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DAILY OwZIlVER, NOVLLIDEU 11, 1CCJ. at . ., History cf. th; LI OUL TTCiam Lanib -faro tnt Titbit To th" Editor of Th Observer. ', Th arrival of th tnanlter "Canon Jeua" at this port ha given an op portunity to par a tribute to my car rlson at Fort Fisher based on tho published ofllclal report of the United rUates naval officer engaged lit the attacks upon that fort Aa my health .' Is very poor It may be the latt chance 1 will have to ahow my raeasureltsjti gratitude to those brave Carolina boy, the greater partof them younger than : myself .(then II year old, when thai 7 works were captured),, wh loved me with devotion only equalled by my lf. , lov for them, . I want all tho stir 7; vlvors poaslble to see the ttrtlctea.' Z ... - COL. WILLIAM . LAMB. 7 Norfolk, ya, November ,4th i0. ? : ' The If. R Uonltnf "Pann, ; , arrived at the, navy yard lnvthls port to take part In the groat -Interne . tlAnil afilllar Mini Uln..i..l : f Industrial Exposition to bo held next ' year In commemoration of the 80ib ; vf ., anniversary of the first . permanent . .ngusn settlement at Jamestown, V lr , ginia, in May, l 07. . I am glad my . , fd Secretary Bonaporte to aend hor her front Learua Island, as. a tvna nf i the most . formidable class cf. naval ; vessels during the - war between th r-: snatev.y . f'-.i.V: s.v-v.v fe-fj- hn I nave a personal Interest' In ner. , f , ua b ui press in announcing ner amvai : nere ; naa ascribed her bat , tie scars to the shots from the Con- . iwnniw Buwnn in vnsnesion, o. vj., , ;. harbor, I propose to give you a cor- --. -w- vwwauevas V4 tl AI VSJ 1U a V ,( 14 v , to ner, in justice to those brave North t Carolina boys, whom I had the honor .;, . to command, and Instruct In artillery 7 whose devotion to me. makes me un. wining to have them deprived of frhe ; creair aue tnem for unsurpassed ec " . ' curacy of aim and fearlessness under v The "Canonlcus" outside of Its Fort '1. Fisher experience had an uneventful career. Her first service was In James river And ' she exchanged shots on wo occasions with Howlett's battery. on me upper James. In tho first en- fagement the Monitor was only struck sice. aNobody was hurt and her in. Jury reported slight, which was not Surprising, as she was 1,300 yards '.from tho small .four gun battery, which had to fight four war vessels 5 carrying 1 1 guns, bbsldes the "Canon lcus"' which at that distance, pre - sen ted, to the man behind tho Confed ! ' orate gun, only her turret 1 , ? Commander E. Q. Parrott, -of tho "Canonlcus,'' reports to Adimral Lee, " commanding N. A. Blockading Squad- roii In regard to this engagement which occurred June list. 184. ' "The rebel Ironclads came down tho' river, but not In sight, and opened ' upon as a random-Are. over the trees which hit nothing and which I be ' Heve. wae not . noticed." (O. R. U. V C N.. VoL 1.0. p. 111). This Is rather obscure and one would infer that the Federal and , Confederate fleets had avoided a bat- tie, but neither aide ever did this, ro . aardless of - tho disparity of their - strength as compared with their fooJ '. Commander Parrott should have menV iivqvq uiat uen were ODSiruouons v - arrara isiana, wmcn Kept inem , apart The "-oecond -cngacomeat on battery, was milder still, Parrott re- tutrtln "VnthlnLAilt f . . u 'which Included the "sickly-season," ir-not ins -starving iuno- or mo V ' early setucr, Admiral iueo oroerea me In Turkey creek, which with those . ' who paddled them, were "giving aid t Mil Mmfnrt In lha rahvla? atl Ihla ,f v;with an -occasional nocturnal visit .' Af "a, eamnbud." with some cho'je nh(iVn fmm "ola mamfar'n" hen - roost, to aether with a wonderful tale I . some great house, longtnir to Kurnal. llajer. Jegge or Eoctor Blank's plan tation on do jeemes," comprisea an : ' tho exciting experience of this hlstotio hip, until shortly after she had to . .wrestle wttn ternnc galea, ana meei in "oeaaiy connici me neroes tn ia M mv nmnia nia ' m wmcn was nr.. ' Michael Olennan. (who took it from ' tured and kept it through his prison me at run voiumDUS uni.ii riuiaiijou t and restored to me, after the war). 1 . . m. i I . Mm i t. mnn wnicn naa iim. 11 nunuinMi iiv iib - a,favy upiruqui, in lie uuikwi nw , Tords. I wrote: ', . "Decmber 10 (ll4). Awoke this formed that the enemy's fleet were off the fort Flvo blockadera -at their several frigates further out nearly all hull down. Got everything In readl- nesa for a fight Expected fleet In at ' ,h!gh tide at noon and cleared for ao V tloa. Fleet remained autet all day. ' A", stiff northeaster prevailed - and I ? ' tlona Bent all the slaves oft to' , The gale continued to Increase In ' uvwll mnA laata1 until tha lirrt. and ; ' i tho "Canonlcus" was- only saved after J a . fhrlllfna- 'exnerlence bv anchorlns? 'l'.,''.. , A I iM ,1. A k. m... MM. I - o the wild waves and prevented her x foundering like the famous "Monl-v-tor, which was defeated In Hampton Koads MaV, 1802, by the Confederate ?i ; Iron clad 'VlrglBla," neo U. 8. Mer i runic, : ann irom wnitu rrwcio v Hr. build took their name. - . . f ; I aha.ll never forret mv, first slrht of the "Canonlcus." It was Satur day, December 24, 1114, and on of ' those perfect days, that occasionally ' follow a severe storm, (aif under a ''?'); law of compensation). In the latitude '" Mhi Cane Fear. .- The erele - which ' . .a t.Mlrakj' nmtmt twnm HAKuit Ift : southwost had subsided tho day be fore and Was followed by a dead calm. The air was balmy and the sun shona withrindisn Summer warmth and tho "Mue sea was as quiet as a mountain : ,hke on an April day, and broke lastly on bar and beach. A grander sight ' had i-never been-, witnessed on any 'sea, than that formidable - armada, ',; dwarf ina; Into Inslgnllcanco In tonago and weight of armament tha Spanish "rarmadsw -pr--- ',;'fi-'yv- I stood on the' parapet' of. my 1 tVjund). the boya called It "the pal K plr 'rom Its position and shaps. - It had a .commanding view of the land and sea faces, which Including,, the mound and tho Infantry curtain con necting It with the main works, waa l 2.CX0 yards In length. Tho great frl frntrs, cruisers and gunboats slowed . oown a mile irum ine ion, -una u a mile nearer In. the "New Ironsides" ,. apparently towing the, ."CanonlcusV then the "Monadnock" and lastly the ; "Mahopac" and seemingly anchored. ' 1 recall 'the Impressive' kllenne of , that battle eve, All animate and tn animate .nature seemed wrapt In slum br, save the floating engines of war, ' jwhlch came bowling inwards th fort, . each with a bone In her teeth.- They worn too distant to hear the rlppls of the dlxplaced water at their bow, or . the piping of the boatuwaln's whim lee on their deck. The garrison had been Vln. readiness slnre early morn; lona roll was .beat at noon, and th jiinn ' were manned,, .and Inspired by the c ni tor Canonlcos ; te to the) Carolina Boys Who Defend legend of their State, ' "Esse Quam Vlderl,' and of their country, "Ueo Vlndlce." my Carolina comrades, with tout hearts, were ready for any I V About I p. m., a flash and then a ioua report oame from a lorwara gun In the starboard battery of the "New Ironsidea", I saw it immediately after It left th muxala and I watched It come towards and past me and turned and. saw It explode harmlessly near xne nag-stair, at whtcn object -tsur- mouhted by a larra- confederate nag, with red union, blue cross with II white stars, and a largo white Held) every gun from that fleet which wa in range, was pointed, much to my gratification and safety, and ! as I oulckly took In tho situation, enabling me to stand coolly on top of tho par apet, where I allowed no one else to come: and with my Held giaas watcnea as far as the smoke would allow, the effect of our 1-1 minute guns, much to the anxiety of the boys who loved me, some so far forgetting the dis cipline I had taught them, a to call out' from- ' places , or concealment, "Come off that parapet" As if didn't know after ths first few broad sides of the portion of the fleet In front of the sea face that until that hated flag waa shot down, I was as safe where I was, as the men be hind tho revetments. - The fleet fired at least 1,000 shot and shell at the staff before It fell, tho most of them exploding over or falling Into the Cape Fear river In rear of the works. (See Admiral Porter's reports and letters In Official . Records .of : Navy Depart' menc.1 t v''' " " '". As soon as the "New Ironsides- had discharged her starboard broadside of 11-incn shells,, and before the otner vessel, commenced filing, the other vessels commenced firing, I walked on the adjoining , parapet to . within 150 reet of the rear or a ten-inch Co lumbian battery, originally construct ed by a Fayettevllle company and named after their county, and which I had. chosen for the signal gun, by wnicn xne . ion snouia , oe iniormea when to confluence tho defence. In obedience to orders ths gun had' been kept on the largest vessel approach ing the fort which waa nearest the better. All except tho gunner be hind the sight whom I knew was a good marksman, and tho men moving th carriage aa He directed, the lieu tenant In command with all the crew were watchlna their commander In tently, as unconcerned about , what was coming, aa If they were on a coon or 'possum hunt dewn horn. I raised my hand and In ordinary drill voice commanded, "Cumberland Are!" The lanyard was pulled, a . 10-inch shot went bowling along, rlcochetted. and bounded with a crash through the smokestack of the frigate "Sus quehanna." And the almost oppres sive silence on our side was broken by a rebel yell, that would have done credit to the Army or iwortnern vir ainla. when either "Marse Robert' "Old Jack," or an old field here, pass ed through a Confederate camp, In winter quarter. ' X mentioned that th first shot from Fort Flshsr went bounding through the smokestack of the frigate Susque hanna. The ofllclal report of Com- modoro 8. W. Oodon. comnfanding Susquehanna aiad Fourth Division, to Rear Admiral Porter commanding North . Atlantic squadron. - make ,no mention of this shot which commenc ed the fight on our aide, and leads the reader to believe she did not get into action ' before S o'clock, and placed with anchors until I o'clock. y"The enemy flre on the day before t!4th) was feeble and not sustained, and was Lseveral time silenced for half an hour.- . "Although fairly exposed, received but few hits and no' damage of the slightest consequence. The enemy's practice was bad on both daya." This waa the Commodore's report Now let us take some testimony to sustain my statement The fort fired the first gun a few minutes after one. ,. In July Uth, 1177, the monitor Mahopac was at the naval anchorage opposite my residence.- Her com mander, Lieutenant W. W. Rhodes, had -married an Intimate friend of my wife's t'-hood In Providence, R. I., and , she was staying on 'board with him. "I went out and brought them home to tea, and while at this meal Ueutenant Rhodes, whom, I had never iriet before, Informed m that he was on the Susquehanna In the first at tack on Fort Fisher; that as they ap- nsAanh .twt aim-vthlnw mi- m m m milat a vaviivv v w j wssasgji " wm w uuni ass the fort that they thought Butler' powder ship had done some harm, when to their astonishment the fort opened fire and sent m shot through the smokestack of the frigate. This was the first shot says Rhodes, fired fronT tho fort."- (Colonfl JUamb's llary, 1177),, j United States Steamer Susquebana, - Off Beaufort N. C, , i December 80th, 1814. , . December 10th, 1114. Sir:-1 respectfully report that dur ing the attack en Fort Fisher the only casualty occurring In the engine department was a damage to th smokestack, a round shot having gone completely through It . Very respectfully, ' , , ; v. JOHN JOHNSON, ",,v, . Chief Engineer, Comomdore 8. W. s Oodon, " eom mander 4th Division N. A. B. Squad ron. . - , i Joseph E. Miller, carpenter of th Pusquehanna, reports to Lieutenant Commander P. B. Blake: "The first cutter and the barge were so damaged by tho concussion (caused by flre of their guns) a to be unserviceable and beyond repair. ' He can tell- that to the matinee, for the sailors won't believe him. The boatswains' report contradicts other portion of tho carpenter' report, and a to those boat I distinctly saw the frigate struck repeatedly by ""Cum berland" battery that fired' most of Us half hour, guns at this , vessel bo cause anchoring abreast of It despite the dense smoke which only occasion--ally cleared away, ,- When . the tldo turned and put the ' frigate bow, on to. the Cumberland battery and tho sea face jf the main work with the battery served by C, 8. U. officers and sailors, our artillerist could have dis abled her In thirty minute, past be ing towed out if I could have spared the ammunition and given, the order. There wers on 1 1-4 inch Brook ride, 4 " 10-Inch Columbiana, - 110 founders, one 170 lb. Blakely rifle and a battery of five Brook guns In charge of a fc 8. N. detachment he waa anchored one , mile from tha , work, our artillerist couldn't mis her at that distance after getting the range, and my nsvsl' friends will admit, it would hsve been another "United Btstes" and "Macedonian"" affair as to the raking fire, while as I was on terra flrma behind Impenetrable revet ments, and -she had a rolling swell near the bar, I wouldn't have . had twelve killed and wounded, a Decatur had, and 1 would have finished the work In one-third the time It took him to bring brave Carden to tha hu miliation of surrender to a foe . he had ridiculed and held in contempt; but Fort Flaner was not there to sink a few- of that mighty armada, and emnty.lts magaslnea, but to prevent the passage Into th Cape Fear river of a,' hostile ship and thi w did until overwhelmed and our fort cap tured, and then w had the lory of knowing that the first Federal vessel which entered the icth of January la the early morn after the surrender, passed by the Mound battery with our (.'oniederata nag, which had defied the battle and the breeze, still -flying from the masthead, and not; lowered until after sunrise. ' ' . : . On-the 18th-; of December. 18(4 there were but 3,0(F shot and shell in the works on Confederate formerly and now Federal Point, exclusive : of .grape and canister,-- by the report 1 of Montgomery Long, ordnance sergeant, i.naa unea a large number in artii lery practice, which I thought neoes sary for th efllcienoy of tha garri son, and mysiuperlors had never In hibited my. liberal use of powder and projectile for thla purpose, Indeed re peatedly commended: ; the - garrison wnen It had rescued a valuable ship. with still -more valuable -carao. from tho blockaders, -the direct' result of regular and painstaking practice un der my- personal instructions. ? x be lieve ours was the only fort on 'the coast that had regular target prac tice, and It results . were such that the splendid gunnery of my men made our light, battery of Whitworth rlfid gun so famous that General Leo took two of them for the Army of North ern Virginia. : My artlllerypractlce with light and heavy guns wa really in aenance of the genrai order xrom Richmond, bat General Qorga , -was more, Indebted to the guns of Fort Fisher than, those of . all the other forts In the Confederacy for th im-i porta Hons of saltpetre, powder, mus kets, nnes, neia and aeige guns, ana therefore he left me severely alone. With this small supply or shot ana shell In . the fort I begged for addl tlonal ammunition,' having heard that a large fleet had sailed from Fortress Monro on th Friday preceding. had 44 guns to "cop with 017 In the fleet and tha three frigates, Min nesota, Colorado, and Wabash, had more guns and far heavier armament than Fort . Fisher, and when their ammunition was exhausted they had only to haul out of range and fill up from tendera -' Having described the arrival of the "Canonlcus" within three-quarters - of a mile -of our northeast salient we now give the official report of Lieu tenant Commander Belknap, U. S. N, ner commander: -, V. 8. S. Canonlcus, Beaufort, N. C, !. " December 11. 1804 Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report respecting the part taken by this vessel In the actions of th 14th and Itth Instant at New Inlet bear Wilmington, N. C h At 11:15 a. m. December i 4th, In obedience to general signal from the flagship, I got underway, and taking position in th line of battle- Imme diately astern of the New Ironsides, teamed slowly In for Fort Fisher, and at 11:40 p. m. opened flre upon the work. Keeping underway, I engaged the enemy d urine; the afternoon at a distance varying from 000 to 1,100 yards. The. enemy paid little attention to the ironclads, directing their principal flre at the wooden ships, and In course of an hour and a half, so far as -1 could observe, were entirely silent At 5:15 p. m. withdrew from action by signal from the New Ironsides, and anchored near that ship In eight? fathom water, having expended 5 flf teen-Inch shells and one ahrap nel. s - At t o'clock' the1 following morn ing, general signal having been made to get .underway and prepare for bat tle, weighed anchor and steamed In toward the rebel batteries as on tha preceding day, and at 10:45 a. m. to engage the enemy In the course 'of three-. quarter of an hour wa had lh satis faction of dismounting - two guns on the eaatern parapet of the fort due to the excellent- gunnery or the exec utive omcer. Lieutenant K. B. MC- Cook. About II o'clock (noon) the other monitor exhausted, when I reluctant ly withdrew to the rear, having flred 41 shell and 1 shrapnel. Probably no work wa vr subject d to so heavy a fir before, and certainly the enemy could not and did not stand at tneir gun arter tne neat had fairly become engaged. From the explosion and large ares which oc curred Inside the rebel works, there could have been no place of refuge for the garrison except in the bombproors. and I am firmly of th opinion that at any time after t o'clock p. m. on each day of attack the fort might have been occupied and held by our land force with very slight loss. Their failure to do so wa doubtless more of a surprise to the enemy than to the fleet We received in all four hits one on the side armor and three on the smokestack, neither of which did any material damage. I am happy to report no casualltlea on board. .,-.. Th runs and turret worksd beauti fully, and th officer and crew dis played the greatest enthusiasm throughout both engagement. While all did their duty well, I cannot for bear special mention of the executive officer. Lieutenant R. 8. McCook, who has been : untiring in his effort to make the ship efficient In every re spect The accuracy and comparative rapidity of our flre attest tho pro ficiency of the runs' crews under hi drill and .raining. i My thanks are also due to Chief Engineer D. B. Macomb. who ha taken great pain to keep the engine and turret machinery in perfect con dition. . Assistant Paymaster R. P. Lisle ren dered ,-. rood service as signal offi cer. , ' ' :' ; ' Very respectfully, your obedient er vant v . ; - GEO. E. BELKNAP, Lieutenant Commander, command- lng. . - Rear Admiral D. D. Porter. Commanding North Atlantic Squad . fon, - ..- .-. '. ,- ....;., . y . Flagship Malvnt. ' The above report 1 what th com. mandsr had td aay about th first at tack on Fort Flsheri the garrison "did not stand at their guns after the fleet had fairly beoome engaged,'! the Monitor fifed 114 fifteen inch sheila. weighing 10,110 pounds, and 10 fifteen Inch shrapnel, - Then latter were th moat Infernal projectiles used In mod. ern warfare, unlike shells which when exolodlnr throw their frarment for ward, they scatted grapeshot and can ister In every direction,' soma' return ing hundreds of feet searching for an opening and entering tha hospital bombproof, despite the high protect ing curtain of sand and turf, -cutting off leg and arm of some poor fel lows, who were already under th surgeon'- knife for.amputation, and converting th bombproof Into a chamber of horror. . Thsy were wors than th barbarous chain shot of the omen times, ror tney went forward and when on ' , was passed ' he was safe.-'.' .,..'.!. v,.-. y; .'''.'..' i As no vessel ventured to run by the fort. Ii only , flred on the 4th and XSth, 1.17J Snot .and shell, each of the 44 runs firing every, half hour, and different batteries y special or ders firing repeatedly but deliberate ly so aa to wast no shot at Vessel approaching elope to the bar, " appar ently to run by, or to drive the gun' ners from their gun with grape and canister, or at boat parties sounding for a channel. These 1,271 shot and hell weighed 1,511 pounds. (Th official records .of the Union and Conldorste Navies, Vol. 11, pub lished a detailed report Of Montgom ery Long, my ordnance sergeant - of the keepers of the II magaalnes from which th ammunition was delivered. It reports 171 for the 14th end 711 for the 2Rth, staling 111 of the car-; trtdges expended tha Z(th wsr for grape, canister and shell fired at land forces and boats of enemy, (caving (00 for response to tho fleet. All my quotations irom Admiral Porter and the-Federal officers of the fleet and from Confederate officers are taken from this volume and are, therefore, oiiii-iai. ) . 5 .-. . J. V 1- ort Fianer nrea , on an average of every 10 minutes and flred the last shot both days, but had to, scatter Its 1,511 pounds of metal on 37 vessels of that great fleet pretty nearly a ship to each run In the works.1 My flre waa confined to th Monitor fleet wnicn came within 1-4 of a mllo of the N. K. flallentt, arid S3 ships which were from., no "mile to 11-4 mile from my sea face. 4 The flva formld able frigates were one mile from the main work. These -' distance are shown on page 145 of the O. R. of U. and C. Navies, Vol. ll, and when i nrst saw them I wished I could summon my gunner and show them how remarkably correct we had es timated the distance In the heat of battle. ' For the Monitors, - the New xronsio.es, me o rngates, tne' Macki naw and the, Oceola, we bad onr old practice targets, partly sunken block ade runners, which had run ashore coming In and come to grief: and mv brave boys would ."plunk" them. Just ine same a you wouia marbles in th ring- with taw, when the smoke would let them -see them, in spite of shower of shell bursting and cavort ing over their heads. - Lieutenant - Commander Belknap says the fort hit him 4 times; as I ordered 10 Inche solid shots only to be 1 flred - at ' the Monitors, It mean we threw 410 pound of metal at the "Canonlcus," while she replied with 54,030 pound. She was very close to one of pur targets, and our artillerist could 1 not have missed her turret and upper works when visible, but aa my order waa to destroy the smoke stack .of the Monitors so as to stop the draught and fill turret and holds with smoke to suffocate the men If they kept up fires, we may have miss ed her chimney. It was impossible to see the effect of our shot, as there wa a ; dead - calm, nor breath, nor motion, except that caused by concus-J sion and explosion in tne tight and the smoke hung over flet and fort as Impenetrable aa a fog. I tried my best to see that iv shot was wasted, and with a splendid field glass, stood oa top the hospital bombproof, against which there was no direct flre, almost as safe as Lieutenant Com mander Belknap In the "Canonlcus" conning tower, and much more com fortable. . ,- . In obtaining knowledge of the effect of our shot, I had no Christmas day, the Invaluable experience of a dis tinguished British naval officer who was at Sebastopol, and who came from his shlo In -Wilmlnarton to act aa mv aid and who was by my side, in most exposed position, as often as I would permit it H was a reckless but plucky blockade runner. A. U. 8. naval officer 1 of '. the Blockading Squadron off Wilmington, In writing his experience off the Cape Fear, re marked: . "Among the blockade run ners were several commanded by Eng lish naval officers These cared for our cruslers about as much as a hound does for a flea. .One morning when the cruising squadron were anchor ing, one of tho blockade runners com manded by Captain Murray took the opportunity of out blowing off steam, to run in, passing about 25 yards under the senior officer's stern. Cap tain Murray with' his usual courtesy, bowing to our American flag. It was the coolest piece of d n d Im pudence I ever saw." He had pre viously. In July, 1801, been with me wnen with a single Whitworth gun, and crew, supported bv a rifle com pany. I captured ' the "Kate,", of London, which had. been chased ashore on Smith's Island, east of Busard's Bay, over ' 7 . nautical miles from the Mound battery and In rang of the guns of the two fleets block adlnr th two moutha nf the Cane Fear river, "Murray! was his block ade running alia, ha waa then Cap tain C. Murray Avnsley. R. N. After th Civil war he da readily promoted for gallants and meritorious services in th British navy, and when I was his ruest at his villa. Hall Court. Harts, England, In July 1870, 'no was already a retired admiral. He died about ten years ago, universally la mented. From what I heard of him through others about his career in the British naval service, he must have been as gentle u a woman, yet with tne courage or a lion, and endeared himself to every officer, man and boy upon the ships which he commanded. I pay him this tribute, because from the books he brought me and the per sonal advice he gave me, after we first met in July, 18(8, I owe much of the credit I received for the con struction of the defensive Works on Confederate (now Federal Point. rrhlch French and Whiting, two un urpasedN engineers In the U. S. A. and the C. 8. A. allowed. me without Interference or suggestion to build arter my own ideas of a aeacoast for tification. Th same condition toiad It Im possible for 'my gallant adversaries to see th effect of their shot and she on th fort and they had to. depend mainly on a Quartermaster... In tha main or forecroi trees, who, appar ently, didn't hesitate to spin a yarn when he reported to the executive officer. This excuse, the reports of th first fight made by tha admiral down through all grades, to Acting Master Crafts, of the "Little Ada,'' the babv of the fleet, who reported to Admiral Porter December SI, 18(4. as-follows: "1 consider the fort aa having been practically silenced on both the 34th and 36th. The almost complete si lence of the guns on th northeastern face of th fort Induced ma to think that they were disabled or were Quakers.' I should have supposed that a soldier would have felt himself bound by every consideration of honor and patriotism to attempt those work b assault but I am not a soldier and do not perhaps know what Is desired and what Is not. but under similar circumstances I should 'like to be one of a thousand blue-Jackets to show what sailom oan do and what soldiers might Have done."1, . t have no hard feelings towards the Acting Master. In obedience to Gen eral Order No. 76. he had to report to hi admiral, especially on the feas ibility of Butler's capturing the fort Christmas day, and he did his best But. the boys hadn't plunked the "Lit tle Ada" for like some fractious babies, she was too small to span. The acting master wa off the fort on that fateful Sunday, when In the afternoon, two thousand sailor and marines under the:' fearless Breese. Charged that northeastern face, and one of those "quaker guns," which put In chars of a "brave Norfolk boy, 'W. R. Mayo, midshipman, C. 8. N.J, in SO minute killed and wound ed more sailors and marines than were ever killed and wounded by any run. in any battle on land and sea that I sea find reeorded - In hlstorm from th time guns were first Invented, The acting master mad no report to hi admiral of that light The com mander of the armada had altered his opinion about that Carolina fort and Its garrison, after the repulse of his sailors and marines, but I havs read the "Little Ada's" log for January 16, through, th fleet,' naval brigade had n assault and at 8 p, m. were re pulsed. A few minute afterwards the lend forces made an assault and succeeded In rapturing several . tra verse very quickly, and then came to a- standstill holdltig what they gained." Thank 'you, acting master, for stating that last fact . und you might hv truthfully sailed In your fearful flre directed by , signal, and log, "and then the fleet resumed Its prevented the Confederates now re leased from the attack of the naval brigade, rrom recovering the works." Nor have I any displeasure " at th unkind reflections'- of the "Canonl cus'". commander. He couldn't keep posted. : He had to peep through a hole in his conning tower, and' his ranre or vision twa necessarily con tracted, and as he withdrew Christ mas day at 3:40 p. m.. hi "ammuni tlon having been exhausted," he was .too fur removed to see through th smoke what subseauentlv transoirea. and as he fired 144 eleven Inch shot and shell while In action, which . deaf ened him and all his crew. I make great allowance for his Imagining, that my comrade did not stand by their gun aa long a . I ordered them, or round safety . in ' tha bombproors be fore I personally directed tha officer, 10 immediately cover their men, ' Why, my Tar Heel had Just com menced fighting that' Christmas day, when - .the "Canonlcus" , reluctantly withdrew at 3:40 p. m. (Federal time). Th bombardment of tha pre. vlous day had been resumed at 10:80 a. 1 m., jid In the four hours,- the remaining . quarterer of th garri son left from the destructive fir of the day before had been destroyed, with the camp eqlpage of the men, Including many overcoat, and actual ly the only good pair of shoes of many of the men of two companies whosa quarters were near the battery on land face next to the river; th weather , was ao mild that the boy were literally stripped for the fight going to quarters sans overcoat .and with Improved slippers so as to be more spry In handling the gun In any sudden emergency, and last but not least an tne enristmaa boxes from down home, . not destroyed Christmas ' eve. You better believe they were tWoting mad. and felt wick ed enough, despite dear Chaplain Mc- Klnnon'a orayers, to give th Fedral Invader h 11 "Hall Columbia," which they proceeded to do aa you will presently see from the official re ports of Admiral Porter and some of his officers. X oall them "my Tar Heels." Ood bless them ... every onel Didn't 1 teach those young Ideas for more than 3 1-3 years, (along tho beach, in -wa yv jes vsi auu si vs i. v j aa-,y night in sunshine and storm, some times 30 miles, away from the pro tecting fort on a narrow spit only a corporal'' guard, with one Whit worth -and calson and a gun detach ment and four mules), how to shoot at a ship and dodge a shell without getUng rskalred?" Ask the surviv ors! I am a great admirer of Admiral Porter on account of hi brilliant rec ord -during the war between the State. After It was ended our rela tion were extremely friendly, and I became attached to him on account of his earnest effort to get my eldest son, (who was five year old during the battles and who had been several time under flre from cruisers pur suing the belated blockade runners, with hhi sister and their colored mammy, behind a aand hill In the rear of my cottage on th river bank one mue nortn or f ort risnerj, nrsi in the army and then in the navy, but President Have felt he must confine his appointment to the sons of Union officers. But In hi numerous reports of the first fight It is clearly appar ent that his animosity to General Benjamin F. Butler, and his chagrin and mortification at being Inglorlously defeated by my gallant garrison. which he and his officers had ridiculed and disdained as Carolina militia with some decrepit home guard, caused him to lose his 'nead and forward In numerable abusrd and contradictory reports to the Secretary of the Navy, and what was more, Issuing General Order T5, after the fight causing many of the commander of the fleet to express ridiculous opinions or in condition of the garrison and Its in-. ability to defend the work against tne most trifling attack, after their noisy but comparatively harmless bombard ment, one going so far aa to make th silly assertion that "th garrison were only waiting for some one to come and Uke It,' Humiliation of the Sultan. Contemporary Rvlaw. Th Sultan of Turkey, who never leaves Ylldls Kiosk except to go to prayers on Friday at noon, proposed to ssnd various high dignitaries to receive tho Kaiser as he stepped on the shore of the Bosporus at tha of ficial landing place (on his visit to Constantinople). Tha Kalsor required that the Sul tan must receive him In person, and the Sultan had to yield, for he keen ly desired the glory m Mohammedan eyes of having a European sovereign com to pay his respect to the Com mander of the, Faithful. The Sultan waa. waiting, then, to receive the Emperor aa h stepped from his boat and two carriages were In readiness, one to oonvsy the two sovereigns and on for th Empress. Isar overturned the arrange ments by putting th Empress Into th first carriage ; with tha Sultan, while he himself occupied the sec ond. So the Sultan endured the In describable humiliation of 'driving through th strsets of his cap ital, before th eye of his Moham medan subnets, sitting si Je by side with a Giaour woman. Nothing could be? more humiliating to ths Sultan than that situation and th most ef fective counterblast to his Pan Islamic propaganda would be to cir culate through all Islsm tho descrip tion of that drtv. lf any Moham medan could be Induced to believe It , RpIdcrCJiaaed a Man. London Standard. X story Is told by an explorer of a large and fierce South American spi der which chases men If thsy o-imi too pear Its lurking places. On ono -occasion he was pursued by one. "Riding at an easy trot ovr tho dry grass," he writes, "I obsorve-1 a spider pursuing me, leaping swift'y along and keepl.ig un with by titMu-t I aimed a blow with my whip and the pdlnt of tha lauh rtruck the ground close, to It wlwn It Instantly leaped upon and ran up the lash,, and was actually within three or four Inches of my hand whan I flung the ; whip from me," . r vt. , , WOMEN'S ltlGIITS. - f Boston. Globs, ..:' . ; - A right to tread o softly , Ik-alde the pouch of oaln: To smooth with gentle lingers , The tangled locks again i To watch, beald th dying; " - ; In wee smsll hours of night -: And breath a eons-eratlng prsvar ' When th spirit take it flight A right to cWr'th weary;,.i:?''-'"'-' On th battlefield ef 1111 To give the word of sympathy TAmld th toll and strife: - . !'.. To lift the burdens gently . f V if; ,. 4 From sor and tired hearts fth ,,;fv: And never weary of the task V!:" V V Till gloomy ear departs. . A right lo be a woman 4 tn truest woman's work! ' ..".'i A. If life should be a hard on. ' ; ' ;No duties to show to others ' -' Mow Strong a woman grow '-i::h When skies are dMrksnlnw and lowering And Ufa bear not a rose.,,,, A right to lov one tmlr ;" And be loved bark asnln; A. ,', :,. .: A Hunt to share his fortunes ' . 1 - - Through sunllslit anil, through rsln, ' A right to be protected , From life's moat eruel Mights, , ''; Dy manly lov unit conrae :'-.-' Burs toss er woman a rights. ' THE WEALTH ft BY JUDGE H, There are 40 State In the Union but there ta only one Nevada. The country hasn't the- smallest concep tion of the rtohee that are here. This State, with it . stupendous mineral deposit Is the richest In the Union, and can never be- "demonetised" out of prosperity again, t The next five year kvill , bring (Ueveloipment tha will startle the country. Tonopah, GoMfield, Bullfroar City, Greenwaterl The stories of these- marvelous ' cit ies which have sprang up Wc magio In a ; night out of the arid deserts of Nevada, read like the Tales of the Arabian Knlghta, ' Already Ooldfleld although scarcely thro years of age ha paaed Cripple Creek In the pros duo tlon of the precious metal. ; 7 For years Cripple Creek 'was 're garded as the richest mining district for It area la the world. But It jre qured year and the expenditure of many millions to make Cripple' Creek. Borne eight years back a carload ship ment of a few pounds over I? ton was made from the Isabella mine In Cripple Creek that was worth (111, (00. . It wa quarts, worth a little over $4,000 a ton. or SS a pound. The check In settlement was photograph ed and has been used ever el nee In advertising i. the - tiahnese of Cripple Creek. - That was, and atlll ' la, the most valuable carload of: gold bear ing rock that waa aver shipped rrom any mine In tha world. The Gold field carload will toe worth five time a much. This carload of or ship ped from the Haye V Momtette lease on th MohawkV will contain. 11,000, ooo. worth of gold. Th car will have a capacity of fifty tons. Bocks of high grade ore are being ' poled up In one corner of the big chamber and armed men will accompany this train to Its destination at th big smelters 1a Salt Lake City. Th Hayes aV Monnette lease on the Mo hawk will produce thla month two and onefhalf tons of chemically pur goio, as a ton or goia nas a coinage value of a little over S(03.000, it means that this little block of ground on the famous mm will add to th world' circulating medium, and the world's wealth, $1,500,000 during th month of October. This is at the rata of $50,000 a day. INCREASE IN PRODUCTION. In the past few day this produc tion has Increased to $100,000 a day, and the stock in this mine which sold 10 months ago at 10 cents, at $4,10 last week. Is now It per share. With Its enormous production this stock will in all probability be sell- lng at $10 a shasw before th first of January next Soros day the gold en story of Nevada will be wrtttten, and there will be many marvelous stories told of the wonderful wealth of thla wonderful county. First th hardy prospector wltb his little iburros braving the parol of Death Valley, and of Oreen water, than th promoter who with tireless energy secures the necessary tunas to de velop the prospect. To-day a pros pect to-morrow a mis. Tha 1 th history of this wonderful Nevada sec tion which within the next decade will produce untold millions of dol lar and place Kovavda, he former sage-brush State, In , the list . of th rich commonwealths of the Union. But h Gold field has had e wonderful career, what can be said of Green water located In Invo county, Califor nia, In th Funeral Range. It is In this section that ' th wonderful cop per fields have been discovered. The copper ore field, by every shaft that Is sunk, 4s proving from hour to hour that Greenwater Is without doubt the greatest copper mining territory ever found la the world. It Is blgrer than Butt. It Is bigger than Bis bee. It Is bigger them all the copper districts of Mon- uma. and Arisona put together. It Is so Incontestably big- and valuable that nearly twenty millions of doller have been Invested In one hundred claims In this section during ths last six months To recite simple facts about the bonansas suddenly evolved at Greenwater Is to court either won der of Incredulity. At Butte, copper values show only 4 per cent Tho to tal production of the United States for 1105 was about 400,000 tons and fully half of thla tonnage came from Rutte. The Greenwater district has twice the area of Butte, and Its cop per showing run as high aa S3 par cent MILLIONS INVESTED. Schwab, Newhouse, Helns. The Standard Oil Compart and scores of other great mining operators In the United . States Tiave Invested their millions In this property based upon the reports of the leading mining engineers and experts of the world. Is It a wonder that these cities of Ooldfleld, Tonopah, Bullfrog, are growing by leaps and bounds, and thousands of prospective and capi talists are pouring Into thla seclon from every part of the United Stats T Th Walker Lake Reservation was opened up to mineral entries by the proclamation of the Prssldsnt on the 18th of October and there was a great rush by prospectors into this highly mineralised section. The Nevada newspaper are very bitter In th de nunciation of the administration, and do not hestttate to charge that cer tain favored officials were permitted to enter the reservation . before the day of the opening and select mln. eral locations. Full reports. are not J-yet tn from the rush, but It Is known that many of the prospectors have lost their lives In the attempt to either secure or retain valuable min eral entires.' There is no doabt but some of. the lucky prospectors hav secured holding from which they will realise many hundreds of thous ands of dollars. .v-Vrt.i.'Jni GRAFT OF PIRATES. . ' ., The Indian reservation was known to the , pioneers of Virginia City Bodle, Aurora , and" a dosen ; other camp forty years ago,, and they had a longing desire to explore Its mineral wealth, but the government law prohibited prospectors from wan dering over tho hilts surrounding the lake and the stolid, sullen Piute In dian police took an active part In -preventing ths encroachment of th pale facta The heads of the differ ent families of the .Plute tribe have hoen . allotted twenty acres of Aha choicest irrigating agricultural land on the reservation. ' The Bucks num ber 840 and that means, that 0.800 acres will be given, them, but that will ' leave for the white man, for his use. something over 1 (00.000 acres. - The Indians wits also be given $350 In money each and agricultural Implement. They will not be allow ed to take UPany of the mineral lands: that wilt bo left for the white gold seekers. The fact that ha hills around Walker Lake were traversed by gold, silver and copper ledges waa known to the old time prospectors of the State,andlnce the dlwxtvery of Tonopah geld field, and Bull Frog, the 'thousands upon thousands of Or iVADA O. EYVAKT. minora and Investors, who have i the weary trip across the dest-i t ; rail, either from Reno or 1: . had their attention attracted Walker Lake. The railway a ' along the east side of It from a i. - tano of thirty milea. To the -vaM m a jority of tourists who visit this sec tion It : Is a . revelation. Such i Immense body of water and eu- u a beautiful one was difficult for them to associate with the sage brush anil brown desert For nearly fifty years, prospectors have been camped around the lako, and many of them married the Mlnnehahas of the Piute. Mark Twain wrote of . the "BreyfogU a n I "Cement," wonderfully, rich goU mines one had left at - Aurora thirty-five ' years ago, and many are 1. . cllned to believe that both are i the hills surrounding . Walker La v No one has been permitted to th oughly. prospect the ground but my aery will be cleared up In the r future. :, The rush ' of '. the 2u was a memorable one in the anr i of the State. New towns will spiv trp and Hawthorne,' the county s-.it of this county, will see such a boom that anything In Is previous hisory will seem tame. ' - BOWLENQ GREKJT. i Early History of th Famous Knick erbocker Recreation Ground. ; Bankaalne. '-,' At first th lower part of Broad way, facing Bowling Green, was call ed "Tha Market Field;" afterward It was spoken of as the "Heera Btraat" or chier street and later, named Broad Way; and line of streets and boundaries of lots were laid mostly by chano. In March 1783, the alder men "Resolved, that this corporation will leas a pleoe of land lying at the lower end or roadway, fronting to. the Fort to soma, of the Inhabitant Dl ' MIU BIIHWU. in Dniir IO D Inclosed to make a Bowling Green thereof, with walks therein, for the beauty and ornament of said street as wall aa for tha recreation and de light of th inhabitant of th city,' leaving th street on each aid there of 50 feet breadth." and three "pub Ilo splriUd and sport loving cltisena," John Chambers, Peter Bayard and Peter ' Jay, hired the Plalae for . It J - ... uia iwiiuvii. pi J. peppercorn! - It wa at one flttad up for the playing of bowls, and when th leas expired It was renewal by John Chambers. ' Colonel Phillip and John Roosevelt for another 11 vaapa at a - n, 1 . aa. Mil . annum. Thus oriainated the nam., "BowUng Green." thought for' what reason the sport was not continued after the second leas Is not clear. Several famoua house hav stood near Bowling Green, and one of these was a building at 1 Broadway, erect-, -t In nil n-ti-i. -i Kennedy, afterward Earl of CaaslUs, which In time cam to b u-d , by Washington and Gnral Lie at d rvuum as meir neaoquartsrs. - A boarding house, known as the Wash ington Inn, followed, and later Gyru? Field called his new structure, on the same aite, thi "Washington Bnild- lng." ' At what la now ,0 Broadway.' Benedict Arnold lived after tha can- ture of Major Andre, and It was while he was tbar that hs Just escaoad be ing kidnapped back Into th patriots Una by a band of daring colonUU. , Nearby also Captain Martin Crglr built In 1(51. a tavern which stood under his nam until it gave wav tw a hostelry known first as the "King Arms Tavern, and during th .Revo lution as . "Burns's Coffa Hiuse." This was among the few bulldlnKs that escaped the flre of 1T7( and 1845. and as lata as 18(0 It was still standing under the nam of Tha At lantic Garden" only the second structure, as a matter of faot ta oc cupy th sit sine ths foundaM-rti of th oltrt An advertisement f May 37, 17(3. concerning this place, has th postscript: "N. B. Th concert i ta begin exactly at ( o'clock, and snd St 10, on account of th coolness of the even- lng. No Body will, be admitted with out tickets, nor no money will be taken at the door. ' TwO Mammolll Chlmnon. Concrete. . :. , ''"' '' Ths electric power plant now being constructed for the Philadelphia Ra pid Transit Company at Delaware -avenue and Laurel street Philadel phia, Pa 1 larger than aay , such plant now In operation anywhere in " the .world, though several monster ooooeraa ox (na.aama .aina .nava. re- .. cently been planned for other places. -This plant Is designed to furnish all , the .n,rrv n mA A a aium t lh. vated and subway lines on Market street and will still have abundance 1 of-power left for other uses. , 'The most Interesting feature - of 1 these plants Is the Immense chim neys;' They are constructed of re enforced concrete, with points In ' their" design which make them very different from the ordinary brick chimney for similar purposes. While they are spoken of as 175 feet high, that la only th length of the chlm- ' nepi The too of the chimney Is real ly 151 feat above the etreet level, the bottom of the chimney being about 70 feet above the boiler room floor. The construction Is unique In . that the boilers are beneath the chimneys, and the smoke does not enter them ' through a aid-flu but from th bot tom, whfch la 10 feet t Inche above th tops r th boilers. The chimney l A I. ,1 . . . , . I . . ww.w " a ,h .1MWIW7 IU the clear. . -. v v-v.,:,.- - Each of these chimneys serves a battery or set of eight boilers. Each boiler has a capacity -of 100 horse-" power, so tnat -, each - chimney h (.400 horse power, and . the " entlro eight 11.800 bora power. In term of electricity, each set of bolisrs will , generate 5.000 kilowatts and each chimney will furnish natural draught for tha consumption et 85,000 pounds of coal an hour..;-;; v , - - ; lettridty ta the Home. V: Cassler Magaalne. In a $1,000 or $4,000 house. It'll a very common matter to wire for electrto lights; but by giving tha su)- ject a little further attention with your electrical , contractor and th., architect. It lo possible to arranr outlets for lighting socket heating de vices at very , little -extra expen-. Such receptacles would be taken ir from the lighting wires In a vhv simple manner. The cost of op-tu. lng later, at lighting rates, not bo large, for the reaxoit that t electrical devices which will be t on such a circuit consume o '. small amount of electrtrity mil ; generally used for only short I ' vals. They wyild compri-'-. f r ample,' the chi-.n oVii, t' percolator, heHtlnt r'. r' r ' ahavlnir mug-, cm , t li 'i, i warmer, tmi! f : j ; j i i . Other.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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