Show tim affair of tite etc the halifax citizen characterizes the capture of the chesapeake as sheer piracy I 1 and puts the caieto caseto case to the blue noses who complain and befriend the pirates in in the following strong 11 light lit suppose that on board the arabia which tiled sailed it aiom om halifax yesterday esterday two thirds of the passengers were members of the fenian 1 suppose that they armed to the teeth should suddenly surprise the unsuspecting officers of the hip and every circumstance of confusion in in an unarmed crew assisting this s combination of equal numbers and superior bior arms I 1 the steamer should become cups sups their pi ey and its chiep and prisoners prison eis to be got rid of in some northern ports where is the man among us who would not hesitate to denounce such a capture as atrocious piracy who would not feel siti satisfied fied to heir hear of a british frigate swiftly pursuing the pirates and bringing back the arabia to gunards Cun ards wharf with the ringleaders ring leaders of the plot swill swinging at the baid aim and yet such fello fellows ws could justify their course as fully as the cap tois of the chesapeake I 1 the halifax swi of the in I 1 sp speaking ealing of the affair says when intelligence of the first capture was wag received here the cold blooded murder of her second en engineer aneer excite and we think very justly the indignation of a largo large number of our citizens since then various statements have been made for the purpose of palliating pallia ting the crime one of which is that the second engineer was armed with it a revolver and discharged it several times wounding one of the southerners a writer in the citizen ll 11 last evening repeats the sto story and states that all the crud crew of of the steamer were armed with revolvers vol vers this seems improbable and the whole story is 11 directly at variance NN with ith the particulars given us yesterday by captain nichols and two of his big officers ceis they state on oil the authority of the engineer now on board the chesapeake that the first sh shot ot r fired ir e d was ati ata fireman in the engine room and NN when bea the second engineer heard the din discharge harge lie he tinned round and said stop your d d fooling g 1 and while passing into the engine room was wass shot bot looking 1 at the matter is we do in the light of a piratical pirttle a l act we cannot but feet feel pleased that the i esl e sl has bag been talen taken but we v e much regret the escape of the desperadoes who were guilty of the murder 1 |