Yankee Insolence.
--The arrival of the screw-steamer
Hero last night, eighteen days from
Queenstown, Ireland, is something in the annals of speed worth recording.
We have been politely handed English papers to the 28th ult., by
Capt. Peat.
The Hero was boarded by the
Federal gunboat
Marcedeta (nine guns) no less than three times, thirty-five miles E. N. E. of the Hole-in-the-Wall.
Is this outrage to be repeated
ad libitum? We have before had occasion to remark, that the port of
Nassau was more effectually blockaded by Federal gunboats than that of
Charleston, and shall we be compelled to repeat this assertion?
It is not long since one of the
Federal gunboats actually came up to the mouth of our harbor, and went off again without even saying ‘"How do you do?"’ It is true that H. M. S.
Steady went out as far as the
Berry Islands after her, but she escaped with impunity.
Surely it is high time that we had one or two gunboats stationed between the, Hole-in-the-
Wall and
Berry Islands, to counteract this growing evil and protect our commerce.
The unenviable manner in which the Bahamas have been shown up by dastardly and designing persons, whose espionage system is just beginning to be found out by our overconfident population, demands us to speak out. We rejoice that we are living in a land of liberty, where everything is aboveboard — a liberty far greater than that of the land of
batted freedom, whose honest citizens are expatriated for daring to differ with their fellows on a point of Government.
Had any Bahamian acted in the
United States as some of the citizens of
America have acted here, he would have suffered the penalty of riding the ball, and been immersed in that adhesive liquid to which the feathered tribe have frequently added an extra coating--
Nassan Guardian, 17th inst. 
