The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-04-06
The Ericsson back to New York.

The Ericsson, or Hot air ship is now
lying at her old berth at Green Point.
Williamsburgh. 1t will no doubt be
interesting to our readers to know the
present opinion of some of our papcrs
about 1t, and what she is lying at that
place for
"Ihe ship Ericsson, which arrived here
on Monday, left the Capes on Friday
afternoon, and stopped four or five hours
on the way. The confidence of the own.
ers, it is said, was greatly increased in the
caloric engine by the late trip. She went
to Washington before she was complete
in order tolbe their before the adjournment
of Congress. She will now 90 to the ship
yard at Williamsburgh, and remain about
month undergoing the finishing opera
tons. The object thus far having been to
see how well the machinery will work:
it is supposed that the test Of speed will
be an object on her next appearance It
Is claimed by some of the admirers of the
new motive power, that when the max
lmum Of speed is reached in the caloric
engine, the steamers will not exceed them
IN rapidity by more thon knot an hour"
lrlbune OF the 18th.
The caloric ship Ericsson, which return
ed to this port on Monday,is soon to leave
for London, from whence it is intended
to send her to Australia. He recent trim
TO the South has established the partial
success Of the new principle, at the same
time that it has suggested some impor-
tant improvements the introduction Of
which it is expected will materially aug
ment her rate ofspeed. Her appearance
in the Thames will create quite a sensa-
ton among the Britishers. ST. New York
Herald Of the l6th.
The Herald ofthe Oath Feb. said, about
the Ericsson, "the caloric experiment has
been signally successful" it now saws
partially successful.
The "Tribune makes excuses for the
bad performance of the Ericsson, by saying
she went to Washington before she was
complete. Her speed on her trip home,
was about Ia miles per hour. After
her last trip down New York Bay, she
was laid up at Greed Point for month
getting some repairs made, and now after
her trip to Washington she is to be laid
up tor another months repairs. These
are not our reports but those of the papers
who have hitherto SO highly praised the
Ericsson. Before the hot air ship will be
able to compete with steamship, she will
have to get in new boilers and engines.
use more coal, and keep a good supply Of
water in the boilers. Those ignorant men
who have talked about her running faster
If she had larger engines, would look blank
it told she could not run as fast rs the
Arctic if she was slowed with hot air
engines from top to bottom, but so it is.
What excuses are now made for the
slow speed Of this ship BY the very papers
who shouted and bayed few weeks ago
at James Watt, Robert Fulton, and all
the inventors that ever lived, and all the
steamboats, in creation. The Tribune
at last gives in and admits that after she
has attained TO her greatest speed, steam
ships will still run faster, does this look
as II "the days Of steam were numbered"
Since we last said anything on the
question Of hot air as a motive power, the
subject was discussed two nights in the
London Institute of Civil Engineers, and
a paper was read on Il by b. Cheavertou.
Some ofthe most eminent men in the
such as Stevenson, Rennie, Mea-
lows, sh Geo, Cayly, DC, were present.
Drawing Of the Ericsson's engines were
presented Aue explained. They all con
iemned the 5sssnerator as . fallacy, and