Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-24

tue passengers sprang pale and trcni1Iinr
rom their berths; the sailors Cashpd dorT :
the after hatchwnys; the captain seized II.
seStant and flew out Of his cabin. AMI III,
wnoie assemblage moved awe-stricEen r.
.t .ne uoor OF the stAteroom from whence tbc
!IIe, tue sRrleks aud gronns proceeded. On his
W" III the stateroom SAL one Of the pngscn.
s4S, stp; ELo"HlnS ana sobbing in deep mental
+, Something .rthiiin has struck ME, he bowlcd,
and evary cheekIgrew palcr: evcrv SrootI,'
was. hushedf '.Wby,2 asked lbe xn ft..r;,,'. ;.
politician" ''Ne corrupt
Our emotions cho oked us.
n,6,ecause,' he added, t'itls for sail"
me surgeon said he could do no,hin,y
FOURTH DAY. a.
AT about 2SP. NJ, l found -~r.C:..
kjj5t"ng a PAIR OF stockings for himself
"po4t two miles from the topsail, and was
.t"cn p'cased to learn that he could spare
tttne 10 snow me the intricNcies Of the en-
slne:' Iailng hAckney-coNch that was
passing, we both jumped in, and after a,
pleasant ride of about half an honr
found myself in the ehgine-room of ibc
Great Eastern. What Wilderness of
living metal behold But let me de-
scribe 1T: Scventy-tive large hack-actiou
pistons work into an eccentric plate of
curved steel, Which works upon 81 lever
mounted upon seven hundred and 6rv
thousand screws. These are attached m
springs, and are worked according to Hnr-
dec's tactics, by large spiral groove cen
tired in nine hundred and twcnty-fivr
shafts From these shafts extend eipbt
hundred and eighty walking beams, thick
~ coated with elephant oil, and PASSING
through numerous sections of iron plates,
tilckIy rivetcd with Spnlding's glue. The
neat OF the room, and the whirling of nil
tniS mass OF machinery, SO ovcrhowcd me
WIN sense OF mans utter insignicuncc.
That flew hnrriedly to my stnte-room. nut
my mead out OF portfolio, and -
FIFTH DAY.
Head winds all day, and sevcn-up in the
c"oln under the main poop. In the after
noon met the correspondent of the Times
on the upper deck, and asked him whetL-
cr he thought the sympathies of vonth
conlo AFFECT our progress by getting into
the elbows o. the Mncio? He said that
depended on quadrilateral circumstances.
SIXTH DAY.
Inc clouds commenced to gather at
'oo"t three inches past l p. NJ. and it be-
came evident to all on board that a storm
VAS about to expend its wrath on the YES
SCI The officers Immediately gathered in
ne after cabin of tEe steernge, and the or
ierS were given in quick succession.
"Mr. said the captain, "conycv
ny kind regards to the captain of the fore
ops ana request him to splice the main
race with as much expedition as is con-
iStcnt with our national dignity. You,
lr. -, -, will he kind enough to nrn-
All this was done with great alncrity, !
nd just as the sun went down, new |
zen coop was rugged out on the upper !
leck, and the vessel was declared out of |
langer
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH DAYS.
Towards the close of our eighth day out,
&c were favored with one of those beauti-
ul phenomena, with which ouly those who
'go down to the sea in ships" are familiar.
The wind was running mountain high, and
Inc waves were washing the decks, when
one of my fellow passengers gave
l slight jump, and expressed the belief that
his stomach was poisoned. The others
looked at each other for a moment, and
then each one turned pale and began to
cough. The cook happened to pass by,
and one poor fellow asked him what would
be proper remedy for nautical dyspepsia
''Well, gentlemen" said he, ''the very best
thing you can take" (hcre the vessel gave
an awful lurch,) is corn pork dipped in
sweet Oil" ~ committee was Immediately
formed to attend to their own business.
NINTH AND TENTH DAYS.
Just before the close of the tenth day,
the officer ut the masthead called all hands
on deck, by shouting, "Shattcr my imme-
dtate wood-works, if I do not perceive a
dense obstruction in tue orient, strongly
suggestive of terra irma.' The sail
maker applied a telescope to his ear, and
asked, sCun you designate the sign of the
zodiac under which this terraQueous APP
partition crosses the line Of yision?" The
response was in the affirmative and we
were all preparing ourselves for view of
our native shores, when the lookout man
discovered that what lie supposed to DC
land was nothing more than a small bit of
cucumber rind, which had adhered to the
lower lens of his spy-glass. The first mate
said that English officers were entirely too
careless with their spy-glasses; he some
times lent his to the cook tomnsh potatoes
with, but had never driven Il nail with it
in his life. l went to bed and dreamed of
my native land.
ELEVENTH DAY.
On the evening of this day, we were
tugged into New York harbor by an eX-
pcricnced pilot-guns firing, flags flying,
bells ringing; and, as one ofmy English fcl-
| low-p0ssengers very justly observed: "the
very 'Eaviugs smiled upon the nobiest
hohject thathever heclipsed hall previous
hattcmpts hat naval larchitecture, hand
stood confessed the helephnnt of the
hocean." Yice lie "HeIephamt!"
!
An Incident in the Early Life OF Abe
| Lincoln.
Written for the Boston Evening Gazette, by cradle
| companion.
Old.Abe Lincoln was born when he was
quite young, and came into this world
without much previous notice, somewhere
about the region known in song books as