BALTIMORE, May 5. – The regular news letter from Old Point is received.
The Merrimac remained out till 4 o’clock., on the 4th inst., and then disappeared behind Sewell Point. Since her last appearance she has had a ram twenty feet in length added to her bow.
The French Minister at Washington, M. Mercier arrived at Yorktown on Sunday morning, on a special boat from Washington. The [Gassendi] was to go up for him last night.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 4
The Merrimac remained out till 4 o’clock., on the 4th inst., and then disappeared behind Sewell Point. Since her last appearance she has had a ram twenty feet in length added to her bow.
The French Minister at Washington, M. Mercier arrived at Yorktown on Sunday morning, on a special boat from Washington. The [Gassendi] was to go up for him last night.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 4
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