The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-28
Capt Iagrahanl bowed and betook him
sclfto the st. Louis. He had no sooner
got aboard Than he said:
"Clear the guns for actionW

And the Archduke had the pleasur
Of seeing the batteries Of st. Louis turne'
upon him. He realized that having tn
wrong side of the matter, he had pu
himself in a very bad position. Th'
Huzzar was put about and sailed bacl
to her old anchorage. The A.rchduk'
sent word to Capt Ingraham that b.
would await the arrival of the note from
Mr.. Brown.
On the afternoon of July / Capt In
graham got his reply. The consul a
Constantinople commended his course
and told him to do whatever he though
best to prevent an outrage to an An1eri
can. Late that evening Capt 1ngrahau
sent an officer aboard the Huzzar with {
note, The note formally demanded the
release of Mr.. koszta, and said that un
less the prisoner was delivered aboard
the st. Louis by 4o'cIock the next after
noon Capt Ingraham would take hin
from the Austrians by force. The Arch
duke sent back a formal refusal. At
O'Clock on the next morning, July 2
Capt Ingraham once more cleared his
decks for action and trained his batteries
so that the Huzzar would get their full
force at the first dis :harge. The sever
Austrian war vessels cleared their deck:
and put their men at the guns.
All this while great excitement haG
prevailed ID Smyrna, and when the cit.
lzens saw these last hostile demonstra.
tons they GRO ogded the shores, eager tc
see this oneslde battle, which all knew
would not end so long as the American
fiage hoatel above water.
ct 10 O'Clock the Austrian sent an
officer to Capt Ingraham. This office,
tired to temporlze, but Capt Ingraham
refused to listen to him. He SAID: etc
avoid the worst, 1 will agree to let the
man be delivered to the French consul
in Smyrna until your Government has a
chance to act. But be must be delivered
there or l will take him. cannot fail.
My cause is just. I have stated the
time"
Again the Austrian sent a man to
Capt Ingraham. But this time Capt
Ingraham refused toreceive him. Then
the Austrian consul general came out
from Svmrna and tried his diplomacy.
Capt Ingraham simply rereated that the
French consul must have Koszta by 4
O'Clock or there would be trouble.
At - O'Clock boat left the side OF
the Huzzar with Koszta on it, and one
hour afterward the French consul sent
word that Koszta was in his keeping.
Later IN the day several of the Austrian
war vessels sailed out of the harbor.
Then came long negotiations between
Secretary of State William L. Marcy
and the Austrian charge d'afaires at
Washington, NJ. Hulsemann, at the end
of which Austria admitted that the
United States was right, apologlzed,
and releasedall claim upon Mr.. Koszta.
Capt Ingraham got gold medal and
a vote of thanks from Congress, gold
medal from the citizeas of New York,
medals and other testimonials from sew
eral American citizens, and present
of a fine chronometer and an engrossed
letter from the workingmen of England,
raised by penny subscription.
AS sort Of addition to this incident
is the story ofhoT J. Clarcy Jones used
Commander Iagrahanl's name in a SINH
lar episode in 1859. Mr.. Jones was
then minister TO Austria. The Austrian
was most anxious that no
plans of the Notifications of Vienna be
made. A young American studying
medicine in Vienna, was making some
sketches Of these Notifications one day
in an idle spirit and in utter ignorance
Of the law against 1t. He was arrested
and locked up
Mr. Jones inquired into it aud found
out the truth, and explained it fully to
the Austrian minister, at the same time
the release Of the young Am
erican. The prime minister refused to
listen, and said that the young man
should and would be punished.
When Mr.. Jones saw that the Austrian
was set he SAID:
'Then Esregret very much that I shall
have to bid you farewell" )"
Are you going?" said the Austrian.
II am indeed sorry, and hope that your
country will be as ably sgreeably repre-
sented by your successor"
II fear that there will not be a sue
cessor to ne very soon," said Mr..
Jones. II am compelled to demand
an audience with the Emperor. I wish
to get Ey passports"
"What!" said the Austrian, s'your
passportse You do not intend to make
Of this episode so serious a matter?''
1T is serious matter" said Mr..
Jones, "and reminds me Of the Koszta
case. Capt Ingraham is still cruising
in the Mediterranean, by the way, and I
shall be able to put him in immediate
knowledge of this affair also. have
the honor to bid you farewell"
The Austrian minister did not know
what make Of this. But he felt that
were not proper persons to
punish as examples, and, after delaying
a day or TWO, released the young medi-
cal student.
With the outbreak Of the civil war
Capt Ingraham resigned, and in March,
1861, entered the Confederate service.
He was then 50 years old, and was
assigned first to the navy yard al Psnsa-
cola and then to Charl. ston, where he
distinguished himself by breaking the
blockade. Since the war he had lived
very quietly in his bi;th-Dlace, Charles
ton. lie was married to a granddaugh-
ter Of Henry Laurens and John Randolph
and through his wife Was connected with
some Of the greatest officers in the British
York Sun.
4 Denial Of Balmaceda's Death.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 19.-Dr. Francis
Rivers and Signor Carlos del Rio, late
Of the military staff OF President Bal
OF Chill, arrived here yesterday
en- route for New York. Neither could
speak word of English. They had
with them Louis Bloch, Of California,
as iptcrpreter. Through him they said