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VOL. II.
EUGENE CITY, OREGON, APRIL 4, 1863.
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cy of the law, wisely passed nn amendment to
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proved, December 25th, 18G2:
"Sue. 3. And be it further enacted. That no
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above 10
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ceipts do not extend to receipts tor articles or
packages transported lor the Government, nor
receipts for articles or packages transported by
such companies without charge thereon.
TIIE REBEL PIRATE.
The particulars of the attempt to send forth a
rebel piratical craft, from San Francisco, to prey
upon the commerce of this coast, are thus given
by tho Alia California of tho 16th and 17th ult. :
For some eight or nine months past, tho Col
lector, Naval Officer and Surveyor, have been in
possession of the knowledge ot a persistent at
tempt to purchase and fit out a vessel suitable
for privateering. Tho parties implicated were
known and their movements have been carefully
watched. They wore, however unable to procure
a suitable craft, although numerous offers were
made for cratt of various calibre. They found a
vessel it seems, in the schooner J. M. Chapman,
which arrived at this port on the 17th of Febru
ary last, in 130 days from New York, via Valpa
raiso, consigned to Hellman brothers the Cap
tain's name being Chapman. She is a neat, trim
built vessel of ninety-one tons, and was subse
quently sold to Ridgely Greathouse, of Yreka,
for the sum of $6,500, and was placed ostensibly
under the command of C. W. Law, as master,
and advertised to sail for Manzanilloon or about
the 0th of March, Messrs. Bunke, Greaves &t Co.,
in the Mexican coasting trade being her shipping
agents. This selection was made, according to
statements made by Law, as it was a Yankee
house and would not incur the suspicion of the
authorities.
On Saturday afternoon, the Chapman was
cleared by W. C. Law, he swearing that the
crew consisted of one captain, one mate, and
four seamen. This is an important link in the
chain of evidence of the guilt of the parties. Her
manifest was apparently all right, quicksilver,
merchandise, and machinery.
W. C Law, tho ostensible Captain of the
Chapman, who, it is stated, was to be second
officer of the pirate, has tor a number of years
traded on the Pi.cilie coast, having been in the
employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
and lately an officer on the steamer Oregon,
trading to the Paciffiu Mexican ports. He is
perfectly fimiiliar with the coast, and knows the
cxncl track of the steamers. He was in com.
maud id (he si hooiier Storm Cloud once, mid
was mi erratic in his conduct, that tho owners
tie.ieviug that he intended to run off with her,
sent tilt agent to V..I 'itrai-Mi and relieved him
from the charge of the vessel.
On Saturday night, Messrs. McLean and Far-
well, tho Surveyor mid Naval Offi rr of the
port, accompanied by Captain Lees, offi.rs Mo
Jjougai, U.itz, llley una seven oilier persons,
were on the watch. I ho steamer Anaslic, kindly
placed at the disposal of the Revenue officers by
K. M. Jessup, Esq., lay across the end of Pacific
street wharf, steam up ana her hres "banked,
ready for instant service. On board the Chap
man, lying just across the slip at Jackson street
wharf, unusual bustle and stir was manifested
throughout the night, many persons going and
coining up and down the wharf, passing on board
etc. ; the evidences showing, beyond doubt, that
she was preparing to leave.
in the night a lighter hauled alongside the
Chapman, and a quantity of material was taken
on board, which, of course, was in contravention
of the revenue laws ; as, whatever it might prove
to be, it had not been manifested. This was
carefully noted, but no opposition was made, as
it might intertere with subsequent proceedings.
At half past five in the morning, the vessel was
hauled into the stream. The morning was clear
and beautiful, with very little wind stiaring. But
two or three persons appeared to be stirring on
ser deck she, to all outward apbearances, being
hs innocent and harmless as any craft that ever
left the port of San Francisco. When about
tnree nunurcu varus irom me qock, an ooserver
might have seen two boat's crews of armed men
put otr from the Cyane, and simultaneously
therewith the nose of the Anasho swung round
into the channel, the tug starting ol her track,
with loud puff and bark Irom her smoke- stack,
an ominous warning to those on board the schoon
er that they were entrapped. In a few moments
she was boarded by the officers and men from
tho Cyane, and Messrs. McLean and Farwell,
with officers Lees, McDougnl, Blitz tud Coffey .
lhe privateer was token witho' a struggle,
n her cabin whs found Ilidtieisy Greathouse,
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who hud acted as the purchaser of the schooner
Chapman, late Irom Yivka, and a native of Ki-n
tiicky ; man who has never disguised his symp
i.lliy with tho rebels. I In has rulatives in this
city and in lhe interior, and from his not being
generally known in this city, was tho person se
lected to conduct the i.fTiir, although, it must be
confessed, tho fait that a man from tho interior,
unfamilliiir with muritimo usages, and albeit a
loud -mouthed secessionist, would, to our mind,
attach suspicion to any movemcr.t she might
make. It seems that these facts militated against
him, and led to investigations which resulted in
the successful arrest of the expedition and the
parties concerned. Tho following parties were
also taken : A. Robery, the mate, and two or
three sailors. These were the only parties on
deck, who were taken immediately by Captain
Lees and secured.
Captain Lees next proceeded to explore the
hold of the craft. Procuring a light, he entered
the forecastle, and passing through a small door
in the bulkhead, separating that from the hold,
he crept over boxes, bundles, etc., until nearly
under the main hatch, when he discovered a nest
of from fifteen to 17 men, snugly stowed away,
apparently as freight, with the rest of the cargo.
Coming on deck again, the hatches were removed
disclosing these persons packed away amidships.
Most of them were ormed with pistols and Bow
ie knives. At first some of them seemed dis
posed to 'show fight," but they were soon over
awed ond deprived of their weapons by tho
police.
Scattered among the boxes and barrels, were
large quantities of pieces of paper, torn to bits
and chewed up, evidently with the design of de
stroying all written evidence in that section of
the vessel in reference to the expedition. Thesq
bits of paper torn, chewed and mutilated r.s they
were, were carefully collected by Captain Lees
and his assistants, and may yet bo turned to good
account.
Th schooner was at once discharged, under
direction of tho Surveyor and Naval Officer.
Such of tho packages as were examined were
found to contain six brass Dahlgreen guns, shot
and shell, rifles, pistols, bayonets, bullets, swords,
gun carriages (for use on ship board) and an end
less variety of munitions and weapons sutable
lor privateering purposes. A full inventory
will be taken to-day, so that we shall be enabled
to present our readers with a list to-morrow.
The full particulars of the arrest of the parties
concerned in the making of the schooner J. M.
Chapman a pirate, publised exclusively in yes
terday's Alia, created a profound sensasion in our
community yesterday, and all loyal men thanked
the energy and entcrpise of the officials, army,
navy, customs, and city, who had cuccceded in
thus unmasking the uffair. The duplicity of se
cession sympathizers was manifest it once. They
gathered in small coteries, and attempted to ere
ate a sensation in their behalf, and of course were
rampant in their protestations. They attempted
to disavow any collusion whatever with the en
terprise, and boldly asserted that ii was merely
gotten up as a speculative expedition, with the
sole intbiit of disposing of the cargo to the Mex
icans, to aid them in driving the French invaders
from their soil, and professed the greatest con
dumuation of tho " unwarrantable action of the
Lincoln office holders." Proof positive and in
controvertible, however, exists thst conferences
have been hold in this city ot leading rebels Irom
various porti-lis of the interior, niotlily, if not
ofiener. A sagacious and watchful officer of the
army, gives it as his opinion, founded on the
knowledge ol, and coversations with, members
of Terry's Company, which left here for Texas
not long since, that the b v:id is now quarterod
temporarily at some Mexican poft on the gulf of
California, or below, awaiting tho arrival of lhe
Chap. nan. He is firm in tlm belief that the lit
ing out of this pirate was a part of Terry's pro
gi amine ; that ho win to take Mtiesiou of tho
rim ami munitions of war, and srilh these we -o;i4..('.itr,iise
and defense, force their way thru'
it need be, to their rebel voiiteiloraUs on tho
Allan io side, with their ill gotten gains obtain
ed from the capture of tho Cttlfbrffisr steamers.
1 hat many names were connected by rumor
with the transaction without any warrant is be
yond doubt, but it is proven beyond prnd ven
ture that the Chapman was in the h.u.ds of seces
sionists, and that her in tut) t ions were piral'c&l.
No further examination of the cargo and prison
ers caplnred was made yesterday by the United
States authorities, they beimrall day engaged in
searching the vessel and in tbe examination of
papers tound on board. 1 he officers are exceed
ingly reticent upon the subject, and are sparing
of information for the use of the pubic press.
Probably the course pursued is the most proper
one, and hence we are not disposed to find fault.
We have been permitted to make copies of tho
subjoined documents among the numberless pa
pers showing the nature of the expedition
found on board the vessel, which remove all
doubts, if any before existed, as to the character
of the schooner and the parties arrested. These
documents will serve to open the eves of the
loyal people of California to the nature of the
treasonable schemes that have been set on foot
in their midst.
Evidences are numerous tint persistent efforts
have hcrtofora been made to procure a steam
vessel suitable to privateering purposes both
'here and at Victoria, by some of the parties cap- j
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tured on board the Chapman. A resident agent
of the parties in Victoria writes in ono of the let
ter found on board, directed to one of the lea
dors now incarcerated at Alcatraz, us follows s
u j reg,irj (0 the steamer Ac
tive, I do not know whore she is at present, but
will try and assertain for you by the arrival of
the next steamer and let you know.
Again writing to the same party, he says:
" Since writing you I have made some inqui
ries iu regard to the matter mentioned in your
latter, and have been on board the Otter and ex
amined ber, and am sorry - to say that she will
not answer your purpose at all.
" She is a screw propeller of about three hun
dred tons and possesses greater strength than any
boat of her size I ever saw ; but she is very slow,
and her own officers say that no machinery can
be put in hor to make her go over ciggt or ten
miles uii hour.
"She was built for the fur trade up the North
west coast, and they sacrificed speed in her con
struction to strength, and tho only thing in the
world she is fit for is a freight boat on some lino
where speed is not a decideratum.
" There is no vessel up here that would answer
your purpose, unless you could get the U. S.
Revenue cutter Shubrick, which would be a some
what difficult operation, as Uncle Sam keeps a
sharp look-out on things up here.
"We had quite an excitement here on the
Prince of Wales' birth day.
"Some Seccsh raised the flag of the Confeder
ate States Army, and the United States Consul
was fool enough to take notice of it, and lowered
his flag and addressed a note to Governor Doug
las, stating that he must declino taking part in
these festivities ot the day on account of it. The
Governor treated him with silent contempt.
" You may imagine there was some indigna
tion among the Union Shriekert, but it was no
use, for tho city authorities sent a police to sco
that no one molested it, and it waved till about
3 o'clock p. m., when it was quietly taken in.
" The 'Stars and Stripes' yUldcd to the 'Stars
and Bars,' as it has Uqp.o many a timo in tho
field, and as, I hope, it mny continuo to do to
the end.
" By the way, if anything turns up in connec
tion with your steam ship line, that you can
mr.ko any use of me, please reserve the chance,
for I am getting somewhat tired of this monotony
ot this life, and am anxious to get into a more
active lile."
The foregoing extracts will suffice to show bo
yond all question, the objects sought to be ac
complished, and which were so nearly cousum.
mated. Tho idea of procuring a steamer hod
evidently to be abandoned, and tho clipper
schooner J. M. Chapman had to suffice. In this
immediate connection, it may be well to state,
as rumors have been set afloat in regard to her
fitness, that she is less than four years old, and
is ono of the strongost and staunchest vessels
afloat in these waters, while her speed is said
to be unexcelled by the fastest vessels of her
class. She had on board five thousand feet of
lumber, of a chanacter suitable for deck planking,
berths, etc., for which use it wns doubtless in
tended. Among tho papers found on board was a sol
emn oath of secrecy, of which tho following is a
copy :
Having been brought to this room to have a
secret confided to me, and believing that to di
vulge such secret would imperil the lives of
certain Southern men, as well as injure the cause
ot the Confederate States of America, I do sol
emnly swear, in the name of the Confderate
States, within whoso limits I was reared, that
I will never by word, sign or deed, hint at or
divulge what I may hear to day. Not to my
dearest friend, not to the wife of my bosom,
will I cominunicato the nature of the secret.
I hold myself pledged by all I hold dear in heav
en or on earh, by God and my country, by my
honor us a Southern gentleman, to keep inviolate
the trust imposed in me. I swear that no con
sideration of property or friendship shall influcne
my secrecy, and may I meet, at the hands of
those I betray, the vengeaoce due to a traitor, if 1
prove recreant to this my solemn obligation.
So help me God, as I prove true!"
On the rame sheet was the following oath of
fellowship :
' V do solemnly swear in the namo of the
Almighty God, and by all we hold sacred in
heaven or in earth, that we owe no ulleg ance to
nn) Government save to that oi the Confederate
Suites. We do solemnly swear that it is her
advaiili.go that is dearest of all things to our
hearts, mill that to serve her we will break all
ties of friendship or kindred that binds us to the
St ite of California. We do also declare that to
serve her we will freely imperil life, worldly
goods, and all clso savo honor ; that we will go
lor in io aid her now in ner nour ol trouble and
danger, even as a dutiful son will fly to tho as
sistauce of his mother, endangered by the brutal
assault of a powerful and unscrupulous ruffian.
We swear that henceforth friends of Confederate
Slates are our friends, her enemies our bitterest
loes ; and in the lot of our bitterest, deadliest,
foes, we count that man who, recreant alike to
honor, to his pi i ted faith, and to his country di
vulge by any look or sign in the secret which
we this day impart to him, and which he this day
pledges his honor as asouthern gentleman, to
hold inviolate and sacred. And we solemnly
swear that if it be our unhappy misfortune to ad
mit a traitor into our councils one so mean
and abject, so utterly devoid of all those senti
ments of chivalry and truth which have distin
guished Southern men throughout the world, if
through the dishonor and meanness, or equally
dangerous folly and incaution of such a one, our
enterprise should fail and our leader be brought
to sharne we, each and every one of us, here
by proclaim that by such deed, the traitor his
forfeited his right to live, and we each pledge
ourselves to slay him, at any timo and by any
possible means we can. We solemnly swearj
that the taitor can obtain safety only by the
death of every one of our party, and may God
so help us and ours, as we keep this oath."
Another form of oath found on board is as HA
lows ;
Do you in the presence of Almighty God,
swear that wHat 1 may this night say or show
to you, shall be kept secure and sacred, and
that you will not, by hint action or word reveal
the same to any living being : so help you God f
Some of the democrats reveal the details of
plots, heretofore known to bo projected by Se
cessiouista In our midst, for the withdrawal by
force and arms, of California from the Union,
An unfinished, rough draft of a secret eireular.in
the hand witing of one of the leaders, now repos
ing at Alcatraz, reads as follows the coppy is
given verba turn :
" Sik Feeling that it is the duty of every
Southern man in California to render all possible
aid in bringing this unholy war to a speedy and
honorable close, and believing that this mav
now be brought about by tho withdrawal of Cai.
ifornia from tho now contemptible Union. I
propose to suggest a plan by which it can bo ac
complished, admitting first one point, that Bcni
cia ur.d the two forts now commanding tho har.
bor of San Francisco is tho key, and that the
State would be ours if they were in possession
of Southern men. My plan, tliereforo, will only
extend to their capture. This 1 propose to do
with 1,000 men, which 1 will raise on tbe fol.
lowing plans : I will visit 100 towns and campe
nearest Sacratuento ; at each I will form a society
of ten of the most trusty men, binding them by
tho strongest oath to appear at Sccramento on A
certain day, (wll let them know the plan,) to
obey the orders of ono man whatever they may
be. Early on that day I will employ five or six
men to cut the wires leading from Sacramento,
(also a man at Benicia,) in all directions ; by a
preconcertod signal we will meet on tho levee
at 10 o'clock, und will proceed at once to take
possession of ."
Here tho circular breaks off. The plan, how
ever, would seem to be, to have token one or
two stcamors and proceed to Alcatras and Fort
Point, take both these forts by surprise, as well
as the arsenal at Benicia. The plan, however,
wild and chimerical as it may now appear, was
at one time feasible, provided a proper organ
Ization had been behind it.
We learn that the pirates took Cottrcll, tho
steward, from tho cabin, nt 11 p. ii., on Satur
day, with pistols at his head, forced htm Into
tho forecastle. They took two sailors who were
noisy in the forecastle, and with weapons attheif
heads forced them into the hold to save quietude,
A rumor which had obtained general publicity
that the guns captured arrived here on the ship
Lookout, from New York, now in this port, is
incorrect, tho same having been in this port lor
some time.
A lot of blue flannel uniforms for the pirates
was found on board.
A Friendly Oder Misinterpreted.
Mr. Pilkington, a small Farmer in Pennayl.
vania, was lately drafted for the service -of his
country. His wife, though sho possesses but a
small stock of general information, is one tho
best of conjugal partners, as she is much troubled
at the thought of parting with tier hnsband.
Tho other day, as sho was engaged In scrubbing
off her doorstep, a rough looking stranger catno
up and thus addressed her :
" I hear nia'rm, that your husband has been
drafted."
" Yes be has " answered Mrs. P. " though,
dear knows, there's fow men that coaldnH be
better spared from their families."
" Well ma'rin 1'vooome to offer myself a sub
stitute for him,"
" A what T " asked Mrs. P. with some excite
merit.
" I'm willing to t'tke his place," said the
stranger.
" You take tho place of my litispand, yoli
wretch I I'll teach you to Insult a distressed
woman that way, you vagabond !" cried Mrs. P.,
as she discharged the dirty soapsuds into the
face of the discomfited and astonished substitute,
who took to his heels just in time to escape har.
ing his head broken by tho bucket.
Not Bad. During the recent fighting in
North Curolina, a chaplain of one of the Massa
chusetts regiments, mho was on the field, seeing
one of the inch of Battery B., 3d New York Ar
tillery, being borne off wounded, said to film,
"Were you supported by divine inspiration!"
"No !" wss the reply, "we were supported by
the 9th New Jersey."
I .
dtrono jikx. Artcmus Ward, in his new
lecture, makes some fun of Dr. Winship, the
New England "strong man," who advertises that
ho will lift twelve able bodied men at one time,
at the close of his lecture. Artcmns travesties
tho muscular New Englander by facetiously in
viting twelve agreeable young ladies on to the
platform, stating that he will lift them one at
time or "perish in the attempt."
Tin Santa Cruz Sentinel says that fruit cut
turist living hack among the foot hills preserves
bis grapes and apples by packing them In dry
sand. Ite has grapes at this date perfectly fresh
and luscious preserved in this way. It is a sim
ple and cheap method of having good fruit the
year round.
u I do not say " remarked Mr.Brown. " that
Jones is a thief; but I do say that if his farm
joined mine, I would hot try to keep sheep."
A max ceases to be a savage when you cad
waken in him desire to buy and sell.
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nothing, the rich nave to much, just enouvh, not
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