Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-08-19

other. when our attention was suddenly
called to something that directly began to
sound very like squall. A female voice
opened the duet:
"Wby, Dick, my dear, where's your
whiskers?
"Wbo the devil is your DEAR Dick?"
major Florence inquired
"Dick my dick-O, mercy on me-"
That's MY HUSBAND" chirped my
bedfellow, starting up.
"Who are you in my bed ?"
"Thst's my Josey in bed with Major
Florence. Who in blazes are you, and
what the devil are you doing in General
Burnside ?" and Dick Marine tried to feel
out who bis partner was.
Hands off, sir o, dear-e.e CHI
This amt General Burnside-it's De Witt
Clinton"
Ode Witt d-n!' and away Dick wen.
sprawling ont on the floor.
"Help, murder E.e,ee-ech. Captain /"
Husband!' squealed Mrs. Ma or
Florence, tumbling end over end out Of
the bunk, and sitting down square on
Dicks stomach.
"There's my husband in there-Dick
fleece! Dick Ma'lne My dear,
get out of this, you great beastl" sung
out Josey from the next room.
Wallop, bang, smash, bumped some.
body or two in General Burnside. LET
mo out! 0 LET ME- OUT '-screamed
Mrs. Major Florence. "Open the door,
Get ont of the wayl Don't you touch
mel" piped Josey Marine; and just
then there was hurrah from the other
side Of the ship, and the state.room next
oft irome Burnside. tand out we came, stat
board all port, tangled into an everlasting
snarl, out into the broad glare Of the cab.
in, every shoulderstrap with some other
mans wife, all hands of US with nothing
to wear" or devilish little Of it. Every
body had been in bed with somebody that
didn't belong to them. Women squeal'
ing, squabbling to find their husbands,
and trying to faint when they had; men
ravine, pitching and cursing everything
into shoes,rings. Fore and aft, all along
the cabin, passengers came out Of bed,
| az the run, to see what the riot was--
somebody yelled Gre!' BOILER going
10 but t. screamed somebody else.--
"Rebel battery opened on us!' volun.
teered a volunteer shoulder strap. BOATS
struck a shag" roared foul anchor
"The devils broke loose" said q Ken.
tuckian. " Everybodys gone clean crazy,
do believe remarked quiet old In.
diana lady, and she was nearer right than
any one else.
After awhile they began to get the lay
OF the land, and then verybody hurrahed
and ha had and the men roared out
Bully I" and the undressed dimity cut
for dress and decency.
Then we discovered that four Of our
party hadn't turned up yet. First were
Colonel Orion and his wife. They were
all right, Of course, slowed away in old
"Mllard Fillmore But where was Mrs.
Jones and Colonel Marshall" They were
not there. Then, where were they? Why,
laid out in bed, alongside of each other,
in Burnside, and both as fast asleep as if
they'd swallowed all the morphine in the
surgeons locker. When We shook them
up at last, and told them what they'd been
| at, the Lieutenant's wife said, in sleepy
sort of fashion" She didn't see MUCH
difference to speak of between the Colonel
and her husband
At the second attempt we paired off
and put ourselves, away correctly, but We
never quite believed that that misplacing
and mixing up of late h keys was not all
quite so innocent mistake as Colonel
Orion retended.-PhH Transcript.
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.--Away among the
Alleghanies .herei is a spring, so small that
single OK could drain it dry on = sum-
mers day. 1t steals its unobtrusive way
among the hills till it spreads out in the
beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away
a tn ousand miles, leaving on its banks
more than hundred villages and cities,
and many thousand cultivated farms, and
bearing on it, bosom moro than half D
thousand steamboats,. Then joining the
Mississippi, it stretches away some twelve
hundred miles more, till it falls into the
great emble m Of eternity. 1t is one o: the
great ;,;Sas aries c! the ocean, which, ODE.
dent only to God, shall roll and roar till
the angel, with one foot on the sea and
the other on the land, shall lift Up bis
hand to heaven, aud say that time shall
be longer. So With moral influence. II
il rill, . rivulet, an ocean, boundless
and fa,homless a. eternity