, 1863-11-07
the GEORGIA AND TUSCALOOSA
HEARD FROM.
The VuuderbiIt's Movements.
correspondence ofsshe N. 7. Tribune.l

CAFE TowN, CAFE OF GooD HorE, Sept. ~, SO,
1t the date OF my last letter, lang. 1o.) the
whereabouts Of the Alabama and her two
prizes was only known to the parties here
who had purchased the prizes and their car.
'goee. or that day, however, the Governor
"a TACT which the American Consul had limited
In his letter to the Governor, dated the 18th
OF. August and he dispatched her Majesty'a
war steamer Va1orous to that place, with his
private Secretary on board and q custom
house officer, to protect the revenue and pre-
vent an Infringement Of neutrality. Of course
the Valorous was one day too iats, IS both
prizes had left that secluded place the day be-
i: The Georgia still remained In sinnon's Bay,
twenty three miles from here; aud did not
leaFe I'LL the o1st Of August. Being IN Iron
ves9el, aud her bottom Tery foul, It was In
tended that she should be put upon the slip.
dock here liable Bay) or a! simons BAY, for
repairs; but both docks we're ont Of repair,
and the probably went to Maurltius for that
o. tie Goth the Vanderbilt arrived fiom st.
Helena, having left Rio de Janeiro on the ed,
proceeded to- trinidad, and from thence to
st, Helena, where she took in 400 tons Of coal
all three we're there. Learning from the pI-
lot at Simon'e Bay that the Geofgfa had ss3ied
only sixteen houra before, she started off I'M
medtateIy without coming to anchor. 6he
proceeded eastward about 100 miles, where
ehe found q Dutch bark dismasted, and being
nearly out Of coal che toTed the distressed
vessel to S1mons Bay, which they reached on
the Sd inst. The Vanderbilt remained there
one week, coalfug ard repairing machinery,
and departed agafn on the evening Of the 11th,
On The Eth, she Was spoken BY an English
vessel to the eastward Of this place, having
Geotgfs, or to find out from vessels passing
of Agu1hus where the Alabama had gone.
On the l4tb,a email vessel arrived here
1Fcm ADgra penguIna, q small guano isInnd
on the west coast; but ro information could
be obtained from her in relation to the Ala
:bama or her prizes; The British Shipping
master here, Capt. Tnley, who ia also police
magistrate, resolved to make the crew tell all
they knew, and therefore had them brought
btfore him to take their depositions. They
testified In substance that the Alabama aud
her two p1izeR vent westward to the guano
1slands-Angra, Peugnina and Tchsboe; that
both the Sea Bride and Tut caloosa left their
csrgoes there on the island or transferred
them to other yeseels; that the latter left In
ballast Al privateer, with her four guns on
board, on the 30th Of August, and that the
Seq Bride Captured here In neutral waters),
after disch6rging her original cargo, loaded
known. They also testified th.t tie chief
manager Of these Arrangements land probably
the chief purchaser Of the prizcs and careoes}
was Thomas Elanstone, Of the firm Of R. Gran
ger d Co. Of this place, who a1a the lessees
Of the guano islands from the British Govern
ment, which NOW p1etenda to ow1 the Island
Of Ichaboe. This Elenstope was the chief ne.
gotiator with Semmes while he was here, as
happen to know; and be his not appeared
here s1tce the Alabama left.
The evidence taken by Capt. Tlnley was sub
m1tted to the Governor, with view to the
puniskment Of The ptize-bny ers If they should
happen to return here; but 1t Was kept very
quiet, ard Iot a word licked out about the
Alabaua or her plizcs until the former re-
tul1ed to Simcnfs Fay on the 10th. This
place Is 70 full Of B1itleh Confederates that,
though over dozen persors here must haya
known where the prizes had gone, not one re-:
vealed 1t; sud come Of them eyen prefer ded
to be confidential with the commander Of the
Vanderbilt. and threw cut deceptive hints to
mieleed him.
The Alabama, on her return to s1mon's Bay
On the 10th, reported no further captures.
She Is now takt3g, IN coal and getting her
min ut that port about eight days. Capt.
semnes, being noH put In fur 1s By tha sale
Of ore pllze ard rwo ca1yoes, WILL give bis
men holiday, and come tperdipg money,
which he was too s'ha:d up" to do when he
VAS here last.
The Tuscaloosa, I have just learned, has
gone east, and the Vanderbilt may fall IN with
her. The Flo1sda 1as not yet appeared here,
End believe is cruising nesr the equator. It
Is just possible that the Vanderbilt may re-
turn before the Alabama Leave. agaln, but not
probable. Yours, &c, AM1cus.