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ascertaining how the passengers would vote, and while many
voted for McClellan, Maglenn observed that the officer's eyes
brightened when any one voted for Lincoln. When, therefore,
the officer stopped opposite to him and asked, looking at him
very intently, ‘Who do you vote for? in a voice loud enough to
be heard throughout the car, he answered, ‘I cast my vote for
President Lincoln.’ The officer slapped him on the shoulder,
and said, ‘You are the right sort, my friend.’ Several passen-

gers then came up and shook hands with him. Maglenn was
very happy when he had got well into Canada.

“After the war he was engineer on the Coast Line, master
mechanic of the Carolina Central, and superintendent of motive

power of the Seaboard. In all walks of life and in every asso-
ciation with his fellow-men he was honest, true, and faithful.
He lived many years in Raleigh, where he recently died.”

OTHER VESSELS FAMOUS IN BLOCKADE
RUNNING,

In the second stage of blockade running, when steam was at
a premium, a number of walking-beam boats of excellent speed,
which had plied regularly between Southern ports and which
had been laid up since the proclamation, were bought by South-
ern business men who became prominent in blockade running,
and, after the removal of passenger cabins and conspicuous top

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intercepted off New Inlet, near Masonboro, by the nag Oo
steamer Niphon, which attempted to = a ele i
j ing’ of the a a
other cruisers preventing the escape |
Ca stain Suoaie at once resolved upon the desperate Seer
of pinnie the Niphon down. He — ran _ ~~ a
el, and struck it wi
reckless speed straight at the war vessel,
ereat hee carrying away the bowsprit and stem and wounding

| ick movement, avoided
th f the men. The Niphon, by quic .
the full effect of the blow, and fired all her starboard guns into

the Ella and Annie, wounding four of her men. As soon bes -
vessels came together the Niphon carried the Hila and Anme,

by boarding, and made her a prize. She afterwards became
: .
the United States flagship Malvern.

ilroad, which, prior to the war,
a ee Charleston and Havana, made one or two successful

h the blockade to Nassau. ;
ih Sai RE RR of the New York Times on February

15, 1862, wrote: “On Tuesday last, the 1ith of pres i
1862 the old steamer Governor Dudley arrived from : ar —
with 400 bales of cotton. The captain, fearing the me és
would go North if sold here, refused to take any Dag : : =
After taking out a British register and changing her a9
the Nellie, he left for Havana with a Nassau pilot on v8

carry him across the [ Bahama | Banks. He intends taking a

return cargo to Charleston, and expects to be back here in =<
a month with more cotton. The Nellve 1s an old boat, are
used up both in hull and machinery. Her speed is — —
or 10 knots, with a full head of steam.” The other ee - ae
merly comprising the Wilmington and Charleston line w

probably too old for blockade-running service. The pe
was sold to run on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Gladva

hamper, were placed in this dangerous traffic. Of these may
be mentioned the steamer Kate, previously known as the Caro-

lina, upon the line between Charleston and Palatka; the Gor-
don, which was built to run between Charleston and Savannah ;
also the Nina, Seabrook, Clinch, and Cecile, which had plied

on the same line. The Cecile, loaded at N assau with a cargo

of powder, rifles, and stores for Gen. Albert Sid Johnston’ TE
army at Shiloh, struck a caer eck off naar Aires went to Philadelphia, and the Vanderbilt, having been

bd . ing
3 3 the Gulf of Mexico while runnl
and went to the bottom in ten minutes. ‘The officers and crew New Orleans, foundered in

the blockade. ecegtort Ji
escaped. 3 York and Wilmington line,
Two steamers which formerly ran between New Orleans and / , Another old friend of eS - dwin A. Keith, the North
Galveston became prominent as Cape Fear blockade runners;

to the Confederate
the Atlantic, renamed the Elizabeth, and the Austin, which a passenger,
became the famous Confederate steamer Ella and Annie. In ae Ee D. Bulloch, naval representative
the early morning of November 9, 1863, the Ella and Annie, = oo — ea during the War between the
under command of Capt. F. N. Bonneau, of Charleston, was ee

which was managed here by ,
Carolina, rendered an important service