Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-05


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The Blue-Nosef againft Yankee Fishermen.
The following is clipped from the New
Brunsuicker of the 9th ultimo, a paper
published at st. Johns, \. B. Certainly.
lift Yankee fishing boys will get corned
and carouse, and 90 fillibustering about
amongst the sweethearts of the blue.
noses, b" instead of attending to their law
full fishing, they ought to be overhauled
and severely punished. We do not I'M
derstand, however, exactly, under what
authority a subaltern officer like this
Lieutenant Jenkins, of the British NAVY,
presumes to lay an embargo or blockade
on all the Yankee vessels i'll the harbor of
CaScump' till the accused persons were
delivered % him. We presume if two
drunken, yagabOnd British sailors were
to commit an assault with intent, &C., or
a murder in New York, any Lieutenant
of the American Navy would be consider
ed presumptuous who should Eat once
determine that no British ressel Mould
icGrc the hGrbor until The men 1rere circn
up and detIrered Orer TO hun" The prin
ciple would be the same if such case oc-
CURED at Egg Harbor or Eastport, or at
Key West or Mobile. Who can doubt
that, whether the accused were guilty or
not of the crime alleged, the assumption
of such authority, with respect to all the
British vessels in the harbor, would be at
once complained of by the British Gov
eminent, and that reparation would be
demanded and the rebuke of the officer
insisted upon! There is nothing in the
laws OfnatiOnS, nor in the treaties between
the United States and Great Britain, al
lowing such arbitrary course towards
parties not accused of offence. at the will
of an inferior Naval officer. The treaties
referred to provides for the extradition of
fugitive criminals, and it would have been
proper to have relied upon it, instead of
resOrting to the high-handed course stated
i'll the following article. No honest or
just citizen of the United States car feel
the least sympathy for men guilty of the
abominable crime imputed to Mcpherson
and Nenson, and, ordinarily, their con-
yiction by an intelligent court and jury,
and their attempted flight, would Justify
the conclusion that they are not innocent
If so, they have disgTaced themselves and
their country. But there is in the article
quoted feeling evinced bctraying the
existence of prejudice against the Yam
kee fishermen, that may have prevented
these men from having had an impartial
and fair trial. 1t would seem to be avow-
ed that an example ras made of these two
men in the hope that it would have
beneficial effect ON others of their class"
who "sall over the boats" &C., of the
Colonial fishermen at sea, and modest
them IN the fishing business. This mat
ter should be inquired into:
AMERICAN FISHERMEN At PRINCE EDWARD
IsLAND.-We are happy TO find that owing
20 the promptnesS and stern determination of
Lieut.. Jenkins, X. N, commanding H. NJ
steamer Tender " Rose" two unruly American
fishermen have been brought to punishment
in Prince Edward Island.
The harbor of Cascumpec is much resorted
10 by American fishing vessels at one time
this season there were 10 sail there with
crews of IL to Is men each. These men
being idle In port; ramble over the country
IN that vicinity, committing all manner of
pranks, and sometimes very serious depreda.
tIoDS. Their favourite amuSements are tear
ing up bridges, barricading roads, and other
trifes of that SORT. Last month, two of these
worthless entered u farm house, where one of
them committed an assault upon a married
woman, with intent, &c, while the other as
sauIted the husband outside. They were
traced to their vessels in Cascumpec harbor
and complaint was made to Lieut. jenkins, of
the Rose, then in port. lie at once determin-
Ell ludt no CsNStt NHONfN ttNrb me NHTbOT
'snti' the trCTs GtrsH up and they were
delivered over to him. Last week, these men
were tried before the Supreme Court at St
Eleanors, when the principal offender John
Mcpherson, was sentenced to Is months i'm
prisOnment with hard labor, and the othe-
Charles Eenson, to two months imprisonment
1t is all very we'll for the Americans to say
that we do not prosecute the fisheries on our
own shores, but play dog in the manger'
with them. Let it be borne in mind, that
when British boats have gone out n short dis
tance from land, and began to take mackerel,
they woulI quickly be E. sailed over" by
feet of Yankee fishing schoOners, and driven
"h the ground. So also if they set our nets
these same s;hOoners would sail over the nets
destroying or carrying them off, by hooking
them In the space between the stern post and
Tudder. OtrtHe 10 fhe presence Of British
cruisers: HeSe 0hty0SeS hire not breH so fire.
gfent tie past SeGsOH b"i tire fishermen on
IRE coast hare BEEN HrSd from /oHg course
~ oppression a,ld announce, nad are scarce
/y get assured fhat they can prOSecUte their
orr" fShefIss trithOHt Hi0IeSfafiOU. THE En-
AMPLE MADE OF THE TWO MEN ABOVE, WILL We
HOPE. HAVE BENEFICIAL EFFECT on OTHERS
OF THEIR CLASS
OLE BULL.
Our readers must not forget that the