Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-02
THE ALABAMA'S CAREER.
STORY OF THE CONFEDERATE PRI-
VATEER'S CRUISE AND COMBATS.

VATEER'S CRUISE AND COMBATS.
Account by One of the Crew Remark Of
AN Old Tar semmes' EHhortatiou-
Sinking the Hattcras- When the Ala
brma Mot the Krarsarge.
In The Century the story of the Cruise
Ghl CnmhutS Of the Onfcderat" steamer
Mai anna l. REQ Il brie y, and in an tx
tremely Interesting way. The contributors
20 the ac cunt are Dr. J. NJ Browne, SIR
ge"n Of the keaIsa sc; Capt J. NJ he.l, cN-
rCutlve iii er OF the Alabama, and Mir T.
h. Haywoo /, one If the Alaham : {. .w.
THIS look, at first like two OH one sid. and
one on the other, but Mr. Haywood SENS
moro like an ob-erver of the American do
u,stIc quarrel than like an advocat. His
few pages which are Of unusual mere l.
and apparently OF no little historic Naiu'
let in a striking l-ht u. on the AlaLama
cruise
MIR Haywood, who was dragged out Of
the water when tn. ship went down, 10y "A
hrawny fel uw in petticoat, and top boots,
belonging to a Fr nch pilot buat that came
TO the sCue of tn swimmers, says that
what astoni hed him when he reached cher
ourg was t find In ;lishmen tn re plying
HIM with qu st,ons designed to deprecIat
the hearsarges victory:
REMARK OF GRIM OLD TAR.
One grim oil tar, vino had been quarter
master in the roy q ntNy, and was save
with me, said to the point We was whppNi
because sic was letter ship, better
manned, had b tier guns, better served
that's about the sic of it, and he walstl |
away. | have seen somewhere an account
OF the taking Of the Hutterus, that made It
"A daring achIevcm mt 70 sneak up to an
enemy un Ter fale hail and pour in
broldsidc Of metal much heavier than she
could return surely mo English sailor will
sc any thing to the national credit in this
/ he oOr show We made with the kearSarg
however, disposed of the glory We arhie.eL
in burning defenctless merchantmen
When Haywood signed in Liverpool the
articles that made him one Of the crew of
the ~.sr, aft rward the Alabama, the ship
ping master warned him against Yankee
spies, and assured him that Great Britain
would soon declare war against the UnItyd
States:
Next day | went aboard, and liked the
lo'k If the vessel E,erything to prac
tIced eye, indicated the character Of tn
ship No platforms we're lai l., but the
PAGES for the pivot guns were plain
marked. her magazines were finished and
shot LoNes We're lying about
At Trrceira an Ergllsh bark brought her
guns and war material, and more men and
til. captain anne by another vessel The.
|, avluy Angra on a Sunday morning, the
Brltons for IN first time saw the flag the,
We" to Sht under, and heard the hrst o.
Scmmes' eNh"rtatlOnS:
lie told Us, among other things, thai
pruvidence woul bl s. our endeavurs L"
free the south from the Yankee, etc. \
bOatswaln mate behind me growled, y AS,
Providence likely t. bless this yer
crow urlng the night some one orna
N, mt br, All bag with Il terrific skull anu
Gro, STONES, and mana5e 5ed to flsten It to ON
ri the mi zen braces In tn, morning the
master at arms was hunting for the del II
quent, but the men only laughed at him,
and suggested that 'Chucks. the marin
hai been at his tricks had been lookin,
over the cryw, and ma % up my mind that
on the whole, | had never been on ship
with su h bad lot They were all saiiOr>
from clew to ,arIng-no haymakerS among
thrm-but they werr mostly Of that class
found in sea- o. towns all over the world
that ship for TIE run from port to port
and not for the >oyage, and are always
rough, mutinouI set They did not Seem t
care for the ships officers, and were detel
mined to stand no 'man-o war dickey' froL
thcm
TwENTY-TwO MONTHS OF SUCCESS
The wonder is that Capt Semmes accom-
oli heI so much Mr.. Haywo ood acknowl
edges his "jud ment and resolution, rs
shown by twenty two months OF success
and in First Lieut. kell he hal an fine ex
ecutive Otiic.r. Hazing and fighting
were not uncommon Prisoners werr
always well treated, except that the wan
ton d. structiOn OF the clothes and effects oil
captu Ell sailors was simply di,graceful"
Of the ght with the Hatteras, Mr. Hay
woods opinIon has already bern given
But when the Alabama met the kearsarge
there was different sort OF tattla Thi-
combat tue first ever fought between
screw pro, relled war 81 Is in the oprn seas
wa u duel Of ships evenly matched in 81 T.
loo lis to l,ril tons, but, repeating the
familiar story Of fifty years before, with
tn. American We sci throwing a heavier
gut Of III tai than the British from a
smaller number of guns, with greater
precision The alvantaSe in fertility Of
deyi, was also with the Union ship For
example, o, sr a year Le ore, Capt Winslow
at the suggestion OF Lieut. Commander
Thornton, had the ships sheet chain hung
outside over her boilers. Tnis protective
de, ice was g. tually open to the Alabama
but nobody thought of it. Again, Mr.. Hay
wood thinks that Semmes was somewhat
hurried, aud commenced firing 90 soon,
" hen far away, in the hope to disable his
antagonist by broalside. Win low
r.s.r, ed hi' re with Il result thus described.
The en-, my circled around u, and did no,
return our Ire until within seven or eight
huudI ed yards, and then she let US ave it
The first shot that struck us made ths SHY
r, el and sha e all over
Capt He'll considers that the ory OF I 4
victory W IS tarI shed by the kearsarge
firiuS several shots after the Alabama
colors wer, It uck: but this was due, as
Surgeon Browl.B explains, to the renewal OF
bring from tie Alabama, either through
dispheiience u Capt Srmmes orders or Il
failure to understand them New Yorn
Sun.
Hello" Getting To Be a Chestnut.
Have you noticed said telephone
operator TO me recently, that We are get
ting out of the way of saying hello to
everybOdy?'
NO, haven't noticed it." confessed.
Yes, hello got to be a chestnut and so
we have changed 10 we'll When a man
calls us up now we say well in an inOuir-