FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2237, 21 September 1864, Page 6

FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

Tin Federal wai steamer 'Keaisaige'.anived in Dover Ko.uls on the Ktli July- II h-" 1 ljeou stated in some of the Fieneh papeis that a successor to the 'Alabama would piobaoly be in waiting off Cheibourg when the Fedei d \csael left that port, and that nnothernav.il digigement might take place, in which the South would liavo an oppoitunty of. letnevmg its late dote \t No new 'Alabama,' however, seems to have jetappeued, bit it is asaeited that a steamei, the Jeddo, 1 which left Bouleuix ou the 22nd June, is to take the place of the notonous pnvateei On this subject the Cniondc of Hie 4th says .—"lt will be recollected that a mystery sunounded the de paitmc ot the ' Jeddo ' This mystery seems likely to bo m untamed In f iob, it was on tho 22nd June that the 'Jeddo' quitted oiu poit foi Amsterdam, the \oyigc between the two cities beirg oidin.inly four d lys, we ou«ht five days, ago at least to have henid of tho junvil in the Dutch poit o£ the slcamer built and aimed by M. Annan But no commercial journal that we know o£ has said a word upon the subject Tho voj \ge of the 'Jeddo' lias certainly something sti vnge and unusual about it, and the future will soon show°thifc the anticipations respecting her weie only 100 well founded" The Opinion Nationale asserts that the vessel heio lcfeired. to will soon ie-appeai, fully aimed and maimed, and ■with the Confederate fl ig (I) mg Captain Hemmes, it is said, is too ill to take command of hei This duty will consequently devolve upon the fir3t lieutenant of tho lite 'Alabama,' \\hos>e appointment is expected to aiuve about the middle of the present mouth If the statements of the Fieneh papeis aieto h> lclicd on, theio \mll soon be no lack in the Channel u£ wai vessels belonging to the opposing Powers. \cc.iidmg to those statement", the 'Florid*' is ah eady th tie ; the 'Jeddo,' ab we have seen, is being got rcad>, md "tho South is probably prepuing a chs-pl-y of fie»h foices ," while, on the other hand, we luin that the Fcdervl steuner ' Niagaia' left Antweipou the 2nd instant, to cuus.e in the Channel, an 1 that a new Federal steamei, the ' Macedonian,' built upon tho same model as the ' Keaisuge,' and annul with heavy {juns, i<s expected The Pies^c thinks that a f u moie " chain \tic engagement than th it in -w Inch the 'Al ibam i' penshed" may accordingly be looked foi at no distant date A letter has been lecuved in Hull fiom one of the cicu of the Confederate steamei ' Kappah in nock,' winch is now Ijmg at CM us. Tlie w liter states that the ship is at present undei the sttiet suneillance of the Fi each and English authouties, wholumly lefnse to ueimit hei to leave Caliis. For some time past the ' ICt v* age ' has been causing off Calais with the hope ofcaptuimg the 'Kappah.aunock.' The Confedeiate at present is not in a position to copewithhei would bo antagonist, as she has neithei guns nor .ammunition on boat d The capt un of the ' Bnppatiannoi.lv. ' w onld, howe\ei, if the gianted pel mission, lca\e the poit and take hi 3 eh nice of eluding the Miril.ance of the Federal. The wntei states that the Confederate is nurh the fastest \estel, and that if sho once got a-heail of the ' Keai-s-u go ' she w ould be pel fectly safe. The ' X \pp th mnock ' is fitted with a fine pan of engines of 300-hors>e powei, foui fighting boileis, and two despatch boileis Mie h is on ho.ud at piesent about 130 men. Ihe news ot the 'Alibimi's' sinking c died foith expiessioiia ot logiet fiom the ciow of tho ' JRappuiannock,' and they cMnccd then sympathy foi the ciew of the lost -\ess,el by making a collection foi the wounded and widows of thine who wcie killed oi diowned dining the bne£ stuiggle between the Fedeial and Coufcdciate cuti&ei. The Federal w u steamei ' S iciamento ' am\ed off Cheibourg on tho sth Tin, 'Flouids.'and ntc 'Kn\Rt,,VR«B '—The Cheibomg conespondent of the Shipping Gazette states that anothei na\.il battle was expected off that poit, as it w is stated that the Confodei Ue eniisci 1 'Florida' wag outside waiting loi the ' Kearsai ge.' The Federal man of war ' Nng.ara,' which had been at Autweip, is known to hue iecei\ed ordeis to pioeeed to Cheiboiug. Tm. Duiaou 'io Tiir 'KrJVßSuioc' — Captain Kauinaie/, of the Koy.il Navy, who recently visited the ' Kc.usaige' at Chcibomg, gives wliat maybe cousideied as an authentic account of the damages sustained by that \essel m the late engagement with tho 'Alibama.' lie says —"When I boaided her I found she had no armour plates oi protection of any kind beyond ha\ing used hci chain cable, about seventy fathoms, on each Mdc in the v ike of tho engines, stopped iipauddown to eye bolts, diiven in outside the ship, and covciel o\ci by \ciy thin planking 1 found she had had some eight shots m hci hull. Two had stiuck this on hci staiboaid side, .and had meiely biokcn the links, but had not penetrated. A shell ("]) had cntciod her staiboaid niEiiu chains, and exploded close to the eleven-inch gun, but only wounding thiee men (one since dead) , ouo (i) shot took oft the top of hei lnuiicaue house, over the engine loom, caujmg away hei poit dcadcye in the mun uggi"g A shot (5) stiuck boi mboaid ueir the mi/en nui&fc, on the poit side, passing outboud, and dom» but little <lamage A shot (6) struck hei under the staiboaid countei, meiely staiting a dock plank. A shell (7) stiuck, and now lemams two feet above witoi in her stem post, which they have meiely covcie.l ovei with a piece of painted canvas ; and thi^ is all tho damage done to her, beyond thiec shots thimigh lioi fdimcl, and hei nggiug cut up .i little alolb .She has not been into dock, nor docs she icqiuic it, and need novel to have gone into poit foi iepaus, solitt'e ellecbhas the 'Alab vma'b' ill o had on hci."