Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-07-03
NO. IA.

years. Opened boz this morning. Contents:
bread, biscuit, butter, preserves, cake, books
and letters. All except the books and letters
goes into our mess. Ben though young
(say 35 years) is an old man-of. wars man.
Stout and good.naturcd, as most stout peo.
pie are. Is First Capt. of the forocastle
watch. Has recovered from the wound re-
ceived up the Nansemond.
st p. NJ, Fared sumptuously to-day.
Fried fish Coy White), home made bread, do.
biscuit, cheese, potatoes. After two years
in the Navy one can appreciate these things.
30th.-Courts-ma are oil the 70. A
signal-gun and the jack run up on the Mount
Washington announces one sitting there to-
day, to try somebody or somebodies for some
offence or offences. Very good and quite
right for the general welfare. AT a general
cotrt-martial, all the captains of the fleet pre-
side. A general court. martial is to try high
offences or officers. For slight offences 1
man may be tried by the officers Of his own
ship. - will help in testing chowder
to-day which I assisted in the making
Cooked by the inimitable White, Of course.
s1st.-Articles of war read to-day by First
Lieut.. Always read on the first or last Sun
day Of the month. It takes about twenty
minutes. If they were rigidly enforced A.
most every officer in the Navy would suffer
death or be cashlercd. -'4-s
June 1st.-Two marines Dutch and Irish)
had fight this morning. Short Mynheer
Won Clam was defeated. = Been read
ing Travels in the East, by an Englishman.
Good, particularly his account of the Turks,
men and women, people saw something
Of while in Smyrna. 1t is strange that tray-
elers for pleasure do not visit the Meditotra-
mean rather than London, Paris, and tho
like. ssf. far "af sfa . .otiH4"@@t ahi
6th.-Men arc leaving US continually.
Time out, or death. There are not $50 men
who have been in her from the date of her
commission, May '6l. The Brandywine sup-
plies us with recruits. y x Three kittens
from Newport News arc on the forecastle,
two just over my head on permanent avn
ing which we have made for the comfort of
myself and associates. The kittens are fed
on milk from the bumboat, i. c. water with
little milk in it, which costs l5 cents quart.
1t is one milk and four waters So they say
who buy it. AS do not own the cats do
not buy milk and water for them. + Holy
stoning is to whiten the deck, not to clean it
The ship is cleaned every other morning be.
fore breakfast by party Of about 800 men.
This with frequent sweeping keeps every
thing neat. Holystoning is done on Satur-
day. There are 25O men ut it now on the
gundeck. ~ Not belonging to any boat,
consequently not on any expedition, I do
not often como in contact with the officers.
My whole intercourse with them amounts to
this Twice a day report (touching my
cap) to officer of division" All present, sir.
at the gun )" or, this one and the other sick,
or in boat, &C., and perhaps make re-
ply to the boatswain in the course Of the day.
= ~ The watches are distinguished by
marks, called watch marks. A diamond one
inch in length, worked with white or black
thread on piece Of cloth and sewed on tho
left arm of the shirt, frock, jacket or coat,
denotes the wearer belongs to the port watch.
A star on the left arm shows that the man
belongs to the starboard watch. - The
little river gunboat, Alert, caught fire at Nor
folk two days since. The fire reached her
magazine and blew her stern out.
1Sth.-Practice with small arms to-day by
20. I'd, in which have the honor Of service
as private. Differed by Lieut.. Fyfe and
Ensign Birtwhistle. Fired at target. Dis
tance, 200 yards. Shooting fair. Company
numbers about 1bD men. Each had one shot.
Arms, muskets. My performance was not
very good. Lieut.. fired twice. First shot,
good. Second, very bad, which caused him
to jump and exclaim Gas he pointed aft g I'm
off before lose what reputation got by the
first shotP Must be familiar with small
arms, but prefer the big guns. - Mas.
ter-at-arms brought Q darkey to the Lieut.. TO-
day. He had reported him few moments
before and he was now up for sentence.
Put him on bread and water for week r.
said the Lieut.. No appeal to higher courts.
No indefinite postponcment Nolong- wind
cd argument amounting to snuff Charged,
arraigned, and condemned, all within Ave
minutes. - US. gunboat Adelia arrived
and departed to-day. Long and very low.
Was blockade runner. p
20th.-Read tale Of the Smurglers Of
the English channel. The author knows as
much about nautical terms as man who ney.
er saw ship. He is too many worded and
wont do at oil. Is not qualified to write on
such subjects and precious few are. Cooper,
Marryatt and one or two others manage very
well. This chap wont do for deep water.
But | am giving him altogether too much
notice. - Downs (marine) for extend
ing his leave Of absence two days has receiv.
ed sentence as follows Three months pay
stopped, thirty days confinement on bread
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