Posted on 11/13/2022 5:18:32 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
BOSTON, Wednesday, Nov. 12.
The correspondent of the Boston Journal writes from on board the United States steamer South Carolina, off Charleston, under date of Oct. 18, as follows:
"The British frigate Racer, by permission of Flag officer GREEN, entered Charleston harbor, and took away, as a passenger, the British Consul.
The Consul says that the rebels have just launched a powerful ram, and that two more are all ready for plating with iron, which they expect every day to arrive from England in an iron-plated steamer.
He also reports the rebel steamer Nashville lying at the mouth of Stono Inlet, six miles from Charleston, watching for a chance to run out.
He reports that there were over two hundred cases of yellow fever at Charleston when he left."
The same correspondent, under date of Oct. 19, writes as follows:
"About 10 o'clock last night heavy firing was heard to the northward, which continued for half an hour. From the sound of the guns the firing was judged to be about eight miles off.
This morning a boat arrived from the flagship, informing us that a vessel had ran the blockade during the night, and the firing heard was from the Flambeau, which got under way before the steamer ran the line of the blockade and attempted to stop her, but she took not the slightest notice of the Flambeau, which fired twenty-two shots against her sides, but they rattled off like so much hail. She must have been iron-plated, and very thick at that, or the Flambeau's rifle shots would have gone through her; but she did not seem to mind them, and kept on up the channel and run in. It is thought that she is the vessel the rebels expected with the iron plates for the rams,
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