The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-19
CHAPTER *.
,{Continued from last Sunday.)
& Cruise OF the Florida (Continuc,l.)f

Cruise Of the Florida (Continucd.)
Wo loft tho Florida rover on the
ocean. On January 10. 1868, burned
tho bark Estelle from Santa Cruz to
Boston. loaded with sugar and honey.
on January Goth entered Havana har-
Dor and coaled. Twcnty.second cap
tured and burned brig Windward. from
7Iatanzas to Portland, and the brig
Corris Ann. Philadelphia to Matanzas.
Mafiltt then shaped his course for the
New England coust and got US far as
damage to his ship and compelled him
TO make for tho West Indies. On
FEBRUARY 18th lie overhauled and
burned the ship Jacob Bell, from Foo
Chow. China, to New York. with @
cargo Of teas and silks valued at So
z 100000, and on tho 24th entered the
port OF Barbados. On tho same day
he sailed south, and on March 9Th
captured and burned the ship Star OF
Peace, from Calcutta to Boston, with
$40 tons of snltpctcr for the Federal
government. On the 18th he captured
tho schooner Aidebarran. New York to
afaranhan. Brazil. loaded with pro-
visions. supplied tho Florida and burnsd
her. On tho 28th captured the bark
Lapwing, Boston To Batavia, loaded
with coaL She was n fine vessel, and
Captain MafIitt put two howitzers and
q crew on board, and PUG her In com
mand OF Lieutenant Aycrett. with In.
structions to meet him in longitude 50
on the equator for tho purpose OF get
ting coal from him. On the Goth cap-
to Cape Town. loaded with provisions.
Got out OF, her what was needed and
burned her. - IS
ovcrhauled the Dutch brig Christian,
md put nil his prisoners aboard OF
her. April, 14th fell in with tho Lap
wing and coalcd ship at sea, an irk-
some and dangerous task. April l7th
captured the ship Commonwealth. New
York to San Francisco, with cargo
valued at 100000. consigned to Ecd-
cral government; burned her. April
a4t, captured and burned ship Oneida.
Shanghai to New York. with cargo Of
tea, valued ut s1,O0o,0oo. April I'D cap
turcd and burned biirk Henrietta, Bal-
tiulorc to Rio JaneIro. cargo -four and
provisions. =. April. Gath placed prison-
ers on board French bark Bremonticr.
April oSth anchored on the island of
Fernando do Noronna. Brazil commu-
nicated with the governor, and FOUND
that the Ala bama (whose. career has
not yet been given to the rcader) hal
sailed from here three days before our
arrival. \
May Sd fell In with the Lapwing.
lieutenant AHerctt commanding. Ho
reported the capture of the United
States ship Kate Dyer, cargo neutral,
and bonded her for $4,000: Lapwing
leaking. Detached Lieutenant Averett
and put Acting Master Il. S. Floyd 8 IN
command, with orders to anchor under
the Rocas, eighty miles west Of this
port. The Florida then sailed for and
tf1f II Srn,
9Th captured tho brig Clarence, Rio a..
NERO for Baltimore, with cargo OF col-,
fec. Upon the capture OF this brig,
the following letter was addressed TO
Captain NIaffitt# by Lieutenant g. Nv.
Read. Reader. you have no doubt read
of the boy colonel, Pelham, of the Cons
fcdernte artillery. In G. w. Read6yolp
have tho boy command or, Il for he was
born to commands, al hougha mere boy.
He was from Mississippi, and was an
acting midsh inmen It I he 4. Naval Acad1-. :
have heard OF him before; you will
hear. more OF hin hereaf ter.
1t was hesSiwho. s. VIII EN- HuEer fell
nlortally wounded on the deck of the
NfcRae, In the bait OF New Orleans.
that assumed command and Tough that
ship8until he could fig mo longer, and
then destroyed here again, he was
With Captain sBroWnss OH 8tLle 7 tAitsAHSds
during her bril- liant ca reer. and now
s no is about to assume Is q 4 role that
aeclipses them all.
&C. S, s. Florida, AT Sea- May 9th. ST.
"Lloutenant8Co Commanding ohm n. Maj
fitt: 1,
"slr,--I propose & to take the brig
/ (Clarcnce) which we have! lust cap y
tured and wit til al crew OF twenty men
to proceed to Hampton II pads and cut
( out ~ gunbont t or steamer OF 4tlle enemy.
AS ] would DO In 20 ssession of Tho
briggs papers. and MS til e crew would
not DO largo enough excite suspt-
cions there can be mo d CUB of my pass
Ing Fortress M onroo Bsu Gessfully y. Once
An tho Roads, + would be prepared to
f oval myself of any cir cums tanco hich
might present Itself for gaining tho
dock OF an enemy Is esscl IT 4 It vas