Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-11-21

uesre 10 procure some spafa for fore and mair
top.gallant mas,. You need not be embarrassed
about that replied our old Commodore ALI the
woods you see here belong to the United States
and you need only say what you want Sir
George accepted, and shortly amer sailed for the
Sandwich Islands hlsa % 'anaf' 2
/ Nothing new from either arms or navy. The
schooner Flirt, Lieut.. Sinclair Commanding, ar.
rived at Norfolk, brought no news Of any impor.
tance from the Gulf squadron, OBSERVER.
l. ua FVa1 yeh4----.--44 -LLtlLI-A tfhoW ii0
The First Americsn Ocean Steamship.
The New York ocean steamship now build
ing at Westterveit & Mackay's ship.yard is in.
1 tended as the frst in the line Of ocean steam.
ships to run between New York and Bremen,
via Cowes, in the employment Of the Post.office
Department She is called the Washington,
and q New York paper gives the following &C..
coant OF her: 8iiw eas 1sai,su nfF ,ram 51a
The Washington 10 Of l,759 tons, Custom
House measurement, which 10 equal to about
235O tons carpenter measurement Her frame
is we'll seasoned white oak her timbcrs are
peices % feet long, sided IL inches, moulded
20 inches. and very close together. All the
crooks are such "a grew with the timber, and
none Of 4 s cut across the grim. Her keel
and kelson are Of great solidity. forming I mass
seven feet in thickness. and tolted throughout
with heavy copper bolts. There are four
nelson's to form the bed Of the engine, running
fore and AZ, each 80 inches at the bottom and
26 inches shove snd 4 feet 8 inches high
There are, in order the more to strengthen her.
bilge helsons running fore and al, 10 inches
square. The length Of the keel is 22U feet
ofthe upper deck, 245; the breadth Of beam
10 80 feet, and depth Of the hold 3ia feet. S:se
10 10 be plsnked up inside and out with 8 inch
white osk plank, except acoss the timber.heads.
where the plank 10 to be g inches and wtat
seems to ~ indispensable to the safety Of oil
sea-going steamships. she 10 to have q complete
aush deck from stem 10 stern, % dat ifs hea-
W eco be shipped, il must run Oh, a. there are
no openiass into which it can pour and thus On.
danger the safety oi the vessel. aagado y1sgs
q The Washington i 70 be EQUIPPED with two
marine engines, now Conducting by Stilimsn.
Allen Il Co, Of ~ inch cylinder end 10 feet
stroke the wheels are to have 10 feet diane.
ter, and il is intended that they shslL when
pushed, make ls revolutions. Her cylinders.
furnishing 20 inches Of steam, will be equal 70
1900 horse power. b, .,aYI .-t 20 asiis.y,op
She will have al uAbroken cabin saloon Of
eighty feet, which is to be finished ia that most
tas eful and brightest OF all styles, vsrnis.,ed
white and gold. The main cabia will furnish
two hundred bcrihs-not settees nor cots, nor
occasional substitutes. hu, ample berths in con.
venient and roomy state rocms She will have
q second class cabin forward, with one hundred
berths-no less comfortable, ti,ough iess iuxuri-
c1sly furnished than tho main one. o s'n7m
To crown the whole, we were assured by
Captain Hcwett, who ia to command this fine
vessei-and whom We may ray in psren,heeis.
to name is 70 prase-that her whole cost snoat
and ready 10 receive her mails and psssengess.
will not Feseh $2500OO. The Mississippi and
Missouri wae stes u,srs, (the one built in PhiIa
delphis, the other here, by the Government, J
each cost, we believe, close upon 500. O.OM
and they we're not 80 large as the Washington,
and BY. no means we suspect, so strong. ,rO
| h The Government, il 10 kno wn, have made a
contract with Mr. F.. Mills Ecr four ocean steam
ships, in which TO transport the mails to Bre-
men, touching going and coming. at Cowes
The contract is TO last for FIVE years, snd the
price is one hundred Moxsand dollars per an
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The Washington is the first Of the ,f1ur, pud
she, will be. ready TO commence her trips in
March next AZ soon a. she is launched, which
will probably 30 early in January. the keel Of
another ship OF like dimensions 10 ,osbe laid,
and the fous ares be completed 10 succession
-so that each one may BE- rendered more per
feet, by the experience Of thosc that p'ecode
her. o.fztsomaG ssl ,is5hiss 81 aaiII su0
lsfr div ssrv-ET WY J-7T Ur u fissy5i isnm
~ GvAso,-A letter dated at Buenos Ares on
the lst September sayst 'Immease deposits o
guann have been discovered on tho ooas. Of Pa
iagonis, south 9th Rio Negro, Of which Eng
lish merchsats baye msde flee---sass pssmis
sion Of this gsvernmeni. tho rishsfal owsers
Some three hundred shipsl have ioadcd there
during The present uinser, and betwees thirty
and fsrty were wrecked wiAhs aam6sr of The
tcrsws drowned. The coast 10 a most inhosrta
EbIs one, being iron bound, and not good haibor
tThn 'sfsde will be- regulated b. 90 to- yield ,
smsllFevenue iethe country when pesce Is es
ttShIihed.sis so iai ;9aloi as9ne's'A 'iea"
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