Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-02-28

DTHE RIVAL FxrREssEs, OR RACE OF A
THors.Sp MILES The expected intelligence
from England by the steamer Cambria, was
deemed Of so much importance, and looked for
with such deep interest that the Philadelphia
North American. the New York Tribune and
the news through over land, from Halifax n. S,
10 Anna polls, from thence by steam boat, loco.
motive and horse power, 10 New York and Phil
adelphia, distance Of nearly thousand miles
The New York Herald, having monopolised the
Long Island railroad exclusively to itself, com,
PEELED these enterprsing publishers 10 resort 10
these exttaolduary measures. From some un-
explained causes they were bcaten 10 n York
several hours. This is probably the greatest
enterprise of the kind on record for which the
gentlemen connected with il, deserve the high
est credit The expenses OF the express, we un-
derstand was about SIS oo0--the sum OF S 500 be-
ing paid 10 the steamer Keunebec alone The
\. y. Herald's Express was run from Boston 10 n
York. over 220 miles, in seven hours and five
minutes, and by the U. S. Gazette from n. Y TO
Philadelphia, 81 miles, in five houIs and fifteen
minutes, by horses.
The following account is from the New York
Tribune:
The eGre.tEIpress
'Tis not in mortals 10 command success,
But We'll do more-dtstrre it,.
The steamer Cambria reached Halifax about
8 O'Clock on Tuesday morning, and in 90 min
u,es our agent. Mr OLMsTEAD. was in full ca
reer fer Annapolis, though bafllcd in obs ming
| the supplies OF Liverpool ana London papers he
had purchased, ty the refusal of the steamer To
let them come ashore, as the fact that an Express
wss on foot had leaked on, through the Cus'on,
House. and the steamers men were de,c,m n.
| ed to defeat it. Mr. o. was obliged to run to
| Dgby Ilar6or, II miles below Annapolis, or
IA miles in al, the snow being so deep that he
could not take the direct route. His sleigh was
upset iUe're times BY the snow.drifis on the
way, but he made the la miles in ] | hours, in
| cluding all s'oPpages. Mr.. o had 10 be lifted
out Of his sleigh on his arrival.
| The cold was very severe--,he thermometer
t,Celre degrees beioto zero, and the ice had &C.
cumuoied that our good steamboat Kennebec
! hph 10 drop down il miles below Annapolis TO
! ID chy llarbor. Our Express arrived Just as
the tide WAS at ehh which had jammcG the ice
iuto pieby Gut--a nnrrow channel two miles
yet below her sn TINT it lay piled up eight feet
! Hick. The fresh ice was eight inches thick
The Oldest resident there, SIS years of age, had
never but once before seen so much ice in the
River. and that was nine years ago. Had the
steamer arrived at Halifax two hours earlier OF
later, the ice would have been floating with the
tide above our steamboat, and several hours
would have been saved TO u.s. As ii was, the
s'snch hennebec tore path through the ice IN
two hours hard fighting out into the Bay Of Fun
dy, ard crowded all steam for Portland, but
eight of her buckets were broken in the strug.
gle, esusinga loss Of precious lime in The ice
and thenceforward. She lett Digby Hsrbo'
(Grenyie side) l past 6, cleared the ice past
10, and thence reached Portland 10 minutes
before S P. NJ. OF "Wednesday. having power.
ful tide 'gairs' her down the Bay OF Fundy.