The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-06

declined. At the close of the war he en-
tered the Turkish service, rose to the rank
OF admiral, and was created pasha. He
was cool, determined fellow. Once, on
passing through the blockade squadron at
the mout1 OF the Cape Fear river, he re-
ceived shot in the bow aud was command
ed to surrender. Looking over the rail and
seeing it had struck high be trumpeted back
the answer: Not until you have put a
| hole in below the water line But freight
rates were very high. i had at one time
S2,OO,000 worth of goods belonging to the
confederate government, on which | paid
nearly 5000 per ton freight. Toward the
close of the war the confederate government
became very exacting. They prohibited the
| importation of silk, laces fine liquors, and
other Injuries, on which large profits were
made, and which, understanding the i'm
poveriShed condition Of the south, found
ready sale, as there were always persons,
even in the worst state of affairs, who were
making money. Then the government in
sisted on each boat taking out a certain
amount of cotton at low rate to meet its
engagements abroad, and this very consid-
erably diminised the profits"
Were you ever chased by the federal
gunboatsm
Yes, on one occasion. 1 was passenger
on board the Will-o-th Wisp, commanded
by Capt. Copper She was very fast boat
The federals kept a blockade squadron
around the mouth of Cape Fear river.
They went pretty close in shore during the
day, but at night were obliged to keep out
some distance for fear of confederate tor
pedo boats. This gave the blockade runners
a chance to get in at night. In addition to
this, the federals had line of picket boats
at some distance from the blockading
squadron, running up and down the coast.
1t was the object of the blockade runners
TO get between these two lines late in the
afternoon and run in at night
fall. About o'clock in the
afternoon steamer hove in sight but we
soon left her. She, however, signaled to
another vessel, and while we were merrily
shedding away one of the floats of the pad
dlewheel gave way and came crashing
through the bulwarks, greatly diminishing
our speed. While in this dilemma the other
vessel bore down upon us from an opposite
quarter and gained very rapidly. She was
evidently no SOW coach. She signaled to
hoist colors. We showed the British fl g,
but as we paid no attention to her orders to
heave to but kept on at full speed, she gave
us a reminder of her presence by firing
shot from her bow chaser which plunged
unpleasantly near. We crowded on all
steam, opened the matches and commenced
to throw the cargo overheard. The first
that disappeared beneath the waves were
seoeral large WhitwOrth guns, which were
packed in cases on the decks. A stern
chase is proverbially long chase The
sight was a very novel and exciting one,
made particularly lively by twenty three
shots she favored us with, many of which
came unpeasantly near. 1t was an anxious
moment, you may well realize In these
semi-tropical ATTITUDES 1t goes from daylight
to darkness Immediately; there is no twi-
light. This was very fortunate for us, and
Wellington never prayed harder for night
or the Prussians than we did. At last the
darkness fell. Every light was put out
on board. The course was changed and we
came to a standstill. and could hear the
cruiser pass us on the opposite tack She
did not catch us, but she spoiled our trip,
damaged our cargo, and compelled us to
put back to Nassau for repairs. We subse-
quently heard that the cruiser was the Get
tysburg, and that she had been a captured
blockade runner. No wonder she made such
good timen