Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-30

who came on board, and we rapidly passed
out TO sea. At supper the captain announced
That none OF my men s fare was paid, and
said it was unusual that so many passengers
came on board without paying fare. l said
the men were in my employ, and that
would pay their passage, and did so, think
ing all the while thst | would soon have the
money back. That night myself and First
| Lieutenant Parr uDpacked and capped the
revolvers in my state-room, and secretly
| handed them to the men. at half-past one
Monday morning, December 7th, / reused
Lieutenant Parr; we donned our uniforms of
| gray, turned ont our men, and informed
them that
THE TIME FOR ACTION HAD COME.
On entering the saloon, at two o'clock, the
| lights were turned low, and no one but an
Old skipper, just home from China, sitting by
| the stove. He remarked that was up rather
early. | replied that sea air did not agree
| with me, and that, in the name of the Con-
federate States of America, he was my pris-
oner. You see, sir, we made all our cap
| lures IN the name of our government, and the
charge of piracy falls to the ground. He gave
me his word OF honor not to resist, and did
| not put him in irons. | then ordered Lieu
| tenant Parr with three men to proceed on
| deck and CAPTURE the first officer, who had
the watch, and wait for orders. Lieutenant
| Collins | ordered to the engine room. He
| took three men, and his orders were to arrest
| all In the name of the Confederate States, and
| In no event to fire on any man unless he re-
sssted. | then proceeded 90 the main deck
with the rest of my men, and posted a sentl-
mel at the companion-way. 1t was the first
officer, who, dlsregarding the hail of the SEN
try and trying to reach the deck again by the
man-hole, was shot twice. / passed down 10
the engine-room and found steam going down,
and no engineer on duty. In the fire room l
found eight hremen In irons In front of the
furnace. Lieutenant Collins reported to me
that, entering the engine-room, the engineer
In charge was below, oiling the machinery.
that while putting the fremen in irons one of
them
RESISTED AND WAS FIRED AT.
The engineer hearing this, and alarmed at /
the shot, had armed himself with four bar
relied Sharp's derrlnger, and, on being
ordered to surrender, fired at one of my
men. The fire was returned, and the engl-
neer was killed. This was Orriu Shepherd,
second engineer of the Chesapeake, for whose
murder a pirate Lieutenant Parr was ar
rested yesterday. | immediately went be-
low and found the engineer lying on the
threshold of the engine-room dead. The
body was sewn in sheet and thrown over
board. took three men, and ordered Cap
tain Wilets to surrender to the Confederate
doing, he opened the upper half of his room
door and leaped out, and ran ten or twelve
times around the deck before he was cap
tured. | did not like to fire on him. l put
him In irons IN the wheel-house. The second |
officer | found afterward secreted behind the |
ice-chest, and put him in irons to keep the |
captain company. The chief engineer, when |
ordered to surrender, only opened his door on |
a crack, and was fired on and slightly wound |
ed in the chin, when he dashed out and |
ran around the deck In his shIrt-a rather /
cool costume for December weather. Another
of the officers, Henderson, got down on his
knees and begged for his life, but put on
the irons and sent him to the wheel-house to
keep the captain company.
THE TOTAL TINE OF CAPTURE
was thirty five minutes, including the putting
all of the crew in the forecastle in irons. l
doused all the lights, changed the ships
course, and took my departure from Cape
Elizabeth light at four o'clock that morning.
My orders were to take the vessel to Seal
Cove, on the English island Of Grand Manan,
opposite Eastport, Maine, and there turn her
over to Captain Parker, of tie Confederate
navy. The vessel was to have been coaled
here and thence go to Bermuda, discharge |
Ter cargo INTO blockade runner, then go to
to be cut down and turned into
gunboat and sent to sea- But on dropping
lnchor at Seal Cove harbor, found no Goals
Tor Captain Parker, and at eight o'clock in
he morning weighed anchor and stood up
he Bay of Fundy, and soon met pllot-boa
arrylng our government agent and Captain
Parker. [ turned over the ship to them.
cartridge island. l left for Halifax, going ,
verland two hundred and fifty miles. Mean
While the ship put tc sea, and early one
0orniDg was
HAsED BY THE UNITED STATES FRIeATE
NIAGARA,
nd put into La Have harbor and laid there | =
en- days. Meanwhile, we had notice that at
east fourteen cruisers were after US. Mean y
Ihile, the government agent had procured | u
wo hundred tons of coal and engaged four
ngineers, when l rejolned the ship and COM
lenced to take in the coal. One morning
he lookout reported two Union men of war
q the offng, and | ordered all hands on
hore. The vessels proved to be the United T
tates gunboats Ella and Anna, who fell into n
ne trap, which was to make the capture in a
n English port, and they came in with COL
rs flying and drums beating to action, ran
long side the Chesapeake, took possession,
nd towed her out to sea, where The United {
tates frigate Dakota met them and or
cred them to take the vessel to Halifax and II
urn her over to the British authorities, which "
1as done, but they neglected to report four u
rlsoners on board, and the governor, Gen. =
raj Doyle, turned the guns of the fort on
hem and ordered the men ashore The case
Tas tried before the admiralty, and the Chesa- {
cake adiudge0 q priaa of war, the Confed-
ra2Y sending Hon. Charles II. Holcomb as "
pecial commissioner to attend to their side. +
he owners deposited sixty thousand dollars =
old with the court, and the vessel was re- | I,
nrned to them, the money being held until !
he close of the war. Such. sir, is the cap
nre OF the Chesapeake, and | do not see
ow lieutenant Parr can be =
HELD ON CHARGE OF PIRACY, :
l'arr is wealthy. and caO 6ubf b1co our, hat |
les. He owes me eight hundred dollars Dor
owed money, which he has never naid how
yer. know he has beel in Boston several
ines before thia, and has not been arrested. :
lie was d regularly commissioned officer of the
confederate navy, and L mustered him into
be service myself.
Captain Braine was arrested in New York |
lty IN 1866 by order of Hon. Gideon Welles,
ecretarY OF the navy, and confined In the | :
sroosiyh prison. He was pardoned out
ayng never been tried-March l, 1859
When Captain Braine entered prison he was
ale and hearty. weighing one hundred and
lghty-sM pounds. On his release he came
ut on clutches, weighing ninety-six pounds.
liter the recapture of the Chesapeake he
aptvred the Roanoke, sailing from Havana
or New York, In the same manner, he and
Is men going on board disguised as passen-
ers. He admits he would be an important :,
fitness for Parr, but says he is now quietly
ngaged In business In Chicago, and purposes 1,
taking it his home and does not care to have
hese old matters stirred up and misrepre-
,nted.
Watterson and Hewitt. Il
New York Times. So much of the Waiter q
)n-Hewitt controversy as relates to the We
lcity, honor, courage, and general trust
orthiness of the persons concerned may be Z
roperly left to be settled by them in their W
wn way. The dislike and dIstrust which
ave eliminated in an open quarrel are not " "
recent growth, and each has said enough
justify lookers-on in pronouncing them not