New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-19

in ,rtIE UNITED srATEs-THE PIONEER STEAMSHIP
OF A NEW LINE,
The New York Herald of the 9th says;
The large and magnificent steamship Great Re-
,ubiie was successfully launched yesterday morn
ng from the shipyard of Henry Speers, situated
it Greenpoint. About two thousand persons were
present. including quite large concomse Of
aides, many of whom awaited themselves of the
and were launched with the vessel
Shortly before 10 o'clock the last keel block was
knocked from under the steamer, and settling
down upon the smooth and slippery ways, she
gided majestically into the water amid the shouts
and huzzas of the spectatprs. The Great Republic
was built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
and is to run between San Francisco, California,
and the commercial cities of China and Japan.
Another steamer, the exact counterpart of the
Great Republic is at present building in this city
at the shipyard of WilliamH. Webb, and is already
far advanced towards completion, and is to be
placed upon the same line. |
tbs expected that the Great Republic will be
ready for sea early in the spring, when it is con-
tempated to place her without delay upon the line
10 run regularly between San Francisco, kanaga.
wa, Japan, and Hong Kong, China, about the first
ofneXt year; the round voyage, from the tiale of
leaving the port of San Francisco until retaining
to the same, occupying about two months. The
vessel is constructed of the best materials, and
will be IN every respect superior vessel; will be
supplied with all the modern improvements, and
will have cost, when ready for sea, over million
of dollars She is divided into four water-tght
compartments and strongly braced with iron bars
running diagonally throughout the entire length of
thG vessel. The Great Republic is the largest
wooden merchant steamship ever built in the
United States, and probably in the world. Her
dimensions are as follows: Length between per-
pendicpl0rs at load line, three hundred and sixty
feet; breadth moulded, fifty feet; breadth eX-
IRENE including outer planking, fifty teet depth
Of hold to top of spar deck beams, amidships,
thrty-one feet six inches. She has three full
decks and an 0riop deck at each end, extending
to boiler aud engine bulkheads; also platform
in hhlI tO nD6 Tba
floors are entirely Of white oak and the sides pitch
pine.
The machinery is building at the Novelty Iron
Works ana vail be Of The following dimensions:
A beam engine Of one hundred and five inches di-
ameter Of cylinder and twelve feet stroke of pis-
ton, to be fitted with balanced poppet valves and
Allanfs adjustable cutoff. surface condenser
with compressed wood packnEs for the tube
joints, and supplied with condensing water by an
| independent rotary pump, driven by pair of in
verted direct acting engines placed between air
pumps and cranks. The feed pumps will be ar
RAGGED SO that each will have its own suction pipe
from tank and discharge pipe to boilers. The
horizontal tubular boilers will be placed forward
of the engine fore and aft the ship, and uptakes
connecting into one smoke-pipe. The steam
punlps with donkey boiler complete, will be fitted
with all the necessary valves and connections
The moral HEDGE Hoo OF THE WoRLD.-The
london correspondent of the New York Times
| says:
4 The English are admirable for many things; ii
| would not be easy for me to tell how much ad-
mre their great and excellent qualities but keepa
ing hotel is not one Of them It is far too high
| q combination, and requires genius for order, i'll
| which they are wholly wanting. All large estab-
lishmeuts in this country, from army and navy to
a hospital or Workhouse, are liable to fall into
| confusion, and come to grief There is not a thea.
| ter in London whore the entrances Of crowds are
| properly managed. Railways, wherelife and pro-
pcrty are at stake, run into the most extraordinary
and dangerous Irregularities. In London we have
! thirty-two conflicting local governments ncom-
petent in themselves, and hindering each other.
| London is the expression Of the national incompe-
teney and genius for disorder and dirt and dsc0m-
fort The individual Engllshman is neatness itself;
| lie washes in big tub, and scrubs himself rosy.
! He shaEas beneath the skin. He parts and brushes
! bis hair like Miss Nancy. From crown to sole
he shines with friction His house is like himself
all that appertans to his personality is spick and
4 span Nothing can be nicer, But this same
| orderly man is a moral hedgehog, incapable of
acting in concert with others or coming into har-
monic and orderly relations. Organization, ad-
/ minisTation, and all that belongs to the higher
1 functions Of society and government, he may come
to in time-in " the good time coming.H AT pre-
sent the middle-cass Briton is an unattached and
nnattachable, simplstic and unharmonie PILLS
tine.
The magistrates of Liverpool have lately been
engaged in some very interesting experiments
having for their object the discovery of certain
destructive qualities, said to be contained in a
bottle Of liquid, intended to be used by the Fe-
mans to set fire to the city Part Of the contents
| OF the bottle We're poured OutupOn some shayngs,
mixed with cotton, which Immediately caught fire.
/ The rest OF the liquid was thrown upon the wall,
which was also covered imlnediitelY with flames,
! In order further to show that water was power
less before the destructive element, some rags
were made thoroughly vet, but they. too, on
/ being spriaIed with it, were at once burnt up.
| This discovery has caaaed much alarm in Liver
pool aBd measures are D5ug taken i'll order to as
certain possible, who is The inventor Of this dia-
boiioai lnid.
AN UHF0RrUEATE STRANGER Can you tell
me- sir, said stranger to gentleman in ball
room, ''Eho that lady is near The second window
that very yaiuIooking lady ~
That is mysister, sir, replied the person adj
dressed, with formidable look
mo, no, | don't mean her. said the unfortu.
nate interrogatbr, u mean thatugy woman lean.
ing against the piano thare's about as much ex-
preston in her face as in a bowl of bonny
Cabber.n
THAT, sir, is my Wife"
'No, no, gasped the miserable stranger, the
perspirauon starting from every pore. GOOD
gracious wish could make you understand
me mean that blear-eyed object in the pink
silk, the one so awful homely. l should be afraid
she would splinter ooking-glass by looking into
IT, There, she is looking at US now.n
'1hat, sir, said the gentleman, with fierce
calmness, lis my eldest daugher.n
The stranger darted from the room and cleared
the premises as though he had been struck with
a pfesentiment that powder magazine was
going to explode in that room in less than three
seconds.
The USE OF Horse NEAT IN PARIs-A late
Paris letter says:
AT this moment Americans visit the stalls and
slaughter-houses where Bucephaluses and Rosi-
nantes end their career and handing one of the
men attached to the establishment franc, they
are initiated into the mysteries of this branch Of
industry Here they see trotted out an animal
with brilliant step and bright eye. Why is he
to be sacrificed, when he looks as if he would
bring some hundred of dollars? But his price is
only S23, for he has the vice of kicking. Another
steed is brought out who has ameness in one of
the cords Of the lower leg; he is foundered and
fit only for the hammer.
Two of these establishments are sustained in
this city, but the horses at of these slaughter
houses are not served for the tables they are ami
mails spoiled by disease, and are merchandise only
so far as ho0ts, hide teeth hair and grease are |
concerned. The universal testimony as to horse /
meat concurs with that which many army officers
only it is coarser grained aud darker in color Ii |
is curious fact that white and gray horses are
lungs being not rarely Il mass of cOrrnntinn- +Ja1s