Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-12-20

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the deck or the First Lieut.. The officer will
20 to the man and inquire into the affair, al
though some officers will make no inquiry
but sentence the man at once to confinement
in the Brig with single or double irons or no
irons, according to the offence. Single irons
irons and the wrists Double irons-rons
on the ankles on wrists. Men are sometimes
triced up j. e. their hands handcuffed behind
them around stanchion and hauled up
nearly as high as their shoulders. OF course
they must stand leaning forward in very
uncomfortable position. ....
To-day at daylight the Wabash fred the
signal guns for starting and the expedition
began Immediately to get under way All
the signals had tc be changed, one of our
clerks having absconded with the signal book
which would betray oursignals to the enemy
think that the feet has gone to Beaufort.
rs Yesterday all hands repaired rigging
and tarred down. We are crowded now,
having nine hundred men on board The
Brandywine is expected and as she is to be
a receiving ship presume she will take our
extra men and keep them until wanted. y #
just now, the armorer spit on the face of his
hammer and then struck piece of rcd.hot
iron causing the sparks to fly all over squad
of darkeys, who jumped up and yah-ha d
heartily taking the joke and grinning from
ear to ear. They are trying to learn to read
among themselves, taking it out of their own
heads and buying the books ashore with
their money, the few dimes they get for doing
errands when ashore. One of them told me
that the masters had hard times up the Rap
pahannoc being destitute of coffee, tea, sugar,
etc. Don't want to go dar any more
No, sab Tight den. Worse now," &C.,
&c. Contraband boy was spreading himself
all over the deck yesterday with black
frock coat that an officer had given him. All
hands had something to say to him. some
telling him how splendidly he looked, how
he had changed, how in fact they hardly
knew him he looked so fine. The coat was
big enough for two like him. To finish him
off he had big copper eagle on his cap.
do not know that sailors have more cour-
age than other people j. G. landsmen. A
sailors bravery consists in getting accustom-
ed to danger. They are much the same as
other people--the bold, the modest, the po-
lite, the rude. Generally q think the good
arc apt to be contaminated by mixing with
the bad.
Oct. 30.-IIad two hours drill to-day with
the musket. llwho do not learn the musk
ct drill as fast as the officer thinks they
ought are taken from the ranks and put into
the Awkward Squad. There are about sixty
of them now drilling under one of the corpo-
rails. The frigate Brandywine arrived last
evening from New York in tow of tug.
She has neither masts nor steam She is to
serve as hospital and receiving ship. = II
When man is sent out from one ship to
another he gets no notice as a general thing.
The officer tells the boatswain's mate that
such man is wanted, bag and hammock, in
the port gangway. The mate sings out for
him, calling him by name. The man replies
and the order is given. He is sent on board
another ship or wherever it may be. When
a particular man is wanted he is found in this
way sometimes: Boatswain's mate on spar
deck roars out at the full extent of his lungs
the mans name. And the boatswain's s mate
on the forecastle echoes the roar Another
on the gun-deck echoes it. Finally the man
answers Here 70 and goes to the officer
* IfEurope interlercs, free the darkies,
make privateers of all the merchantmen and
we will beat them so as to bring them to thei,
senses.
Nothing in the Roads to-day bnt tugs and
merchantmen, some thirty-iivo sail. 1t
mentions in the papers so often "All quiet
on the Potomac" that it has become by.
word with the men. ..... .. ..
whats the news this morningS" (To a
man reading the paper)
"Oh, nothing. All quiet on the Poto-
mac ="
What's that p inquiries another.
"Oh, nothing. Only he says it's all quiet
On the Potomac ="
"Oh, is that all? Well, lift is all quiet
on the Potomac don't care"
You have heard of the eastern prince who
after his dinner would say that all other
princes might then dine. 1t is not exactly
so with US, but at meal-tilnes we (being the
hagship) hoist a red flag at the mizzen-top-
sail yardarm, which means that we are
going to eat and that the rest Of the fleet
may do the same.
Nov. 3.-Y Yesterday and day before it blew
gale with rain at times. Now the sun is
out. Cold in the shade. Pike is ON the
sick list. Not able to hang up his hammock.
I do it for him. We have just furled sails
having loosed them to-day. 1t would have
been two hours work on merchantmen
Done here in ten minutes. All had to do
in furling was to let go two ropes and make
them fast again. never saw our
Captain (van Brunt) smile but once. It
was off Castle Garden. He had lady on