The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-16
The "whig's'' spirit of the Press.

The Sentinel exposes the absurdity OF the claim
to Semmes and his men as prisoners of war, set
up by a Yankee board OF naval officers. It relates
the facts in the case of the Alabama, and retutes
the Yankee assertion that the officers and crew
of the Mercedid, who surrendered and gave their
parole near Charleston, were ever exchanged
The Sentinel says =
"Whcn the Rear Admiral, at the command of
his Abolition superiUrs, grayely made his report
uptn the crew of the 1ldbaRG,' he knew that
those officers, after thus surrendering themselves
Oh beard our ships, delivering their side-arms,
and being permitted, at their own request to go
TO tie other side OF their captured vessel to assist
their wounded companions had fed, leaving the r
sldc.aIms and their implied promise to re:urn
behind them, and that they continued in active
service against us. Aud the Rear admiral
knew, alsO that This Lieutenant Pendergrast, who
doubtless received from his countrymen the
praise due 10 so clever Yankee trick WAS
recently captured by us in the II0ter ITitck, and
isLOw in our custody; and that ii the views tX-
pIcsstd by the report Of the Board be correct,
lie muits the treatment not Of prisoner Oi war
which he Is receiving at OuV handS-but that
which may be Justified towards an officer OF the
ULitCd States navy, born in, citizen Of, and ap-
pointed from, Kentucky, and whO lighting
aga nst his native land has violated his parole
hon Or"
The Sentinel denies that the Secretary OF War
Gdyigt the adoption, by the State Commission
CIs, OF the leCeIt cNOrDitunr schedule of prices.
On The colfrhy, he thOught il too high; and so
stated 20 he time.
The E,antne thinks that the failurc Of the
grand pNTOtFChUiCat exhibition nc Petersburg
wt.Gs uPlhc Yankee campaign Tor he capture
Of ElclU,t nd. lr seems 10 have produced "a con-
Niciiun ,t that kind On the Northern people
tltmS,NUs-Uot hocaUsc 10 was in itself more dis
attlCus llaH The numerous bGO IS TCpu gCS which
GfLut had previously suffered but because il
,&haustcd the rcpetHy of Yankee cNpcIignts
1t Was The last Card-thr ace Of spgGes-hut did
| NOT iuln OUT tn be Tfump. Hence Granr, SO oUr
contemporary suppOses, has yielded 90 I.Bcolu's
| cal, and IS packing mp bag and baggage, wi p the
mttiti,u of rbauduLiug that heauutul line on
! which hc was going 10 tghT it out an summer.
| The "uuest army On The planet has come, for
hC lrtseIt, 90 tic end tt its invasive career and
| heuCC'urth viii do guard duty on the Potomac,
whittier the scene Of The campaign is about to be
| uausiCrIed.
The Examiner gives some interesting aud
| highly suggestive facts connected with blockade
running. II seems that the Confederate Govern
meut purchased from Collie & Co., great British
| house, number Of fine steamcrs-all OF which
| we're manned and differed under the auspices of
| Collie Co. every one OF which, saving one, was
| lost on ler FIRST trip; the other was lost on the
| second. Ilcy were not captured by the enemy
| but were run aground and burned after eludiug
! the blochadipg squadron, ana when at Jae very
| entrance Of the Cape Fear river. At the same
| time Collie q Co., being deeply engaged in the
| blCCkade-TuDning business, have had eNuuordi-
| nary luck with their own vessels one, the HdRSa,
| having made nine round trips the EdlH and thc
| AH0,e each three, the Falcon two ana the FId-
| HingO has Just come in. The Don, the only
vessel lost by Collie & Co., made six successful
| round yOy ages. The Examiner learns further -
That Dudgen, Of London, an extensive ship
| builder, constructed to the order Of Collie & Co.
seven double screw vessels, all just alike Of these
| five were transferred 10 the Confederate firm Tor
| Goyernment)-all five lost two were retained by
| Collie & Co.-bOth still running"
| Here Is the Examiners explanation Of these
remarkable facts -
| Thee is no other conceivable way Of account
| ing for the facts above mentioned than by sup
posing that the iudciOus Collie & Co. employed
Captains and paid them expressly 20 run ashore
and destroy those vessels which were 10 enter
into competition with their own; and that as
further reward for that service, the officer who
have lost Confederate ships are put on board Of
Collie's TO carry them through safely. Many
ishing i'll luck Of the Confederate vessels, and