Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-11-25
From, me Ne,c- York Commercial .4dreriiser.

STEAMBOAT SCENES FOR A JULIAN.
Reader! didst thou ever go to Albany IN q
Gallant .trarcr for a dollar, and return IN that
splendid floating palace called the NORM AM
erica, for seventy-hve cents. II not, prithee be
,h All sassibtsn aasspasssss ISFr usi !aSs
no,b;pp of the unalloyed delights OF steamboat;
,r,ysiI;nr. No matter how often thou hast
sho, through the Highlands by steam, or sport
ed a5ou, our harbor in the lady Clinton barge,
or bounded over the crisped pillows OF the
Sound in the Washington or Frankiin-no mat
ter. we say unless thou hast made SIX shii>
ling trip to Albany, thou art, like Dogoerry' 10
be "written down an ass as one knowing JUST
precisely nothing OF the sublime, picturesque
and beauty af riding in steamers.
The enioymen, commences the moment you
,., ON board-nay, perhaps brr,re-for one
must feel himsel! particularly fortunate II he Is
no, run over in the rush to the gang-way by a
brace Of country men, with the huge CHS, in
which they brought their pigs & poultry to mar
ke,. And then the Jam * the squeeze on deck,a-
mits, the slowing away OF trunks and boxes *
baskets. while i hundred voices, from The hoar-
sesr bass Of the drovier to the shrllnotes OF the
vixen, are clamoring for births and s.ttees all
a, once. "Capi ain, KANT have 4 barth!" "No
Mr. Eelskin-an taken long ago-settres and
all" "Whcu shall we get 10 Newburgh?" "At
II O'Clock" What do you ar, Captain, to
take me and these three boxes to Po'kecpsie?"
"Six shillings." "Wha', SIX shllings! that's
mons,rous. ,horltwas only dollar to Alba>
nv" Can, help it," "Ashore! Shore all that's
soing!, ABE careful thsrc-don'i fall off the
plank !" "Holloa, the boat Can't get aboard?"
mo, too late "Why, Captain, ant ago>
ing-I only iist came aboard 10 see my cous-
in off" ".hnd Sd you're off yourself-nercr
mind-pnt you ashore at Newburgh." "Dear
me. now" exclaims Mrs. HenbaHc, "if haint
left three Of my baskets ashore! Captain! Cap
tain!" "rhe deuce take your baskets? Hawl up
the boat there
Now let us take peep into the ladies' cabin.
Mercy on us-what proclamation! See the dow
dies, with their thick ANGLES and muddy shoes,
,,ampliug upon the Turkey carpet as though
it were a ragged rag banket-and which was
ers, as bri gbt and beautiful as sylphs and fair
les would wish to tread upon-lolliug upon the
nice births too, with sheets as fresh and clean
Ave minutes ogo as the drive snow; or longing
against the ample drapery Of crimson damask,
or rich, figured silks Of blue and yellow. "Who
is that beautiful figure, pale and interesting, re-
clinine in the fasthest corner" "a young la
cv who has Just buried her husband in the ci-
~, and is now returning to her friends in Berk>
shire. She has no birth, & neither Mrs Hig-
sinboitom nor Mrs. Stu5bins, nor that old Jez-
abel there, who looks like the devils sister, will
WELD TO the frail creature, who looks as though
she would soon JOIN her husband. Poor fellow.
cut of just as he was getting into good busi-
mess" Nov stop your ears or that bell man
will spill, pour head open. "All-you-that-
haint paid your passsge-please TO walk to the
Captains Office aud settle" Fancy this pro-
ciamalion repeated some forty times, with in
terludes from the bell-aud so on to the end Of
the chapter.
But these scenes are nothing to the scramble
at the SQUAD Of the tea bell, or at the dinner la
BILE. NV conscience!see these dollar passen-
gers play at the game of knife and fork "Wai-
,er, some brandy here" "Waiter, give US