Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-07-29
CALIFORNIA NEWS.
The Rebel Pirate MISUNDERSTANDING De.
struct1On OF W halemeu.

San Francisco. July cO.-The whaling
bark Milo, Capt. Halves, arrived this
morning bringing us news of the most px-
tensive and wholesale destruction of Amer.
lean shipping yet committed by sny rebel
pirate since the beginning of the war. On
the LIST of April, the pirate Shenandoah
reached Ascension Island. where she found
the San Francisco whaler Edward Carey.
Capt. Baker. with 275 barrels sperm oil;
the Hawaiian bark Harrest, Capt. Ed
ridge, with 300 barrels; the American
bark Pear/, Capt. Thompson, clean. sailed
from Honolulu. and the ship Hector, Capt.
Chase, with 275 barrels. All of these
vessels wcr. burned. and their crews and
officers, except the men who joined thu
pirates, were left on Ascension Island.
The Shenandoah then sailed for the Och
DISK Sea, where. on the 9th Of May shn
captured and burned the whaling ship Ad-
ogaH. Capt. Nyr, with 80 barrels of sperm
oil. Soon after the crew of the AbogaI
went on board the Shenandoah. Thomas
Manning, who had been her second officer.
joined the Shenandoah "a pilot. and not
only steercd the pirate towards our whal.
ing fleet, but gave the rebel commander
the first intimation as to where it Law.
The Shenandoah arrived off Cape T'had-
deus OF the entrance to the Arctic Ocean
on the goth of June. Here she cncoun-
tered the Exphrotes. Capt. Hathaway. with
26O bbls. whale oil, which was burnt on
2lst June. The next day she fell in with
and burned the William Thompson. Capt.
Tucker. and the Jerch, Capt. Williams,
having four whales each. Three OF the
crew of the former. all Englishmen, forth.
with joined the pirate. A day or two A.
ter, she captured the Milo. Capt. Halves.
with two whales. The captures by this
time had become 30 numerous that Capt.
Waddell, the commander Of the rebel
cruiser. concluded to bond the Milo instead
of burning her, which he did inthe sum of
$4,000. and putting all his prisoners who
had not deserted their flag on board of her.
gave her a clearance for San Francisco.
Just before the 1i2o set sail for San Fran.
cisco. on the Esd Of June, the pirate had
captured the S~sas Abassil. Capt. Red
field, Of San Francisco, q trading brig, and
was laying along side Of her taking in ths
booty when the Milo left. The latter ves-
sci has been twenty seven days on her pas
sage TO this city. and bgines Cspes. Tuck
e. Williams. Hswes. Smith asd Haths-
way, and aboai $50 officers and nea Of
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