Year: 1861

Some weeks ago, we stated that the ship Bam-
berg of New Orleans had sailed from Liverpool
for that port with large quantity of arms on
board intended for the insurgent forces. Our in-
formant, whose information was positive, had
felt it bis duty to lay it before the Collector of
the port of Boston; but as no found some diff
Guilty in procuring an interview with that OIL
cial, or even with his deputy he was COM
PEELED to make bis statement to a clerk, who re-
ceiying it rather with Indifference he was doubt
full whether il had ever reached the Government
at all Our own paragraph, however, was thought
worthy of notice, and assurances were immedi-
ately given in one or two Boston papers, appa-
rently by authority, that the intelligence in re.
gard to the Bamberg had been received at the
proper place, aud that the necessary steps had
been taken TO intercept her. OF course, this was
all very satisfactory, as an evidence not ou'y of
the diligence Of officials but an assurance that
so large a quantity of arms were to fall, not
into the hands Of insurgents and pirates, bat into
ours.


In the mean time we have watched carefully for
an account of the capture Of the Bamberg The





chosen to seek for it, the most positive and di.
rect testimony TO the fact of this ship having
taken on board at Liverpool large quantity Of
arms TO be used ia the Southern nsurection. 1t
knew, or might have known if it bad taken the
trouble to consult a register, that the Bamberg
is owned in New-Orleans, and that legitimate
deduction from that fact would be, that if she
landed her present cargo in safety, it was BY no
means likely that this would be the last piece of
mischief in which she would be engaged. Her
capture therefore, on every account was matter
of importance and would, it seems to our mere
unofficial Judgment have justified the sending
revenue ue-cutter or other small vessel, to the
cruisers in the Gulf with special instructions to
be very digent in search Of the Bamberg, aud
to take or sink her, as might be most convenient;
but certainly to do either the one or the other.
But We were not so favored as to agree with
the Government. If the CustOm-House clerk
ever communicated his information TO the Col
lector of the Port of Boston, or if the Collector
at Boston ever transmitted it to the Government,
it seems that the Government gave it little heed,
or ese thought the possibility of the landing of



itself trHiDg matter. Perhaps it is right, and
perhaps we are wrong; perhaps we have become
morbidy sensitive from seeing good many
thousands of brave fellows pass our windows,
within the last three months, on their way TO
the seat OF war, and rejecting that many of
them will leave their bones to wbiten underneath
a southern sun, because an insurrccton has been,


IL 10. form Hahl han
it might be checked; is allowed to be reinforced
with arms, to send bullets into Northern hearts,
where they might have been stopped; is still dal-
lied with through traitors who assume to call
themselves neutral; is not yet hoPelessly cut oil,
"A il should be, from oil saccOr by land or BY
sea. 1t may be that we have been led into
an impatient state Of mind by dwelling 80 much
upOn what we have at stake IN the lives OF our
sons and brothers and in the prosperity OF our
people that we have cultivated an unbecoming
ranc0r against insurgents and pirates. Az any
rate. il seems to be our fate to differ from Gov
ernment occasionally as to the wisdom OF certain
steps, and now as regards this ship hamburg.
IL has not been thought worth while either to
take or sink her. The sloop-of.war Brooklyn, SO
we hear on good authority, has intercepted the
vessel off the Ballze, bound in, and rdrned her
off! She aud her cargo Of arms have gone over
TO Havana; she q fine ship, rated at "a,
only five years old, Of nearly 1000 tuns burden,
to 20 to sea presently, perhaps, with one OF
Jeff's letters of marque; the arms to remain in
store till some favorable opportunity occurs to land
them-perhaps in small vessels, at unfrequented
and unblockaded points on the cOast-and put them
into tho hands of Jeff's insurrectonists. 1t may
be all right, but we may be permitted to say
in an expressive slang phrase, "we don't 500
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