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M. QUAD’S STORY.
A LOST TREASURE SHIP.
iuopyngnt, IH'S. by Charles B. Lewis.]
On th® night of tho 19th of J aly,
1863, tho English steamer Badger,
which had run the blockade at Charles
ton no less tfian five times, crept in
through the outside line aud was pro
ceeding up the harbor when discovered
by the Federal blockader Catskill. A
hot fire was immediately opened on her,
and in her efforts to get away she ran
on a shoal and was set on fire and aban
doned. The second shot from the block
ader passed through the steamer’s up
per works, and some of the splinters
knocked overboard a sailor named Henry
Lee. Half an hour later we on the Cat
skill picked this man up as he was
floating about the bay. That he should
i have survived even 10 minutes after go-
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HE FLOATED AWAY.
ing overboard was a wonderful thing,
for his left arm was broken, and he re
ceived internal injuries which caused
his death four days later. He was only
a common steamboat hand, having no
education, but a very intelligent man
in conversation. At his request I wrote
some letters for him, and when he knew
that he must die he told me the story
of his life, only a part of which has to
do with this story.
In the year 1858 the India clipper
ship Rising Sun left Melbourne for Lon
don, having under her hatches one of
the most valuable cargoes ever carried
by a sailing vessel. It consisted of wool,
I tallow, skins and wines? In the treas
j ure room were deposited four consign
ments of crude gold amounting in value
to $850,000. In addition, there were
over 30 gold miners among the passen
gers who bad made their fortunes and
were going home to England to enjoy
themselves. These .men deposited with
"" the pursers an average of SIO,OOO ench,
making considerably over $1,000,000 in
all. You may wonder that such a large
treasure was sent aboard of a sailing
ship, and that all should be intrusted
to one ship. At that date a clipper ship
was preferred to a steamer, and the
■ bankers and brokers at Melbourne were
anxious to get rid of the treasure on
hand as quickly as possible. To mist
the opportunity of sending by tho Ris
ing Sun might mean a delay of three or
four weeks.
On the day the ship was to sail an old
hag of a woman known to most resi
dents of the city as a fortune teller met
the captain in the town and asked him
for alms. He brusquely refused her,
and she cursed him, his ship, passen
gers and treasure. She followed him for
two blocks, predicting storm, mutiny,
murder and disaster, and was finally ar
rested by the police. Her curses and
predictions had nothing to do with
what befell the ship aud her people of
course, but to this day the people of
Melbourne remember them in conjunc
tion. Had the captain given her SIOO
it would have made no difference with
fate. The ship sailed at the hour ad
vertised, ran to the south until clearjaf.
the peninsula, and then-set"Kr course
to the west to cross the vast expanse of
the Indian ocean. She had a crew of 35
men and a passenger list of over 60,
and for many long days everything went
well with her. One-third of her run to
the cape had been made when she one
day encountered a French brig which
had been dismasted and abandoned and
was driving about with the wind and
wave. The mate was sent to overhaul
her, but found no living thing aboard.
The crew of the brig must have been
stricken with a plague, and after a few
deaths the survivors abandoned her.
The mate reported a peculiar odor from
cabin and fo’castle, but no weight was
given it until be
was taken ill the s
eisely the same
if four day- both
had been attackei® •'
Lee did not go
the plague, which®
L t lie told
er that a
have existed.
rnand, but was
and tho bounds oJssjO
broken over by t
gers ;g.p sled thi®' ; •, . -_v _
and every day t
new victims.
the island of St.
When 31 of the
crew had died, the
ny and deposed the iiMBMBB®|M®|
era! possession. No
the ship, and she
of her canvas and
hopes of being
which would coi
tho doctor was
of tho plague, it ran on
only about a dozen peo]®i*a£?£g*’w|'!
and nine or ten of them
ore. Toward tho last th<.<SsMgmw|{
g thrown overboard as
down, and by and by !i<®BM|B
were reported. There
enough to have worked the &® ' -
cape, or to have brought her
of Madagascar, but the idea
possess themselves of tho
the 80 gold hunters only two werl®|||
of the other passengers only two or
men. They agreed with the eniloiaH
a pro rata division of the wealth,
the plan was to head to tho north |®B
reach the coast of India. They had th®
chart of the Indian ocean spread out be
fore them, and it seemed as if they had
but to steer in a certain direction to
reach a certain point. They figured that
they were to the north of St. Paul, but
as a matter of fact they were hundreds
of miles to the south of it, and it was
their drifting down toward the ice belt
which probably abated and exterminat
ed the plague.
Lee related that the survivors got
along pretty well for a week after set
tling on a plan. Then came a terrible
storm which wrecked the ship aloft,
and at the end of three days drove her
ashore on a wild and desolate island.
It was night when she struck. She
bumped heavily on a reef, was carried
over it by a monster wave which swept
her decks, and was finally beached on
the island. Lee with others was swept
overboard by the big wave, but he alone
was carried to the beach alive, and he
was so bruised and battered and ex
hausted that it was hours before he
could move about. When morning
came, he knew that he had been cast
on an island. The dead bodies of three
of his comrades were lying on the beach,
but the others he never saw. In break
ing off the reef the ship had swung
around and driven ashore stern first.
An unusually high tide, together with
wind and wave, had floated her over a
ledge of rock into a small cove, and she
had been left there as in a dock basin,
badly battered in every portion of her
hull, but still holding together. At low
tide the water in the cove was only two
feet deep. Lee had no idea of the name
or location of the island, which had
plenty of fresh water, but no foliage be
yond a few bushes, and no soil except
here and there in small spots. He lived
there for six months, and then being al
most insane over the solitary life he
constructed a raft and floated away to
the north. His chances of being picked
up were not one in ten thousand, but on
the fourth day he was sighted and res
cued by the English whaling ship John
Bull, which landed him at the cape
four months later, whence he got a ship
to England. When Lee was picked up,
he told a cock and bull story of being
washed overboard from an American
merchantman, and of reaching the is
land on a piece of wreckage. The cap
tain told him the island was one of the
Christmas group, which numbers 14
large and small islands. The main is
land is named Kerguelen, and at pres
ent has a population of about 4,000.
When Lee told the captain of the
whaler a false story, he was thinking
of the treasure left behind him on the
island. The whaler carried a large
crew, and he did not propose to divide
wth so many. The man simply kept
his mouth shut about the whole affair,
and when he finally reached England no
one knew that be had ever seen the lost
clipper. He thought it would be an easy
matter to get a craft to go for the treas
ure, but was sorely disappointed. In
deed he had no sooner landed in Eng
land than he realized that he must keep
quiet or he would be overhauled. The
insurance companies, the owners of the
ship and the relatives of the lost had
given up all hopes, from Lee
would arouse them, and he would lose
the treasure and perhaps get into seri
ous trouble. He made two or three voy
ages to distant ports, and on the break
ing out of the war in the United States
became a blockade runner. This was
his story as he told it to me, and he
added that he had never told a human
being of the location of the wreck and
the treasure, and he believed that the
hulk still rested in the cove nndisturb-
FIRE.
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there was hardly
11:1,1 broken
alul handled its
that the purs-
Ilot °P ell - held
much cash.
Lee told me the
ro <;nti n 0
"V?, l hhe trouble
■Bers of tho truth
was to as
[f.lie Rising Huu
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■ to have foilu
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Bio be correct,
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THE ROME TRUtUNE, SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7. 18b4
to oemy ua. 'me company was com
posed of six men, all of whom had serv
ed in the Federal navy, and our capital
was the prize money and pay due us at
the close of the war. We bought from
the government the bark Racer, which
was captured off Wilmington whiletry
ing to run the blockade in the last days,
and she was fitted out for the voyage at
Charleston. We engaged 19 negro sail
ors for the voyage, making with cook
and steward a crew of 20 men. We
took on board shovels, picks, axes, jack
screws, powder and fuse and whatever
we might need in cleaning out the bulk,
together with lumber to build us a
house ashore, and we cleared for Syd
ney at the custom house. The six of
us had put in every dollar we could
raise, and there was just $lB3 in the
common purse when we set sail from
Charleston bar. All of us believed In
the treasure, however, and were happy
and enthusiastic at getting away.
The details of that long voyage would
not interest you. Our first and only stop
was at Cape Town, and we remained
there only three days. One day, months
after leaving Charleston, the island of
Kerguelen rose out of the water before
us. We passed between it and Solitary
island, coasted around Cape Challenger
into Royal sound, and finally brought
up in a sheltered bay on the nerth side
of the sound. From thence, starting
out in the morning soon after sunrise,
we ran around to the east coast of Christ
mas island in the yawl, and a few min
utes before dinner we landed on the spot
described by Lee, and our eyes rested
on the big hulk of the wrecked clipper.
We raised a cheer, but there was no
heartiness in it.’ We had found the
wreck and believed it untouched, but
the sight of that battered hull, gray
and weather beaten and rotting away,
was like coming upon the skeleton of a
human being on the great plains. We
stood contemplating it for several min
utes, and then clambered aboard. The
birds had visited the wreck, but not an
other living thing had touched her decks
since Lee left the island. A storm had
cut out the beach half a mile above and
filled in just there, and the wreck now
lay 50 feet above high tide, and the ba
sin in which she rested was quite dry.
This being the windward side of the is
land, with no harbor for the bark, we
spent two days looking for a sheltered
spot. We found it in the sound, two
miles away overland and about 10 by
water. Wo spent a day constructing a
fairly good road, to go and come by,
and on the next, having a slight breeze
and no sea, we ran the bark around and
got our lumber and other stuff ashore.
When the bark returned to her haven,
we made her secure and left only the
cook,steward and one white man aboard.
We built n shanty behind the rocks
with our lumber, and four or five days
after our arrival were 'ready to begin
work on the cargo. The treasure room
was first looted. Lee had broken open
only one of the iron bound boxes and
had taken none of the contents of that
away. We got the purser’s safe on deck
and over the side and blew it open.
There was about $300,000 in gold and
Bank of England notes, with a consid
erable quantity of ladies’ jewelry. In
a tin box in a locker in the captain’s
stateroom we found £6OO in notes and
£350 in gold. This probably belonged
to him personally. The money and jew
elry in the safe, with the exception of
£4OO which belonged to the ship, were
ticketed with the names of the owners,
and the packages were carefully han
dled and laid aside by us with a view
of forwarding them to the heirs of the
dead if found practicable.
The ship had been nearly full of wa
ter when she drove ashore, but only the
cargo in the lower hold had suffered,
and not all of that. We got out thou
sands of pounds of wool in good condi
tion, together with sufficient tallow,
hides and wine to give our craft a good,
'after we began work
the bad season set in, and we worked
much of the time in storm and wet.
During the three months of oqr stay we
got the bark around to the wreck only
four times, and then only for a few
hours each time. We got the treasure,
the wine and the tallow off to her by
means of the boat, but the wool and
hides were carried overland. When we
had all we dared take, there
stuff left to make
profitable. We had no
ing again, however, and on the last day
of our stay set the hulk afire and burn
ed everything which the flames could
consume. One day we set sail for the
Cape of Good Hope, and after ono of
the finest voyages a sailor could desire
dropped anchor at Cape Town to re
plenish our supplies. Here three of us
took SI,OOO each from the treasure and
went ashore to take a steamer for Eng
land and from thence home, while the
others were to sail the bark straight for
New York. We stood on the pier and
saw her sail away with a fair wind.
She was spoken next day, but that was
the end. From that day to this she has
never been heard of. The blacks knew
of the treasure and may have mutinied
and taken possession. The bark may
have foundered or burned or been driv
en ashore on the African coast. It is
25 years since she sailed away from the
cape, and no man can more than guess
at her fate. Was it fated that the sea
should have all those lives and that
treasure, or was the gold accursed, as
many believe? It was lost and found
and lost, but will it ever be found again?
2, 5«8,67?.
These figures represent the number of
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Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which
were sold in the United States from March,
r 9?. Two Million, two hundred and twen
y-eight thousand six hundred and seventy
two bottle sold in one year, and each and
every bottle was sold on a positive guaran
tee that money would be refunded if satis
factory results did not follow its use. The
secret of it® success is plain. It never dis
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the very best remedy for coughs, colds,
etc. Price 50c and 81 per bottle. At D. W.
Curry’s drug store.
H. D. HILJL,
Real Estate Agent,
230 BROAD STREET; ROME. QA.
Renting a Specialty, and Prompt Settlement the Rule.
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P. H. HARDIN, Vice President.
First National Bank
OF ROME, G--A-.
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Dealers who push the sale of \V. 1.. Douglas
increase the sales on their full line of gooiL.
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Application For Letters (BMi
mission,
GEORGIA, Fnovd County. -SaaHfeffi
Whereas W H Edmundson, A<l mi
the es'ate of Elizi 11. Reeves, repnsvfflHMM|
court in his peti ion duly filed that he hasftnH
adminlsteied Eliza H. Reeves’ estate. This is
to cite all persons concorned. kindred and cr fi
lters, to show cause. ifanyrhev can. whe said
ad uinlstraror should not be discharged from
his administration and receive 1 tiers of dis
mission on the first. Monday in Febrn.rv 1894.
This November 6,1893. JOHN P. D AVIS,
Ordinary.
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Continued Use Effects Permanent Cure.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Price,
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60 cents. H. D. CUSHMAN, Mfr., Three Rivers, Mich., U. S. A-
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gists or by mail prepaid. Address as above. DMUIy
Administrator’s Sale,
GEORGIA. Floyd County;
Agreeably to an order of the court of ordinary |
of raid «>unty, gran led at the Decem
ber term. 1893, of Said court, will he sold ar the !
court house door of said county, on the first
Tuesday in January, 1894, between the legal
hours of sale, the fo'lowing describe I property
to-wlt; Being one parcel of land in tne 72nd
district and 3rd section of Polk couniy, Ga.,
and being a part of lot of land No. ’ l B. de
scribed aa follows: Being one-founh of an acre !
bounded by John W. Pullam’s land on |
of, aides, and being a square, and better known l
as the Horger place and where Tom Bridges I
now resides; also lot No. 3, fronting on right of!
way of the E T. V. & Ga. railroau company’s
right of-why 40 ieet and running back same
width to the Rome and Rockmart road, a dis
tance of 170 feet on the east side and 147 feet on
the west aide; oornded on the north bv the
right of-way of the E. T. V <fc + Ry Co , on the
east by the barbershop lot, on the south by the
Rome aud Rockmart oirt road, and on the west
Alferd Sol, betug part of land lot number 163.
in the 22d district and 3rd section of Floyd
county, G». Sold as the property of George W
Harris, deceased, for the purpose of paying
debtr and distribution among the heirs
This Stth day of December, 1893.
Geo. J. BRIANT. 1
Administrator estate of Geo. W. Harris, dec’sd.
dec-5-lawlw
Letters of Administration,
GEORGIA, Floyd County:
To all whom it may concern—Charles Craton
having in proper toy u applied to me for perma
nent letters of administration on the estate of
Thos. J. Craton, late of said county. This is to
cite all and singular the creditors and nex' o'
kin of Thos. J Craton, to be and appear at mv
ofiice within the time allowed by law and ebow
ciuse, it any they can. wny permanent adminis
tration should not be granted t.» Charles Cra
ton on Thos. .7. Craton’s estate. M itness my
hand and official signature this 'stday of Janu.
ary, 1894. JOHN P. DAVIS, Ordinary.
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to the beginning corner
more or 1-ies, tor ths purpose ot' se
r pavment of her promissory note lor
sum of $93.00 due on her note of *95.00
b' the said M s. J. N. Batson, on the 2nd
day of Ma'Ch, 1893, and payable to the said M.
W. Brett, due October Ist, after date, with in
terest at the rate ot 8 per cent per annum from
2nd of M rrh, 1893 and ten per cent attorney’s
fees. which said note the said Mrs. J. N Batson
refuses to pay. It is therefore ordered that the
raid Mrs. J. N. Bateon pay into this court, on or
before the next tei tn thereof, the principal and
ini erest due on aud note, and cost of the suit,
or iu default theivot the court will proceed as
to justice shall appertain
And it is further ordered that this rule be
published in the Tkibcnb, a newspaper pub- *
Ushed in the county ot Floyd once a mouth for
four months, or served on the said Mrs. J. N.
Batson or her special agent or attorney, three
i months previous to the next term of this court.
W. M HE'BY, Judge S. C. K. C.
, George and Walter Hartls, petitioners attor-
< ne ys
It appearing by return of Sheriff that defend
| ant does not t eside in the county or state, or
dereu that service b.- made upon said defendat
I by publication of foreg dng rule and this order I
in the Rome Tribune tor f rar months prior to
September term, 1891, of this court.
This January 3, 1893.
Wm. Husky, J. 8. C. R. C.
Georgia Floyd county:
A t rue copy from minutes of Floyd Superior
' court, No. 2?. page 583.
I This January 3d, 1894.
j 18 liulm Wm. E. Bbysiso bl, C 3. C.
NOTICE.
GEORGIA—FIoyd Countv.
Agreeably to an ord-r of the court of ordina
ry of Kloyd County, u ill be sold at auction at
t”e court bouse door of said county on the ft ret
Tuesday in February, next, within the legal
hours of s ile the following described land to
wit: One undivided one-tifth interest in part of
lot of laud No 124, in 23d district and 3ru sec
tion of said county, lying on the west side or
the Summetvilie wagon road containing 91
I acre*, more or less. Hold as the property of
< Wsllace F. Duncan, minor. Terms Cash. This
January 5, 1394.
I- Joseph B. Duxcan, Guardian.
Application For Letters of Dis
mission.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
Whereas Chas M. Harper, Administrator of
i Ji hn T. Dowell, represents tc the court In
his petition, duly filed, that he has administered
■ Jno. T. Dowell’s estate. This is to die all per-
■ sons concerned, kindred and creditors, V> show
cause, if any they can. why saia administrator
■ should not be discharged ironi hl, admintstra
’ tion and receive letters of dismission on the
first Monday In February, 1894 This Novem
ber 6, 1893 JOHN P. DAVIS, Ordinary.
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