Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 6. Page: 28
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28 ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
relation to vessels entering and clearing from the ports of North Caro-
lina without molestation, and also to the depredations of a privateer
on United States commerce.
I am, very respectfully,
S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Hon. GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy.
[Subenclosure.]
CUSTOM-HOUSE, COLLECTOR's OFFICE,
New York, July 12, 1861.
SIR: Mr. Benjamin Blossom, an old, reliable, and responsible ship-
owner and merchant of this city, has to-day imparted to me information
which I deem proper to be transmitted to you.
Two citizens of North Carolina have just passed through this city.
on their return home from Halifax, where they have chartered British
vessels for a trade between Nassau, Bermudas, and ports on the coast
of North Carolina. To Beaufort, Wilmington, and New Berne, or
Ocracoke, the entrance is almost unobstructed, and no blockade has
been enforced or even announced. Every day vessels are passing in or
out of these ports, carrying whatever cargoes they choose. British
bottoms are chartered by Carolinians and carry on this trade. At
Georgetown, S. C., vessels enter and clear without obstruction. To this
place the prize taken by the privateer Savannah is said to have been
sent. Vessels are fitted out, armed, and sent from Ocracoke to capture
coasters and whatever other craft they may fall in with. These shore
privateers do not wait for letters of marque, but act without even tlhe
semblance of authority. They find no difficulty in taking their prizes
into their unblockaded ports. These statements are made by residents
of the Carolinas, and Mr. Blossom is fully assured of their correctness
and trustworthiness.
With great respect, your obedient servant,
HIRAM BARNEY,
Collector.
Hon. S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
P. S.--Since writing the foregoing I have received the following
telegram, which has been duly forwarded by telegraph to you:
COLLECTOR OF PORT, U. S.,
Newport, July if.
Arrived this morning brig Mary E. Thompson, Havener master, of and from Sears-
port, Me., from Antigua. The master states that he was boarded by a Southern
privateer brig, who robbed him of what they wanted; also states that several others
on same and two previous days were taken and sent into Southern ports. Ship Mary
Goodell, from New York, was boarded, afterwards released. This occurred on 9th
instant, latitude 390 16', longitude 670 40'.
S. W. MAcY,
Collector.
Captain Howard, having learned these facts, has given me notice
that he should proceed this afternoon with the revenue vessels Crawford,
Jackson, and Varina in search of the privateer to whose depredations
the dispatch refers.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
HIAM BARNEY.
Hon. S. P. CHASE.
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