New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-29

and gave $40 miles for the previous "a hours which
v 40 unanimously voted 30 be the best ever mzds
by any steamer on The second day out and bets wore
Vt once offered among the now elaed passengers, t6
the trip would be made within nine days. Is ~as en-
6dently calculated that our rate would continue 10 i'm
prove. rs her speed kept cleaning off her bottom, and
as the using Of the c,sl sbat continued TO relieve her
by the stern The only party on board thai did not
seem ocund at the promising state Of things Was the
game cock who, having been kept awake all night BY
the tramplipg Of the Sailors and little dsgasted per-
haps with the motion of the ship, cat all day blinking
ploomily between his hens. The wind moderated
It'll more during the afternoon and we &c; oil ous top
ss but the chip kept up her motion, and went frosk
ing along her path 40 full of life as clipper brig or
pilot boat. Nothing could 10 more beautiful than 20
stand upon the elevated grating in her bow,
and see her stern lift itsef majestcay against
the sky, as we drooped into some Yielding
wave before u.s. or 10 behold her rising sideways 70
her equilibrium like some frocking beauty lifting her
sboulder In her do why bed Icoud hardly realize, as
viewed Der buoysnt step upon the deep, that 10000
plates of iron representing IL 600 tuns of inert metal
clampsd by 8 900 rvets, and bearing within, bese
her ponderous engines 5000 Of COAL could career
TINS corkke upon the bosom Of the thin and shifting
element below. Yet there she rode, sbip-lke aud
sweet .a thing of beauty sud Of Joy forever" The
ost s,r;kpe idea of her size however, and the great
est do mspd upon your wonder that she s~ms % light
w. il obtained by going down by her sponsons outside
and aft the paddeboxee which enables you TO sse the
entire of her towering section abaft the wheel From
that point YOU face up and down her massive sidcs,
and zee the black warehouse-for it looks not Ike
rise and fall in the Kissing and downy
foam which the wheels send flying by her run. This
4, ing foam unites beneath her sterD, and - there
srewn into acework by the propeller, and goes seeth
ING on lie broad path for miles. think the scene from
this lower platform of the gngwsy gives't fusst
idea bile in motion of the vast power and grandeur
of the ship The deck and rigging, on the other hand,
being seen all together, lose in little while their COM
nand upon the wonder, for their great symmetry 80
wins Upon the eye that they minee together in spPa
rently usual degrees. II is only when IN comparison
with some other object that the Great Eastern sensbly
exhibits her huge proportions accustomed eye and
then everything else is dwarfed BY her neghborhood
We had proof of this at o'clock this afternoon, by
the vicinity of large American emgrant ship sup-
oosed by our pilot to be the Marhas Vineyard, which
looked like yacht by force OF contrast, and which
was rolling down to her water line in the agtated sea-
while we were bowling along In the stately way
have described and our passengers were playing exit
ties.
The rate of our engines at duck was l0 for the pad
dies snd 80 for the propeller
The course Mt a. IN. was w. by N. N, and the
wind N F.. with the rate of III knots; a: the log
gave H. and at but 10. As it increased TO H. with
wind from the n At we again to I /, and ct
to IL knots and aintaned this till next day at
At o'clock D. m. we rose to 10; at we changed our
course to Nv. by n N, and ran 10 till o'clock,
when we fell to H. Att we to II again, at TO
I2, at IL to 49, and at - TO Is knots Toe wind at
IL o'clock had changed to N. w. byN.
Wednesday, June 20.-The morning broke most
beautifully; the sea exhibited but little notion and alb
the breeze we had was light and dead ahead. Itwss
fire running weather. and the engineer perceving thai
bis machinery was working Ike charm, determined
to make the ship do much as she was
able. therefore found, on taking out my watch
at o'clock, that the paddle-engne had got upto lot
revolutions and the propeller spinning along at
35 Great things, therefore, expected, and our
was proporonably great when we were
told at noon that our observation gave only run Of
276 miles-lat 47o 40, lon. 30 54. This was such
strange inccugruy with the run of the day before,
and with the log and revolutions of the engines that
il set us all to thinking and it subsequently was de-
clared that we had turned off our durng the
for run of and forty minutes due north
in order compare and test the variation Of the
passes-the captain thinking it more prudent to take
this precauon with his iron island while in safety
than to ind out their variation, TO common sor-
row, when we might be in danger. Extra canton for
this voyage to be the rule, above all considera
lions of extra speed. The odds on time now changed,
and succeeded in laying out little that we would
not make the voyage to Sandy Hook within ten days.
New debates were had about the engines, about the
unfortunate condition of our bottom and about her
deepness at the stern and this last defect seemed 70
have at the time seriously touched the captain
for he Get some sky men at work drawing the heavy
guns from the quarterback away forward and shifting
spare sails and other heavy articles to the same dec-
ton. The buge played lively note to encourage
them while at their task, and il was an interesting
sight to the long troop tramp forward under tbeit
heavy loads, with their feet striking time. At noon
the propeller had reached &c revolutions and the pad
dies 0a and at this rate they were maintained all day,
spinning all the while through smooth sea. The
working of the engines was the theme Of universal
nevertheless the general impression was
that the fine model of the ship and her advantages for
ppeed through size did not have fair chance because
of deficiency of power.
The engines for the paddle-wheels are oscillating,
and of 1000 nominal horse power, with four cylinders
Of 74nch diameter and l4eet stroke. The weight Of
of the cylinders including piston and pstonrod is
58 tuns. II is calculated that they will perform II
strokes per minute, with steam In the boiler at %
pounds the nch and under these circumstances the
paddle engines will give a power of 5000 horses.
There four boilers to the paddeengiues each Of