From Nassau

NEW YORK, March 18. – Advices from Nassau state that the British schooner Sir Robert Peel had arrived from Charleston, and the steamer Cecilia from Dungeness Creek, Georgia.  The Crew of the latter deserted, and have arrived here.  They state that the Ella Warby ran the blockade the night of February 27, crossing Rattlesnake Inlet where there was but two and a half fathoms of water – the ship drawing thirteen feet.  They saw some lights at a distance supposed to be one of the blockading fleet.

Provisions at Charleston were very high, butter and coffee one dollar per pound.

The Ella Warby would go to Havana to be sold, and her owners intend to purchase the Spanish steamer Ocean Bird, said to be faster than the Ella Warby.

The British ship Gladiator was at Nassau supposed to be waiting for cargo.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3