It was well for her that she but very recently discharged into another vessel her second cargo of oil, and could only, at present, boast of some twenty barrels, all of which were at once consigned to the flames, together with the unlucky vessel.
The Kingfisher brought a piece of intelligence which afforded immense satisfaction to all on board, being of no less a fact than the presence of the United States sloop of war, Ino, at Ascension, where the Kingfisher had left her but a fortnight before.

This was the identical vessel that had assisted in the piratical capture of Messrs.

Myers and Tunstall, on neutral ground, scarcely fourteen months before; and all hands were rejoicing in the prospect of an early brush with her, when the outrage then perpetrated might be avenged.

Anxious as all were for a fight on any terms, there was possibly not a vessel in the United States navy they would have more gladly encountered.
It was a curious circumstance connected with this schooner, that her master was, according to his account, one of the only three persons in his native place, Fairhaven, who, in the last fatal election of a President for the United States, had voted for the Southern candidate, Breckinridge.
Two more captures were made on the following day--one, the ship Charles Hill, of Boston, from Liverpool to Monte Video; the other, the ship Nora, also of Boston, from Liverpool for Calcutta.

In both cases the usual claim was set up to a neutral ownership of cargo, and as usual on investigation proved to be altogether unsupported by anything like real evidence.
The following are the cases:-- CASE OF THE CHARLES HILL.
Ship under U.S.flag and register, laden with salt (value in Liverpool six shillings per ton), under charter party with H.E.Falk to proceed from Liverpool to Monte Video or Buenos Ayres.