The New York herald., 1866-09-05
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Work Of the "Pickins Up" Expedi-
or tisn in Its Recovery. gygaggv
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Movements Of the Flset--.-Hopes, Disappsiat-
msnts and Triumph. .ew
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Hooking the Cable and Coiling
ON Board.
Its Striped and 0psckled Appear
ance, and the Cause.
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SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS.
SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS.
aurrA PfRcHA As An ,IHsulATea.
/ PAYING OUT AND MAKING FOR SHoRE.
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SPECIAL TELEGRAM 70 THE NEW YORK HsaAlD.
sr. JOHNS. N. .. Sent. 4. Issl

SPECIAL TELEGRAM 70 THE NEW YORK HfaAl1.
ST. JOINS. N r., Sept 4, 1855
You have already had brief extract from Mr. Deans
diary OF the picking up" expedition of the old cable
tho time OF the departure Of the Terrible from the Great
Eastern for Hearts Content. & 2SF t'l4 "
According that authority tho cable was first brought
the surface Of the water at ten o'clock and fortyAvo
minutes on the morning OF the l7th ultimo, causing
great enthusiasm, which lasted only few moments;
for scarcely the cheering died away when the fact
become known that the cable had noisclcssy parted
from the grapnes
Mr.. Dean describes the incident Of the picking up.
thus dealing with the main incident Of that morning
Let Us 60 back the day previous and what the
Chief Engineer had been doing
AT one lfty O'Clock P. NJ he gave instructions to pay
the grapnel rope, which the ground four
forty-nne #ftM MT M&N8f& etf sw n
About o'clock r. M they commenced TO heave M,
and at nno O'Clock they had hauled in one hundred
fahoms, or thercabouts.
One hour afterward they had payed them back agxia
and then hung by the ropc until daylight in the
morning, whom tho heaying up went continuously
AT seven o'clock A. M one hundred and ten is,hoFas
being there strain the dynaInometcr Of l04,
aud when but three hundred fatoms remained to come
up the instrument indicated strain Of So with clcu-
lated strain Of 81 on the electric cable.
We signaled TO the Terrible TO send us bows and her
two cutters came into each OF which Mr. Canning put .
leading cable hand. The bows took up their positions,
the the sarboard the other the port bow 10
50 as 10 be ready TO put the awscr shoppers on the cable
BY half-past ton o'clock A. NJ o3O0 fahoins Of grap-
mel had come board, and there remained TO b
lifted but fifteen fathoms Of the inch and eighty
chain attached TO It, 49,
Nearly every Que board the ship crowded to the
dsayored 10 describe the eec. produced B, the event
that occurred on the appearance OF the cable.
We were ah struck with The fact that onehaf Of =
other half just the state that IL left the tank last
With its tsrred surface and strands unchanged which,
proves that simply lay in the ooze only half imbcdded
The strain ON the cable Il twist and Il lookst
Ike pole painted sprrally with black and whNe. -
This disposes Of the assertion often made tlat
should be able TO pull II mp from the bottom Ia
consequence Of ts being buried IN sand but those ws
ces o are Of greater specific glaty than the mean
specific gravity OF The cable Itself.
Mospss, August 27.--Fcr the tenth time we lowered
the grapnels yesterday ri seventeen minutes psss
one o'clock M, and reached the bottom az htty-ssx
There was general gloom over tho ship Mss bsgsa
to doubt whether, notwithstanding the Tact ot hAg
ing raised the cable should be able 70 get up this
In the North Sea and Mediterranean, ,vhere cables
have besn picked up over and over again. cable
in the Atlantic Ocean at this time Of the wear there
no depending Upon lts continuing line for twelve houFs
! to tue surface but there must he q mpara,ive;v
SMOOTH SEA- 70 enable the cahlc handle i sd pat
hs shoppers on on % , as 70 bring = on ooaId ship
ern Ia 20 long as there is biscuit left and bit OF
Ia the ship We shall iersevere
Just before dinner the Medway, having up us
sen, boat, and We learned from Mr. London when ho
cams on board that she had broken The cable southwest
Of the buoy and set IL sdr We todd her pick up
sGpposing Il still 20 be fast 10 No. g.
ihis, indeed was had news, and added materially to
nelIng for what we considered loose blight We com
nsuced 10 haul in at hsfpsSt seven O'Clock sig
nailed Medwsy with rocket not 10 touch the bighs
buoy ont 70 watch by Il until further orders.
Mtwenty-hve minntes past ten O'Clock the grapnss
WAS up From that hour up TO ONO O'Clock this morn
m fcpA rTei aA.an fIr
observed bearing down upon She close s,oog-
side 1red gun and tho crew gave ringing cheer.
The welcome conveyed 10 the GreAA.
Easfrn that she had the cnd o tue cable buoyed The
observations decided VA tha the Abany had hooked u
east Of the blight held by No. Q.
Mr. Temple having board nj early hour in
the marnng informed US that ho had hooked the cable
the bow Al hal pasi eleven. buoynr IL n half psss
twelve. so that having got down 20 convey 10 the
intelligence a. halipsst one taey had done good deal
OF work in the time
II appears that the maximum srsin on the dynsmoms-
ter Of the Albany when the cabc hooked eleven
Considering that Il hftcd bv the Albany with the
idencs machinery and engine used by the Esss-
ern IN picking up last with strands vi the
grapDe rope gone and three Of tho nues the grap-
ne' straighfcned. shonla for moment
isso - II
We are Eov (ien O'Clock A. NJ close 10 No : buoy,
which the Albany pn, down. aud the sbips stern IL
being brought 70 the wind in order 10 hsave In Tho
cable The next few hours viii uery exciting and
even Il we should fail 2. al events We haye go large
before buoyne the rest snd most pract
Il has been raised 10 the surface
O'Clock this morning the stern of the ship the point
of attraction 10 all OF There Captain Anderon aud
Mr. Canning stood watching own boats and those OF
the Albany and Midway gathered sbolt The buoy.
Tho fea's current was 80 remarkably strong thse
dies, screw and csnvss h. coald no. Get the ship 10
hack 20 tho buoy; but IL he had been enabled
morsy 70 him 4 noon r
founded on observations which showed that
esh; and three eaarer niles from ,he nearest apposc
position OF the cable ana nitecn and half miles from
whore the Albany hooked II Yesterday.
There nothing now ior 10 but 10 get the ships
boat on 70 the buoy, which We We're enabled TO do in
The cable bows nocksd abou, under tho bows of tho
peP ap gear VS. set IL notion ana ~. oas a.a ,hs
satisfaction OF seeing the old cable deck the dyna-
r.ls moms's, - ess Ss, ~ se % ssme ns rs being nc
small piece 70 haul In
~ kilosshsy smith Immediately proceeded to .scsr-
tain by taking the resistance what length there
be brought In and pronounced that . would be but
10 very short .Ims, the engines working with grsss
ragd.'y ,~o mles were brought On board and eo'isa
Tbs eopd,,,o. of bs c.b,s s,p,sed avery on. rbor,
Il was, almost frssh whoa i put down twelve
month since, With hemp and wire perfect Above n,
n Ne, ss g noss 4
wssh ve an felt We now kno. .bs. " an Insaia.sr !. Z
scsosa the Atlantic without fault may be looked upon
~ perhnneniiy sure.
whenvs hsd got tAis piece Of cable on board We
steamed Hr he bigeeA buoy with the viow o. hauling
up the cabs attached v T. we commenced the pckiag
up ~ any n<nntes post i've o'clock
~ the unn&l now write, nine r NJ, the grappei rops
10 coming veFy sasl with strain on the dyDsmofnetcr
ting 10 norne. that the cable must have
slipped of ths ps39si when We began 10 haul up
Al eleven oclock this morning news was receivva
here thas he cable ~ being psyed out In most
cesful DonnsE
Al The n accounts IN hundred and my miles had
bssn paid oul
All veil.
Preparations being mds hers for grand cs,esr-
9Ara Or ntTM gnssS.
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