The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

pay their passage and did 80, thinking all the
| while that / would soon have the money back.
That night myself ind First Lieut..
parr unpacked and capped the reviewers IN
my stats-rooIn, and secretly handed them to
| the men.
| At / 40 Monday morning I rous9d Lieut.
Parr. We donned our naval uniforms, turned
out our men, and informed them that
| THE TIME FOR ACTION HAD COME
! On entering the saloon at o'clock lights
per, just home from China, sitting by the
stove, was to be seem. he remarked that
! was up rather early ! replied that sea air
did not agree with me. and thrs, In the name
Of the Confederate States Of America, he was
my prisoner.
You see, we made all our captures in the
name Of our government and the charge OF
piracy falls through. He gave me his word
OF honor not to resist, and | did not put him
| In ironss / then ordered Lieut.. Parr, with
three men, to proceed on deck and capture
! the first officer, who had the watch, and wait
| for orders. Lieut.. Collins | ordered to the
! englne-room. He took three men. and his
orders were TO arrest ALL In the name Of the
| Confederate States, and On no account to fire
on any man unless he resisted.
| i then proceeded to the main deck with the
rest OF The men and posted q sentinel ut the
cofnpanion-way. When anldships heard q
| man run TO the port side and d shot fired at
| the companion way. 1t was the first officer,
| who, disTegarding the hail of the sentry, and
trying to reach the deck again by the man
| hole, was shot twice, | passed down to the
engine-room and found the steam going down
and no engineer on duty. In the fire-room
found eight tireinen In irons In front Of the
| furnace Lieut. Collins reported TO me that
entering the engne-room, the engineer In
charge was below oilng the machinery; that,
Wllle putting The tireltlen In irons, one Of them
| RESISTED AND WAS FIRED Ar.
The engineer, hearing this, had armed him
L tt-hs te1
and, on being ordered to surrender fired al
one OF my men. The fire was returned. and
the engineer was killed. This was Orrin
Shepherd, second engineer OF the chesapeake.
been arrested In Boston.
/ Immediately went below and found the
engineer lying on the threshold Of the engine
I room. dead.
to surrender to the Confederate States as d
prisoner OF war. Instead Of doing So. he
opened the upper half Of his room door and
leaped out and ran ten or twelve times around
the deck before. he was captured. [ did not
like to fire on him. I put him in irons In Che
wheel-house The second officer T found after
ward behind the ioe-chest, aud put him In
irons TO keep the captain company.
me ehief engineer. when ordered TO sur
renders only opened his door on o. crack, and
was fired on and slightly wounded 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 md bppged
for his life but I put on the irons and sent
him to the Wheel-house to keep the captain
company. The total time of capture was
thirty-flve minutes, including the putting of
all the crew
III THE FoRECAsTLE IN IRONS.
doused all the lights, changed the ships
Elizabeth Light OF o'clock that morning.
My orders were to take the vessel to Seal
Cove on the English Island Of Grand Menar1,
opposite PASSPORT, Me-, and then turn her
over to Capt. Parker, OF the Confederate navy.
The vessel was to have been cUaled there and
thence go to bermuda, discharge her cargo
into blockade runner, then go to Whining
ton to be cut down and turned into g.1nboat
and sent to sea.
But on dropping anchor at Seal Cove har-
Q: m. weighed anchor and stood up the Bay Of
Fundy, and soon met pilot-boat CARRYING
our agent . and n Capt, PARKER. turned over
the ship to them; They paroied the prisoners
and steered for Partridge Island. [ left for
Halifax going overland $50 miles. Meanwhile
the ship put to sea and early one morning
Yves chased by. the United States frlgate Nj
agara, and put into La Have harbor, and laid
there ten days. Meanwhile we had notice
that at least fourteen cruisers were after us
the Confederate government agent had pro-
cured 200 tons OF coal, and hired four engi-
nears, when | rejoined the ship and com
meueed TO take In coal.
One morning the lookout reported two
Union men-of-war in the offing and ordered
all hands on shore. The vessels proved to be
the United States gunboats Ella and Anna
who fell into the trap, which was to make the
capture III an English port, and they came In
with eolors flying and drums beating to &C.
ton. ran alongside the Chesapeake, took pos
session and lowed her out to sea, where the
United States frigate Dakota met them and
ordered them to take the vessel to Halifax
and turn her over to the British authorities
which was done. But they neglected to re.
port four prisoners on board, and the Gov.
ernor, Gen. Doyle, turned the guns Of the
fort on them and ordered the men ashore. The
case was
TRIED BEFORE THE ADMIRALTY.
and the Chesapeake adiudged prize Of war
the Confederacy sending the Hon. Chas H
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