Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-06-26

hurt. Lieut.. Gushing accompanied our men
| When he returned he reported to Lieut.
Lamson (who is chief Of the Nava! force on
the river) how well the men behaved. Didn't
tel you, Gushing, that they would stand ?
| knew it. told you they'd stand" The
enemy had large force on a hill one mile
distant. Gushing pointed 9.inch gun send.
ing a shell through house into the mob.
They began to move. This is one Of the
minor incidents, constantly occurring, that
attend the disputed possession Of the Nanse
mond. We still hold it and all is quiet there
now, the rebels having Withdrawn, probably
to aid in repelling Hooker who appears to en-
gage their attention at this moment y
Instead Of putting all offenders in the Brig.
our n CIV FIRST Lieut.. sets them at the dsa.
grecable work, as pumping, hoisting up ash.
cs, cleaning, scrubbing, scraping, in fact all
the dirty work. The loud voice of the boat,
Swains mate is" Lay down, you black lis,
ters, to the pumps?" &C., &c. Then their
shipmates will set up a" Haw-h -haw that,
the way TO work EN-
9th.-There is new call for tho black
listers. 1t was played on the bugle to da,
for the first time. The air to collect tbes,
gentry Tor muster on the quarter deck is,
Come all ye darkies all. ....
That Is pretty air for them. ! believe they
do not appreciate it. however. When black
listers work is to be done the officer calls on
the bugler and he gives the air. As the
gents pass along everybody has word for
them, as" Go along, you black listers"
'hejo joker> themselves destined perhaps to be
on the list by another day. 1t ap
pears that our new First Lieut.. means to car.
ry on with taught hand. I do not envy
him his job Of making gentlemen of thi.
ships company. He has mild manner of
address Rather polite so far.
ll,h.-Forty of the crew had leave yes.
terday to visit other ships. General quar-,
ters to day. Practice little different from
heretofore. | give it:
First Lieut.-Man both sides q. G. every
gun on each side. The officers of the sew
eral divisions echo the ordcr)
First Lient.--First captains, point -
Done) Second captains, SPONGE Ozone. J
FIRST captains, fire
First Captains TO gunner's crew, tha,
they may stand clear Of the recoi Ready
Grew stand clear) Fire
am now listening to the air that calls to
gcther the black listers. All bugler is done
so go ahead again
F"St L.-Second captains, load with "a
10. cartridge! Shifting men, change! (The
shitting-men go from one gun to another in
running out.) Second capts, load with shot
Second capts, run out and point FRS,
capts, load with l s sec. shell Second capts
fire First capts, run out etc etc.
The idea OF the above is obvious. II is 50
that while the First Capt. is firing, the Sec
ond Capt. who is acting First Capt. of the
other gun will be loading. BY that mean
almost constant fire ia Kept up ON both
sides In manning both sides, one gun,
crew mans two guns, the Second Capt. being
First Capt. Of one of them.
One Of the crew running up to a crowd
just now brought "i,nportant intelligence
It was
"Vicksburg said to be takcn."
"The deuce!' exclaims another, vicks
burg taken:'
"Yes.'
You don't say so Well, let's have
chaw tobaker all round"
/ Whether they took " chaw" all round,
) know not for was too busy writing this tc
look up. x Weather very warm. Get
ting up awnings. Jack Sims nendlng hi
shirt. Old Bateman is now assisting me i,
correspondence by long yarn about some
body's stealing old Browns drawers las
night. Brown is mending another pair an,
looking as savage as a Scotchman can look
which is anything but pleasant. (son,e ex
citcmcnt.) WHATS up 2" Black smoke
up the river" Every one is on his taps
The Merrimac and the rest of the enemy,
iron fleet may be coming. II so there il
work before us. The black smok,
was from small steamer bearing flag o
truce.
There goes tho bugle-calI for the black
listers. And lot Of chaps are Ginning IN
with
i Come ye black listers all,
As loud a. you can bawi ia f
The black listers seeiIr to be taking Il in goo,
part and join in the laugh. By the way,
came near getting into that gang myself
One Of our new masters mates (Brainard
mustered the with the fcretopmen instea,
Of the forecastlemcn. informed Hunte
masters mate, who is well educated man.
His answer was
"Ah !! -. ah! Yes, yes, I'll see to il
O,yes III make il all right. o, yes! II
see to 49,. III see to it now" (He d.
} so.)
ELOQUENT or BATTLE "A Lieut., O'NeiI, q
the old Gytn Irish Regiment, now stationc,
, on the Rappahannock, writes to his sister.
married lady residing in New York city, tn
following significant sentence Our color