The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-09

man must now be we'll up u mfdole age
The young know nothing OF arms but from
history; and they can hardly persuade Them
selves that the must pacific old man in En-.
gland, is the same Iron Duke who command
ed at Waterloo, beiure they came into the
world The trade of soldering has no long |
or any necessary connection with fighting,
lis duties are merely The drill and parade,
aud The W. airing vi gay clothes. And al
Enough the officers, IN Ineir different grades.
.,e hardly SD well paid as merchants clerks.
sill there is always sufficient number
found Tor SO easy aud amlable service. IL !
Is true they have chance OF beng drafed,
at some time or other, To the further East.
several thousand miles away; bul they know
very well ihatjn India they will not meet with
such equal enemies as were formerly grap-
pied with Ia Europe, while IN China, IL is
mere amusement to bring down the bald
headed celeslIals--in TACT, human ''baI-
iue."
Under such circums ances, we look back
upon war as one vi The Interesting or terrible
things of the past; aud although somewhat
sIcks of The details Ut bloody struggles, from
their having been SO !requentl, ob.ruded up
ON our notice, we regard The composition OF
IFS materials and character as leglimiie or
iec,s of literary curiosity. One Of the stran-
gesi departments OF such subject is The
prvateerlng system; and we now proceed 10
,ffer some IllusIrstIuns OF class of belliger
ems who have mol as yet received due atien.
uon either from history or romance. This
we shall do by means oil couple OF ndivid-
ua porlraiis-one French, aud one English
which may be taken as exhibiting. though
of course la higher relief than usual, the gen.
eral features Ut The time.
As for the system itself, il is relic of
the barbarism OF The middle ages, organized
and legaIzed by The folly OF depravIiy OF
modern governments, IL is the piracy of the
northern barbarians and Eastern Infdels
sanctioned by leuers ofmarque--a document
which affects To give the right Of reprisal.
but, in reality, invests 'he desperadoes oil
The country with The privilege to rob and
murder. This SORT oil commission did not
come generally into fashion ull the end Of
The sixteenth century, but ouce fairly afioal
The pr'vaieeIs continued To MAINTAIN their
flag in time of war, in spite OF the bursts oil
Indignation which their excuses called forth
, from The neural nations. Various attempts
were made 10 bring them under legal re
str,lnl; but To impose any control but that 81
. Ia &c upon ruffians :alled INTO acIon by sucl
cordial motives was impossible. Sometimes
, The channel between France and England
e was swept 50 clean by the sea guerriilas %
# he TWO nations, thai the poor privaeers mu I
!. have starved il they had no, turned their a,m
e against neu,rals. In 1853, ship belong o,
q Ia Holland, with which country we were a
s peace.) having on board the Spanish ambas
a s,dor, ON his way ~ Denmark, was boardes
e by three different squadrons of priva,eers
1t and pundered even Of his excelleHcy's bag
e gage. little hanging was had recourse Il
n on Ibis occasion; aud IN the following year
l. The nuisance still continuing undated, grea
p numbers Of the privaieeTs, as they were Ia
70 ken and brought into the English ports iron
Dr. time 10 time, were consigned Io The gallows
IS The negIec, of our internal Police added Il
lie the disorders of,he period and the result, as w
a. are informed by historians. was that an ingre
y dieni of savage ferocity mingled in the ma
VI iIOnal character
70 Forty years laier-in The first year or wv
p Of the present century-when The war rage,
S. bitterly between France and England, tn
career of Two Adventures commenced, on,
K on either side of The channel, who were dcs
re uned TO exercise some influence ON the for
y tunes Ut each side.
~ Jerome Harbor resided in a little sea por
:. on he coast of BriIanny-lhal is when he wa
eff on shore; tor although now only tweniy-fou
d. years of age, he has been fourteen years
e, sailor, man and boy. He was liule, tar, fan
~ with short arms and round shoulders. Hi
~ face was the reverse of long; but his s,na
muse, small mouth, and small blue eyes, wer
- lost in its width. He was, in fact, anylhln;
Of but the pirate of poetry or romance in form
st and in other respects he had nothing To dis
u iInguIsh him from the communist of CON
&c mon sailors, except his genius for robber
ns ~. When IN hrs twenty .iOu!th year, his un
Is Gle, a weaver, at Vannes. left hIu 1000;
!. francs large fortune either in Normand
NJ or Bn,anny; and after twelve months cogra
,e tons, assisted by as much brandy as wouI
IS have gone weil-nieh to f"s, letter q
- marque, he determined 10 invest his none
It's IN the purchase Of vessel, aud 60 prva
teerIng.
o. To present lille surface;t TO keep hold q
e the waller by length rather than breath; +
on keep the sea in any weather; and to be abb
H. 10 run close IN shore al almost any depth
ed these were Jerome's req ,irements ia ship
And all these and more he found in LONG
|. low, narrow schooner, which, noIwithsiand
ing, he cut down still further; shaving her o
'e. almost Ia the waters edge, SD thar sue ia
81 constantly between two seas-one below he
N. keel, and The Other above her always We
at deck. This vessel he rugged with singI