New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-21
MARINE AFFAIRS.
THE STEAMSHIP ADRLATIC.

The attcpatiors Of the owners thst the Adtiati
would be completed 10 time TO sai for Liverpool OF
the l2tb ult. have been defeated. Our readers nsy
remember that when it was found that the origins
cordeDser and valve could not be made to work, il
vas dec ded that PRISONS condenser and Sickess cut
of should be substituted for them. The new con.
derser has been put in all that recessary for this
being the addition beside the condenser proper Of
pair Of air pumps, which formed no part of the orgi
nal plan. These aI.pumps worked b. giant eccen-
tries, eight inches wide and abou. six feet in
diameter The whole was successfully CON-
Of pleted few weeks ago. The building
Sckles's cut Of was a more troublesome affair.
The engine having been constructed for another cut
off il was found that Sickless invention could no. be
applied without awkward and complicated alterations,
and the pieces of the valve gear being very numer-
ous it was thought that time would be saved by Civ
irg work out to several establishments. Drawings
were made accordingly, and portions Of the work or.
dered in different shops of this city, aud in some
out of the See. In Of time all the parts we
sent home, and an attempt made TO prt them to-
eetber, but an inaocuracy Of few inones here sud
there made i. al impossible job. The pieces were
frightened or shortened ard tried again, but they
would Lot work together For the well working
of the engine given life Of the valves and given
Iced that is the distance Of the piston from the end of
the stroke at the time the stean-valve begirs to
open are necessa:y 1t found in the Adistc that
when the toes on the rock shah andtbe fters the
hfirg rcds keyed at the right places FOR lifting
they wrJng for the lead, that when light for
the upper stean-opening they would not do for the
lower end. TIE errors in length of brackets, or other
parts the natural result of the work being made in
ser arae places and to be ascrbed to nexperencs
in the person who originated this psn The errors OF
Of mecharicnl prr pie seem to proceed from the fact
that the drafsman failed to remember tha. the upward
oscillation of the cylinder which takes place when the
piston is in the upper part, requires lorger tins thsn
the downward oscillation which when the piston
10 down. and whenthe crank pin is close 10 the cylinder
head and also that these oscillations follow different
awP the increase and decrease of the velocity OF the
cy Under during each be dissiuar. These oscillations
have an action upon the motion of the valves, aud the
oversight we have pointed out would just produce the
sing ulsr results which have been observed this i'll
fated steamship. This second failure has cost the
owners Fifty thousand doars and they have just con-
cluded 10 place the work again under the supernten'
dence of the FL gideer of the Novelty Works. The
valve gear has been taken ou! of the vessel and IS
vet nobody knows whether slight notifications will
make it 90, or whether il will have TO be made over
again.
Our readers will understand that such information
as we publh csnpo. be got from interested parties,
and that reporter could not be expected to spend
theo months watching what was done at the Novelty
Works. We have simply collected the statements of
Witnesses differently situated, and leaving aside all
seemed idle stories ii zen the facts on which they
all agree. II is striking instance Of public good
sense that the last failure is a'crbed 10 man in par
ticuar, and that one knows nor wants to know
whether particular mistake came from the engineer,
the draftsmsn or from the machhist who made
the raIt. Every one rightly understands that the
last the consequences Of the first, aud that
those Eho undertook the ungrateful work of mendng
what was originally defective must be thanked for the
undertaking, ever when unsuccessful.
TERRIBLE GALE AND RAIN STORM.
Thursday was a bleak, lowery, uncomfortable day,
with frequent variations Of drzzlng RAIN it was elm.
phaticay what Scot would designate "cauld ana
raw" About p. M, II began to blow great guos
from N.N.W, with deluge OF rain to match, wh.ch
fell a. if waterspout had burst, accompanied with
thurd der and lightoiug
The brig Geneva went stem on to the teach, oppo-
cite tho cemetery two miles north of the pier. she
was bound to this port with load OF lumber ana ba'
since filed with water. Though quite close on shore,
the crew could not risk attempt to aid "a the uo
dertew would certainly have carried the all out be-
yond assistance. The small boat was stove in, and
left wreck on the beach.
Yesterday moin ning Capt Dawson tue exeelleat
msrne inspector ct this port rode down to ASCERTAIN
the condition of the brig. Coming back without oe'
Law he manned boat wifi haroy cre~, went 70 the
rescue, ard by 3 p m. bad all hands safely laoded
The brig Preble, of Milwaukee 10 rounding the pior
arfted souhw lrd and lost her bDoora while, to keep
her from drifting on the breakwatsr off Van Buren,
street her foremost was cut away.
The Mary Stockton came into port in the afternoon
without her bowsprit beside having been obliged 10
throw GO tuns of pig iron overheard. The capti'n Of
the Stockton reports having seer, while coming
tbrouob the Straits the top Of mast of what he sun