Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-02-14


make the profession and speak and pray ac-
cordingly in these meetings in the evening
on the berth h-deck.
A subscription is up for Dave Collins (sick
and to be sent to Brooklyn bospital.) Some
forty dollars subscribed sincr last eve This
kind Of thing is done occasionally put
down for Dave for he has been always obi
ging to me and will not probably get we'll
very soon (rheumatsm) and .nas be dis
charged some time and may not be able to
enter the service again. He is Irish. Has
wife in Lynn.
Dec. 26. - Yesterday being Christmas,
crew ordered to dress in clean blue ]. e. our
best. Went to quarters at the usual time,
o. A. NJ, passed inspection and the retreat
was beat. Immediately atter the 1st and
I'd divisions, in two squads, drilled, with
Sharpe's rifles and the musket. Short
drill and then dismissed FOR the day -
Dinner in our mess-boiled ham, spuls j. e.
potatoes, and soft tack i. soft bread. Some
messes had turkeys from the shore and somo
had them sent from Boston with cakes and
ncknacks. AT II. NJ. the Boatswain and
his mates piped An hands splice tho main
brace!' i. c. each and every man to get
glass of grog Ga tot Of grog rather, from
tin measure, holding just the allowance, equal
to small wine glass; Did not drink mine
although may on New Years Two
men got drunk yesterday. One was boat
swain's mate. lie is in the brig and broke
of his office. The other, the drummer, man
aged to keep perpendicular and to beat the
reveille and to quarters, &c. When he beats
to quarters and retreat, he stands close to my
gun. 1t was ludcrous in the extreme to sec
him trying to look sober and profound He
kept solid on his feet but s~ayed little. .a
The English mean war. five war with
them the South is gone, sure, no mistake in
that, Notwithstanding what the knowing ones
say to the contrary. Our navy is good Cor
our affair, bnt for Britain cur craft are TOO
small. Our frgatcs arc good enough but
there arc not enough of them. or course
we could injure them but the truth is they
are well prepared with an efficient navy and
ours is nothing in comparison. 1t is very
well to sit in parlors, bar-roon,s, &C., and
say we whipped them in the Revolution and
in 1912, but they have improved tn cir navy
since, while We have been looking after man
ufactures and curtailing the army and navy
expenditures. We shall know some thing
after this heat f
Dec. 3O.--A fight came off tao or three
days ago between two fellows at their mess.
Mess cloths are spread on the deck. There
are twenty to the mess. The fight began at
the edge of the cloth just as they began sup
per. In minute they were all over the
cloth. Pots Of tea flew, bread scattered,
pans danced. | saw the ground after the
fight. There was nothing on the cloth but
few pieces Of bread. 1t was something
like the catight, nothing left but their two
tails. Not word was spoken. It was so
quiet that the officers did not hear it. (Othcr-
wise the brig you know
January To-day is as any day on board.
Finished Dickens Great Expectations II is
nothing extra for him. Pike attends PRAYER.
meeting regularly. Got up the other evc-
ming and requested to be pfayed for. Says
he will pray himself when he thinks he is
Christian. Any quantity of turkeys
come here for different individuals from their
friends at the North. A friend OF mine in
Boston wished to send me thd but wrote
that it might spoil, &c. Truth is, thought
it was carrying the thing little too far.
We have got to fight the South, and the
sooner we begin the better. We cannot
starve them. 1t was pretty tough giving up
Mason and Slidell with little arg,ment but
the South should be conquered at any sacri-
flee. .t..
We have character (Portuguesc) on
board. Some days you see him with bar
rel of apples, singing out" Here is your
Union apples, my boys Good Union ap-
Piles ! Only five cents apiece Come on.
my bully horses Come on Ha ha
These is the apples Only five cents! Cheap
Come on, my bully horses Now's your
tiHic hebuidI hmeTlCan NppleSl I'm a.
Union man, | am. No prosessionist about
me, my lads ] go for the stars and stripes
Come on, my boys, come on, aud get your
good Union apples" So he will go on for
an hour. Another day he will have box
Of cigars. Then it is-a Here's your good
Union cigars Only three cents apiece p &C.,
&c. His mamie is Sam Woods. lie is from
the Western Islands and is d funny fellow.
Just now he is on my ground with his ap-
Piles and he has made me present Of one.
OF course stick up for Sain and his Union
apples. lie gave cigar to Pike yesterday
and Pike advised every one to buy those eel.
ebrated Union cigars. Hail, snow dnd
rain, last night, making slect, freezing on
the rigging, and icicles hanging from the
yards like the fringe Of lady's shawl Ex-
pedition said to be off next week. So they
keep it agoing. Cold to-day cold all over
the deck except around the smoke stack and
there is always such a CROWD there that one
cannot get within ten feet Of it. The berth
deck is warm. A number in the brig
as usual. Always some in the brig. Scvefal
in the Sicl hay ntinn III