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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 47, 22 May 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

I’iMNTi:!: s Dollahs. — Where arc (hov P A dollar hen; and a dollar there, scattered over numerous small towns, all over the country, miles and miles apart—how shall they be gathered together? The typo founder has his hundreds of dollars against the printer ; the papermaker, the building owner, the journeyman compositor, and all assistants lo carrying on his business, have their demands, hardly ever so small as a singlo dollar. But the mites from here and there must be diligently gathered and patiently hoarded, for the wherewith to discharge the largo bills will become bulky. Wo imagine the printer will have to get up an address to his widely-scattered dollars, someling like the following“ Dollars, halves, quarters, climes, and all manner of fractious into which you are divided, collect yourselves and conic home ! Ye are wanted! 'Combinations of all sorts of men, that help the printer to become proprietor, gather in such force, and demand with such good reasons your appearance at this counter, that nothing short of a sight of you will appease them. Collect yourselves, for valuable as you arc in the aggregate, singly you will never pay the cost of gathering. Conic' in here in silent, single file, that the printer may form you into battalions, and send you forth again to battle for him, and vindicate his feeble credit.” Header, are you sure you haven’t a couple of the printer's dollars sticking about your clothes P Boston Pilot. Yovage of mi: Ghexadieu G r uins.—A Ser-geant-Major of the Guards (who will doubtless get a “wigging" for his indiscretion) describes the voyage on board the Adriatic and says :—“ The rations were anything but inviting. Tea! God forgive persons for calling things by their wrong names, for I verily believe it was'nothing more nor less than a tar rope suspended in a boiler of water with a small portion of sugar in it. The chocolate I can say nothing about, for not one in ten drank it. The pea soup, the first day, was something awful, some companies got all peas, and the other a kind of liquor. The soldiers on board (like the Persian army under Darius, which drank the rivers dry) attacked the water barrels immediately after in good force. The Adjutant, after they had emptied one barrel, ordered them oil'the second ; they would not go, but were mutinous enough to cry out ‘Throw him overboard.’ They then brought the hose to play upon them, which soon cleared the ways: They were raging mad with thirst. The cooking, altogether, was abominable: not sufficient boilers. The ‘dull’,’ commonly called pudding, which was supposed (o bo for dinner, .was generally boiled during the night, and issued out before breakfast; it so stuck to the teeth that you could not get them cleaned for an hour after. I was tolerably well up to Chrismas Eve, when it commenced to blow a gale. The gale continued Ihe whole of that night and Christmas Day, and the following. A more miserable Christmas I never passed. Kot a particle entered my lips for the three clays, although I got a snilf of a goose from the saloon. Then 1 thought of home, sweet home. The voyage altogether, was lonely. I thought the other morning, as I lay in' bed, that I should like to hear a baby cry, just for novelty’s sake.”