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dollars, that was left with him. He was, of course, taken to Cadiz.
On the fourth of January, this year, the Sumter reached Cadiz, and the captains were released on the seventh.
Before putting them on shore, Capt. Semmes assembled them and several of their officers and their respective crews, and telling them he was going to send them on shore, said: “The American Consul would take care of them.”
Capt. Hoxie then requested that the one hundred and fifty dollars he had intrusted to the purser of the Sumter might be given up to him; but Capt. Semmes said: “Oh!
That is contraband of war, and is confiscated.”
They were then landed, and several of Capt. Hoxie's crew had to be supplied with clothes by the American Consul.
The steward of the Eben Dodge, who was ill at the time of the capture, died on board the Sumter.
--Liverpool Post, February 4.
