At 4.40 stood on our course.

The blaze of the burning vessel still in sight at 8 P.M.During the night the wind lulled and became variable.
Hauled down the fore and aft sails, and steered N.E.The prize had no newspapers on board, but we learned from the master that the great naval expedition which the enemy had been some time preparing had struck at Beaufort, South Carolina, on Fort Royal Sound.

No result known.
* * * * * After five days of hard fighting with the strong N.E.trade, blowing for the most part half a gale of wind, and with thick and dirty weather, the enemy is at length overcome, the sky clears, and the Sumter's head is turned towards Europe.

And now for a time Yankee commerce was to have a respite, its relentless little enemy directing its attention exclusively towards maturing her voyage across the Atlantic.

She had at this time but sixty days' water for her own crew, in addition to whom there were now the six prisoners taken from the schooner.