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Capt. Semmes.

--A Yankee paper given the following paragraph about the "notorious rebel pirate: "

Captain Semmes, of the Alabama, who is described as a very small, slim man, about fifty years old with gray hair, quiet manners, and a voice like a woman's, has about fifty chronometers which he has taken from various vessels, and which he keeps hanging to the brass rail which runs around his cabin, where, like the scalps in the wigwam of a great chief, they testify to his successes Captain Summer amuses himself every morning by winding and with the help of so many, ought to be a correct

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