Worked The Wrong Way

SIr. Dooley, a Mobile s)ip carpenter, relates au ainusing incident counected with the blockade of Mobile harbor during the civil war. Sonic ship carpenters had been put to work by the government to manufacture floating mines aud had taken a nmnberof heavy pieces of square timber and placed them in the form of a triangle, three pieces being eed to each. At the end of each of the sticks - that is, on the tkree points - was placed a torpedo. A few days after this the wind came out strong from the north, and the torpedoes were taken and placed ín position in the bay so that they would be driven by the wind against the United States guuboats. The plan was apparently to be successful, the torpedoes being driven rapidly in the direction of the en emy 's gunboats, and great daniage might have resultcd to Uncle Sam's ships had not the wind suddenly chauged, and the torpedoes were brought back and carried in a bunch to the bay opposite Frascati. Here the torpedo mines met in an edcly. and there was suddeuly a great explosión, followed by another, and yet another, completely tearing the rafts te pieces and produciug at. the same time a panic ainong the people resident on the shore, who went to Mobile city and reported that the enemy was