Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-14

samples Sugar rum silk, rags, coffee birthstone India
shawls sulphur Malaga grapes Goldfish, Madeira wine,
GIN horses, Turkish carpets, cotton gold dust, tar,
ivory negro slaves Madras handkerchefs furs gurrah
Irish linen, rumals, pipe organs pianos and oil paint
ings.
That every quarter of the globe contributed to the
wealth OF the American prvateersman is strlkingly
shown of the of the True Booded Yankee,
Captain Haley This craft sailed from BreSt France.
March l. 1878 and returned after of only thirty
days in the Irish Sea with enormously valuable
cargo part of which eighteen bales of Turkish
pets. fortythree of silk twenty boxes of gum,
twenty four packs of beaver skins, thousand bags
of coffee, and one hundred and ten elephant tusks.
There other cargoes captured by privateers
that, although interesting, not SO highly
priced For instance, the eight gun privaeer Midas
Captain Thompson, of Baltimore when cruising in the
Bay of Biscay April 1914 seized the British schooner
Francis, laden with buocks for the British army OPP
Grating on the continent. Undoubtedly the blooming
Tommy Atkins of that day would have surrendered
many days pay for those buocks for campaigning
that @barsted Iberian Peninsula dreadfuly hum
cry work; but with beef at four cents pound on the
hoof in America this @prime meat of little use to
Captain Thompson, he drove the livestock into the
sea and burned the Francis.
Equally vaueess, from the American viewpoint,
the cargo of masts and bowsprits captured by the pr
vateer General Putnam of Salem in 1914. These sticks
badly needed by the Admiralty as long spars were
scarce in England but almost any Yankee in those days
could go into his back lots and cut down tree adj
mirably suited for the of any line of battle ship,
and there special rejoicing aboard the General
Putnam that night Notwithstanding the fact that she
had taken brig laden with rum the day before
Some of the other undesirable goods found in prizes
by American privateersmen were the assortment the
HAPPY, Captain William Nichols, of Baltimore, came
in the packet Princess Elizabeth which he cap
tured after hard fight in September, 1874 Aboard
the packet were the Turkish Ambassador to England,
English army officer, and second Lieutenant IN the
royal navy After taking out of his prize ten thousand
dollars in specie five pipes of Madeira Wine and throw
ing overheard all other articles of value mot including
the Turkish Ambassador, Captain Nichols permitted
the Princess Elizabeth to proceed her voyage after
paying ransom of two thousand dolars-as in some
degree rembursing him for the expenses he had been
put to in working the claim
ANOTHER @gold mine" struck by our nautical miners
of 1925 was the brig Emu captured by the eigh
teen-gun prvateer Holkar. Captain T. Rowland of New
York. The Emu had cargo of forty-nine women
convcts bound for Botany Bay. Apparently the crew
of the prize had little disposition for fighting for Row
land reported that the Emu commanded 3by
arrogant Lieutenant of the British navy, who could not
persuade his to fight the Yankees. AS the Hol
kars people not looking for this kind of wealth,
the females landed island of the Cape
Verdes with provisions for four months Subsequently
they taken off by the grumbling Captain of
British transport and resumed their voyage to Botany
Bay Not long afterward the splendid privateer War
rior, Captain Guy R. ChampGn also of New York,
captured the English ship Francis and Eliza from Lon
don for New South Wales having board one hundred
and twenty four male and female convcts They
allowed to proceed.
A 4false lead" struck by the Baltimore priva-
teer Globe, Captain Richard Moon, November g. l8l3
when cruising Madeira. The Globe was one of the
most powerful private EARNED craft to sail from
American port in this war; also she had been highly
successful. Consequently, when her people deserted two
prosperous looking craft under British coors they began
congratulating themselves in advance a rich haul
Their confidence was increased when the strangers
evinced a disposition to escape and the Americans
rushed into the fight without taking the usual preca-