The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-12-06
The Rebels IN Ensland.
eco. xszxCTs SEAMS IsrrER.


10 he Editor Of the n Z. Herald:
No. ls Sr. JAMES SrRssr, LONDON, Nov. Q.
When the steamships owned by English.
men, loaded by Englishmen, dispatched by
Englishmen, manned BY lEnglis6men, con.
tinue to leave English ports, under English
colors, under the very eyes OF the Ameri.
can Legation, and the English Foreign Of
Zee, full Of goods contraband Of war, il aid
of those in open rebellion against the Fed.
eral Government !; when Lord Palmerston
replies to Mr.. Adams, . Yes, we know it,
catch them If you can )" when it becomes
generally known that the English army is
secession, the English church is secession,
the English Parliament is secession, the
English aristocracy is secession, the Eng
lish mercantile marine and the English
bankers are secession, as you may any day
see by reading the secession articles 10 the
English secession daily, weekly and monthly
press-I say, when you see the entire dress
circle of England is secession to the back
bone, it is time to declare from personal OBJ
servation, that the English pit is sound, and
goes for the Union to the last.
The boxes breathe hostility, but the gal.
leries are true to the Union cause.
War between England and America is
absurd, simply because when the war Cab
met declares war the people will demand
peace. The people Of England will not
fight the people OF America but the leads
ers are doing their best to egg them to
bloodshed. The driver of the stage coach,
can place all the passengers in the river il
he chooses. But the PRIMER fears that be
cannot jump of in time to save his own
necx. English politics are in rotten state
nobody knows anybody; German poll
tics are equally mixed, French politics are
muddy, Russian politics are rather hazy,
while American politics are divided into
the party of traitors and the party OF pa
triots. irla
There are more of the former in Europe
than the latter, fegert to say. Secession
seems fashionable with many of our mer-
chants and bankers abroad They think it
for their interest to be neutral, as they call
it. l consider neutrality the bases kind OF
treachery-an open enemy is preferable to
q neutral friend. The highwayman who
demands your money or your life in open
road is nobler than the scamp who fires at
you from behind q tree and rObs you after
wards. ~
England's neutral position is contempti-
BILE. have seen one, two, three vessels un-
der my very face with cannon, rifles, shoes
and blankets for the Southern conspirat0rs.
Tester took in eighteen large riaed guns.
two one hundred and twenty pound Whit
worths, 1900 End6eld, $4,000 Belgian ri~
fes, 10000 pairs OF shoes, and 10000 over
coats in the Bermuda. The Fingall left
the Scottish shore fortnight since with a
duplicate cargo. The Thomas Watson. l
am glad to see, has been sunk of Charles
ton. One or two other vessels are now due
at the pirate rendezvous; but this letter
made public through your columns, is to
make sure and stop the Gladiator, eighty
horsepower, 600 tons, steams nine and a
half knots; old Lisbon screw steam packet;
sold by Bake, Adam & Co; loaded by the
"Private Joint Stock Company" (unlimited)
OF English and Southern secessionists, with
600 cases rifles, cannon, shoes, blankets,
provisions and large quantity of gunpOw
der, which she took in last night at Firth.
She clears to>day for Teneriffe and Nassau.
have given all these particulars to A.
B. Merchant, Esq, Commander United
States war steamship james Adgar, just
arrived at Southampton via Queenstown
and Falmouth, 163 men and nine guns, who
lie fully alive to capturing this English pi
rate-estimated value of cargo 100000
having on board the requisite for an army
of $4,000 men. The chief men in the
company are reported to BE- Sable, (passen
ger ard ship broker, Liverpool, Capt. w.
d. Hughes, (Southerner), Prieleard
(CharIeetOn firm of Frazer, Newholm &
Co., Liverpool), Bake, Adam & Co., (pur-
chasers and despatchers OF the steamer) and
Isaac Campbell & Co., (army outtitters,
Germyn street, London). The business is
done in shares, and is SO profitable that it
two ships are taken, the Bermuda's profit
will cover the loss of The others. Capt.
Bird will GO in command, Harop as mate,
Hughes as supercargO; bales ana cases
marked w ID. IL. 10 triangle beneath.
Ii your gunboats get this information on
the arrival of the mail. they can-in case
she escapes the james Adger-catch her at
Nassau. There they will, no doubt, dis
charge into schooners, not wishing so many
eggs in one basket. She Will be twenty
days in getting out ample time 10. catch
her.
The foregoing facts may be relied upon
as far as possible. A detectiys watches all
their movements. anu these pirate mer-
chants may possibly find on, that they are
watched aud all their plans known by some
OF the loyal Americans 10 England.
England permits these ships TO leave ;
yet last March, you remember, the British
government sezed the cargOes OF arms dis
patched from Italy to the Dardanelles, ieven
before she knew or yet knows any thing Of
their projected destination; but when the
munitions of war are against government
at Washington, Lord John Russell writes
to Hayman of Liverpool, that they must
take upon themselves all the risk of the
hazardous enterprise.
Free flag covers free goo5s'; but rifles,
cannon and gunpowder are not free goods
when bound to the American coast, where
war israging against the Government
& England recognizes the United States