Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-07-04

| OF nc TWO per cent, unless Inc
I shall be obtained and the bridging an
put under contract, and the entire sub
not to be called in until the bridging a
| ing shall have been completed.
Rcsolred, That property holders,
whose lands the road may pass, be
either to donate the right of way to Il
pany, in consideration Of the increased
will confer upon their estates, or to {al.e -
amount which the right of way may De~ worth
in additional stock of the Company, and that
the Agent be instructed, in canvassing the line
Of route for subscriptions, to obtain the sigma
lures of such property holders as may assent to
either of these propositions.
Which, upon motion of VIM. D. Bowie, Esq.
were ordered to be laid over until the next meet
ing of the Board of Directors.
On notion the Board adjourned to meet in
Upper Marlborough, on Thursday tie 18th day
of July, 1860, at the hour of ten o'clock, A. NJ.
The GREAT EASTERN Steamship came up to
New York city on Thursday. She hddno diff
fculty in crossing the bar. Quite fleet of
steamers attended her-the crowds on board Of
them enthusiastically cheering the stranger.-
The enthusiasm of the crowds on the battery
and piers was also unbouuded. The Niagara,
in the stream, looked small in comparison with
the vast proportions of the Great Eastern. Many
salutes were also fred in her honor She moved
very rapidly, and wendell her way through the
bay as easily as a pilot boat
The construction of the Great Eastern was
commenced in 1866, and she was nearly three
three years in building, having been launched
in the early part of 1853 She was designed
by Isamberd K. Brunei, is owned by thu sEas-
tern Steam Navigation Company" and has cost,
including large sum spent in launching, and
for repairs rendered necessary by an explosion,
something over three millions of dollars She
is made of iron, the plates three-fourths of All
inch thick, boted together by rivets aninch in
diameter She was built on the eastern bank
of the Thames at Mlwa1, adjoining london.
Sd Of November i5s7 BIT ffi It was not Until the
31st of the succeeding January that she foated
From that time until thu 18th of September she
was being made ready for her trial trip, which
took place on that day.
Her hull is $50 feet long and 83 broad, and
some idea Of the immense size of the vessel may
be formed from the fact that the North, South,
Forth, Pearl street, st. Johns, and Presbyterian
churches in New York city could all stand upon
| DGT OcCK l6USGuWlSe, dLu WIFI 90 lCGG 10 spare.
Across her paddle-boXes she is 100 feet broad,
and the length Of her upper deck is 692 feet.
Her capacity 1875 tons. The height of her
hull is 60 feet, and a walk around her deck is
equal to quarter of mile. The vessel is de-
signed to accommodate 1000 passengers-S00
first Glass; 1000 second class, and 1900 third
class. The engineers and crew, $50 in number.
will be accommodated near the two ends of the
vessel. The forecaste is 40 feet long and s
feet high The hull is divided into ten water
tight compartments There are two Longitude
nal walls of iron running through her, 56 feet
apart, so that her hull is series of cells. She
has accommodations for 5000 tonsTUf fadght
and l 900 tons of COOL The accommodations
for passengers are of course ample. There are
ten saloons altogether--ive on the upper and
five on the lower deck-the length varying from
sixty to seventy feet The furniture is rich and
beautiful. Most of these saloons are fifteen feet
high, and adjoining some of them are two tiers
of state-rooms one above the other. Some of
the state-rooms are as large as ordinary. par
lor, and fitted for the convenience Of families.
The propelling power is in enormous steam
engines, acting upon both paddle wheels and
the screw The paddle engines are 1000 horse
power, and the screw 1000 horse power, giving
total of. 1900 horse power, at a pressure Of
Is lbs; though if necessary, they can work to
force of upwards of 10000 horses There
are ten boilers and each boiler can be cd
from it's neighbor, and used Or not, as des
The boilers are placed longitudinally along
centre of the ship, and are entirely indepeu
of each other. Every paddle boiler has ten
naces, and each screw boiler twelve furfa
thus giving the whole the large number of
hundred and twelve furnaces. The fuel in
ed to be used is anthracite coal. The Z
Eastern has six masts. five Of which are nj
of hollow wrought iron, and is arranged to-
ry 6 500 yards of canvass. A Geographic APP
paratus is in the captains office by means of
which his orders are conveyed to every part OF
the ship. She carries twenty large boats on
deck and swings on davits two screw steamers,
one hundred feet long and between sixty and
seventy tons burthen.
ag-The Tenth Legion speaking of the wheat
crop, in the neighborhood of Woodstock, Va,
says eve have taken some pains to ascertain
what varieties have proven most productive and
free from the attacks Of fly, rust and other enc
mics to the old kinds, and the result of our OBJ
servaton is that the black Mediterranean is SUI
perior to any bearded wheat we have seen
stronger in the straw, free from lodging, and
exceedingly well filled in. the head. Of the
smooth wheat that seems to have proved most
productive, we may name the Noah as a good
variety Several of our town farmers have crops
) oft and it generally turns out well. The smooth
Mediterranean also yields well. The Illinois
: early has not been extensively tried, but we
understand promises to be profitable. The old
Mediterranean, which formerly seemed to be
comparatively free from the attacks of the fly
, joint-worm, &c, suffered considerably the pre-
sent season from such depredators, and some
times was injured by the rust and by lodging
, 1t is evidently deterorating. and will have te
he abandoned by our farmers in a few years.