The New York herald., 1865-02-17
GREAT COMMERCIAL STAGNATION.
Effect Of Our Recent Victories on the Coast On
Blockade Running and Contraband Trade.
ARRIVAL OF THE PIRATE TALLAHASSEE.
Her Name Changed 60 the
Chameleon.
The United States GunbOat Honduras Re-
fused Pcrmlssien % Anchor ID
Nassau Harbor.
Attempt Of the Rebel General Preston 70
Run Into Wilmington,
&c., &C., &c.
Our Nassau IN. P.) Correspondence.

Our Nassau IN. P.) Correspondence.
NASSAU, N r., Feb. o. 1895.
xAssAU VICTORIES
COAST.
Nassau doomed city, far the contraband trade
which has been carried for the last three IL
cerned The shutting up OF the port Of Wilmington has
laid her low Her glory has well nigh departed In tho
midst OF the ocean, she will sit desolae and solitary
laentng her fallen and feeling the bitterness
Of the truth that a ID vanity For brief period her
commercial star the ascendant II shot up with
the rapidy and cleaned with the brilancy Of meteor
and like II, 1t will be suddenly exnguished. Where
now her commercial ac,vity-steamcrs leaving and
arriving daily and pouring into her lap the than
golden OF Dixie All gone. In the waters of
her admirable harbor this moment float than
thirty Of her iawdefying vessels, idle and
without employment There also here sailing
craft which be counted by the hundred.
Her warehouses nlled with goods for
which there will soon be market Her
which, under the stimulating influence Of tho
recent trade, have nearly doubled in number will erc
long seeking where tenants 10 be had.
Rents, which have been inflated into fabulous propor
tons viii collapse. Liborers who have nockcd here
from the adjoining islands, under the inducements Of
high wages will TO their former homesA The
handwriting IL upon the wall Babylon Ia tottcrng 10
her fall
But what OF the wealth which three years have
brought Of doubt, will remain. Some Of Il
has been buildings and other city improve
ments There those who knew that q change must
come and prodiipg by their knowledge, have secured
| their gains But with the mass money easily ana
quickly made Is quickly parted wish and the day u
| adversy finds them with extravagant habits and
empty purse. No doubt this rule will apply hero -
elsewhere And Nassau with reference 70 tho Of
her people, their habits morals will be on
than before her short and sudden Dros
| perrty
Nassau has borne relation the South during
the rebellion the Danish Island Of Eustaa bore
| the American colonies during the Rsvolutsn That
island the headquarters Of contraband
trade with colonies The British government took
advantage Afterwards declared against Den.
mark to send feet against IT, and Il captured ~
Rodney and all the property connscated History repeats
| itself.
/ RmEI GENERAL CUT OFF,
General Preston OF the robc army arrived q Nassau
from Bermuda Thursday the 10th January He astsA
from Bermuda sor Wilmington In the bockaas runner
Rattle Snake but finding the lights a tho ssssaace &c
the harbor changed the steamer put back md "a
Nassau. General Preston man full SIX feet In heghe
| and Of good appcarru He called spon BY the
Governor Of this colony and General Ashmora He lefs
on the LIST Of February, In tho Same steamer Rattle
| Snake for Charleston.
ARRIVAL OF rK PIRATE TALLAHASSEE NASSAU
| The Tallahassee, the rebel steamer prtvateer, %
pirate she called according the respective We've
of the persons who speaking Of her, came In this
port Thursday, the 26th uit u H said that her
has been taken out Of her. and that she 70
DO used hereafter blockade runner There two
reasons which this very doubtfu:-F1rst she s
full rIggcd ship and consequently s too conspicuous
object upon be used for that buxiness
second the blockade running business about used mp.
She arrived laden with coal and sailed January 81 with
the cargo. The attention Of the Governor was
called her by the United States Consul She sails
| under the name of the Chameleon
ARRIVAL on rnx uvrrEp srArss HospuRAs-sBE
| RErrsED ANCHORAGE
The United States gunboat Honduras arrived here
| on tho 3lst II January. Her business 10 nise
the Of four thousand dollars in gold, through tho
United States Consul, TO pay or tho employed in
saving the armament &c, of the San Jacinto, lately
! wrecked on the neishborng island Of Abaco Captain
Harris, tho officer commanding, ashore aud per-
mission asked of the Governor that the ycssel might
4 come anchor Your readers doubt thas
very AFTER the breaking out q the In the
| United States the Queen issued proclamation based
upon the stricest prin ipes OF English neutrality that
no war vessel either begcrcni should anchor
English without pernisson expressly gwen,
aud only IN Of distress grave emergency Az
the naval power OF the contcndng parties nearly
equal of the operation Of this rule has boon
strictly impartial On the present occasion the vessel
being In Distress and the Governor not being able
10 Sc that there that grave emergency" which tho
pro, lama,on contemplated the result that Captain
HAIRS vas compelled to his vessel about DUSK
through h a, surf obtain the papers necessary 10
enable him 70 transact his business The Honduras
crrsed OF and all night, and the following morning
Captain Harris again ashore in his gig and the gun
boat erl he'd about until the business adjusted
| he returned W her and she ttcamed away.
Tho Corsica arrived here before daylight on Friday
| morning February ,. after splendid passage.
This has bscu the coldest wntsr known here FOR
quarter Of century, The thermometer having ranged
from sixty seventy for two or three weeks past
The arrival OF ,hc dIsspatcd shs thss
had been Coating around the place Of peace and recosn
un OF the SOUTH and ALEC o peaae the
basic Of return BY ms south 70 Nc Union, and the
\ rnan,inat ou Of The slaves