| Show the great elicit eastern 11 writing to the boston post under date of london august gives the following description of 0 the great steamship the great eastern steamship is now an architectural moving livili living sailing baah ing magnificent splendid r realia re city alit fiad had she existed when W hen b beare e ah ach lies f the bloj trojans 11 she would have been immortalized in IP homets homers verse and greek historians would have recorded an eighth wonder of the world the hercules or rather the he vulcan of I 1 lie mighty marvel would have been mr john I 1 scott russell rossell in what way can a roan mail describe the great eastern you cant begin at one end ot of her she is is so large you ou cannot find the ends after getting on board without a walk that reminds you of a stroll llovera over a large field tile the upper deck is 13 all one level plain feet in length and 83 feet broad ili the centre containing altogether about one acre bhe is is in ten watertight water tight compartments and the calling cabins for passengers are like five immense hotels each 80 feet by 60 the I 1 decks being 14 feet apart a good portion of each cabin cabanis is separated by a centre floor making two t tiers ers or stories of rooms for steeling sleeping cabins cabin each nearly 7 feet high thet the ship has accommodation for first class clasi passengers r 1 1500 00 second class and 2500 third class or 4 10 ili in all used as a military transport ship she will carry 10 soldiers the crew will number at lea least at it will be almost impossible for the great eastern to fill and founder in ili consequence of a collision running on a rock or springing a leak you might fire a ten inch solid shot through her at the water line causing two ments to fill with water and at the same moment stave stae in her bow by striking a rock arid and only three out of ten compartments filling she could not sink straight across the ship from the outer potion portion of the paddle boxes is ig ft feet the paddle boxes are 56 feet in diameter and tile the paddles or floats 13 feet long Inthe in the making the ship consumed superficial feet of wrought iron plates and wrought iron rivets rivel ts all driven and clenched malle w bile hot the plates below the water line are it inch above the water lot an inch A aside aid from efrom the ten water tight compartments the entire e etire ship up to three feet above the water line is built double a ship in a ship tile the outer skin being two feet ten inches from the inner she might be stove in ili from the outside and not affect akca a single compartment of the ship hip unless tin thu harm barm extended to the inkin inner skin her boats for the accommodation of passengers in in time of 0 danger and in in embarking barkin ai t in in number besides two screw steamers suspended aft of her er paddle boxes each ft ions ion aud about 70 40 tos burden as lar large lare e as th the seagoing sea lea going vessel that took me ine riceland Wi to iceland celand in in 1852 if the great ship should founder at sea in aboy atoy a loy age round the world the two steamers would be large enough to take of the crew and passengers on their way rejoicing ready read to brave any weather awl anil sea where here any ship could ine the balati balanca ba lanci of tile the could settle a group or of islands in the pa and raise up a nation that in in a hundred years ears could back ba c k and diep tile the sovereignty of the mother county so much for foi her accommodations she has a aix ix masts two square rigged like a line of battleship battle ship and the remainder schooner nr r rigged g carrying in in all square yards of canvas tile the mizzen mast is wood the others hollow bollow iron tubes mr bruel calculates a speed of 15 to 20 knots an hour a rapidity of running that would send her roune the world in sixty days without being obliged to stop for coals coal stores food or walterl w aberl she has ten tell archois an chois which with mith fathoms of oc chain ca cable ble weigh tons toils she has both screw and paddles the screw being worked by two and the paddles by four engines with a total actual power equal to horses the screw is is 24 feet its in diameter with four fans and the shaft feet long made of vi wrought rought iron and weighing 60 tons 1 he ship big was designed by 1 I K brunel and built oy y scott russell kussell esq tile the abrev engines are the largest ever manufactured for marine purposes and made by james watt co soho works birmingham the shaft of the screw was ma made de by mare co of blackwell blacks ell the ibe paddle en engines ines were made by mr scott Russell Ki issell the builder of the ship they are dire direct act acting with oscillate oscil oscillating lat in cylinders inders each 18 feet long and and 6 feet 2 inches es in diameter the stroke k e is 13 14 feet the cylinders are cast iron each one weighing neigh ing 28 23 tons ton or pounds these engines stand 50 feet high hib and are made on the disconnecting apie so that they can be used jointly or separately and both 0 or either of the paddle wheels can bp be in independent motion the vessel will draw 30 feet of water when her laden and 20 feet only when allen light there are ten boilers placed longitudinally along the centre of the shi ship peach each boiler havin having ten furnaces or furnaces in all eacle boiler weighs 45 43 tons and they can be used entirely independent of each other there at ai e in in all five funnels each funnel acting for two boilers boi leis therease there Ther eare are several detached auxillia ry engines on board of about ten horse power each tor for pumping raising and lowering the lie boats coaling taking out u and putting on board cargo and lu luggage ag and f furling url it ig the sails the great eastern will w ill not probably play as important a part in n the future commerce of the world word as noahs ark didia did in the f fortunes or of mankind and the national history of the world still it will not be strange it if it create a considerable of a revolution only y find her work to do awl anil she will tion ably have a cheaper motive power than any steamer ever built I 1 am sorry she draws so much water that there I 1 is a no immediate prospect of or this leviathan ship going to boston she cost almost a round million stealing or fire million collors dol lors I 1 once heard of two london beggars separating in their youth 5 auth and one went to 0 o america in proved his or tunes and in five or six years j ears came back met his old companion still a beg garand told him he was is as worth a thou jt sand pounds A thousand nd said the ollir r la there so much money gooney in the world now I 1 believe though I 1 anu am a beggar compared to the wealth locked up in I 1 the great eastern that I 1 can appreciate tile the fact that there is me money n enough in the elouth world and enough to be ha had yd to laid build this enormous steamship but anshen hea I 1 go down the last pit that leads to the engine rooms I 1 confess that I 1 sin em overawed over awed and cannot appreciate preci ate tho almost a roost omnipotent power of 01 man that hat can make this vast bulk a amov moving g mass a liing thing as it were with helln aalf c creating r tg ing engines ines within itself sufficient to sit round the globe without once stopping her wheels but there it is lying at anchor in t the th e thames as quiescent as a st sleeping 11 aidin 9 infanti infant but once put water into the boilers 1 coal into the furnaces and touch fire to the coa coal and one wave of the hand of the chief engin engineer and she starts from her moorings anth ith a power that would upset st pauls cathedral d r al the ile letter published in in the herald of the ath of august last verifying the facts of history in the ze instance 0 of tile the memorable orders of general taylor to captain bragg at the battle ot of buena vista is ie correct in in every y particular as those who mho were ac tainted uain ted with that brave but rough and unaffected old soldier will testify the fact is there is too strong a tendency on oil the part of writers generally e ea ay to present distinguished distin gushed men not a as they shey really are but as they would have them the instance refe referred r red to is a proof of tins this and we might enumerate many others about and uther other great men in in winch the facts of bistor history yare are sadly mangled and distorted in the effort to show that they had none of those little imperfections which prove that they wei e men and not anges 8 as aa their biographers would have us believe now as I 1 have a little respect for h biston S toll cal accuracy in in such matte matters I 1 will take the liberty of correcting corre cing another mistake which has bee been made in in regard to old zack and by b y which heia he is made the author au of a ads despatch patch he never wrote I 1 relate the circumstance as it was told by a person who was present slid and language which was really used before the battle of 0 buena vista when ben taylors ors gallant little army was surrounded b by a force five or six times its number and its utter annihilation appeared certain at least i to those who mho knew nothing of the material of which illch it was made u up p general santa anna sent one of his al aids ds to summon the old veteran to surrender and aid to represent to him the tolly folly of 0 entering upon a conflict that must end in the uter litter defeat of the americans the summons to surrender eoder was reported by colonel who when he had hati translated it to old zack asked abat bat reply he should make tell him said the general in in his usual prompt and emphatic manner tel him to po go to hell bell colonel bliss asked him if he be should send that reply let ale me see no iio replied the old man say id see him bun 1 d firsov firs colonel bliss who posted up in in the etiquette of the camp fiere upon ciote the despatch which has been credited to his commander and which m aich nasi wa to the effect that the summons had been duly received and that general taylor tailor declined acceded ing ms thereto |
