The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1864, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. . WHOLE NO. 10,157. THE ALABAMA. Important Details of the Fight Between the Kvarsarge and the Privateer. Our Special Despatches from the Deck | ‘ of the Kearsarge. Authentic Chart ef the Scene of Action: Gerrender ef Captain Semmes and lis Crew to the Commander of the Kearsarge. How He Lowered His Flag, Tore Out Its Bx tiguto Make Ita Flag of Trace, and © Prailed It Over the &t The Reb:} Message and Messenger to Captain Winslow. Shameful Breach of Faith Sub- sequently, @ke Prisoners Taken ‘ Away by the English Yacht. CAPTAIN SEMMES’ REPORT. Suicides and Murder on Board the Alabama. Visit te. the Weunded im the ch Hospital. Cerrect List of the Officers ef Both Vessels, HANES OF THE WOUNDED UNION SEAMBR, feeretary Welles’ Letter of Thanks to Captain Winshow. British Sympathy for the Rebel Commander. Semmes’ Profession of Religion When Preparing for Action. Prussian Rejoicing Over Bugland’s Waval Defeat. Hew Privateers Preparing in Eng- land and France, &s., ae, ce. THE HERALD DESPATCHES. @@ Boand Uniren States Stor op. W: Rave pe Carne Detatie of the Fight Be wen the Kearsarge and Alabama— fhe Surrender of the Atabama— Dishinorable Conduct off Onptein Semmes and His Oficers—The Bnglish Yacht Beevhound—Dastardty Conductof Some of the Alabama’e ‘Ploere— The Officers and Men Rescued by the Kearsarge— Me armaments of the Two Vevscls—The Damages to the THE NAV Scene of the Engagement B QUERQOEVILI B ~ cma {Kearvarge—Further Particulars of the Action—The Creo | a yy ' ¢@ the Alabama—Erroneus Reports—The Oficers and $ Crew of the Kearsarge—The Alabama—fhe Kearsargemy fhe Herting in Paris, de. de. ~ 1 have beeo spending the day on board the victor ous ‘yesvel, makina an exawination of ber, and lietening ‘Wo the description of the recent battle by ber comiaander 204 fp gaiiaat officers, This vieit has, of course, enabled me to add any reeting particulars to those given in My letter of yesterday; and, first, 1 desire to impress ‘epon the American public m fact which none of the Rag. Meh or Freach journeis, ta any of the accounts which IT fave yet coon, have sven alluded to—a fact which places @he sudsejuent conduct of Captatn Semmen aed several of fete officers ina light not particularly favorable to their Mending 26 Dovvreble men. Neus of the pebiished accounts which I have yet seen Gate teat the Aisbama surrendered, while some of the @ympetbizing Engiiss jourvats picture her as going down (Sib ber colors dying. Now she was fermaily and dis. Piety furrendercd, and Capt. Sommer and hie officers, fwho were taken from the water, should have surrendered Momecives likewise to Captain Winslow as prisoners of ‘wer, THR SURPENDSR. ‘The Alabama attempted to reach this port by seifing Wail; but, finding that the Kearsarge was repidiy over. Baking ber, she (fired two jes guns in token of surronéer, Gad at the remo time (she baving no waite feg on board) fe rebel fing, which bed boon flying at. her mizonmast, Was banied down and tho red “Unieo" belag worn from MB, Deaviog nothing but cloar white, t wae hung over ‘Mee Stern ro that It could be distinctly seen from the Bearearge. Thoy then lowered the stern boat, and coon aliacwnids the Master's mace camo slongside. He cane po deck, and was i dis ehirt aleevos, withuut any word, looking as though ho hud been bard at work Gpen eing sexed WhO aud what ho was bo gave bie Mame we Vuibam, Dis nationality tbat of an Bogiionman, 4 bis position aw Master's tate of the Alabina, He wtated that he bad orders to mrramder the Alabama, Wicd be decivred to be jo a sinking condition. The men, ‘We eaid, were being drowned, and as am act of bumavity Be Bored to be pormiied to weturm with bis Bent and pick up the mea. Thi wan gramted by Captain ‘Wissliw, woo of course expected that Fulham would re se with tbe men whom be might save. Insvead of doing (he, Bowever, attor picking op several men, he started Gar he English yacht Deerhound, and, ex countering ono @f Der,donts, put hin mon and bimeolf indo ber, turning Sean, boat adrift, They ware all taken 1M board the yacht, r Fao vthoors who were plexed ap dy tho baits of the Rearsargo confirmed in all particulars the abone stated Masia of to Aurrenter, ANd expressed their op mia that Aretute Lowm'e and the odbern payed to te boais of the Engtieh yacht Deerhound (the nomber seems pow to have been thirteem officers and twenty-seven men) would be delivered up to Captain Winslow. Captain Winsiow him- self bed no idea but that this would be the case, or he ‘would have Brought the yacht to. He could not believe that Captain Bemmes, with whom he bad been long and fatimately personally scquainted, and whom he had al- ways considered as particularly mice aad seesitive upon ‘technical points of honor, would act so dishonorable part; neither did he dellere, with all bin knowledge of the perfidy of Englishmen, that the master of the yacht would dream of doing other than surrender to bim his legitimate prisoners. ‘Thus he suffered the yacht to escape. It is possible that Captain Semmes will Ceny that he authorised a surrender, ea this in the only excuse he oan cive for his thus break. It the rules ef civilized warfare; surrendered. Hore is another sample of the bad faith of the Alabama's offieers, The following RRVORT OF MR. STODDARD, ACTING MASTER'S WATR, Captain Jone Wiretow, commanding United States ar Kearrarge.— reapectfuily Feport that after the action of yeater. day, a boat from the Alabama, filed with wounded mon, and containing five or six off) came alongride, and after a OTheers 8 men WhO were still Aoat fave thom this permission and they shoved of. Alter picking up one or two they hauled alongride of the Engiieb steam yacht Leer » jug some of their mon in the water, and tur je boat adrift. The yacbs oon after sai ay with these officers on boar cure these oMosra of abandoning their men to dr bebaviog in « dishono manner ‘OTHER TRHOVEAY OF TH KEAREAROR ‘There can be no doubt of the fact that Semmes and hie officers shonid be jegitimately, the prisonors of Unptain Winslow, woo bas olcarly set forth ail the above facts tn ® report to the Secretary of the Navy. Three officers and six men were picked up by a French pilot boat and bronght on shore, Captain Winwtow also considers these men as legitimately at bie dinpouni, and bas demanded from M. Boufis, the Brazilian Consul, who ia also acting im the capacity of agent jor the ‘‘eonfederacy"’ bere, that they shall be surrendered to him. In case they are not surrendered Captain Winslow intends erdering on board the dve officers who were picked up ivy the te of the Keartarge, aed who, I incorrectly seated in my letter of Yesterday, have been divcharged by Captain Winslow Spon parole, Seventy mon und officers tn all were ren oned from the water by tho boats of the N’earsarge, and Urea boats abandoned by the officers of (ho Alabama Wheo they wok fefauge ov beard the Roglisir yaubl, and whieh wore immediately taken hy the Kaarsara. OF the SCALE OF MILES NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1864. 2 sixty.seven left five were offeors, The men and the Surgeon were discharged thetr parole not te take arms againat the United Sor in any manver assist her enemies during the war, unless regularly exchanged; Dut the other four—Third Lioutenant H, Wilson, Third Ea- gueor Puodt, Chief Eogineer Freeman and the beatswain— Captain Winslow retains as prisoners, but permits them to remaia on shore upon thelr word of honor that they ‘Will not leave the town, and that they will report thom- scives once in twenty-four hours. Nov, iu case of the refusal of the others, who were picked up by the Frenck boat, to come on board the Kearaargo and surrender thet ‘seiver prisoners, Captain Winslow inteuds orderiag these four officers board and keeping them im cou/men OF course It ia entirely optional with them whetber they Mare ‘Of BOL, as Gothing binds them but their parole, ABMAMENT O” THR VESTA. Kearsago, a4 her name iv van-inch Dahigrens, shell woigbing ove hun ‘These guna, which dtd work in the fight with auips, one fore aud the otber aft of tbe enging, and sre worked on piv: Be. aiden there are four thirty-two pounders gun, & thirty-ponnder pivot gun on the forecacile, bu: which was wot broweht ito aebion. ‘The Alabama carried engi shots were frei by 1 double thet number ware Brod ir majority of the cuarger nred on he VHT 10 sie F In company with Firet Jue ove of the veat #rtiliery of wit in this Branch o cess was due, Ihave just boon the hull of the Kearsang hor in the recent couric. | Some of the fren Veh papers, and partionlariy Joba Lavoaster, whore Yaodt, the Leerhomd, payor the part of tender and aid to the rebo! pirate, describe this as serios, Such is by NO means the cue, The Kearsarge oonid. If Bie chose, Jeave Cherbourg to-morrow, and, ander ordivery vipeom Slanges, reach the United States in the ordiiary tune 0 pasate. Tweoty eight shot and xhet! struck and tof Mmerks upon hor. OF there fourteen struck her be!l, sad the others cut in among her rigging. One went through the smokertack, one yrazed the house over the enyine, several went torongh ehe Dammcek vett/uge, one oarriod clearly away a crane usd for raising sbelie, standing near the after Dabigrev gun, aod two struck sod splintered 1ho wood work with wivton the chile bung on ber side to protect ber b Mors ware cowared, hero chains extond a jength of about thirty feet _alom the rides of the ehip, and are simply corerea ann Pe jog. It waa thin pinnking which Wires oF fonr of the mnet &. Thornton, and to whowe recent eue er the decks around ing the a Alabama's trick ; bit Of CWUrKe IL if a more ples Of carpenter work to mit it on again, The nearest to rer. ouely damaging Kot war that Of @ bell wulch due tered her alarh pont, araziue the hull for & leneil of nix etween the Rebel Steamer States Steamer Kearsarge. foot in ite paneage, This war a hundred, perous- sion ebell, whieh lodged in the stern post, going almost through it, but not exploding, the fuss boi yong wet by into the sboll, and, as is supposed, Baving the shell having struck the water, reaching the vessel Had this shell exploded it might have tothe Kearsarge. Ag it is, her BpoD a ricochet, caused serious commander Goes pot oven think of Baviog @ new store post pot Im as present, bat will put to sea io a few days and b-ve tho stern post changed at bis leisure. The emokestack, which is ooasiderabiy shattered, is in pro- ceas of ropair, ad the cut rigging bas already been all putio order, The Kearsarge \s,m fact, in @ condition now in which abe conid either etoam out to sea or fight anotlies battle, which latver Ler commander, oMeors and crew are desiroge of doing as quickty an peeribie, aod only et that the Florida sod Rappahannock bad oot been present tonssist the Alabama, ao that ahe could have rid the seae of them ail nt the same time, WHRRA THR ACTION TOOK PLA fo the details of the battle which I gave you in my letter of Yorterday there ts little to add. The distaces the breakwater, which keen out the sea from tao ort of Ghervourg, at wlich the fight took pisce, ch in various published mvcounts has besa ty Stated to be from nine to {teen millon, was g out of the wertern pane ing off ‘Htorial waters. ninutes to @iyven, by ia land, eiterod our ox oom Antes pret eleven we ret 6. ond y into aetiog, whieh continned wvtil a90M, in tho enemy, together ag w (inheld, ® boat with @ Alabama, og, and officer th the IN/DGIew pass t aide and aurreudered that she was ra » We vew Ate bein h At twenty four mir tarclv@ tho Alabaney wont dows. The shipn, aa Latated jo my Lotte: f youterday, % aac @ach following the other around - tance of from five t eigdt hundred yards, m ¢ Keot the aterboard ade, from which cack ver el was fighting, bearing upon the starboard Bide of the otbor During the b: » they weut around the circle seven times, the currout, Sowever, setting them both tothe westward and otarer the shore. Alter the Alobaroa turned to go 1a shore, and the Keursarge pureed her, this distanns from the plave of commoncing tbe fight was cousiderabiy itorgared, and the fight end. and (bo Ala dima went down about jour miles from where tt origi- uelly Commenced The French trou-ciad trivate Couronne put with Lhe Alabama, and, afver eeerne bor wate oat territorial waters, retarned within the breakwater, THY WOUNDRO ON TH KRARRARGR, As 1 lnformed you, but three men were wounded on board tho Kearserge: joan W, Dempsey, the quarter gunner, ad bis arm so abaisered that [i was amomiated ioek volow ott the abouldar, A PRICE THREE CENT: AL BATTLE OFF CHERBOURG. Alabama and the United |: TOURLAVILLE Po a Gowan (or Gwinn), seaman, bas @ fracture of 1° James Macbeth, seaman, was wounded im the leg. Neither of the latter seriously. ‘TEE SPRCTATORS OF THR FIGHT. Fifteen thousand people are said to have witnessed the fight from the breakwater and the surrounding em} mences. TOSSES ON TTB ALABAMA, As near as can bo ascertained, the Alabama lost over thirty men kilied and wounded. Her cr was one bua. trea and fifty men and officers. Sixt 0 of these wore saved by the Kearsarge, forty were on board the yacht Deerhound, and pine were brought into Cher- bourg in a French pilot boat, leaving thirty-four unag- counted for, ‘Toe CREW OF THR A majoriiy of the Atabaum: and Irish, there being but ten native born Ameri her crow list, Most of the officers were Am Eogtiah on = The crew are genersily Ove looking, a1 men: and there is no doubt that some well cellent gunn who worked her guus during the engagement, had been ‘om the reserve corps in England. They were Drought by wn ‘oglieh yaebt snd put on board ° probabl the Alabama just outside the territorial wator prisoners brought on board Mech surprived to learn that t Bot been worked by Foglivh gunvers, nuthern Interest m that the Joes of 4 bana way @ little grovier shan thet of the Kearearge, and, as | bave above stated, tbe calibre af the iatior wax the toriner, The e, w her two 8 her saece geaily, | beavy Danigreor, but principally te on bration of Are, and be re vaoroagh traiaing and dis. ripline,, Neatly ali her crew aro American porn, end many Of them are ruuad boys from the hills of | Hampshire, The v wore, bowever, (o ail respects Very equally maiobed: sod it ie ub Linportant fact tn naval Nintorg that the tight betwren bb argo and the | Alabama ts toe firs wbich hes ever takeo place nov where, or at any Hine, between two pingle Alea raxeeia } of equal sive aud vtrengsh, Mor (the Kearsarge’s) ure wae much betier eongeutrated thao that of the Alybama Hoar officers and mon, [rom the commanter down, were determined for suecesa, These facts and her two Danizrovs, aud 1% may be said, I hope wot irreve rentinily, tite faror of p Deity who Lates pirates, ali com biaed, gave us the victory, it js reported in mons of the papers that the Alabama was dieadled by ® ebut suriking and beowking hor screw. Tuls the officers of the Koarsarye state is pol the fact, bat thatsho went down simply Deeause the water ran with too groat rapility into the holes mive by their shot and shell It te aino revorted saat if she had not been Gikabled jost #8 sho was abe would lave taken the Kear- sarme by bourding, If Abie were so Be certainly gave no evidenes of 14, and all tuose “ifs prove nothing in the matter, If sho had not siruck ber colors wheo the did, Capt, Winsiow states that be would have boarded her within ten minutes. Ail the stories about Capt. Winelow having sent acballenge and arranged tho cunditions of the fight with Serames are without foundation, Tho only thitg in the form of a cha) /onge came (rom Capt Semmes, and was in sunstance woat I y. Kvee sinne, however, Lhe wee weiching the *enihustastie Samtor, of which veasel Semmes was then eommander, im Gibralter, ik bas beew well understood that whenever the Kersa:ge met demmes there would be a fight, of the Paris jow os that Capt, Winslow aa@ Semmes are br: thers ja-law ed to e-eb other, Dot dave long bern personal apd intimale friends. each baving a hy ourage, determina Wiasiow is divencha rable eyuree puss dering. OFvICERS OF THR KHAR#aRan, ‘The following is a list of the offloera of the Kearsarge:— Vaviain—Jobu A. Winslow. Fewtenons Comnanier—Jacmes 8, Thornton. Surgeon—Joby M_ Browne. Paymoster—J, Adama sovith Bininecre—Chiet, Wiliinm ff. Cushman: Second Assist ant, Win H. Badlam: Third A-aistants, Fred, L. Milter, Sidney 1, Smith aud Henry McConnell,” Acing Masiers—James R Whecier, Ebeneaer M. Stode dard and (avid H Sumner. Midsnipman—Fdward KE. Preble, Quanar—¥. A Grabam Roaisain—James ©, Walton Masier’s Mate:—Cbaries 11 Danforth and Kara Bartiets, Paymarter’s « lerk—Daviol B. Sargent. Caprain’s Clerk—Seth E. Martwell. «Surgeon's Steward-—George A, Tittle, Paymaster’s Sewayd--M. Ahora Yeoman—C, B. DeWitt. CAPTAIN WINELOW {9 9 native of North Carvlina, aud ia a brave, determined, euergotic ofticer. He has bern placed is commund of the Kearsarge since ahe cams on to the coass of £urope, Tha First Lieutenant, Mr. Thoruon, wha formerly o¢- Copied the saine position on the United tiagab| Hartlord, bas aiso jomedsber tn Europe, — ” ‘be Keargarce was butit in Portsmouth, N H., and {bis is her first cruise, She has been away twenty- Dine Menthe. Most of bor ofticers are New England mon, and about sorty of ber crew are trom New Hampshire. She derives her name from « lofty New Hampshire mouniain, She was at Flushing, in Holland, on the Sunday a week before the figut, and, receiving hows that the Alabama had srijved, immediately got under way aud came of this port. b ovinion of the other's por- nm, skill and persous) honor. upon this Intter point by od by Semmes in exeaping ‘TUR ALANAMA AND MER sPora, @ Balled frum Kugiand, where ave was built, armeg and mibved, # yoar ago last september, and pas ever @tce been spreading destruction over the waters of the globe she” caplured avd ransomed is all wixty soven vessels, Forty-tive of these she bas ac- tually desiroyed, (akiog from thew their chroowmeters aud overyéhing valuabie aud portable. Captaim Semmes kept ail these cbronometers in his cabin, and when he come ito Cherbourg made au ap ligation to be | adend my tosoll them. but was informed +, since the Congress of Faris, French law prohibited the sale of apy articies in the form of maritime prizes in French porta At midoight the day pre codiug the battle Captain Semmes pat these chropome- tors on board the Mcerhound. During the day he had Placed in possession of M. Honfils, the rebel agent, Property to the value of 118,000 francs, consisting prin- cipslly of mney aud watches plundered ‘rom American vessels, hese were disposed of by a testament, whi Captain Semmes left also in the hands of the agent. Al peeeersce value wore placed with the chronometers om i jethe convenient Deerbvand, Thaak Heaven, the ‘career of the corsair is fully ended, atthough rome of the French and English papors boastingly assert that by the WOtn of Avgust his Kuglisb friends will bave torviabed Captain Semmes with another Alabama. If thie ly 20, i6 fa to be hoped that the Kearsarge will soon be able to en- eounter hor, WORK ON THB KEARSARGS. On board here, as you may imagine, eyorybody is Posy. ibe captain and many officers are engage@ ja writing out reporte, and the are oecuvied in put Jog tho vessel ja order. Ali complain of being o litte Bore in the lexs. The kearsarge Hes about » milo and s half out irom the basin, or about half way between ite bead aud the brevk water. Just aboad of her the tron-clad frigate Couronne is at wachor, and astern of her the Magenta, VISITORS TO THE WINDING GRIP. Bho received a good many visitors yesterday and to- Gay. Todsy the Admiral aod Maritime Prefect of t port, M. Dapony, Coe! upon Captain Winshw, H expresses himself leHghied at the excetient mas- ner in which the Kearrarge foughs ber antagonist. s@ ‘@ general rule, the feeling here ts oo our side, but prinal- pally (or these two reasous:—Firsily, we huve been suce costal ighly 3 vy warge have so ga'lantly whi) ped a crew of Englishmen. Letters of ratulation irom American ambassadors fend consuls in Europe, and even trom private citizens, Bre being coustantly received. Mauy of these Captain ‘Winslow bas read to the crew st muster, and (be: t recetved by the gallant feliows with great delight. Everybody on board, (rom the commander down to the proud of the rt he , or they al! deservo well of their country. for anther brueh with the Florida, who when last heard of was at Martinique, or the Rappahannock, which will not probably now be in any particular hurry to got oat Of the port of Calais, in which direction the Kearsarge will aii in four of tive days. Tsbould not be domg justice to myself or the officers of the Kearsarge did lelvne this hastily written accounts eturning thanks to them, ove end all, for mucd nd for baying aliorsed ine every facility pose for Obtaiving accurate and rellsbie information rele tive to the recent battle. To Catan Winslow, Lieutes- aut Thoruton, Ur. Browne, Paymasier Smith aud Chief Kagineer Cushman, with whom | bave been more partie ulariy brought in contact, | am extremely indebted for moch kindness, atteution and vasiatance im the pursuit of my ipvegtigatioas ~=May all these uoble and galiaut off cers, and the five crew under their command, be as euc- consul fo all their fature battles of fe as they have beew fm the recent one, in which ino doughty rebel rover of the seas was 80 beautifully wiped out of existence. Cuernoura June 23, 1864. Visit to the Hoxpital—The Wounded Men of th: Kearsarge and the Alabama—Their Trea ment— Description of the Fight bya Seaman of the Alabama—Fear/ub Scenes om Board—One Man ts Shot for Deserting His Gun—The Crew Threaten to Kill Semmes for Striking His Colors— The Carpenter, a Massachwueils Man, Shoots Jitmacif— Treatment of Men on the siahama, de., Le. ‘This morning 1 paid a visit to the Marine Hospital, to which the wounded men of tho Kearsarge and Alabama were taken immediately upou the return of the former from the scene of action, The United States consular agent here, M. Liais, to whom I have been indebied whilo here for many acts of courtesy aud much valuable aid in my search for iuformative, bad given me a letter to M. Dufour, the chief surgeon of the bospital, wbo re ceived me very kindly and afforded me every facility to eee and converse with the wounded men, Twelve of those from the Alabama and three from the Kearsarge are lying, with wounds of greater or less gravb ty, to the same ward. 1 firet passed to the bedsides of the mem of the Kear- sarge. The first one | saw was Williom Gowan, a native of the city of New York, where be bas @ mother and two sis- ters, Gowan has a compound fracture of the left log, 18 being broken both above and below the Knee, It may be necessary to amputate it, although the surgeon, who is bestowing the greatost care aud attention upon all these wounded nren, {8 of the opinion mow that it will not be necessary. John W. Dempsey, quarter gunner in the Kearsarge, now im the bospitel, had bis right arm blown off, so that it was nocessary that it should be immediately ampu> tated poar the shoulder, Tue amputation was skilfully performed by Surgeon Brown of the Kearsarge, an@ Dempsoy is now doing well, Ho ts a native ef Boston, and told me that this was bin twenty-eighth birthday. The other one of the crow of the Kearsarge jn the bos pital 16 @ young Scotchm«n, wamed James Macbeth, who has ael)cbt wound fp the leg, All three of these mea wore stationed at the after Dahigren gua, and their wounds were ail caused by the seme shell, ove of the bundred-poundors from the Fuglish gun of the Alabama, THR MEN OF THE ALABAMA In the hospital appeur to be none of them very seriously wounded, There are two or three fractares of the lege and arma, Ono man had an eye put outand bis face al) blackened and brutsed by a shell which juat grazed him. Several of them are wounded with splinters, Une man has a terrible cut on the face, which be says was caused by hie belong struck with the arm of a mau who was killed alongside of him, and blowa all to pieces, The arm, after being detached from the rest of the body, few against hie faco, I found but two American borm among the twelve woonded men of the Alabama; one of these, whose log tolf by a shell bolow the knoe, gave me bis name and birthy with great reluctance, His name ie Robert Wrizht, a native of Boston, Marsachusetts, where be hae brothers and sisters Nving. He tsa very intelli gent man, nod gave me considerable information. He, sand most of the mon with whom [ conversed, attribate the des'rnerion of the Alnbama to the tmmense force of the two eleven-ioch Dahlgren gune to the Kearsarge, Wright said:—One of these oleven-ineh batla went tuto our coal bavkers, another cut off oar rudder, 80 that during tho lator part of the action we stoored with tackies, f think six or seven wore killod on bontds The third «bot killed two mou. Tom 2CEN® ON THR ALARAWA was an awfal one—bdlood actually running, and pieces of fea and done lying all aronnd the deck. Une man was killed Dy a ploce of shall going into bis temple and taking away Bis left eye aud part of the skull, so hie braius ran out, The last roan Killéd on the Alsbama wae @n the 1. boom, lookening the jib to make eal, He wallRedforward CONTINUED OF FIPTR RAGE wae