It has fallen into your hands, where most of my cotton has gone." The victorious commander inquired for his aunt and cousins in the South, and informed him that his mother and sister were very well.

He added that he should be obliged to send him to New York in the prize, and insured him a brotherly welcome at Bonnydale.

He parted with his uncle pitying him very much; but he had chosen for himself which side he would take in the great conflict.
The Watauga had a crew of sixty men, who were to be re-enforced at Nassau, and a large prize-crew had to be sent with her; but French returned with his force in three weeks, and the St.Regis was again fully manned.

Christy received a letter from the flag-officer, who commended him very highly for the service he had rendered; and the St.
Regis was continued on her present station through the remainder of the summer, and during the winter on the outer limit of the blockaders.
She made several captures, though all of them without any fighting, for no more Confederate men-of-war, actually or intended as such, came out of Wilmington, or attempted to enter the Cape Fear; but he sent a large number of blockade-runners, loaded with cotton coming out, or with supplies for the Confederate armies going in, to New York.
One day in August a large steamer was reported to the commander of the St.Regis as coming from the South.

Christy was all ready for a battle if she proved to be a Confederate cruiser; but to his great joy she turned out to be the Bellevite.