Delaware journal., 1828-12-02

BILE, for the heat and moisture produced by the res
piration of SO many people III single apartment
Half-suppressed curses and complaints IN the middle
cabin-lhe squalng OF children and scolding OF
beldame mothers and 'sfemale women IN the apart
ment which was wont to be known as the iauies
cabin--with exclamations OF "d,amonds trumps, -
:. pl stapd.', &c--mlngled with coarse Jesls and
yoes of oaths, from these engaged playing shoe-
makers loo in the forward caoin--these, ana olher
ungratefu noises, make up the grdno VI e"ee'
sounds during the evening. ,, . cu,
every mattress and settee And yet the nail are not
accommodated. These have to take what Is calieu
a staadee. Talk they Will, and a man might as wen
sleep on the top Of piston ROD, as III inc peS.
of the boat g Passengers for NewbuTgh, cans
out the captain.--'s Where's my trunk "hat
sort of trunk was it 2" The big trunK wlh lion
corners.'' Gone ashore at " esl Poin. ~
dear. then all nv money and clothes gone-can't
YOU nut back, captain % Put back no--iower
y,y,v the boat. there" ssIook at that mans red
night cap there says, one as an old man thufs' us
head through the curtains and requested iess oise.
g Here, friend lend me corner OF your bianhet'
's My blanket !-taint half AS VIDE as sauuief .
webbing" +" Here, neighbor, wish you'd SUCK
your darn'd sharpt elbow into somebody eise's rps
besides mne'' " Shut your clam shells. roars OUT
the tenant of birth. " Turn that mans yoke,'
calls out another, in reference to fat alderman
whose nose began to peal forth nocturnal hymn:
). .srd as lief sleep in stewpan," says one. " ana
on the ridge OF blacksmith's shop" says another
"Who'l give fifty cents for my settee = inquiries
another.' 8. in give acknowledgements
'' Here, you, mister, you may have nine lot three
shilngs." ''No: I'll give you two Done.
6 Captain, baint going to have birth g = birth
no !: don't YOU see they are all full" !" Well pye
paid my money, and | expect to have birth. My
moneys as good as other folkes clothes. " ''ihats
fright my g0od fellow stick to him." says wag IN
an undertone tipping a knowing wink at the time.
/ - Why, captain, how many came ABOARD at ISeW"
bargh p '.only eshty-seven and six children"
g You'll have to pile them up on deck, then tor the
passengers thick that their legs stuck cut OF
the cabin windows before - Och honeys, and
why don't you be easy there with your bathering
nonsense. Here's all these honest jontlemen here,
have been slap1g with their eyes open or these hra
hours" "That's right Pat--gvc that dandy a touch
of the Conny brook Far.' ''That will, your hon-
or. and thousand times over, il your honor's honos
will clear of the law" ''And whas busis
ness have you here. Pat" inquired MIR. Somebody.
.sDeev burn ye and sure he will, said Pat "liurs
IA for aud Hickory, say and 50 If you'd like to
carry sound bones ashore, I'D just bit advise you
to be quite, and lie aisy as you can, and bad luck
to ve.'' sCaptain, ! say, never was aboard one
of these darn'd water carts afore. Do they always
make such tarnal racket Which is the best place
if she should blow up % s' In the bottom OF the
river" &c Byjimminy, how she shakes =? guess
uncle Zeb would be glad he didn't come along.
There it goes, ratte-bang-k Why
: it makes plaguey sight more of shaking
& than Cantan Doubleday's nail factory" 20
do be still :" excIans Mr.. Somebody, in tone OF
anguish and supplicaon. :" Hura for jackson 70
E roar out half dozen Delaware lumber men. And
thus heavily, at snai's space, the night away
All is noise and conlusion-scoldng, swearing, j..
e bes and jeers--od jokes and new ones-mingled
with ncessant bursts of the loud laugh that speaks
4 the vacant mnd.'
Such is faint description of the luxury of travel
ling to and from Albany for dollar, as drawn from
t experience But the pen of the immortal author OF
!, Whns and Oddities. and the pencil of the income
i parable and comica Cruikshanks would alike be in
y adequate to just description of the scenes of the
voyage. in all THAR lugubrious and ludicrous dscom~
- fort and drollery.