Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, the engineer being on shore, near the north end of the town, saw two of the Iroquois' touts, and heard one of them say to the other, "Harry, that's she--I see her:" in allusion, doubtless, to the presence of this vessel.

We were all very anxious as the night approached as to the state of the weather; and lo! for the first time in five or six days, we had a beautiful star-light night, without a speck of cloud anywhere to be seen.

The enemy continued plain in sight, and our black smoke, as it issued from the stack, would have betrayed us at a distance of five miles.

We were therefore reluctantly compelled to give up the attempt.
_Saturday, November 23rd._--Beautiful clear morning, with every appearance of settled weather.

Fine starlit nights and clear settled days, though very pleasant to the lover of nature, are not quite such weather as we require for running a blockade by a ship which keeps herself in plain sight of us, and which has the heels of us.