JANUARY 19TH
The CSS Florida captured and burned the brig Estelle.
Pressure being put on Commander Pennock at Cairo to send ships to assist the Army in its western operations.
An intercepted letter from Nassau indicated the blockade's effectiveness: "There are men here who are making immense fortunes by shipping goods to Dixie....Salt, for example, is one of the most paying things to send in. Here in Nassau it is only worth 60 cents a bushel, but in Charleston brings at auction from $80 to $100 in Confederate money, but as Confederate money is no good out of the Confederacy they send back cotton or turpentine, which, if it reaches here, is worth proportionally as much as salt is there....It is speculation by which one makes either 600 to 800 per cent or loses all."
A Great Activity If You Don't Get Caught. --Old B-Runner
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