JULY 23rd
The time had come when we were under the
necessitiy of having a new stock of paper & other
materials for the printing office & Book Binders
which could not be purchased short of St Leowis
& Joseph appointed me to go to St Leowis & purchase
the articles & as it fell to my lot to perform
the journey & business, I aranged my affairs
& on Saturday this 23rd of July I went up to
the steeam Boat landing to watch for a Boat.
I stoped at Br L Wights which was near the landing
at which place I spent four days & nights
watching for a boat expecting one evry hour. about
noon on the 27th a boat hove in sight which we
were truly glad to see it was the Galena we hailed &
she stoped & took three of us on board, viz Messrs
Ashton, Moulton, & myself. we found the boat
to be heavy loaded with led having 7000 pigs on board
& the water being low we soon saw we should have
a slow journey the boat crossed the river to Montrose
stoped & empted the boat of its load into lighters
& the hands had a tremendious fight while doing it
spent the night at Montrose
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