The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-21
Arrival of the Persia..-The Accident at
Sen.

The steamship Persia as has been announced
by telegraph, arrived at New York early
Monday morning. She left Liverpool on Sat
urday, the 3rd instant, about ~ O'Clock
Among those on board to bid farewell to
friends, were Sir Richard Pakenham and
Charlotte Cushman, the tragedienne. Sunday
was lovely day at sea- but Monday the
trials of the trip commenced. A letter in the
New York Tribune from passenger, says:
The sea got quite rough toward evening and
at 1o4 O'Clock p m. several of the passengers
found themselves in search ofthemselyes among
the moveables of their state-rooms After
several lurches and some damage to sails, the
ship was brought to a little obedience to the
rndder, and we found that we had broken our
port crank pin. This pin is about:l 500 pounds
weight, and about four feet long and about as
much1n circumference. All attempts to re-
pair the damage in the rough sea proved inef-
1ectual, the labors were unremitting for about
twenty hours. These proving Intellectual the
head of the Persia was put for Cork and with
one wheel and favoring wind on Tuesday af-
ternoon we are off again for the Emerald isle
Wednesday morning, another alarm The
one wheel, with which we had been making
ABOUT SIX miles an hour, was sto pped and we
rushed up to see what was wrong The sea
was stiil pretty rough. At distance dancing
nall In sight, and half lost between the waves
= ~, small boat is making for us from the ship
Den NEVIS, from Quebec for Liverpool. She
iad shot IN close under our bows and begged
Ior doctor to save the captain from diving
our doctor went outs and returned, dispatching
10 the sick man prescriptions with fresh meat
fruit and wine '
In the meantime, our Captain and his Chief
Engineer. Caldwell-iust about as good a sne-
clneh OF Scotch skill and perseverance as you
would see In a trip through Europe-had grap-
PIED again with the crank-pin. They had
bound the wheels in cables and chains. which
the force of the sea threatened every minute
10 shttp Ihe batterlng-ram was applied to
oisiodge the fragments of the broken pin. This
Titled Then we had an iron platform erected
tne crank turned down to it, and strong fire
kindled around it. Then it was turned ND
again, ana again the battering- ram.-an old
crank pin of the steamship Amerca-applied
and out it came, amid the cheers of the sur
rounding passengers.
We went to dinnor in little better s,,irits
but getting everything in proper condition
and the wheels enough at rest to have the pin
go through into its proper place, was no easy
task. linen II was TO go in Just the exact
leDgth-to be beaten in by the ram-and to
come so that another pin should fit exactly
through holes in this crank and in this pin
so the file wasapplied for several hours, and
at 10 O'Clock on Wednesday night it went into
It's place, all made fast, the wheels unpinioned
ana one revolution completed, when the cheers
OF the passengers greeted the success of our
captain and his engineer. She was then put
about and the regular voyage ontinued.
JAPAN.-Dates from Japan are to the 5th of
June. A difficulty which arose between the
American Consul and the Japanese Govern
ment, had been amicably settled. An Ameri-
can, who had discovered q rich copper mine
laid claim to the mine and to the soil, contrary
to the laws of the country. The Government