The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-03-20
The Great blockade Running
Organization Dissolved.
The Coleman Prosperity Of the Bahamas
IIlusory and Fading Away.
Hundreds Of Seamen Out Of Employment and
Traders Made Bankrupt by the Fall
Of Charleston and Wilmington.
ARREST OF A REBEL NAVAL OFFICER,

Our Nassau Correspondence
NASSAU, N. p, March l3, 1863
The effect upon this city Of closing of the port OF
wilmington followed by that Of Charleston which was
foreshadowed previous letter. Is reaching It's accom-
plishmcnt
Nassau IL no longer that busy, busting, josng 60
ahead wdeawake little place II has been for the last
three years. No longer do steamers laden with an "as
sorted oargon clear from this port for Halifax or St
Johns and return within a week well freigbied with
cotton The custom house officials longer perperate
those agreeable little pleasanes of giving clearance
for the British provinces above named to those long,
low, white, fast-sang steamers, laden with Emusic
rifles cannon balls, braadstuns blankets ana other
articles and then, in the course of the following ten
days. repeating the joke with reference to the same YES
ses and re-repaating It ad i,situm, with as lively
Of the humorous II they were doing Tor Inc
first time The joke nevertheless capital one, as
will be made evident herea.erand those jolly custom
house officers looked grave and respectable while they
were indulgng themselves In 1t. Their counenances
were as mpertubabie mustard pot; but Doubt 81,
while they ouwardly gave sign they warmed up In
wardy with appreciation of the absurdty OF the
thing As has been sad capital little joke Tor
this nice little place.
1t has paid Off It's debt It has put into the bank to
the credit the colony the snug little sum Of $4,000
in gold Who would be facstious with such rcturnsS
But it Is all over The custom house officers have
cracked their last joke and cleared their last blockade
runner.
This sudden check to business operations has thrown
several hundreds Of men, 1r1mcn, stokers. &c, con-
nected with the steamers out Of employment large
number these are represent themselves to be- en-
tirely destitute They have been provided for by the
authorities who getting them shipped OF as rapidly
practicable. The Legislature has passed an act pro-
hibng the dscharge OF persons engaged In the navga
ton of vessels As there steamers still arriving from
England which left before the had reached there OF
stro ctop OF the blockade running business this
will Protect the colony against having their crews throw
upon the shores without the Means OF SUPPORT une ~ =.
inst another the Eliza and Fanny arrived Yesterday
from Bermuda The white population, undcr the iniu-
gradually dwndling away. Men engaged jim trade lind
The tide Of business suddenly retreating from the and
them with large stocks OF goods upon their hands AS
there market for them here their owners are eav
Ing for Havana and other places TO nnd marae,, Emo
ment elsewhere. Every vessel sail or steam carries
large pumber Of passengers The Corsica which sails to-
dav IS cro;ar,, and many unable to get passage.
The United States Ucrsu is worked beyond all reasonable
claim upon his time as.endny TO the rush o. business
growing out Of this exod 70; days ne mas Deen ~ ms
Office from morning until night Wtnv.i any inlermis-
sion dinner The sailing vessels which were ners
take the cotton aboard and whose mass thick
so that the habor by comparison, begins to look de-
The last OF the steamers which ciearu LOT Dixie was
the syren She has been gone nearly four weeks and
should have returned time ago but did not Where
w marrying ..sss and 4ss; t ss.a ss s sv
q at lsnsS ceased % charm away those who
STs had sns against thy gsse t sa ws
evil has befaIen thee. In fact know that In the
blockade running vernacular, thou hast gone up re.
reported in the New York papers US the .yrele. Inc
Little Haty which arrived bore about three weeks since
brought tho captain and Of the Rattle snake Will
ashore, and afterwards burned with her carr, Tho
Chicora formerly Lot Her Be,) aud the Coquete ar
rived about the same time.
Colonel Lamb, General whiting Edith, Watson, cnro-
line Little Hatty and Others have gone to Havana The
Owl, commanded by Captain MaffL formerly Of the
Florida has also left She went TO Galveston, but,
able TO enter that port made for Havana and arrived
there safely few days The Chameleon formerly The
Tallahassee sailed the It'll instant for Bermuda she
will bear looking after IL Is said she will go MADEIRA
| and thence TO England. Some Of those who let for
Havana, thinking that come other opening might OFFER
have returned TO this port and will probably remain
| until they sink back to England, from which place
| they originally came
The affair Of the Hanover again before the auhori.
ties Of this place Your readers will remember that this
vessel captured In the early part 81 the 1863 by
the armed schooner Rethuton, sailing under the rebel
| flag The Hanover taken by Lock, the commander
OF the Rebution, into Long Cay-one OF the Bahamas
and her cargo sold Lock arrested for this brea Of
the laws OF utrality upon British soil AMI held 10 bnl
In the enormous sum u fi0O OF coarse he ceped the
invitation thus given him TO walk Of and Disappeared
short time since the attention OF the authorities
drawn TO tho fact that he had again turned at NASSAU,
and he arrested and his bail liked 81 900 Having
been unable to I'VE this bail, he Is now IN durance vile
heavy thunder shower passed this city Saiur
day last The lightning struck the dwelling house OF SIR.
Squiers but did little damage. The weather. for some
days previous, had been vey hot and sury the Their
reaching eighty two degrees In the shade The
shower succeeded by northc and the temperature
| fell fifteen degrees,