The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-07-03


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fest Of the prisoners I resolved 10 act
FREQ on conyenitnt islands treating
I the women a aith the uimo.t delicacy
and consi ierstion.
Tie uaiiorm that wore on board
Of my imaginary schooner consisted
almost exclusively Of gold lace and
pistols. At least a dozen o. zoe lat.
ter we're stuck 10 my belt, while NY
diamond-hilted sword was OF the
finest Damascus steel. | carried
rife 10 my habd-as pirate captains
haJilualIy do-and olways fred the
long brass 80 FOUNDER myself My
crew were dcyotedly attached to me
and while maintained the strictest
discipline, | constantly gave them
presents of enormous value, chiefly
consisting Of Arabian horses, guns
and pistols.
have sat out dozens of dreadlully
depressing sermons with the utmost
pleasure and profit by thus dreaming
of my pirate schooner. Alas that
the dreams of youth should go rarely
develop into realities.
Those were my innocent days. Lit
tie did | think wien | pictured my
sell great and good pirate that l
should come to be chronic journalist
/ know now that, even with the
strongest seuse of duty urging one to
be pirate, piracy has become abso
lutely impracticable.
or course, a man could buy the
necessary schooner and the necessary
guns and black flag; but there is moth I
ing left for him to pirate.
What romance would there be in
cotton ship or a Cunard
steamer? The cotton would be uses {
less, and even il schooner could
capure a Cunalder the passengers I
wonld chaff the honest pirate and tell {
him he was only making believe
Ii Is barely possible that an earnest l
pirate might succeed in robbing YES.
sci with a valuable cargo. But then
be could not take it into port aud {
sell it without being arrested by a q
policeman.
There isn't a Spanish galleon In /
existence. All the stout Indiamen q
with white canvass have given place e
to iron steamers that pass through r
the suez Canal, Piracy is dead, Its d
game has been extirpated, and it has q
not a port in which 10 convert its
plunder into money and to spend its '
III gotten gains. /
| really think the Fish Commission
ers ought to do something about it. Q
rhoy take great pains to stock the Q
streams with game for the fishermen, O
but they have not word to say in
favor of stocking the ocean with game
FOR pirates.
Seth Greon ought to batch out and =
let loose few thousand young Span
ish galleons, and an equal quantity |
Of young silk-Iaden Indiamen. Then, '
If there we're laws prohibiting piracy
during the breeding season, and the
young game were allowed to grow,
pirates would soon find excellent
sport where they now 6nd none what
ever,
Aud yet-and yet-as the TLibune
powerfully remarks though what
the remark means l haven't the
slightest idea.
l am afraid, however, that even
IL L II.