Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12

One these bearing the appropriate Of the Satellite
about 50tons burden, is kept in the Mersey " fetch and
carry for the larger vessels round which !; be said
revove IL space permitted, could give detailed desc
on of the admirable and luxurious accommodation for pas
sengers board these ships but is sufficient here say
that in hem well in oil others that fall within the scope
the present paper the greatest skill ngenuy experience
and good taste have been exeed with marked success
dering long sea voyage as agreeable and pleasant il
possible for long voyages to be- Each OF the vessels Of
this line about roo Of coal between Liverpool
and New York at the former port The expense OF the coal
and putting board is about guinea, and at the latter
about R Is per ton If Goals chesp wind, Mr..
Cunad and bis partners would than per
annum.
The American steamers that first piled regularly on the
Atlantic the Washington and Hemann OF about
1900 tons burdSn They however, did not depend en-
tirey the British traffic, but made the port Of Bremen,
the mouth Of the river Wese In Germany, their terminus
in Europe, calling at Southampton their passage up and
down the British Channel The line of vessels that entered
into direct competition with Cunards projected by Mr.
Collins Of New York, and consisted Of Ave steamers, Of
5000 tons burden 300 feet long, and propelled by engines
oceans Of the wod-the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic Baltic
and Adiatic. They longer and powerful than any
yet built except the Great Btan and their compe
ton is not to be treated lightly The merits Of the rival
lines soon become national question. The citizens Of
the great republic spoke confidently Of tho superior speed
their vessels would attain; the best builders Of ships and
makers Of marine engines WERE they said 20 ne cund ~
New York. and they determined that the Hudson rssr
should always be ahead of the Of the world in the power
and speed Of navy statement Of the resources
of New York gave good for this confident boastng
In that city tie principal foundres, eight in number where
marine engines constructed, employ about 675 men
one and that not the largest 100 tons Of iron melted
every month and another the value Of The work sent out
in l849 above million Of dollars (e200 900 j while
in month Of the past year. there were in progress OF the
establishments marine engines for eight vessels whose
rfnruan
Washington and Hermann highly credtabe to the skill
Of American engineers and there seemed great probability
that Brit would much longer rule the waves but
the other hand the feat which these American ships were
expected TO perform of ordinary difficulty For ten
years Cunards line had navgaed the Atlantic with egu-
lary and speed which would be exceedingly difficult even
to equal; and though the more powerful mencan ships
might sail faster to be expected that the builders and
engineers of the Clyde, with Mr. Card and Mr. Napier al
their head would be unable to maintain the superiority they
had already acquired! The where James Watt was
born and the that received the first British steamboat
were not likely to resign without struggle Pre.emnence
acquired by 30 much labor and ingenuity.
While people discussing the subject aud laying wa
gers voyages the first of Conss line, the Atlantic,
sailed from New York the 9th April As the time OF
her arrival at Liverpool drew the interest felt BY the
people Of that in the voyage became intense After the
time occupied the shortest Of any OF the old vessels
had expired, and Atlantic had up the Mersey the
pasans of the Clyde took heart and began 10 think
that the competition not to be formidable utter all They
day after she had left New York; the Atlantic taegrapheo
off HolyheAd For some time before her arrival, small
tug steamer with number of commercial men and newspa-
per reporters board had been waiting the Merey ready
to steam the Atlantic. The sun setting as
this little sailed and night had before the
Atlantic Appeared in the river AS she came up her greaf
black hull looking backer and larger in the darkness she
seemed less like steamer made by human hands, and more
like island drifting 10 from the
No entrance the Liverpool docks sufficiently wide
admit the Atlantic and she and her consos had TO ic in
the river until dock that had been preparing for them,
with entrance gates eighty feet wide, finished. The
length Of the voyage of the Atlantic accounted for by
detention of nearly days caused by accidents TO the
chinery The Pacific Arctic and Baltic have aready
ed the "big ferry, and the Adatc Is expected to be ready
for early in 1861. 3 IA
Thus commenced thar vafry which bas made gigan-
tic Of the Atlantic racecouse so long,
that the difference in the longitude Of its termni makes differ
of nearly five hours in the time of day and thus while
people the American end rising from their BEDS those
the European have got through much of their days work.
The fyng horse Childe aud other notabes Of the tur,
have done great deeds in their way but they shrink utter
nsgnfcance compared with the performances of steamer
propelled by power equal that Of thousand horses sail
ing three hundred miles each day angry restless waves,
twenty four and sometimes forty feet high chasing
each other distance Of about FIVE hundred feet and at
speed Of than thirty miles hour. All the prizes OF
the turf pary compared with that for which these
contendng,he proud distinction Of establishing the most
speedy and safe communication between two great continents
and two mighty nations
dents during the winter that tell much agan Them when
the years work il summed up. The Baltic, in OF her
voyages short Of Goals and bad put into pos
before reaching New York obtain fresh supply, by which
detention OF days caused and the Atlantic, on
her outward voyage, while in latitude 46 deg II min non
and longitude Al deg 80 min. vest much more than hah
way across the Atlantic broke the morning OF 6th Janu-
ary, the beam shaft of the engines which conse
Queny became useess The vessel proceeded under can
for five days. against heavy westerly gales, but finding
that she made but little way, the captain put the ship about,
and for Cork, which reached on the 22d January
The Camba belonging the Cunard line, the only avaa-
BILE steamer then in the Mersey perhars in England for
Atlantic winter navigation, Immediately chartered to pro-
ceed Cork and carry the cargo &C., of the Atlantic 10
Amercs. We aude to this disaster simply fact; we
+, whom it will doubtless much chag in, than cxolf
over as proof of the inferior skill of transatlantic
brethren The accident pro,es very little; but it will doUbs
less be extensively used rather abused by the arssns Of
the contendag lines. Many people in New York seem TO
think that there is feeling Of hostility in the old country
against hese steamers aud complaints have already been
made that justice has been done to them by the British
press Never had complaints less foundation As British
ciizenr prevent ourselves from wishing that, in
this great race British ships may wins but confdent
national feeling has been less obrudej and there has been
less boating about the merits Of the this side of the
Atlantic than the other We trust that the arrival Of the
Cambria New York, with the mails and cargo of the At
lanlc, only relieve the minds Of many who must te
but will also convince them that the rivalry prosecuted
our part in generous and manly spirit.
FROM NEW MEXICO.