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WAR SI ?torv ot' ?ie I^irst ( '< War \ Tlie man win? originated thc idea of [ ?he Ironclad is Capt. .I. J. l'eetz, of 2?0 IJennuda street, Algiers, aud he held thc rar.k of first lieutenant in Orivot's Artillery during the late un pleasantness between tin: Stales, says the New Orleans Picayune. Capt. Pcctz is getting well along in years. i>ut ho is as sturdy as the average man \)t -li") and bis mind is as clear to d *y as if he bad ju.it been graduated from college. . j Capt. l'cctz drew thc plans and MI periuteuded the construction of the "iron armor of the Manassas, thc rain which played such havoc with the federal war vessels in the lower Mis sissippi. He is never happier than when telling of the work he had in 3eeing that bis ideas were carried out and his fund of reminiscence is re markable. "Much bas been said and written," jaid Capt.. Tcctz tho other day, kabout tho first ironclad, thc Mau assas, and thc recent Reunion of thc United Confederate Veterans in New tirleans awakened a lot of interest in her. She was a twin screw propellor towboat, called thc Enoch Train, and j?as originally brought out from Bos ton by the tirui of Hyde A; Mackie. Mr. Mackie is still a resident of New 'Jrleans. Ile is now about Sf) years Did. The Knoch Train was used by this firm in towing VCHSCIS to and from *"be :nouth of the river. She was in this ?ervico when thc Confederate liovernmcnt took possession of her and began reconstructing ber to fit her Tor the purpose of war. "After Lincoln's election it was generally accepted that there would be war, and having had experience in 3cafaring and thc construction of ves sels in the Crimean war, on board the Bnglish linc of battleship Orion, of aincty uino gUDs, I began the study of a vessel that would be ellcctive and dangerous to an enemy. While sta tioned on this English battleship, blockading Constadt, on thc Baltic, ihe small Russian gunboats frequently sallied out, and, having guns of longer range, could lie where our guns could not reach them, and place shots clear through our wooden vctsels. I often wondered if this could not bc pre sented if something was there to make the balls glance oif, or if our vessels jet lower in tlie water with a covered, inclined top, instead of having a high .Freeboard or height out of the water. "The Crimean war came to on end. ? gave up the study until the approach of the war of the States. I was in Mobile at the time, and after muoh thought I made a model and tried to awaken interest in it among tho peo ple in that oity, but William L. Yan 3ey, tho great secessionist, oamo to Mobile and made a number of specoh as, claiming that we did not need any 3hips. He said that cotton was king, and that England would have to have ootton and would opon our ports to ?et it. His views were sadly mistak en, as it afterward proved. ""After a few mouths, wheu the need of ships was apparent, the build tog of two of thom was started in Mo bile. They wore tho Morgan and thu ?-aines, both planned an the old style? I submitted my model for inspection, but, getting no encourageaient, came j over to Algiers. I was personally ac quainted with John Hughes, the dry iock owner, and showed him by mod si. Ho immediately became interest ed in it, and seeing its utility soon '?ot the Confederate Government to adopt it as thc plan for the ram Man tesas. ' 'The boat turned into the ram was constructed by putting on an extra bow made solid and extending out a Jew feet, with an iron prow for ram ming purposes. A shield or roof was put over the deck in the shape of a burtle back. The frames wore eight inches thick, molding away; that is, lolid against each other crossways from forward aft, and thc planking on top of this was four inohes thick. Dutside of this she was: covered with a single layer of flat street oar iron, auch as was used at that time to run the street oars on, not rails suoh as are used now. On tho water line all around she had a solid sponson four ieet thick to protect her from being lammed. She oarried two sixty-eight pounders, one* over the stem and the other over the stern post. ' She had a protecting stem below the water line, extending out two feet, for the pur pose of ramming. When the ram was. all ready Capt. Alexander Frazer "Warley, a graduate of Annapolis, was . placed in command and I was taken on ... board as quartermaster. "Wo left the city for "Fort Jackson v and remained there eight days, and i then/went, down the river to within a '^ew'r-iiles of. the enemy's fleet, then .lying in Southwest Pass. Being very Tow in the water, with a short smoke stack, wo were, hidden from their mi ES. ! o 11 le cl <Tate Armored view by the high marsh grass, bul by raising our Jacob's ladder wc could plainly observe their movements. We lay there several ?lays, waiting for a dark night, so as to take them by surprise. Wo !efl our moori iga one ui^rlit between II a o il il! o'clock, and started toward them going at ?tall' speed. Being luw ? .'ssure, the boat made oo noise, arni we came to within thirty or forty feet ol' the li rsi vessel ol the enemy's ships, i was at the wheel and orders were given to port the helm, which ! immediately com plied with, thus bringiog u'i in line to ram the vessel ahead. We struck lier aglancing blow on the port bow and raked a portion of her sheet metal off, but did not injure her enough to sink her, as was intended. We backed out to prepare again, but tho Yankee fleet began dring her guns and sending up signal rockets. They once slipped their anchor chains, leaving the an chors behind and made for the sea. ''Our commander gave orderH to go ahead full speed, and, keeping the helm aport and steering by the com pass, I noticed that ?ve were going at right angles across the river. I saw a ship on the starboard bow, the oaptaiu being on the port side. I called his attcntiou to it. but we missed this vessel bj eight or ten feet. Wc cruised about the river all night, but we met no more .ships. When day light came we saw the Yankee fleet getting out over the bar into thc' Gulf. Looking up stream above us wo noticed that one of their vessels had uot succeeded in getting out, and that we were between her and safely. Wc captured her and brought her up to the city and ancho,id her opposite the ?id district ferry '.anding ou the Algiers side. "1 was not on the Manassas on her succeeding trip ., hut would like to say a word a? tu what became of he. During the Spanish-American war i j Northern paper staled that Admiral Dewey, then a captain, had sunk her during the liuht at the forts, but this was an errer. I was in this fight, stationed on boatdthe flag ship Louis iana, Commodore Mitchell and Capt. McIntyre commanding. This vessel was manned by it company of the Crescent Artillery and a part of a company of Grivot's Artillery, of which I was first lieutenant. The Louisiana was anchored io the stream, about 300 yards above Kort St. Philip, and the Mauassas was tied to tho bank abreast of us, on tho Kort Jackson side, and this was the position we oc cupied the night of tho battle. Two days befoie the battle Lieut. Johnson came aboard iu a boat with dispatches for Commodore Mitohell. Lieut. Johnson told us that from thc infor mation ho had gathered the Federals were going to attack us within two days. Cupt. McIntyre wanted to an ticipate them and remarked to Com modore Mitchell; 'Commodore, lotus go down aud fight the Yankees.' Tho Commodore's answer was a short 'No.' "Capt. McIntyre had boin arms shot off and one leg broken in thc fight, and was taken off thc ship into Fort St. Philip the morning after the I battle. Thc engagement began at 2 o'clock at uight and lasted until day light, bat tho enemy's ships had passed thiough our line. We liad the two best ships left., the Louisiana, six teen guns, and the McCray, ten guus, and I suggested to Comtnodnrc Mitch ell that we run them to Mobile. I said I would pilot ?hem, as I knew tho route, either by day or night, in case wo had to run through tho block ading fleet. I got the same answer that Capt. McIntyre did two days be fore, a short 'No.' "If this brave captain had been in oharge of the fleet I think we would have sueoeeded in preventing the Yankee fleet from getting through our lines. * "One Federal ship, tho Winona, commanded by Capt. Sohlcy, now Ad ! mirai, was sunk by thc Confederate gunboat Stonewall Jackson, but our ships were but little damaged. They were all suck or set fire to by their crews during and after tho fight, some never having left their moorings. This was the case with the Manassas. "Orders were given to abandon and blow up our vessel, the Louisiana, which we did, and along with the offi cers and crews of tho other vessels we started on a long march of eighty-five miles to the oity on the right bank of the river. I met Capt. Warley, of the M an as ?nfl, on the way and, marching together, I asked him what execution he had done during thc fight. He re plied that he had dono nothing, but had the water supply pipo out and lot her sink at her mooring. Thus in gloriously ended tho famous ram Ma nassas." - There are 199 slates, 81 marble and 205 clay quarries in this country. (?EX. STEPHEN I). LEE. An lilil? uf tin* IMvuiiuc. No darker Jays ever lowered over any land than hung over the South in the winter of 1805. Ii waa the death struggle of a civilization. Defeat and disaster thickened around a brave and devoted people. Crash after crash caine as pillar after pillar of the old fabric of the I nion our fathers reared fell in hopeless ruin around us. In Virginia Lee's tattered and defiant veterans, shivering in thc wintry winds, and stretching in slender lines from the Chickahoniiny to the Appo mattox, held at bay (Jrant's innumera ble host. Hood's army was reeling back from thc blood-stained hills of Tennessee, leaving dead beneath their snows, the very flower ol' Southern chivalry. In myriads of homes all over our sunny laud the agony of broken hearts was rendered keener slili by the conviction that the loved one had died for a hopeless cause. O the bitterness of that memorable timt ! I).'fended by thc lie ry swords of For rest and \\ althall, who hung liko forker, lightnings on the front of the victor.ous foe, thc Confederate col umn1,, broken but still defiant, fell back to bivouac along the Tombigbee, and reform their shattered ranks. Among them rodo a proud and gallant chief. Ile was iu the prime of carly manhood, tall, erect, with kingly as pect, and heart of fire. Ile stood with the bravest in the flaming front of battle; ho shared with the humblest the hardship of the march: he laughed with the merriest around thc camp fire; he wept with thc tenderest over the soldier's bier. Thc young warrior had played au exceptional part in thv. drama of war. When Beauregard de manded the surrender of Fort Sum ter, hu carried thc summons, and brought back tho answer. When the order to open fire was given> he took it, woko the soldiers asleep around their guns, cut t' fuse of tho charge, and gave the command that fired the first shot of the greatest war of mod em times, little dreaming of the sig nificance of tho act. When tho fort was discovered to be on fire, at the risk of his life, he crossed the bay in a boat, climbed into the fortress, stood among the grim and blackened soldiers at thc guns, and offered truce to the garrison, and tho service of thc entire fire department of Char leston to extinguish thc flames; an offer that wus politely declined by Major Anderson iu command. Stone wall Jackson relied on his judgment at A "?;,.? !". ll....;., ....... ."J h?f?? in front of Vicksburg after its fall to de fend what was left. Sherman advised tirant to have him shot if captured. In every position he had won distinc tion, and thc laurels of the brave; and amid the gathering gloom and disaster of that awful winter of '05 he stood calm and resolute, like a tower of strength in '.imo of storm. There is an old home in Columbus, Mississippi. The great brick mansion stands some distance back from the street amid a wilderness of shrubbery, half hidden by magnolias and honey suckles, and crape myrtle and delioate beautiful jap?nicas. It was a home of wealth and culture, and a lovely girl woro tho roses in her hair, and plucked the four-leafed clover at her feet, and dreamed of the gallant young officer in dingy gray with the stars on his collar. Woman's love is the most wonderful and the sweetest thing in this world. Adversity only intensi fies it. Darkness only makes it shine the brighter. Many waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods drown it. As they strolled along thc path with its hedge of x>ox, and ho held her hand under thc stars, he told her frankly of the future. All was dark. The part he had takcu made him a marked man. lie loved her deeply and could die for her; but that very love made him shrink from asking her to share his dangers. When they had plighted their troth, the sky was brighter. Now all was dark and his fate uncertain. It is needless to say what a true Southern girl's answer was. So the ragged Confederates around Columbus, shivering about their bi vouac fires, had somethiog to talk about when there was a wedding in thc old mansion, and the beautiful and accomplished Miss Harrison be came the bride of the brave General Stephen D. Lee in the dark sad win ter of '05 She was worthy to be a Christian soldier's wife. Sor nearly forty years sho blessed his home. The victim of incurable disease, and a great sufferer, sho bore her affiietion with unflinch ing fortitude, as brave in the saored privacy of her chamber as her husband had been on the field of battle. She out-lived physicians who predicted 1 early death, sustained her husband by her faith and love, reared her children for God and her country, sought none of the glory that comes from hoing in the publio eye, a true and noble wo man, and quietly breathed her last in tho great old mansion where she lived in her girlhood, leaving her husband to finish the march alone. I met him on the train. I have known and loved him long. The loss'was recent, for they covered tho casket with the sum mer a 'M? it was touch?Dg to lu ar I him speak in cli.i^teood tones of her I fidelity. He g row rcmiuisccntial, and a question new then tapped an arte sian stream of lucent memories from thc old warrior's heart. 1 love and honor these obi soldiers. I have hard ly yet got reconciled t.- the fate that, by a narrow margin of a few mouths, kept mc from the imperishable honor of wearing the gray. I was too youDg, General Forrest told my mother, and that settled it. But to my mind the Confederate soldier is the noblest figure in our history, not even except ing the patriot of the Revolution itself. And among the bravest of these illustrious men is the hero whose sweetheart laughed in the face of de feat, and took him for weal or woe in the winter of '05. Largest Coge lu the World. The biggest bird cage in the world is now nearing completion on the World's h air grouo?s. 'i'he cage is of steel construction and will house the feathered exhibits to be made by the Ornithological Bureau of thc United States. It is perhaps the most unique structure on the entire Exposition ?ite, and is a e'/nal for the World's Fair visitor *u BK p in his tour of the grounds and exa ""e its striking ar chitecture. This architecte'J is after no school known, the cage, as its came implies, being modeled after the smaller bird cages which contain household pets. The monster cage is 300 feet long by about 40 feet wide and 50 feet high. Its cost is $14,034. In building thc huge cage the aim was to preserve tho trees and the natural conformation of the ground it included so that the ornithological captives might be shown as far as pos sible in their nativo state. Hero will be collected a great variety of birds, including birds of the several zones in tho territory of the United States. An observation platform has been constructed about the entire cage BO that visitors may thc better view the birds. A tunnel bisecting the interior of thc cage has also been constructed by which the captives may be seen at even closer ranges. No Time to Spare. The mean man whose birthday gift to his son consisted in allowing him to wash the windows so tho boy could look out and seo thc oars go by be longed to the same family as the man to whom the Washington Post intro duces its readers. He was proprietor of a country hotel. Tho rules of the hotel kept every thing under lock and key, and there was no chance for the casual loafer to get newspaper, pen, ink, soap or any thing else free. There were not even free scats in the office. Ono day tho proprietor saw a chron ic loafer looking at the old timepiece whioh hung on the wall. The nos day a large sign hung over the face j of the clock. It read, "This dock is for the use of guests of the hotel only." Cheap Fxcursion Rates. The Southern Railway announces the following very low excursion rates to the following pointe named below : Nashville. Tenn., and return, account meeting "Peabody Normal Summer Bohools," June 8 to August 3, 1904, at the very low rateof one fiist-olas* fare plus 25 cents for the round trip. Knoxville, Tenn., and return, acoount "Summer School," irom June 28 to Au gust 5, 1901. at thrt very low rate of one first-class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip. Nashville, Tenn , and return, account meeting "Soutuern Baptist Convention and Auxiliary 8ooletioa" May 12 to 18, 190-1, at the very low rate of one first-class tare plus 25 cents for the round trip. Detroit, Mich., and return, account ' baptist Young Peoples Union of Amer! ca," International Convention July 13 to 15 1904, at the very low rate of one rirst class fare plus 50 centB foi the round trip. Atlantic City, N. J., and return, account "Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Order, Noblen of the Mystio Shrine," Joly 13 to 15,1901, at the rate of one first-class fare plus $1.00 for the round trip. Monteagle, Tonn., and return, account "Womans' Congress," from August 1 to 7,1904, at rate of one first-class fare pins 25 oents for the round trip. Monteagle, Tenn., and return, account "Monteagle Sunday School Institute," from August 15 to 30, 1904, at tho.vory low rate of one first-class fare plus 25 couta for the round trip. Monteagle, Tenn., and return, account "Monteagle Bible School," from July 4 to August 4, 1904, at ibo very low rate of one first-class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip. New Orleanr, LL, and return, aooount "Southern Good Roads Meeting," from April 6 to 7,1904, at the very low rate of one first-class fare plus 25 cents for the round trip. Athens, Ga, and return, aocounf'Sum mer School" from July 5 to Augusto, 1904, at the very low rate of one first class fare pms 25 cunts for the round trip. Jacksonville, Fla., and return, aooount ''Interstate Grower? * Association," May 4 to 0,1904. at the very low rat? of nnn orst class fare plus 23 cerita for the round trip. Louisville, Ky., and return, acoount "Biennial Conclave Knights of pythias," from August 16 to 20, 1904, at the very low rate of oho first-ol asa fare plus 25 cents for the ronnd trip. The Southern Railway offers most con venient ached ul oe with Pullman Sleepers and Southern Railway Dining Oars on all through tra?na. For fall information ap ply to any agent of the Southern Rall ! way or R. W. Honk.' Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, 8. C [nmcative Brome? Qafafae Curt? a CoM In On? Day? Grlpta3Daya ca every fcc*. 35c - High-tempered, sensitive horses are more easily spoiled by too much talking than slow, quiet horses. - When a man begins to sacrifice his moral interest for his business interosts ho should be watched. America's Natal Strength. A recent digest of tue naval program of the country, made by the Saturday Evening Post, shows that we will be the third naval power in the world upon the completion of present de sigos of construction. The Pobt shows: "That when the ships now building aro finished we 6hall be the third na val power in the world in paper ton nage and the second in real fighting strength. "That we are building as much as France and Russia, now thc second and third naval powers, put together. "That we are building almost as much as Great Britain, and more than Germany, Russia and Japan com bined. "That of first-class battleships, the chief strength of a navy, we are build ing a greater tonnage than any other power, not excepting England, and more than France and Germany com bined. "That of armored cruisers, the re maining element of the battle linc, we aro building a greater tonnage than any power except England, and more than all other powers combined aside from England and Franco. "That our ships now under con struction will more than double the present strength of our navy, and that when they are finished the navy will bo more than three times as large and five times as strong as it was at the outbreak of the Spanish war." - The man who tries to "taper off" a bad habit would make better pro gress by trying to wash charcoal white. - The charity that covers a multi tude of sins is not the charity which is exeroised for that specific purpose. $500 WHO CANNOT BE BURED* So uniformly successful ha9 Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription proven in all form9 of Female Weakness, Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb, and I/:ucorrhea, that, after over a third of a century's experience in curing the worst cases of these distressing and debilitating ailments, Dr. Pierce now feels fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in cash for any case of these diseases which he cannot cure. IT STANDS ALONE.-The "Favorite Pre scription " stands alone, as the one and only remedy for these distressingly com mon forms of weakness, possessed of such positively specific curative properties as to warrant its makers in proposing, and binding themselves to forfeit, as we, the undersigned proprietors of that wonderful remedy hereby do, to pay the sum of $500 in legal money of the United States in any case of the above diseases in which after a fair and reasonable trial of our treatment, we fail to cure. No other medicine for the cure of woman's peculiar ailments is backed by such a remarkable guarantee ; no other medicine tor woman's ills is pos sessed of the unparalleled curative prop erties that would warrant its manufacturers in making such an offer ; no other remedy has such a record of cures on which to base Buch a remarkable offer. Therefore, insist on having Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and turn your back on any unscrupulous dealer who would insult your intelligence by attempting to foist upon you some inferior substitute, under the plea that "it is just as good." Insist on having the article which bas a record of a third of a century of cures and which is backed by those willing to forfeit $500 if they cannot cure you. In cases attended by a Ieucorrheal drain a solution of Dr. Pierce's Lotion Tablets should be used conjointly with the use of the "Favorite Prescription." They are sold by ?11 druggists, or sent post-paid to any . ea h ?"33, on receipt of 25 cents in stamps. 1 Send 31 cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. Address WORLD'S DISPENSARY, Buffalo, N. Y. Weak and sick women are invited to | consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness. 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