Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-17
0Ortes. Daily SPY
NEWS FROM THE WAR.
THE PIRATE sEMMEs IN JAMAICA.

THE PIRATE sEMMEs IN JAMAICA.
The Kingston (Jamaica) Journal, in giving
an account of Semmes arrival there after his
affair with the Hatteras, states that he brought
with him one hundred and eighteen men and
officers Of the Hatteras, and says 1.-THE AL
ALBANIA has certainly been severely riddled. "
Semmes repaired his ship, and while there
made Il speech, of which the Kingston Watch
man gives the following accoWt:-
'On Saturday last, between twelve and one
O'clock, the commercial part Of Kingston was
vitrolated by the presence of the shaggy
haired Captain Semmes of the confederate
steumer Alabama, who had the audacty to in
wife the merchants of this city to meet him at
the Commercial Exchange, as he intended to
speeehify on the causes which led to the dis
organization Of the northern and southern
states. This lover of slavery stood on ia
bic, surrounded by a number of so-called
merchants, who, in other days, would be re-
garled as PedlingtOns, all with eager ears to
hear, if they could understand, the frightfnl
narrative of the piratical commander. In
the course of his Speech this man said, that
before the war broke out in America, the
slaves were a contented people throughout the
OilOIi lllGJ NtIG NGll CdlCu lOl3 lGIs ClUlllcu,
and in every respect better provided for than
other of their class on the face of the earth.
He explained the causes which ledto the pres
ent disturbance; and told his hearers that
they, the southerners, were fighting for the
protection of their property, and to establish
free trade in its integrity, and to invite every
nation Of the earth to participate in the rich
fields which will be opened for the commerce
of the world. He thanked the community for
the kindness they had showed him since he
landed ON a portion of Britains soil. During
the delivery of this slave hunters speech, he
was continually cheered by that Spanish town
baboon, A. C. Sinclair, and the Kingston Tony
Tumpkin, II. L. Colthirst, both of whose an
cestors were liberated from slavery by the
British government in 1888"
FRANCE AND THE CoPPERHEADs.
''Malakoff' writes from Paris to the New
York Times as follows :-"Whatever answer
Mr.. Seward may make to the commissioners
proposition of NJ. Drouyn de Lhuys, it is al
rost certain that the efforts, or more proper
ly speaking, the intermeddling of the French
government will not stop here. They will 90
to the extremity Of an armed intervention,
unleSS laUited to 1t By the attitude of the DEM
ocratic party in the north but they may be
led to a recognition OF the south if. bv that
recognition, there is any hope of discourage
ing the north to the extent Of giving up the
contest. The position of the French govern
ment may be summed up thus They desire
peace, and are, as near as may be, indifferent
as to whether there is a reunion or Il final
separation between the two sections. To
obtain this peace there is no need of address,
ing themselves to the south, for, since the
emancipation proclamation of president Lin
coin, thesouths obliged to resist either to sue
cess or to exhaustion. Neitheris it worth while
to look to Mr.. Lincoln for concessions, for he
too is bound to perSevere in the putting down
OF the rebellion. 1t is, therefore, to the fac
tious and dissatisfied people in the north that
the French government looks for Uo-opera-
ton in this work, and it is for this reason that
qcheaere7 Mr.. salisbury or Mr. Vallandig-
ham Rises up or sits d0WH IN congress, the
European telegraph has q tyemor of Joy, an d
all the suffering nations are made to hear the
joyous fact in the least possible space of time
1t is for this that every movement of the dem
ocratic party is watched with the same inter-
est as mariner watches the needles of ba-
rometer, and that for the French the impor-
tant part of each dispatch from America is
that which relates to what we have right to
call treason in the north"
MISCELLANEOUS WAR. NEWS.
Lieut.. Col. Door, of Gen. Fosters staff
has arrived at Washington, direct from Port
Royal, with dispatches for the government.
He utterly denies the recent sensation reports
in regard to quarrel between Gems. Hunter
and Foster. The same denial is made by the
president, and no reason exists to believe that
anything has occurred likely to impair the eff
ticiency Of our army in the department of the
south.
a Vicksburg letter of the 9th inst. sums ue
as follows the result of the late exploit Of the
ram Queen :-''She has successfully captured
the confederate steamers Moro, Baker and
Berwick Bay the two former laden with pork
and stores tor the rebel army at VickSburg,
and the latter with passengers. They made
no resistance. Among the passengers, of
which sixty were captured were seven COM
mssioned officers of the rebel army 1t was
at first the intention to bring the steamers to
Viclsburg, but their progress was slow and
their stock of coal nearly exhausted, and the
Queen was forced to destroy them. They
were burned, the passengers paroled, and the
officers transferred to the RAM"
There seems to be a sharp war among the
rebels in many localities. We hear of it in
the gulf states. 1t is now in Arkansas. A
refugee from Arkansas states that 800 jay.
hawkers, who defed the rebel conscript law,
were in the mountains of Clark county, while
1000 more are in Montgomery county. and
openly defy the rebels. They are supplied
with powder and lead by one of their num-
Der, formerly engaged in the rebel ordnance
service.