New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-03
tFron the Clipper Of Jan. !, 1881
The Quickest Speed In Everything.
Being List Of Extraordinary Speed and Remark
able Euents in Sporting Matiers, according to
the best 0ufhOrfffes.

100 yards, in 9 sec George Seward.
/ mile, 4s3 do Henry Reed. M
! mile, min. % do Hospool, England.
! mile, min. SO DO Barlow lin 1merica)
2 miles, 9 min. ss do James Sheridan.
miles, s. mn 81 Do Jaekson American American Dser Dser
II miles, 81 min. 20 do James Pudney.
20 miles, l b. 5S m. Is sec. Maxfeld.
| MAN-wALKIHG.
mile, smin. y sec Charles Westhall.
mile. mile, min AZ do. VIM M'3;;a Beyd North Star
| miles, l b. min. Charles Westhall.
10 miles, b. 26 min. Charles Westhal!.
20 miles, b. 81 min. 2 do William Spooner.
Greatest distance walked in "a hours, iO2 miles.
| Longest number hours walked without rest, 106,
James Kennovan.
900 miles in 900 consecutive hours Capt. Barclay
| Ellsworth, and Eaton.
HORSE RUNNING.
Racing in Great Britan.-In match between
Saunterer and Anton, at New market, in October,
in 2 min. 10 sec This is at the rate of one mile in
| min. Al II Sec, the best on record
Threequarters Of mile, in min. II sec., by Gin,
a year old, being at the rate of l:42s per mile.
Mile and quarter, in 2:l0, 144 to the mile, by
Sir Humphrey.
Two miles, in three minutes twenty-five seconds, or
at the extraordinary rate Of 1:42s to the mile the
best two mile time on record, by 1nhertor, a year
old. at Liverpool
Two miles and half, in 4 min. 27 Sec, by West
Australian.
Three miles in min. 81 sec, by Ratapan, being
| l:47 each mile.
| Racing in America.-With us, the "time test" is
the standard and the following brief table will fur
nish our readers with the best time made in this
l mile, l:42t by Henry miles, 5:2s by Brown
Perrett. Dick.
miles. s:sea by Berry. 4miies, 7:lsa byLexington.
1t will thus be seen that there is very little differ
/ n mo na in tho ttvOr
HORSE TRoTTING.-l mile, in harness, min. 24a
sec.-Fora Temple. -
mile, under saddle, min 25 sec. (haf mile track
Lancet. ...,
l mile, 100 lb. wagon, 2 min. % sec.-Trotting
stallion Ethan Allen.
mile, double team, 2 min. 414 sec-Don and
Lantern
2 miles, in harness, 4 min. 81 sec.-Flora Temple.
2 miles double harness, min. 10 sec.-Lady Suf-
folk and Rifle.
8 miles, under saddle, Z min. 323 sec.-Dutchman.
Smiles, to $50 lb wagon, 8 min. 3 sec.-Kemble
Jackson.
10 miles, in harness, % min. 81 sec.-Prince.
| ~ miles, in harness, SO min. 353 sec-Trnstee
| so miles, in harness, hrs. So min. 81 sec.-Span-
100 miles, in harness, 8 hrs. 55 min. SO sec.-Con
queror.
i mile, double team, 2:2ss-Ethan Allen and mate
This we do not look upon as fair test however, as
the animal that went with Ethan was running horse
and assisted rather than impeded the pace of the
trotter.l
Pacing.-l mile in min. l7A see.-Pocahontas.
RAT KILLING.
100 rats killed in min. 80 sec, by the dog Billy,
in England.
Is rats killed in min. % sec. by white bitch in
Philadelphia, in ls47
SAILING cRAFT-CLIPPER SHIPS
New York to Liverpool, Red Jacket, Is days, hour
rs minutes
San Francisco to Honolulu, s. l., King Fisher, 9
days 20 hours.
The Sovereign of the Seas, in voyage from Homo
mar nyfr onr6ip pFE Suoio lin
~ days and in "a hours accomplished the distance of
| 43O miles,
Boston to Liverpool, James Baines IL days hours.
Baltimore to Liverpool, Mary Whiteridge, Is days
Z hours.
Liverpool to Melbourne, James Baines 62A days,
and made the return trip in 60 days.
New York to Melbourne, Nightingale, 73 days; and
this about equals the James Baines from Liverpool
Callao to Boston, Ocean Telegraph, So days.
San Francisco to New York, Trade Wind, 81 days.
San Francisco to Boston, Northern Light, 76 days
The highest speed ever made on the ocean was by
the clipper ship Flying Scud AGO miles in "a hours
OCEAN STEAMERS.
Fastest Passage on Record.-By the Persia, from
| New York to the bar off Liverpool, nine days one
hour and thirty minutes real time, the distance sailed
in that time, according to the steamers log, being
3,005 miles.
Second Best Passage.-The steamer Vanderbilt, in
best passage the Atlantic ran the distance
from New York to the Needles, short distance from
Cowes, in nine days and eight hours, real time The
difference in the distance between New York and
Liverpool Tor the barr and that between New York
and Cowes Tor the Needless is about IS miles. the
latter being that much farther off If we allow, then,
four and half hours for the difference in distance,
which is very fair allowance according to the rate
of sailing of the Vanderbilt on that passage) she
would have made the run to Liverpool (or the bar)
in nine days three hours and half, thus occupying
two hours in crossing longer than the Persia.
Fastest Western Passages-By the Baltic, from
Liverpool to New York, in nine days thirteen and
half hours and by the Arabia in nine days seventeen
hours and fftydve minutes.
The above are the four best passages, Eastern and
| Western, ever made across the Atlantic.
| New York to Havana, Ocean Bird, 4 days hours.
Havana to Sandy Hook United States, days 23
| hours.
Havana to New York, Cahawba, days % hours.
New York to Charleston, Nashville, Al hours. wharf
| to wharf.
Panama to San Francisco. Golden Age, u days Is
minutes.
San Francisco to Panama, Golden Gate, IL days A
hours.
Liverpool to Australia, Golden Age, (American)
AZ days.
New Orleans to New York, Cahawba, 5 days ls
| hours.
Southampton to ST. Thomas, (a,s22 miles) Atrato,
IL days 81 hours.
Southampton to Alexandria, India mail steamer
Malta, 10 days and l6 hours including 23 hours for
stoppages, or days and II hours running time.
| RIVER STEAMERS.
New York to Albany, Q6O miles) Aida, 6 hours
81 minutes.
The South America, on the North river, made %
miles in hour.
New Orleans to Louisville, Con the Missssippi)
l,50O miles, Eclipse, days, 8 hours 80 minutes.
Sacramento to San Francisco, New World, S hours
As minutes.
ROWING.
Miles. MN. Sec. Oars. Name
6 Is 10 Prima Donna, Charleston
G 20 10 Annie Lourie, Charleston.
IS Star, Jacksonville, Fla.
! 2 10 Harvard Grew.
~ 16 5s 6 Wenona, Milwaukee
8 10 % 6 Harvard, Boston.
5 81 So Putnam, Pittsbnrg.
2l 80 6 Camilla Club, Philadel'a.
81 80 A Cygnet, Halifax.
AZ IA Neptune, Boston.
67 81 8 Maid Of Erin, Boston.
IL miles, hour, 81 minutes, 80 seconds, Superior,
| oars RnstOn.