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new year and may it bring health, happiness and Prosperity to all. I was awakened in the night by all the steamboats in the harbor hailing the new year with a chorus of blasts from their steam whistles such a din I never heard before all the boats along the warfe joined in the Chorus. Breakfest being over it is now time to be aboard the Steamer Which is to leave the dock at 9.30 AM, it is very miserable walking all the streets being wet and slushy but it has stopped raining. 10 A.M. All aboard safe |
the steamer is late in leav-
-ing, it now being half an hour behind time, after a great deal of whistling and ringing of bells the steamer slowly backs out into the stream. The docks are crowded with visitors anxiously bidding their friends good bye and many can be seen wiping away a tear or giving the last kiss, Amoungst the ladies the scene is very affecting and although a cold miserable rain is falling many an anxcious Mother or Father with silvery hair reach forward to get one more glimpse of a parting sone or daughter that perhaps they may never see again. |
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