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RETALIATION.
Seizure of a British Schooner at
Portland, Me.

Seizure of a British Schooner at
Portland, Me.
There is great excitement here, says a dis
patch from Portland, Me. This morning
Captain Jesse Ellis entered at the Custom
Hous, his schooner Sisters from Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia, with cargo of 10000 mackerel,
taken last Wednesday, and consigned by w.
A. Kellain, of Yarmouth, to F. F. Clement
& Co., Of this city. Captain Ellis signed
the customary oath that his report and
manifest correctly described the cargo Of his
vessel First Deputy Collector Goldsmith
then asked for the manifest. 81 have not
any" replied Captain Ellis. Mr.. Goldsmith
expressed his sorrow that the Captain should
have been caught without his papers,
but told him nothing conld be done
in his case, that he must in the usual course
pay the fine imposed by law.
How muchr asked the captain
'.Five hundred dollars" replied Mr.. Cole
smith.
Tho little schooner won't bring that
said the captain, who presented picture OF
distress.
Nothing could be done for him. and Sur
veyor Bradbury sent Inspector Home to take
formal charge of the schooner. This done,
Captain Ellis and his crew were allowed to
60 On discharging their cargo of y, QUO mack
erel 1t was pathetic to see the Captain and
crew of the wretched little schooner dis
charging the cargo that the Government
of the United States will claim. Cap
tain Ellis counted out the fish, but he
had little heart in his work He was asked
what he had to say. Ina broken voice he re-
piled: Nothing Alone and tending the
windlass was one of the crew, who was more
inclined to talk. He said: 'Ill -'et my pay,
won't l! 1t can't be that I'll be lett here
without dollar. What have I done? What
has the skipper done. We didn't do anything
more than common. They won't take the
schooner from us. will they!" Another of
the crew thought it must be all right, because
the fish are as & BOD as they can be. Secretary
Bayard has been informed of the seizure.
o. B. Whitten, Secretary of the Portland
Fishing Exchange, was seen by a reporter.
He said Coming at this tine, the seizure of
the Sisters will do good. She comes here
from port so near Digby that the fellows
up there will hear of it. The matter having
been referred to Secretary Bayard, he will
be obliged to take notice of it.
George w. Biddle, of Philadelphia. and VIII
liam /. Putnam, of Portland, Me-, havebeeu
retained by the United States Government to
represent its interests ia the trials arising
from the seizure of tie fishing vessels. David
J. Adams and Ella NJ. Doughty, by the
Canadian authoritiS for alleged violation Of
the customs laws.
In the British House of Commons, says
a London dispatch. Mr.. Osborne Morgan,
Under Secretary. said, in regard toIthe seiz.
ure of the fishing schoouers David ]. Adams
and Ella NJ Doughty by the Canadian au-
thorities, that a cable message had been
received from Minister West, :at Wash
ington, saying that dispatch was
on the way to London embodying COM
munications on the subject with the United
States Government. The Under Secretary
added that ''when the communications arrive
they will be considered in a friendly spirit
with due regard TO the complete maintenance
If the fishery rights OF our fellow-subjects in
Canada