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SERVED ON SUB] IN CHARI Lieut. Stanton Describe Fishboat and the De Were Drowned The first submarine craft in the world worthy of the name, and so far as I know, the only one that ever destroyed a vessel of war was the Fisbboar. which operated in Charleston harbor. John A. Payne, herj first commander, was a lieutenant on the Chicorn and her first volunteer crew were seamen from the vesse!.. nine in all, including the command-; ing officer. The boat was constructed I at -Mobile and was received at Charleston in February, 1864. It was' built of boiler iron, diameter, had. movable flanges, or fins on the side, < and had a propeller that was worked! by hand from the inside. These fins, ! or wings, were depressed for diving; and elevated when it was desired to; com? to the surface. There were I two manheads, one fcrward and the other aft, through which entrance was had to the interior. A torpedo, a copper cylinder filled with powder and provided with sensitive glass tubes, was carried on a staff projecting from the bow. It has been stated that the boat met with disaster six times and destroyed 50 lives. If my memory is not at fault she sank in Charleston | harbor only three times and drown-1 ed or suffocated 25 men. In the' first disaster seven were drowned, J in the second nine were suffocated and in the third nine more mef the same fate. One day when Lieut. Payne, my; friend and shipmate, was aboard the Chicora I arranged to go down un-i der the water with him: but as the! boat was obliged to leave before my' watch on deck was over, Lieut.; Charles H. Hooker took my place. [ She dived about the harbor success-: fully for an hour or two and final-! ly went over to Fort Johnson,, where the little steamer Etiwan wasj lying alongside the wharf. She fastened to her side with a light line with the fins in position for diving. Both manheads were open. Payne was standing on top of the Fishboatj and Lieut. Hooker's body was halfway through the forward manhole, nrfcar. rVia ctoamor ctnrtpd tn move : away from the wharf. The line by j which the boat was attached to the I steamer snapped, and she went to; the bottom in five fathoms of water ! like a lump of lead. Payne escap-j ed by jumping aboard the Etiwan, while Hooker was carried down with the boat, the manhead closing) down as he struggled through the; opening and crushing his foot. He' told me afterwards that he had to: stoop down and raise the manhead : ' to release the imprisoned foot. He' came to the surface in an exhausted condition and was picked up by one; of the Chicora's boat. The crew'of seven men were drowned. Later the! illfated boat was raised, the bodies taken out and another volunteei ! crew obtained from the Chicora, Charleston and Palmetto State of; the Charleston squadron. . Another day I happened to be! ' aboard the receiving ship Indian J ~ ? V/iiiei uu buiut? ivuipura.iy uutv uuj Aiger's wharf when the Fishboat| was observed approaching the vessel on the starboard side and when within a biscuit throw disappeared and successfully dived under the ship, reappearing on the port side a short distance from the docks, j Presently she dived again, and when j after half an hour had elapsed she' failed to come to the surface we knew the men in her were dead. Divers were sent down immediately to search for her, and when she was located it was found that in moving along the bottom of the bay her propellor had caught a pibce of old hemp cable and jammed it so that it was impossible to move it from the inside and thus the imprisoned crew of nine men were suffocated. When the bodies were removed, one of the men was found on his knees under the man head with a piece of candle in his hand, evidently trying to open it to admit water to drown them and end their suffering, for they could have entertained no hope of escape with five or six fathoms of water above them. The boat was again raised and nUnnJ , , ?wl ,. .- A ? f T piatcu unuci luuJiiiaiiu UL IJICUI. Dixon of Alabama, with a volunteer crew from the army and the sh;~s. She was adjusted to float at the surface with her manheads just out of the water and was provided with an air pump to be used to supply air when the manholes were closed. On February 17. about 0 o'clock at night, with all her crew aboard, nine men in nil she came alongside of the Chicora. We were told that she was going outside of Fort Sumter that night to sink the sloop of war Housatonic, which was in the habit of anchoring after dark in the MARINES | .ESTON HARBOR! is Some Exploits of the | ividi?Several Crews in the Former. channel close :n there to prevent I The arrival and departure of blockade runners. The boat failed to return, but early the next morning when day broke we could see the masts of the Housatonic projecting from the water and the rigging filled with her men. who were a few hours later removed by boats from the Federal blockading fleet. The little boat was never 6een again until after the war closed, when the Housatonic was raised to clear the channel, and it was found near her with the bow pointing toward the ship. Lieut. Payne, although a willing volunteer for this dangerous service, never at any time had faith in the success of the enterprise. 1 heard him say time and again that if he struck a vessel with the torpedo staff projecting horizontally he feared the boat would enter the hole made by the explosion in the ship's side and the machinery would not be powerful enough to back the boat out before it was carried down by the wreck. His idea was that if the torpedo staff was lowered to an angle of 45 degrees when the ship was struck the torpedo would explode near the (keel, and the Fishboat bow, striking the solid planking of the ship, would recoil sufficiently to make the machinery effective in backing out of danger of being drawn down by the wreck. I have always felt very certain that the torpedo staff was in this position Vhen the Housatonic was struck. I have seen it stated that the Fishboat dived under the Housatonic and dragged a floating torpedo after it. This is disproved by the fact that the boat was found after the war with her bow pointing toward the ship and not away from it, as must have been the case if it ^ A traeecl R^oiHoc uau utvcu uuuui iu^ f vsjoti. when the boat lay alongside the Chicora on the night of the 14th of February, I examined it closely, and I am quite positive there was no floating torpedo attachment. And then the bo&t was adjusted to float on the surface and not for diving. The matter of dragging the torpedo was discussed by the navy, and it was generally conceded a very doubtful expedient, as the anchorage where the Housatonic lay was a shallow one and it was not probable that there would be enough water under her keel to allow the Fishboat to pass safely. In some of the accounts I have read of the Fishboat it has been styled the David. This is an error. The David was an entire different vessel. It was constructed of wood, about the length and diameter of the Fishboat and was nronplled hv steam. This was the craft that, manned by Lieut. W. F. Glassell, Engineer C. S. Toombs, and Pilot Cannon, attempted unsuccessfully to sink the Ironsides. The torpedo, which was carried on a horizontal staff, was exploded against her side, throwing up a column of water that fell on tie David and extinguished the fire under the boiler. The marines on the deck of the Ironsides opened on the David with musketry. Glassell and Cannon dropped into the sea and were made prisoners by the Ironsides' boats, while Toombs who could not swim, clung to the David and drifted away in the darkness, relighted the fire, and j steered back into the harbor. I | happened to be the officer of the deck on the Chicora for the midwatch, and at about four bells I recognized his light signal and hailed ! him. He answered that it -was the ! torpedo boa. David?he had sunk the Ironsides and Lieut. Glassell and the pilot were lost. We believed it until '.he next morning, when i the Ironsides was observed at her! j anchorage and apparently unini jured. Later we learned of the i safety of G'.assell and Cannon.? | Lieut. C. L. Staunton, in the Confed: erate Veteran. HORSE SHOES FOR WAR. : Pittsburg Mill Preparing 6,000,000 for Shipment Next Week. Pittsburg, Sept. 18.?Six million i horseshoes, packed in 100 cars and being prepared for shipment early j next week to France and Russia. j They will be accompanied by a corre-1 sponding consignment of horseshoe i nails and toe pieces. Hna rv-??1] Vioe lioon trnrl.* 1 n cr ilov onrl I night to fill its part of tiie order, and other mills are preparing to fill de-; mands made upon them by Austrian ^ customers, a direct result of the European war. ! j Subscribe to The Herald, $1.50 year. HOPE IS SHOWING. New York Paf^r Encouraged ax to | Cotton Situation. This is no time for pessimism. That fact is increasingly felt. It isM a time to put a shoulder to the wheel and push. The wagon may ' seem to he bemired: the thins to doj < is to push a'l the harder. The world j ' needs cotton. Foreign exchange is ! getting into better shape. Export | business is bound to increase under: ' such circumstances in the near fu- 1 ture. Why not? The seas are c-iear. 1 The supremacy of England on the 1 oceans is not disputed. The way is 2 open. Simply credits are needed. 1 They are bound to be supplied. 2 "Necessity is the mother of inven- ' tion." Europe will not take as much 1 cotton in 1914 as it did last season, 1 but the United States. Japan and Chi- ] na will, it is believed, take more. 2 Besides a decisive result in the bat- < ties of the Aisne in France may pave ' the way for peace. Meantime, some ] of the mills of this country are run7 1 ning night and day to supply the Eu- < ropean demand for uniform checks ] and duck as well as blankets. The 1 sale of print cloths at Fall River last 2 120 000 nieces, aeainst ' 80,000 in the previous week, or, in other wcrds, double the total theD. The business in fine cotton goods is steadily improving at advancing prices. Even yarns, which for a long period were so depressed, are higher, with a better demand. New England's industries are beginning to revive. It is believed that the country has turnbd the corner and that the near future will see a better state of things. The feeling is growing that the cotton exchanges should be opened at the earliest possible moment. Practical men in the cotton trade believe that this result can be brought '< about in a she tt time. The long contracts here need to be financed so that the exchange can open with safety to all concerned. Also a clear ( idea of the Lever act is needed, i ne attorney general may have to be call- j ed upon to pas? upon some dubious * points in that curious bit of legisla- ' tion. Thoughtful men in the cotton trade believe that the act should be ' repealed and something substituted 1 for it, if necessary, which would be 1 short, clear and effective. But once get the long contracts here out of ' the way through the medium of a strong syndicate backed by the banks, ' and also by exchange in some practical way, and also get a clear idea of what Mr. Lever means by his act, or, at any rate, as to how the government will interpret it, and the 4ay is believed to be clear for reopening the New York cotton exchange. That . event would electrify and rejuvenate , the whole cotton trade of this country, in the opinion of some of the . most experienced and sagacious members of the cotton trade of the United States. The cotton trade without exchanges * is in grim earnest like the play of j "Hamlet" with Hamlet left out. In ] other words, it is like a ship without a rudder or a compass. .This state j of things is declared to be intoler- j able. It is urged that it should be t done away with at the earliest possi- I ble mbment. It is no small task to J get at the exact situation here as to the holdings of long contracts, but if the work is as vigorously pushed as it was last week, when twenty men were out getting this information, this task will be very soon accomplished if it has not been already. The work of financing the "Jong" holdings here is not a task for small men. It calls for determined efforts by big men. They can J do it. The general belief is that they j are determined to do it and not only ( that, but that they will do it quickly. < Meantime rising prices at the South ' may help not a little in the work of ] reopening of the exchanges of this < country. At some points the sales, 1 it is true, are significant, but at others, like Galveston, Houston and ] Memphis, the business of late has J been increasing to a degree which } arouses hope of something still bet- : ter in the near future.?New York ( Journal of Commerce. f ^ ^ < The Point of View. / An English army officer and a for- 1 eign missionary met on an ocean < steamer, says the Louisville Courier- ' Journal. The army officer had con- J temptously said that he had lived in India for 30 years, and had never seen a native Christian. Shortly af- j terward he recited ^th gusto his , success in tiger hunting, declaring i that he had killed no less than nine 1 tigers. "Pardon me." gently said the mis- ] sionarv. "Did I understand you to 1 say that you had killed nine tigers." 1 "Yes, sir," replied the colonel. "Now, that is remarkable," contin ued the missionary. "For 1 have lived in India for thirty years and have never seen a tiger. "Perhaps, sir," sneered the colonel, : "you were not looking for tigers." "Precisely," was the answer of the missionary, "and may not that have been the reason why you never saw any native converts?" . r-.-_ ' ; ^.W. HOW NOT TO BEHAVE. Will Not Allow Acquitted Man to Shake Hands Witn the Jurors. Lexington, Sept. 26.?In the midst [>f a trial in conn the other day Judge Priifce suspended for several minutes and took occasion to make a few remarks on the "hahits" observed by Lexingt.cn people in the ?ourt room. "Gentlemen," sa'd Judge Prince. I saw something happen in this :ourt house last night that shocked me severely. In fact, I came very near falling over in my seat. I saw i man who had been acquitted of a murder charge get out of his seat md go over?io the jury box and ;hake hands with every member of the jury. In all my experiences, aoth at the bar and on the bench t was the first time I ever saw such i disgraceful act pulled off in a tourt of justice. I don't want to see it happen again. It certainly must have been embarrassing to any lonest man to be thanked for having ione his duty, and especially to an . lonest juror, such as the jurors of :his county are presumed to he, and t must not occur again while I am )n the bench. Mr. Sheriff, the next nan you see attempt such a thing n this court room during this term )f court, you arrest him and bring lim to me. I will teach the man, it natters not who he may be, some sense. Now, carry out my instruc;ions, Mr. SherifT." Another thing he called to the atention to the members of the bar: t has been customary for the attorleys to answer all questions for their lients while they are being arraign- : ;d and while the jurors are being selected. Judge Prince "called lown" a number of attorneys on his, and all prisoners in the dock ire made to answer. Where, Indeed! C?;* To?iac fo i'o (rnnar/Mic crift Of Oil laiixco van u o vmw O**-* v* 24,000 lbs, to the Skackleton Antarc:ic expedition recalls a story told by Sir Ernest Shackleton when he was jver here. When the news of Peary's discovery of the North Pole was first announced a friend of his rushed into the house exclaiming: "Peary has discovered the North Pole!" "Oh, indeed!' he said, "where did tie find it?" Picks 703 Pounds in a Pay. R. Mace^ Langston pi.Ked 703 pounds of cotton Wednesday which probably is a season's record. A number of disinterested parties weighed the cotton and can certify is to the above amount.?Cor. Spartanburg Herald. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open 'or the collection of State, county, onr; oil r\thor tovoc frnm thp Loth day of October, 1914 until the Loth day of March, 1915 inclusive. ' From the first day of January, L915, until the 31st day of January, L915, a penailty of one per cent, will ' >e added to all unpaid taxes. From he 1st day of February, 1915., a )enaltv of 2 per cent, will be added o all unpaid taxes. From the 1st lay of March, 1915, until the 15th ; lay of March, 1915, a penalty of 7 ' )er cent, will be added to all unpaid axes. THE LEVY. : ror State purposes 6 mills ?or county purposes 4 mills ; "or bridges 1 mill "or roads 1-2 mill "onstitutional school tax 3 mills Total 14 1-2 mills . SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 '..9 mills 3innakers, No. .12 3 mills 3uford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills . Blear Pond, No. 19 2 mills , Bolston, No. 18 4 mills ' Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills J Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills I Fishpond. No. 5 2 mills i jovan, iSO. I I * iiiujo Hutto. No. 6 2 mills . Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Hey ward. No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills i Hunter's Chapel. No. 16 4 mills L.ees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Dak Grove, No. 20 2 mills D'ar. No. 8 9 mills 3t. John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills Three .Mile, No. 4 2 mills ; Ail persons between the ages of , twenty-one and sixty years of age, , jxcept Confederate soldiers and sailers, who are exempt at 50 years of ige. are liable jo a poll tax of one 1 foliar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of ige on or before the 1st day of January, 1914 are liable to a poll tax M one dollar, and all who have not 1 made returns to the Auditor, are requested to do so on or before the . 1st of January, 1915. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1914, until " the 1st day of March, 1915. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. NOTICE. ' I will file my final accounting as I administrator on estate of J. W. j' Kinard with G. P. Harmon. Judge of \ 4 Probate on Oct. 17th. All persons I having claims against said estate will ! present same before that date, or I forever be barred. W. D. 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