The republic., 1851-01-03
United States Mail Steamship Ohio.

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United States Mail Steamship Ohio.
Our readers are already acquainted with the
| fact that this noble steamship put into Norfolk
on the Goth ult., on her voyage from Havana to
New York, considerably disabled. Having the
material incidents of the voyage from an au-
thentic source, we give place to them in our
columns, as well for the public information as
an act of justice to the owners of the Ohio,
which has reflected credit upon the steam ma
rne of our country.
The passage from New Orleans to Havana
was performed by the Ohio with her usual
prompttude, and in good order, and on the
18th her steam was up and she ready to
leave the latter port with upwards of three
hundred passengers She had scarcely started
from her anchorage, when an obstruction in one
of the valves produced fracture in the cylin-
der of the starboard engine, which it was i'm
practicable to repair there After waiting
day to uncouple the engines and to examine
the machinery, the steamer started on the
10Th on her voyage, with single en-
gine, under the advice Of and on consulta-
tion with the engineers of the Georgia and
Pacific, then in port. She proceeded safely
and rapidly on her course, until the evening of
the 22d, having on the morning of that day
made seven hundred miles in three days. On
that night, being in the latitude of Cape Hat
teras, she encountered severe gale from the
southeast, which she gallantly rode out, under
moderate steam, until the morning of the 23d !,
when, the gale being at its height, the engine
stopped on the centre, and the ship became un-
manageable The officers and crew exerted
their utmost skill and energy to relieve her, but
without success; her canvass, when hoisted, +,
being Immediately blown to shreds; and she re-
mained in the trough of the sea, receiving the
heavy shocks of the waves and the utmost vic
lence of the wind, which her great strength
and buoyancy enabled her to sustain without
when the gale having subsided, her engine was
again put in motion, and she resumed her course,
apparently uninjured. In the course ofthat night,
however, another gale from the southwest, one
of the severest ever experienced on the coast,
sprung up, and in the midst of it, early on the
morning of the Oath, the ship was discovered to
be leaking The water soon rose some five
feet in the hold, put out the fires, stopped the
machinery, and the ship became unmanage-
able The crew labored at the pumps and in
baling until they became exhausted, when, at
the request Of Captain ScHENcK, about one
hundred and fifty of the passengers volunteered
their services, and under the direction of Gen
er.1 How,pn of Raltimore orrani,ad in fva
sections, and labored at the pumps and in bail
ing until four the morning of the 25th
These efforts had reduced the water so as to
enable the engineers to renew the fires; but it
was not until eleven A. NJ, the baiing having
been resumed for several hours, that the en-
glne was in motion, owing to the washing Of
coal under the machinery AT noon of the
25th, being about ninety miles from Norfolk
the weather calm, Captain ScHENcK acceded
to the urgent solicitation of the passengers, and
put into that port.
1t was ascertained that the leak was occa-
stoned by the breaking of the starboard njec-
ton pipe When found, it was stopped, as far
| as possible, with tarred canvass and rags, but it
was difficult to reach it with effect during the
| gaze ana HlBH sea-
Great praise is due to Captain SHENcK and
| to the officers and crew of the ship for their
untiring efforts, coolness, and skill during all
the difficulties of the voyage.
| The safety of the noble steamer and her pas
sengers is owing to her great strength, which
enabled her to resist all the shocks of the ele-
ments, and, when relieved from the leak to
bear all in safety into port. At no time during
the utmost fury of the gales did she ship sea-
or fail to prove the buoyancy and excellence of
her model and the strength of her construction
4 The injury to the machinery is believed to
be comparatively trfling. She was to leave Nor
folk on Wednesday for New York, where she
will probablyarrive in the course of forty eight
hours, and will be Immediately put in perfect
order for resuming her place in the line of
which she forms so important part. If the
owners can be allowed the use of the Govern
ment dry-dock at Brooklyn, she will probably
be coppered. Mr.. Law, one of the owners,
arrived at Norfolk on Monday.
| Governor OF Mary land.
! The Inauguration OF r., LOUIS Lowe ESD