SINGAPORE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 649, 16 January 1864, Page 6

SINGAPORE.

[From the Straits Times Extra, Nov. 19.] DOINGS OF THE ALABAMA. Batavia, Not. 14. f ' On the morningl of the 12th inst. the officers and crew of the mevican ship Amanda, 600 tons register, arrived here at the U. >'. Consulate, reporting that on the night of Friday, the 6th instant, 12! miles S.'-'.W. of Java Head, in the Indian Ocean, the Armada was burnt by the Confederate steamer Alabama, Semmes, commander. Tim Amanda had on hoard a full cargo of sugar and hemp shipped by Messrs Ker and Co, of Maiiilla, and bound to Queenstown. After the crew of the Amanda were taken on board the Alabama, the vessel was burnt, and the Alabama "steered for Sundii Straits, where she arrived at night-time, and anchored close under the coast of "Sumatra. When there she was informed by a Dutch vessel lying at anchor, that the U. -'. S. Wyoming was at Batavia, upon which she steamed on, always keepimr close to the Sumatra coast, and finally running out of Sunda Straits, stood in near North. Island on the !<>th inst*and at five p.m. signalised the American clipper ship Winged Rucer, 1,771) tons register, Cummins, commander, which ship was owned by Mr Robert L. Taylor, of New York, and had on lioard a full cargo of sugar aud hemp, bound from Manilla to New York. After distributing her crew in three of the ship's boate, they were permitted to take such clothing1, provision, and water as they wanted and the boats would carry, and the ship was burnt. Captain Cummins, who had his wife and child, went on hoard of the British ship Julia, bound from Shanghai to London, then at anchor not far off, and they were landed at Anjer. 'The Alabama then put the crew of the Amanda into a boat, in which they arrived at Batavia. The Winged Racer sank at half-past eight. When the Alabama was last seen she was steering for the northward. The U.S.S. Wyoming left Batavia on the morning of Bth inst, for a cruise; having been detained at Batavia in order to repair machinery. The Amanda was the first vessel destroyed by the Alabama since she left Cane Town. By later telegram the Alabama was cruising between North Island and Nicolas Point. The Wyoming had gone on a cruise to Christmas Island, supposed to be a coaling station for rebel steamers.