STOUT OF CAPTAIN SEMMES.

EsiGHsmr tax-payers who suffered from the fendiiol estimates of the Alabama ■ Arbitration hare no reason to regard Admiral Semrnes with very friendly feelings, aaid his Dulky narrative of his cruises under the Confederate flag hardly enlists disinterested sympathy, notwithstanding its elaborate special pleading. Admiral Semmea [Semmes died about three years ago] was bitterly aggrieved at. his being denounced by the newspapers and politicians of the North as a privateer and pirate. He doubtless says all that is to be said for himself. His most successful exploits must have been ungrateful to a warm hearted man, and Aye can sympathise ■with his ovident difficulty in stilling the reproaches of his conscience. 'These chapters are a long and melan choly record of defenceless ships sur prised and of hard-working mariners ruined. The Confederate cruiser camo np tinder false colours ;. it was gener ally mistaken for a Northern gun-boat sent ont for the protection of the Unionist shipping. Then the con fiding JSfoTthern skippers, to their sur prise, found themselves prisoners to they considered a rebel flag, while their ships and goode were sent to the bottom in a blaze that might serve as a wandngbeacon to their more fortunate felloAv-seamen. AYe do not for a moment deny the gallantry of Admiral Semmes and his officers. They had to face the chances of being captured themselves. But after all, and at least In the swift Alabama, the chances for their capture were comparatively re mote, for when blockaded by a hostile cruiser in a neutral port they were al- Joived a clear tvrenty-four hours' start of the encniy. There is much that is exciting in Admiral Semmes's story. His first cap tare was off tho Cuban coast, and somewhat suggestively • near the Isle of Pines, of piratical memory.' The 'doom ship came from the Black lie pTfblican State of Maine.' 'Nothing could exceed the astonishment of the master, who was rather a mild, amia ble-looking gentleman, not at all dis posed to go either into hysterics or the heroics/ Eire was set to the Golden Rocket, a beautiful new barque of 700 tons burden, and, as she was lined with pihe,caulked with dry oakum and seasi n >d by exposure to tropical sunshine, she made a magnificent bonfire- 'The Captain watched the destruction of his ship from tho quarter-deck of. the Sumter, apparently •with the calm , eye of a philosopher, though doubtless he felt the emotions -which the true sailor always feels when lie looks upon the dying agonies of his beloved ship. . The Captain of the Golden Rocket seems to have had no pecuniary interest in tho ship or cargo. But Captain' Semmes describes many most pathetic scenes, when poor fellows -who bad Invested their whole savings in their ships found themselves sud denly brought face to face with ruin. Captain Semmes was invariably inoxor able, though often expressing Ills sympathy with the sufferers; and, perhaps, "he was right. Had he yielded to , his feelings, or been overburdened by scruples, he might as well have thrown up his commission at once. He allowed the captured crews in cor tain circumstances to pull themselves straight ashore with their personal belongings; he never confined them or put them in irons till their numbers threatened to overmaster his own men ; and he behaved with courtesy and con sideration to the female prisoners, although he would sometimes feel him self compelled to detain them for days on the chance of finding a more worth less vessel, to which ho might consign them. But he had come to square his conduct by a moral code of his own, and there is unsconscious humour in some of the entries in his journals : AYe come upon many hard cases in the logs of these predatory cruisers; but perhaps' the hardest are those of the captures of whalers from the Pacific, intercepted on the return voyage at the Azores with the fruits of years of fish ing. In the course of a very few.days whaler after whaler was seized by the Alabama; the crews, engaged on the co-operative system, were already count ing the gains of their dangers and suffer ings, when the torch was set to the blubber, and their hopes vanished in thie blaze. 'Capt. Semmes's strongest argument ia defense of the disagreeable duties he perfor'tried is that he actually drove the northern shipping from the seas. The news of a single capture, the startling sight of a conflagration in some frequented passage was flashed far and near by the telegraph ; then ships be took themselves to safe harbours in mortal terror,, where they were often de serted: by their crews. For example, when the Alabama put into Singapore she found twenty-two large American Indiamen 'in the port, all dismantled, and' laid : up: ' No ship could get a freight, and the commerce of the enemy was°as dead, for the time being, as if every ship belonging to him had been destroyed.' More than once Captain Semmes had a narrow escape. • When he ran the Alabama into Cherbourg on the 11th of June, 1864, he must have felt there was more than a probability that the end was near. He had come back from the Cape-of Good Hope by the old cruising grounds of the Azores, and it was absolutely necessary to refit some where.' 'In answer to an application for admission to the Government docks, the Port Admiral of Cherbourg was civil but undecided. He said that r he -wished the Southern captain had gone to Havre or oneof the commercial ports; but assured him that the application should I'ti innmded to the li-mperor,. Had Ca.lltain frames been permitted to-Hof-'U'TiV-i sbsp*ifc once, he meant to have iMid oil Ms cvpff «xd W the

Alabama's adventurous history would have encM \uiev0»tfuHy. As Jt was, the Emperor was absent at Biarritz; possibly lie was in no hurry to send an answer, or to compromise himself gratuitously with the Great Republic. TheKearsarge, which had been lying at Flushing, steamed into Cherbourg Harbour three days after the Alabama had come to an anchor there. 'It was generally understood among my crew that I intendod to engage her. Her appearance, therefore, produced no little excitement on board. , ( I addressed a note to Mr Bonfils, our agent, requesting him to inform Captain Winslow, through the United States Consul, that if he would wait until I could receive Borne coal on beard—my supply having been nearly exhausted by my late cruising—l would come out and engago him. This message was duly conveyed, and tho dofianco was understood to have been accepted.'- A deliberate, duel of the kind, under , the eyes ■of crowds of excited spectators,is unparalleled in the annals of modern naval warfare. The day fixed for the fight was a Sunday ; the Norman heights swarmed with holiclay-makers,and many Parisians had hurried down to look on. When the Alabama steamed out she was followed by a small fleet of pilot luggers and by the English yacht Deerhound. The hostile vessels were a tolerably fair match, as Captain Semmes admits. The Alabama had more guns, but the Kearsarge carried somewhat heavier metal. Indeed, Captain Sommes de fends himself from the charge of rash ness in having engaged an enemy of superior force. His grievance is that there was no fair fight after all, since the Kearsarge, by letting down chain cables over her sides, improvised a sheathing of impenetrable armour. We must say we think it would have been carrying chivalry to Quixotry had the Captain of the Kearsarge, when so much \viis at stako, and with the apprehension of court-martial before his eyes, warned his opponent of the precautions he had adopted. Bo that as it may, after a hot and swift interchange of shots in an hour and ten minutes the Alabama was sinking. She filled quickly, the fires were extinguished, many of the crew threw themselves into the water, and ten of them were drowned. Many, and among others the Captain himself, were picked up by pilot luggers and the boats of the Deerhound, and Captain Semmes more than hint that the Kearsargo was exceeding slow in send ing to the rescue. 'There was no ap pearance of any boat coming from the enemy until after my ship went down.' He is charitable enough, how ever, to attribute the delay to an error in judgment, and to nccept the assur ance of Captain Wjnslow, of the Kearsarge, that although the Alabama had certainly struck her colours, it was to be feared she was practising one of her familiar tricks. As her successful captures and escapes had been owing to a series of ruses, there was some thing like a Nemesis in the suspicion which; cost her people nearly a dozen lives.—'London Times.'

THE c , AITCgLAyD; .EVENING-, STAR,,, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1887.

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