The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-10-05
BOLD WhAlER CAPTAIN.
From the San Francisco Bauetin,l


From the San Francisco Bulletin.l
Among the victims of the pirate She
nandoah who arrived here by the wha-
ling bark Milo, was Capt. L. G. Young,
Master of the whale ship Fayorite. of
Fair Haven, which, with the Others was
burned by order of Capt Waddell. Capt
Young is between 80 and 70 years old,
and belongs to the John Brown stamp
of morJals, who believe in fighting the
devil under all circumstances, and never
letting right back down to wrong, how
ever great may be the odds against her.
Accordingly, when, on the 2sth of June.
he found himself cornered by the rebel
pirate, with no chance of escape, he pro
ceeded to make
coming conflict with ch means as we
at hand, and had il no been for the COW
ardiee-or, perhaps, prudenee-of hi
fellow officers and ere one OF the blood
lest battles ever fought tue vicinit
Behring's Straits would ave then an.
there ensued.
Seeing boat shove off from the She
naildoah, toward his barque. Capt Young
ordered the old blunderbuss, used for
shooting whales, to be brought up from
below, together with his revolver and
ammunition. Having carefully loaded
the weapons, the old salt took his posi-
ton on the cabin roof and awaited the
approach of the pirates boat. AS she
came near the side of the vessel, Capt
Young pointed his blunderbuss at the
officer in charge, and shouted to him to
stand off, The pirate was greatly as
tonished at such a reception, and at first
was inclined to think that the old man
was plat ing a joke on them, but seeing
II aaI nd fhA
aim of his blunderbuss, he came to the
conclusion that discretion was the better
part ofvalor, and ordered his men to
paddle back with all due despatch to the
Shenandoah.
By this time Capt. 1cung's fellow Off
GERS began TO get shaky in the knees,
and fearing that matters would come TO a
serious pass, they took the precaution to
steal away the old mans ammunition,
and even took the caps off the weapon
already loaded. Having done this, they,
with all the crew, crawled into the boats,
lowered themselves into the water, and
left Capt. Young alone in his glory, sole
occupant of the vessel. The Captain
thinks that this was shabby trick it
was hard enough for him to fight rebels
alone any how, but to leave him nothing
but bomb gun and an uncappcd revol
yer, to answer the broadside of the She
nandoah, was putting the odds altogeth
er too heavy against him He did not
back down, however, but kept his posi-
ton on the cabin roof, and awaited the
experience of the uncertainty of cannon
balls and shells, having run schooner
with supplies up the Potomac in the ear
lier part of the war. Besides said he.
| have only four or five years more to
live anyway, and | might as well die now
as any time, especially as all l have is
invested in my vessel, and if lose that
| will have to go home penniIess and die
pauper.'
While thus reasoning to himself, he
heard the officer of the Shenandoah give
the orde.' to fire, but fire low. With
out deigning to rise from his reclining
position, he coolly waited for the result
Of the order, but no fire came Soon he
saw another boat pushing off toward him
from the Shenandoah 1t seems that af
ter the order to fire was given. some
one on board the pirate discovered that
one of the Shenandoah's boats was in
range, and hence the order was counter
manded When the pirates boat came
alongside the second time, the officer in
charge ordered Capt. Young to haul
down his colors. IL see Won ID first
replied the Captain. If YOU don't do it,
I'll shoot you,' said the officer. Shoot
and be id, said the captain Hereup-
on the officer dropped the gun he had
raised to shoot the Captain with. and or
dered his men to board the wis,sier, and
being without any means Of defence he |
was unable to Offer any resistance, and [
was therefore obi ged to allow himselfto |
be taken.
They conveyed him on board the She
nandoah, and Immediately ordered him
to be sent to the top gallant forecastie, at |
the same time telling him that if he was
any ways saucy, they would gag him. A /
sentry was placed over him, and he was
kept there four hours, or until he was put I
aboard the Nile, to be brought to San /
Francisco. He was robbed Of every
thing, including Sl20 in money, a gold
watch, and even his shirt studs He al
so had a library of 22O volumes, which
was stolen from the Favorite before she .
was committed to the flames As he was
about being sent away from the Shenan- /
doah, Capt. Waddell directed that the
old grey headed devil should not be al +
lowed to 90 on board the Maury 1.-THE
other bonded vessel that was sent TO the
Sandwich Islands1 for he wasn't fit
company for ladies' The Mapiry had
as q passenger the wife of whaler who
had died a short time previous in the
Arctic sea. With this compliment to
his gallantry, Captain Young took his
leave of the rebel pirate. The Favorite
lad 5u0 barrels of oil, and $500 pounds
Of ivory. Capt. Young owned one quar-
ter Of the vessel, and with her destruc-
ton he has lost the entire savings OF
lifetime
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