PILOT. STEAM-TUG. 45 



hour after he came on our deck, and this was all I could learn, 

 and except the late arrivals and departures and losses of ves 

 sels, this was all we got from him for two days. Our Liv 

 erpool pilot, however, brings us a Price Current and Shipping- 

 List newspaper, in which we find an allusion to &quot; the 

 unfavorable news from France&quot; as affecting the state of 

 trade, but whether it is of floods, hurricanes, or revolutions, 

 there is no knowing. In the same way we understand that 

 the loyal English nation are blessed with another baby prince, 

 and are stopping their mills to give God thanks for it. There 

 is a slight fall in cotton too reported, and since he read of it, 

 our New Orleans man has been very busy figuring and wri 

 ting letters. 



After the pilot came the first English shower (&quot; It s a fine 

 day,&quot; says the boatman, just now coming on board we have 

 only had three showers .this forenoon), and then it fell calm, 

 and the ship loitered as if fatigued with her long journey. It 

 is now noon, and while I am writing, a low, black, businesslike 



scullion of a steamboat has caught hold of the ship, and means 

 to get her up to the docks before night. On her paddle-boxes 



