New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-02

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Al SO chambernaids and barbers,
All We river mem and women,
Who 10 down upon the steamboats,
And do business on the waters,
Listen to this song of wailingr 49,
10 this song for Higher Water.
le who are the steamboat captains.
Lonnging where The guards are shady,
Smoking fragrant old HasaIlas,
Sleeping soundly in the Texas,
Casing III the \. Captains Office Ss
TO some passenger unwary
Who has wandered up . to settle
on To see when ye are going
Saunsering forth upon the leyce,
Gossiping with other captains,
Who In various strange expressions
Vent their wrath upon the weather,
And upon the falling river
Ye, the Captains Of the steamboats,,
Who are either lying idle,
( OF II running. losing money.
Join me in this cry OF wailing,
III this ery for !. Higher Water"
Ye who are the steamboat Pilots,
With u deep and mighty knowledge
or the wiudings and the tMistings.
And the shadows and the sountiings,
And the Z. sandbarsv and the !" towheads''
OF the channel of the river
Ye who sit iii silent anguish
By the wheel that should be ttu1lnty
Knowing that the A snags'' and Y sawyerss
Every day are growing nearer
10 the surface Of the water,
iii the mighty Mississippi
knowing that tho sands are shifting.
Changing all the steamboat ciannel-
III the bed Of the Missouri
That the Ohio is a frog pond,
And the Illinois eauseways
And the Fever River :. nowhar,"
Similarly tn your wages
join me- then. ye snournful Pilots,
In this deleful song of wailing-
Iii this song for (. Higher Water
N All III engineers and I. greasers, z
Sitting BIZ your silent engine
Engine that il growing rusty,
And suggestive Of =. io,c lrdte''8::"
Or are boarding ut the Planters,
Waiting for Some happier moment,
Daily paving Your two-fifty,"
Coos and 5s,ieps not ineluded)
Oh who make fillal visit
To vcnerated parent,
Or N 90 forth upon 4 bender
Or, got up in greatest srlenaor,
Visit sweethearts in the country,
TIL you hav ut any money;
Engineers much bored, and anxious
10 be at your steam and boilers,
join me in this cry OF wailing,
In this cry for 4 Higher Water"
Gentlemen who Z. go to clerk it, Y
Who are 2 in the steamers ofifce''
4 Gone il now your occupation.
x 1rfs,isQ IarLtt nrt Kin IN an
No a receiving or g diseharging,'
Z Mnnifests@ or memoranda,
No g mud clerkingp on the 1eyee.
No more flirting in the cabin,
Taking ladies out to dinner, i
Promenading decks by moonlight,
Fascinating some fair maiden,
Who thinks officers !" such darlings;"
Fancying she has made a conquest
Never thinking, poor Young woman,
That each trip they try it over,
And that handsome clerks and pilots
Are the making of d steamboat.
Listen, then, oh clerks obiiging,
Gentlemanly, fascinating
Whose accomplishments aud manners
Now ARE only lying idle,
Til tile rising or the river
Listen to this song OF Wailing-
10 this song Of 4 Higher Water.
VI.
Passengers obliged 10 travel
Al this unpleasant season;
Going ON a threc.days Journey
That may take We full d fortnight
Sticking firmly on a saadbar
AT The cheerful hour III mid7day-
While the sun, like burning copper,
Glares upon your heads devoted,
And tile engine pliis ana struggles.
And the fires beneath grow hotter,
And mosquitoes large a. blaekbirds
Come abroad from neigbbpring Islands
With little bill to settle
While deyoured, roasted. s,illen.
Plying useless fans of palin-leaf,
SIT We in the steaming cabin,
And the boat Hes still and sluggish
Jn the middle Of the river
Passengers, who raying wildly
AT the weather and the river.
At the sloppage and the sandbars.
AT the officers and owners,
Crew and builders Of the steamboat,
While away the rosy hours
Or who muse in silent sorrow,
Wondering when again, If ever, -
Ye shall see d fser familiar,
Or shall reach your destination
We, the patient or impatient,
We, the crushed ones, or the erusty.
y1e, the savage or submissive.
yisEinispassNNgef soi' FteamhoatN
Join me in thia cry Of Mailing,
In this cry for 4 Higher Water
1-e that run upon the river,
NEe that have 10 do with steamboats,,
Whether it be to make a living.
AZ that Sc 90 in for glory, M
Or because se're going somewhere
All We passengers and owners.
All ye mates and all ye captains.
Al ye clerks and all We piiats,
Aii VI engineers and . Ereasers. Z
All We: stewards and Va walters,
Al ye firepien and deck hands,
ALI We harkeepers and pnrters, Z
All ye chamberInads and BARRIERS,
All We I. river men, aud women.
Who 20 down upon the steamboats,,
And do business on the waters,
Listen to this song Of wailing,
10 this song of " Higher Water
PRAYER. AT a prayer meeting.
d hundred miles from Groton, in this State,
he Republicans prayed, with great JUNCTION,
peace of John Browns soul. After he had
, q brother, from the q other side Of the
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