The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-09-05

"Bobbing around, a Round, ar-o-u-n d.
Women go bobbing, with the ships motion,
over stools and children; men bob each 9th
er and plump into seats-serv lnts and wai-
ters are bobbing around with dishes and
tatables, and the old vessel goes bobbing
with each swell Of the sea. The senlimen:
OF that whistle detracted somewhat from the
sublimites of the Psalmist. But not less
than does the singing of that in the midst Of
all admring crowd, as she squeaks out
verse after verse of "Old Dog Tray" l
hoped he would rise up and bite her into
silence--at least for Sabbath. On the 9TH
er side Of the deck, some Californians are
discussing mining matters, interlading their
palayer with the hugest oaths; while long
haired individual who sits on one of the
ships boats, which is lashed to her side. with
his feet banking over the effervescing water
which the wheel whirls QUITS singing a
bout s'Yillikins and his Dinah." How he
rolls out that verse where the pathos is sup
posed to gather with crushing force:
"As Wilkins was vallkin in bis garden around,
He spied his dear Dinah dead on the gr lund
And glass OF cold pizen a-layin' by her side
And d billy.dux Stain twas by pizen she died..
Singing to la lol la rol lal to rol la la.
Burton does not give it with heartier rel
ish. refer to these chance Sunday amuse
ments, to show how quickly the ye.v airs
with which New York is resonant, emigrate
to fill the streets Of SanFrancisco. Before
you read this, cold Dog Tray" will have
been murdered in many mine; Wilkins
daughter will have drank pizen, read her
"moriaY in many barroom, and our sew
en- hundred passengers will be "bobbing a
round the golden State. singing as they
go.
The breakfast gong sounds; and down
rush the famished crowd to the saloon,
where greasy perspiring walters in vain try
TO supply tie demand. # ever serious
Sunday thought entered their minds, the
rattle Of dishes and the music of knife and
fork have dssipated it. Between breakfast
and dinner the lunch takes place. Itcon-
sists mostly Of porter, Heidsick and pale
according to the purse or inclination Of the
bihber. The number of bottles emptied and
thrown overheard on these trips is prodig-
ious. Three hundred day would be 4 low
estimate. The women mostly drink porter
The mulato chambermaid, with her long
cornelan ear pendants and her mustachoed
lip, seems to be everlastingly carrying por.
ter to the ladies--if ladies they be- quail
Iify the remark, because the steward assures
me that we have in our Cabin alone twenty
one Of This aunts, as he calls them. By
the peculiar attentions ofthe young men a.
board, one would suppose that they were on
the tenderest footing Of relationship with
the majority Of the passengers. Whether
Mayor Woods police efforts TO purify the
paves Of Broadway has occasioned this ex-
odus, or whether il is a peculiar feature oi
California trayel--I know not. The fact is
papable. Indeed Bruin, the Cincinnati po.
Tlice officer, (who is on his way to Californ.
ia after Manchester, The "People's pious
Banker, assures me that our vessel is a
floating brothel fore and aft, for ''he's spot
ted 'em--knows 'em as quick as lie does q
burglars jimmy" The companionship O
these gay beauties is not very desirable. one
would think, at least for long journey; and
the innocent young girls and children on
lie boat and the decent part Of TIE womer
cannotifthey would escape the contagion
oftheir presence.
Still their isnot much questioning abroad
about character and condition. All mingle
more Or less. They find It necessary TO de
stroy the tedium Of the voyage. The other
might somewhere about latitude 27, before
We reached the sight Of land, we had
], dance on deck, in which every body VIII
could ill a place in d cotllion danced Th'
moonlight silyered the sea, which was com
paratiyely smooth, and III upthe deck will
more than festal beauty. The children
we're snugged away in then births. Hilari
Ety held the hour. An Arostook Yankee in
spired BY the occasion played onthe accor
deon; "Oh, Susannahl don't you cry 70
me; and French fellow IN broken Englisl
, called OUT
aTIead couples; right and leftl' and q
way they go. Ladies shainl' ID tl.langl
and then promen a-a-de allF aud arouu(
they 20 with laughter and vivacity whicl
|is not lesssned BY the ship pitching III ant
giving the sets d 'calp Of herown. % whcl
they responded with perfect uniformity .
, movement. While this scene of gay life i
enscling on the Cabin deck, poor womai
+ was breathing her last ID the steerage I'm
concious Of this scene of death, the dancer
i. danced On until Venice which sbone Ike |
new moon and had her own feaectiaE upo
fthe water, vent down below the lorizon.--
q THE heavens never to my eye sltswn s
!. Beautifully yet they looked down ona sa
ii wen as Joyous scene---tho same olt
scene oi mortal destiny. Joy IN the cayi
J death in The steerage forever fepeatin
Itself in this pilgrim world.
4 The next morning IL six. the dead wa
/ hurled Ia tle sea. She left aslasband a.