The weekly Butte record., 1863-03-21
Capture Of a Supposed Pirate.
A dispatch to the Bee March 10th, has the

4 dispatch to the Bee March 10th, has the
following:
The J. NJ Chapman. taken Yesterday as 3
privateer. was benght by Ridgely Il Great
house. bankers, Of Yreka, for $500. some
time since W. c. Law. the master. was lately
mate on the Oregon, in the MauzauiIo trade.
and was in command of the schooner Storm
Cloud once. The Owners suspiciouing that be
intended to run her of, sent an agent to Val
paraiso to take her from him. The authorities
have suspieioned the Chapman for three weeks
and been on the alert during the last week
The Naval Agent and Surveyor have slept st
the Custom House and Collector Rankin has
staid in his office until two O'Clock at night
The steam tug AnasLee had her steam up
with police and other authorities aboard YES
terday morning, and By concerted signals with
the Cyane. her boats boarded her first the
authorities from the AnaShee following They
offered to show fight, but were quelled. Sew
enteeu men were found beneath the hatches
which were battened down Their names are
R. Greathouse, banker OF Yreka A RuberSy
young English officer and SeceSSioniSt Lab
bic. first ofhcer, suspected of being secession
priyateer from the Atlantic; Aubrey Harpen-
din, native OF Kentucky, and one of the main
riBeleaders of the expedition Thos. Poole. q
native of Ottawa, Canada West a. c. Bovd
Of Newcastle, Delaware Joseph W. Smith
alias Snyder, of Brandenburg. Kentucky; r.
H. Duval. of Florida, together with the fol-
lowing, whose places of nativity will be known
to the officers to day: w. d. Moore, J. W.
McFadden, VIM. W. Mason, John Z. Kent,
Albion 7. Crow. D. W. Brown, Jno Fletcher.
james Smith, G. W. Davis, NJ. II. Marshall.
and five sailors, cook. steward, ETC. Scattered
among the boxes and barrels were large guam
titles of pieces of paper torn to bits and chewed
up. evidently with the design of destroying all
written evidence in that section of the vessel
in reference to the expedition. These bits of
paper-torn, chewed and mutilated as they
were-were carefully collected By Capt Lees
and his assistants. and may yet be turned to
good account. The authorities were busy yes
terday, and are to-day making arrests of those
implicated ashore. The ringleaders were iron
ed and put in solitary confinement at Alcatraz,
and the rest held as prisoners on the island.
The schoouer'S freight was at once discharged.
under the direction of the Surveyor and naval
officers. Such of the packages as have been
examined were found to contain six brass Dahl
gren guns shot and shell, rifles, pistols, bayo,
nets, bullets, swords, gun carriages for use on
shipboard and an endless variety of munitions
and weapons suitable for privateering purposes.
In the cabin were found variety of letters,
papers, etc. among the letters being one from
party in Victoria TO one of those under ar
rest, stating that they could not obtain vessel
at that port, and all ideas of taking the United
States revenue cutter Shubrick had to be
abandoned. After discharging the vessel she
was towed back and anchored under the guns
of the Cyane, where she now remains Col
lector Rankin is informed that her plans were
to rendezvous somewhere down the coast, there
to be joined by other secessionists, capture and
burn two of the Panama steamers, and take
the third and run into Victoria after having
divided the treasure. 1t is believed that the
pirates will produce letters of marque, and save