15/20 This sentence had reference to my denial of the Alabama and the substitution of the U.S. The ingratitude of some people!!' On the 16th April Captain Semmes resumes his diary as follows:--Weather clear; wind light from the southward and eastward. Our banner, last night a lurid flame, is a tall column of smoke advertising us for twenty-five or thirty miles round. My first intention was to ship all my prisoners, amounting to about one hundred and ten, in the prize brig, but the Governor having consented to my landing them, I am busy to-day getting them on shore, with their baggage and provisions, and receiving prisoners from the Louisa Hatch. |