New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-11
THE srEAasnrp eanAr EASTERN.

The people Of New York are more ineonstant
than the old Latin satirist declared woman TO be.
They have suddenly fallen OUT with the Great
Eastern steamship, and are row daily engaged IN
sprinkling their curses and ohiargatons upon that
unohending vessel quite as literally as they for
mlerly showered down their blessings aud henefac-
tions.
With very questionable propriety, they sent an
agent to England to induce the Great Eastern to
come first to their port. We say questionable
propriety'' because their neighhoring city, Port
land, had been promised the Great Eastern, and
bad made extensive and costly preparations for
her. Hotels were built, wharyes and docks re-
paired, shops enlarged, and the people generally
on the qaioire for her expected approach New
York knew all this, but with a selfish enterprise
which we hardly know whether to applaud or con
denim, she sent an agent and o pilot to England,
and diverted the Great Eastern from Portland into
her own harber. The monster vessel came, and
New York forthwith went crazy over her, She
was the great g sensation of the times--ecpsing
the Japanese Embassy, the Chicago Zouaves, and
everything else But, in an evil hour, the Great
Eastern determined to make an excursion to Cape
May. The price for the round trip was fixed at
ten dollars, which everybody will agree was cheap
enough. Some two thousand persons took pas
sage, but they came back in 9 bad humor, and
have since filed the newspapehed from their conn
plants. Because they had d labor ii D.
steaks and their brands,ssfosa pay iof their beef
sengsr did not, ~ --;7az punch, because each pas
ra,;npa ~ cp4s nave splendid state-room and a
p,sp s-of servants to wait upon him, they have
made the air vocal with their curses, and unani-
mously pronounce the Great Eastern hunlbug.
! In addition to this, we see it stated that some
American inventor proposes TO sue the big ship tof
an infringement of his patent in the matter OF pad
de-boxes and screw engines, and another person,
out of tender regard FOR Uncle Sans revenue laws,
threatens to bring another suit against her for en-
gazing in the coasting trade Verify, no indignity
\ to the marine monster, awhile ago the idol Of the
hour, is now spared by the tickle and inconstant
| denizens of the great metropolis. When she lett
New York on her last trip, for Annapolis and
4 Hampton Roads, " not drum was heard nor a
shout sent up, she gracefully sailed through the
Narrows.
| So far as New York is concerned, then--and the
paners there readily admit 1.-THE Great Eastern is
played outn She has gone now where she ought
TO have gone at first-to the magnificent harbor OF
| Hampton Roads and Norfolk, which she can enter
! al any time, whether loaded or not. The people
| Of all portions of Virginia and North Carolina are
| crowding down to Hampton Roads to see her, and
they are land In their expressions of qualification
and delight They are even talking of loading her
with cotton and tobacco--indeed. some of the most
sanguine OF them have preached the idea of max
ing Norfolk her permanent terminus; and of en-
gaging her to ply between that port and Liverpool
in the transportation of passengers and freight.
But this can hardly be done atpresent. The day
n mt distant perhars when it NAV he
writer in the Charleston Mercury, however,
suggests novel use to which the Great Eastern
may be put. It is nothing more nor less than to
employ her In the African slave trade! She can
bring over ten thousand at time-and ten thou
sand, at cost Of even two hundred dollars q
piece would produce the neat sum of two millions
Of dollars. The Great Eastern would thus pay for
herself in couple Of trips and tits very certain
that in no other traffic could she be made soproft-
able. The chief obstacle in the way of this is
venerable gentleman Familiarity called Uncle Sam
who has such a tender consideration for these
dusky of Africa, that his principal business Of
late has been the deportation Of three four ship
| loads Of them, against their own earnest remons-
trance, to their native jungles, among their former
barbarous and unciyilized brethren. We shall soon
see the last Of the Great Ship. In few days she
will take her departure from our shores, to engage
in the trade for which she was constructed the
| trade between Great Britain and Australia.