The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-10

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isss-'-- An old s1isslxaas, ,RlsAnsa. ssss-as'
4 Charleston 6. G3 Isn't "a
tke OBOinRaii 6bseasss iles: SD.
sdin Fenp Ped8 10 en- Oh Azd euaoassftsl
blockade Sunner, and 91liE0fsos ffeely
u&on ia expipi It's darin& It's y e I, g
siaty-four ye3fs ola lisyie md haIsty.
althotBk toucllad With narsI saie. 5sl7 .,ss
lieves that he wsll StS q Us seS r,ahy
young men buried. He VS. s5Dnn6aa q,
secession, but when South Caf5iina went
out he fell into line with The rest of his
fellow-citizens OF Charleston. and, .tarn-
ing his nautical knowledge to 'account,
became q blockade rauner. 4s. .-..-s ..,..
Whenever I found how things. were
going" said he, TO three or four of the
Cincinnstians seated in his cabin slipping
otard and water this morning, as the
City Point sped over the sparkling crest
Of the Atlantic, 'I made up my mind.
I bid my folks goodbye. and told them
was going to Kentucky and Tennessee
to buy cattle. land the jolly old salt
laughed at the conoeit, but WAS going
farther. I took an old earpet.sack,
some old olothes, fonr pounds of plug
tobacco and bottle Of whiskey, and
headed for Louisville. where spent one
night. My next stopping. place was ut
Niagara Falls. where peoples baggage
was examined by the revenpe oflcera.
What have you there, old gentle
man?" asked smart fellow. with gold
band on his cap.
a bottle of whiskey, answered. Won {
you have some?' -
No. thunk you; not now,' says he.
Pass along
"You better believe I felt relieved, for
you see I had sterling exchange for
$500, 900 sewed in the collar of an old
coat in my carpet-sack, and I'd have felt
cheap going back to Charleston without
it.
"Well, went to England. That was
in June. 1861. and returned in the De-
cember following, with ship load of
arms and munitions of war, which were
safely landed in Charleston"
Glow much money did you make,
Captain?"
"Well, sir, made SIS, 900 in gold on
that trip; paid $1,000 that / owed in
Charleston; made my family comforta-
BILE, aud took few thousand back to
England for safe keeping. I had $3.50,
600 in Confederate bonds when the war
closed. aud have it yet
"Do you ever ever expect to realize
anything from them?"
''No, SIT; not thing. 1 had some no
ton of papering my sitting:room at
home with them last year. No, sir; all
the money made out of the war just
paid that debt, kept my family in com
fort and left me $1,000 in gold on de-
posit in England"
"Hcw long did You run the blockade?''
"All through the war"
Were you never caught?"
"No, sir, never, but came near being
captured by the Rhode Island, off Mas
.sau. l was in command of the Marga-
ret and Jessie, with cargo of cotton for
England. The Rhode IslaRd spied her
and made right for us. They fred two
hundred and odd shots; several struck
us. but only one done any damage. It
tore a four-foot hole in our boiler, and 1
run the vessel into the shoals at Nassau
The crew escaped; wreckers came down
aud saved the vessel and claimed salv-
age"
"Did you run the same vessel all
through the WARP"
"NO, sir; 1 commanded several-the
Bermuda. the Cecile, the Kate, the Mar
garet and Jessie, and the Leopard, after
Nuiu ChIieu Luc OtOu0WHll JacKSOQ. IlG
Cecile, Kate and Stonewall were lost; the
rest came ont all right. made thirteen
trips in all, and never was caught. Look
here, now, you mustn't tell this; see you
are tnkin' notes."
"Oh! no, no; wouldn't tell it to any
body for the world. Oh, no."
"All right, gentlemen, let US take an
other drop OF that brandy"
Where did you run principally, Cap
tain?"
"Well, sir. sometimes into Charleston,
but mostly into Whining ton"
"Were you not afraid of the torpedoes
in the Charleston harbor?"
mo, sir. I had a chart OF the harbor,
prepared by the Confederate engineers
and torpedo corps, showing where the
things were sunk. and simply steered
clear Of them. The main ship channel
never was obstrncted during the war,
and any ship could have come in, but it
seems they were afraid"
"Well, some of them did come in, in
spite of the torpedoes."
Yes, sir, the Ironsides passed right
over torpedo made out of a thirty-foot
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