The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-08-12
Etom The San Francisco Runern.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
The correctness of the speculatiOns in yesterdays
Bulletin as 10 the whereabouts and probable opera
tons Of the rebel pirate Shenandoah has been only
too speedily verified. The arrival Of the whaling
bark Milo. Capt. Halves, in our hsrbor, this morn
ing, brings Us news OF the most extensive and whole
sale destruction of American shipping yet committed
by any rebel pirate since the beginning Of the war.
We VIII commence the story by a
Chronological Account,
as near as can be sscertaIned. of the operations of
the Shenandoah. The pirate boarded 8 Hawaiian
schooner on the Both of March, in lat. 3 So n. lon.
LEI W, which was the last news We had respecting
her. He inquired of the captain of the schooner the
location of our whaling feet, and, it appears. imne.
diately steered in that direction. Two days after
wards. on the LIST of April, the pirate reached AS
cension Island, where she found lying at anchor the
San Francisco whaler Edtcard Carey, Capt. Baker.
with 275 bbls sperm oil the Hawaiian bark Hdr-
rest, Capt. Eldridge, with 500 bbls; the American
bark Pearl, Capt. Thompson. empty, (sailed from
Honolulu and the ship Hector, Capt. Chase. with
275 bbls. All of these vessels were burned, and
their officers and crews. with the exception of those
men who joined the pirate, were left on Ascension
Island. The Shenandoah then set sail for the
Ochotsk Sea, where, on the 9th of May, she cap
tured the whaleship abigail, Capt. Nye, with 30
bbls sperm oil. After remaining alongside the -4bi-
gail one day, and taking from her such clothing,
small-srms and liquors as were wanted, she was
committed to the flames, and, with the ~-4bigdil'S
crew on board. the pirate set sail. for the Arctic
Ocean. Soon after the crew of the .4bigaii went on
board the Shenandoah, T.. S. Manning. who had
been her second officer, John a. Dowden, boatsteerer,
and thirteen men, mostly Sandwich Islanders, joined
the pirates. and are probably still with them. Man
ming, it may be we'll TO state, was last year third
officer of the ship Hilman, from this port. He has
q wife living in New York city. He joined the
Shenandoah as pilot, and not only steered the pilot
towards our whaling feet. but gave the rebel COM
mander the first information as 10 where it lay. The
Shenandoah arrived of Cape Thaddeus. at the en-
trance TO the Arctic Ocean, on the 10th Of June.
~. ~. no-t I,th
way, with two whales. which was burned on the
2lst of June. The next day she fell in with and
burned the ship HiUiam Thompson Capt. Tucker,
and the Jireh Swlft, Capt. Williams, having four
whales each. Three Of the crew of the William
ps0n, all Englishmen, forthwith joined the
pirate A day or two after, she captured the Milo,
Capt. HAYES, with two whales. The captives had
by this time become so numerous that Capt. Wsd-
dell, the commander Of the rebel cruiser, concluded
to bond the Milo instead Of burning her. which he
accordingly did, in the sum of SAC, 900, and, putting
all his prisoners, who had not deserted their flag, on
board of her, gave her n clearance for San Francisco.
just before the Milo set sail for this port, Dune 23)
the Shenandoah had captured the Susan abigail,
Capt. Redfeld. of San Francisco-a trading brig
and was lying alongside of her taking in booty when
the MILO left. The Milo has been y days on her
passage to this port, and brings Captains Tucker,
Williams, Smith and Hathaway, and about $50 Of
fcers and men of the captured vessels.
A Large Fleet of Whalers Near BY.
Near to where the Shenandoah was last seen was
a large feet Of whslers, comprising about sixty YES
sells, mostly ice bound, and il is the opinion of the
officers who arrived by the Milo that they have all
ere this fallen a prey to the pirate. The evening be-
fore the MlO left, Capt. Nye, one of the captains
who had been put on board of her to be sent to this
port, left her in n boat, under cover of a dense fog,
with the design of going to the fleet of whalers and
giving them warning. Whether he reached the
feet or not is unknown, but even if he did, it is
thought to be very doubtful whether the vessels
would be enabled to escape from the pirate. 1t Is
believed that the commander of the Shenandoah de-
signed to fit out one or two of the captured vessels as
privateers, with which to destroy the vessels above
spoken of, and also all other American ships that
may be found in these waters. He did not wish to
risk the Shenandoah by running her into the fields
of ice. Capt. Waddell was very anxions to induce
the men he captured to enlist under his flag, proba-
bly, for the purpose of getting crews to man the new
pirates that he designed fitting out. Very few
Americans, however. were persuaded to join him.
How the shenandoah is Manned and
Equipped.
From one Of the captains, who vas q days a
prisoner on board the pirate. we learn the following
particulars about the rebel craft She has six
guns-two rifed guns at the bow, two heavy guns
amidships and two small guns aft. She is a full
rugged ship, with iron frame, iron masts, and iron
lower yards. Her length is about $50 feet. She is
slight built, and could be easily destroyed by the
poorest Of Uncle Sans naval vessels, provided she
could be got in range. but che is very fast. and few
vessels in our navy or any other would be able to
catch her in a fair chase. Her crew consists OF
about $50 men, mostly English and Irish. She has
q large amount of shot, shell, &c, sufficient TO ut
out two or three more cruisers like herself. The
following is q list of her officers: Captain, James l..
Waddell, formerly lieutenant in the U. 5. Navy !;
First Lieutenant Whipple, also formerly Of the U. S.
Navy; Second Lieutenant, Schells; Third Lieuten-
ant, Lee a nephew Of Gen. Robert +. Lee; Fourth
Lieutenant, Scales; Fifth Lieutenant. Miner, for
merly second officer of the bark .ftice, Of Cold
Spring, Long Island. This Miner acted as pilot Of
the Shenandoah in the Ochotsk Sea.
Where She Gets Her Coal.
During his stay on board the Shenandoah, Mr..
Tabor, the mate of the Abigail, became quite init
mate with several of the officers and men, and. IN
conversation, he learned that the Shenandoah was
to be kept supplied with coal by the English at Mel
bourne. AS confrmatory of this information, it is a
noteworthy fact that, on the 18th OF June, the
schooner WililQm Clifford spoke a large merchant
man which refused to answer the hail, and it is be-
lieved that this was the coal supply ship on her way
TO the pirate from Melbourne.
What Capt. Wadde1I Thought of the
Rebellion.
On the arrival of the Shenandoah at Cape Thad-
deus, where she captured the EuphrGteS and other
vessels mentioned above. Capt. Waddell was informed
of the fact that Lee had surrendered, Richmond was
taken, and President Lincoln had been assassinated.
He replied that he was prepared TO hear of the as
sassination of Old Abe. for he had expected it, but
declined to put credence in the statement of the sur
render of Lee and the capture of Richmond. On
being assured that such was the fact. he still pre-
tended to disbelieVe 1t, and proceeded to destroy the
vessels as though the "Confederacy" was still n
power in the earth, and he was one of its gallant"
naval heroes.
Treatment of the Captives.
The officers and crews Of the vessels captured by
the pirate were generally well treated while on board
the Shenandoah, that is 10 say, they were not put in
irons, or otherwise ill-used, but all their money was
taken from them; and, although they were told that
they could keep their clothing and private property,
yet when they took An inventory of the same they
found that it had all been overhauled by the pirates
and everything Of value stolen.