Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-04-17

l give you the boats and the tunes by which
the call is made: ..r ..
First Launch, Jordan is a Hard Road.
Second Launch, Lily Dale.
sirst Gig: ~. The Girl Left Behind Me.
Second Gig, ..............W Wait for the Wagon.
pitnSSy ei,i yn,., " .'....".'st' pstrisk's Pat. bay
| second cutter. ........ Oh, Susannah
Fourth Gutter twhi.e crew. Rory OMore
Fourth Cutter, (back crew Old Virginia
Fmth Cutter, twhite crew.. Prairie Flower.
Finn Cutter, (black crew.. Nancy Till.
swan, .,.'.............D Dixie Land.
Barge. ......,............R Red White ard Blue.
17th.-Incident of battery exercise th
morning. Along comes the matter of.fac
Capt. Harrison. .s .r....
Capt.--(sternly.) Who is the Capt. o
this gun? :"s8
III am, sir.
Capt.-Doyou call that two points rorwar.
Of the beam ?
H.-No, sir.
Capt.-Why don't you point right?
H.-Somctimes do no. hear the order.
Capt.--( To officer of Division. MIR. Por
ter, why don't you give the orders so tina
they can be heard?
Portsr.-Master's Nate sick, sir, no one t,
pass the word.
Capt.-Then make your own voice heard
if you've got voice. You've not got
voice, &C., &c.
The Captain says very little to any one
When he says anything he means it. wa
sorry for Porter as he is first-rate man
No news from Pike By leaving h,
loses about $l75 He was good fellow
No more pies and coffee with him. San
Woods and others took sick in Boston ant
kept it up until we arrived here. Could no,
get discharged. Concluded to get well agai,
and are once more good Union men. 50
! Crew much dissatisfied because sentrics ar
posted on tie steps to keep the men on tn
Npar-dcck in their night watch. Two nights
since some one let fall a 80 pound shot dow
the hatchway. Fortunately it missed tn
sentry. 1t would have crushed him to death
The scntrics are not in fault. In fact our ma
rhes are pretty good set of men. X
Money! Money! Money 1t is reported lha
ihc purser will let go some of it next week
perhaps.
:lst - Bowed and raincd last night
Watch allowed to be on the gun-ticck tn
! lookou,S excepted. We had orders to stan,
by for cali which we obeyed by lyin.
! down on the deck with our coats around n
and grn-chock for pillow y i We hav
a splendid battery, but presume it will b.
IF little account against IRON
e3i.-I estcrday at + p NJ, as was walk
ing the decks signal light was reported iron
J"mes River. Then came the boom of
gun. Quarters was beat The starboar,
watch hurried up their ham:nocks, guns wer
manned and cast loose, lanterns lit, deck
sanded, gsns pointed for 80 yards, and W,
were ready. Four or five guns were hear,
from up the river. We thought they wer
ati.. Dispatches were sent for the Wee
hawken (Ericcson battery to come up from
the tort. Blue lights and white lights us sig
nails were burned by the several ships, Re
nained at quarters an hour or so when retreat
was beat the signals indicating that the enc
my had gone back. While this was goinl
Oh there was talk of Merrmacs, infcrna
machines, etc. Many of our braves yer
very brave after retreat was beat though the,
were glum enough at quarters when we wer
expecting shot every moment. If you cy
er find man full Of fight when there is N
fighting on hand just put him down for
miserable coward have watched this, an,
| have never known one exception in thi
ship. ..'1 aFs.. . n..nr ...
25th.-We have a man WHO was on
whaler that was destroyed by Semmes of tn
! Alabama. The Alabama's crew arc chief,
Enslishmen. She has $50 men, is barquc
rugged, uses both sails and steam. The whal
er's men were landed at Fayal, whence tn
American consul sent them honre, Uncl,
Sam paying the bills. The Nahant, (Ericc
SOM just arrived. We are now anchored il
- '"S W ASSSvc tAS SucAy wv arc Tue Ia
tapsco, Galena, Minnesota and two gunboats
A tug came alongside few days since
ono of ber crew shouldcring handspik
and marching up and down the deck will
the word Mief in big letters on his back. 4
man in Washington and elsewhere can swim
die thousands and nothing be said. Thi
miserable fellow stole coat or other tr:f
probably. His punishment serves him righ
but why not the big ones too? - Aur
Sophy who comes in one Of the trading boat
lives in Norfolk. Is or was slave. He
master is away. Says she will stick TO Nor
folk as long as it is in our possession. If tn
secesh re-take it she will leave for the North
She used TO work out and give her pay to he
master. She says that Norfolk is rank Sc
cesh #ras.Ef .s...
2sth.--Yesterday bills were payed by til
purser to about $50 men. Last night whe,
in my hammock, during the dogwatch i. G
from six to eight o'clock. heard the follow
ing by two Of our contrabands