont Of the tarbor, through Hussey's Sound.
After passing tie forts, Capt. .Lcscomblearncd
the intentions Of the rebels, and Immediately
pursued the Archer, which was making her
way to the eastward as rapidly as light
breeze Fould permit. Capt Iescomb cap
turcd tic Archer, and found three rebels and
Bibbers' partner aboard, and towed her up to
the city.
By Mr.- Bibber's report, Captain Lescomb
thinks there are three ormorc schooners with
rcbel crews aboard On our coast destroying
our.1zhermen. The Archer had only how
stzcr On board, and the echooners are prob
ably lightly armed.
The Forest City passed a Suspicious looking
black steamer of Cape Porpoise, at o'clock
this morning. when coming from Boston,
which ut first made for the Forest City, but
afterwards Kept to the southwest. The For
est City arrived up about ha1t-past o'clock,
landing the rebel prisoners at Fort Prcblc.
s O'CLOCK r. M.-Your reporter has just
come from Fort Prcble. The commandant
there will not allow the prisoners to be ques-
toned tonight. There are tWo rebel officers
among the prisoners named Lieut.. G. ".
Reed, with a regular commission from the
Confederate navy, the late commander. Of the
Tacony, aud Eugene H. Brown, Sd Assistant
Engineer Of the F1orida, detached from the
Tacouy.
THO books Terc found On the prisoners
memorandum book with instructions, &C.,
which was not allowed to see, and another,
m account book, cotainiug in fact part of the
list Of vessels captured By the rebels. The
commandant Of tue. fort informed us that it
appears from q memorandum TINT Lieut.. Reed
and his crew went aboard the Tacony. about
the 14th Of May. On the morning Of the 25ta
Of June he seems to hayc buraca the Tacony,
and gone on board the schooner Archer.
Lieut.. Reeds last memorandum says, "1t
Is my intention to 60 along the coast with the
view Of burning the shipping in some ex-
posed harbor or cutting out some steamer"
Apolice force went to Fort P1eble this eve
ming to demand the prisoners in behalf Of the
civil authorities, but the commandant stated
he should hold them as prisoners Of war.
subject to the commands Of the War Depart
ment. It is reported by the crew Of the Cush-
ing that boats crew Of ten men escaped
from her this morning. If this is 50, they
may seize some other schooner and make
more trouble. -
The regular crew Of the Gushing has been
pnt In confinement, to wait the examination.
Lieut. Davenport statos that between 13 and
i O'Clock Last night, some suspicious looking
men, dressed as sailors, came aboard the cut
ter, and hearing an unusual noise, he went On
deck to see What WAS the matter, when he was
Immediately seized by fire armed men, who
pointed their pistols at him, and said they be
1ongedto the Confederate nayy. Finding re.
sistance useless, he surrendered, and was put
in irone, with all his men.
Both Lieut.. Reed md Engineer Brown
styled themselves rs officers Of the Confede-
rate steamer Florida, and eaid she was in the
ofing.
The cutters crew refused to tell where the
ammunition WIS put, and this, with the want
Of favorable wind, induced the rebels to burn
the, cutter.
Lieut.. Reeds log book states that he burned
the Tacony, Of which lie was commander, on
finding that vessels of the Federal Govern
ment we're after him.
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