New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-25
: A TCUR OF THE POLITICAL WORLD
IN EIGHTY Days.

Englishman who in the face of many i'm
pediments effected, in the short space
above stated, journey that occupied
Captain Cook and other circumnaviga-
tors several years.
Our neighbor of the P;cayr.ne has emu
lated this example, and made tour of
the political globe in about the same
period as stated. 1t has been now some
months since that the PIC was confs-
Gated as political blockade runner, still
believing that the war of the North and
South was yet fragrant 1t was pur-
chased in the interests Of peaceful com.
merce, reftted, reprinted, pumped clear
Of all sectional bilge water, purified Of
all contrabapd stains, and put upon
the berth as new vessel in
a new trade. II was to be de-
voted to peaceful commerce instead
of to destruction. Upon its quarter deck
stood the typical East India skipper,
gray, ford, dignifed and dogmatic. So
ciety, having rebuked the prlvateer, was
kindly disposed toward the merchant
man, and its manifest speedily gave signs
OF prosperous popularity. Appearances
were, however, deceptive. 1t soon began
to spin around like decapitated chicken,
OF, in more congenial metaphor, like
the needle demoralized by some attractive
metal carried in some breeches pocket
around the compass. The dignifed and
conservative skipper had not been sufi-
GENTLY vigilant. He had inadvertently
shipped some enterprising spirits who
very soon began their work to pervert the
voyage from the regular track of political
commerce to the cratic wanderings of
privateering adventure Very soon after
leaving port the respectable and dignifed
skipper seems to have been put under
arrest in his own cabin, where, though he
had every sign of personal comfort and
apparent respect, he seems, in fact, to
have had no control over the direction of
the vessel, though all orders ran osten-
sibly in his name. This will explain the
extraordinary circumnavigation by which
the Picoyune was carried through all the
cimes of political opinion, even pro-
itself in Republican ports when
it could do so, and finally, after having
accomplished tedious and tortuous cir
cumnavigation, it finally anchored in the
same harbor, under the same flag, steer
ing by the same chart and with the same
trade papers as when it had been some
months before condemned as a lawful
prize, sold and reftted fora new character
md a new career.
The Picoy.tee is again flying the pennon
If opposition to the constitution and laws.
md has raised not the black, but the
white flag as an emblem of political ami
lilation to the colored voters.
We have been enabled, by means Access
ible to all journals of liberal enterprise,
o obtain extracts from the logbook. This
We summarize, emitting the observations
which accompany the entries, many of
which are curious as evincing the mo-
ives which influenced the navigators, as
yell as the compulsory influence of polit-
cal storms and hurricanes, the fear of
eefs, shoals, rocks, and even of revenge
ii natives who would at some times have
evoured the whole Picoyune crew if they
ould have come aboard. These obsta-
les and dangers account for the frequent
eering and sudden alterations of course:
Extract from the log book of the privateer Pic.
aS-aa on cruise around the (poticaD world.
Latitude and departure from the last
neritf's sale, December, 1873, south of
lason and Dixon's line, anchored on me-
dian OF notification, officer of the law in
harge Retitted, took on stores, and took
ballast on the first instant. Officers
anne on board, open commission of the free
'ade immovably neutral and hoist con.
,rvative bunting. Steer due north to tenth
lstant; bearinga at night on Union lights
cad ahead; to fifteenth instant little
est OF north; to the twenty-ffth instant
rst to tenth proximo north little east: to- |
lirtleth proximo due east on the currency
nestion; to tenth proximo ssimmovahiv
sutral;" drifted past Liberal shoals. gave
10 Warmoth wreck wide berth; indenen.
mt and reform breezes on quarter, light |
I'd battling; fifteenth, tack; sixteenth,
ok; seventeenth, tack, tack, tack, tack:
ind gradually veering round. patronage
,ht; suddenly struck by the White souall
ms due north before the wind with ali ,
cam; course and bearing when last seen
entical with that of it's last cruise when
ptnred and confscated; revenue clipper,
REPUBLICAN,, In close pursuit, but little
aspect of overhauling her.
We regret that owing to the inadequate !
sources of engraving in onr city it has {
en- found impossible to transfer in time | !
diagram plot of this voyage to the I
lumns of the. REPUBLICAN. AS it lies I
fore us, the zigzag and confusion of the t
es are very astonishing, and gives some :
'at the effect of the forty-seventh prob =
IN Euclid struck with lightning. But =
nave made tour Of the political world I
mn so short period and under such o
1ous obstacles, displays a degree of is
atlcal sklu not to be found in every il
pper' We, therefore, suggest the testi- 7
mai OF medal commemorative of an v
'loit, perhaps unequaled in political b
'igation. b