August 2d. Steaming down the river; at two ten o’clock in the morning a shot fired across our bow from Fort St. Philip, to heave us to; stopped the ship, and was boarded by an officer; at two fifteen started ahead again; at three forty S. W. Pass light in sight; at six thirty A. M. crossed the bar, and pilot left the ship; at nine o’clock made a sail off the starboard bow, bore down to her and spoke her. She proved to be the U. S. mail steamer Locust Point, from New York, bound for New Orleans. At ten o’clock ship and crew inspected by the Commodore, after which performed Divine service on the quarter-deck.
Cruise of the U.S. Flag-Ship Hartford. – From the Personal Journal of Wm. C. Holton.
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