The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-14
About American Pirates.

They had two methods of work. One
was to patrol the sea in the track of YES
sells bound to and from Europe and Bra
zil or Spanish America, and seize them.
Very often the crews were willing, or
compelled, to join the pirates but
sometimes all were killed or carried into
slavery. Merchant ships, therefore, all
went heavily armed in those waters, and
many were the bloody battles fought.
This work, however, employed only
portion of the buccaneers, and was too
uncertain a means of wealth to suit
them. They would, therefore, equip
great fleet, enlist men under certain
strict rules as to sharing the spols, and
sail away to pillage some coast. There
was hardly an island in the West Indies
from which, in this way, they did not
extort immense sums of money under
threat of destruction of the people. The
mainland also suffered from the maraud-
ers. Great cities like Cartagena in
Venezuela, Panama on the Isthmus,
Merida 10 Yucatan, and Havana, Cuba,
were attacked by armies of buccaneers
numbering tens of thousands of men.
Sometimes their Notifications held good
and the enemy was beaten back but
sooner or later all these cities, and 9TH
ers, smaller, were captured, burned or
partially burned, and robbed of every
thing valuable that they contained.
."Why did the citizens not hide their
wealth." They did but the bucca-
neers put to the most dreadful fortunes
men, women, children, slaves-every-
body-until they would tell where their
money and Jewels were buried. 1t is
sicAening to read of the crimes and suf-
fering committed by the wickedest of
men. For years and years they were
the terror Of the whole Caribbean re-
gion. Nor did their enormous riches do
them particle of good, for they wasted
it all the moment they got home in wild
rioting, so that the spoils earned by
months of hardship and exposure, and
wounds and danger Of death, would be
spent in week of carousing. Before
the end of the century, however, the
combined naval forces of all the nations
interested in the commerce of the New
World broke the power of the bucc
neers, and their depl cations ceased.
Their story is one of the widest, most
romantic, but most terrible pictures in
the history of the world. - Vide Aa0ake.
Perry Belmont and the Georgian.
Mr.. Perry Belmont came down from
New York. AS the train moved out of
Jersey City he attempted to pass a burly
fellow, half intoxicated, who, cigar III
mouth, poured forth smoke and profan-
ity.
"How many more times are you go
ing through here?" he growled;
you've been through twice"
ST may go through half dozen times
more" said Belmont, coolly and calmly.
shall go through as often as l please. "
"Well, the next time you go through" "
said the big Georgian, "I'll choke you.
81 think not" said Perry to the
s8elling bully. "And, by the way,
what are you smoking in the ladies car
for?" BY a dexterous movement, with
out waiting for an answer, he Knocked
the Georgian's cigar from his mouth,
and then passed quietly on with: 'We
don't want any more smoking or swear
ing in this Car"
The Georgia bully was speeches.
with astonishment. When he recovered
himself he whistled softly, and, turning
to friend, said: "Game, amt he I"
and went in the smoking car.-Fhila-
deIpbiG Record.