New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-30
80 ! .-rEaT NAsrralss STEAMSHIP.

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This mammoth vessel rs ON readers are already
advised. has reached New York in safety she
LEFT England at 10 o'clock on the morning Of tle
nth inst, aud arrived At New York on the asths
thus making the trip Id ahpnt eleven days.
WI suppose the trip could have been nsade hi
les time than TINT but tlle ohject VS. not SO
much a trial Of her speed, as 81 her capacity in
other respects. There are aiways delays incident
to first "trip, arising from new machinery and
other causes but Notwithstanding this, she has
made the trip in abent tie average time Of the
regular trans Atlantic steamers We take il Tor
granted that when her machinery gets to working
smoothly and Her esficers understand thoroughly
the navigation Of such Haoalster ship, the voyage
across tho Atlantic can be accomplished in per
haps eight or nine days.
There was some difficulty anticipated IN regard
| to her entrance into New York harbor-and, ac
eoraingiy, they have bsea blasting and dredging
there for some time til secure proper depfh q
water This was successful, It appears-the Great
Eastern passing ut high tide. with great ease,
and arehorfng directly on the Battery, within a
stones throw Of the wholesale merchants and
warehousemenon the dock.
The dimensions of this colossal steamer have al
ready been Published 50 often that nearly every
reader BIZ i newspaper must by this time have an
accurate Idea of her size. We have, however,
met with some recent comparative statements on
this point which may, perhaps prove interesting.
The Great Eastern is the largest object, of hui
man contrivance, that ever before ioated upon the
waters. If the capacity of Noah's ark has been
truly determined, as is claimed BY some, the Great
| astern could carry upon her decks the ark and
4 I'M that was therein contained.
4 The vessel in which Columbus came across the
ocean when lie discovered this country was of one
hundred and twenty tuns burthen. The Great
4 Eastern is therefore one hundred and sixty times
as large as the vessel in which Christopher Column
bus set sail to discover new world. Her weigh
Is thirty thousand tuns.
Her masts are capable Of carrying twelve thou
sand square yards Of canvas. Her anchors are
sixteen in number, weighing from one to sever
/ tuns each, and she carries one hundred fathon:
six hundred feet) Of chain cable
Her engines are Of twelve thousand horse-pow
and there is required to drive them, two hundred
ana fifty tnns Of coal per day. Her capacity. i
respect Of passengers, is 50 great that she car
carry four thousand cabin passengers with ease
or, as a transport ship, could take ten Thousand
troops. Only think of a single vessel which could
take up and carry of every man, woman and child
in a respectfully sized American city!
1 Her sside-boats are, themselves, good-szed
steamers, capable IF carrying five hundred pas
i sengers.
From these particulars one can form some estinl
ate of her great size and capacity. Built Of iron
at cost Of four millions of dollars, in eountr
where both iron and labor are cheap, she loom
]. up upon the great deep wonderful monument {
human skill, and specimen Of naval architeetur
heretofore unapproached.
v There are those who predict her failure as
commercial speculation, and others who doubt he
ability, on account Of her enormous size, to rid
: the rough waves of the ocean. We know TOO lit
2 of such things to venture an opinion upon eiths
point. Bnt she has made the trip across the A
lantic with ease and safety, which justies the Co
cinsion that she could live il the widest Storm
and, as to her capacities as vehicle Of trade TIL
9 can only be tested satisfactorily when she hi
made the round trip TO Australia and India for Il
commerce of which regions she was especial
I constructed. We scarcely think, however, tn
the sagacious capitalists Of England would ha'
invested 40 much money In an enterprise, tle Il
Y suit of which WAN donbsfal. VI
: New York, on course has gone mad over Ilef a
/, rival. That was to be expected. II takes but
trifiug circumstance tose tall Gotham crazy 81
: when they hsy real ike ganuihe. meaat
sensation \ iii tlie 6seaf Eastefns anne Peep
ont Of every HI thu eit5 become Immediate
isanbjects fqf n lssnat III lssrl. ilen the gre
steamship lss Sisan flls people of te North sai
eient opp6tt elsily n see her niiiainptl
toiss, we igaat she N then come ~
e harbor Of N1ifolk, Ile}l aIEe aasz sllt
{. with ease herself b
e the South. ;s's