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| 38 return to Baltimore. Annapolis was awakened by a parade through its streets, and the regiment was reviewed by Governor Bowie on the parade-ground of the Naval Academy. After the regiment and the other excursionists had spent three or four hours at Annapolis, the Pentz steamed away for the Monarch. When the great ship was reached, the marines were seen drawn up at the gangway, and everything else was apparently prepared for a reception. Hawsers were thrown over the side ready to fasten them to the Pentz. By the side of Captain Commerell stood Mr. Jackson, the British Consul at Baltimore, to ^ptroduce the visitors, and the people on the Pentz were hanging over the bulwarks in their haste to get on board the Monarch. The band of the latfer vessel played "Hail Columbia," and the Fifth's band played "God save the Queen." The Pentz moved completely around the Monarch at the slowest possible speed and at a distance of only a few yards, but the excursionists did not have the pleasure of actually setting foot on the war-vessel. The mass of people on the Pentz, crowding on one side, brought that side of the steamboat down into the water to the guards, and the water being very rough, the officers were unwilling to take the risk of an accident by transferring the passengers to the man-of-war. Some of them were discontented at not having the opportunity to board the Monarch, but the two vessels remained nearly half an hour in company, and the sight was a rare pleasure, even as it happened. |