Year: 1870




to seek the overland and inlet passage to Cobb's
Island. This done the boat pansed for some lit
tie time 10 allow opportunity for fishing, gun
ming, and lthing to pilgrims thus inclined.


Our scientific Patent Office professor had here
opportunity to lay in great store OF marine curl
Chesapeake Excursion Service, and Architect
3. made great havoc amongst the birds; and
Messrs. Plant, Joyce, Alvord, Tucker. etc,
were equally successful with the finny tribe
equally successful! By the way, our Cherry
stone boatman-a long -drawn-out specimen, a
sort of Accomac Yankee, SOW of speech and OF
action, made a remark about shooting that may
not be new, but which made some of us laugh.
He said that " some fellers that come down here
gunning''-not slluding to any of our party
couldn't shoot bird if they had one foot on
its tail"


Cherrystone is quiet place in its way. One
would not like to summer and winter there un-
less very fond Of oysters. 1t Is undoubtedly
great place Tor oysters. The wide, shallow har-
Dor quite bristles with poles, showing the local
ity Of the numerous oyster beds, and the water
is dotted with oyster-boats, each with its dredg
ing toDgs in active operation. Cherrystone Is
put down in the Gazetteer as port of entry
and as a post-village Of Northampton county,
Va; but its village seems to consist of country
variety store, at the land end Of the long pier
running out in the shallow water. This grocery
is, however, quite an institution. 1t has dry
goods and wet goods, and some of the wet goods
are arranged behind a bar which is ostentatious-
~, but not successfully, screened from view.





who had lost their hats in the gale went up to the
grocery to replace them but singularly enough,
none were found large enough. The puzzled
grocery man looked an insinuation that the Web
sterian heads he could not ft were slightly
swelled; but the probable explanation is that
his country customers have unduiy small crani-
ums. Henry A. Wise used to boast that his con-
stituents of the Eastern Shore District shot edi-
tors and schOolmasters as fast as they came
along. The result of this policy has probably
been deterioration Of the size of the brain in
Accomac and Northumberland.


HOW WE GOT THE NEWS.


Proceeding again from Cherrystoae to Nor
folk, we stopped at Old Point to visit the fort
ress, the JEFF. Davis prison quarters, &C., and as
we touched the usually silent wharf somebody
shouted from the shore that Napoleon and
the whole French army had surrendered.


There was at once babel OF inquiries from
the Lady Of the Lskers as to the source of the
news. The answer was that it had been received
from official sources at Washington by the com
mandant at the Fortress, and was undoubtedly
true. Still the news seemed so staggering as to
that Of the Lady's French bar keeper, rang out
from the boat: :" France cOnkaired-the army
surrendered! Nevair-r-r-r," with trail Of the
final 'r' like drum rOll)


THE THREE YOUNG MEN OF NORFOLK.


On We went again to Norfolk to tie up for the
night, and on went the dance, which had been
kept up with slight intermission through the
day. 1t should have been mentioned that on
leaving Norfolk in the morning for Cobb's ISL
and We took on board. with others, three cor-
geOusly arTayed young Norfolk Toots's, fair to
look upon, but with thinnish legs. They danced
indefatIguably with the pretty ladies, with the
prim widows. with the jolly widows and with
each other when partners ran short. One could
not but suspect that these three young men of
Norfolk have worn their legs down by a fever
ish and laborious existence in dancing upon
every excursi on boat that comes along.


SLEEPY CITY.


Norfolk, with all its advantages OF stu alton
is not a lively city on week days, and on Sun
day the very depths of drowsness seem to settle
down over it. The most part of the day was
spent here, and those of us who were in motion
about the beautiful harbor in row or sail boat
managed to keep our eyes Open, but every pill
glim who put his foot on shore went to sleep
then and IL ere rs inevitably as if it were
the enchanted city of sleepers in fairy
story. AT p. m, when we left, il was
with considerable difficulty that we collected all
our passengers, who were found mid mid -nodding
all about tOwn-in churches, hotel parlOrs at
sTeet-corners, and anywhere that they hap
pened to drop.


of Norfolk by vote of the people rejected the
proposition to appropriate money to build the
railroad west that is to lift the CITY
out of its drOwsy, lfeless condition, and put it
on the path Of progress. 1t must reconsider this
vote, and set upon the work Of making Norfolk
a city commensurate with it's great advantages,
else all the rest Of the world will lose patience
with the place.


THE HOMRwARD TRIP


was made most enjoyably, and there was pub
lie meeting in the cabin, with enthusiastic
speeches and resolutions complimenting Adm-
raj Brown and Captain Denty, and hoping that
the l. ady Of the Lake might long continue to
make excursion trips OF the sort, and that when
ever She. rode abroad" all our pleasant party
might be there to see.