Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 June 1898 — Page 6

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TORPEDO" GUSHING.

HOW THE HEROIC SAILOR BLEW UP THE ALBEMARLE.

Modeled After the Merrlroac, the Ugly Bam

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an Equally Dread Destroyer.

A Feat Unparalleled In the Annala of Warfare. ,r -v,-''

[Special Correspondence.!

ANNAPOLIS, May 80. —For many years the G. A. R. and Confederate veterans of this vicinity have combined to hold union memorial services in the Naval cemetery opposite the academy. The cemetery being a very old one, many of the academy graduates buried in it are of southern lineage, and no distinction is thought of between those who died under the flag as to which war they served in.

Very few of the great naval commanders have their last resting places in the Naval cemetery. Some lie in Arlington, others in family plots beside the ashes of their kindred. Nevertheless this hallowed ground is a fitting shrine at the memorial season because of the many well known names inscribed liere. Among them is that of Commander William Barker Cushing, whose remains were entombed' in tho academy cemetery by the request of the navy department. A handsome sarcophagus

CUHIUNO MON0MKNT AT FKKDONIA.

marks the grave of tins gallant young sailor. It was oroeted by his widow, Katharine L. Gushing of Frodonia, N. Y., who has also placed a monument to his memory in the beautiful cemetery at Frodonia. A navy which ranks fifth in importance among maritime powers should have a brilliant future in store, but it will bo long before the record of this modest hero is eclipsed in its own field.

When Ounhing blew up tho Confederate ram Albemarle, ho went, into the enemy's lines to do it Taking it in all its bearings, it was a deed of personal heroism without parallel in the history of war Cushing and his men wore their blue uniforms, they were so armed and equipped that there eoultl bo no mystery as to their errand, mid they risked life and liberty to carry out the object of their most extraordinary and dangerous expedition.

Only audacity in attack which should paralyze the euemy or a miracle could save Cashing and his little band. It should bo understood that Cushing's part in tho ail'uir was not duo to accident. He was known in both navies throughout the waters of North Carolina, where the ram Albemarle was a terror to the Federal fleet, as a sailor who stopped at nothiug in order to get "the buljie on the enemy." Not by any means a daredevil, but one who sought desperate adventures in order to stir up the enemy. Physically ho was a Hotspur in courage mentally, a Nelson in boldness.

Previous Kxplott*.

Two exploits of Cushi ig the same year in which ho sank the Albemarle show the stuff in his make up. One night in February, with a force of 28 sailors in two boats, ho stole past the O&u federate batteries on the shore of Capo Fear river and lauded in frout of a hotel at Smithfield close to a camp of 1,000 Confederate soldiers. With three others Cushiug made a dash into the headquarters of tho Confederate commander, Cer.eral Hebert, intending to carry him off a prisoner. Fortunately for him the general was absent, but Cushing took along a staff officer whom he fount! in tho quarters. Although an alarm had been given the party was safely embarked and the txmt again passed under the guns of the fort before a shot could be fired to hold up the daring raiders.

The second- exploit took place a few months before the attack ou the Albemarle and was similar in nature. A companion ironclad ram to the Albemarle had been reported at Wilmington on the Cape Fear river, and Cashing volunteered to destroy her. He entered tho river oue night with 15 men in a boat. After a row of IS miles a bright moonlight rvvealed the boat to the enemy, and Cushing turned back. Doubling on his course and keeping in the shadow of the bank he got within seven miles of W ilmington. The boat was hid in a swamp, and the raiders reeted a day. Next night they captured a party of fishermen and forced them into terries as guides.

After a day of stirring adventure on the main road between Wilmington and Fort Fisher, during which Cashing held up Oral federate couriers and mail carriers, it was learned that the enemy had themselves destroyed the ram he was altar. On the third night of the trip the raiders set out to return to the Federal fleet off Fort Fisher. When they reached the month of Capo Fear river, they found the channel blocked by nine Confederate launcbut and a steamer, all

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filled with hostile* In this emergency Cushing's pluck and nerve stood the party in good stead. Making a dash for shoal water, he eluded the Confederates, then, swiftly doubling back, struck into a clear channel and got through.

With a man of Cushing's reputation in the opposing fleet the Confederates were not the ones to sleep around their favorite ram, successor in model and in career to the lamented Merrimac. Around the Plymouth wharf, where she was moored, there were a thousand soldiers on guard, with double lines of sentries along the river. A protecting boom of logs had also been stretched around the hull of the ram to keep torpedo boats at a distance. The crew of the ram was always alert and had a loaded gun trained on a bend in the channel where an attacking party would necessarily have to approach.

The Spar Torpedo.

Cushing's outfit for the destruction of the Albemarle consisted of a steam picket boat, with a spar torpedo of intricate device, attached to the bow. A boat howitzer and the cutlasses and pistols in the hands of Cushing and his crew of 14 men completed the array of weapons for offense and defense in the presence of a thousand enemies. The night was dark and rainy, so that by good fortune the party reached Plymouth about 3 a. m., having eluded the Confederate pickets stationed a mile below the ram on a partly submerged wreck lying in midstream.

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Cushing's first plan was to land and board the ram from the wharf. He knew nothing of the protection of logs boomed out around her, but the boarding plan was more in keeping with his spirit of making doubly sure at whatever risk. Besides, if successful, he would have taken the ram down the river a trophy of war. By a*. turn of luck the boarding scheme was foiled. Just as the picket boat hove within sight of the ram, whose outlines showed in the light of afire burning on shore, a dog barked and aroused the attention of the sentinels along the wharf.

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Close Challenge.

Seeing a strange.boat, the sentinels challenged, and getting no answer fired a musket. Suddenly all was excitement around tho ram. Other dogs joined in tho chorus, sentinels shouted and the ship's rattles sent out the alarm. Fresh fuel heaped upon the fires alongshore made the scene as light as day. Cushing instantly dropped tho idea of boarding and shouted to his engineer, "Go ahead, fast!" Tho launch was then pointed toward the ram, but on nearing her the brave fellow, standing upright in tho bow, saw for the first time the log torpedo shield standing out around the hull. Quickly divining that the logs had lain in the water until they had become slippery, Pushing backed off the launch and, taking a wide sweep, went at tho obstruction with all steam on. Tho launch glided over, but just then a volley of shots from the ram greeted the daring raiders. At the same time a primer on the ram snapped, showing that a cannon had missed fire. Cushing stood all this time in the prow of the launch. Two Confederate shots struck his clothing and one grazed tho wrist which held a lanyard th&t was to explode the torpedo. In the other hand he held a line which moved the torpedo spar, and around his neck was a third lino used to signal his orders to tho engineer below.

As tho launch neared the Albemarle Cushing, with truo sailor gallantry, called out: "Leave the ram! Wo're going to blow you up!" Cushing^s head was not. ten feet from a Confederate cannon when he lowered tho spar under tho ram's overhang. A jerk at the line detached the torpedo from the spar, and when Cushing felt the shell throbbing against the iron bowels of tho doomed leviathan he pulled the trigger line which exploded the charge.

Wreck of the Ram.

The explosion was not violent in sound, but heaved out a column of water which swamped the little launch. Tho ram careened and settled. Just as she went dowu the gun above Cushing's

CUSHING SARCOPHAGUS AT ANNAPOLIS.

head belched forth a charge of 100 pounds of canister, and the launch with all on board would have been blown to atoms but for the fact that Cushing's thrust had come in nick o' time and the lurching of the wounded monster destroyed the aim of the gunners.

The deed was done. In the mythological story of St. George and the dragon alone do we find its parallel. But what of the little launch and her brave commander and crew? Twice the Confederates on the main deck, which remained above tides called to the party to surrender. Gashing cried out, "Save yourselves, men!" threw off his revolver and sword belts, also coat and shoes, and jumped into the water. Two who followed suit were drowned. The rest surrendered. Cushing reached the shore exhausted and lay all day in a swamp near one of the forte guarding Plymouth. Finally he seized a skiff moored under the very eyes of some Confederate picketa, with which, after ascertaining to a certainty team

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to the Plymouth whsif that the rara was a hopeless wrafe, he reached the Federal Sect in Albemarle sound. *•,

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The French soldier is as easy to lead as a child. His cheerfulness and gay philosophy enable him to endure the greatest hardships without a murmur. All he wants is justice. When he has received his provisions, ho straightway goes to weigh his meat, his bread, his coffee, his sugar, even his salt All he wants is his due, and if he finds that he has not received short weight he is satisfied and cheefrul. A kind word from an officer will make him happy, a cigarette offered to him if he is short of tobacco will make a hero of him.

I remember one day passing a young soldier who was being taken to the hospital. His right hand had been shot off clean. "Cheer up, my boy,-"! said to him, "no more fighting for you. They will nurse you and take care of you." ."Ah, lieutenant," he replied with a look pitiful to contemplate, "how am I to roll my cigarettes now?"

I put a small box of cigarettes in his breast pocket. I shall never forget the expression of gratitude

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his face.

In another instance a devoted orderly was pitying his captain whose leg had just been amputated. "Don't cry, old fool," said the captain to him. "I am going to keep you, and in tho future you will have only one boot to clean every, morning." Max O'Rell in North American Review v."

The Nonchalant Canton Merchant.

Frequently on entering a Canton 'shop you will find its owner with a book in one hand and pipe or fan in the other and wholly absorbed in his studies.

You will be doomed to disappointment if you expect the smoker to start up at once, all smiles and blandness, rubbing his hands together as he makes a shrewd guess as to what he is likely to take out of you and receiving you with obsequiousness or with rudeness accordingly. Quite the reverse.

Your presence is apparently unnoticed unless you happen to lift anything. Then you hear that the fan has been arrested and feel that a keen eye is bent on your movements all the while. But it is not until you inquire for some article that the gentleman, now certain that you mean to trade, will rise without bustle from his seat, show you his goods or state the price he means to sell at, with a polite yet careless air which plainly says, "If it suits you, we make an exchange."—"Through China With a Camera."

Her Idea of It. A.J

"Journalism For Women," a book recently published in England, relates a story of a woman journalist in the north of England +.vho wrote to a London paper for permission to act as its special correspondent during the visit of some royal personages to her town. The editor of the paper, knowing her for a good descriptive writer, gave the necessary authority, with explicit information as to the last moment for receiving copy The moment came, but not the copy, and the editor had to go to press without it Th6 next day, no explanation having arrived, he dispatched to his special correspondent a particularly scathing and scornful letter. Then came the excuse. It was long, but the root of it amounted to exactly this: "I was so knocked up and had such a headache after the ceremonies were over that 1 really did not feel equal tc the exertion of writing. I thought it wonld not matter.

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Qneen Wllhelmina's Oath.

The ooronation of tbe yonng qneen of Holland will take plaoe, according to a recently published decree, on Sept. 6. On that day the yonng woman, with right hand raised, in the presenoe of the state's general, will pledge herself to tbe following formula, which is a strange contrast to the oaths administered to the Russian and German emperors "I swear to the people of the Netherlands to observe and always maintain the fundamental lavy. I pledge myself to defend and to preserve with all my power the independence of the kingdom, to protect public and private liberty and tbe rights of all my subjects and to employ for tbe preservation and advancement of individual and general prosperity all tbe means which tbe laws plaoe at my disposal as the dne of an uprigbt qneen. And may God aid me in my work."

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