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UNDERTAKERS, EMBALITERS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
U. 8. IIAUfIL TRIUMPHS
IJi FOREIGN WATERS-
rilliant Deeds of Daring by
Oiir fiaual Heroes.
AIL JONES,
THK TERRIBLE.
Or, ynham Th® Hero ot Tripoli.
Crusade Against The West
lndia Pirates, stars And
strl Pes in Chinese And Ko
rean Waters, And in The
Mo diterr*n® an>
Shortly after the breaking out
tln ß war of ours with Spain a
y Q b B quadrou, under com-
°1 Commodore Schley,
ouaed. 1 he suggestion was
,adß ( at that time that this
lUcUlron P r °ceeu to the Medit
,a‘ lea n. capture Port Mohon,
* n °ica, on* of the Balearic
“ B ’, Rnd ’ using that well
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tb ®y would • utter dire dis-
aster, they would better sue for
peace and be quick about it, too.
A very powerful squadron is
the one our Navy Department
will dispatch to ‘‘singe the beard
ct the King of Spain”—though
that the unfortunate young boy
King has not yet grown his
beard would not prevent his feel
ing the warmth of the shot of
our guns.
Commanded by Commo
dore John Crittenden Watson, a
man who is devoid of tno sense
of fear, who is bold to a fault,
and who will take any risk un
hesitatingly.
Watson was Farragut’s fl ig
lieutenant off New Orleans, Mo
bile, Vicksburg and Port Hud
son. He knows well the music
of the cannon ball and the din of
battle, and, while he is a thor
ough Christian gentleman, full
of Christian virtues, he relishes
shooting and being shot at.
FIRST FOREIGN MISSION.
This determination to wage
war about the distant coasts of
a foreign enemy's country and
in waters which he claims sov
ereignty is not new in our histo
ry. Repeatedly have we made at
tacks upon the coasts, the com
merce and the sb ips of an enemy
and victory lias invariably crown
ed our efforts
The first American vessel of
war to show the Stars and Stripes
abroad was the 16-gun brig Re
prisal, commanded by Lieut.
Lambert Wilkes, and the first
time the flag was ever floated,
over c foreign fortress was a lit
tle lad \ when the brig Provi
i .. <»
dence captured Fort Nassau on
the island of New Providence.
The Providence carried 28
guns and sailed in squadron from '
the Delaware to attack a British
force then ravaging the coasts of
Virginia. Admiral Hopkins, an
energetic officer, was the com
mande •-in-chief, and,not finding
the enemy, he steered for New
Providence, i i the Bahamas.
He captured the place and de
stroyed many stores. It i- pecu
liarly interesting in this cnnnec-i
tion to note that “Hopkins’
landing party consisted of about
300 men, and on this occasion,
the first that ever occurred in
toe regular American Navy, the
marines, under Capt. Nicholas
appear to have behaved w ith
the spirit and readiness that
have distinguished the corps
from that hour down to the
present moment.”
PAUL JONES AND CAPT. WICKES.
Paul Jones, that redoubtable
old warrior, who never wearied
in doing deeds of extraordinary
daring, accomplished no less a
feat than taking the American
man of war Ranger, a slow,
crank vessel, of 18 guns, into
port of Whitehaven.
He seized forts, spiked the
guns and then boarded a ship
and set fire to it. This one man
terrorized the coast, pparalzed
trade and set all the people into
a state as trepidation lest he re
turn and worse befall them.
Something akin to this feeling
of dread alarm, of constant fear,
is what Commodore Watson will
inspire in the breasts of the
Spaniards should they see fine
ships standing in toward their
ports firing shot and shell and
then hastening away to some
other haveu to repeat the same
performance.
Cap . Wickes, with the Re
prisal and a couple of other
ships, made a tour of the coast.
of Ireland in 1777, going about
his work of capturing prizes and
seizing everything about his
size he could lay his hands on,
in much the same way Paul
Jones did, and very much the
same way that Commodore
Watson would do had he reached
Ins cruising ground.
CONYNGHAM —TRIPOLI.
Os Conyngham, another one
o ‘ those daredevils of the seas,
Commissioner Deane reported :
‘‘Conyngham by his first and
second expeditions is become
the terror of all the eastern
coast of England and Scotland.”
This bold navigator commanded
the Revenge.
He was searched for high and
low, but disguising his ship he
not only went into an English
port unrecognized, but actually
fitted out his ship there without
detection. Os course, Commode re
Watson could not possibly hope
tc be able to do such an astonish
ing bit of work as this.
The Tripoli war furnishes
tnadj examples of bold raiding
by ships and of great, even as
tonishing, personal bravery.
Decatur’s cutting out of the
Philadelphia from under the
guns of the Tripolitan foi-ts was
an act in many ways similar to
Hobson’s taking the Merrimac
into Santiago.
A famous cruise far away
from home was that ot Captain
Porter in the Essex. For men ths
this resourceful commander
cruised in the Pacific, carrying
on his work of destruction and
depredation He drove the En
glish flag off the seas, but was
finally captured off Valparaiso
by a superior force and under
circumstances not discreditable
to him.
WEST INDIES AND SUMATRA.
In 1821 the W )s jt Indies war.*
the favorite cruising grounds of
Preach and Spanish areoie
picaroons. These men ot the sea
were free hooters —pirates, in
other words. They plundered and
looted merchant vessels, and often
murdered the crews Our Govern
ment determined to stop it, and a
force of men-ot-war, under the
well known commanders Biddle,
Porter and Warrington, routed
them out and bunted them to the
death.
Another action in an opposite
quarter of the world occurred m
1831, when Commodore John
Downs landed his men on the soil
of Sumatra and captured all the
forts of the port but one, and this
one his ship, tho Potomac, bat
tered down the next day.
Even so long ago as this our
ships were engaged in attacking
forts. Doubtless the Eastern
squadron, had it appeared off Ca
diz. Barcelona, Tarifa, Ferrol and
otinr ports have an opportun
ity to try its guns at silencing
forts—though the modern forti
fications cannot be so easily in
jured by a modern gun as was the
ca e when Djw is attacked the
. Maiays.
CHINA AND K REA.
Y*t again must we recall t. at
the Stars and Stripes have waved
triumphantly over foreign foes in
foreign waters, this tim" 1 the place
is China, nit so very far from the
scene of Admiral D i wey’a magnif
icent. smashing victory.
In 1855 Canton Bairier forip
were destroyed by the Portsmouth
and at Levant a desperate defense
was made but the Americans
would not keep back. The capture
o the forts led to a termintaion
of the war and the formation of" a
treaty of amity and commerce.
Formsoa and Korea were th'eate
ned by dur squadsons in 1867 and
1870, but th- engagement of onr
ships w -ri not of much importance
though sufficient to bring about, i
a speeds and satisfactory settli"
merit of the difficulties.
The ohj >ct to be ga uel by dis
patching Commodore Watson and
bu ships to the coasts and waters
of the kingdom of Spain in the
anas 83 in the cases otj Formosa,
CHEAP RATES.
'Tlie Southern R’y operates 8
daily trains between Roma aad
Chattanooga, by which parties
can leave Rome in the morning,
spend the day in Chattanooga
and return home same evening.
The schedule between these
points is as follows. Leave Rome
1 :00 a. ni. arrive C.iattanooga
4 :15 a. m. ; leave Rome 10 :85
arrive Chattanooga 1: 00 p. in.;
leave Rome 6:25 a. ni. arrive
Chattanooga 8 :50 p. m. There
is also a local train leaving Rome
3:50 p. m. going by the way of
Cohutta and Cleveland and ar
rives Chattanooga 7:20 p. m.
Returning, trains leave Chatta
nooga 6 :30 a. m. arrive Rome
9:00 a. m ; leave Chattanooga
3:10 p. m. arrive Rome 5:35 p.
m. ; leave Chattanoega 10 :10 p.
arrive Rome 1 :44 a. in. Pull
man sleeping cars on all train*.
For further information call
on C. Harrison, C. T. A.
The littie brown jug
filter price $ J OO-
l~he Oostanaul i is in
tho jug. See how Dew
ey- For sale by Miss
Julia Stewart, also at
Moore & Reese's-
and Kona an 1 in engagements
elsewhere the world over to bring
about peace and to cause the flag
and authority of the United States
to be respected. We demand secur
ity from Spanish rule in the
fnd : es mi ' security from Spain od
the high sens.
If the mere showing of the flag
will bring abiut these results so
much the b tier, if parts must be
terrorized it will be a pity, if pla
ces must b? bom bi rd d and cap
ered it will almost appear to be a
sin, for Spain must yield, and we
must make her yield—peacefully
if we can, forcibly if we o>'>sk