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The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], Blockade-Running. (search)
Blockade-Running.
--A letter from a gentleman who ran out of Wilmington harbor on Christmas eve, while the first attack on Fort Fisher was being made, says that the Talisman, which also ran out, was lost at sea. Her crew have arrived at Nassau.
The letter, which is dated at Saint Georges, January 1st, says cotton commenced rising rapidly at the first news of an attack on Fort Fisher.
The blockade-runners are preparing to move their headquarters from Wilmington.
In connection with this subject, we get the following from exchanges:
"On the night of the capture of Fort Fisher, the steamer Owl, commanded by Captain John N. Maffit, with some other steamers, ran into the old inlet, and sent a pilot up to see what was the state of affairs.
On learning that Fort Fisher had fallen, the ships put to sea again, hoping to get in at Charleston, we suppose.--The splendid and favorite steamship Coquette, on her last outward trip, carried one thousand two hundred and fifty bales of cot