The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-14

| a Aewrvtv0f 09 Fuitonss Flrst Steam
| boat Crew.
| eorrespondeDt of the New York Journal q
Commerce has obtainsi from Captain McKip ney
stand, one Of the Islands ia the R.y o
fandy, and who wss one of Fulson's crew whom hs
Inventor tried hs first steamer, the Ciermon t-sh,
following Interesting account OF that craft and
| her firss trip to Albany in 1907:
Captain Mckinaey ssys the boat was not one
hundred and forty feet long. She was dat bot.
tomed like skin, sidss straight like scow, stem
IKE a SKIN. She was painted lead color. The
Cisrmont drew twentystwo inches of water, and
the rudder went below the bottom Of the boat
TO the fudder post two pieces OF wood were fas
! tened. These projected some four or fve feet,
ana bolt extended across them to prevent the
rndder from "going down lower than is ought
In addition, the rudder wss arrapged for sheaI
water that il conid be lifted to the service if ne.
cessary. Her wheels extended below the bottom
eftbe boat.
A hy wheel was attached 10 the paddle wheel.
having rim four inches wide, which Mr. Jack son.
the engineer, told Captain Mckinney was to
make the paddle wheel pass the centre without q
!erk: There was big hub,'' continued Capt.
Mckinney, 'just inside the boat into which the
shais fitted. IL Could be unshippsd with crow.
bar, aud the revolution of one of the wheels
stopped when they wanted to turn the boat round.
There were two rows of fire bricks which the
boiler rested upon. Theee bricks we're i'm nortad
IL
or was OF copper, top areheG; the Bottom curyed
upward. The boiler fed i,selfs
Ihe captains description OF some of the ma
e,niners VII be both amusing and instructive to
.hose VINO nave watched the progress of this
branch OF mechanics. His own Language. in da.
scribing the apparatus for supplying water to ,hs
boiler, will give u far more graphic i6sa thu,
any which We could hope to convey. "a grind
stone was suspended from the centre by a wire
inside the boiler. A lead pipe ran from the boiar
20 the water. The top of the grirdstone vas
level with tue water in the boiler: az the wa,sr
boiled away, the stone would fall; AZ the boiler
Vas naiea up' .he stone wonld rise. Machinery
WORKING like pump handle connected this
srlnastone With the cock of the water nine ont.
eioe ci she ooiisr Astbe gripdstoae fell 10 would
open the eocS wider. and the reverse, &C. SC
Cspt. MCKINNEY says that when toe "Ciermoutn
started on her trip to Albany, shs left New York
according TO his recollection, about O'clock in
the morning. and went up as far ss tho Iivings
ston Manor the first day. There she remsined all
nignt, ana received passengers-some of the Liv-
ingston family. The next morning she proreedet
On her journey, and arrived at Aibany lat, tn tb.
afternoon All the way up tie river the steam.
boat attracted great attention. PEOPLE thronped
the bshks or pulled out into the stream 20 have
closer View of this new monstar The s.(ler.
mont maze about six kDots an boar ON the
hrss trip the crew consisted of only half a dozsn
men, while those whom Captain Mckinney foos
20 oe passengers might number TWENTY-FIVE or
thirty persons.
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telling them to let no one come on board. snd
tue BOAT was pushed pank's length from the
shofe. But the engineer disobsyed so sooo A
tuiVon was out OF sight, and admitted the people
~ iois smiling head. They came on board
80 last that in i've minutes they took twelve dol.
lars. - many came at last that thew were com.
PEELED to turn the tide in the opposite direction
ana ordered them .all ashore" Fulton's Can
taln, Gays our hero, was named Hunt, and on the
passage down Was brbed $50 Madame Rumor
saio,} by the sioop owners, to run the experimsn.
TAI stesinooat ashore In accomplishing the w,h
OF tue shippers, one OF the wheels was broken,
! ana tue "ciermont' was navigated to New York
with one wheel.
| Cosf or INpI.N WARS The Florida war Goa,
nearly as many millions of dollars as there sere
Indians engaged in it, That was in the .searlie,
days of the republic" Tue report of the Com
| sioners on the Oregon and Washington war debI
shows that, III later days. ia the matter of charge,
We are quite up TO our pTedeces sors. Tho Oregon
ana " washington war continued some months, art
COST Dearly SIX millions of dollars, the entire
| army consisting ofoniy ls45 meu. The army wa,
small, hnt was very efficient one, for the men an
pear to have been Ack OF all trades receiving pa,
IN several different capacities at the same time
| one private has nearly S., t0due him for per.
| sonai service. Several steamboats, were hjret
| for from three hundred to three thousand dol,
| lars per day. Horses were shod- t,r sI2 eaeh.-
Laborers were hired at ST. per day, and clerks a
sl0 per day. Forage for horse OF mule ia cbsrsed
| FOR at t2 Per day. Horses were bought for $3ol,
but many OF them are charged for at Si0O aDt
even as high as $3.50. The general price s sbou,
So Mules we're obtained for $500, s $50, aud S40G
| per head The average price for horses aud mule:
| IS about s35e, and for exen about $500 per yoke
The PAIGE vi hay varies from $50 TO $3.50 per ton
Oats sometimes rise toss5 90 per Jushei, and whea
10 81 Peas are procured At so cents per pound
oue hundred aud fifty sheets OF drawing paper co.
Siso. These are the charges to the government I
oa the other hand when the government came Il
sell the same articles, their yaiue wss aynasinol,
1eoreased The houses purchase or built for S3OIt
were sold at $500. Riding saddles bought at ~
eacn sold for S. 5t wagons bought for $500 eacf
soiu ipr S33. TWO scous purchased for s9Op SOL,
for S6o war horses costing $3.50, sold for 500 Tht
CommiasIoners, IN the performance of their duty
have veremorselesslye cut down these charges maxim,
sha'emsnts of ffty per cent. and even higher. h
favor OF the government. If the territories are T.
De such charge 20 the government, Conorsss
bad better set them inte the Cnion az quick a,
possible, aud le: hem take care of themselves, al
their OTn cost. 1t is stated by those who claim tr
be we'll Informed, that the bulk of the claims 70,
the Oregon war debt is owned by banking house
on this side. and that an agent was dispatched
| some time ago to the Pacific to purchase them on
speculation.
MANNING ''Fog A CONSIDERATION The v ortb.
ampton. Mass, GaZstfe say $ that au oddly match
ed couple from the town of Peru we're married 10
Williamsburg on she ID inst. The bridegroom,
was verdsnt looking youth of sirtsen years. and
the bride dashiDg widow OF thirty. four w ho had
already buried two husbands, the last of whom,
was eighty years old. The minister az first hes
tated bur being assured by the lads father that il
was ''ait right" performed. the ceremony The
widow decided farm to the lad before they were
married. Sne was one OF the ''viiders,' certain
ly.
BALTIMORE Cry ExPEysEs-Tne Register OF
Baltimore estimates the amount required TO NEE