Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-12

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THE F1oxr1sa CIrY--as. THH MISTRESS OF THE
SaAs"-The .. Mistress of the Seas, as the Lon
don papers named the monster steamship, now
building Of iron, near London, is in the shape
s OF. plates, securely rveted together. Her disnen
sions, &C., are thus described She has double
side fore and aft all the way up to within few feet
of the taHraIl. She has also double decks By this
means great buoyancy and strength is impaired to
the vessel as the space between the decks and sides
is filed with air. She is built in eight compartments
all air and water tight. Her registered tonnage is
%, 600 TONS with capacity for coal in addition OF
from IL, 900 to. ID, 900 tons. Her draft of water
when loaded will be % feet, and when unoaded, 1s
feet Her average speed is computed at % knots or
miles per hour. She will be propelled by gigantic
screw, % feet in diameter, four paddles, and by
sails. Her number of masts will be seven three OF
which will be crossed with yards, and square-rgged
have fore and aft sails. Her number of boilers will
be ten, five each side, and each having ten fur
naces. She will carry in addition to q sufficient
complement of small boats, no less than eight small
screw steamers each 100 feet in length, placed four
on each side of the vessel.
These steamers will land and embark both passen-
gers and cargo. The passengers berths are placed
on both sides the entire length of the ship. The
number of decks is four, and the height ofthe prin-
cpal saloons which are in the centre, is 10 fee'-
The number of passengers she will be able to carry
is 600 first class 800 second classand TO- 900 troops
with field equipments. Her length is $50 feet, her
breadth of beams SO feet, depth from deck to keel
5s feet aggregate length of saloon 400: Her COM
mander will be Captain Harrison, with crew of all,
including seamen, engineers, stockers &C., from
500 to- you men consequently, with all on ooaro'
she will comprise within herself population of a
large town, or even city, say thirteen thousand
persons.
Nearly 1000 men are employed in her construc-
tion The contract price for her building is $780,
600. There are then the expenses of her engines
81 ckks. e. oncn
of LAUGHING her into the water, when completed,
will be no less than e4O, 900, as hydraulic power
will have to be used for the purpose, and the ma
chinery employed of peculiar construction. She
will enter the water broadside on Her deck is to
be f1ush except for cabin entrances and similar pur
poses so that promenade than twice the
length of the Great Brtain's deck will be available
for the passengers. The floor of the ship is per-
fectly fat the keel being turned inward and riveted
to the inner ships keel. These several skins are
Joined to each other by longitudinal webs grders,
formed of plate and angled iron. There are II of
these webs on each side of the ship, which run the
entire length of the vessel, and they placed at
such distances as to extend upward at intervals of
about three feet from the keel to the main deck and
they are again closed up in length varying from 20
to 60 feet. Thus the outer and inner ships are
Joined together by means of great number of wa
ter tight webbs cells of extraordinary strength,
giving the vessel rigdity such as has never been
communicated to ship before. The main deck is
treated i'll the same manner for width of 20 feet
on each side, and iron Orders bind one side to the
other so that the entire vessel becomes it were
beam of strength, and the whole fabric may be
denomnated web of woven iron, the rivets form
ing the fastenings and the webbed or honeycomb
cells becoming an indissoluble structure The COM
partments between the outer and inner skin will hold
5000 tons of water ballast should it be required
Two web plates are of three quarter inch iron, and
the outer and inner skins of three quarter inch
iron. The vessel will have 20 ports on the lower
deck each feet square, to receive railway wagons
She has also 60 ports on each side, feet six inches
square, for ventilation, and an abundance of death
lights. The lower ports 10 feet above the water
when the ship is loaded.
One OF THE PRINTERs.-Mr. Barnes, one of the
Proprietors of this paper left this city Thursday
last to visit his friends and relatives in distant
State, and view again the scenes of his early man
hood, after an absence of sixteen years. He came
to this city in October 1S40 and took situation as
journeyman in this office; and from that time to this
he has never left his post stepping from ourneyman
to foreman, and then Proprietor. He has never lost
day from his duties by sickness pleasure, during
the sixteen years-always to be found at his post,
from early dawn to late hour ofthe night. A great
number of apprentices have learned their trade
under him, and he did not consider that his duty
was done by Them unless they could put up, in good
order, 1900 ems per hour-do any kind OF job, on
hand power press and keep sober. One OF his ap-
prentces alter serving out MS ue anu eh'erhs !ne
world on his ''own hook" 'jour" often met with
dissipated and worthless printers, who made every
effort to seduce him into their practices-was asked
by one of them where he learned his trade; he had
never met with such sober printer, and wanted to
know where he was trained. The Jour replied,
81 learned my trade with man who always tried to
impress on his apprentices two important points of
succcss-industry to get good trade, and sobriety
to make it profitable" The State printing just fin
ished at this office, has been done mostly by young
men who learned their trade under Mr.. B and we
doubt very much whether any other four men could
be found, who would do the same amount of work,
in the time, without getting ION bust" sew
eral times during the progress of the work.
We hope our associate may find in this temporary
release from his arduous labors, both pleasure and
bodily improvement.
Federal (Ga) Union.