A. Sugar.
Q. By whom was it owned?
A. By J. M. Morales & Co., of Cardenas.
Q. When did you leave the port of Cardenas?
A. 28th May, 1861.
Q. And you were captured by the Savannah on the 3d June?
A. Yes.
Q. State the particulars of the capture by the Savannah of the brig Joseph from the time she first hove in sight?
A. Mr. Bridges, my mate, called me some time between 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning, and told me there was a suspicious looking vessel in sight, and he wished me to look at her. I went on deck and asked him how long he had seen her, he told me he had seen her ever since day-light. When I took the spy-glass and looked at her I found that she was a style of vessel that we do not generally see so far off as that. I hauled my vessel to E.N.E., and when I found that she was gaining on me I hauled her E. by N. and so until she ran E. About 8 o'clock she came near enough for me to see a rather nasty looking thing amid-ships, so that I mistrusted something; but when I saw the American flag hanging on her main rigging, on her port side, I felt a little easier—still, I rather mistrusted something, and kept on till I found I could not get away at all. When she got within half a gun shot of me I heaved my vessel to, hoping the other might be an American vessel.
Q. Had she any gun on board?