New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-02

BAGn&D, Mexico, July l5 1896,
ENorE TO TEE RGADnR--Ths is neither diaree
nor Dialogue, but is simply leg without any
die about i'll
LOG OF CASTLE KoHLssEN, July u.-C0tae on
for to blow before daylight a. M, blew great
] guns aad rained cats and dogs A. NJ, out of
sight Of dry land; all the land around being very
wet, We are not at sea, but the sea is at US. try
ing to wash away The beach for that purpose.
Gay old gale rest Of the day and all night. Wind
from the winderd and blowing straight to looara.
Castle stands firm.
Jly l2-Blew more great guns and rained
more cats and dogs; with some pitchforks Castle
inundated; no dry land visible, or even wet sand
except ledge in front large enough to catch the
masses of seaweed washed ashore. Cut off from
Bagdad don't know whether to take it as a mis-
fortune or a blessing. Three out of four vessels off
the bar drag their anchors and threaten to ground
and go to pieces But change of windfrom SOW
east to sutherd prevents this One crosses the bar
safely and the others get out to sea. Great disap
pontment among the Wreckers. They little rocked
their wreokoning was at fault. 10 A. NJ rain
rattes on the house like grapeshot and gravel,
and the breakers on the bar dance ten feet high.
Roar and uproar terrific; the elements in a perfect
| furOre. Our game chicken maintains his perch on
the wiuderd side of the house right rooste-fully.
and crows his smill defiance in the teeth Of the
storm: but he is SO rufEed up and his feathers so
knocked about, that we can't tell with the glasses
what part of his body the crows issue from. His
wife, the game hen, holds her place by his side,
but having her rear to the wind, presents such a
\ spectacle that beg Billy in mercy to 60 and lift
her round, TO keep her from blowing inside out
Besides the chickens ana crolrs, the gulls are gone
Wild; aud Billy and l. after making two STATIONS
Of our last bottle Of whisky, put into the empty
bottle slip of paper bearing these words t. On
board stationary clipper scow Castle Kohlssen--
we are aleak and our pumps (of the dancing kind
won't save us; liquor also out, and we are re-
signed expect soon to see old John Brown.
Should the finder Of this meet any one that knows
US Or mourns us, ask him for dollar; and refer
claims OF creditors on Billys behalf to B. Franklin
Butler, Massachusetts,, and on Ichaboa's 10
CRESCENT office, New Orleans. Signed, Billy &
Ichabod." And we fling said bottle to the Wild
raging pillows. 8 P. NJ, storm furious as ever
Ratons getting short; put the dog and cats on
short allowance and cook and eat the dogs meat
ourselves. Billy and l clasp hands on an agree
ment to see this thing out together.
Jtdy l3.-This day the wind blows eaulking
irons, and hammers the rain in under the shingles
and through all the air-holes and cracks most
beautifully. The castle becomes rather wet inside
Billy with his broom sweeps the water back a.
it triclles over the floor to the dry side where
our beds are. l notice stern gravity usurping
his usually pleasant countenance. Billy, says !,
why don't You build dam across the deck and
then let the rain come in and be damned? He
don't see the point With his increasing gravity,
he relapses more and more into a state of nature.
Yesterday, padding around the house to keep his
lumber and other traps from washing away, he
was barefOoted up to the knees now he is bare
footed nearly to the hips; and if things keep on
at this rate, he will soon be all bear. But anon
this is explained. He muf1es his upper person in
winter coats, snatches the market-basket, and
lunges out into the storm with the desperate
courage of Curtius. He is wading after some
thing to eat. Reaching the market-house in Bag
dad, he finds half hog suspended from hook,
and beneath it some seventeen bare-legged Gus
toners with empty baskets like himself all eursing
the owner of the semi-pig for not being there to
sell it, there being nothing else in market. Each
one of the crowd would have stolen it but for the
presence Of the others. Billy gets back to the
castle very wet and slightualy profane. His has
ket contains a few potatoes aud onions, and a
whole lot Of tin cans with fancy labels out Of a
grocery. We now live on lobster salad and sar
dine punch. am now so full of these that can't
look even the fiddler crabs in the face At the
same time, I am becoming seriously alarmed.
fear Billy IS losing his temper; but hope not, He
is squatted in front of wet stove in which he is
about to start fire with wet wood and wet kin
ding, to be lit up with damp matches. fancy
can hear curses occasionally; but this may be one
of the frealish noises Of the gale. About half
way down in the second box, a dry match is found
and after while there is a blaze in the stove,
But everything goes wrong end foremost to-day.
The draft comes down instead of going up the
pipe, and eaboose and cabin are soon filed with
sparks and suffoeating clouds of smoke. I dis
cover to my sorrow that the profanity does not
come from the gale, At the same time one of the
tom cats, driven into the house by stress of
weather. and finding all the dry and soft spots
disputed, as usual, by the terrier slut Flora
crouches under the stove and begins to emit those
horrible yows which are only to be heard when
a cat is in great mental agony. Billy seizes
Thomas by the scruf Of the neck and
gives him a gentle lift out at the door.
Thomas performs about seventy-fve somersets in
the air. should think before he falls in the water
All day and night his Internal bowling vies with
that of the Storm over the house, under the
house. all around the house, but rever to be seized
again or even reached with pole showing that,
for all his noise, he was pole-eat. AT length he
emigrates to parts unknown, to our great relief;
but he certainly has had to swim for it. At last,
the coffee and the remains of yesterday stew are
hot, and we breakfast at u NJ. Usual hour to s
A. NJ In the afternoon there is clearing up
not in the weather, but in Billy's countenance-
and he suddenly laughs out. Pleasantly surprised,
l ask what it is, Says he, AZ know now why
everything goes wrong to-day; tits Friday didn't
think of that before; l don't mind it now" Gale
without intermission all day and night but some
what miIder at night than previously.
July l4.-Gale almost as furious as ever. Billy
wades to market again, and comes back with his
basket full of nothing, We fall back on our lob
ster salad and sardine punch. These things don't
taste quite 50 good as they did yesterday. VIC
lently stormy and wet day; Castle all slop inside
I roll up in bed to keep dry. Billy examines his
surf boat and scow, and finding them seaworthy |
rips no more himself but lets the storm rip at its
will, and awaits the denouement With all the calm
patience of another Noah. At night the gale
falls Off much, that am enabled to get to sleep
and have horrid dream, / fancy that the sea at
last washes away the beach and engulfs me, but