Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-01-02
From the New York Herald
LINE OF STEAM PACKETS BETWEEN
NEW YORK AND CHARLESTON s. C.


The travelling public, our Southern friends
particularly, will be grati6ed to learn that
Messrs. Spofford Tileston & Co., one of the
most enterprisine and successful mercantile
houses in this city, in connection with several
merchants Of Charleston, contemplate estab
fishing next spring, line Of first class steam
Fships between that city and New York -
These ships are intended TO be constructed
upon the most improved plan Of the most pop
ular ocean steamers now a1oat, with such
notifications and improvements IS experience
and close observation may suggest to the in
teiligent and scientific gentlemen-her cap
tain and owners-undeI whose direction they
are to be built.
The keel of the FIRST ship has been laid, at
the yard of Mr.. W. II. Brown, foot of 18th
street. We have seen the model Of her, as
prepared by Mr.. Brown, and do not hesitate
to say, that il promises every thing that can
| be desired, SO far as regards beauty, strength
aud speed, and ample accommodations for
passengers. She is 10 be eight hundred tons
burlhen, about two hundred feet long on deck,
thirty feet beam, and when loaded, will draw
about eleven feet. The length Of heI keel
will be about one hundred aud eighty feet; her
bows are sharp and beautifully rounded, and
her run is as clean and symmetrical as lady,
waist, when under high state Of PRESSURE
That she will sail fast there cannot be doubt.
She will be fuIl-rigged shIp-will have two
Engines Of four hundred horse power each, a
dfty-six inch cylinder, and ten feet stoke
Her wheels are to be guarded by the strong
est and most compact work that can be made
with hard wood and iron. Her depth of hold
will be fourteen feet. She will carry 500
bales of cotton, or the bulk of 5000 barrels
Her saloon, on the main deck, will be 80 fee
tong, and will contain large number OF ele-
gantly furnished state rooms, with sixty sim
gle and double births in them. On the lower
deck there will be sixty open births, fitted up
in handsome style, with the best of beds and
bedding that can be procured. She will be
able to accommodate l25 passengers comforta-
bly,, and in case of rush, 60 additional cots
can be prepared ct short notice. Her top-gal'
lant-forecdste, for the accommodation of heI
steerage passengers, the crew, and for other
purposes, wil he thirty feet long, and fitted up
with good berths.
Ii is intended to make the passage between
Charleston and New York in 70 hours; stea-
mer leaving each place every Saturday, and
: making her port of destination on the follow
ing Tuesday. By this conveyance, travellers
leaving Charleston on Saturday noon, car
reach Boston on the following "Wednesday
morning, in less than four days, and he able
to transact business in New York before they
: take the afternoon steamer for the eist.
The new steamer the first of the line, will
, commence her trips in June. The fare is fix
ed at $25 for cabin passengers, who will break
fast, dine and sup in the saloon. She will
cost $4,000, and beSunder the command O
r Capt. Barry, an experienced seamen, skiilfu
:, navigator, and an intelligent and gentlemany
commander; who has been engaged in the N.
6 Y ork and Charleston trade some twenty-five
. years. There is no comfort or luxury which
n may be desired by the passengers that viii
" not De readily furnished.
4 We have spoken of her intended embellish
ments, which will be Of high order, and il
a good degree resemble those of the saloon o
the splendid steamer Hendrix Hudson, which
II runs to Albany, most magnificent specimen
n of marine architecture, literally floating pal
C ace. The Oregon is of the same class;
o would seem impossible to excel the beaut,
W and grandeur. and general appointments, anc
t. convenlences of that boat.
= We do not learn that the owners have We
ii decided upon name for the steamer now build
It ing. Why not name her the John G. Cal
p honn1 He is sort of steam engine in breech
e es, and the name would not, therefore be in
J. appropriate.