REBEL PRIVATEERS: The New Rebel Iron-Clads in France; One Vessel Launched---Others in Rapid Progress (4/15/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/15/1864

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PARIS, Tuesday, March 29, 1864.

One of the vessels built at Bordeaux by M. ARMAN Deputy in the Corps Legislatif, for the Confederate Government, was launched on Thursday last, and shows herself on the water to be a most beautiful specimen of naval architecture. An English vessel is lying in the same port with all the necessary equipments on board for the new vessel, the articles having been put on board the English vessel at Havre. The new vessel will not be ready to sail yet for some weeks, and she is audaciously announced in advertisements as being "up" for Shanghai. M. ARMAN. however, has been compelled by the French Government to give his word that none of the vessels he is building, shall pass from his into Confederate hands, or, in a general way, that no trouble shall come to the Government from these vessels. It is on this promise of M. ARMAN that the French and American Governments rely, and on which permission is granted for the continuance of the work on them. The two iron-clads will not be ready for launching yet for three months, but the other three wooden vessels will soon follow their consorts into the water. It is feared that by some indirect means these vessels may finally pass into Confederate hands.

The Georgia, which left the French port of Cherbourg over a month ago, has just put into the port of Bordeaux, and on Saturday the officers of this vessel visited the newly-launched Confederate ship. It is yet unexplained why the Georgia was allowed to reenter a French port, contrary to the new regulation requiring an interval of three months to elapse between each entry, but I believe this new regulation makes an exception to the three months' rule

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Rebel Privateers: The New Rebel Iron-Clads in France – 2-3
Department of the Gulf: Affairs on the Rio Grande – 3
News from the South: The Rebel Morgan About to Undertake a Bold Raid – 3
Another Attack on Paducah: A Surrender Demanded and Refused – 3
From Colorado – 3
From Washington: The Long Expulsion Case Finished – 3-4
Proceedings of Congress – 4-6
The Metropolitan Fair: The Largest Crowd Since Its Opening – 6
A Cheap Day at the Fair – 6
Editorial: The Resolution to Expel Mr. Long – 6-7
Editorial: Taxation – 7
The Draft – 7
Max Again – 7
The Golden Bear – 7
Political – 7