The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-04

Ultimata Rato Regum. Louis Charles de Bourbon. Comte d'Europe, Due d'Au- male, Nee Pluribus Impar, F, Juin, 174S, Jean Maritz."
 The other cannon, bearing 0 similar inscription, is dedicated to the Comte d'Provense and was cast a few years before. Both are on flimsy wheels and probably have not been fired for years. The old fashioned mortars show signs of having been shifted and handled. Search will find several more muzzle loading guns of bygone day. And this, Fl Morros complement to-day. Through the chambers are scattered some scenes of the Spanish battlements which were struck by our battleships The southwestern partion was knocked into dust by the shot that carried down the banner. There are signs of shots that have pecked at the solid walls, a shell carried away the draWbridge and broke through the main entrance, but otherwise Fl Morro bears no evidence of the bombardment.
 A few hundred yards to the east and still on the height-is the eastern bat tery. Between it and the castle stood the lighthouse that marked the harbor entrance--now shattered and twisted by the fire from the American ships. The eastern battery is of earth, bar rels of cement and sacks of dirt protect the guns. Here are two small held pieces made in 1870. Here also are five bronze muzzle loading cannon bearing dates of their casting, 176S, l7l8, lIi9, 17S3 and 1779. These, however, are mounted on modern iron carriages and have been used. One of these bronze cannon of the last century was dls- mounted by a shot from the fleet The carriage was wrecked and now lies halt buried in the torn earth, but the gun appears to be uninjured. This IS the only visible damage done.
 At this battery there are also two mortars, evidently of modern make, and the fact that a similar gun is ly- ing unmounted at the foot of the road which leads up to the fortitlcations shows that these arms had been re- gently landed. All along the road from the dock in the sheltered cove behind the old fortress. up to the castle en- trance are broken and half-filled boxes of rifle ammunition and cartridges with brass coated bullets, going to show that these projectles which inflict a nols- oned wound were used by the Span iards.
 The Socopa battery is on the western side of the mouth of the harbor. Here are the two centimetre rifles. Here also are three thirty-two- centimetre mortars similar to those at the eastern battery The carriage of the eastern most centimetre was struck and slight ly damaged. Here the hill shows some signs of fire. Shells have ploughed up the earth and cleared out the trees and the ground is covered with bits of shell that have torn through the under brush.
 Just behind this battery, on a small island inside the harbor mouth nestles fishing village that for weeks had been deserted Now its people are be- ginning to return to their homes to find them almost all intact. Men who were within the harbor during the fir ing have many tales to tell There IS a story that the Spaniard, carried their wounded into the city hospitals in the night in order that the people might be kept in ignorance of their losses and another story that the destroyed and boken guns were thrown into the har- Dor under cover of darkness.