Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-10-12
Gelegrapbie Ne(us,
WASHINGTON, Oct 6. 1861.

WASHINGTON, Oct 6, 1861.
The Navy Department has received n
letter from Communder Scott, of the steamer
I Keystone State, dated Aspipwall, Sept. 25tb,
/ in which he states that be has been cruising
on the coast Of Yucatan, but obtained no
( information either Of the pirate Sumter or
/ her prizes lie was alike unsuccessful 10 the
/ vicinity of the Isle Of Pines aud Cienfneeos.
| The Sumter. it was said, endangered to pro.
cure coal at Demarara and Canebne, and was
/ refused The merchants of Paramaribo
! Likewise declined to furnish coal but it was
/ finally obtained from ScotchmaD. Com.
munder Scott says that Captain Semmes Of
/ the Sumter, is aware that our vessels are in
search o. him, and that, therefore, be will not
appear again 10 the West Indies. the fact
is ascertaiued that the Sumter has taken
several prizes under the British flag. and
decoyed others under our own, with the
Union down This should serve as a warning
to United States merchantmen. The Abby
Bradford, cnptured off Puerto Cabello in
July is the last prize taken by the Sumter
The crew Of the Sumter numbers 64 men, iB
disorganzed condition. Several of them
have escaped, and will be sent home.
Orders have been given for one hundred
thousand stand Of arms, 20 a foreign house.
twenty-five thousand of which are to be
delivered within sixty days The gun is
similar to those used by the Chasseurs
D'Afrique, and is said to be of q superior
order.
The following are the names of distinguish
ed foreigners who have entered the service -
Prince Salm Salm, Colonel Liebenhof, and
Lieutenant Oscar Yrendaner, of Prussia /;
Lord Adophus Vane Tempest and Lieute.
nant Colonel Fltzroy de Courcy, Of Eng pand /;
~ n 1 t.. r
France Captain Vogesack and Captain
Hoffman, OF Sweden: Major w. A. Kirk
and Colonel Il. A. Rankin, of Canada.
The Quarter. masters Department adver.
,sed yesterday for five hundred teamsters-
The pay is twenty five dollars per month aud
rations. The men must have thorough
knowledge of horses, color or age rot taken
into consideration.
Saturday afternoon, one of the telegraph
ofliciuls rode into the quarters at Alexandria,
in company with two or three orderlies and
one officer. lie was dressed rather shabby,
though "a handsome man" AS they passed
along number of young ladies saw them,
aud supposed he was a prisoner, and accord.
ingly followed along to see. He. wishing TO
carry out the juke, told them on their arrival
at their quarters, that be was Colonel of q
Georgia Regiment. The girls condoled with
him ard promised him be should be taken
care Of. They all went away, and shortly
returned with more of their friends and half u
dozen beautiful bouquets. accompanied with
their cards finely perlumed, and done up with
ribbons arranged in Rebel style. They did
not embrace him then. but were to come
ronud and sing Rebel songs under his window
that night but about dusk be bad TO leave
for Washington, and carrying of his trophies
and leaving the girls 10 sigh for the unfortu
nate Colonel
Gen. Wool left Saturday afternoon foi
Fortress Monroe. reaching there this morn.
ing Gen. Mansfield will return to morrow
General FTemOnts enemies and Col. Blair,
friends insisted that hs should be sent TO ST
J Louis, but the President and Gen. Cameron
stood by Fremont.
Lannahan, the murderer of Maj. Lewis. o.
DsrnestowG, who was reported to have Gu
his throat, was to-day ordered by the Presi
dent to be handed over to the civil author
tiles for trial, thus 5isprovDg of The cour
3 martial.
WAsHINGroS, October 6.
F. The following statement of the master o
q the srmy transport Fanny, gives the psrticu
' lars Of her capture by The Rebels -
d She was despatched by Colonel liawkin
I with clothing, Rmunition, provisions, etc
t to Chickumacobco, for the supply of tn
troops recently stationed there. After tn
r news of the capture of the Fanny was recei
$ we'd ut llatteras, Col. Haaklns called upo
g the Commanding Naval Officer in tbos
n waters for force to go to the relief of th
. troops An armed expedition was fitted ou
d which sailed on the morning of the Sd inst
, hnt nothing had been heard from il at iv
q o'clock that evening. when Information wa
d last received from that quarter.
3 The following is the statement ot tb
'i Master Of the Fanny -
d HATTERAs INLET, Oct. l.
Is left 10 the steamer Fanny, at four oclocl
" A. NJ, for Chickamsconico or Loggerhes
z Inlet, arriving there at one O'Clock L.
ID We anchored in about eight feet of waite
y and waited there two hours and half befor
n. we got communication from the shor'
le They then fetched dat. boat off aud losde
10 her with an assorted cargo of stores. tent
j. &c. When the boat had been showed of an
lr got about two thirds Of the way on shore, "
Of saw steamboat to the westward, about fou
o'clock i. NJ. which proved to be one Of th
Ig enemy. She was standiDg to cot OF ou
IN retreat, and in a short time two more appes
as ed steering directly towards us, The frs
10 one then stood in and commenced firing upo
10 os, and as soon as the other two came up the
5e did the same.
70 We returned their Ere with nine shot
II striking one OF the boats 10 the bow. The
Id Captain Hart, of the Tweniietb Indisnn
70 hsg'mert soggetted us to surae uder, sayin