Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1865-10-19
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A SAMPLE OF SOCIALISM.

It was a few days after Generals
Banks and Grant had shut up the rebel
shops at Port Hudson and Vicksburg, and
opened tie Mississippi all the way
through, that seven of US shoulder straps
-four in the land and three in the naval
service-got permission all at the same
times TO run up stream, or anywhere else
we pleased so we didn't run within the
rebel lines, and recuperate for six weeks.
We had all worked long and faithfully
down their in The low country, ond fairly
earned our furIoGghs.
Ii was something just tIiae singular
that we were all Intimately acquainted
with each other, all Married men, and
that the seven wives Of the seven of US
should have all arrived in New Orleans
only the day before we gol eur furloughs,
and were all quartered together at the
Veranda, and got Up to the hour of our
meeting at the Exchange, when we
agreed to all 60 up the river 10 company,
there wssn't of the number a single soul
who had seen his wife since her arrival.
Without regard to rank or order, the
list in the male line reades as follows ::
Lieut.. Harry c. Jones, u. S. H., Col
George Marshall,-th Ohio Infantry,
Capt. WalierHamilton, = tn New York.
Lieut.. Col, Fred ,Orton,- ,-th Pennsylvania
Cavalry, George Coleman, pilot Major
John P. Florence.-th Connecticut Ar.
tillery, Dick Maline, u S. N.
There we were, of all arms and from
all sections of universal Uniondom, hus-
tied to gether by accident, and all bound
up stream by the same steamer, and that
steamer, the big new, frst.class clipper
Western World of Pittsburg, Captain
Henry Norton, which we had aScertained
was going to shove off from the levee a t
six O'Clock P. NJ.
Our first duty was to cut over to the
Veranda and introduce ourselves to our
wives, and then introduced our compan.
ions TO them ali round and this having
been accomplished, we pitched upon Col
Orion as our best pack horse and most
finished ladies' man of the mob, 10 wait
on the dimity down aboard the steamer,
secure staierooms, stow away luggage,
and get everything and everybody all snug
while the remainder of Us trotted abou
town to finish up forty unfinished little
duties, and procure fifty little triAes for
general comfort, the most important
among which were several dozen bottles
in saw dust, and divers overgrown decan-
ters in willow Jackets.
We were as busy all day with our du-
ties as Orion must have been with his.
but we got through with all, and on board
with our own various wares and wives
IN good time, making square calculations
to lave another that night on board the
Western World. And we did, only it
was a confoUnded q ueer time the last end
of it.
We were a trife near sighted, / think,
by the time we got on board, fifteen min
utes before the steamer showed off from
the levee, but we could zee well enough
when Orton piloted US around TO our wives
and quarters abaft the Wheel house, that
Ii ere was premise Of comfort and con-
venieDce ahout orr Recommendations
State rooms ftted up Ike bridal cham
bers, toilet fixtures, sofas, rosewood rock
ers. and berlhs wide enough for two-we
nJticed that particulary-and then there
was new kink to US in the designation
of our lodgings. Instead of being num-
bered, az is usual, or lettered, as we had