Boston, March 11 [1862]

The schr. J. W. Chapman arrived from New York last evening.  She reports that on the 2d inst. she fell in with the frigate Vermont.  She lay by her till the 6^th, and left her in lat. 39.45, long 68:08, drifting southeast, at two knots per hour, rudder, sails and anchors gone, and entirely helpless.  She wants powerful tugs at once.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1862, p. 1