The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-23
JOLLY OLD SMUGGLERS.
{ "A HISTORY or THE WEST INDIA
TRADE AND UGOLING

NEW HAVEN, July 2.-"Thcrc! Try
that. Regae your nose with its aroma. delight
your palate with its flavor, enrapture your soul
with The beaded joS Of it, AMI then say If you
ever drank rum before in your life" s, spoke
Uncle Dave" Of New Haven. holding under
bis nose "a glass OF dark straw-tintod liquid.
while smile OF intense satisfaction wrsathe1
his lips and made his eyes twinkle A silence
ensued then two voices uttered together.
"Ah - and two al asses descended stimuli ane-
ously, with faint click, on tho fnarolc table,
The old man continue Il You folks down in
New York don't got any such santa Cruz ne that.
New Haven " where you have to como to ret
IT, You drink niger rum; : yes, the first dis
tiation. such "a the pl inters give In tubfuls 10
their negroes when the crop season u over It's
not quite as new rs when tho ddrlSics re- it. but
the Lord knows its raw enough yet. But New
Workers think rs goodl Now this is double
canned rum. In other words, It has been recu-
Ned and kept under conditions to insure its
proper m aturing Tor nc least year, In the plant
er's hands. before 1t was sent to market, and
that was good many years ago. That rum
which YOU nave just drank has, to my knovl-
edge, been IN Now Haven for twelve years. such
liquor hurts NOBODY, ti'.en IN moderation, rs [
have taken IL Tor more team 1ty years. and I'm
aprctiy well preserved spacime I think"
" liui how does 1t hauuen that New Haven
eli Us an exclusive privilege t, this uectarf''
TO get Il through the Custom House"
" An. then tai, hts been snuggied has it2'
Thy another clnss OF II and see whether IL
tastes az N gauger's siamo had ever struck
chill To- It's he irt. don't think there ever mas.
but NINA you, don't say !. was smug1led.
dont Know ANYTHING ABOUT Hirh things. IL
stands To reason, though, that good liquor would
be cheanest aud comm2nest IN town which
had Tor 10 years eni Eyed almost uouop lly OF
The trade II the country whence Il comes, when
Inbound vessels have To- pass lonely beaches
like those OF Napelgue h ,rnor. IN the night,
anu are T. sslle Ia lose a fDW casks uNerhl
tom Housa oficer. Blt h ,Ou have any curiosl.
" about Il, III Introduce YOU To a couple OF
Jouy "ii follows W. do sn'w' ana perhaps YOU
The jolly old fellows were found, after time
wcrc Induced To- become communicative, and an
interesting story they had to tell about Ccnnec-
that, In early DAYS con ,titutcd no unimpOrtant
feature OF tie TX Elements aud profits.
Az OLD PUNCH howl.
As early as 1855, small but tsrivinG trade
with the West Indies W. G trri ID on by enter
prising Yankee SKI pers from Falmouth, Derby.
a very little later, from New Haven. 4
New, Haven with great care, is a huge punch
bowl, holding ab9e, four gallons, which
chants q capt. Thomas Davis. who had then
been tor two years associated with BsnJamin
Sanford in the West males trade. Ii has a great
crark on one side. which enhances rather than
dimnshes its value, tor t. marks an interesting
renniscenc.. That crack was made 10y English
DAys's china closet Tor silver spoons, whicn,
having previously been rruden,ly buried, they
dtd not succeed In nndiug. The three rive.s
with which II has been rcDairel were pdt in
some tine aflerward Toy William Buell., a silver
smith IN New Haven. uncle Of MIR Charles :. A.
Da, p, grandson Of the original recipient Of ths
bow, ana present ho.d.r II II. The Old bowl IS
ALWAYS been nlled with good run punch on
every Fourth 81 july aud US regularly en.ptied
TO patTl otc toasts.
BE Milford also enjoyed a share OF the trade in
tnOse DAYS. In 1895 the Deroy Fishing Company
wa Incorporated, and Tor long time did a
al lodi. If IL
carried On heavy financial and commercial op-
erAtiOns In It's country, issuing MS own bank
bills, II which truukfuis IRE SIN IN the posses
sion II some old families. mud was sort OF East
India Company on a small Gale; but the war OF
ISL Gil pied - re- ufce-. limited It's opera
tions, aud Il out ls@O u went down suddenly
with grand all ash. That was a blow from
covered. Among the local "reminiscences 81
Mil, ri Is that Gov. POND, who grldu ted at
Yale In the class Il ls3 WIKI John C. Calhoun,
when youth went out A. cabin hoy ON a voyage
To tho West Indies. from tll- town, ami on thdt
trip the cook OF the vessel ia which he served
subsequently became famous as Commodore
Isaac Hun. There were p'r.tcs 10 those day,
To al To- the nat,lrd perlis n the sea, and
many a man yet living about New Haven has
heard his father tell OF adventures with the des.
peradOes who sailed under the black Il y.
TRUE sfoR r. or PIRATES.
The sea royers n 'ght, ind, cd. be said to cover
the spanish man as Late a. lS2j aul they q
thoroughg ling, systema .ic ra-csls, with island
communities Of their own, for the SUPPORT OF
which the stores and cnreoes Of the Yankee
skippers were very attractive. Occasionally.
however, when IA ursuit Of richer game no
doubt, they would treat captured trader with
leniencv, ana allow MIN to escape not only with
his life which was much as he GENERALLY cal
cpated upon saving, but even with good share
Of his cargo. such an inst Is recorded IN
the history II TIE fuli-risged brig Sh0pberie,s,
Capt. Jacob W ara, master, belonging 10 Cart
wright harrison. she WIS overhaulei one
uay on Ia. spanish m in los n long. low. black
huhed vessel, Win -aki,h m Asts. crowds ~ m en-
upon .ier deck auu cannon muzzies protrudlue
from ber Vptls. inc skipper gave himself and
his vessel UP for lost, but had no means ~ re-
sistance over bis SIDE swarmed the pirate
cant du aud cnpice aesortnent Of his assOriate
cntthtoats. jtey looked AT the sAip's y p-rs
examined ter cargo, which consisted ~ corn
meal, lard, butter cheese. -four, candles, ana
some sheep, md then s'mriy helping them
seiyes TO liberal supply Of such ar
uCles they wanted, rOweu back To their
own vessel 70 the IneXpIcssible relief Of
Capt. " ri. Tho TWO vess J. parted con pany,
out before nightflll, scarcely two nours after
served that the pirate was tack < to run down
npon him again. FILLED with terror al the
thought that perhaps the sea rover hal changed
MS mind ami was coming back TO take POSSES
'ioA Of the bfit, and make all on board walk
The plank Capt. W ird put on all sail. ana Tor
two whole days aud NIGHTS ran away from his
course, out 10 sea. lie ESCAPED as hi, vessel
was swift sallcr, but did not really IRE 1.-The
Dock. NJ always did "A crew ~ away So for
tunately. over the fate Of many q scam m
hangs mystery as to whether he went down
amid storm and wreck, or Vas murdered "
Despite all the dangers that the ocean bore,
the Yankees ride was prosecuted with energy
and urn Before the war OF lsi2 New Haven
and Mddlct WI wera Largely Interested In
trai1' with the West Indies. A1put that time
Milford began 10 decline, and Aliddetonn took
toe load, position wnich she Id, with New
Haven as second. until ubou. ls1. lhe heavy
urm ~ NlidGlstOwn then was that OF strong,
Mites strong, which continued until the
perip Of financial depression following the war
IA lrl5 ard lo!b. AmUig the rllpuers OF those
day whose Names are sim remembered, & ipt.
Coggeshali, FREQ stowe, and HOpi ms stowe al .
prominent.
ESCAPING BRIrIsH CAPTURE.
There was another bold seamaI who made
himself famous AZ that time, Capt Nathan l..
Atwater. In June, ISL. wben tue v.r vain Eng
lend broke out. tue NV Haven Oh amber Of
Commerce dcputed nm 10 70 70 the West Indie
and warn tho American vessels there that war
had boon declared, ana that they must hasten
home Bnd carefully ay I'd English cruisers II
th"y would escape capt re by the enemy He
went 40 To New LONDON, and there procured an
exceedingly fast sailing vessel, a soOp Of about
fofty TONS burden, Ia winch he st OUT on his
ini,-tOg. Day ana nilht he held his anxious
course, with every inch Of sail set that tue little
sea 'el could rrY. Winds and waves Ners pro-
pitinGs, an1 me- arrived in good time 10 give the
warning TO uta cOuntrlIneD. Iwenty-three YES
rel7 were ln the hlrpor AZ ; tnta Cruz alone, and
hl ''chprd Win tie exec ptlon Of the Julius
rb'af, mt u was a close call" for some Of
the'h' one Ncw IA ven orig, the Justus StOrer,
WA tFtihAuled hY dn tnglsI cruiser while IN X .
iig lieI brit utatiM Az Tor home.