The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-09-23
l,The ..Pirate,, Alahanl;,..

The t'Pirate'' Alabama.
John Faul, calling himself Jones, command
ed during the third year the war ofths Amer
ican Revolution, an armed ship named the Bon
homme Richard, which ship was never in any
port of the United States, and was manned
though her chief. officers. under her Captain
part Irish, Scotch, Portuguese, Norwegians and
others, with only a few Americans, and all pick
cdyp in Europe. The chief business 1of the
Bonhomme Richard was tocapture and destroy
English merchantmen navigating the British
Channel and German Ocean The Bonbemme
pichard. was at length destroyed herself af-
ter desperate engagement ON the part of her
self and her consorts against the British man
of-war Scraps, commanded by Capt. PEARSON
Johs Paul Jones held a;Captains commission
from certain rebel Congress sitting at Phila-
delphia, OF, Lancaster OF somewhere else In the
British Province of Pennsylvania.
Query-Was. the Borhommc Richard a
"piratical craft3" Was she '.privateer!"-
Was John Pau? Jones "piratca"
These inquiries are made under the impress
sion of the deluge OF apiraticaT phrases which
the newspapers of the day pour ont on. occa,
sion of the late naval engagement between the
Kearsage, Capt. Winslow, and the Alabama
Capt. Sehnes.
By the way, it seems that Capt. Winslow of
the Kearsagc, has paro,ed the crew of the Ala
bama. How is that ? Is it customary to pa
role pirates9
One thing moro in the same connection
We read occasionally in the Republican jour-
mails some very hard things about Benedict Ar
nosd, the traitor. Are veto understand thai
desperate rebel, who repents of his rebellion
and returns to his alegiate, is q. traitor!-
What of Gen. Gnatt, of Arkansas ~
In truth, all this calling Of foul narnes,which
peryades the REPUBLICAN press is one ofthe evil
signs ofthetimes. 1t is quite natural, however.
, that men who have outgrovh the Constitution
of the United States should have forgotten the
American Revolution and all its lessons.
Thus, and thus only, can we account for the
fact that Mr. Bascrof1 and Mr.. Motley, whose
fame as historians and as men rest upon, their
respective histories of rebellion, and heroisaton
of Ieels as such, and especially of the great re-
pres satiye persons of rebellion. William. Of
Orsage and George Washington, should have
settled down into opinions of legitimacy and of
loyalty, and of the divine right of Government
which would have delighted the hearta of Phil
3 lip II. of fSpain and George III. of England, as
they now fit well the political atmosphere of
st. Peterburg and Vienna.-Boston Courier
- 49,. 49, y
INTERESTING FROM MExIoo.-By New Or
leans papers we receive some interesting infor-
nation from Mexico On the 28d ult a force
of between three and four hundred marines
had been landed from the Frenchsvessel of war
lying off the mouth ofthe Rio Grande which
had taken possession Of Bagdad, atthe mouth
of the river.
Another military force, said to number from
l2to 1900 men, is said to have landed about
twenty miles fnrther down the coast to operate
against Matamoras.
Matamoras has been often besieged, sacked
and half taken. As it has NO defence outside
of itself, no ramparts or other defences, it may
be readily taken by superior force. Reports
are that the French will have assistance within.
Tribune.
A few days ago the operatives in a Western
foundry not being able to obtain an increase of
compensation, knocked their employer down.
mn,