THE SHENANDOAH.

Evening Post, Issue 253, 29 November 1865, Page 3

THE SHENANDOAH.

(From the San Francisco Bulletin, August 3.)

The whaling barque Nile, Captain Fish, of New London, brings portions of the officers and crews of eleven more vessels that have fallen a prey to the pirate Shenandoah. . The Nile left the pirate on the 29th of June, two days after the General Pike, which arrived here the night before last. In that interval of two days the Shenandoah captured the following vessels:— Hillman, J. Holland, Nassau, Brunswick, James Maury, Waverly, Martha, Congress, Favourite, Covington, and Nile. All of them, except the Nile and the James Maury, were rifled of their stores and then burnt by Captain Waddeli. The remaining two were " bonded," and despatched with the crews of the captured^vessels— the Nile to San Francisco, and the James Maury to Honolulu. As on previous occasions, a few among the crews of the captured whalers joined the pirate. All of the above ships were oaptared in the vicinity of Behring's Btnits. The last seen of the Shenandoah by the Nile, she was seen steering south-west towards St. Lawrence Bay. The officers who came by the Nile all tell the same story with regard to their mode of capture, and the way they were treated by the pirate. All of their personal property of any value was taken from them, and they have arrived here entirely destitute. The Nile reports that on 29th June, after leaving the pirate, she saw ¦hip's burning in the Arctic, and the work of destruction was no doubt continued. The following ship* were reported leaving the ground, and may have escaped :— Europa, J. P. West, Arnold, Eliza Adams, Minerva, Canton Packet, William Clifford, Splendid, J. D. Thompson, and the Vineyard. We have now had three arrivals of bonded vessels from the Shenandoah, bringing us the news of her operations down to the 29th of June, She commenced her ravages among our whalers by capturing and burning the Edward Carey, the Harvest, the Pearl, and the Hester, at Ascension Island, on the Ist April. Since that time she has done a good stroke of business in behalf of her English backers, and has rim up a nice little bill for them to settle at some future day. The barques Milan and Vernon, lumber vessels belonging to Pope and Talbot, of this city, arrived here last evening from Puget Sound. The Milan left Puget Sound on the 23rd of July. She reports that at the mouth of the Straits of Fucha she saw a threemasted steamer, with all royal yards up. The Vernon left Puget Sound the day after the Milan, and she reports having seen near the mouth of the Straits of Fucha, that night, a three-masted steamer, with her royal yards all up, and that the steamer ran around her in a circle three times. The captains of the Milan and Vernon both say the steamer was nothing like any of the British war steamers around Victoria, and th* description they give of this strange vessel corresponds with that given of the British pirate Shenandoah by the men of the whaling fleet. We do not consider it probable, however, that the pirate has ventured to approach this coast after sending three vessels here to report her operations. After destroying the whale fleet in the Arctic •he has doubtless gone in an opposite direotion from that to which her "bonded" vessels were sent, and the next heard of her will probably be in Australia, hob-nobbing with her English friends. The vessel seen by the

Milan was probably the British ship-of-war Chameleon, which as we are informed by the British Consul, was at that time cruising on on the west cnast, last from Esquimalt.