The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-11

b~reezes, scarcely yields to the first
motion of the unrufiled sea. 1t would almost
seem as if the mighty deep itself sympa-
tized with the great heart OF humanity inits
demand for adav ofrest, and that the ocean
was enjoying a Sabbath's quietude after a
gala day Of storms.
The Wyanoke, named after the chief of
an old Virginia tribe of Indians, is one of
the best iron steamers in our entire coast
trade. She was built at Wilmington, Della
ware, in 1870, and her register shows a
tonnage of 2,067 tons. She is two hundred
and forty-seven feet in length, forty feet
beam, and twenty-five depth. Her boilers
1.-TWO in number) are low pressure, and very
compactly built. They occupy a space
Of only fifteen feet in length each, and
have a diameter Of about t~wenty-one feet
by eleven. There are forty-eight state
rooms and an aggregate number of berths
to accommodate ninety-six first cabin pas
sengers, besides berths and suitable
accommodations for forty-three second
cabin and forty-fve steerage passen-
sengers. Her fitting up is elegant, her
tables bountifully spread, her attendance
and service all that could be desired, and
her supervision admirable. Captain Couch,
who commands her, is every inch a sailor,
and probably no man is more familiar with
the American coast, from New York to
Matagorda, in Texas, than the commander
of the Wyanoke. He is deservedly popular
with the travelling public, for he has a
pleasant word for everybody, even where
importantly would be likely to extract q
growl from the commanders Of most steam.
ships. Everything is order and strict dis
cipline under his eye, with no r%oughness OIL
profanity from any lip, nor any boisterou'
order given, since the ordinary tones 0
command answer every purpose quite al
well, and with a much greater degree o
: seemliness to passengers on board. Th
steamer is furnished with three powerful
steam fire pumps, or engines, to be used i
case of fire has six large llfe-boats, beside
one working boat and is supplied witt
one hundred and e~ighty-four life-presery
erS.
The Wyanoke took in a heavy freight a
Portsmouth and Norfolk. consisting of tn
ordinary staples, and large fruit supple
for the New York market. She also ha
r quite an accession to her passenger lis
making it up to about fifty first-cabin pa
g sengers, besides those of the second elias
and Storage.
i The passengers comprise a highly int
ligent class of southern people, with
n sprinkling of northern commercial agent
u and the topics Of conversation are nj
le merous and ~sprightly. But little is sa
le on politics. The most enthusiastic Gre
= ley man on board the boat is one WI
ur considers his nomination as a rich jok
p. and his election as simply among Il
le- possibilities of human occurrence in the
outre and seemingly absurd times. lie
a Northern man, keenly alive to the trI
q alitics and comicalities Of events, and VIII
at home in New York enjoys MOTH
N more q take his own confession) than
French comique and the run of the ligh'
III. theatricals generally. He is, however.
,di- sharp and shrcwd observer. just RETURN
the from an extended trip through the Sou
and ~confesses that Greeley has no "sho'
The except in the southern states, and that
on. would have none there if the South had
tor, been gangrened in its prejudices agai
lay General Grant. He says Greeley is q
fntiida to the South, but that Grant
'aid aquafoatis, and that they have alre'
had more of that sort Of medicine Il
, ~; they want, and hence they so for Greel
This, he thinks, is about the exten
an. Greeley enthusiasm as it crops out in
day South.