The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-11-21
Ole Gin1es, Mem BLOOMFIELD, 1)a.


done it, jump aboard the pirate. Andrew
and Sam, cast off the pirates graphing, an
then you jump-then we'll walk into them
three chaps aboard the clipper. No,o for IL.
No sooner were the last words of out of
the old mans meuth than his sons did ex-
actly as they were direced. The fore and
main halyards were cut, and the two grap-
lings cast off at the same instant, and as
the heavy gaffs came rattling down, our he
roes leaped on board the pirate. The mo-
ment the clipper felt at liberty her head
swung off, and before the astonished buc-
cancers could gain the deck of the fisher
man, their own vessel was nearly half
cables length to the leeward, sweeping
gracefully away before the wind, while the
three men who had been left in charge
were easily secured
"Hello, there !" shouted Captain Spinnet,
as the luckless pirates crowded around
the lee-gangway of their prize "when you
get them ere silver dollars just let me
know, will you?"
Half dozen pistol shots was all the an
swer the old man got, but they did him no
harm, and, crowding on sail, he made for
the vessel he had discovered, which lay dead
to leeward of him and which he now made
out to be large slip. The clipper cut
through the water like a dolphin, and in
a short space of time, Spinnet luffed up un-
der the ships stern, and explained all that
happened. The ship proved to be an East
Indiaman, bound for Charleston, having all
told, thirty men on board a portion of
whom at once jumped into the clipper and
offered their services in helping to take the
pirates.
Before dark Captain Spinnet was once
more within haiing distance of his own
vessel, and raising trumpet to his mouth
! he shouted
Schooner ahoy Will you quietly sur
render yourselves prisoners if we come on
! board"
"Come and try it ~ returned the pirate
captain as he branished his cutlass above
his head in a very threatening manner
which seemed to indicate that he would
fight to the last.
But that was his last moment, for Seth
Crouched below the buwarks, taking de-
liherate aim along the barrel of heavy
rifle, and as the bloody william was in the
act of turning to his men the sharp crack
of Seth Spinnets weapon rang its death
peal, and and the next moment the pirate
captain fell back into the arms of his men,
with brace of bullets through his heart.
Snow said the old man, as he leveled the
long pivot gun, and seized lighted match
"I'll give you just five minutes to make up
yonr minds in, and if you don't surrender
I'll blow every one of you into the other
world" .
The deoth of their captain, and withal,
the sight of the pointed pivot gun--thc pc
culiar properties of which they know full
well--brought the pirates to their senses,
and they threw down their weapons and
agreed to give themselves up.
In two days from that time Captain Spin
net delivered his cargo safely at Havana,
gave the pirates into the hands of the civil
authorities, and delivered the clipper up to
the government, in return for which he re-
ceived a sum of money sufficient for indie
pendence for the remainder of his life, as
well as n handsome medal from the Cover
nor.