The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-04-25
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THE BLOCKADE OF GALVESTON.
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Our Naval Block AIDE Correspondence.
UnnD STATES Ezra sLoopey. wAa LAcxA WANNA,
Or GALVESTON, April ., 1884.
N R!eehads 81 0alvsstom-Cdpsuys Of Prssts-A, Large
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s3aroOr-stonG pnon fss...y ." 6as"Hen-essros
= 1aerwdty In Command, dc. ..,....
may not be altogether uninlsrestng 10 The numerous
renders Of your vsuabe paper 70 hear word from be
Scwer end Of naval plockadag force Of
Sssas Therefore win endoavor 70 ,ay little niorma-
s,on before you trusting viii not prove altogether
acceptable Il Is 6pss taes aaatsae ~ 5
INC blockade Of this port very rigorous indeed, -,
during the time this ship been here (snce ltn Of
March astl prizes have been captured BY the d
feren blockadipg vesse.s-a OF them schoopere, bow
ever but which, together, will realize snug sum.
The Iast capture made was the rebel schooner May
eorlyormery the Omitted States cutler Dodge,
ssasa BY the rebes A. toe ccmmeEcenept OF the
ee.ioo los 1sxaA-Dg the gunooat Scota 90 sre
morning Of tho 4h instant after chase twenty ave
niles ,ShoI had cargo 2o7 baes Of cotcD, winch
sost In Galveston $l21 500
The harriet Lane and 40 English steamer named the
Label inside The haroor, protected By the enemy
toyi1caons Deserters have od STALE tnai the
Barrel Lane commented mad with cotton 90 the lst
ust her guns having been removed 70 and mounted on
one the rebel orHcatons and she to out this
week succeeding in " bich she Is to 90 70 Havana and
there be sold She has no mass The .rsper Is already
csded WITH four hundred and ATTY bales Of cotton and
~as 10 come out last night but As the blockade was
trict-having had notice Of her intentional hardly i'm
Agne she had the emerly TO attompst The Isabel isA
famous Rockade runner having made no less than
twenty one round trips between Mobile and Havana and
Eslveston and Havana. tHs
Refugees and deserters como on almost daily from
Galveston and along the They represent the Union
feeling predominant IN Galveston city, and that The Van.
heee would be hailed With joy BY the MAJOR portion
she inhabitants they should ever recapiue the place.
The whole army would desert IN an instant II means
were Afforded but, the government oftcials desn
every boat they can get hold ef.n para mailer
get Away. The last batch thai Game oil seven OF them
from the First Texas artillery built The boat they
Cd IN, In house, out Of fence rattle, stuffed With cotton
Aagruder Is represented to 10 very tyrannca and not
- all liked by men or ocors his sole aim seeming 70 be
~ get drunk and give balls 4 "a n s-g ssat TtsEae4
Late papers wore brought Oh, which contain no news
- consequence, except that Magruder and bis whole
eosce have left the southern coast leaving but fifteen
Aasdred Galveston and vicinity, and gone to con-
tssl the progress or Banks Shreveport which latter in
sHmation 70 connrmed by deserters.