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Find them on the first floor. f MCDONALD-SPARKS-S iE WART Company 1 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 -1 " 38 a baS6 ’ ProCeed 01g hothecoastboftheking .Aßi,Dilar plan was later and thou « h •««»ri gi X liat fro,u "»• uni, ’ 1,16 u ° ” ' «rry the war into upon the >«B«ou. war h 7 - “ T" 01 ”’ ko “ «>•»> uuT't ug, “ **«rle« B 6 they wer ® KU too PP° 8 ® »t, widthat, 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