The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-19

merry cow 40 ree 10 inspection azy par, or tho ship
The rope has been removed and the sentry no logger
keeps watch the prohibited ground me paying gu.
machine has done ~ duty, and done we'll and per-
haps more deserving Of attention than anything else oa
board The ship Is perfect In every particular that
those who arc OF mechanical scientific turn mind
can study In al IL details. There the two sheavss
with the four grooves, In which the cable and there
The brake wheels on the sha that tho speed Of
she former could always be regulated by the latter The
end Of the machine shows the levers which acet upon the
brakes and which by means Of oblong weights Of hun
dred pounds each made 10 increase the strain
the cable But all this has been frequently explained
already that the reader 30 familiar with It's aston
The dynamomeser, which stands within few feet Of the
machine Of which Il important part 10 10 simple 10
ito construction and operation that tho vsser will have
no difficulty In understanding the principle which II
works. Further towards the stern is another wheel which
the cable passed before entered the sheave at
stern Ito way into the The staging erected on
this part Of the ship for tho who were stationed
here and whose duty was 10 stopper the cable the
event of it's breaking before entered the machine
The moment the word was passed 70 these meu that
fracture had occurred they at to put the
rope soppers which always Ut hand and by which
was hoped TO hold The cable until the fractured part
could be spoed Fortunately there was no occasion for
the services Of these men, and they had merely nomnA
part TO play.
From the forward deck coil To the stern the OF
the cable was watched by than dozen msa, while
nearly thrice that number stationed In the circle
from which being paved out, to look out for aud
guard against kinks The wardroom coll, containing some
sixty miles of cable ia concealed beneath covering Of
CANVASS but this covering be partially raised the
which the cable ceied be seen at glance
On the por, side Of this coil the electricians officers
but all the Instruments have been removed and the limits
alone now naceabe. AS you go for ward from this
por to another circle, aud looking through the
hsichway you discover two the oro deck imme.
dately beneath, and another still lower down in the
hold It at this point tina. the greatest ntnest was
manifested the last Of the cable out OF the
lower circle This the critical moment, and the visit
ter imagine, he looks down into the depth below
him, intense must have been the interest with which
they awaited the moment when the blight came 10 DO
handed up through each OF the circles until reached
the spar deck above, where he now stands.
With all these arrangements board Of her the Nisgs
ra looks as much unlike man Of var a. Ia possible for
her TO look There nothing fact beigerent sp
pearapce except the -four which intended
signal guns and the twelve immense ports her spar deck
Those, therefore, who expect of will be
disappointed but she has done more during the great
mission which she employed, To bring about the
reign OF peace by drawing together In closer communion
the several nations Of the earth, THAI any manof-
war could have DONE She has helped TO lay
tho cable, and what grNnder or nober work
could any vessel be engaged in This II is
which has rendered her famous and given ineres,
IN the eyes of the people Of the United sates great
IS II she had gained the most brilliant victory
record. She does not, perhaps, look prossntsble
70 the eye OF the naval critic II each side of her
deck lined with guns and tho spots which fire.
queny meet the eye may BIO rather obnoxious what
called refined tastes, but they preferable blood
stains and s to be hoped there may be frequent
employment for the cable machinery than for the