New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-08
THE FIGHT WITH TIE HATTERAS
List of Vessels Destroyed by the Alabama
BRITISH DISREGARD OF NEUTRALITY
PROTEST OF THE AMERICAN CONSUL
INTERESTING PARTICULARS
From Our spcciai Cor.e.pen lent.

From Our Special Correspondent.
CAPE Town CAPE Coop Hopr, Aug ID, lesa
On the 9th of July, the Alabama arrived or
this coast having captured sl1 American ships from
the time she lcf Pshis Brazil. OF which she burned
viz. Amascnisn. .Talisman. Conrad. s. GIderseeve
Anna F. Schmidt, and Express. The Express carried
beside Ter Northern register. Southern ono sisret
by JEFF Dayis-onc Of her ovne-s belonging in New
Orleans. When Capt. Frost showed the latter docu
men. to Capt Sennes. be few into passion and said
"D-n you. I'll burn your ship. You are traitor
and II was 10, for your wife on board would shoo'
you"
On the same day the Alabama nrrired on tbiscoas
she spoke the schooner Rover lr.ts which reported
her here next day Juy es). About that date shc pu
into Saldiaha Bay about ninety niles from this place
and nothing heard OF her until the ith Of August
when tie schooner Atlas reported that she was ther
with about thirty prisoners on board. which Capt
Semmes desired the master Of the Atlas to take to tht
American Consul ct Cape Town. Tho Atlas also
brought letter from Capt. Scmmes to tie Governor
Next day tho Alabama arrived at the entrance to oui
hsrbor liable Bay and G. tie scre tine the American
bark Sea Bride Of Boton appeared. Instantly the PEG
pie from al parts Of the city rushed to tie scene Of the
apprsherded capture which was in plain sight Of thu
shipping and within three miles Of the shore Immedt
atey tho AlaSams bore down upon tho bark and cap
tursd her, and putting prize crow on board she wa
directed to stand OF ard on the hsrbor which she did
sor two or three dsys when she disappeared under
stand that she il not yet burned but is at enc Of the
secluded hsrtors on this coast where negotiations arr
going on for her purchase by Cape Town merchants
After the capture the Alabama came into port and 70
maned here nearly four days getting her cooking ap
pars,us re.nned the only repairs necessary &c
make her seawo,tsy." She was visited while here By
almost everybody except the Governor and the Consul
and the people end press were e1travasant in hei
prsises The Civil Service Club invited Capt semms
10 lunch but TIE Governor threatening to resign his
membership and tho most OF the members being clerks
in his employ the invitation was withdrawn
After leaving this port the Alabama went to Siniont
Day distant twenty.thrce miles by land whore she re-
NAMED six days On the Sth OF August tho Tuscaloosa
ormerly the prize Conrad) armed with four guns, en-
tered Simons Bay also whore she remained % swas
vessel with her original cargo Of skins and wool ON
board seven days On the 10th tho Georgia arrived o
Slmons Bay. the Alabama and Tuscaloosa having len
10 cruise around the Cape of Good Hope the day pre-
cedinr Intelligence has been received here that the
Florida Is of Sadanha Bay coang which is very 30
cudcd place.
The correspondence between the Consul here and tho
Governor. on this subject you will find in paper
send you, and il embraces all the important facts
ANXIOUS