The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-13

had been driven by a gale, she found herself in a hard stress of weather A dangerous leak was sprung, the pumps became disabled and finally the men abandoned all efforts to free the craft of water believing that she was hope lessly waterlogged. A distress signal was hoisted, and shortly afterward the American bark Christine Redman hove in sight and came to the rescue. The men of the Neva signifled their wish to abandon the craft, and perilous res cue was successfully accomplished.
 Mate Laurie of the Redman, who had been watching the operation, took long squint at the derelict after the res- cued men had been brought on board his own vessel, and the observations satisfied him that the men of the Neva had been in too great hurry to leave their vessel. He accordingly proposed to the captain of the Redman that he be allowed to make the attempt of bringing the Neva into port. The cap tain had no objection and the mate in duced two seamen of the bark to ac- company him.
 The enterprise was a perilous one, but the three hardy adventurers finally suc- ceeded in bringing their prize into port, and were handsomely rewarded for their work by the salvage money, which amounted to s12,O00
 A MUTINOuS CREW.
 Another is the story of the bark J. H. Hamlen and that vessels mutinous crew. The voyage which brought her into history is as replete with thrilling situations and incidents as any ever evolved from fancy. The mate, after entcing the crew to mutiny, made a proposition to Captain Dauphney to run into Bermuda, ostensibly for repairs, start the water pipes after getting into harbor, then call a survey, and after the officers had gone aboard, have the ship pumped out, surreptitiously turning on the water an hour or so later. That would have shown leaks enough to have justified the ordering of extensive re- pairs. As none were actually needed, the mates scheme was to divide with the contractor who would pretend to do the work.
 The captain was brought to sudden realization of imminent danger to him. self and ship by the outspoken villainy 
 the silence of his chief, who had been toe, much taken aback by the astonish- ing proposition to make reply, then hint ed of the money to be made by running the vessel ashore on a Bermuda reef, and taking the risk of getting what they could from the wreckers.
 The story of the trip from the time the captain was put on his guard, of how he narrowly escaped poisoning, his con- stant vigil to escape assassination, and the clever ruse by which he finally suc- ceeded in defeating the plotters, keep ing them in ignorance of their bearings, and making port at night, has, with little addition, all the material neces- sary for anexciting sea novel.
 An entry made in the logbook of the ship Cyrus Wakefield is full of meaning to the sailor man. The book says that William Mitchell, chief officer, was knocked overheard by the deep sea line; ship under three lower topsails at the time; strong gale from the northwest; heavy sea running. Time, i o'clock in the afternoon. Latitude, S4 degrees 25 minutes north; longitude, 5S degrees il minutes west"
 MAN OvERBOARD.
 To the landsman that brief statement does not signify much. But the seaman will see in it great deal that his shore going brother will miss. There is the ship, plunging and lifting over the swell, for swell there must be, since the vessel was under close storm canvas. The sud- den cry of Man overboardv' will come to him, and it requires only small streak of imagination for him to see in fancy that crew scrambling aft along the wet and swiftly sloping deck. It is impossible to lower the lifeboat on ac- count of the heavy sea that Is running, and there is a glimpse of pair of arms thrown in the air, to be lost the next moment behind a combing ridge.
 A life buoy has been thrown to the swimmer, now far astern, and the line which was made fast to it was shaking in the water The line pays out before the ships headway has been checked. and the deep sea lead line is hurriedly bent on and then thrown in coils over the side. The half exhausted swimmer reaches the buoy, draws the circlet un- der his arms, cheer goes up from his comrades as a lifting wave shows him with the buoy around his body, and then willing hands draw him through the tumbling seas to the deck.
 Turning to incidents of another sort there is the account recently published of the British steamship Carlisle being lost in a maze of bergs while making voyage from Rotterdam to this port. In mid-Atlantic the vessel encountered the ice pack, which her officials esti- mated to be sixty miles in extent. A PHANTOM FLEET. A spectacular incident was that noted by Chief Officer Benson of the Morgan line steamship Fl Norte. The officer observed a phantom fleet riding high in the air while rounding Cape Hat | teras one warm spring morning, a year l ago.
 MT. Benson says that he realized that It was mirage that he was looking upon, but the singular part of the H. fusion was the fact that every vessel was right side up. A we'll regulated mirage at sea generally reproduces images upside down. Officer Benson says he counted twenty-eight schooners and none of them was in the abnorrnal position.
 According to the narrator there was a long. low lying bank of fog to the west. ward. and over this vapory sea was sailing the shadowy fleet The hulls oi some of the ships were seen, but other ships were clearly outlined, every spar