The evening world., 1889-01-21

the most use, and when the English vessels
arrived off the northern entrance to the gulf,
they found their enemies there.
However strong might be the incredulity
CT the enemy regarding the power of O re-
peller to lomf ard n city, the Syndicate felt
sure there would be no present Invasion of
the United States from Canada, but 1t wished
10 convince the British Government that
troops aud munitions of war could not he
sa ely transported across the Atlantic. On the
other hand the Syndicate very much objected
to undertaking the imprisonment and susie
nance of n large body of soldiers. Orders
were therefore given to the officer IN charge of
the repeller not to modest the two transports.
but TO remove the rudders and extract the
screws of the two war vessels. leaving them
to be towed into port by the troopships.
This duty was performed by the crabs,
while the British vessels, both rams, were
preparing to make u united and vigorous on
set ON the repeller, and two men-of-war were
left helplessly tossing on the waves. One or
the Transports, IA very fast steamer. had al
ready entered the straits, and could not be
signalled, but the other one returned and
took both the war ships in tow. proceeding
very slowly until. after entering the gulf, she
was relieved by tugb1ats.
Another event of "A somewhat different
character was the occasion of much excited
feeling and comment, particularly in the
United States. The descent and attack by
British vessels on an Atlantic port was q mat
ter OF popular expectation. The Syndicate
had repellerS ana GRADS ut the most lmpOr-
taut points. but in the minds Of naval officers
and a large portion OF the people little de-
pendence for defense was to be placed upon
these. As to the ability of the War Syndi-
cate to prevent invasion or attack by means
of its threats to lombard the blockaded Ca
madam port. very few believed in it. Even
if the Syndicate could do any more damage
in that quarter, which was improbable, what
was TO prevent the British navy from playing
the same game and. entering an American
seaport, threaten to lombard the place If the
Syndicate did no. Immediately run all their
queer vessels high and dry on some con-
venient beachl
feeling of indignation against the Syndi-
cate had existed in the navy from the time
that the war contract had been made, and
this feeling increased daily. That the officers
aud men of the United States Navy should
be penned up in harbors, ports and sounds.
while British ships and the hulking mine
~springers and rudder- pinchers OF the Syndt-
cate were allowed to roam the ocean at will,
was q very hard thing for brave sailors to
bear. Sometimes the resentment against this
state of affairs rose almost to revolt.
The great naval preparations of England
were not yet complete, but single British men,
of-war were now frequently seen on the At
lantic coast of the United States. No Amert-
can vessels had been captured by these since
the message of the Syndicate to the Dominion
of Canada and the British Government. But
one good reason for this was the fact that 1t
was very difficult now TO find upon the At
lantic Ocean q vessel sailing under the Ameri-
can flag. As far as possible these had taken
refuge in their Owl ports or in those OF neutral
countries,
Ito b Continued 7O-AorTo1al