The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-12-06
The Rebels I'm England.
GEO. FRAHCT> TRAINS LETTER.

To the Editor OF the n. Y Herald
No. Is ST.. JAMES STREET, LONDON, Nov. 9.
When the steamships owned by English.
men, loaded by Englishmen, dispatched by
Englishmen, manned by lEnglishmen, con.
tinue to leave English ports, under English
colors, under the very eyes of the Ameri
can Legation, and the English Foreign of.
fee. full of goods contraband OF war, in aid
OF those in open rebellion against the Fed.
eral Government when Lord Palmerston
replies to Mr.. Adams, les, 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
lsh mercantile marine and the English
bankers are secession, as you may any day
see by reading the secession articles in 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 ob
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 he war Cab
met declares war the people will demand
peace. The people OF England will not
fight the people OF America ; but the lead'
ers are doing their best to egg them to
bIoodshed. The driver of the stage coach,
can place all the passengers i'll the river ii
be chooses. But the PRIMER tears that be
cannot jump of in time to save his own
necA. 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.
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. | consider neutrality the bases kind OF
treachery--an open enemy Is preferable TO
neutral friend. The higbwayman who
demands your money or your lie in open
road is nobler than the scamp who fires at
you IRON behind tree aud RODS you after
wards.
England's neutral position is contempt
bile. | have seen one, two, three vessels un-
der my very face with cannon, rifles, shoes
and blankets for the Southern conspirators.
Tester took in eighteen large riHed guns,
two one hundred and twenty pound Whit
worths, $500 Endfeld, $4,000 Belgian ri-
hes, 10000 pairs OF shoes, and 10000 over
coats in the Bermuda. The Fingall left
the Scottish shore fortnight since with
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
of English and Southern secessiOnlsts, with
600 Gases rifles, cannon, shoes, blankets,
provisions and large quantity OF guDpOw
der, which she took in last night at Firth.
She clears to>day for Tenerffe 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, 1913 men and nine guns, who
is fully alive to capturing this English pi
rate estimated value of cargo 100000
having or board the requisite for an army
of $4,000 men. The chief men in the
cor pany are reported to b. Sable, (passen
ger al d ship broker, Liverpool, Capt W
ID. iughss, lSOuiheruer), Prieeard
(ChafieetOn firm Of Frazer, Newholm d
Co, Liverpool Bake. Adam Il Co., (pur
chasers and despatcbers OF III steamer) and
Isaac Campbell Il Co., (army Oulht,ers,
Germyn street, London). Fhs business is
done il shares, AID is so prohtabls that il
two ships are taken, the Bermuda's prof
will cover tne loss OF ne others. Capt.
Bird will e i'll comm and, Harop as mate,
Hughes as s0percars0; bales and eases
marked w ID. II. IN u triangle beneath.
Ii your gauooais get his information 90
the arrival OF toe MAJ. they can in Csc
she escapes the Jamt, Adger-c.tcu Aes at
Nassau. There Thy VII 40 uouDt, d's
charge iuto scnU0Ders, not wishing SC many
eggs IN one b4>k-t. ohe W.T. o. twenty
days i'll getting Ga. --..uple t;ne 10 Ca Oh
her.
The foregoing facts may be r,ted upon
as Tar Us possioc. a detrcuv, witches al!
their movements an these pirate msr-
chants MY possibly fl on lu.C .4ey ars
watches aud ali iuer pans known by some
OF the loyal Americans IL h gland
England permits these SHIPS 10 leave
yet last March, you remember, the British
government seiz-d ;he cargOes Of arms dis
patched from Italy 10 the Dardanelles, even
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 goojs ; but rifles,
cannon and gunpowder are not free goods
when bound TO the American coast where
war is raging against the Government
England recognizes the United States
Government, and is bound to give moral. il