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May 20th. Another pleasant day dawns upon a sleeping world; at seven thirty A. M. finished coaling ship; have been engaged at it since yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon, and working all night received some seventy-three or seventy-five tons on board; at ten thirty A. M. the U. S. steam ram Gen. Price came down and out of Red river, and communicated with us. Cast off the coal schooner and dropped her astern; at twelve M. steamer Price got under way and went down the Mississippi river; at three P. M. the iron-clad Lafayette got under way and steamed up Red river; at three forty-five P. M. the Empire Parish came out of Red river, and took the coal barge and schooner in tow; sent Lieut. Hall, of U. S. A. Signal Corps, and his two men on board of her, and she went up Red river; at eleven thirty P. M. the steamer Gen. Price came up the Mississippi river, and anchored near us. These are all the departures and arrivals of this day.