The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-02-15
NnW York, FebrnarY l4.

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Hy.a New YORK, February H.
The World has dispatch from Phila.
',a&pa;a. giving additional particulars from
Capt Drllmmond, o. the Prussian bark
Anderson, Of bis sighting the Tennessee
The Captain says; .s. .,'..'....... ~.
VI first saw this vessel about II o'clock
on the night Of January 18th. The yes.
sci leit New York harbor late in the alter.
noon Of the 17th, by land time. II was
the 10th by nautical time and the 18th by
land time when / first saw her masthead
lights do not know that she was q
bark rugged vessel; her mizzen tops were
furled, and could not determine. The
vessel was acting very strangely, and Il
WAS all We could do TO keel. out Of her
way. She was steering directly south,
She crossed our bows within five hundred
feet Of us. This was about rone hundred
miles from Cape 1Iatteras. Aperiect gale
was blowing, and the Anderson shipped
great deal OF water all that night, and
labored very heavily. a...
~ feel confident that II was the Ten.
nesSec we saw, II she got through the
storm all right she would certainly have
put in at jamaica in four days anil report.
cd from that place. IN ---as,s.
The following Is an exact copy OF the
Ahderson's log-book: Lsg.I auIi =
"At II o'clock time Tennessee was no
ticed; fresh gales attended with squalls;
lightning In north .and, northeast; heavy
sea making; reefed topsails and furledthem;
passed steamer, man OF war, steaming to
the south, nationally unknown"
Al 10 O'Clock the Anderson's log.book
reported that It was raining and very
heavy north east sea rolling. Both Capt
Drummond and his first mate are positive
that Il was tho Tennessee they saw, as
she would have been just at that place OH
the 18th Of January, land time. Captain
DrummOnd would have reported II before,
hut did not know that the Tennessee had
not been heard from. a00fJ HEEI
" No News OF Her at Havana. :
A special dispatch to the Herald, dated
Havana the 18Th, says: We have no It'd.
ings whatever Of the United States stCa.
mer Tennessee at this place, and your
correspondent at Santiago dc Cuba has
heard nothing Of her whereabouts.
Another Man Sees War Steamers
I'W. Possibly tho Tennessee.
" ' BosroN, February IA.
Captain Hopkins, Of the bark Mary
Baker, which arrived here to-day from
Mlragoni, Hayti, reports, January 2Sth,
of 81 Nicolas Mole, n0rthwest end Of
Hayti, that he saw un American man.of.
war. When first seen she was under
steam alone, but she Immediately
made & sail and q stored for 1 the
east end = Of Cuba under both
steam and soil. The steamer was very
long and Ohlp.rigged. The weather was
fine Of the, timei From, the description Of
tue steamer, Il was supposed she might
have been the Tennessee; but as hei course
would have been in hn opposite direction,
II Is concluded that the vessel was some
other American man.of.war cruising In
those waters. g = 'z 1HC7
More Theories at the Navy Depart.
ment.
WASHINGTON, D. c., February IA.
Prompt inquiry In every department
bya reporter Of the Associate Press upon
the receipt here Of q telegram announcing
that the steamer lTennessee had been
lslghtedion lhe 2SthloC January, met with
aresponse which seems to indicate that
the British Captain, who reports having
sighted ASessel answering 70 thcldescrip.
ton of Tho rig Of the Tennessee, was
right in his conclusion that that was the
vessel, obseryed. The probable wherea.
bohtshi theriUhlted States men ot war
serving in the Gulf Of Mexico IL considered
In forming tlis s4timAlc. The only two
steamers In the United States navy siml.
larly riggcd TO the Tennessee In the gull
,At9 the ssverel Admiral Lees. dag ship,
and the Congress, both Of which, though
somewhat smaller, have q resemblance TO
the Tennessee, The last reports to the
department almost preclude the idea TINT
tlid steamer sighted could be either Oi
those steamers, The Yantlc, Nantucket
and Swatera atu all much smaller and
differently riggel from tue Tennessee, and
are cfdisfng about San Domingo, but II Il
hardly possible that either OF them could
have been mistaken for tue Tennessee.