The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-15
THE TENNESSEE.
Further Statement by Capt. Drum
InOnu.

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mOnd.
New YORK, February 1.-THE
H"rM has a dispatch from Philadelphia
Giving additmal particulars from Capt.
Dr,mmond of his seeing the Tennessee.
i The Captain says -,
IL first saw this vessel about ] ]
@ clock on the night OF January 18th.
The vessel left New York harbor late
in the afternoon of the 18th, by land
lime; it was the 18th by nautical time
On the 18th, by land time, ] first saw
her masthead lights. Do not know
that she was a bark-rigged vessel her
nizzcn tops were furled, and | could
hot determine. The vessel was acting
VERY strangely, and it was all we could
d. to keep out of her way. She was
Steering directly south. She crossed
bur bows within 500 feet of us. This
Na> about 100 miles from Cape Hat,
iera-. and perfect gale was blowing.
Thr Anderson shipped great deal OF
Mater all that night, and labored very
heavily feel confident that it was
ill., Tennessee we saw. II she got
tlrou.h the storm all right she would
Certainly have pat in at Jamaica in four
day>. and would have reported from
tlat place.
The following is an exact copy of the
Auirr-on'S log book:
Al / O'Clock (the time the Tennes-
S. was notced) fresh gales attended
wirh squalls; lightning IN the north
Northeast: heavy sea, making reeted
toI-al~ and turled them; passed a
stclmcr mam-ot-war steaming TO the
3uth, nationality unknown.
81 NJ - o clock the Anderson log book
reported raining and very heavy north
cas- sea rolling. Both Captain Drum
rnoni and his first mate are positive 1t
{ va, the Tennessee they saw, as she
woud have been just at that place the
lSih Of January, land time. Captain
Drummond would have reported it be-
iorr. but did not know the Tennessee
llal not been heard from.
No Tidings from Her.
\ special dispatch TO the Herald,
htrl Havana 18th, says: We have
no tidings whatever of the United
&are. steamer Tennessee at this place,
and your CORE, ,pondent at Santiago de
Cnra ha~ heard nothing of her where
abOuts
EosroN, February l4.-Captaiu Hop
kn~ of the bark Mary Baker, which
arrived here from Miragone, Hayti, re-
por,~ January 18th, Oft ST. Nicholas
Mol. northwest end OF Hayti, saw an
Ancricau man-of.war When first seen
she was under steam alone, but she i'm
me atrlv made sail and steered for the
east end of Cuba under both steam and
sail The steamer was very large and
lShip rgged; weather line at the time.
l From the description OF the steamer 1t
was supposed she might have been the
EIennc>Sec, but as her course would
haye been in an opposite direction II Is
conc cuici that the vessel was some
o1her American man of war cruising in
{6Qs waters.
~ ASHlxGTnN, February l4.-Prompt
i00niry at the Navy Department by
Nh reporter Of the Associated Press
1pon receipt here OF telegram announc-
18e tina, the steamer Tennessee had
D<en sighted on the 18th Of January,
1tct RESPONSE which seems to indicate
tt1t TIE British Captain who reports
t4Ring sighted vessel answering to
fho description of the Tennessee, was
II sIkAt in his conclusion that such was
4 49, vessel observed The probable
& x}oreahOuts of the other United States
mt1 o'-war serving in the Gulf of Mex
IS considered in forming this esti-
+ n41e The only two steamers Of the
Qnllel States Navy similarly rugged to
NJ tennessee in the Gulf, are the Sew.
Admiral Lees flag ship, and the
t1@Eress boh Of which, though
hat smaller, have a resemblance
e Tennessee. Last reports TO the
rtment almost preclude the idea
he steamer sighted on the 2Sth
he either Of those steamers. The
bic, Nantucket and Swatera, all
smaller and differently rugged
the Tennessee, are cruising abou,
Domingo, hut it is hardly possible
elther of them could have beer
zen Tor the Tennessee.