Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
YaukeeEnteTpTise.

The Ameriean people, and particular.
ly New Eng.auders, have become cele-
5ralcd throughout the world for their en-
terprise and inventive genius. From the
making of wooden cucumber seed to the
raising of a whole feet from The bottom of
the sea, their skill is employed. II is a
leading characteristic of tbs universal
Yankee Nation TO allow no object to deter
them from the accomplishment Of any en-
terprise that is within the reach Of human
skill or effort to accomplish.
A gentleman Of Boston, Mass, Mr..
John T.. Gowcn, has entered into con
tract with the Russian Government to raise
the feet in the harbour of Salastopol.-
This feet, it will be recoIlec,ed, was scut-
tied and sunk py the Russian Navy 10 pre-
vent il falling into The hands of the enc
my, when that was bescigc4 By the Allied
powers. The number of craft sunk was
over enc hundred, embracing among them
many or the first class steamers and line of
battle ships, Of various burthens, from five
hundred to five thousand tons. The value
of the feet is estimated at about seventy
millions cf dollars. Before these ships
were scultled, the machin ry, rigging,
Sc, were covered with preparation
which rendered lhcm safe from the action
Of the water
Among the great fcats performed by
! NJ. Gowen. was the raisingof the steam
ship Missouri, the American Navy
which was sunk in the Bay Of Gibralcr.
! His complete success Ia that enterprise
commanded The admiration Of The best I'm.
gineers and nauiicle men nAhe world
/ il was this which particularly drew the
attention Of the Russian Government tc
him, and he was solicited through then
! Minister to Ills & vernment, 10 visit lha
country and make some preliminary ex.
aminations in reference TO this undertaking
He accordingly went 10 Russia, aud n,
Grand Duke placed at bis dispo al large
steamer for making tie necessary cXami'
nations Of the harboT. By means Of h!.
Submarine armor, he explored tie dep.hi
Of the barber, and examined the condition
Of The sunkon feet, and became sa,iSGnC
That he conld accomplish the undertaking
From knowledge thus Obtained, Air
Gowan has embarked in the enterprise.
The Russian Government is to furnisl
HIN materials 10 the amount Of a milial
and half Of dollars, to be used in the un
ldertaking, and to furnish from three TO fv'
Thousand men, as hcmay require, at TWEEN
ty-fve cents per day. lie is also to hay,
a stipulated portion Of tin value Of cacl
yassci thai IL. rai sps
The contractor, who IS quite youn
man, vii start on This expedition within
few weeks, taking two YES els and a fore
of about two hundred men, enctdding sey
eral distinguished Engineers and scientlii
geutlemcn, together with an nnmens
/ quantity Of hydraulic machinery and sui
marine apparatus.
IL this enterprise proves successful itwi
be classcd among the cattriumpirs {
human skin and ingenuity, and we ma
next expect 10 hepr tha, Gowan, or SON
T, other Yankee. as undertaken to furnis
$ an underground water communication Ii
Z tween the Atlantic and Pacific, or a ma:
njfcent Railway 10 the hocn.
What is more beautiful and poetic
than the chilts iloa Of ice-" l'ale so
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