Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-27
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Il q Inc guammoth OF the Deep.
The day fixed, says the Washington
States, far-testing the steaming capacity 0
the Great Eastern is the 4th of August 1t il
awaited with intense curiosity Ifshe realizes
! the expectations of the protector and friends
of the enterprise, she will be instrumental il
Ienecting an extraordinary revolution in navi
gation-a revolution in transportation as
! great as that which the iron rail and
locomotive effected on land. Mr. DUP EY
Mann assures US that he is quite as con-
| hdent as ever that her final ports of des-
tination, insthe carrying intercourse be-
tween the two 'hemispheres, will be the Chesa-
peake Bay aud Milford Haven, to which he
Is Increasingly directing his energies. 1t has
been ascertained, by actual experiment, that
cotton may be conveyed by rail from as great
distance as Memphis to Norfolk, provided it
can be shipped from the latter place at rea-
sOnable rates to England 1t is believed that
the Great Eastern can afford to carry it
across the Atlantic at two dollars and fifty
cents per bale. The following account of the
advanced condition of the Leviathan. which
will be read with lively interest, we clip from
late London journal:
'sWhen, at last, safely landed on the loft U
deck, one sn&s- work IN producing order out
OF chaos, and carrying out the innumerable
details which were necessary to make the
Great Eastern q perfect ship. The deck
which on our previous visit presentsd but
rude succession of huge iron girders over
which people stumbled at every step, is now
completely planked from end to end, and
- nit
first and best idea of the enormous size of the
ship The different skylights are all also in
their places, and give look of finish where
all was before incumpleteness and confusion.
Three masts have been set and TWO funneis-
which also go far to furnish the deck, ana
the completed bulwarks all round take away
the sense of dizziness and Insecurity with
which people used formerly to approach the
side of the ship. One can now look over the
side Judge of the vast height of the vessel
out of the water, make comparisons between
her and anything else that floats upon the
Thames, and then enjoy the prospect OF the
country, both Kent and Essex, now clad in
the brightest green OF midsummer The
lower decks have been planked, and great
progress has been made in FORTHCOMING them
off into thin permanent compartments.
. ..The grand saloon is in a forward statr,
and would be a noble apartment-more like
a drawing room in princeiy mansion on
shore than the cabin Of u sbip-were 1t not
for the two immense tunnels which run up
the centre, and inconyeniently interrupt the
longitudinal sweep of the apartment. On
each side elegant cabins are being fitted up,
and the same may be said Of the other saloons
of which there are, we believe, six ill the
ship. One of the cabins has been finished III
order that the visitor may judge OF what the
rest are intended to be, and very pleasant
notion it gives of what a voyage across the
Atlantic will be in such noble ship as the
Great Eastern This completed department
is what is called family cabin, containing
BEDROOM, sitting room and dressing room.
all of them lofty and well ventilated, and
possessing a much greater number OF con-
veniences than could be found in similar
suite ON shore. The other cabins are also in
an exceedingly forward state, and as an i'm
mense number of men are kept necessarily at
work, there is every prospect OF the shlp be-
ing ready for her trial trip on the appointed
zth of August. hN 49,
There is free circulation now all through
the ship, there being elegant staircases with
carved oak balustrades leading to the various
saloons and cabins, and irOu ladders for the
scientific or inyeterately curious, who can
not believe they have done the ship until
they have explored the gloomy mysteries OF
the vast engine-room. Here those who have
read Vathek will he fOrcibly reminded of the
wonder at the pOnderous beams and SHAFT and
cylinders, will be struck with the bright
polish eff the steel-work, and think of the
time when all this vast mass OF mechanism
shall be in motion, ploughing up the ocean
with giants strength, and carrying the
Great Eastern along, as if she were a feather,
at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Let us
hope that she may go on prosperously TO com
pletion, and thus justify the scientific but dar-
ing scheme upon which she has been con-
slructed. Ii she should realize the hopes OF
her projectors and the designs of her archi-
tecls, she will fill brighter page in England's
history than any of her most famous victories
by land or water, for she will inaugurate IA
revolution in ocean transit, which will bring
the iarthest ends Of the earth together. aud
make travelling on the ocean as pleasant and
little faiguing al it now is on the best-ordrr-
ed of our great railroads. We are happy to
learn that amongst the recent visitors was
Mr. Brunei, whose restoration to health will
be pleasant news to the public"