New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-26

We clip from the Washington Republic the
ensuing bit of felicitous irony following an item
aiken from one of the st. Louis papers, stating
that ''the steamboat Reindeer made the run from
New Orleans to Cairo in three days and fifteen
lonrs and was letting herself out some" The
paragraph has an additional force Just at this
moment, when each fresh Geographic dispatch
brings us the news Of Il gain Of some two or
hree minutes made by one crack boat over
another, by means of tar and turpentine, in a
run Of fifteen hundred miles The Eclipse re-
Gently started from here for the avowedSpur-
pose of making flying trip, and she made it.
She beat the best time ever made on the river
ind covered herself with laurels" The a. l..
shotwell, emulous of the honors won by her
'ival, prepared for the same trip with the ex-
ressed intention and firm resolution Of beating
he Eclipse. Her progress was telegraphed from
ne point to another along the river, and now
that the trip is concluded, the latter boat only
,laims to have run the long distance in few
minutes less time than her predecessor. We'd
lesday morning we published an account made
y the Yorktown between til place and Natche1
nd ii the account Is correct she has. ecipsej
he Eclipse and shot by the Shutwell.
There is something TO be said in excuse or
ather in palliation, Of the flying trips made on
the Mississippi. They are not 30 mucn more
dangerous than common trips as they are gen
rally supposed to be- In the first place, the
oats engaged in these fast runs are the best on
he river, or among the best; capable Of attain
ng great speed, witil engineers of much ability
I Ill .k,. ~ A.
would open common ones. They DO not stop at
ny small landing places, ", indeed, make any
,tuppages whatever but, having once raised
team stand along under full pressure in the
ljrect line Of their course. The desire to make
lie boat do her best may sometimes cause the
ngiueer to oyertask her, but, at the same time,
his evil is to a great degree compensated ~
,ausing him to watch the amount of steam he
,arries much more carefully than on ordinary
rips. and thereby prevent accidental explosion.
,nd disasters which occur through inattentior
lud carelessness, and which are much mora isc-
luent than those that occur when steamboats,
ire engaged in making what are called flying
lips.
There is, nevertheless, great deal Of truth
what is said by the Republic, and we copy il
ur the benefit Of those interested
4 QUIeK TRn. We are under many oblira-
lions TO the officers Of the fleet steamer Reindeer
'r New Orleans papers Of the evening Of the
18th. forwarded to US by tie steamer ". L
llifton, from Cairo. The Reindeer, VIC learn by
memorandum on the paper. was letting her
elf Out being then only three days and Hftee1
0iFS from New Orleans. This is quick work
St. Louis paper.
HurrahI Down with The valves In with tht
tar On with the stcam Ihree aavs ana
fifteen hours from New Orleans . By ST
ieorge,s this will never do his gallant Klein.
Ger hasn't begun to let htrsej 0tt yet She
hut just shaking the dew drops nom he,
banks. There is mettle in her that viii t K,
Ter to St Louis in three minutes and half les,
than all this comes To- Engineer, do You hear
live her more steam! For heavens sake give
her more steam. If you have a heart that can
| gov with pride, if you have cheek that can
| cngle with shame, We tell YOU to give her more
| steam BY the memory Of the mother that bore
| YOU, by the honor Of the country that nurspl
| YOU, by the renuNn Of tie great ., Father oil
| Waters Tint Eirdles the earth at Your feet by
| the hopes Of the little ones that call vou theI
| paternal ancestor, put on more steam Arc
| you so vile as TO grudge your EMPLOYERS one pal
| try thrill Of triumph Wetell you nut on more
steam Do you hold yourself so cheap rs MOI
TO care for the joyous shouts of five hundred
passengers We tell you, put on more steam
Are you such sneak as not to like to see voui
doings in the newspapers We tell YOU. Hg5
engineer, put On more steam If tarswan't do
tutpentne must Three DAYS and fifteen hour
| for only twelve hundred miles in the middle q
the nineteenth century! lis monstrous /
can be done--and II science can't prove it eXre
fienee some day Wilt can be done, we say. il
three days fourteen hours aud ffty-six aud
half minutes Three minutes aRd a iuyE{
full Inch of time, aud Queen Elizabeth sal,
Ste would give her kingdom for :. an inch @
time y lrtle more pitch, good enanecr
ANOTHER htty-siN, il you please for that lever
Let her pant; let her shake; let her tear ava
IKE mnd. II won't hurt her and if il does i
won he likely 10 seald and mungle more TIM
enndred at most We have known case
, "Nere mt more than Eve or ten we're killed, no
= one o whom fingered in ngony more than
: !1ithlShl An explosion is not such a tprrhl
th ng after all We are gettiar quite used +
them and the man who las not hem bl,,g1 D,
hlms>ii, or had some friend 6l0te,, IN. is SOM
thing OF curiosity, and hardly e. 10 he ~,
Amer can 1t IS rather unpleasant "a h. s,,ra
but it is better that vou.tu should veen Il =,
, that strong men should she'd tears fig,
money, and the boat must drive on. SIZE nm
iet herssif cat, either sky-high or slraigb
ahead The Reindeer knows no other nj,
than " onwards q Upwards