Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-10-01

Will no GCCbf Contribute considerably
hunger il thege times OF high pricea and extotlon MIR.
r. is phauhropic gentleman and knows upon whom to
| besto1 his bencyoen"e.
For several the following editorial article from
the London Times of the Goth u may inter
readers, especially Of the parties
ed-hr. sIMoN &. KAHAWEILRR-iC well known in Whining
ton. The Of the PeterhCH which is Incidentally refer
has attracted good deal of attention both in this
country and in Europe Ih2 Peterhof on her first
out bo2nd to the neutral port Maamoras captured
by Federal cruiser just having lef st. Thomas in
Indies carried 10 New York and condemned
lawful prize by ccutin which Judge BELTS presided
Mr.. Seward will envy Mr.. Bovil the opportunity be
| enjoyed in the Asslza Court Of Croydon Monday
last OF examining the charterer of the Peterhof
OF course Mr.. Seward knows very well in a general
way how these matters managed People like to
back their opinions and to render their sympaths pro-
fitabe and they make purse and they choose a swift
ship, and they stuff her hold with gunpowder and qu
nine and other articles equally contraband ior their pow
to kill and their power TO cure, and then they get
desperate crew, daring captain, and shrewd super
cargo, away she goes break the blockade if she
can, TO get to MatamoIas she must, to land her
combustbes at some conveniently proximae port if
cry other attempt fails. Mr.. Seward knows all this
but neither be Mr. Adams has been able to get at
the details of these arrangements. Mr. Adams is kept
IN such Egyptian darkness that is said the very ship
TO which he mad actually granted that famous pass to
Matamoras has just beer taken and found ccam1ed with
cOhtra0and OF Mr. Seward cannot be expected to
know any more than Mir. Adams knows but he might
have got great deal of information out Of that Mr.
Kahnwe;er, "cf Frankfort and cf Wilmington in the
Coniedearte States OF America, who discontent
ed with The ultimate appropriation CT some Saltpero and
sulphur which he had destined for Charleston, but which
had arrived az New York MIR. Kahnweier in the wit
uessboX would have told much more interesting story
under the crOsSeyainatlOn OF Dir Seward than he did
under that CT Mr.. B0V who confined himself naturally
to the case Of bis own Client an Individual who as
brother bockadebreaker, would not find his interest in
unnecessary revelations. Quite sufficient, however
came out at Croydon to enable US to understand the
transactQns in which the Peerh0f has been concerned
Kahuweiier and Dobson agreed together TO freight
two vessels one Of which was the Peterhcf, and the
other the IatCra AS to the te and meaning Of this
compact they afterwards qnarreled and hence the
tton tried before Baron Bramwel. What both par
ties, however admit isthat upon these occasions the
ships laden with contraband OF that tie
cles OF cargo misdesccibed that hundred bag
rels of sulphur appeaSed the ships manifest ne
dical stores that the intention to break the block
ade with least Of these Vessas and that this ship
| was to go to Bermuda, Nassau, Havannah, Matamo-
ras any other port thatthe supercargo might deem
advisable. Mr. D0bson, Of Hull, who seems to have
acted throughout these transactions with an impartial
| ty which ought to gain him credit with Northern
Statesmen had framed bis Instructions that, if any
part of the cargo could not be advantageousy no
the Confederate country it to be sold TO the North
erners aud SO il happened that to the disgust of bis
earnest C0ntcGe.atc partner the saltpere which
ought to have been into Charleston sold in
New 1ork. The Latona was taken while trying to run
|
captured under circumstances very notorious but up
the whole, it is thought by the supereargo of the La
tOna that the speculation profitable That the sui
phur and salpetre intended to serve the Confederate
should at this moment be possibly impeing shot
and Shell against Fort Wagner is of moment to Mr.
Dobson. He lives in equal charity with Federals end
Confederates. and will sell 10 either the of de-
fence Mr. kahnweier, however, under these circum-
stances becomes petuant and tenacious and urgent for
accounts and refuses to be cOmfOrted with return
goes OF beans and bacon and behaves like mpracti
split milk, Is he says, but the selling the satpetre to
the Yankees was more than be could bear.
Notwithstanding the protest from the owners of the
Peterhof, which appeared In our City Article yeser-
day, afraid the world will very generally believe
that the history of the subsequent voyage of the Pc
terhoff towards Matamoras very much same as
that which told at Croydon on Monday. AS to
the Peterhof it VI. to have been joint adventure
| and Joint concern, and Dobson to have the en-
tire control OF the shipment" There be no long
er any moral doubt to the sort of adventure in
which this vessel engaged when seized by the Fed
era cruiser he only question has been whether the
rules of international Law broad enough and
narrow enough to take in such an adventure and to
| hold her fast The Judge OF the New Yolk Prize
Court thinks they The Judge has condemned the
Peterhof as lawful prize With this Croydon case be-
| fore us it will be difficult for any one who is not
owner of the Peterhof TO deny that whatever may be
said of his law there is great appearance OF truth
about Judge Belts facts Unless the object of the sub
sequent voyage of the Peerhof was altogether dil-
| rent from that under arbitration, 1t will be
hard to conroVert the proposition that she was laden
" with cortraband of with the knowledge OF her
| " owners" Nor can we find much to answer to the
assertion that she not truly destined to Matamo
| fho 0f