As the steamer neared the Hotel, on our return, the departing sun was flinging back his last good-night smile on the lovely scene below, and the musical chime of the little church at Caldwell came stealing sweetly over the bosom of the placid Lake.

It is entitled "A Scene on the Barbary Coast; Water in Motion, Steamer in the Distance."

He said he hadn't got any notes in, that would fit it just then, but be expected a lot in the next steamer, and I could have my choice.

The work was nervous, because dangerous shoals bordered the channels and Davies must let the steamer go.

Opposite Barbara, the gap between the low roof and dock-sill was filled by a deckhouse and a steamer's funnel.

Lister took her to a slanting plank that spanned a dark gulf and she saw dim water and then the hollow of a steamer's hold.

After a few moments Lister helped her down on the steamer's bridge-deck.

As we walked together toward the landing of the steamer, Letty Allis emerged from a green lane to say good-bye, and down its vista I discerned the handsome, lazy person of Henry Malden, but I did not inform Letty of my discovery.

"Since the Consul went away on leave things seem to have been hummingtwo stabbing affrays, eight drunken seamen locked up, a mutiny on a tramp steamer, and now a yacht being cast awaya fairly decent list!

The quarterdeck was adorned with a great variety of flags, and all parts of the steamer were in perfect order, while the officers, marines, and men dressed themselves in their uniforms and prepared to do honor in every respect to their expected visitors.

On September 6, 1860, he left the capital on board a steamer accompanied by two Spanish frigates, and was taken to Gaeta.

Twenty thousand stand of arms were, in a single night, loaded upon a steamer and sent to Alton, Illinois.

General Lyon sat forward of the steamer's cabin, closely scanning both banks of the stream.

It is not true that a steamer was lost in consequence of running against a chimney of the St. Charles Hotel.

The journalists who were watching Fort Pillow, had their head-quarters on board the steamer John H. Dickey, which was anchored in midstream.

The General Bragg was the New Orleans and Galveston steamer Mexico in former days, and had been strengthened, plated, and, in other ways made as effective as possible for warlike purposes.

The Bragg was one of the best boats in the service in point of speed, and proved of much value as a dispatch-steamer on the lower portion of the river.

One of The Herald correspondents was in the pilot-house of the gun-boat Cairo, while Mr. Colburn, of The World, was on the captured steamer Sovereign.

A little later, Flag-Officer Davis sent the following note to the Mayor, at the hands of one of the officers of the gun-boat Benton: UNITED STATES FLAG-STEAMER BENTON, OFF MEMPHIS, June 6, 1862.

The Arkansas was a powerful iron-clad steamer, mounting ten guns, and carrying an iron beak, designed for penetrating the hulls of our gun-boats.

When my friend came forward, to rest in our combined couch, I found his 'blanket' was purely imaginary, having been left on the steamer at his departure.

It reached Milliken's Bend at night, surprising and capturing the steamer Fairplay, which was loaded with arms and ammunition for the Rebels in Arkansas.

No pair could have looked more adorably attractive and interesting than Lord and Lady Tancred did as they went to their private cabin on the boat an admiring group of Dover young ladies thought, watching from the raised part above where the steamer starts.

Moreover, the steamer by which I expected to have gone, did not make the trip, but was sent back to this city.

He was brought from the steamer to his bed in the hotel on a litter through the streets lined by the thousands who had gathered to see him, but who had been warned that his condition was such, that the excitement occasioned by any shouting would be perilous to him.