CHAPTER LI

. The Weekly Occidental—A Ready Editor—A Novel—A Concentration

of Talent—The Heroes and the Heroines—The Dissolute Author Engaged—Extraordinary Havoc With the Novel—A Highly Romantic Chapter—The Lovers Separated—Jonah Out-done—A Lost Poem—The Aged Pilot Man—Storm On the Erie Canal—Dollinger the Pilot Man—Terrific Gale—Danger Increases—A Crisis Arrived—Saved as if by a Miracle

## CHAPTER LII . Freights to California—Silver Bricks—Under Ground

Mines—Timber Supports—A Visit to the Mines—The Caved Mines—Total of Shipments in 1863

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