The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-06-19

CAREER or THE GREAT EAsTERN.--The hard luck of
the mammoth steamship Great Eastern in getting into
the hands of the sheriff security for the payment OF
seamen employed in the recent venture in France, is
the occasion Of much remark the part Of the Lv-
erpoo, newspapers. The Courier not so much to re-
yive incidents which would like to forget as to
aecertain the cause Of these accumulated mishaps,
says
We have not to look afeld for the origin her un-
proftabeness as an investment and danger as sea-
going ship it is simply this she is too large for our
present appliances. The machinery for working her
is inadequate to the necessities OF her ponderous d.
mansions there no docks to load and repair her
there is no trade support her All these difficulties
may be removed in time but they exist at present. and
the Great Eastern has found them insuperable
We are advancing in navigation, but Mr.. Brunei
took too large stride ahead of his contemporaries.
They were content to allow their vessels to grow few
hundred tons at me the appliances for their navI-
CATION and docking being Of course developed in the
same ratio but the Great Eastern far oustrpped the
growth Of indispensable accessories and failure is the
consequence No doubt like result would have en-
sued If the Sirius and the Britannia had been immedi-
ately followed by the large vessels now constituting
the Cunard and Innan fleets, but the small vessels
have been superseded by series Of cautious grada-
tons, the engagements which would otherwise have
been manageable are found to be practicable and
remunerative.
We doubt whether ships Of the Great Easterns size
will ever come into use; but in any case the advance
must be made by gradual steps, not BY violent leaps
The ground must be secured and the appliances en-
larged each advance; there must be no hiatus
separating beyond hope of union the ship from
its immediate predecessor The Scotia may safely fol-
low the Persia but the distance between the Scotia and
the Great Eastern too great to be bridged In this
way one of the best vessels afloa is ruined ambition
oerleaped itself and fallen the other side.
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THE HEART OF WIaz-A lady correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Press, writing the details Of walk
through the old capitol prison in company with a
young man, says:
= He kindly offered to take over the place and
point out everything worthy of notice So we hastily
made the rounds of the old building again. and when
the heart of Wirz as glass in of the con-
tanned it? Had we not already dined upon horrors
and was not this fitting desert? We hesitated The
urchins put in plea They had been very kind. We
answered, the boys wish to see it,. So entered a
room in which the light was already beginning to
struggle with the darkness. solitary jar upon the
window sill was everything the room contained"
1.-THE boys wished to see the heart of Wirz What
commentary on the humanising influences of Chris
tianty and the progress of civilization. Young tigers
also, like to lap blood "The boys want to see hu-
man heart" preserved in spirits-and must be in
duged. So the mother took them to it and tells
Of it through the Philadelphia Press
BY whose order was the body Of Wirz opened, and
his heart cut out and put into jar to be preserved
an object for the curious to gaze att We have read
Of such names in the history Of savage nations, but
this is the 10Th century, and the United States pre-
tends to be Christian nation. Meanwhile it issues
ten-cent shinpasters has stamp act, robs every
gro laborer of part Of his wages, establishes snob
despotism over States and preserves Wirzs heart in
jar in the Old Capitol Prison. SIC itur ad astra.
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