The evening times., 1896-12-26

Esson. Md. Dec. 2s.-Col. Prcntiss In
graham. the weil-known writer. IRON
tiersu4a q an q hunt sInan. the intimate friend
and sometmBc cuadIutor of William J..
Cody tBHffalo BIN, il now living in
Easton with his interesting family at the
Hotel Avon. Largely by choice and par
tally through circumstances Col. Ingra-
ham has had varied and vcnturesoIne
career.
He is the son OF the late Joseph Holt
Ingraham, who was born an Portland, Me-,
in 1903, and died In Holly Springs, Miss,
in 1850. He went to sea before the mast
and saw service in one OF the South
America n revolutions.
After his return he received a collegiate
education, commenced a literary career
before he was twenty years old, and be-
came professor OF languages IN jefferson
College, Natchez, Miss. In 1855 he took
orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
and WAS rector OF q parish and OF St.
Thomas Hall, school for boys, at HOll y
Springs, Miss. After he became a clergy
man he published religious romances. en-
titled The Prince of the House of David"
''The Pillar Of Fire. and THE Throne
of David
His Career.
Prertiss Ingraham, his son, was born
December 2s, 1S43, near Natchez. and
was educated at jefferson College. He
served as an officer in the Confederate
army. and was W oun ded and Ia ken prisoner
at the siege of Port Hudson. After the
close of the civil war he went to Mexico
nd i,ip oil Of Tn
He afterward saw service in Austria,
Crete and Africa. He began a literary Ca
reer in London, but on his return to the
United States took part in 1869 in the
attempted revolution in Cuba; went out
on the Hornet and ran the blockade several
times. He raised the first Cuban flag Oh
the ocean over an armed deck.
Col Ingralam says: Cuba S armed YES
sci in that contest had an interesting career.
Built for blockade runner during our own
civil war, under the name Of Lady Stir
ling, she made a number OF most successful
voyages, but was captured 10y the Federals
off Wilmington, with $500 900 in gold
on board. Carried TO Washington. she was
renamed the Hornet. armed and became
President LinCo MS cruiser.
After the war she lay idle for several
years, and was purchased by a gentleman
who sold her 20 me. While lying at a dock
at Philadelphia She was seized a. a sus-
picious character by request or the Span
ish minister, and her coal was unloaded In
search OF arms. She was released. and
cleared for Liverpool, but put into Halifax
under stress or weather. Ny going TO
Liverpool was simply ruse and a round
about way Of getting to Cuba.
The Hornet Seizure.
AT Halifax the Hornet was again seized
by the request os Spain. but nothing con
traband was found, and size was again re-
leased. Admiral Higgins came on boaul at
Halifax to take passage for Liverpool TO
purchase a vessel for the Cuban government.
While we were at sea he said the boat was
tile very one he wanted, and the sale trans
ferring the boat to him was made by the
light OF a full moOn on the deck.
We equipped her with nj on and arms off
the coast OF Massachusetts She CAME out
as n full-nedged cruiser, with twenty-six
officers and nearly 900 men. and l had
the honor, of raising the first Cuban flag
on the ocean over an armed deck and de-
liyering the commissions signed by Ces-
pedes. president Of the Cuban republic, 10
her officers.
The career OF the Cuba, as the vessel
was then named, was short lived, as she
was compelled afterward to haul down her
flag TO the United states government"
During the time he was fighting for Cuba
Col. lngraham was colonel OF cavalry in
the land forces and a Commander in the
navy. He knows the Cuban leaders en-
gagged in the present struggle, and is also
personally acquainted with the methods of
some of the Spanish generals.
Col. Ingraham entertains the highest
opinion of Antonio Maceo, now reported
killed, and says of him:
''Maceo was mulat ito and fine-look-
ing man. He had eleven brothers and two
sisters. Seven brothers Were killed in the
ten years war, and one, Jose Maceo, was
killed in the present war. Two other
brothers survive and live in Costa Rica.
They are cripples from wounds received
in the ten years war.
Antonio Maceo was very well educated
and had devoted much of his time to jour
nalsm. He had Travelled much in this
country, South America and Mexico, and
had visited the United States several times
He was a natural born patriot, polished
in his manner and a thorough gentleman.
rode with him all one night and was
very favorably impressed with him.
weyler Is a Hyena.
"You would never have kno wn, in the
dark, from his language or accent, that
he was not a white man. He was wound
ed twenty-seren times with shell, nachete,
saber and bayonet. He was a dashing
horseman and splendid rider, who would
ride through anything. On one occasion he
came aboard our vessel, landed at Cuba
with arms and ammunition. when the word
came that Spanish troops were coming up
the coast. Maceo excused himself, went
out with his men and literally cut the
Spanish soldiers to pieces
The stories of cruelties inflicted upon
prisoners and defenseless women and chill
dren by Weyler and his troops are not over
drawn, Col. Ingraham says:
"Weyler," he says, lis known as the hy-
ena, which is rather hard on the hyena,
and the other Spanish generals are trying
to emulate him in his cruelty. No story
of Spanish cruelty can be overdrawn."
.'wcyler is not fighter. His harshness
rather than his military ability has gained
him his prestige. Campos, weylers predc-
cessor in Cuba, is a humane man. gentle
ma and a soldier; therefore, he did not suit
in Cuba. If Maceo is dead, his death will
only give an impetus to the Cuban cause.
His successor, Ruiz Rivera is one ofthe best
soldiers and generals in Cuba, and Macco
had great confidence in him. II lis white
man, a m IN of great ability "A native Cuban,
a man of education. and has probably more
ambitionsthan Maceo had"