Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-08-19
A Sample of Socialism.
BY DICK MARINE.

II was supremacy ridiculous affair, the
whole Of it, and there is little chance for
making any very selec. Sunday reading
out of it. But as there was one or two
really good points in the thing, and the
whole of i. such an uncommon out of. the
way .tiasco, as never before happened in
this world, and never will again, it will
bear logging down briefly as a curiosity.
1t happened that q few days after Gen.
erals Banks and Grant had shut up the
rebel shops at Port Hudson and Vcks.
burg, and opened the Mississippi all the
way through, that seven of us shoulder
s,raps-four in the land and three in the
naval service-got permission all at the
same time to run up stream, or any where
else we pleased, so We didn', run into the
rebel lines, and recuperate for six weeks
We had all worked long and faithfully
down there in the lower country, and fair.
ly earned our furloushs.
1t was something just triae 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 10 New Orleans only the
day before we got our furloughs, and were
all quartered together at the Veranda, and
up to the hour of our meeting at the Ex-
change, when We agreed to all 60 up the
river in company, there WASH of the mum.
Der single soul who had seen bis wife
since her arrival.
Without regard to rank or order, the
list in the male line read as follows: Ii.
Harry C. Jones, u S N. Colonel George
Marshall, -ih Ohio infantry; Captain W.
NJ. Hamilton, til New York, on Gen'l
BIS staff Lieut.. Col. Fred Orton,-th
Pennsylvania Cavalry; George Coleman,
pilot up river, light draught feet; Major
Johu P. Florence, til Connecticut Artil
lery; Dick Marine, U. s. n, Gulf Fleet
service. There we we're, of oil arms, and
from all sections of universal Uniondom,
hustled together By accident, and all
bound up stream by the same steamer,
the big, new, 6rs..class clipper Western
World, of Pittsburg, Captain Henry Nor.
ton, which we had ascer,ained was going
to shove of from the Levee a. precisely
O'Clock P. NJ.
Our first duty was to 60 over to the
Veranda aud introduce ourselves to our
wives, and then introduce our comp MONS
to them all round; and this having been
accomplished, We pitched upon Colonel
Orion as our best pack horse, and most
finished ladies' man of the mob, to wait
on the dimity down aboard the steamer,
secure state rooms, stow away luggage,
and get everybody aud everything all
snug, while the remainder Of US trot;ed
about town to finish up forty unfinished
little duties, and procure fifty little ,riaes
for general comfort, the most important
among which were several dozen bottles
in saw-duss, and divers overgrown decan
ters in willow baskets.
We were busy all day with our duties,
as Orion must have been with bis, but We
got through with all and on board with
our own various wares and wives in good
time, making square calculations to have
another that night on board the Western
World. And We did, only it was a con.
founded queer time the last end of it.
We were a triae near sighted think by
the time we 60. on board, fifteen minutes
before the steamer showed of from the
lesee, but We could see we'll enough when
Orton piloted US around to our wives and
quarters abaft the wieel-houses that tn ere
was promise Of comfort and conve nience
ABBOTT our accommodations. State rooms
fitted up as dal-chambers, toilette fix.
lures, sofas, rosewood rockers, and ber.hs
vide enough for two-we noticed that par
ticularly -and then there was new kink
to us in the designation Of our lodgings
Instead Of being numbered. a. is usual,
or lettered as We had sometimes seen the
thing done, there was fancy glass plate
up over each state room door, with the
name Of some Of our American immor.
tails On it in gilt le..ers-as Clay, Webster,
jackson, etc.
AS our programme was to have one part
OF that jolly .ime Of ours out in .hs social
hall that night, we might possibly forget
that We bad wives waiting for Us, ss many
better and worse man than We were had
done, 10 We set about investie atiug the
possibilities Of entering our lodgings
without disturbing our wives in case ,hey