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WAR Si Blockade Runner Wi ado Forty-f Broken in two amidships, hard and , fast' ou a sand bar, about a »nile olF shore from Seven Mile Beach, a deso¬ late stretch of the New .Jersey coast, seventy milos from Philadelphia, is a vessel which, during the early part of th< civil war, sproul consternation among lin- Federal authorities un many, many occasion*. l''or years since that greatest siro ?. in modern history the craft luis i. plying the waters in the vicinity of New Vork and Philadelphia in the peaceful pur¬ suit ol' commerce under the common¬ place name ol' tho (juif Stream. I'ut when the conflict between North and and South raged fiercest she was one of the most successful blockade run- ncrs that ever left a Southern port with a cargo of cotton or other va'ua- j hie freight or slipped hack imo Cou- federate harbors with munitions of wai\ despite the watchfulness of offi- cers and crews who manned the block- ading vessels of the North. In those early «lays of her career thc vessel was variously called thc Caro¬ lina, thc Kale and thc victory for blockade runners changed names in those times as readily as they shifted cargoes or altered their course for safe harbors and sailing ports. But whatev er name thc craft hore at her bow or stern in war times she was a source nf trouble to the Union ves¬ sels and crews. The daring aud in- g-uuity of her skipper made her feared b Federal naval oflicers, and th J suc- . -.-en she met with in exchanging products of thc Southland for arms and ammunition aided the rebel force s in their resistance to the Union army to an extent which will never ho known, but which was undoubtedly very material. Her career of trouble making was cut short in time sh''1 captured and subsequently did duty as u Union vessel under thc name of the Queen, blockading some of the very ports whose defenders, .s a blockade runner, site had previ .sly defied. Then came thc end of thc war; the sale of tho vessel to private parties and her entry on thc shipping records as a freighter, and finally her ignominious end in the clutch of thc Jersey sands. "Tho freight steamer Gulf Stream ashore off Anglesea, on thc Jersey coast. Crew rescued by life-savers." Such, in effect, was thc brief report given to the world of tho ending of the old vessel's career. To the general reading public this siujp'y meant that another hulk had been consigned to the marino graveyard along thc Jersey J coast; that another craft had outlived its usefulness and would be abandoned .to thc relentless buffeting and pound- ing of wind and waves until thc stanch oak beams should he wrouched apart and carried away ou the bosom J of the cvcr rcstlcss ocean, or perhaps 1 one or more be left sticking in thc 1 saud like giant fingers pointing warn¬ ings tn other mariners J But the life savors and fishermen 1 along Seven Mile Beach are more f curious about sucn things lhau the ' average render of newspapers and they 1 were not long in learning that the ( Gulf Stream and tho Queen and the c Victory, Kate or Carolina were one 1 and tho same. Then as the captain- of I tho ill-fated craft told briefly of its career from Jaugching to foundering i the life cavers and fishermeu gave 11 voice to one sentiment. It was: 1 "She was worthy of a better fate." 1 Thc Gulf Stream, us the craft was c last called, went, ashoro in tho fog c Friday, January 30. She was laden \ with a general cargo and was da her \ way from New York to Philadelphia, t The Clyde Steamship Company, of J the Quaker City, are her owners and t the hales of wool and leather, heaps of I pig iroe and barrels of wines and t whiskeys which she carried were billed t to that company, lt was very foggy « that morning, when, shortly after -I < o'clock, thc coast guard of tho Tba- 1 tam's Station heard the prolonged t tooting of a whistle that told of a ves- i - sei -in distress. There was a strong southwest wind blowing and a heavy sea was running. How the brave life-saving crew, un¬ der Capt. R. S. Ludlam, put off in their boat and saved the crew of twenty men aboard thc stranded steam¬ ar, with the assistance of the coast . guard from Anglesea, is not to be a part of this story. Sufhcicnt to say that all on board wcro rescued and . Capt. Jacob Swain brought ashore his papers and log hook, which never more will be used for thc Gulf Stream, for there was no saving the vessel. She struck the sand bar in such a way that abo broko just where the ougincs were : an i near where arc still visible the reo:- *fttwu shot holes, where in 1863 ^ tliiii v-two-pounder and a ball from anelevou inch gun went through her while she was running away from In¬ ion vessels of war. There arc few tales of sea moro in uRIES. -îcked-Jüan. the Block¬ our Times. torcsling than tlie story of the Gulf Stream from the time of her launching. And so, to properly spin this yam, it will he necessary to go hack in history forty-two years ago. The vessel was built in Philadelphia and was launch¬ ed :is tho Carolina early in 1801. She wa-an iron propeller vessel li 18 feet lon/, thirty feet beam, thirteen feet deep, with a draft «d' only sis or seven feel, although of something over 700 tons burden, ll wai iii'.- intention of tin; Carolina's owners to engage her in trade, hut soon after she was launched came lin' firing on Sumter and the war was on. Invents followed each other rapidly in those days. President Lincoln pro¬ claimed a blockade of thc Southern pints and every available boat the I inion tutees could hay or borrow was used to enforce the closing of the har¬ bors of tho seceding States. It was then that blockade-running began. For to carry on thc war it was neces¬ sary that thc Southern States should send away their cotton and other pro¬ duce and receive in return arms and ammunition. To do this it was re¬ quired to have ships that could outsail the Union gunboats and cruisers, for the blockade runner» had to slip through the cordon of watchful Union naval forces. It was thig kind of work which the Carolina was used for. Soou after her launching she was purchased by par¬ ties backed by thc Confederate (Jov- crmnent and her name was changed to the Kate. Under this title she bc- camo one of tho most famous blockade runners. For months she was the hopi' of thc Confederates and the des¬ pair of the Unionists. Naval records show that before she was captured she eluded tho blockading iieets no less than forty four times, each occasion netting thousands of dollars to her owners and bringing in much needed supplies to the rebels. Capt. Lockwood was jdaced in com¬ mand of thc Kate by her owuers. Little is said of him personally in the war records, but he is mentioned wherever thc Kate is named, and the success which attended tho vessel's movements would indicate that bc was a most daring fellow. At first the Union blockade was la¬ mentably inefficient. There were not enough boats, and those in charge of them, being unfamiliar with the South* ern waters, became the laughingstock of their enemies. The blockade was called a "paper" one, and the Confed- nracy insisted for a long time that Lhere was no blockade, since her ships had little tl i flic ulty in getting in and jut. I Latein 1SÜ1 the Kate began her ' work. She took on a cargo of cotton 1 it Charle?»tou, and ono night, when * :hcrc was no moon, she slipped her Í sable and «tood out to sea. 1 In due lime the Katu reached Kng- and, where her cotton was sold for a i rood price and a load of arms' was i »hipped. At that time, as is well I mown, langland wa« more friendly f oward the Confederacy, and a number I )f blockade runners were manned and i captained by Englishmen who went 1 tito the buoness, r»s high prices were. < )aid the crews of blockade rnnners. For the first year Ifittle mention is 1 nade in thc official records of the ¡vate, but the truth probably was the ' Cockade was so ineficefcive that thc; ' /nion vessels did not know when she ¡ame and went, lîut towards th« mid- lie of 1862 the Union forces hae> more estela and tho lines of tb«blockaders- vere more closely drawn. Then it wa» hat the comings and goings of tho vate was noticed, usually to the mor- ideation of those eouiraandiog tho dookading neeta It wsw after the hen notorious Kate had made moro han len voyages that »he Was the subject of a strict inquiry on the part. )f Hear Admiral Goldsborough. The Kalo wax then sometimes known ap. he Carolina, and tho official ¿r~.¿- uentt» of the timo about to be told of so refer to» her. Lo the annal» of the navy depart¬ ment mention ia made of the Carolin» j in a letter written January li>, 1863» to William ll. Seward, Secretary of State, by Samuel Whiting, United States consul at Nassa», New Provi¬ dence in the Bahamas. The, letter was to the effect that a> few days pre¬ vious the Carolina arrived at Nassau, had passed up the channel between tho Confederate ship Elizabeth Bon- Bail and the Union gunboat Flambeau, and had dipped her flag to the Bon- sail, just as she wa9 opposite, the Un¬ ion vessel. As tho harbor was a neu¬ tral one, tho Carolina had no more to fear from tho Flambeau than if the latter was a thousand miles away. Consul "Whiting happened ioho tell¬ ing of thc arrival of thc Carolina in Ithe presenco of Capt. Temple, of the Flambeau, and a number of other na¬ val officers, a few days later. "Wi!!." remarked Capt. Temple, "if I liad been on board my vessel I would have acknowledged the salute of thc Canliua. She is an enemy, buta brave foo, and she did what was right in dipping her colors in a neutral port. "Dip the Stars and Stripes to a rebel ra^," wrote Mr. Whiting to Mr. Seward. "I told Capt. Temple I would sooner back my baud off than be guilty of such an act." Frequently thereafter did Mr. Whit¬ ing have occasion to write to Mr. Seward, and in many of thc lottert mentioned that the Kate had arrive! at Nassau with a cargo of cotton, which always met with a ready sale. Nassau was a favorite port for thc blockade runners, as it was under British control and only 180 miles from thc coast of Florida. To avoid international complications the Con¬ fedérale ¿kippers would dispose of their cargo to a firm, who would pre¬ tend lo sell the stufl ou commission, ami the money thus acquired would usually be invested in munitions of war for the seccders. The cotton would be reloaded into English vessels and sent to Uugland, wluch country was in great need of it. Tho Kate, as were ether blockade runners, was painted a dull lead grey, a color hard to distinguish even a short distance away »n thc daytime, and ren¬ dering thc vessel almost invisible in the darkness of night. Anthracite coal was burned, producing little or no smoke, and when about to slip through thc blockading Meet all lights were ex¬ tinguished, the hatches covered and thc steersman had to peer at the bin¬ nacle lamp through a small slit in a piece of canvas. Atone time before her day came, the blockading fleet thought the Kate was t'oomcd to capture. She had been seen off the Florida coast in March, 1S*»ii, and had been chased by a num¬ ber of Union vessels. She took refuge in Mosquito Inlet, near Port Royal, and hope ran high in the heart of the commander of the Atlantic squadron, S. F. Dupont, when ho received a message from thc captain of several ships, that at last the Kate was hemmed in. Dupont ordered the offi¬ cers of the vessels to carefully guard lae inict waters, and they tried to, but the Kate made her escape one dark, rainy night, and waB free to con¬ tinue her work. Another chapter of the naval records show that on August 10, 1862, James F. Armstrong, commanding the United States steamer Stato of Georgia, sta¬ tioned off Wilmington, N. C., wrote to Rear Admiral Golsborough that he had learned from three contrabands, who came off the night before, that on August G the steamer Carolina or Kate, Lockwood, master, entered Wil¬ mington from Nassau with liquor, clothing and fruit. She had bee» chased by some of the blockading Beet, Capt. Armstrong reported, and had lo throw part of her eargo over¬ board to lighten her so that she could escape. i This news was received by the rear admiral with anything but favor, for the antics of Master Lockwood were beginning to pall on the Union fleet. 3o the rear admiral wrote back to L'apt. Armstrong, expressing his re- ;ret at learning that the Kate had »gain run the blockade. "This will never answer," reads the ?earadmiral's letter. "More vigilance must be exercised. Why ia it that jhe vessels stationed on the side the karolina entered have no knowledge of iho fact? Appoint a board of three impartial and suitable officers to in¬ vestigate the subject of the entranco this vessel." The official inquiry was made, but imounted to nothing. The report of the inquiry was duly forwarded to the rear admiral. A few lays later Capt. Armstrong wrote tho rear admiral that the foroe of Union vessels off the coast of North Carolina was utterly inadequate to maintain the blockade. "The utmost» vigitanee is required from the vessels blockading," wrote Capt. Armstrong, "as the steamet Kate will endeavor to escape. On August 27, 1862, Capt. Arm¬ strong again sounded a noto of warn¬ ing to Hear Admiral Goldsborough, telling him that the Kate and a num ber of other vessels were preparing tc run ihc blockade. And the next heart of thc Kate was the escape, whicl Capt. Armstrong foared. It occurvet on the night of August 29 and tin Kate got safely out to sea. Thii brought forth a sharp letter from Act ing Rear Admiral S. P. Lee, of th flag ship- Minnesota, to Capt. Guatavu H. Scott, who at tho time-was th senior officer off Wilmington, N. C. "The department will be extreme! mortified to hear," wrote the aotin rear admiral, "that ihe Kate has ru the blockade of Wilmington, out b New Inlet, with a load of ootton, a article now so valuable that a sit gio cargo will purchase a largo quat tity of arms." And so tho Kate got off again saf ly with h'ir cargo. Sho must ha> made a quick trip to Nassau, whitb sho headed on most outward voyage for on September 25, about a mont later, she was lying to near Fort Ca well. Thero sho was discovered 1 thc Union gunboat Maratanza. 1 Capt. Scott, of thc gunboat, repot cd later that he approached thc Kate aa near as practicable, so as to keep out of range of the guns of thc fort. With a rifle gun he fired on the vessel, and came within such range that thc blockade runner had to weigh anchor and sait up the ."iver. She brought to a little way up, but the shots from the rifle gun of tho Maratanza again dropped perilously close to her and she was obliged to go farther up stream, where she was safe. The Kate, according to Scott, was very speedy, and he reported that she prob¬ ably slipped through the blockading fleet, going ia on the night of Septem¬ ber 24, 1802, which was dark and raiÀy. This escapade of the Kate gave much annoyance to Acting Rear Admiral Lee, and he wrote to Com¬ mander Scott, who had fired on her, that it seemed that the blockading fleet was not placed in the best posi¬ tion to prevent blockade running, in view of thc many times thc Kate had entered and left Southern ports. The next oflicial record of thc Kate's movements is under date ol November 4, 1802. On that date thc Mount Vernon and the Daylight, ol the Union forces, attacked a larg» English bark off New Inlet, N. C. near Masonboro Inlet. The Confed crates stationed on shore sallied out tc the aid of the bark, aud the land forcei in boats succeeded in capturing twe boats from tho Daylight and one fron the Mount Vernon, together witt three officers and eighteen men. Bui eventually thc crew of the bark wai taken and the vessel burned. Th« mate of the bark, when questioned said the bark had passed at sea, a fev days before, thc blockade runne Kate. The Kate or Carolina-both namei were used-kept on running the block ade. She seemed to be impervious t< shot and shell, for as she slipped ii and out of the blockade she was iire< on time and again, with little or n< damage. In the navy records of th operations of the Union and Confed erate vessels there are frequent refer enees lo thc vessel, usually a state ment from one commander to anothe that he regretted to inform his supe rior that, the rebel steamer Carolina o Kite, as the caso might be, had agai slipped in under their noses with valuable cargo. Or perhaps the r< cord would be varied by a mentio that the boat nad slipped out agai with a valuable eargo of ootton. All sorts of efforts were made t capture or destroy the persistent blocl ade runner and there sprang up a fee ing of rivalry among the various ca] tains of the blockading squadron 1 see who would be the man luck enough to sink the floating rebe And it was not always easy sailing f< tho blockade* runner. Many a tin she was chased for hours, and thei were occasions when only by saorifi ing part of the eargo could the shi make speed enough to escape. Oftc part of the load of piteh would 1 placed under the boilers to get up greater head of Bteam. Once in slipping through a blocka ing lino the rebel craft was near taken because at the same time si was making the trial a clumsy »id wheeler also attempted to run tl blockade. The-splashing of the pa dies of tho side-wheeler was borne thc ears of the erew of a Union gu boat and an alarm was given. T Union boat burned rockets, which d: closod tho presence of the Carola and then trained several guns on ht The shot flew thick and fast foi time, but Lockwood, seeing that co cealment was no longer possible, p on a full1 head of steam and cut for The firing brought a number of t blockading fleet together, and t Carolina, as she was then called, well as the stearne* which- had eaus nil the mischief, was under a bec fire. *B«t tho former managed to dr away beyond the range of the roo! lights, and the next morning she v under the Confederate batteries. T was one of the dosest calls the Ca lina had and Master Lockwood, telling about it afterward, used to there was a minute when he thou] it was all up with his craft. The master of the Carolina had ingenious system of notifying those shore who wove interested in the oi that she was through tho line ready to discharge her eargo. every light darkened, she would the blockade, and then, when i shore, she would display two Hg] one above the other, in tho rigging tho shore side, hut a screen on sea side kept this gleam from the \ of tho-' i- on the blockading vest Tho lookout on shore would Sis; answering lights, and the Carol! crew would kr . w that all waa safe that they could run into the barbe This triok was afterward taken vantago of by tho Union forces, by praotioing it they captured a i ber of blockade runners. Thc Carolina was ono of the fir the blockade runners to put into ] tice the blowing off of exhaust s under water. Thc exhaust pipe carried down below deok and thu noiso mado hy. tho csoaping s oould not bo heard. Quietude wi important factor in getting thr the enemy's line. With-such regularity had tho h ado runner's voyages been made, pite tho effortB uf the Union fleet to capture her, that the owners of the craft re-named her the Victory and under this name she continued her trafficking. But the vessel was not altogether immune and after having completed her forty-fourth voyage from supposedly blockaded ports she fell a prize to the Union vessel, the Santiago de Cuba, June 21, 1863. A few dajs before that the Victory had \ quietly slipped out from Charleston, with a valuable cargo of cotton and other freight, en route for Nassau. She went along with fair weather and Master Lockwood and his crew were congratulating themselves on having again fooled the Yankees. But whilo they were probably gloating over their success a lookout perched on the crosstree* of the Santiago de Cuba, commanded by R. II. Wyman, had sighted the Victory. They were then about fifty-five miles southwest from Eleuthcra Island. ^ The Santiago de Cuba headed for the Victory aud the captain of the blockade runner changed his course to due east, hoping to put distance be¬ tween himself and his pursuer. But the Santiago de Cuba was a swift '..teamer and soon came within range of the Victory. The Santiago fired a shot from her forward rifle gun, but it fell short. Then there belched forth olouds of black smoke from tho funnel of the Confederate vessel. Capt. Lockwood, in his efforts to make speed, was burning rosin from the boat's cargo in her boilers. But still the Santiago de Cuba gained. Lock¬ wood next sought to lighten his craft, and about 150 bales of cotton wero tossed into the sea. But this only served to postpone the inevitable. For five hours the raoe kept up bofore Capt. Wyman had his vessel where he could train several guns on the block¬ ade runner. As the latter had no guns for defence there was nothing to do but surrender. The Victory did not lower her colors, for she carried none, but Skipper Lockwood ran up a white flag and a prize crew from the Santiago de Cuba wus sent aboard the vessel. Lockwood had no papers to show, for he had thrown them over¬ board when he saw he oould not es¬ cape. The Victory had on board 875 bales of cotton, in addition to the 150 thrown overboard. J&esides the cot¬ ton she had 1,000 pounds of tobacco and i,hirey barrels of turpentine. She also had her bunkers full of good an¬ thracite coal obtained from Nassau on ber previous trip there. This coal led to the discovery that the fuel had been exported from the United States, and, having been sold to English firms in the Bahamas, was purchased for the use of Confederate vessels As soon as this fact was learned the Union G-overnment stopped the exporting of coal until the war ended. At the time of the capturo of the Victory there were nor other Union vessels in sight. Some time after- terward, however, the Union gunboats Tioga and Octorara, picked up seven¬ ty-nine bales of cotton of the 150 thrown over from the Confederate steamer. The Victory was sent to Boston, and there she was taken by the Govern¬ ment and her name was changed to the Queen. 'Her eargo and the value of tho vessel was $306,421 37, aud after all expenses had been deducted there was $299,908.45 left, which amount was divided among the officers and crew of the Santiago de Cuba. Years after the war was over Capt. Lockwood told how he had tío long eluded capture while iu command of the old Victory. After getting his cargo he would wait in the harbor for a dark night, preferably a rainy or foggy night. Then, knowing every inch of the water, he would wlip out between two of the blockaders, which, because of the stretch of coasts they had to patvol, were sometimes far apart. Then instead of continuing his voyage he would lie to, hoist the Stars and Stripes at the mast head, and cruise about as if his vessel was one of the blockading fleet. On the second night, rfter a day of masquer¬ ading as » (Inion ship, Lockwood would lower the Stars and Stripes, put out or oover every light on board, and start off. By daylight he would bo beyond the range of vision.-Newark Sunday Times. hrs So Easy Testate cold. It's so common to neglect the cold. That io one reason why there axe so many people with " deep-seated," stubborn coughs, and so many more with »lung trouble." The short, quick way to/ core a cough is to use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis-' covery. The quicker this re tn eily is used the quicker the cure. But even when neglect haa let disease fasten on the ^unSs« "Golden Médical Discovery" may be relied on to cure in ninety- eight cases out of every hundred. 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Page 1: Anderson intelligencer.(Anderson, S.C.) 1903-02-25 [2]. · reading public this siujp'y meant that another hulk had been consigned to the marino graveyard alongthc Jersey J coast;

WAR Si

Blockade Runner Wiado Forty-f

Broken in two amidships, hard and ,

fast' ou a sand bar, about a »nile olFshore from Seven Mile Beach, a deso¬late stretch of the New .Jersey coast,seventy milos from Philadelphia, is a

vessel which, during the early part ofth< civil war, sproul consternationamong lin- Federal authorities un

many, many occasion*. l''or yearssince that greatest siro ?. in modernhistory the craft luis i. plying thewaters in the vicinity of New Vorkand Philadelphia in the peaceful pur¬suit ol' commerce under the common¬

place name ol' tho (juif Stream. I'utwhen the conflict between North andand South raged fiercest she was one

of the most successful blockade run-ncrs that ever left a Southern portwith a cargo of cotton or other va'ua- jhie freight or slipped hack imo Cou-federate harbors with munitions ofwai\ despite the watchfulness of offi-cers and crews who manned the block-ading vessels of the North.

In those early «lays of her career thcvessel was variously called thc Caro¬lina, thc Kale and thc victory forblockade runners changed names inthose times as readily as they shiftedcargoes or altered their course for safeharbors and sailing ports.But whatev er name thc craft hore at

her bow or stern in war times she wasa source nf trouble to the Union ves¬sels and crews. The daring aud in-g-uuity of her skipper made her fearedb Federal naval oflicers, and th J suc-. -.-en she met with in exchangingproducts of thc Southland for armsand ammunition aided the rebel force s

in their resistance to the Union armyto an extent which will never hoknown, but which was undoubtedlyvery material. Her career of troublemaking was cut short in time sh''1captured and subsequently did dutyas u Union vessel under thc name ofthe Queen, blockading some of thevery ports whose defenders, .s ablockade runner, site had previ .slydefied. Then came thc end of thcwar; the sale of tho vessel to privateparties and her entry on thc shippingrecords as a freighter, and finally herignominious end in the clutch of thcJersey sands."Tho freight steamer Gulf Stream

ashore off Anglesea, on thc Jerseycoast. Crew rescued by life-savers."

Such, in effect, was thc brief reportgiven to the world of tho ending of theold vessel's career. To the generalreading public this siujp'y meant thatanother hulk had been consigned tothe marino graveyard along thc Jersey Jcoast; that another craft had outlivedits usefulness and would be abandoned.to thc relentless buffeting and pound-ing of wind and waves until thcstanch oak beams should he wrouchedapart and carried away ou the bosom J

of the cvcr rcstlcss ocean, or perhaps 1

one or more be left sticking in thc 1

saud like giant fingers pointing warn¬

ings tn other mariners JBut the life savors and fishermen 1

along Seven Mile Beach are more f

curious about sucn things lhau the 'average render of newspapers and they 1were not long in learning that the (

Gulf Stream and tho Queen and the c

Victory, Kate or Carolina were one 1

and tho same. Then as the captain- of Itho ill-fated craft told briefly of itscareer from Jaugching to foundering ithe life cavers and fishermeu gave 11voice to one sentiment. It was: 1"She was worthy of a better fate." 1Thc Gulf Stream, us the craft was c

last called, went, ashoro in tho fog c

Friday, January 30. She was laden \

with a general cargo and was da her \

way from New York to Philadelphia, tThe Clyde Steamship Company, of Jthe Quaker City, are her owners and tthe hales of wool and leather, heaps of Ipig iroe and barrels of wines and twhiskeys which she carried were billed tto that company, lt was very foggy «

that morning, when, shortly after -I <

o'clock, thc coast guard of tho Tba- 1tam's Station heard the prolonged t

tooting of a whistle that told of a ves- i- sei -in distress. There was a strongsouthwest wind blowing and a heavysea was running.How the brave life-saving crew, un¬

der Capt. R. S. Ludlam, put off intheir boat and saved the crew oftwenty men aboard thc stranded steam¬

ar, with the assistance of the coast

. guard from Anglesea, is not to be a

part of this story. Sufhcicnt to say

that all on board wcro rescued and. Capt. Jacob Swain brought ashore his

papers and log hook, which never more

will be used for thc Gulf Stream, for

there was no saving the vessel. Shestruck the sand bar in such a way that

abo broko just where the ougincs were

: an i near where arc still visible thereo:- *fttwu shot holes, where in 1863^ tliiii v-two-pounder and a ball fromanelevou inch gun went through her

while she was running away from In¬

ion vessels of war.

There arc few tales of sea moro in

uRIES.

-îcked-Jüan. the Block¬our Times.

torcsling than tlie story of the GulfStream from the time of her launching.And so, to properly spin this yam, itwill he necessary to go hack in historyforty-two years ago. The vessel wasbuilt in Philadelphia and was launch¬ed :is tho Carolina early in 1801. Shewa-an iron propeller vessel li 18 feetlon/, thirty feet beam, thirteen feetdeep, with a draft «d' only sis or sevenfeel, although of something over 700tons burden, ll wai iii'.- intention oftin; Carolina's owners to engage her intrade, hut soon after she was launchedcame lin' firing on Sumter and the warwas on.

Invents followed each other rapidlyin those days. President Lincoln pro¬claimed a blockade of thc Southernpints and every available boat theI inion tutees could hay or borrow wasused to enforce the closing of the har¬bors of tho seceding States. It wasthen that blockade-running began.For to carry on thc war it was neces¬sary that thc Southern States shouldsend away their cotton and other pro¬duce and receive in return arms andammunition. To do this it was re¬

quired to have ships that could outsailthe Union gunboats and cruisers, forthe blockade runner» had to slipthrough the cordon of watchful Unionnaval forces.

It was thig kind of work which theCarolina was used for. Soou after herlaunching she was purchased by par¬ties backed by thc Confederate (Jov-crmnent and her name was changed tothe Kate. Under this title she bc-camo one of tho most famous blockaderunners. For months she was thehopi' of thc Confederates and the des¬pair of the Unionists. Naval recordsshow that before she was captured sheeluded tho blockading iieets no lessthan forty four times, each occasionnetting thousands of dollars to herowners and bringing in much neededsupplies to the rebels.

Capt. Lockwood was jdaced in com¬mand of thc Kate by her owuers.Little is said of him personally in thewar records, but he is mentionedwherever thc Kate is named, and thesuccess which attended tho vessel'smovements would indicate that bc wasa most daring fellow.

At first the Union blockade was la¬mentably inefficient. There were notenough boats, and those in charge ofthem, being unfamiliar with the South*ern waters, became the laughingstockof their enemies. The blockade wascalled a "paper" one, and the Confed-nracy insisted for a long time thatLhere was no blockade, since her shipshad little tl i flic ulty in getting in andjut. ILatein 1SÜ1 the Kate began her '

work. She took on a cargo of cotton 1

it Charle?»tou, and ono night, when *:hcrc was no moon, she slipped her Ísable and «tood out to sea. 1

In due lime the Katu reached Kng-and, where her cotton was sold for a irood price and a load of arms' was i

»hipped. At that time, as is well I

mown, langland wa« more friendly foward the Confederacy, and a number I)f blockade runners were manned and icaptained by Englishmen who went 1

tito the buoness, r»s high prices were. <

)aid the crews of blockade rnnners.

For the first year Ifittle mention is 1

nade in thc official records of the¡vate, but the truth probably was the '

Cockade was so ineficefcive that thc; '

/nion vessels did not know when she¡ame and went, lîut towards th« mid-lie of 1862 the Union forces hae> moreestela and tho lines of tb«blockaders-vere more closely drawn. Then it wa»hat the comings and goings of thovate was noticed, usually to the mor-

ideation of those eouiraandiog thodookading neeta It wsw after thehen notorious Kate had made moro

han len voyages that »he Was thesubject of a strict inquiry on the part.)f Hear Admiral Goldsborough. TheKalo wax then sometimes known ap.

he Carolina, and tho official ¿r~.¿-uentt» of the timo about to be told ofso refer to» her.

Lo the annal» of the navy depart¬ment mention ia made of the Carolin» jin a letter written January li>, 1863»to William ll. Seward, Secretary ofState, by Samuel Whiting, UnitedStates consul at Nassa», New Provi¬dence in the Bahamas. The, letterwas to the effect that a> few days pre¬vious the Carolina arrived at Nassau,had passed up the channel betweentho Confederate ship Elizabeth Bon-Bail and the Union gunboat Flambeau,and had dipped her flag to the Bon-sail, just as she wa9 opposite, the Un¬ion vessel. As tho harbor was a neu¬

tral one, tho Carolina had no more tofear from tho Flambeau than if thelatter was a thousand miles away.Consul "Whiting happened ioho tell¬

ing of thc arrival of thc Carolina inIthe presenco of Capt. Temple, of theFlambeau, and a number of other na¬val officers, a few days later.

"Wi!!." remarked Capt. Temple,"if I liad been on board my vessel Iwould have acknowledged the salute ofthc Canliua. She is an enemy, butabrave foo, and she did what was rightin dipping her colors in a neutral port."Dip the Stars and Stripes to a

rebel ra^," wrote Mr. Whiting to Mr.Seward. "I told Capt. Temple Iwould sooner back my baud off thanbe guilty of such an act."

Frequently thereafter did Mr. Whit¬ing have occasion to write to Mr.Seward, and in many of thc lottertmentioned that the Kate had arrive!at Nassau with a cargo of cotton,which always met with a ready sale.Nassau was a favorite port for thc

blockade runners, as it was underBritish control and only 180 milesfrom thc coast of Florida. To avoidinternational complications the Con¬fedérale ¿kippers would dispose oftheir cargo to a firm, who would pre¬tend lo sell the stufl ou commission,ami the money thus acquired wouldusually be invested in munitions ofwar for the seccders. The cottonwould be reloaded into English vesselsand sent to Uugland, wluch countrywas in great need of it.Tho Kate, as were ether blockade

runners, was painted a dull lead grey,a color hard to distinguish even a shortdistance away »n thc daytime, and ren¬

dering thc vessel almost invisible inthe darkness of night. Anthracitecoal was burned, producing little or no

smoke, and when about to slip throughthc blockading Meet all lights were ex¬

tinguished, the hatches covered andthc steersman had to peer at the bin¬nacle lamp through a small slit in a

piece of canvas.Atone time before her day came,

the blockading fleet thought the Katewas t'oomcd to capture. She had beenseen off the Florida coast in March,1S*»ii, and had been chased by a num¬ber of Union vessels. She took refugein Mosquito Inlet, near Port Royal,and hope ran high in the heart of thecommander of the Atlantic squadron,S. F. Dupont, when ho received a

message from thc captain of severalships, that at last the Kate washemmed in. Dupont ordered the offi¬cers of the vessels to carefully guardlae inict waters, and they tried to,but the Kate made her escape one

dark, rainy night, and waB free to con¬tinue her work.Another chapter of the naval records

show that on August 10, 1862, JamesF. Armstrong, commanding the UnitedStates steamer Stato of Georgia, sta¬tioned off Wilmington, N. C., wrote toRear Admiral Golsborough that hehad learned from three contrabands,who came off the night before, that on

August G the steamer Carolina or

Kate, Lockwood, master, entered Wil¬mington from Nassau with liquor,clothing and fruit. She had bee»chased by some of the blockadingBeet, Capt. Armstrong reported, andhad lo throw part of her eargo over¬board to lighten her so that she couldescape. i

This news was received by the rearadmiral with anything but favor, forthe antics of Master Lockwood were

beginning to pall on the Union fleet.3o the rear admiral wrote back toL'apt. Armstrong, expressing his re-

;ret at learning that the Kate had»gain run the blockade."This will never answer," reads the

?earadmiral's letter. "More vigilancemust be exercised. Why ia it thatjhe vessels stationed on the side thekarolina entered have no knowledge ofiho fact? Appoint a board of threeimpartial and suitable officers to in¬vestigate the subject of the entranco)î this vessel."The official inquiry was made, but

imounted to nothing.The report of the inquiry was duly

forwarded to the rear admiral. A fewlays later Capt. Armstrong wrote thorear admiral that the foroe of Unionvessels off the coast of North Carolinawas utterly inadequate to maintainthe blockade."The utmost» vigitanee is required

from the vessels blockading," wroteCapt. Armstrong, "as the steametKate will endeavor to escape.On August 27, 1862, Capt. Arm¬

strong again sounded a noto of warn¬

ing to Hear Admiral Goldsborough,telling him that the Kate and a num

ber of other vessels were preparing tcrun ihc blockade. And the next heartof thc Kate was the escape, whiclCapt. Armstrong foared. It occurvet

on the night of August 29 and tinKate got safely out to sea. Thiibrought forth a sharp letter from Acting Rear Admiral S. P. Lee, of thflag ship- Minnesota, to Capt. GuatavuH. Scott, who at tho time-was thsenior officer off Wilmington, N. C.

"The department will be extreme!mortified to hear," wrote the aotinrear admiral, "that ihe Kate has ruthe blockade of Wilmington, out bNew Inlet, with a load of ootton, a

article now so valuable that a sitgio cargo will purchase a largo quattity of arms."And so tho Kate got off again saf

ly with h'ir cargo. Sho must ha>made a quick trip to Nassau, whitbsho headed on most outward voyagefor on September 25, about a montlater, she was lying to near Fort Cawell. Thero sho was discovered 1thc Union gunboat Maratanza.

1 Capt. Scott, of thc gunboat, repot

cd later that he approached thc Kateaa near as practicable, so as to keepout of range of the guns of thc fort.With a rifle gun he fired on the vessel,and came within such range that thcblockade runner had to weigh anchorand sait up the ."iver. She broughtto a little way up, but the shots fromthe rifle gun of tho Maratanza againdropped perilously close to her andshe was obliged to go farther upstream, where she was safe. TheKate, according to Scott, was veryspeedy, and he reported that she prob¬ably slipped through the blockadingfleet, going ia on the night of Septem¬ber 24, 1802, which was dark andraiÀy. This escapade of the Kategave much annoyance to Acting RearAdmiral Lee, and he wrote to Com¬mander Scott, who had fired on her,that it seemed that the blockadingfleet was not placed in the best posi¬tion to prevent blockade running, inview of thc many times thc Kate hadentered and left Southern ports.The next oflicial record of thc

Kate's movements is under date olNovember 4, 1802. On that date thcMount Vernon and the Daylight, olthe Union forces, attacked a larg»English bark off New Inlet, N. C.near Masonboro Inlet. The Confedcrates stationed on shore sallied out tcthe aid of the bark, aud the land forceiin boats succeeded in capturing tweboats from tho Daylight and one fronthe Mount Vernon, together wittthree officers and eighteen men. Buieventually thc crew of the bark waitaken and the vessel burned. Th«mate of the bark, when questionedsaid the bark had passed at sea, a fevdays before, thc blockade runneKate.The Kate or Carolina-both namei

were used-kept on running the blockade. She seemed to be impervious t<shot and shell, for as she slipped iiand out of the blockade she was iire<on time and again, with little or n<

damage. In the navy records of thoperations of the Union and Confederate vessels there are frequent referenees lo thc vessel, usually a statement from one commander to anothethat he regretted to inform his superior that, the rebel steamer Carolina o

Kite, as the caso might be, had agaislipped in under their noses withvaluable cargo. Or perhaps the r<cord would be varied by a mentiothat the boat nad slipped out agaiwith a valuable eargo of ootton.

All sorts of efforts were made tcapture or destroy the persistent bloclade runner and there sprang up a feeing of rivalry among the various ca]tains of the blockading squadron 1see who would be the man luckenough to sink the floating rebeAnd it was not always easy sailing f<tho blockade* runner. Many a tinshe was chased for hours, and theiwere occasions when only by saorifiing part of the eargo could the shimake speed enough to escape. Oftcpart of the load of piteh would 1placed under the boilers to get upgreater head of Bteam.Once in slipping through a blocka

ing lino the rebel craft was neartaken because at the same time siwas making the trial a clumsy »idwheeler also attempted to run tlblockade. The-splashing of the padies of tho side-wheeler was bornethc ears of the erew of a Union guboat and an alarm was given. TUnion boat burned rockets, which d:closod tho presence of the Carolaand then trained several guns on htThe shot flew thick and fast foitime, but Lockwood, seeing that cocealment was no longer possible, pon a full1 head of steam and cut forThe firing brought a number of t

blockading fleet together, and tCarolina, as she was then called,well as the stearne* which- had eausnil the mischief, was under a becfire. *B«t tho former managed to draway beyond the range of the roo!lights, and the next morning she v

under the Confederate batteries. Twas one of the dosest calls the Calina had and Master Lockwood,telling about it afterward, used tothere was a minute when he thou]it was all up with his craft.The master of the Carolina had

ingenious system of notifying thoseshore who wove interested in the oithat she was through tho lineready to discharge her eargo.every light darkened, she wouldthe blockade, and then, when i

shore, she would display two Hg]one above the other, in tho riggingtho shore side, hut a screen onsea side kept this gleam from the \

of tho-' i- on the blockading vestTho lookout on shore would Sis;answering lights, and the Carol!crew would kr . w that all waa safethat they could run into the barbe

This triok was afterward takenvantago of by tho Union forces,by praotioing it they captured a i

ber of blockade runners.Thc Carolina was ono of the fir

the blockade runners to put into ]tice the blowing off of exhaust sunder water. Thc exhaust pipecarried down below deok and thunoiso mado hy. tho csoaping s

oould not bo heard. Quietude wi

important factor in getting thrthe enemy's line.With-such regularity had tho h

ado runner's voyages been made,

pite tho effortB uf the Union fleet tocapture her, that the owners of thecraft re-named her the Victory andunder this name she continued hertrafficking. But the vessel was notaltogether immune and after havingcompleted her forty-fourth voyagefrom supposedly blockaded ports shefell a prize to the Union vessel, theSantiago de Cuba, June 21, 1863. Afew dajs before that the Victory had \quietly slipped out from Charleston,with a valuable cargo of cotton andother freight, en route for Nassau.She went along with fair weather andMaster Lockwood and his crew were

congratulating themselves on havingagain fooled the Yankees. But whilothey were probably gloating over theirsuccess a lookout perched on thecrosstree* of the Santiago de Cuba,commanded by R. II. Wyman, hadsighted the Victory. They were thenabout fifty-five miles southwest fromEleuthcra Island.

^The Santiago de Cuba headed forthe Victory aud the captain of theblockade runner changed his course todue east, hoping to put distance be¬tween himself and his pursuer. Butthe Santiago de Cuba was a swift'..teamer and soon came within rangeof the Victory. The Santiago fired ashot from her forward rifle gun, but itfell short. Then there belched fortholouds of black smoke from tho funnelof the Confederate vessel. Capt.Lockwood, in his efforts to makespeed, was burning rosin from theboat's cargo in her boilers. But stillthe Santiago de Cuba gained. Lock¬wood next sought to lighten his craft,and about 150 bales of cotton werotossed into the sea. But this onlyserved to postpone the inevitable.For five hours the raoe kept up boforeCapt. Wyman had his vessel where hecould train several guns on the block¬ade runner. As the latter had noguns for defence there was nothing todo but surrender. The Victory didnot lower her colors, for she carriednone, but Skipper Lockwood ran up awhite flag and a prize crew from theSantiago de Cuba wus sent aboard thevessel. Lockwood had no papers toshow, for he had thrown them over¬board when he saw he oould not es¬cape.The Victory had on board 875 bales

of cotton, in addition to the 150thrown overboard. J&esides the cot¬ton she had 1,000 pounds of tobaccoand i,hirey barrels of turpentine. Shealso had her bunkers full of good an¬thracite coal obtained from Nassau onber previous trip there. This coalled to the discovery that the fuel hadbeen exported from the United States,and, having been sold to English firmsin the Bahamas, was purchased for theuse of Confederate vessels As soonas this fact was learned the UnionG-overnment stopped the exporting ofcoal until the war ended.At the time of the capturo of the

Victory there were nor other Unionvessels in sight. Some time after-terward, however, the Union gunboatsTioga and Octorara, picked up seven¬ty-nine bales of cotton of the 150thrown over from the Confederatesteamer.The Victory was sent to Boston, and

there she was taken by the Govern¬ment and her name was changed tothe Queen. 'Her eargo and the valueof tho vessel was $306,421 37, audafter all expenses had been deductedthere was $299,908.45 left, whichamount was divided among the officersand crew of the Santiago de Cuba.

Years after the war was over Capt.Lockwood told how he had tío longeluded capture while iu command ofthe old Victory. After getting hiscargo he would wait in the harbor fora dark night, preferably a rainy orfoggy night. Then, knowing everyinch of the water, he would wlip outbetween two of the blockaders, which,because of the stretch of coasts theyhad to patvol, were sometimes farapart. Then instead of continuinghis voyage he would lie to, hoist theStars and Stripes at the mast head,and cruise about as if his vessel wasone of the blockading fleet. On thesecond night, rfter a day of masquer¬ading as » (Inion ship, Lockwoodwould lower the Stars and Stripes, putout or oover every light on board, andstart off. By daylight he would bobeyond the range of vision.-NewarkSunday Times.

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