The Press., 1889-05-23

4u0 AGlduClC OC6d1 HOW bpTaUK luEO new life. It seemed impossible to imag- inc whence had come the multitude of vessels which now steamed and sailed upon its surface. Among these, going westward, were six crabs, and the spring armored vessel, once the Tallapoosa, going home to triumphant reception, such as had never before been accorded to any vessel, whether of war or peace.
 The blockade of the Canadian port, which had been effectively maintained without incident, was now raised, and the syndicat8s vessels proceeded to an Amer can port.
 The British ironclad Adamant at the conclusion of peace was still in tow of Crab 0, and off the coast of Florida. A vessel was sent down the coast by the syndicate to notify Crab o of what had occurred, and to order it to tow the Ada mant to the Bermudas, and there deliver { her to the British authorities. The ves- sel sent by the syndicate, which was fast coast steamer, had scarcely hove in sight of the objects of her search when she was saluted by ten inch shell from the Adamant, followed almost immedi- ately by two others. The commander of the Adamant had no idea that the war was at an end, and had never failed, during his involuntary cruise, to fire at anything which bore the American flag, or looked like an American craft.
 Fortunately the coast steamer was not struck, and at the top of her speed re- syndicate officer on board communicated with the crab by smoke signals.
 During the time in which Crab O had had charge of the Adamant no commu- nication had taken place between the two vessels. Whenever an air pipe had been elevated for the purpose of using therein speaking tube, a volley from a machine gun on the Adamant was poured upon it, and after several pipes had been shot away the director of the crab ceased his efforts to confer with those on the ironclad. It had been necessary to place the outlets of the ven- tilating apparatus of the crab under the forward ends of some of the upper roof plates.
 When Crab c had received her orders she put about the prov of the great war ship, and proceeded to tow her north eastward, the commander of the Ada nt'taking a parting crack with his heaviest stern gun at the vessel which had brought the order for his release.
 All the way from the American coast to the Bermuda islands, the great Adamant blazed, thundered and roared, not only because her commander saw, or fancied he saw, an American vessel, but to no- tify all crabs, repellers and any other vile invention of the enemy that may have been recently put forth to blemish the sacred surface of the sea, that the Adamant still f1oated, with the heaviest coat of mail and the finest and most complete armament in the world, ready to sink anything hostile which came near enough-but not too near.
 When the commander found that he was bound for the Bermudas he did not understand it, unless, indeed, those isl- But he did not stop firing. Indeed, should he find the Bermudas under the American flag, he would fire at that flag and whatever carried it, as long as a shot or a shell or a charge of powder re- mained to him.
 But when he reached British waters, and slowly entering St. Georges harbor, saw around him the British flag floating as proudly as it foated above his own great ship, he confessed himself utterly bewildered; but he ordered the men at every gun to stand by their piece until he was boarded by boat from the fort and informed of the true state of affairs.
 But even then, when weary Crab c raised herself from her fighting depth and steamed to dock, the commander of the Adamant could scarcely refrain from sending a couple of tons of iron into the beastly sea devil which had the impertinence to tow him about against his will.
 No time was lost by the respective governments of Great Britain and the United States in ratifying the peace made through the syndicate, and ill con. cluding a military and naval alliance the basis of which should be the use by these two nations, and by no other na tions, of the instantaneous motor. The treaty was made anu adopted with muel more dispatch than generally accompa nies such agreements between nations for both governments felt the importance of placing themselves without delay il that position from which, by means ot their united control of paramount meth ods of warfare, they might become the arbiters of peace.
 The desire to evolve that power which should render opposition useless had long led men from one warlike invention to another. Every one who had con. structed new kind of gun, new kind of armor or new explosive thought that he had solved the problem or was on his way to do so. The inventor of the instantaneous motor had done it.
 The treaty provides that all subjects concerning hostilities between either ol both of the contracting powers and other nations should be referred to joint high commission, appointed by the two pow. CTS, and if war should be considered necessary, it should be prosecuted and conducted by the Anglo-American wal syndicate, within limitations prescribed by the high commission.
 The contract made with the new syndi cate was of the most stringent order, and contained every provision that ingenuity or foresight of man could invent or sug gest to make it impossible for the syndi cate to transfer to any other nation tho use of the instantaneous motor.
 Throughout all classes in sympathy with the administrative parties of Grea1 Britain and the United States there wa. feeling of jubilant elation on account of the alliance and the adoption by tht two nations of the means of prohibitiv, warfare. The public sentiment acted even upon the opposition; and the ma jority of army and navy officers in thu two countries felt bound to admit tha the arts of war in which they had beer educated were things of the past. O course there were members of the arm, and navy in both countries who depre cated the new state of things. But ther were also men still living who deprecate' the abolition of the old wooden seventy four gun ship.
 A British artillery officer, conversin, with member of the American syndi cate at London club, said to him:
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