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men each, and, under the direction of their officers, worked incessantly at the pumps, the coal hole, and the baggage gangways. In these tolls they were cheered and assisted by the crew of the ship, who, with the zeal and skill of American seamen, gave themselves no respite all night long Hundreds of tons of coal, baggage, and commissary stores, were in this way consigned to the deep and lost. The trunks, chests, camp equipage, etc., of the officers went first, and among them everything Col. Bryan and his staff had on board. Cheerfulness, alacrity, and courage distinguished every man in the arduous labors of a night gloomy and threatening to all. Morning came at last, and about seven o'clock two more schooners bore up for the steamer, and took off five hundred more of the troops. The transfer was difficult and dangerous in the extreme. Each man had to be lowered into the boats along side by ropes, and then as each boat was filled, the living freight was conveyed to the smalle