NEW YORK, March 11. – The boat Edmund Dwight, from Trinidad,
Cuba, reports that on 28th inst., in lat. 25 and long. 74, she spoke the U. S.
gunboat Saxon, having in tow the British schooner British Queen, captured off
Wilmington, N. C., while attempting to run the blockade. The Saxon was in search of the U. S. frigate
Vermont.
The brig Isabel, Capt. Cama, arrived at this port to-day
from Port-au-Prince, reports that a sever shock of an earthquake was felt at
that place on the 19th of February, at 4 o’clock A. M.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4
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