Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-18
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/ ADVERTISER of the raising of thu safe from The
.teaner Atlantic sunk in 1882 This morning
We were favored with oh interview with h. L.
Harrington, Of Wesifeld. n. T., the Successful
fascuer of the safe, who gave Che items "f the &c
enrrence, which, if it be devoid IT w"nde,ful
meetings with "bcautifnl ladies' aud "chldr"i.'
j. nevertheless, very interesting and true Ar.
Harrington has had three years's experience ~ u
diver. aud during the past winter has been en-
gagged on the Mississippi in bis business. Ass"-
eiaipJ with him IN this ease were Martin Qaigie
md Charles O. Gnrdrer, of Chantauque. New
York. and William Newton. OF Detroit. They
proceeded IN the schopner Fletcher to the local.
~ If the steaIner 4 Atlantic which lies about three
miles from the extreme point IF Long Point They
arrived there on the 18th Of June, and that day
was used in preparation. On the 18th Mr.. liar
,ington, encased in Wells q Governs submarine
srnor. made his first descent. The is
made If two layers OF canvass and one of inda
rubber. the rubber occupying he middle. 1t Is
loose and flexible and OF course resisted no pres
-urc. From in front OF the mouth proceeds
tube composed Of nine alternate layers Of can
yass and rubber with copper wire colpd inside
to prevent collapse. This is flexible too, and be-
ing as long the depth to which the diver goes,
and the upper end being in the open air, secures
proper respiration. The aperture is three eighths
Of an inch in diameter. wreck line had pre-
yiously been dropped and rested against the side
of the steamer.
Dressed as above described, with lpaden shoes
and with lead weights attached to his body.
amounting to 24S pounds, with rope around
his waist, by which he could be raised 10 the sur
face, and check signal line in bis hand, the
adventurous diver commenced his first descent.
He governed by the wreck line, and stuck
the promenade deck about Al feet aft the state
room where the Express Company's safe was,
which was in the third stateroom aft the wheel
house on the arboard side. He remained on deck
but one minute. After descending from 50 to 20
feet. depending upon the clearness of the air
above, all is dark TO the diver, and he is governed
entirely by feeling. The romantic sights record.
ed by the Advertiser are therefore without foun-
dation. The greatest caution as To entangling
lines must therefore be used, and Mr.. IIarring.
ton went each time outside of the stanchions
moving, rs he advanced, his wreck line, 80 that
with each dive he advanced nearer the stateroom.
The second dive he was three minutes upon deck:
the third four. the fourth seven. On the twenti-
eth he made four dives, and the time on deck was
respectively four inmates. do s do. and the
next eighth, and six.at which time he reached the
state room. Previous 10 this he had all the time
been cropping about, and twice WAS on the hur-
ricane deck and once the main deck. The twenty
first he made seven descents, times respectively,
D, D. ), 3. ), q and minutes, and during which
he was busy in breaking in the roon window, aud
breaking down the woodwork on the side and
below it. and succeeded at last in getting II line
fast to the ring in the lid of the safe but finding
the aperture he had made too small to allow the
passage Of the safe, assembled TO await till the
coming day. On the twenty second, the six
teenth dive, being the first that day, he was on
deck seven minutes, during which time be sawed
through the casing and puncl work, aud tried to
break it off with his hand, but could not. The
seventeenth, he was on deck nine minutes. in
which he fastened line to the wood work. and
by it the men above pulled it off The eighteenth
aud last descent he deck eleven minutes,
and during II he succeeded in fastening a line to
the end ring of the safe, md helping it out of the
aperture, it was raised to the deck III the schoon-
er. The periious work was done and the alven-
tarouS men, upon opening the sac, = rather iron
chest, IS by lS by l6 inches in size, found them
selves the Posses,ors Of about S5.iHO in gold.
and S:}l O1O in bills IA small 4nitinn of which
were useless from the action of the water and in
soyency of hanks. and six watches. two of which
were valuable gold ones. The chest contained
papers for which the American Express Company
paid a handsome salvage. The Atlantic lies ca
reened her larboard side being Us feet ana the
wn'er on her starboard 100 feet deep. The safe
WAS about Us feet from the surface. Upon her
deck MIR. H. found slight sediment ot three or
four inches in depth. He could. MS we have said
: "tore, see nothing, and encountered nothing but
Tue woodwork, chains, glass. and the chest. The
water was very chilly. and MIR. HIS hands we're
70 numb that he could not by mere feeling dis
'lng"sh glass from wood 1t was only by the
formers breaking that he knew its material He
thinks his strength. when below, not more than
one tenth that which he has when in the OMEN
air lie suffered but little from pressure, EXCEPT
two or three times. when such was the rush of
blood to the head, that he says he saw Upright
flashes in his helmet, like electric sparks"
The Ruins oENiNEvEu. The steamship 80.
no" has just arrived at London with the last con-
slgnment of AsSyrian antiquities from the ancient
Nineveh They consist of the most artistic
sculptures yet discovered in this post diluyian
city, representing the Queen of Assyria feas,ng
under the shadow of the vine, the King engaged
III lion chase, aud after in the act of pouring
forth a hbation. There is also a splendid and
almost unhroken hunting series. comprising not
only lions but wild asses caught in noos or a
Iasso; also procession of the sport Smen bearing
AWAY birds, hares, &C. with their dogs nets and
other implements Of captu." and pursuits. But
SIM more interesting than even those treasures of
antiquity are the slabs bearing the famous in
scripton on the winged bull at the entrance of
The Palace eff Senacherih, recording his mcmora-
he expedition against Hezekah. the Sovereign
Of Judah. in which l35 900 IF his warriors, "un.
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