One the hermaphrodite brig Kate Cory, of Westport, and the other the barque Lafayette, of New Bedford; the barque we burned, and the brig we brought into the anchorage, arriving after dark, about 7 A.M.

We sounded in thirteen fathoms on a bank on the south side, on the southern extremity of which there is a breaker lying out from two and a half to three miles.

There is also a reef off Tobacco Point running out half a mile.

We saw no other dangers.
* * * * * With reference to these captures, the following amusing account is extracted from the private journal of the officer of the Alabama who was prize-master on board the Louisa Hatch:-- 'At noon, on the 15th of April, two vessels were descried to the south, standing off and on, under reduced sail.

At 12:30 two boats were observed pulling towards us, asking my ship's name, the port I hailed from, &c.