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RAIDER WRECKED SHIPPING (The following interesting article appeared recently in the New Bed ford I Mush.) Mercury, and ruralU the famous sea exploits of Raphael Semmex in his vessel the Alabama. These have never been hoard of by many land dwellers, who do not realize the importance of the sea in peace and war. The failure of the Southern Confederacy was mainly due to the control of the sea and the waterways by the Federal navy. This hi title is published by request;) burnous for all time in the history of maritime warfare is the ('onfederate warship Alabama, whose , oinmander, the celebrated Captain Semme>, kept well the injunction of Jefferson Uavis that he play the devil with every ship flying the flag of the "so-called United States of A merica." The ship was built at Rukenhead, England, by Laird Her keel was laid m the beginning of 18/12 and she was launched in April. Three months later she was ready for sea?a large wooden screw gunboat. Toward the end of July she loft the harbor with a party of ladies and gentlemen on board, ostensibly to make a trial trio, but a few hours later she sent the visitors on shore in a boat and Mir- ! kenhead was never again to see the vessel that she had known only as the 2(10. Ac-curding to Mr. Uurney, a hlarne- ' less Quaker, there was nothing about ' the building of the 200 that could reasonably lead the British government to suspect the Vessel's destination.1 In after days, when the International ( ourt of Geneva made Britian stump up millions to pay for the Alabama's' depredations, the British government' sincerely wished that it had not shared Gurney's view. i < tear nf Birkohhead harbor, the 200, according to Mr Gurney, having hoard that a Federal warship wa! waiting and watching in St. George's channel, sought the open Atlantic by the North channel. Perhaps she 'lid, hut not at once. Instead, she put into "Welsh Harbor and there "hipped more men ami further suppus. She then made an eight days' peaceful run to Terceira in the Azores. Had she been overhauled it would have been found that she had neither guns nor ammunition on oart. There were simply two poworfu engines, a bark-rigged ship's usual rigging and equipment. Ml<' was however, pierced for earTing guns (mounting when the time o?me 10. to throw collectively at each discharge 128 pounds of solid shot, and two pivol guns). Thero Was f(t nlso that she had no papers to s ")w what was her business. One >f the rumors sot afloat while she was being built wa< that she was to go ? th;' ?f f'hina. It was be| at an>* r"t- for a time by a Pp'P c and government too worried about nearer problems than to follow this apparently trivial matter very closely. At Terceira the 200 told Portuguese authorities that her engines were out "f order. No objection was made to her anchoring. For a week she was busy apparently repairing her engines, really preparing to receive her k-uns. She had come from England commanded by raptain M ^ BuU.h K" V She had ?3 men on board most of them old man-o-war sailors and every man a trained gunner. Now it happened that some time l>efore the 21H) slipped away from Birkenhead a hark had left the Thames, having cleared for (Juiana and the West Indies She was, however, actually bound for Terceira with a cargo of guns and ammunition far the still unhalchcd Alabama. It was a week after the J'jO reached Tercelr^ roads thut the hark arrived and anI ( bored on the plea that she was leak| irig The Portuguese put her on the quarantine ground to ride out the customary three days. To their wrath and indignation, on the second da> nicy saw that 2'JO had hauled dose to the hark, erected a huge pair of ' sheam" and was on! too clearly transferring cargo from her to his own vessel. Nor did he deny it to the Portuguese officials, He simply told them that thr hark would sink when she was riding at anchor unless th?- leak was found and promptly dealt with. To locate it the cargo hud to be shifted and ha was performing an act of friendly I benevolence to the unfortunate ship. | The Portuguese left and Captain Butcher continued his work of 1 benevolence. I'wo days had passed and the last gun was on its transfer way when a third Britisher arrived. This was the screw steamer Bahama. She also wanted to anchor for repairs. As a fact she had brought the real future comma ruler of the 2D0, Gupta in Semmes, and a party of officers who had served with him on the Summer (afterward lost), 2-'l more sailors and an addition to armament. The Portuguese, when the third story of breakdown was told them as an excuse for the third ship anchoring and remaining, went wild with anger and gave all three ships a peremptory order to quit at once. I he Bahama explained the situation ( t.he 21)0, handed over the cargo and left the harbor followed by 200 j towing the empty bark. Instead, however, of leaving finally, they proceeded to Angra bay, a few leagues away on the coast of the same island. ( There they remained till noon of the next day (a Sunday), when for the second time the Portuguese ordered them all to quit and that at once. Forth they therefore went, but the last gun had been mounted, the last keg of powder stowed. There was nothing further to wait for. i ^ hen the 21H) was well out to sea she cast off the hark, which forthwith set out for Cardiff to land with coal, becoming in fact one of the three skillfully handled colliers that coaled the marauder at sea. Captain Semmes now came on deck from his cabin and bade the first lieutenant muster the crew after while on the poop all the officers assembled i" full uniform; that is, the Con fed< rate gtay frock coat and trousers, j Semmes then read in a clear vibrant ,voice the commission. attested at ; Richmond and signed by President ( l'a\is, by which he was ordered to .hoist the Confederate flag and salute jit as it rose. The gun was fired by Second Lieutenant Armstrong (a son of the inventor). Semmes completed the ceremony by announcing that the ship would henceforth be the Alabama. The crew was then formally engaged t> serve under the flag of the Southern states and wire addressed in stirring terms by Semmcs. He told them that ! there were then in the Federal navy ' only four ships that could beat the i Alabama, but. he said, "in a British built heart of <>ak as he then stood, surrounded by British hearta, he would not strike his flay to either of | them. After the cheering had subsided f Captain S?rnrnes told the crew that the Bahama wa? then sailing for England ai d that if there were any* wlio Wishe<l to (juit they could do so. "Never!" the ringing reply front every throat. Off then went the Bahamu to England arid away went the Alabama, | chasing a whaler which she captured and burned. It was her first blow at Federal shipping. 'l'ho bargain with the men was that they were to receive from the Confederate government half the value of every ship and cargo destroyed, a compact faithfully observed. 1 he list of captures made by the Alabama shows how well and persistently Semmea had done the work to which the President's commission directed him, namely "to take, sink, burn and destroy everything flying the flag of the so-called United States of America. The estimated value of his captures to t^is date (when we leave him) was $4,200,000. The captures: The Ocmulgee, whaler, 400 tons, 32 men, burned; the Starlight, schooner, burned; the Ocean Hover, whaler, bark, burned; the Alert, whaler, 700 tons, burned; the Wealkergaerge, ^ whaling schooner, burned; the Altamaha, whaling brig, burned; the Benjamin Tucker, whaler, burned; the Courser, schooner, whaler, burned; the Virginia, whaling bark, burned; the Elisha Dunbar, whaler, burned; the Brilliant, 1,000 ons grain, burned; the Emily Farnum, released on cartel" taking some of the many prisoners on the Alabama away, the Wave Crest, burned; the Dunkirk, brig, burned;' the Tonawanda, released on a bond of $1,000; the Manchester, ship, burned; the Lamplight, bark, burned; the Lafayette, bark burned; the Crenshaw, schooner, burned; the Lauretta, bark, burned; th<* Baron de Castine, released on bond; the Levi Starbuck, whaling ship, burned; the T. B. Wales, burned; the Martha, bark, burned; the Union schooner, some English property on board, released underbond; the Ariel, mail boat, released on bond; the Hatteras, gunboat, sunk; the Golden Rule, bark, burned; the ( hastelain, brig, burned; the Purrjaub, some English cargo, the Olive Jane, burned; the Golden Eagle, burned, the Washington, released on bonds; the Bethea Thager, released ??n bond; the John A. Parker, burned; the Punjab some English cargo, released on bond; the Morning Star, ship, released on bond; the King Fisher, burned; the Nora, burned; the Charles Hill, burned; the Louise Thatch, burned; the Lafayette, hark, whaler, burned; the Kate Cory, whaling brig, burned; the Nye, whaling bark, burned; the Dorcas Price, burned; the Lelah, ship, burned; the Union Jack, burned; the Gildensleeve, burned; the Justiana, bark, released on bond to take home prisoners; the Jagez Snow, burned; the Amazonian, hark, burned; the Tal'lisman, ship, burned; the Conrad, fitted as tender to Alabama; the Anna Schmidt and the Ocean Pride. Tolbert Slayer Confesses Guilt Augusta. Ga? Feb. 27? Sheriff I eter C row ford, of Columbia county, announced today that Burley Adams, 30, of MePuffie county, Georgia, had confessed to having killed Federal Prohibition Agent Walter R. Tolbert, who was slain near Harlem. Ga., last Wednesday after raiding a still in McDufTie county. Adams is in The Richmond county jail here, having i been arrested shortly after the kiling. I ~ ?_ [ St Louis Bank In Robbed of $30,000 J St Louis. Mo.. Feb. 24?Four men i held up the Wellston Trust Company i at t>212 Eastern Avenue here today | and escaped with $30,000. Hiding in [ the bank building during the night j the quartet greeted bank employes , with pistols this morning when they arrived to open up the institution. At the point of guns they forced them to open the vault and escaped witn the money. Indian W ar V eterans Orangeburg. Feb. 25?Any who served in the United States army during any campaign or war against hostile Indians, lasting 30 days or J more, are entitled to a pension. With the object of forming a state organisation to be affiliated with the Na"tial Indian War Veterans' association. any former Indian f.ghtera in South Carolina are requestid to communicate with William Moore, reruiting officer for .South Carolina, .49 W. Russell street. Orangeburg. On May 1. 1840. the British post ;"fT,ee put on sale the first postage stomp. a Negro Gets Sixty Years Chicago, Feb. 27.?A negro, former convict, whom the Chicago Tribune spent thousands of dollars to arrest because he used its classified columns to further an attack on a white woman, today was sentenced to sixty1 years in the state penitentiary. The negro, Robert M. Crowe, pleaded guilty after being arrested at Kansas i j City. Crowe influenced the woman to call at the home of his employer through an ad seeking a nurse. The paper said it undertook the search for Crowe as a warning to those who would use its columns to further crime. A coroner's jury in Columbia on Monday exhonorated B. B. Brown from all blame in the death of Atto^ey William David Dickey, who was killed when he stepped into the path of the automobile driven by Mr. Brown on the night of January 21. No Date Set For Trial of Griffith Charlotte, Feb. 24.?Date for the trial of Edward Griffith, cotton broker, charged with assault with intent to kill Col. Leroy Springs, millionaire financier and textile magnate has not been definitely set and will not be set until such time as it is definitely determined when the victim can appear, it was said by city court officials here today. When Griffith was arrested the d of the shooting1, date for his prdis nary hearing was tentatively set' Monday, February 27. This is in i eordance with custom, court offici said, and when the victim of ^ni tack is unable to appear the hesri is postponed from time to time ffl he is able to be out. " t Col. Springs shot in the face,! been returned to his Myers Pi home here from the hospital wi he was taken after the shooting.' physician, Dr. Addison G. Bent said today that he is doing v? nicely and would make a rapid W ery. i Planting Time I Fresh flower seed and garden seed. Onion Sets, Peas, ! 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