Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-01
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The Yacht America In the Il ebSI Service
-ATairs ut the Confederate Capital.

The Yacht America In the Il ebSI Service
-Anairs ut the Confederate Capital.
The following letter is from q gentleman
in Montgomery to his friend in New York
City:
MONTGOMERY, Sunday, May 10, 1851.
My De6f -: At Savannah l was re-
freshed by q "reminiscences of Aud Lang
| Syne," trebly grateful amidst the oblitera-
tions of 80 many of its dearest memories.
This was Commodore Stevens's victorious
yacht America, which, it grieVed us all to
hear; was sharing, some three years since,
the fate of the triumphal car, consigned after
a pageant, to the royal or civic coach-house.
The ribs of a ship possess the immense ad-
vantage over the skeleton of her builder,
that with a new skin she may be made once
more to "walk the waters like a thing of
life.p From the dock in which she had so
long lain neglected, stained and wasting
with decay, she was transferred last year to
the ship-yard, and restored to her pristine
grace of line and buoyancy Of motion; and,
in the hands of her present owner, Captain
Decie, formerly of the Royal Navy, won the
cup in the Plymouth Regatta with so much
ease that her proprietor challenged at once
the yachts of all England to a match of
$1,000 aside, which was not accepted.
] should not omit to say that, in her
bGC0hu ODROhDaA w Az DCo1bhC a ACDap~
tized as the Camilla. When she left England
on a coasting cruise, touching at the chief
Atlantic ports of France and Spain, there
was no serious apprehension of the fratri-
cidal wal we are all ~lamenting, without the
power to stay or avert. From Osdiz abe
plowed her way to the Cape de Verde Islands,
where the charm of the climate and its
tropical productions tempted Captain D. to
prolong his stay many weeks before point.
To- h. fnr Gauannah 3hfob ha raaohad IN
twenty-five days from Porto Grande, after
. detention Of more than q week by Gains,
in the kelpy pastures Of the Sea Of SAr-
Had the gallant schooner still borne the
| Stars and Stripes at her peak, and the mute
bunting enjoyed the consciousness of its an
Gent elories when unfurled from the signal
locker in which it had so long rested, ii
would require no great stretch Of imagina.
ton to liken its surprise when passing Fort
Pulaski, where the Confederate banner now
rules, TO that of Rip Van Wrinkle returning
TO his native village. 1t took, however, hall
a century to effect the changes which be-
Rildered the patriarch of Sleepy Hollow while
few brief months, weeks, nay, but the hall
week preceding the 18th of April, suficed 10
lower the bucket Of Union and hoist that o.
State rights in, l fear 10 count, how many
States Of our Confederacy.
In the cabin Of the Camilla, though ia
maics teddy, March B Benson of 1863, and
the immortal Stevens Edgar ehoWder have
not left their traditions behind them, the
eager Clicquot still breaks its ~fetters, and
substantial hospitality welcomes the visitor
But there is q new element on board u
which the schooners planks were previously
strangers-six little BARNS, who renew the
regret that the generous builder Of the Graf
should have left no heirs to whom p~ostsrity
might pay some slight installment of the
tribute done to his many ennobling virtues.
On far less sceptical than st. Thomas
would require the evidence Of their actual
presence TO believe that the lovely And y
ful dame who sits beneath the awning Of the
Camilla can be the mother Of that flock, and
a. the s~unbrowned nestllngs ganbol oVel
the uAguarded deck, il Is not without {
shIdder that one admires the Coax and triple
brass around the breast" of the viking whC
has risked all his eggs in one basket rathel
than resume the wonted bachelor freedom o
Iachtlife. Let me add that the month o
June will probably show the comrades o
the Camilla al Hoboken, their old friend Will
q new face, and perhaps testify in the regatt
that the keel laid by George Steers has los
none Of its sWiftness, proving In q new shapI
the truth Of the adage
Ooelunl non animnsa Haaiant Qi frans mare currnai.
To modulate my minstrelsy IRON tn
Camilla TO the themes Of the hour withou
too abrupt = transition, let me say = wor
touching this quiet town, which is to be
come hereafter memorable as the nursery 3
this reVolution, Of which Charleston was tn
cradle. Imagine the Capitol at Washing
ton crowning the summit Of an elevate
some thirty feet higher, and approached b
the same gradual slope Of 4 Pennsylvania
avenue commencing At the National Hote
q river some thirty feet lower than thu