Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-24

The statistics of the various blockade running
steam vessels, and their fate and fortunes if fuIly
set forth, would exhibit some curious facts. Some
OF those iacts, OF which we have been Informed.
shall now be mentioned; they will, to most read,
ers bring with them their own explanation Seven
. or eight new steamers have been built at English
dockyards, expressly to run the blockade thew
were ordereI and afterwards equipped and manned,
and the officers found for them, by an English firm
styled Alexander Collie 6 Co. On arriving at Der.
muda they were transferred to respectable Con-
federate firm, acting Oh behalf Of the Confederate
government: SO that OH arrival at Wilminston-if
they had ever arrived the,e-theY were to have
oeen under the Confederate flag, and owned by Con-
teaerate owners; aad were destined thereafter as
regular blockade runners, half on sovernment &C
count and half On account of the Confederate frm
These vessels have all been lost: they were ALL
save one, lost on their very first voyage between
Bermuda and Wilmington; and our readers may
remember their Inflated names, the Venus, the
Ceres, the pestq, the Juno, &c. One of these, the
Hs0s was lost not on her first voyage, but on her
second.
Now, at the very same time, there was running
most lucky and prosperous line of blockade break
ing ships, Belonging to that English firm of Collie
&Co. The very house which was, employed to or.
de- and equip pessels to sthe-Slockade on &C.
count af q 4lBent was also5most extensive.
iy engages IN running the blockade on it's own &C..
count In 9tlsr IDS. oar government expected
Mr.: A!exandr Con to furnish them faithfully and
bona .5tas wlshsIle beams Of competing with him.
self and driHng him oRtof the mos! lucrative trade
he eyer had il Ills HE Accordingly their ships
were al drisen aahorA : total loss. But of Mr.
Cellie's own ssessels nsa has made nine
round voyages psysasg fef herself twenty times
over: The zssis1 and tho ,Aznie have u2de each
three round voyages md sfe now prosperously
running the Ebaooa has made two round voyages !;
and che ttaaiags has just come in successfully on
her first trip. One Of Collies, however, was lost /:
she is the D5Shad made sic prosperous round
voyages, and then was run down at sea by the Yam
KEGS, and is now of the blockading squadron
itself
The contrast thus presented is striking enough,
but this is not all; the captains and officers found
by Collie &Ce for the Confederate vessels we're all
NEST partlcslsrly capable and experienced men
they always ram their ships safely through the
1bsockading squadroa-for if they had lost them to
the Yankees they never could have got command
of vessel again; it always on tine coast or in
the very mouth of Cape Fear river that those ships
were run aground, and then usually burned up,
both ship and cargo. Suspicious could not but
arise after while, in the most simple hearts
and when the Testa about seven months ago, after
successfully making her way through a bockading
fleet in pursuit. and after she was safe out of their
range aud cut of their sight, vas wantonly run
aground on the North Canoina coast and instantly
burned BY her captain, together with her cargo and