Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-30

on board of British neutral vessel by one of
our cruises, came very near causing Il war
between the two powers, England to be
backed by France. 1t is said that Palmer
ston the Premier, was only restrained from
the commission of such act by Prince Albert
and his Queen.
bGis@ The pirate Shenandoah few days
since reached Portsmouth, England, after a
cruise around the globe which occupied up
wards of year, and in her career destroyed
and boarded numerous United States vessels
in the Arctic Pacific Ocean. From the com
mens by several English editors, it will be
seen, that her arrival at her home and place
Of departure, is at this particular juncture
anything but agreeable, e,-also that the vessel
has been handed over to the American Con
sui, and the crew after temporary detention
been liberated.
After reading the entire report of her fitting
out, her rcmorselcss cruise, and return to the
place of her departure,-the vessel armament
and crew being all British it appears to us
that the British Government has beyond qucs-
ton, failed in an observance, and that to a
great degree of the laws of nations, and of
proper course of neutrality, which should hold
her responsible not only for the indignity
offered the Government, but in damages for
the property so destroyed Below we give an
extract from the Cincinnati Gazcttee showing
her fitting out and voyagc,-also extracts
from sundly British journals on the subject of
| her return:
TEE CAREER OF THE SIIENANDOAH-LIST OF
VESSELS DESTROYED BY THE PIRATE.
| The pirate Shenandoah has at last arrived
home, having been absent since the Sth OF
October, 1864, during which time she has been
around the world sinking, burning destroy
ing, and bonding American vessels Among
her last acts was the destruction of our north
western coast whaling fleet
Tie Sea King was built at Glasgow in Oc-
tober, 1863, and was registered as the prop
and others-her registered tunnage being
power being two hundred horse, her frame
work iron and wood planking.
On the 20lh September, 1864, she was
transf rrcd by bill of sale to Richard Wright,
ship owner of Liverpool, who was very near
connection Of the rebel financial agent in that
town. On the 30th September, P S Corbctt
was ndorscd as master, and Oh the 1th Octo
bcr Richard Wright executed certificate Of
sale to Peter Luther Corbctt. the master, en-.
rowcring him to sell the Sea King at my port
out of the United Kingdom, fo" not less than
e45 900, within six months from date of Ger
tfcatc She was then entered and cleared in
ballast as an ordinary merchant vessel at Lon
don for Bombay.
In the meantime another vessel called the
Laurel, and owned by Henry Lafcnc of Liv-
erpool, was taking on board all the necessary
armament stores, etc, several rebel officers
and large number of men. On the same
day that the Sea King sailed from London for
Bombay, the Laurel sailed from Liverpool for
| Nassau The two vessels met at Madeira
and from there proceeded in company to an
island near by, and there. within Portuguese
waters, the armament and men were speedily
transferred from the Laurel to the Sea King,
both vessels being still under the British flag
The Sea King was then renamed Shenandoah,
hoisted the rebel flag, and set forth on her
piratcal ciuse. Her armament consisted of
six guns, viz: four 6S-pounders and two 3D.
Founders, with full crew of British sailors.
The first we heard of her after she left Ma.
deira, was that she had destroyed few YES
sells in the neighborhood of the Island of St.
Helena. Her next performance was to double
the Cape of Good Hope and cruise around in
the Bay of Bengal and the Straits of Sundy.
She next made her appearance in the port of
Melbourne Australia, and was coaled, and
provisioned, and received a reinforcement of
men, strictly in accordance with British neu-
tralty. After remaining there for some time
she started anew on her career of devastation
The next we hear of the pirate is that she is
in the Artic Ocean, capturing, destroying and
bonding the vessels composing our whaling
feet From the beginning of April, to the
end of June she destroyed and bonded twenty
nine vessels, thus entirely breaking up the
whaling season in that quarter.
The Liverpool Mercury says: AT the pres
ent juncture, when so many knotty points of
international law are at issue between this
Government and the United States, and when
the maintenance of amicable relations be-
tween the two countries is so much to be de-
sired, and is so essential to the welfare of
both, the absence of the Shenandoah from
this port was more to be desired than her
presence
1he London Times says The reappear
ance of the Shenandoah in British waters at
the present juncture is an unoward and un.
!, welcome event X X
It would have been u great relief to ourselves,
though little to the advantage of the United
States, had the Shenandoah been simply ex-
cluded from the Mersey and left to rove the
seas till she should fall into the hands of her
pursuers
The News begins: The Shenandoah has
arrived in q British port and surrendered to q
British officer The Americans may be in
clined to say that this is as it should be; that
it was only fitting that her end should be as
British as her origin
Says the Pail Mall Gazette: Small thanks
are due to the commander of the Shenandoah
: for the preference which he has given to Liv-
erpool for the purpose of bringing his cruising
Ito an end.
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