...and leaking so badly that she was with difficulty kept afloat. So confident were the rebels of the ability of this invulnerable iron-clad to reach her rendezvous, that General Palmer, commanding at New-Bern , was summoned to surrender, and informed that the river and sound were blockaded below, and his communications cut off. The Albemarle did not come to time; but, attacked in a most impetuous and unex...