New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-20
NUMBER Id.
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rently more 70 keep the NJ we're foft;fyag apfas
practical object. 49,, ~ n ~ srsss
The health of the troops is s;s w asI q
Scurvy il prevailing to great exteH.~tabtv roof E
of the French army, and many French @
been lately quitting, for change and = nave
treatment, for Constantinopte and FEanee 81, seal
The collection of the Subscriptions from the az r.
in the Crmea for the Nightingale fund il very neaTI
concluded. The collected amounts to little short
Of st500, and the money has been paid over to the
commissairat chest 4gS5. fS
Since the destruction Of Fort Nicholas a continual
dropping fire, day and night, has been maintained
from the forts and batteries the North side. It
does not seenptobe carried on at any regular inter
walls but wherever few soldiers orsuspected
to be by day and wherever light shows Itself at
night, there shot or shell is'sent Whensthe night
is dark, Or theEes thick fog this dispersed fire ID
still continued, either from the attention Of the Rus
sian on watch being attracted by sounds supposed
! to indicate movement in the. town or on the mere
chance of causing Casualties among tie guards and
troops on duty there. The Russian rifenen also try
their aim across the water to land as the
width Of theroadsead varies at this part from four
70 SIX hundred yards only, no one can approach the
4 shore from the Fort Paul guard to- Careeningbay
without great risk the 7th inst. ,the Russians
Kept up an UNUSUAL fire the Inkerrnann
heights and lower over the Tcher-
maya 1l valley reach the positionof
usual, without Some shells sent b1rst at an
immense elevation They also fired grape in addition
shot and shell at parties going to the reser
French Main,
Measures were being taken at sebastopol to blow up
the Russian vessels in the port ice having ceas-
ed IN the sea OF AzoH the vessels Of the allies were
about to re.enterit,, y
r Vienna correspondence mentions that not only is
the railroad mania violent in Austria at present. But
speculation has taken possession Of all classes there
and is credbly asserted that there inevitably must
be terrible smash if peaCebe not the result of the
e Conferences, s a&E
A Vienna letter to the London Times says: tsThe
evident desire Of the Washington Government to pick
aquarrel with England exctes attention here, ani
people in office are strongly inclined to suspect the
President of endeavoring stosk two birds with ont
stone In plain Engish his partisans are believes
l. Ito have two reasons for agitating against England
e the one to secure the Presidents reelection til
OTHER to make diversion in favor Of Russia. Aus
tra is at present onyery decent terms with the Am
Y erican Government but she regards its continual en-
r deayor to find pretext for meddling II al
ell fairs with such jealous eye that the good under
A., standing is not likely to be Of any great duratOn.
!. The Austrian, Credit Bank has agreed 70 tak
= sharesint the Western or Empress Elizabeth ral
road to the amount 900 600 forms The house
Is Of R0thschiid will be concerned to half that amount
j. THE MONSTER GUN AT THE MERsEY steel. AM
"a Iron CoMPANT's .WoRKs-This marvellous piece Q
' ordnance the greatest wonder in weapons of moe
ern, warfare is progressing rapidlysto completion
soonas the huge nlasslet the hands of the forgers
was transferred to the latheroom in another porto
Of these extensive works, and daily since has bee
u undergoing the operatioof turning The first eItor
a. of the artisans in this portion of the establishment
was to turn the outside of the piece, and give it tn
n ordinary appearance of "a cannon which # now a
5urnes This though It is not finished as regards th
. polish to be given to it, proved the sterling quae
" Of the iron. But evidently to show what would be tn
ultimate finish ofthe outside, little more than
feet from the 1nuzze has been perfected I'D certain
> nothing can exceed the richness Of the polish i'm
parted to it, which is further test of the excellence
of the material exterior being so far completed
the operation of boring was commenced about ter
days ago with cut Of eleven inches, and up to Sat
u1llay evening about six feet six inches ofa cavity
70 had been made. Strang who are permitted to Wit
nessthe progress of the work are astonshed to see
u with what ease the huge mass is turned by the ma
5e chinery; and notwithstanding the cut is SO large1
to diameter not the slightest edent appears to b
of impaired to the momentum of the great revolvin
y, body. Theuninitiated in such matters are amaze
~ oknow that the operationo Of boring is going on
air noiseess does the instrument cut its way into th
re iron. AS may be expected, from the great bore hc
o is being made the operation is very slow. The SUI
cess attending the forging Of this immense piece
ny iron at once dsproves the statements which wei
IT. made some time ago, that large bodies of iron cou
ok not be forged for ordnance without crystalization
finer and better material in every respect was neye
turned out Of the hands of the artisan than this grea
Ne body which far has been the admiration of ever
il, scientific who has it. Some idea of the vas
"a particulars of its dimensions When finished the bal
: rel will be 10 feet long it will be u inches in DIANE
e ter at the InuZze or S4 inches in circumference
III A inches III diameter at the breech, or 1884 inches
II. circumference. The bore will be 13 feet inehe
"a. long and l3 inches in diameter. When completed
., is Estimated it will have cost the company $500
III in material alone. The gun is expected to be read
he in about six weeks, and with the runnions complete
n, will weigh something over "a tons. When finished
RI, it will be drawn through the town by twenty OF tn
companyS fine horses, and will ultimately be take
e' to Waterloo to be tested. The charge will be oye
100 lbs. OF gunpowder with one of the shots Of 30
lily lbs Mr.. Clay the talented manager of the works
m; nc experimenting the whole of the work.