Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1861-07-13

es In greatest abundance and can use
TO the best advantage, but the South has
no right to exercise the same discrimIna-
tion in selecting and applying It's warlike
Resources. With that arrogance which
has marked Its course from the beginning,
it assumes not only TO determine, sfbItra-
rally, how It shall make war Upon IT'S, but
also how we shall defend ourselves Af-
ter every disaster inlicted upon the inva
ders, new item IS added TO the list of ia.
bOoed expedients Of war. privateering,
guerrilla warfare, armed resistance by pri-
vate citizens TO foraging parties who wan
tonly destroy property and commit the
grossest personal tages-these have
been pronounced altogether irregular and
uncivilized by our advetsaries Masked
batteries, which have inspired them with
such wholesome horror after the experien-
ces at Bethel and at Vienna, will 20 doubt
also be prescribed as contrary to their res
vised code of war. But most assuredly
they will denounce as eminently Illicit and
barbarons, high.handed, brilliant and
eifectual act of Southern filibusieriug q
have DO other word at hand for the ex-
ploit1 performed day or two ago in the
Chesapeake Bay, which will briefly re
late.
a party of fifteen Marylanders, under
command of Capt. Thomas, went as pas.
ssugers last week on the steamer st. Mich.
olas, bound from Baltimore 10 Phiadel-
phia. After the steamer had proceeded
somedisiance down the Bay, these passen-
gers severally retired TO their cabins, open
ed their trunks, took out their weapons,
and armed themselves. They then went
on deck, and with equal GOODNESS and de-
termination proceeded to capture the stea-
mer. There was at first some show oi
resistance on the part of officers and crew
but it was instantly overcome, and the par.
ty remained In undispnted possession ol
the steamer which, in accordance with a
previous plan, they proceeded to employ
it for privateering purposes. Sleaming
further down the Bay, they next captured
three prizes, one loaded with 1900 bags
of coffee, (supposed TO be the Sallie Ma
gee, captured by the Federal feet at the
mouth of James river,) the second with
200 tons of ice, and the third with zoo
tons of coal. The captors arrived at Fred
ericksburg, by way Of the Rappahannock
last night, with the steamer, the three pri
zes and their eargoes, and thirty-nine pris
oners. The prisoners were Brought Il
Richmond this morning.
The ingenuity and cool and desperate
courage characterizing this coup are no
less remarkable than its complete success
The undertaking, | have reason TO believe
was conceived and organized in this city
with the knowledge perhaps of the Stat
authorities, If not of the Confederate Gov
ernment or some of its officers. Onerea
son for this belief is, that Capt. Holm
(of Greytown fancy now in the Virgini
J Navy, was at Point Lookout, on the Mary
, land side of the mouth of the Potomac
J when the capture was made, and got o
board the st. Nicholas as she came by, a
! ter which, | understand, he took comman
: of her for the rest of the trip. Whe
| YOU recolIect that Federal steamers con
stantIy scour up and down the POtOma
= and that the waters from IFS mouth to Fo
n Monroe, and ihence up the whole Chess
' peake Bay, are denominated by the Frde
|. al fleet, you may have some idea OF u