New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-26

Water-at the rate os21z quarts per day for
each mar. .367, 600 f"
Coal 67.722 pounds
ca'nd, t. t49 cords
Grape-shot Of different calibsr leo iso nkys
foWder..... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 6l500 pounds
| The whole contents of the Montebello amount
to 273O tons, and yet there is every where space
air, and light; 1889 men live, move, and man
age 40 guns as easily as on the Champ de
Mars, The surface of the sails offered to the
wind is 56O1 square yards.
The following dimensions and materials are
employed in the construction of a three-decker
The length of the keel is $50 feet; the whole
construction requires 1l3, 900 cubic feet of wood
at francs the foot. The width is about 80 feet
the depth 25. The three batteries are armed
with guns of different caliber, as in the Monte
bello. The mainmast is 120 feet high, and
measures or 10 feet in circumference it
weighs 900 to AZ 900 pounds. The maintop-
mast, that rises above the mainmast, is 70 feet
high, and, with the top gallant mast, the main
mast measures $50 feet, (The towers of Notre
Dame are only 200 feet high) The main yard
has lis feet The vessel must have a crew Of
| 1000 to 1900 men, and may carry, beside, SOC
or 900 soldiers
| The construction of ship requires lao, 00C
pounds Of iron Of all kinds; $4,000 pounds Of
copper in bars and nails; 1900 sheets of copper
for the sheathing, weighing 81 900 pounds; and
copper nails, also for sheathing, 5000 pounds
whole amount of copper. $4,000 pounds; iron
nails, 1000 pounds; rolled lead, $500; tow
10000; pitch, $4,000; tar, 5000 pounds. The
sails require 81 500 yards of canvas, and the
vessel having commonly two sets Of sails, that
amount is doubled The great flag requirs 270
yards of stuff; the ship requires 1000 tons Of
iron for ballast; and under sail and perfectly
equipped, weighs over one thousand million
pounds. Plough, Loom, and Anvil,
The FOUNDER OF MoRMoSIsM--The sandusky
(ohio) Mirror notices the rejection by Thurlow
Weed of the job Of printing the Morbon Bible
many years ago, which was published in thu
Tribune, and says:
"The yeritable Joe Smith, the Mormon pro.
phet, about thirty years ago loafed about the
| taverns on the Susquehanna, near the Great
Bend. He courted the daughter of respectable
farmer named Hall, but the old man forbid him
his house. He took advantage one Sunday Of
the absence of the old man at church. took a
yoke of oxen and wagon, the girls bedding
loaded them all up and put off, got married and
| then cheated his father in law 1t was near
Great Bend, on the New York side of the river
| that Joe pretended to find his revelation on
stone We were then a printers devil, and
carried a one horse mail from Montreal to Grea,
Bend, and well remember of hearing frequently
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| A BAD STATE OF AFFAIRs.-From the st. Louis
1ntelligencer Of the 18th we clip the following !:
few days since we remarked on the yuiet
and peace Of the city during the few nights the
| special police were on duty, and expressed our
fears that when they were disbanded, the de-
sirable state of things would be at an end. We
are panied to be compelled to state that our fears
have been more than realized. Not night has
| oal l,,t+ Il.
split by the assassin. Burglary, riot and rob.
berry seem to revel in the consciousness of seeu-
rity and IMMUNITY. There are certain localities
in the city--not distant either from crowded
thoroughfares-where a respectable citizen can
not go after nightfall, unless ut the risk of life
and property; yet strange as it may seem, ne
policeman can be found for hours together al
any OF these places.
slN MEN kILLED.-Some days ago we pub.
lished paragraph stating that six deck hands
of the steamboat Edinburgh had lost their livel
while sparring over a bar on the Missouri river
We find in the St Louis Democrat the following
particulars of the unfortunate affair:
| The boat left port on Friday evening, and on
| Sunday about shutdown she grounded on a ree
about six miles below Brunswick. She stuck
only at the stern. A line was got out and made
| taot w d. snug VI stump ttlu 1He ClpSIa0 put u
work to keep her head up stream and to work
her off. While the men were engaged at the
windlass the spindle of the capstan broke square
off, and seven men we're in an instant knocked
overheard The bow of the boat swung round
down stream, and away from the men over
board, but the staging was launched in less
than minute close to them, and had they not
been stunned in some manner all could have
saved themselves by it. The yawl was but q
short distance off with the pilot who was trying
the soundings, and was at the spot Immediately
but only in time to save one man. Four were
seen together but for an instant when they wen
down together, the current and suction at tht
bow being very strong.
Master Albert Nixon, the little posturer Al
the hippodrome, and who has performed il
various sections of the country, died in New
York on the 18th, from lockjaw, in eonse
qnenee of having his foot crushed by railroad
car on the 9th inst. Amputation was resorted
to- without saving him. He was only eight years
of ages ard universal favorite.
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