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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Recapture of Negroes. (search)
Four days later from Europe. The Germana, from Southampton on the 21st, and the City of Washington, from Queenstown on the 22d ult., passed Cape Race Thursday, on their way to New York. The following is a summary of their news — which is four days later — telegraphed from Newfoundland: The rebel privateer-fleet, consisting of the Alabama, Georgia, and Tuscaloosa, was cruising off and around the Cape of Good Hope. Capt. Semmes, of the Alabama, had sold his prize, the Sea Bride. The United States steamer Vanderbilt was repairing in Simon's Bay. Semmes, of the Alabama, acknowledged that he was afraid of the Vanderbilt, by stating that he would try to avoid an engagement with her, and if she blockaded his vessel in Simon's Bay that he would use all means to elude her, as he did the San Jacinto at Martinique. The Vanderbilt is, he said, so "very much faster" than the Alabama, that if once engaged with the former he could not get away from her. Henry Ward Beec