Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-11-25
nEw REREL pIaL1leaL SCHEME.

Concentration OF IGeOet [C0OOeFS az Ia
uanG-T heir Proposed Operations on
the Pacific Coast-Probabte Arrest q
the Pirdfes-NGyro5J Escape Of Cait-
fornia and Pacific Steamers.
lFrola The New York Times.)
We have beeB in possession, for some time
past, If highly Interesting and important in
! formation derived from Havana. 10 regard lo
proposed rebel plan Tor capturing Ame. an
i steamers upon the Pacjic ocean. Hitherto
+ We have relrained from giving the fIcts pub
+ licity, lest premature announcement should
+ tend TO defeat measures that had been taken
/ to lrustrate The plot. and arrest the parties
thereto. Now that see danger OF that sort
| Is over, we sre at liberty to show how narrow
/ II we have escaped The necessity of recording
another Roanoke ntfsir, oujy ~ larger scale,
upon The waters Of the Pacific.
! The details of the plot IN question we're
contaminated al Havana some time since, under
! The app' oval of >. Il. Mallory, the Conleder-
ate Secretary Of the Navy. Its leader and
manager was Thomas A Hngg, holding a
commission in the rebel navy Master, who.
with party of sixteen TO twenty men, lefl
Havana for Panama, New Grenada, the last
OF September or early 10 October, for the pnr-
pose of getting on board the Panama r. r.
Co.'S fine steamer Guatemala, seizing her at
sea, and then using her as a pirate vessel to
capture steamers of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company plying between Panama and
San Francisco. The party were all well arm
ed. and sbundantly supplied with ammunition
concealed in their baggage. They we're TO
take passage or the GaHtemas for different
Central American ports, 50 as not to excite
suspicion. Hogg was to 60 on board frsi.
carving bis baggage, which was to contain
nothing suspicious. If it was not searched,
bis followers were to convey On board their
trunks subsequently,, with the arms and am
munition concealed IN them.
The seizure of the vessel was not TO be at
tempted until she had got to point upon the
Central American coast, sone two hundred
miles from Panama, where there was 10 danger
of falling in with cruiser, OF with any craft
that could give notice Of the change of com
mand of The Guatemala when 1t had been el-
iecjed. No serious difficulty wsssPprehended
in taking possession Of the Guatemala, her
efiicers were not likely TO aniicipsis any dan
ger. and were expected to be found entirely of
their guard and without the means OF resist
once in their hands.
The Guatemala carries two guns for her
own protection from priVateers. Relying up
on these for offensive purposes, the pirates
then proposed to cruise for the passenger and
specie carrying steamers Cf the California
trade, until they had captured at least one Of
them, with which, probably, they would have
essayed trip across the Pacific to East Indi-
an waters, provided they could obtain the pec
essary coal by capture of some one of the col
iers constantly engaged 10 carrying steamer
supplies of fuel to Central American ports,
Panama, Acapulco, San Juan del Sur aud
San Francisco. Ultimately the conspirators
hoped to follow up their success by proceeding,
in the Guatemala, TO the coast of Northern
California and there making q raid against
Ben. Halloday's lius Of steamers, between San
Francisco. Oregon and British ColumbiA.
Furtunstely, the scheme was discovered by
some means, and we presume information mus
have been sent direct from Havana TO The
Isthmus, in time to frpslrate the execution, as
We hear, on private authority from Panama,
that the parties known 70 be implicated we're
all there aud at Aspinwall, as late as the 4lh
of this month, and were known to the United
manders Of the Panama Railroad Company :
steamers, ard to the United States Naval
Commander in The port of Panama. 1t APP
pears hat Tie desperadoes arrived too late for
tHe Gautemala-a portion OF hem having
gone 10 Aspinwal via St. Thomas The
Guatemala sailed on the 25ib Of October.
The next Panama steamer for Central
a merican porIR, was he Salvador, 10 sail on
he 2Oih inst. and it was understood At Pana-
ma thar the piraticaI parry were TO take pass
age in her. If they did SO, they were promp-
Y arrested after their arrival GA b0aid-eyerl
arrangement having been made for thai pur
pose. Nothing can have prevented their cap
ture, probably. unless tie fact shall have leak
ed out at Panama that they were suspected |
in which event, Of course, they would not Ike
~ place themselves under he American flag. |
where their seizure would be free from interua-
tinnal embarrassment
Master Hogg, sometimes called Egerton.)
we understand is a native of Baltimore, who
has lived some time in New Orleans His
chief officer is a man ramed Bradshaw, who
ella inns 10 h2ve once been d commander of the
Gualema Edward J. Norville a native of
Baltimore, bul now Cf Mobile is Hogg's Mas
ter William Black, Of New Orleans il Pur-
ser Edward Swain, Of New Orleans, Mid
shipman Thomas Reynolds. of New Orleans
Masters Mate; John Hdde, (aias Smith,
is Engineer Timnlhy O'Grady and Georgr
March, of New Yo'k, are Quartermasters
aud amung The crew are Robert Lyons, and
men by The name Of Higgins, Sloddard and
Sullivan. We hope to hear. by the next aTri- |
val from ihe lsihmus, that all the above nam
I'd parlies ami some whose nsmes we have mol
gwen. are sale o. board an American cruiser
al Panama nnless, indeed, they arrive here
in charge OF United States efficers, sjmuiane-
ously with the announcement ol their Cap
lure.
BOUNTY JUMPERS DRESS PARADE.