Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-08

our cellar with the choicest Wines brandes
and cigars the market afforded" and with a
charred stick painted stuck out the fol-
lowing sign,viz: "LindaIl House on Sand,
This has point, but you can't see it'll
Some of the negro crew and cabin boys
with an eye to business, erected more mod
est hut near by which fourished a sign much
more attractive than ours it was about as
: follows:
BLacK-pEatS
oPnERzisSiOn
TaBrEN.
In erecting these shelters the most reckless
destruction of the saved steamers-property
took place: glass doors, shuttle fine mir
rors, Rosewood chairs, damask and lace cur
tains, linen Sheets and numerous other things
were broken, torn or thrown about as things
without value.
It was the same with the provisions etc.,
that we had landed with SO much labor :;
hams in heaps, bursted barrels of apples, ditto
cider, ditto dried and canned fruits and oysters,
liquors, cigars and little of everything that
a fine steamer carries as freight and for per-
sonal use, was scattered broad cast.
Although we had such gorgeousIy furn-
ished habitation and such an abundance and
variety of eatables, and also newspapers and
periodicals of all descriptions in such num-
bers that they fairly made covering for the
island, we were nothing 10th to exchange
them for new quarters on the rescuing steam
| er.
At O'Clock P. NJ, Wednesday, we once
more were gliding down the bosom of the
father of waters; everybody feeling thankful
and jolly because of their escape from the un-
certain sand bar, but all deeply sympathzing
with Messrs Bryan, Fisher & Downing, who,
by the sinking of the Fanny, lost all their
worldly wealth.
[ should have stated above that our life
boat that went off in the night for relief, re-
turned unsuccessful the commander of the
gun-boat at Skipwith station, twenty-five
miles below the wreck) stating that his order,
would not permit MIN to go to our assstan ce
as we were Just outside of his waters, and con-
sequently just within the jurisdiction of
another gun-boat, which, however, was as
many miles above as the first was below and
between the two, 1 suppose rather than have
gone an inch beyond their instructions they
would have seen US "hauged' as well as
drowned.
w ull0 NOWu buC E1FOE VIII LuG 6uldl DOdLS
those in charge were SO imprudent as to land,
and two Of its occupants, still more imprudent-
ly, concluded to start overland for their plan
tations ten or fifteen miles further down. We
saw these two afterwards, and they presented
a very different appearance than when seper-
ating from us. Having fallen into the hands |
of the ever watchful and prowling guerrilIas, |
they were eased of purses, arms and almost all |
their clothing, given two or three hundred |
yards start and told to run for their lives |
being at the same time warned that in case
they escaped this time, and should have the
temerity to ever venture back that they
should be skinned.
The Henry Won Phul being a fast boat,
we reached this place early Thursday morn
ing.
After proving my loyalty at the Provost
MarshaIs Office, was given pass and pro-
ceeded solitaire to do" Vicksburg.
Being considerably indisposed and as yet
having had but part of one day to devote
to the work, it must not be expected that l
have very closely noted the men and things
about me nor have got beyond the second
line of Notifications, yet those coming under
my observation show to even my unpracticed
eyes that they are as smooth in finish as a
picture, as solid as the hills beneath them,
and impossible to be wrested from us while
we have the river las we always wilD by the
combined arms of the world. {
Vicksburg has a civil population of about
ten thousand, but like all those river depots of
Uncle Sans, looks many times as large, owing s
to the evolutions of the troops, q
Quarter Master and Commissary wagons, and 8
he immense piles of freight arriving at and q
being transported from the Ievee to the store G
houses and camps. e
Scarcely any OF the original inhabitants are B
lere what few remain, with here and there v
IN exception, are poor, miserable, ragged, t.
ilthy and degraded set, who sleep in those t
historical caves at night, and, snake like, 8
,Eawl out in the day time to digest the coarse
cod dealt out to them by Uncle Sam, and
,ask in the sun shine. r
No feelings of pity for their wretched con- n
ition warns my breast, that is for the men; n
'ut the women, pity them from my heart of S
carts. 7
To see these-either young and ralr, or old
nd ugly, come into town on foot, or in a
] iserable Shaking old carriage-a remnant l.
( better days-drawn by half starved mules, =,
arnessed sometimes with ropes, from i'm y
overished plantations that once were prince -
in the amount of their revenues, to beg their Z,
otment of food from our officers, was pic v. :"
Ire that any true man would deplore. Now :;
nd then would see one young and pretty, r.
ecked out in child-like though out of fash. ~ -
n gaudy inery, that would make nae smile -,
In one particular they are more fashionable -, -,
their dress than their sisters of the North, .''
I'd that is they do not wear hoops, but SIM g.. e..
y because they cannot get them that article ~ ~,
ling luxury that Secessia's fair daughters y" w
I'VE not been able to indulge in for" three r,
ars or the war" . W.
Vicksburg is not desirable town to live
(for lazy man)-it is all up hill.
There are several lively business streets, res
ID one parallel with the river land of course er,
rely extending for mile or more, bordered Onl
tn handsome dwellings surrounded each My
th handsome terraosd garden. clel