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) TJ i . ji i .... - a, ... . .' , ' . i J v t - ' 5 ;?h1 MCTTO- 7R77WTR? AJ- i v V.- ; V0L1.-XO.M8 PHICE FIYE.CEXTS is. ZlLJiid t m TflE HERALD in. AUGUST 23 SECOND ToCAL INTELLIC EfJCE,- i A Ixm1 Reporter. An jbodj who imagines that the sitnallon of j local reporter, od a aaiij paper is a nnecar is most egregiouslj at fault, .He is a kind, of Ise-rer on hand and still anywhere but there in short, a local reporter is a ubiquitious in- it,l who pnsuia do eicrjwucre . once, T.Mntr Tiearinc eTeiTthincr. There not s pig run over but the local should be tware of it; there is not a man who lotes ten dollars at seTen-up but the. local should know Tiho is the winner. If corn grown crbsswajs or cabbages don't come up ; if two ' engines ruo spin? eiciJi"'-6 . -.... into each other ana smasn a aozen cars apiec . a . ; V:., to know precisely how 'the ac- if a steamboat bursts ner . Doner, u,e loci - 4. . .1. i- Ue public posted in the, market prices of every commodity and to wind up all has to Itlnowor ought 10 know how many people are sicx in the citvand what they are sick of. Added to all this he has got to keep a regular aceount and make a due report of those who get married or la. drunk, etc., etc. . t Now then if this is noUenough for one man to do in a day and do it every day, we don't know ourselves and the "court thinks we do.'. How ever, we will try and get through the business as satisfactorily as we can and depend upon the earnestness of our efforts to please all. " Foil Holders and Inspectors. , ; The following justices and free holders were appointed at a special court, held on the 22d August, 1865, to hold the polls at the approach ing election, to wit : . j Wilmington Bitt.Thos. M. Gardner. J. P. .".V. N. Peden and Jas. Anderson. r Federal roint Dayid R. Cfornto, J. P. Ste phen Keys and Jas. Williams. Matonboro S. N. Cannon, J. P. Elijah Hew let and Marsden Holden. . ) f , Middle Sound David S. Saunders, O. F. Alex ander and Reuben Everett. ' Sandy Run, John Utley, J. P. Chas. W. McClaramy and Olvin Nixon. Holly Shelter. ..Isaac James, J. P.. ..Daniel Shaw and Sam 4 Player. . , r - South Wathington... H. F.' Murphy, J. P.:." Jno. D. Bowers and Jno.-E. Pigford, Pineg ' Wood. ..Daa'l Robinson, J. P.. ..Jas. A. Murphy and Rob't W. Moore. Upper Black Eiver...J&8. Colvin J. P....W. Usher Newkirk and Rob't TennelL . Lower Black iw...Rob't Henry," J. P.. ..Jno. F. Moore and J. F. Simpson. Camtuck...3. J. Bridgen, J. P....S. F. Wilson and Wm. .J. Bridgen. Long Creek... John Jones, J. P....S. H. Bell and J. R. Darkins. Rocky Point. ..T. J. Armstrong, J. P.. ..David Mclntyre and Geo. Anderson. r'' ' Enrolling Hoards. . The following justices of the peace were ap- v pointed at a special court, held on the 22d Au gust, I860, members of the. Enrolling Board for this county : - WilmingtonDist. A. E. Hall, Jno. J. Conoley, S. N. Martin and A-J Howell. Masonboro Sam'l N. Cannon. Federal Point David R. Gornto. Middle Sound David S. Saunders. Sandy Run John Utley. . ' Jlolly Shelter Isaac James and R. C. Nixon. Rocky Po nt T. J. Armstrong. ' ? , . Long Creek John Jones. f Scuth Washington Arch'd McMillan f. Piny Woods James Celtia. Lower Black River- Rob't Henry. Caintuck J. J. Bridger. . . ' , Upper Black River Dan'l Ro Vinson a4 J9 Colvin. r rl" - , Major's Court,- His Honor, Jno. JJa.-sr son Presiding:, Augrust 28. .t, ' There was a great want of cases before his honor this morning, only one being brought up to the bar: ' : Thos. R. Smith, a man with an ,7" ' uncommon name, was charged with drunkenness. .' The idea of such a name attached to such a man; had really the effect of startling the mayor him self. It seems that a post had in a 'moment of unconsciousness run against Smith, and sad to relate, after a desperate encounter,' the eat I knocked Smith down. 'Tfierehe laid until the indefatigable police discovf red Jbinivjd took care that he should receive no fmore .violence from city adjuncts. The mayor" only, deitanded this morning $5 for the care which hadr-been tendP a o:.kf ,a:.,a j M iaiiMW.ij tbebi"- ,: ' : o ol r -ef , . otbbkts. uan any one. wander, tnrougn 1 the streets of Wilminrtnn and ftmUi -afViKarti 1 - . -1 ... , times! Thatisif wecanUke theusiu pareatiy done as a citation! Z Thera ia net fcnv f . . a . one in our street thpVearTto be w tog for something to dverybody, is bWMti ,are! - -w . r . . aar u ao everjbody, is busy. e jarei . Convinced from ohaerrAtJon that Iraiafenx find tha i iad t. .are. -. -; . j market house a dull, retreat, (he streets a tire- I - i J ouaruing -owe. Consequently loafers tt id.vmne genu Have given up. Wilmington as a disaSreeable roost and ttm.. ' . Shoot i - wo at Wiu....At Paddy's Hollow near- opnng a colored jroman nameaAl J'et as X5trtaiaid, fixed a shot from a window tsTo sTi .. tfTVCTO. ' l t & unmix arretted J7 the police ad will appear before lh inawA. i av " " - - , w . wuik una morninr. Bhe is sap- pea w Dime ttiatreas of a white man residing in the same house, 0 being found in bad com- panj was arrested with her.- City ProvtMt Court. Annas t 21. John .Howard, George; Jenkins "and thirteen others, belonging sererallr to Ihe 6th, 27th and w. o. v-. a. were arrestea ror beine in town without ATpass. i I Their 'excuses were arious one of the darkies arered tbs,t he thought, inde pendentlj of mititary rule that as a free gentle man of color, who .had f arriTed al Jhe tummun boniu of his earthly . estate (L e. was free and as he had fought manfully the enemies of the stars and stripes that he should be allowed his liberty in most untramelled form.,,, The, proros didn't see it," and soJie went back to his ree- reg iment and company, with the others to answer at "quarters" for direliction of duty. Absital jeok WW Vrar- VU 1 me arrixi 01 me new steamer 'I'wilioht, from New York, making her first trip here in fiay- seven hours. She is Gtonfl .burthens. W her Jay, and through the kindness of her capta or capUin were ! shown 'around, both with .our reconnoisance. and to all proposing depafturei'a Toyage in the Tun- lioht. Her crineinal nfSra tM.rtcn v f ... aw. .-I y Captain. Leyi Spicer. 'Z ; CAiy Qr. John Biirbani '1 r Puracr.Vf. O. Tiff. one wiu run in connection with the steamer Euterpe. . . . Dahcx&ous PoLiCEMfcH. A prisoner having escaped, from-, the hands of ..some policemen, while running along the street was fired at iby them, and a small child who happened to be near her parents'. house in the street,': narrowly escaped peing struck. Tne pursued party juwpeu a xence ana was again nrea at, to tne Si -J . J . ' .a.' a . 1. immediate danger of several small children who were enjoying themselves in the yard. When prisoners elude the vigilance of policemen ' of J couse it is their duty to - arrest them, but they should be yery careful how they, poiut their pistols or they may "shoot 'at theigeo kill the crow," or a; little rphin. redbreast. Ho! job Fatettevixle. The steamer Lil lian, Capt. S. M. Francisco, aboat just, refitted and refurnialiadLXor our river1 trade,will leave this afternoon at 3 o'clock. We are Terv ani-e very that the trade wanted a new boat and are quite assured that in the Lillian the Fayetteville peo ple and our. own will get what tbey want, j Tub LixLiAii.-Thw steamer presented a fine appearance on her trial trip yesterday after noon. This boat was formerly known as the Isaac Welle, an t nas Deen remoaaeled.ana re a a I a a a r " v -,-,-y . as above. Acknowledgment. We are under obligations to Mr. Irancis M. James, ef this town, tor a very liberal sample, of scuppernong grapes, . J a'J. 1.1 .l 5 ltJx a! a piCKei irom ms vines wunin wis town, me urti picking of the season. They are of yery elegant size and excellent flavor. Thanks. We are indebted to the messengers of the Adams Express Company for late north ern papers. '"''lK'' Also to Mr. W. 0. Tiff, purser of the steamer Twilight, for New York dates in advance of the mails. ' Arrived. U. S. steamer Lancer,. Captain Smith, laden with commissary stores, arrived yesterday. . .Ic'Jii G - - ': Sails ToDA-rlThe schooner Henry Castoff, Capt. Albro, loaded with rosin, sails to-day. DIED. Anmst 22d. 1865. of typhoid fever FANNIE C. ANDERSON, 1 eldest ;daughter of Wm. S. and Frances C. Anderson, aged' 19 years and. 11 months. - 1 J r;.U i Her funeral will take .place from the residence of her father, corner Fifth and Market streets, &t ff.,'nir,nlr this fWednesdaVl afternoon. The friends of the family are requested to k attend. , ' POLITICAL. ' - ,;-L!u t'J.;i-..r...' if.. TJ ! '1 XX10 Xeace - impraucaoiei nantacnti off Ohio Holdlnr a. ConTen- , tion domination of 'Am lAtngn didate fo.r CUrrernor.1 " f Can- v. ii :t; -jvu-j ii.Chsta'Mlm: - August 18. ,The bocrua UOmoerauo vonyeiKiuu .8aa- Kia Vt Pnlnmhiis yesterday. Mr. Mitchell, nXlpnted chairman H. Munnell-bf .HighlafKl county, secret " : r J W . I . ' . IV I tarrL' Alexander. Aw Ju,1g w uummiv 1 governor, aaiClmtu-'AI mm iiilo 1111 ui.uin.uaui i governor. w . a.-:..,f r rAOnmanna were -r.wi " y r r aw m vav a ; w i m w m . i.A r.iv ialJlfcnalci lotlMNTrliawJ j CduMOB, Ohiv AngTl7. aeuad to stand by with a handspike aid WWthe democracy iheld a ed1 by. a wedge of wood and a., elastic band. ) noil::!. '-trl The radical: ZTTttSA tSdindtpen wuuioui - ux. - - i dent orgaEation.eiAi- V. Alexander ione lor. gaffing TiJZtTJr'zi' k w. : i;aHftrti-iroTeirnc was nommatea. r vnmui m. w)uw c 1 'AJZmm " Riitfe-aoVereigiirylo iiva vnw i toiith niui j? u w a.asva.a- " i government t, nRW5li("rTr a- a. - : . a. oa a aB aav . rr kiii ml: i 11 aivu a Pats:.ganst 4 55," if j ---'-. - Aa sxr a a i. ara a w:wT,a.nfti cornmU: oUDO&es iSSii. j fe nS.'eoW -a-:?--! WtrB'..r.T U'a nP n rr.n aeon TOra to emanc.:Pte ue . ajaves; cona ems 5 .v.w- .t. cy has ktu va . aw . i that success can only do reacneu uy rtwn; i atrUctine the party on the basis of state sdv 1 V K. al-n.an I J.zr . . . ereignty. - Thespeeches all declareclllie ar a fauure, because it nas setucu uwwuii-, new parij jvreauj enrnjij orKaniza in sereral sections of tbe state, and is being ed by earnest id determined men. : The-reeular ' ''..I ... . 0 aUemocrauc ConTention te held next week: ' . - - . THE LOST CABLE. Details of the Disaster. TnEirnDSBTiJWATirciRcun- STANCES U.MCIt WHISn ir PARTED. Tlie Several Efforts to Grapple It. Temporary 'Abandonment of tne prise, dec. Enter- ' ' &cr ' Ac. Special Dispatch to tne Herald. if- n J nil i ' P i .t 1 ft I -i.y.i' x . ' . The Following is an abstract of the report of the Cable Expedition from the 2d of August tne timw of the breaking of the cable un- til the Oreat -Lastern parted company with the Terrible: ...... " ..1 .s . Great Eastern, Aug. 2, 1865. A sad, a memorable day in the annals of Atlantic telegraph. After midnight the wind arose, accompanied by heavy showers of rain an l dense drifts of fog, and increased to a strong gale to the southwest; but the ship scarcely felt it, and rent on paying out the cable without lundra nee at a high rate of speed seven .knots an hour. About daybreak tne wind suddenly shifted to north fcnorthwest; and fell to a light breene, and at four A. M., the course was altered to northwest" by west half west, the sea follow? ing. Morning brokce in beautitul, and the ca ble ran out easily at the rate of seven miles an hour. l ANOTHER DEFECT DISCOVERED. At 5:30 A. Mi, ship's tim the paddles TOnoWnnrAd and at 5;45 th shir wao f,a ped by orders from the electrician s loom, rn fact, at eight A. M., Greenwich-time, or' a minute after,' whilst the electricians were pas- tied bv orders from the electrician's 100m. fti sine the first ' of the half hourly signals of currents to . the shore, the galvanometer sud enlT aeiec.iea owu denly detected flow of electricity, which in di me test gave no result e fault wasvery varyincr : but it was generally, believed to be not far from the stern of the steamship It appears that yrhile; Mr. Cyrus JJield was on the watch in the ta ik, a little before the time of the ac- cideht, a grating noise was audible as the ca ble flew over th coil astern. One of the ex perienced hands immediately said ''There is niece of wire." and called to the lookout man above to pass tne mlormatiun ait; but no no- .lCe appears iu .nave urcu iinm-u m uieuir- cu instance. .J Alter tne snip was stopped ana thrf remainder of the flake paid" out a niec1 of wfre wis seen projecting out nf the;cuble in the flake: underneath that in which the fault was Riisriecied,: to exist, and on one of the men I taking it in' his fingers and trymc his fingers and trying to bend it nearly I down, the wire DroKe snore on. it was three inches long, and had evidently been of Jong, ana naa eviaenuy bee u.a .nu,TrAd niAtAl. which had flnwn i,f thfouffh the threads in the tank. The discov- 11 1 1 i VI ,J I A l. w 7 ery was in some measure a ronei to tne men's minds that one certainly and, possibly, the second of the previous tauita. might have been the result of accident. It was remarked how ever that this ,iauit occurrea in tne same watch as all lhe previous ones had. The f.Uit was too serious to be overlooked, and as there was a difficulty in detecting its situation, pre- parations were maae 10 get me picKing up apparatus ready. ' ' '. I TTTR CABLE OCT. Previous to doing so two cuts were made in the cable, the hrst pear th old spin e, be tween the main and the fore tanks. Cable all right. The second cut was tnree miles on o . .... 1 j . l. e 1 1. : i- - 1 j board, which snoweu me iauit, 10 oe overooara. The wire rope and the chain wire were se cured to the cable forward, which showed a inaxium strain of twe ty-three and a half hundred weight; and at five minutes past nine o'clock, Greenwich time, the cable , was sev ered and went over the stern, , one, thousand one hundred and sixty-six , miles having been payed out when the end splashed in the wa ter. ' ' HAULINO IN .THE CABLE. With leas difficulty than uual in fapt, with comparative facility -the cable was hauled in over. the bows. At eight minutes past ten o'clock A. , M., Greenwich time, it had been hauled by the port side 01 the ship, and as the wind stood, she drifted over the course of the cable, but came up readily. The strain on it. according to iue inaicaior, Deing irom fifty to fifty hye hundred weight, aitnougn tne .lattef .figvTe representea the ; maxium.oniy reached on one occasion, w e were, nowever, nearly in two thousand fathoms oj water, but it was considered a favorable circumstance that we had not got in a few miles further, as we wwuw-iuc.. : , K r we should then have been in tne Atlantic pia- teau. As far as could be ascertained tne ip was now over a gentle elevation, c the top a I MAaVI-Ba-nrfl-fMaMAl ot whicn- tnerewas o.y 1 A A -A Afrn r.lhnma akf WfttPr nuuurcu ia.j - - l.waa-as usual, exceedingly tedious, and one Aaaa . . w - - . hnnr iinn oriv-iu uimuics ciauiscu ukwis-ius LmileiwM cot on board. . I hen one of th e en- fine's eccentric gear got out of order, so that to; assist, the,eng.nes. extine -supp.y-oi -f0nm fi d. and when steam was got up it T that there was not water enough Tn the boilers, and so tbe ceased - iu tub oouck, F.v lgelpr VThen, o5Currea - - nit. mM .-. t ovef- S,me had left the - ? mmv i ----- - .1. .i -Kf lM.inThp .ipn. hiiim m a a . a a-1 mm a. arr an. a m m -ra w a -' . - a. uv r a a had very much cheered us by that they believed the fault was jnly1.ix a.ile, ,. ay. and so ere dead n.gUt Fltearf k 'Content. iXia r rj h axe. v eiuw v--r w " - ffeosraphically aooat six uhdreu rhiles awaK SuidenlyIr, Canning a . , ' ,; ; A R4,d . -it is all overIt.is gone." w. . .. a a h19 n.hin Km Ihfl thrill t han n HJIIKUCU vu vw vt w.. ir. nl ham DCCasioni- WnH hain fccasioni-d bv those words .r.r i .---'-f - T?;i .nomV- t !. 1 v.a.cT K M J T . Jill. 1CIU UUUP aauu. luu I companion iof9 the saloon and said, with com-1 ""fc" uuinreu anc nis cneex was blanched, 4,The cble ha parted and gone uicruoiru. r , m All were pu deck in a moment, and there inacca s glance revealed the truth BOW ITOCCCRttXn. l wia endeavor now to explain to you how the fatal accident occurred. I saTfaUt. for aitnougn as l ; write we are riftinir down upon the apot in the hope of getting hold of me caoie witn grapnels. 'I scarcely venture i u nope me attempt will Decrowned with suc cess.,, , .. ;,S; : ,. t Let the reader turn his face towards a win dow, imagining that he s is standing on the bows of the Great Eastern, and then of course oh his right will be tho starboard and on his left the port side of the ship. When the cab le was hauled around on the left hand side and passed over the fur wheels, it was carried oyer a drum which we must suppose to b be- hind the spectators, , and coile 1 up as fast as it was delivered from the picking up appara tus; but when the engines failed to work thia apparatus of course the cable remained mo- i: t - J.'i'wi.- . . . tionless; ss; and as the ship was drifted bj the from right to left and slightly forward. wind 1 at last tne cable came close up to the bow and under the forefoot of the ship. Then are at the bows of the Great Eastern two larn-e haw ser holes, the iron rims of which project more ,.tnan a toot berond the line of the stem. Acainst one of tbem the cable cauirht nn thm left hand side, while the ship kept moving to me leit, ana tnus cnaiea ana strained, tne. ca Die greatly against, the bow. Tne Great eastern could not go astern, lest the cable should be snapped, and without motion some- way there is no power of steerage. At this critical moment, too, the wind shifted so a to render it more difficult to keep the head of the ship to tne cable, which then chafed so much that in two places damage was done to it. A shackle ch in and a wire rope belonjrineto one of the cable buoys were passed over the cable and secured in burnt below the haw.erhole These were hauled so as to bring the cab!e to the right hand side of the boat, the ship still antung 10 me leu. it was necessary to do 1 . r ii . 1 A v. this instead of veering away, as we were near the end of the Cut of the cable in the boat. There is a large: iron wheei with a deep groove'. ana tne circumterence technically AV" h hel. frm - the groove, by the side of which i ''Remitar,v or smaller wheel, on the same axis. The cable and! the wire rope together were coming over in the boys and the groove in the larger wheel, the cable wound upon a drum behind the machinery, which was once more in motion, and the wire rope being taken in around the capstan, by bars, but the rope and cable were not coming, up in a right line, but were being hauled in with great" strain on them! at an angle form ; the right hand- side, so that they did not work directly in the V" in the wheel. Still the strain was shown on the indicator; to be very high, but not hear breaking : strain. . At last up , came the cable and wire rope shackling togethei on the MV" wheel in the boat. 1 hey were wound around it siowy, wire pass ng over these wheels to- -.-fa ... . ge her, the first damaged part being on board. when a j'ir was given to the dynamometer. h ?ew UP from sixty hundred weight, the ""csl' r. ,,.,- 7 . uu.uen. J. u .ab -uw cnam snacKie , , . the groove on the right-hand side of the V of the wheel, got on the "top" of the nm f the V wheel, and rushed down witn a crash on the small wheel, giving, no doubt, a severe hake to the cable, to which ft was attached. The machinery was still in motion, and the ropes traveled aft together, one toward the capstan and ihe oilier toward the drum, where, just as the cable reached the dynamo meter, it parted, and with one bound leiped. as it were, over a few feet of inte; vaning ?pace, and splashed into the sea. It is j impossible for any words to portray I the aismay wiin vvmcn ine signt was witnessed I and the! news heard. When a man came aft with a ! piece of the inner lend lashed still to I the chain and one saw the tortuied strands. torn wires and lacerated core, it is no exagge- I ration to say mat sirange leenngs or ptty, as I though some human creature had been rn u di lated and dragged assunder by brutal force, . . 1 T at 1 . 1 passed tnrougu iue nenris 01 tne spectators, CaptainiMoriarty was just coming to the foot Of the companien to put up his daily state rnent of i the ship's position, having had excel lent observations, when the news came. " I feel," he said. " we will not feel much interested now in Knowing how lar we are from Heart's Content. However, it was some thing to know, although it was little comfort, that we hd now run precisely one hundred and sixteen miles since yc-sterdy, that we were one thousand and sixty-two miles from Valential, Six-hundred "and eighty miles from Heart's Content, that we were in lat. 51 25,' long. 32 96. ; . , n '"' The following practical conclusions have been arrived at by those engaged in various capacities in the expedition : : ; .-t -. . First The steamship Great Eastern, from .-:-.l o.rIno. m'u ""T I w " T" lay an Atlantic telegraphic cable safely in any Va7f.LIIIr. , , "lThat the paving out mochlherr. constructed for the purpose by Messrs. Can ning & Clifford, ! works perfectly, iind can, be confidently relied on. - That the insulation of i - - 1 a the gutta percha conductor, improved by rea son of the reduction of . the temperature and the great pressure at the bottom of the ocean, and was more . than double what it bad been before starting, - proving 3 itself to be the best insulated cable evei nutnutactund, and many time high- r than the standard: required by the Mil . r. l. t ' contract. J 1 he ciuseoi tne two tauits wnicn were picked up wad in each case a perforation of the gutta percha- through the copper by a piece 01 iron wire ioquu zM.ica.iug m wb v .-a ? ---. I. ... . t J . a la - I ble. x.iecxneaiiy, tne mini, laun wis ana.u gKus te the Thtj c be guard . - - . . - - lfourth. That nothing has occurred to cre ate the least doubV in the minds of practical men engaged in the expedition, of the success ful, laying and working of the Atlantic Teler raph juaoie, out. on tne contrary, ineir con dence in the undertaking has been largely iucreased by the experience thus obtained. Fifth. That with the Great Eastern steam shio.'and1 with stronger tackle, and wiui im- lWi fl' -i?rVm?ri"r-trmhinprv there w a nos- sibilty of recovering the lost end of the cable " r. I 1 t nAll hta laM -. 2 1 a a . and completing tl line firstly twohhlrd laid. SAMUEL CANNING, , - , ; - - Chief Engineer JAS. ANDERSON, , Captain Great Eastern. C. F. TABLET, - Meetrician to Atlantic Telegraph and Main tenance Cu. . . v.--C. T. DE SAULTY, t V Metrician to Telegrai-h and 3rintri;ancs Co. W. THOMPSON,. Profetsor of Natural PbilosopUya .Gla-gw College. 2'i't-tr IL L CLIFFORD; Telegraph and Maintenance Cotmpny, mt DKFtXT BELXtVtD tOax AN VVD QSt. From one of the officers of the Terrible wt get the following statement - . Vt When the interruption in the current was discovered the cable wa g l on 'board.' The defect was occasioned by he crushing of the bave caused this injury, but it is not believed to have been recently done. f l5 , i" . The cable j sank in one thousand nine but dred and fiftv fathoms, and not one thousand. wires. 11 is tmposjiiDie to - wuav a reported by the First Fruit, and wa grap- I i 1 . . 1 . 1.: i . .1, pled three t;mes, on ooe occasion being brought t ithin six hundred fathoms of the nurlace; but the tremendous strain a- too' much for tl,c grappling rope," which parted and diopped the cable asrun. The Grtat Eastern thci la turned to Eajrland. having buoyed -the end of the cable. r TadE PIRATE SUEXlNDOAII. lfAMA lnr,4 OC.C1UI 1UU1 U It llitll 1 UCOUUJtU by llcr. ACCOUNTS FROatZ SAN FIX AX : CISCO. A Sketch Piratefs Opera tions. Fears that the Entire WhaJlnr - Fleet will be Destroyed. &c.9 j Ac,, &c. Bosmy, August 18. The whaling bark Pearl, of New London, rhile on the passage from 'Honolulu to the Artie Ocean, was destroyed by .the pirate Shenandoah. I . : ; . Thia capture is additional to the fleet be fore reported destroyed. r Account from ISan Frmncloco , I. San FaANCiaco, July 21. The latest accounts fco n the Shenandoah are to the afternoon of the 231 of June, when she was near Cape Thaddeus, steering north west towards where a fleet of: sixy whalers were known to be previouKlv. CapUin Nve had left the bark M1I0 during a fog in a small boat, for the purpose of, Warning the fleet of the danger. The M1I0 al-o snoke a French Wilf ier which! immediately put away to wards tie fleet, having oonsiderab.e aUrt of th g oonsiderab.e start of tne She nandoah. 1 ' , While the Shenandoah was at .Ascension isltnd in April, she burned the, New London bark Pearl, the .New ' Jiedturd ship Y.ung Hector, besides a San Francinco and a Hrnra ian whaler .She next burn-d the New Bed ford bark Ab g.ilin Ochetak ea, then the Thompsn in Kamtscatka sea, and then seve ral New Btfuford wbaletn, eh repotted yester day, in Anaduir sta, where she arrived on the 2uth of June. v " - It vasfnired that unless the French ship's open whale boat could succeed in war. ing the fleet all would.be captured. as the fehcn.ind ati. knew exactly where to'fi .d them. Ttiev were hovering along tne southern edge 01 the ice- fields, drawing closer together as the ice drift- ed towards Behrlng'n a traits through which (hey were seeking a paasago to tho Arctic oone, as the ice permit. xnere oemg no emcient government war vessels nearer this port than Acaonico. the merchants are circulating a peti in' to tbe navy yard Commandant, ask rag mm to ttle graph to Washington for permission to Char ter and arm the -tean.er Colorado, and dis patch her immediately in pursuit of tbe She nandoah. I The Whaling- Fleet -Fnrttier Partlc talars of the UaiTaree of tlie SkienmnaloAla The VeMeU Liiable to be Attacked. (From the Nw Bedford Buodard, Aairaat 14. J Mr. J-tnes 0. Avelin. miia of f.Vtr Tlr-ti Swift, in thil port, burned by pirate Shenan doah, arrived in this city to-day from Si n Francisco, by the Nicaragua route tot Nrw York, The Jireh Swift was csptured on 22d June, about thirty wiles ea-t of Cpe Thad deus, in the Kamtschatka sea. She had four hundred barrels of oil, all taken within eight days previous. Ships, Soph a Thornton. und Milo, of this port, were captured the same day. The Sophia Thornton h-d no oil, and waslurned, and the Milo vrs bondid and sent to San Francifco with tbe- erews of the other captured vesl oa board. . The .-first vessels destroyed alter leaving Melburne.A ere snips Hc tor, of ib ia port, and Ed ward Car ey, of San Francisco, foimerly of .Nantucket, at As ension or K op Ulad, J titude eig. decrees north, loi.guu .e one hundred and fifty-eight degrtea east- The dard Cany had one buudted and fifty . barrels uerui oil. The nelt was bark llarvist, of .liooolulu, firmerly of this port, captuied yn 4he pas sage from the Sandwich Jtfu'nd to the Nor ih Pacific fish. ng grounds. " Tne o minjndrrof the Shenandoah pretended to find fi w in her transfer paper, and declared his belief that'sht was an American vesxel rying to , save herself by false papers. Ship Abigail, of this port, was captured . about 12th June, ly ing in the ice and trying to work her way uto the ' Ochotk sea. She had no oil.' Ships William Thompson and Eophrsus, of Uus pi rr, were captured somi dimance: sout'i of Cape Thaddeus, a fw dajs before the Jirh SwifU Tho Williatfn, TbompMoii. had taken one small whale. Air. Ave.iue lctowa noth- ins of the reported ' caplure of" Abigail, of Si, Francuico Alter brj 'Su-ian ' the iVMpturcd ciews were ''put Un boaitLihtt Miiui ai.e waa allowed to take provtsious: jrora? tu,johia Continued on fourth yge. of the 1 I. ' - ' " ,t r: : ' . 4 f t ; , , , a. . .at. .. . f .
The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Aug. 23, 1865, edition 1
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