The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-07-03


armed fleet has neither time nor wish to ven.
ture, the fallen fortunes that need to be
the speculation that risks great
losses for great gains, all, are the induce.
ments that shall tempt the men who have
been out-lawed from society in Californis, to
embark their chances on the sea, where the
dark blue waters wash out the records Of their
crime and destroy the evidences of their iso.
lation. To such a. these the war comes in
excellent good time. Unsuited to the pur.
suits that require patient industry, they are ale
ways ready for the adoption of that which
promises excitement, notoriety and reward.
Such men are the very material of which
privateermen are made; and the present
stagnant condition of California y the i'm
mediate inducemsnt for them to enlist in
such hazard.
It is well known here that England and
France have signifed their intentions not to
issue privateering commissions; but in order
to maintain even the semblance of resistance
on the ocean, Russia must engage the assis-
lance of this guerilla species OF navy. Her
commercial fleet will be driven from the path
of the ocean in a very short time; and in or
der to obtain some advantage, or make some
conquests, she must issue letters of marque
and reprisal. The immense trade of Eng
land scattered over the surface Of the sea,
must provoke the Gear, when he sees his own
ships dwindled down 10 nothing, his navy
demolished, his dock yards empty, the -four
ishing trade of his empire paralyzed, and his
harbors blockaded, to make war upon it by
foul means OF fair; and no other argument or
conclusion presents itself than that he must
call in the assistance of privateers. In such
ar, with such victim to prey upon, the
ocean will whiten with the sails that threat.
en- destruction to the English and French
merchantmen. 1t may con 6dently be assum-
ed that some portion OF this prvateering fleet
will infest the Pacific, 10 interrupt the East
India trade, and that its most daring men,
bers will enlist from California.
In the case Of M. Patrice Dillon, French
Consul, indicted by the Grand Jury of the u.
s. District Court, for violating the neutrali-
ty laws of 1918, the jury were unable TO
agree on verdict, and were discharged
They stood ten for conviction and two for
acquittal. 1t is said there was an abundance
of proof, strong. clear, and conclusive, as 10
his guilt. 1t required but little exertion to
bring in a verdict in the case of NJ. Del
Vale, Consul of Mexico, for being party
in the same affair, although the proof of guilt
was not q particle more clear or conclusive
in his ease than that of Dillon's. "Some-
thing is supposed to be rotten in California"
Two or three slight shocks of earthquake
were felt in this city Tuesday night last be-
tween ii and IL o'clock. Several inmates
of our hotels were alarmed and in great con.
sternation for a while, but the rumbling soon
ceased, and their fears subsidized.
Agreeable to the calculations Of GU, men
Of science, as well as the advertisements in
the newspapers, the long looked Tor Eclipse
Of the sun occurred this forenoon. During
it's progress every variety of the gsnus homo
could be seen standing on the corners OF ev-
cry street in the city, taking \ squirt
through smoked glass. Il commenced at the
18th hour 26m., 18s.--7 San Francisco mean