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We are still without full details of this capture of our Ministers, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, but are able to supply a few additional particulars:
The vessel from which they were taken, is the British mail steamer Trent. This steamer when only one day out from Havana, on her voyage to England, was arrested by the U. S. Screw Frigate, San Jacinto. The particular circumstances of the removal of Messrs. Mason and Slidell from her decks, we do not know, save that it was by exhibition of force against protest. These gentlemen and their attaches were then brought to Fortress Monroe, which place they reached on the 16th.—The next day they were started to New York, which city they probably reached on Monday last.
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The following letter from John L. Barnes [Editor’s Note: actually John Sanford Barnes, not L.], an officer on the flag ship Wabash of the great naval expedition, to his friends in this city, will be read with interest by his numerous friends at home:
United States Ship Wabash,
Port Royal, Monday, Nov. 11.
You have already heard of our glorious success here and the complete discomfiture of the chivalry of the state which has mainly brought about our present difficulties. The expedition was swarming with reporters, and their accounts will give you full particulars. It is as you may well imagine, nothing but work—work from early morning until late at night, and sometimes all night. I have hardly time to write you more than that I am well, and thankful for the protection of Almighty God, thrown around us during the battle.
Ship Deserter Locked up.
At the City Police Court, before Mr. G. P. M. Murray, P.M., and Messrs. D. Gallway, T. H. Cowl, and J. J. Banks, JJ.P., on Wednesday, Thomas Murray, on remand, who gave himself up tor stealing a pair of boots, saying he had deserted from the ship Glenburn and wished to be locked up, was again before the bench.
Subinspector Burke prosecuted.
Washington, Nov. 12—Activities on ‘‘rum row” of vessels under the Norwegian flag, reported by the coast guard service yesterday, will be investigated by the Norwegian minister here. H. H. Bryn.
Mr. Bryn said today he would ask the American government to furnish him with the names of these ships in order that he might communicate the facts to the Norwegian foreign office.
The minister added that popular opinion In Norway, which is itself a prohibition country, would oppose the use of the Norwegian flag for smuggling liquor into the United States. He expressed confidence that the Norwegian Ship Owners’ Association would take steps to correct any such situation as pointed out in the coast guard report.
Fifty-Year-Old Brig Is to Load Cargo of Lumber at Mukilteo for This Port
HULL IS EVERLASTING
In Spite of Age and Shipwreck Her Ancient Timbers Still Hang Together
The brig Tanner is going to celebrate her jubilee by making another voyage from the north to this port. At least half a dozen times has this time-worn craft been wrecked, and as often has her obituary been written. She has been sailing the seas since 1855, when she was launched from a shipyard long passed away at Smithtown, N. Y. “Arrived, brig Tanner, in distress,” Is an entry which appears with surprlsing frequency on the records of the Merchants’ Exchange. She knows all about Davy Jones’ locker from personal observation, and more than once in the “disaster” column of the marine records she has been classed as “wreck, total loss.”
PORT ANGELES (Wash.), October 28.—Efforts so far to haul off the brig Tanner, which went ashore last Saturday near Elwha river, six miles west of this city, have proved futile. The vessel so far is not damaged by the seas. Further effort will be made by tugs at high tide tomorrow. The tug captain believes the vessel can be hauled off if more tugs can be procured before the storm comes, otherwise she will prove a total loss.
The news that the old brig Tanner had gone ashore at Port Angeles and probably would prove a total loss was received yesterday in the local shipping world with considerable interest. The Tanner was about the oldest and one of the most picturesque vessels on the Pacific. In 1855, when she was launched at Smithtown, N. Y., she was as tight and saucy a brig as ever flew the stars and stripes. Forty-eight years of sea service, however, transformed the Tanner into a floating sieve in which no sailorman less brave than her skipper and owner, Captain Newhall, would have dared to venture beyond easy reach of a life-saving station.