The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-23

hate the very name Of Confederate. and Will
wine out the score if Government decides 70
grant letters of marque.
DESCRIPTION OF THE ALABAMA.
The Alabama is a rakish craft. built for
speed m ore than fighting heavy weight OF
m etal. Under canvass she makes tn'rteen
knots, and under steam from htteen TO seven
teen. She is said to have some 4OO tuns
Of coal on board. which she econoui ises as
much as possible by moving under canvas.
She keeps her fires banked. however. so
that at anv time she can get up steam IN
twenty minutes
The Alabama was built at Liverpool or
Birkenbead. and left the latter port in Au
gust last. She is about 1000 tuns burden;
draft about fourteen feet; engines by Laird
e. Sons of Birkenhead. 1862. She is q
wooden vessel, propelled by a screw. cop
pered bottom, about 21O feet long, rather
narrow, painted black outside and drab in
side; has a round stern, billet head, very lit
tie shear, flesh deck fore and aft, bridge
forward of the smoke stack; carries two
| large black boats on cranes amldshlps Tor
ward Of the main rigging, two black quarter
boats between the main aud mizzen-masts,
one sma all black boat overt the stern on cranes;
the spare spars. on gallows between the
bridge and foremost, show above the rail-.
She carries three long thirty-two poun-
ders on side, and is pierced for two more
amidships. She has one hundred po und
rified pivot gun forward of the bridge, and
sixty-eight pound pivot on the main deck;
she has tracts laid forward for pivot bow
gun, and tracts aft for pivot stern chaser,
all of which she will take on board to com
plete her armament Her guns are OF the
Blakely patterr, manufactured by Wesley "
Preston, Liverpool. 1862. She is bark-ris-
ged has very long bright, lower mas's ana
black IN astheads. Her yards are black,
vard-arms long: poles short, (Say one 10 TWO
feeD with small dogvanes on each, ana
pendant at the main; stu1ding sail, boom Is
Oh the fore and main; has war rigging, car
ries on her foremost square foresa'i' 'arSe
trvsails with two reefs and bonnet; top
gallant sail and royal. On the MANN as
a large trvsai with two reefs and bonnet,
no square m ainsail bent; topsaii two ree's
and topgallant sail and royal On the nv
zen.ma st. a very large spanker and short
three-cornered gaff topsail; has force ana
foretopmast stavsail and jh; has had nc
staysail on the main miZZen- masts bent,
nor royal wards aioft; has all National II agS
but usually sets the St. Georges cross on ap
preaching a vessel Her present. compile
ment of men is 12O. all told; but her OH
GERS are anxious to ship more. man Is
kept at the masthead from daylight to sun
set. Her sails are of hemp canvass, MADE
very reaching; the topSails have twenty
cloths on the head and thirty on the foot
general appearance of the hull and sails de
cidedv English. She is nenerallv un6el
two tops Ills fore and fore topmast staysailS
sometimes trpgallant salts and Jill. but sell
dom any sails on the mizzen, except while
in chase Of a vessel. She is very slow il
STAYS, generally wears ship. She was bull
expressly for the business. she is engaged
to DESTROY. fight or run, AZ the character o
her OF POM may he. She.took her arma-
ment aud crew aud most of her officers or
board. near Tercers, Western Island. from
; an Engl sh vessel Her crew are p ilcipal
ly English; the officers, chvAlry of thu
South. All the water consumed on board
is condensed. She has eight months pro-
; visions, besides what is being piundered.