The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-02-03
From the Ne1U York Herald.
ruE cAT0RIC SHIP ERICSSON.

THE CAL0RIC SHIP ERICSSON.
Successful Trial Trip-General Description Of the
!SLip-4notter Great Commercial Enterprise
In the great commercial and shipping circles
q the world, nothing has excited more interest
4, late than the novel discovery and enterprise
Of Captain Ericsson, by which steam as mo-
tive power is to be supplanted by caloric, or
heated air and nothing but the successful ap-
pIcation of the actual test could remove the
.kepticism with which, generally. the project has
bs.n viewed This test has, however, at length
h,en furnished. and now all doubts of the prac-
ticability and Importance of the invention are
dispelled The Ericsson, constructed on the
new principle, made her trial trip on Tuesday
morning down the bay of New York, and from
the complete triumph with which the experiment
was attended, there need now be no hesitation IN
acknowledging caloric as great natural eie-
uent adapted to locomotion, destined to work
.omplete revolution in navigation, and to confer
an inestimable benefit on mankind.
The Ericsson was put under caloric early on
Tuesday morning and started from Williams
hnrp between o and 10 o'clock. AT o H. so m
,bs nassed the flagstaff on Governors Island,
and at 10 h. sc m. and 80 seconds she was
abreast Fort Diamond, thus making distance Of
,.,e and three -eights miles in hiry.tour minutes
and thirty seconds. From thence she proceeded
down the bay. rounded to below Spithead buoy
nllh. q M, aud there anchored IN conse-
ouence of a snow squall. She returned on
Wednesday. and anchored off the Battery at
O'clock in the afternoon The distance between
the stated points on Governors Island and Fort
Diamond being accurately known by triangula-
ton to be seven miles six hundred and sixty
yards the speed attained was as stated, about
fourteen miles an hour. The consumption Of
fuel is ascertained 10 be only SIR English tons per
Ixsnty- to. hours sarlg as compared 'cstt steam
.lips, of more than eighty per cent. AS the snip
draws l6 feet 10 inches on an even keel, TINS
performance at q first trial has astonished all
concerned in the enterprise.
The great idea which had for more than twen-
" years been ripening in the brain of the in
rentor, but which, from the increduiity and op-
position he encountered among men CT capital
in his own native country, in England, and IN
America he had been unable to realize, has thus
been substantiated as real entity. 1t was for
innate for CAPTAIN Ericsson and for the world
that one of our own enterprislng merchants,
John b. Kitehing, Esq, who appreciated ana
relied ON his talent and genius, determined at
all risks to enable him to make the experiment
on q scale worthy of the magnitude Of the issue
For this purpose the latter furnished half OF
the capital necessary for the enterprise, and dis
posed among his acquaintances OF the remain
der of the stock. By this means, and regard
less of expense, the clipper ship whose first per-
for1nance we have recorded was built at the yard
Of Perrine. Patterson & Sack, and fitted up with
enginery on the caloric principle under the i'm
mediate direction and supervision OF Capt Erlcs-
con. The vessel measures 260 feet in length Of
deck. and 40 feet in breadth of beam her
depth of hold is 81 feet and her burden ., 200
tons. Like the Arabia, of the Cunrad line, she
has but two masts and like our swiftest clippers,
she is extremely sharp in the PROV She has
no fgure-head. Her stern presents the device
Of two figures allegorical representations of the
United States and Great Britain placing wreath
around the brow of the inventor. She had been
originally named the Caloric, but in compliment
to the genius who planned her, her name was
changed to the Ericsson. This was considered
by Captain Ericsson high tribute to himself,
but the fiattering device which was placed upon
the stern without his knowledge overwhelmed
him with emotion, and we are told that when he
FIRST saw it he wept like child. The Ericsson
presents very handsome and unique appear
ance, from the four white tunnels which rise
scme ten OF twelve feet over the promenade deck,
and which somewhat resemble Ionic pillars with
cut the capital They are thirty inches in di-
ameter, and are supported by octagonal pedes-
'als, also white. Two of these columns, or
piper, carry off the nir from the engine, and
De ssisss two serve % chimneys Around their