Saturday, June 23. — The Ivy returned from the pass and reported that none of the pilots were willing to come on board , and having received also the following dispatch (through Captain Duncan ) from the Southwest Pass, viz :
Applied to the captain of the house of pilots for a pilot for the Sumter. He requested me to state that there are no pilots on duty now.
F. S. Woolfen.
I dispatched Lieutenant Stribling in the Ivy with a written order to the master of the Pilots’ Association to come on board of me and bring some of his pilots with him, and, in case of his refusal, directed him to arrest them all and bring them on board.