The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-05

Goods from his ships. But this has
never. been proved, though Arnold Is
known to have smuggled eXtenslFely'
as did his neighbors also.
Captain Arnold's life IN New raven
i. still fresh in the legendary annals OF
New Haven. That he was dasnin%
fellow is readily to be believed from his
subseouent career. He was one of q
number Of petitioners for the organl-
cation of a local military company &C.
fore the Revolution came on. ana was
captain of this company. the Cover
nor's Foot Guard, when the war oroke
ont. His drug business had by 1913
given way almost entirely to trading
with the West Indies, and he was one
OF the most successful of the early
merchants of the town. An old adver-
tisennent has il that "Reaedict Araoid
wants TO buy a number Of large. gem
teel, fat horses, pork, oats and nay
And has to sell choice cotton and salt,
by quantity or retail. and other goods
as usual"
What goods he offered for sale he
himself imported, and the horses pork.
ETC. he sent out to the Indies on board
his three trading vessels He was part
owner of three such-the Fortune, of
forty tons: the Charming Sally, of thir-
ty tons, and the Three Brothers, of
twenty-eight tons burden. he himset
often went as supercargo on his own
vessels, and on one occasion nearly got
himself into serious trouble with
British ndn-of-war by personally cnas-
Using her sailors VINO were interfering
with the unloading Of one OF his ships
in the South. AS an expert in evading
1.-THE Custom House officers Arnold seems
to have been an adept. He got him.
self into several scrapes in this way,
but Immediately got himself out again
! through his natural presence OF mind
and dashing effrontery. Once it is re-
corded that one OF the crew of the
! Charming Sally, wishing TO take ad-
vantage of a reward offered fol- inIor-
nation against smugglers, went to the
officers with certain facts regarding Ar
mold Il was on n Sunday. and, ac-
cording to the custom OF the tira1. the
officials could receive no public bdsi-
ness Arnold. however. learnef OF the
affair. caned his man soundly and
I wroteN.to a friend about it: 81 gave
him a. little chastiseme2t ard ordered
him out OF town" The sailor remained
/ in town and was again caught by Ar
( mold, who took him to the public whip
ping post and gave him forty lashes.
In later years, when public feeling
I still ran high over the treachery Of
their old-time companion, New Haven
! people were accustomed to belittle Ar
\ nold's reputation while in New Haven
In 1888 an old man, who knew Arnold
| in ITS, was asked how he was regard
ed by the townspeople. He answered.:
/ Sir, We bowed to him whenever we
met. and said, Good morning. Captain
Arnold We never invited him to our
1 houses" But that is questionable ira
dition. and 1T was undoubtedly true
that Captain Arnold was a prime favor
/ lite in New Haven previous to the war.
! II was in 1775 that Captain Benedict
Arnold first emerged from the obscur-
/ ity of a merchants life. with three
/ ships in the West Indies trade, and be-
came a national character. On Fri
! day noon, April 81, 1775, the news was
brought to New Haven by post from
Cambridge that the Lexington farmers
had repulsed the British with loss at
( Lexington Arnold had always been a
strong anti-Stamp Act man, and ne
was Immediately fired with patriotic
ardor. Within three hours from the
time the postboy rode through town
! with the news Arnold had his foot
guard parading on the green. and had
! proposed that they march to Cambridge
to join the patriot troops. Fifty volun-
+ teered at once. The next morning Cap
tain Arnold held a. rendezvous for all
volunteers on the green, and added a
dozen Yale students to the company.
Headed by a drummer and fifer he
brought up the men in front of the
1 Middle Brick" tavern (since torn
DOWN, where the town committee was
in disquisted session. and applied per-
eTnptorily for powder and ball. There
4 ensued some parley, Colonel Wooster,
/ veteran of the French wars, advising
I the young enthusiast to wait until he
had secured proper authority from the
( Governor. Benedict Arnold answered:
my marching" He got his ammunition
riots for Cambridge.
Arnold did not return to New Haven
until IT'S. three years later, when he
/ had risen from captain of the New
! Haven company to brigadier general,
and had been at Quebec, in the naval
battle Of Lake Champlain. at Bemis
Heights and Saltwater. in which latter
i engs cement he was wounded, leading d
valiant charge. He was sent home to
! recover, and was received by his fell
| low citizens with open arms. His wife
! had died when he was at the front
/ leaving three small boys, and for a
/ year he remained with them and his
/ sister, who had taken charge of his
business, quietly recovering from his
wound. Ills return is thus described in
| The New Haven Post Boy" of May s.
177s:
Monday last came to town Major
! General Benedict Arnold. He was met
on the road by the Continental and
! militia officers, the cadet company ard