Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 October 1857 — Page 1

AN INCIDENT OF THE LATE DISASTER.

While jet the public head and heart are deeply moved with the appalling disaster which befel the steamer Central America, and while the joy of thousands consequent on the rescue of their relatives and friends creates an episodo of light and thanksgiving in the midst of so much awful gloom and sorrow, the following beautiful poem will have a touching interest. The poetic significance of the strange occurrenoe on which it is founded has been caught with peculiar effect by the author:

THE BIRD AT TIIE HELM.

"Tho captain of the Norwegian barque Ellen states that when he was twenty nnles distant from the Central America, a bird appeared on his vessel, and three times flew in his face, which caused him to change his course two points, and thus he came to the ill-fatod steamer."—Incidents of the.wre.rkrf the Central America.

A bird ratno out on the fi'oriny pea: I htood ut tho Lolm—it cu»« to

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Tliricc it fietr in my face, and tlicn Plow awny in the storm again.

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What did tin bird of tlic stormy

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Wl !3t did tho bird portend to mo?

*1 stood (it the holm—the strr.npe bird crost— -.It ttpvk me, and two points I lost

•/'in Lor new course my bark must go, Tor thn franco, strnn^e bird would lmvo it no! What did tho bii of the f-torroy ecu,

Tho spirit bird, jiortcnd to inc'

Orcr iho J^cp trj.j tl:irln*t nifht. lilai'kr.osti all—then awful light— Kn.-h of wavoa und thunder roll: 1 f-ivd in iho storm and said to my tiotil,

Wl:at did tho bird of the sliriekiny

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Th"gho.it-lik' bird, port-nJ to irns?

.Nnncrty'? rock*

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bionk and bur»

Hut i?" no more I rf:-t

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there!

_*\nd if no wore'.-my .-oul lenped up And dofheJ in the ni

j:ht my mjitow'h

ci:p:

I,o: wli.it the bird of tho stormy hcu, .... The heaven-tent bird, orfnuls thco.

(,'od! that moment, lufcre inj buck, Ti if tied "ii tho billowH dcop and dmk, Jiiuidrwls, lnindrods of dyinj menlr-,k l:t mo not

fiw

wicli ft eight a train! ....

Thin, 0 birti of the stormy sen,

•'•Th'rt ilUft 1 lion pnrt.'nd to mc! ..

Yft, by Him wlw-cent thee, bird, blnill I'vcr tho pvui-v of my »ml ba hoard, '1 hat many wi-ro i-uwd wh, but fur tl. ,e^ "Jl.-jd k'l'iii' t.i tb _-r.' ve of li:.- wart sua.

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tl.ia, dear bird of tin- r*wn«» hou, 1 ihuiik tliv G'.iido, wilo pui h:d inti!

*\nd :hc lJovo, thai Mi 1 ill litVtf m.i^fit, In

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Is witb ui:co fiom I fin loviis»r bro.i.-t,

Muy it Hid lu- v. Lith. rsoe'cr wo r"i m, An Miiijing of I'liafttn c.:.uuot u* Iwmo! Iiird .if tho I'.Vat, life's stormy «i, l'rom

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A nephew of George Canning wrot? a remarkable, poem, uuder theti'i* Tiidia," floino four and twenty years a^o. iuo writer had enjoyed many advantages io. studying the native charactcr—and he

fiuuk

up (he result of ofnei."! experieuoe at.Delhi, Bcreilly, Oawnporc, in the following prophctic lines There nevd* butooroo KtirjHiiwn? not of wi-oafi To break the pa'ienoe that has bent r-o lo:iir Thru1 need.-* but ^oiv.e :-hort snuden buret of iro May olianco to not tho general thought on firo Thcro nerdi* but onv fair pro?pcet of relief

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on fill tlu gonunil bulief, Somo holy jiwK «W.rd ooprio?, To raico one common struts for r«leaeo.

Think not-that prodieioa mi'k mle a rtato, That proat rovnlaiohs spring from something front Tho toftosl cr.rl that ilows i-n'bea'ity'K brn-.vn, Tho «nnlle.«t loaf that thitters on the boiigh, 1* not moro liphtly easy to derange Than human minds with oar.se to wish for ehnnro. "Mit-l'ioal:? at onoo the fnr-resoundinst orv,

Tho standard of lovo't is raised on hiph, The murky elovid has glided from tho snn, Tho tuV of linghiiid's tyrantiy is done, And torturing veugoaneo grinds as she destroys,

Till Sicil's vi-.-i^rsseom tb par.io of boys.

JUSTICE ERF ALGERIA.

HT A. DUMAS.

In tho Ferdj 'Ouah lives a Schieek nam od Bou-Akfvs-ben-Achour, a descendant of one of the oldest families of the country, as we find by Ibn-Bhadoun's history of the Arab and Berber dynasties. Bou-Akas is a perfect type of the Arab of tho Kaat.— TTi-* ancestors conquered Ferdj 'Ouah, (fine country he has consolidated and reigns ovor if. After deciding to recognize the power of France, he sent a horse of Gada in token of submission, but has constantly refused to go to Constantine, alleging an oath he has made against it the fact is, he fears to be retained as a prisoner. He pays a tribute of 80,000 francs. Every year after harvest, at tho same day and honr, by the same gate, enter the camels that bring tho money not oven a cent is ever wanting.

Bou-Akas is forty-nine years old, dressed like the Kabyles, in a gandoura of woolen, hold by a leathern belt, with a fine oord around the head he carries a pair of pistols by his side, the Kabyle Jlissa, and a little black knife about his neck.— Before him stalks a negro with his gun, and a large hound bounds at his side.

When one of the twelve tribes he rules has done him any wrong, he merely sends his negro to their ohicf village. The nogro displays the gun of Bou-Akas, and the damage is repaired.

There are two or three hundred Tolbas in his pay, who read tho Koran to the people. Kvory individual making a pilgrimage to Mecoa, on calling on him, receives three francs, and remains so long as he

likes in Ferdj 'Ouan, at the Schmidt's expense but if he discovers a feigned pilgrim, two emissaries find him wherever he may be, throw him face downward, and bestow on him fifty strokes of the bastinado. He has sometimes three hundred persons to dine he then walks around overseeing the domestics if there id anything left, he eats, but always last.

When the governor of Constantino, the only authority he acknowledges, sends him a traveller, he gives him his gun, his dog, or his knife, according to the importanoe of the traveler, or the urgency of the recommendation. If he gives his gun, the stranger shoulders it if the clog, he takes it in a leash if the knife, he throws it around his neck and with one or other of these talismans, each of which specifies the degree of honor to be rendered, the traveler goes through the twelve tribes without danger, and is lodged and fed gratuitously, for he is the guest of Bou-Akas. When he leaves the Ferdj 'Ouab, he turns over the gun, dog, or knife to the first Arab he meets. If the Arab is hunting, he quits the chase if farming, he drops his plough if at home, he leaves it, to carry tl^e pledge to his Scheick. The well-known little knife with the black handle has given its name to Bou-Akas—Bou-Djenoui, the man with

hiB

Now it happened that he arrived at the fortunate city in which this Cadi dispensed justice on a fair-day, consequently a court-day. At the gate of the town lie met a cripple who asked alms, clinging to tho SYhcick's burnous as did the beggar to St. Martiu's cloak. ~r "What more would you have?" asked Bou-Akas. "You asked alms, and I. have given it." "True," replied the cripple: "but the law does not merely say, 'thou shalt give alms to thy brother,' but also, 'thou shalt do all that thou art ablo for him." "Well what can I do for you?" "You an save mc from being trampled under foot by the crowd of men. mules and camcIs in town." "And how?" "By taking mo up behind you until we get to the market-place, where I have business." "So be it." And with sonic difficulty he mounted the cripple behind him.

The market-place rcaohed, "Get down," said the Scheick. "Get down yourself," said tho cripple. "To help you? Certainly." "No to give mc your horse—he belongs to me." "We shall sec." "Wo are in the city of the jusf Crdi." "I know that." "And you will have me taken up before him?" "It is very likely." "And do you suppose, when he sees you with sound legs and me with crippled ones, he will not say tho horse belongs to him who has most need of him?" "If he says so," replied Bou-Akas, "he will no longer bo the just Cadi, for he will have erred in his judgment."

"They call him just," rejoined the cripple, laughing, "but not infallible."

"Good!" said Bou-Akas to himself "here is a fine opportunity for me to judge the judge." So he pushed through the crowd, leading his horse by the bridle, the cripple perohed like a monkey, and reached the tribunal where tho judge was dispensing justice after the Oriental mode.

The first oauso was between Taleb and a peasant—that is, between ft man of letters and a laborer. The peasant had carried off tho JTaleb's wife, and insisted that she was his. The woman would not ac-

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the knife for it is with this he cuts off! story neither varied. "Leave the money Jieads, if he thiDk.-? the neeepsityfor prompt I with me," he said, "and return to-mor-justice demanu.s it. When he cauic into power, there were & groat many robbers about the Scheick adopted the plan of disguising himself as a simple trader, and lettiug fall a douro, of which he never lost sight if the person who picked it up put it in his pocket, Bou-Akas made a f*ign to his executioner, dirguised like himself, and off went the culprit's head. The Arabs say that a child may now traverse the 12 tribes with a Grown of gold on

head,

without risk. Bou-Akas has a high respect for women and has ordered that, when they fill their gout-skins at the fountain, the men are to turn aside, and not pass before them.— Wishing to know what the sex thought of him, and meeting a pretty Arab girl along the backs of the stream, he approached her, and entered on light chat. The woman looked at him in astonishment, and

said "Leave mc, handsome chevalier, for you do net knovv the risk you run." Ac lie still continued to annoy her with his nonsense, she resumed "Have you come from

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great a distance that you do net

know you arc in the country of 'the man with the knife,1 where women arc respected

One day the Rchciek heard that a Cadi of one of his trilo? rendered judgment worthy of Solomon like another Ifarouu-al-Kaechid, he wiaiied to know for himself. Disguised as a simple horseman, without his distinguishing arms, mounted on a tho-rough-bred horse, which, however, betrayed nothing of the greatness of the owner, ho started

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knowledge cither as her husband. The judge listened to both parties, and then said "Leave the woman with me, and return to-morrow." The men saluted and withdrew. ,'

The next cause was between a butcher and an oil-eeller the latter was covered with oil, the butcher spotted with blood.— The butcher began "I went to buy oil of this man I took out my purse to pay him it was full of money he was tempted by itj and seized me by the wrist. I shouted 'thief!' but he would not let me go so we came together before you, I clenching my money, and he my wrist. Now I swear by Mahomet that he is a liar, when h& says I took his money the money is mine."

Then spoke the oil-seller: "This man cainc to buy a bottle of oil of me and after I had filled the bottle, he asked me if I could change a piece of gold. I took a handful of money from my pocket, and laid it on the threshold of my shop he snatched it, and was going off with the oil and money, when I seized him by the wrist and shouted 'thief!' In spite of my shouts he would not give it up, and I have brought him hero that you may judge between us. I swear by Mahomet that this man is a Jiar, and the money in mine."

The Cadi made each plaintiff repeat his

I\ow came tho turn of Bou-Akae and the cripple. "My lord judge," said the Scheick, "I come from a diatont city to buy merchandise in this market. At the gate of this town I found this cripple, who first asked alms of me, and then begged mc to take him up, as he feared he should be trampled in the crowd of men, mules and camels.— Arrived at the markct-plaoe, he would not get down, but claiiucd my horee and when I threatened him with justice—'Pshaw, the Cadi is too sensible a man to doubt that the horse belongs to him who needs him most,' he replied. I swear by Mahomet, this is the simplo truth, my lord."

Next rejoined the cripple: "My lord, I was coming here en business upon this horse of mine, when I caw this man seated by the road eide, a.s if half dead. I stoppod to ask if he had met with any accident, lie answered no but that he was exhausted with fatigue, and begged rae for charity to bring him to this city, where he had business. I did so but what was my curprise, when lie ordered me to dismount, and said the horse was his. So I brought him to you. This is the truth, I swear by Mahomet."

The Cadi made each repeat his deposition. "Leave me the horee," he ordered, "and return to-morrow."

The next morning not only the parties concerned, but a great crowd, led by curiosity, appeared at the tribunal. The Taleb and tho peasant were first called. "Take ycur wife off." said the judge to the Taka, "sbo is certainly yours."

Then turning to the executioners, he ordered them to give the peasant fifty strokes of the bastinado. The butcher and oil-sel-ler were next called. "Take your money," said the Cadi to the butcher "you certainly took it from your pocket, and it never belonged to that man and he ordered the oil-seller fifty strokes of the bastinado. The third cause came

"Should you recognize ycur horse, among twenty others?" asked the judge of BouAkas. ... "Certainly." "And you?" to the cripple. "Certainly." "Come with me," he continued to BouAkas. They went together, and the Scheick pointed out his horse among the twenty. "Go back to the tribunal and send me your adversary."

The cripple hurried io the stables as fast as bis legs would let him but as his eyes were good, he also recognized the horse.— "Very well," said the judge "now follow me to the tribunal."

The judge returned to his seat, and everybody awaited the slow return of the cripple with impatiencc. At last he appeared, all out of breath. "The horse is yours," said the Cadi to Bou-Akas "go to the stable and take him—fifty stripes on that, man's back," he ordered for the cripple.

The Cadi, on reaching home, found Bou Akas waiting for him. "Arc you dissatisfied he asked.!V "Quite the contrary," answered the Scheick: "but I want to ask by what inspiration you render justice for I cannot doubt that the other judgments are as equitable as my own. I am Bou-Akas, Schcick of Ferdj 'Ouah, and having heard of you, I wished to know you."

The judge would have kissed his chiefs hand, but Bou-Akas would not permit it. "Come, I am in a hurry to know how you discovered the truth in those three cases," he 6aid. "It is Tery simple. You know I kept the woman, the money and the horse thro' the night. Well, at midnight, I had the woman awakened and brought to me. 'Fill my inkstand!' I said to her. She took the inkstand, took ont the cotton, washed it neatly, replaced it in its case, *nd poured

THE CRAWFORDS Vmi,E RE VIEW

in freBh ink. Then I said to myself: 'The wife of a peasant would know nothing about inkstands she is surely the wife of the Taleb.'" "Good 6aid Bou-Akas "but the mon-

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"Bid you observe that the oil-seller was covered with oil, and especially how greasy his hands were?" "Yes well?" "Well, I put the money into a vessel of water I examined it this morning there was no sign of.oil on the surface. Consequently, I decided that the money belonged to the butcher. Had it belonged to the oil-seller, it would have been greasy, and the oil would have floated on the water." "Good but my horse?" ts.v w"Ah, I was greatly puzzled' about that, until this morning." "Then the cripple did not recognize the horse?" "Yes, quite as boldly and positively as

yourself. But—my idea was not to see if

you would recognize the horse, but if he would know you. Thus, when you approached him, he neighed when the oripple came near him, he lashed out. So I g.vve him to you." s-? v,

Bou-Akas reflected a'rnoment, and then said "The Lord is with you! You should have my place, and I yours.

fit to be Cadi.'

The hull is entire, its double machinery £'re likewise cn suits^ is in and fitted, the bulwarks are partly *-e

and the internal fittings in such a for-

UP

ward state as to show the launch is near at hand, and that, if necessary, the Great Eastern could be ready to make her first voyage by Christmas next. Nearly 1,500 men arc employed on her daily, and, though when Bprcad about her acres of upper and lower decks, they seem but few, they are in reality quite enough for the work, and under their incessant efforts each hour records great progress made. Already some of tho cabins are finished and fitted to show the style of the arrangements which arc intended to prevail throughout, and these compared with the "cribbed and cabbined" dens, eo painfully imprcscd upon the minds of all sea going travelers, are perfect. Each of the small first-class cabins is 14 feet by 10^- and 7-1 feet high.— The largest are 15 i'cet by ll, and feet high. There are whole streets aud squares of such apartments as these, opening cut into saloons, which of themselves afford as much space as the maindeck of a hne of battle ship of the present day.

The bulwarks, which arc now being put up, add considerably both to the weight and symmetrical proportions of the vessel. The}- are 0 feet inches high forward, and down to about five feet high amidship and aft. The massive wrought iron deck is also being covered iu with teak planking, placed at about six inches distance from the iron. The machinery for both screw and paddle engines is in with the exception of the crank shaft, which, is being forged, and the screw shaft, which, though placed, is not yet put together or connected with the screw engine.

The paddle engines consist of four oscillating cylinders of 74 iuches diameter aud of 14 feet stroke, working iu a solid frame attached to the frame of the ship. Each pair of cylinders, with its crank, condensor, and air pump, forms a complete and separate engine, and each of the four cylinders is constructed so as to permit instant disconnection, if required, from a combination of four engines complete, whether worked together or separately. The two cranks are connected by a friction clutch, no that the two pairs of engines can be connected or disconnected at a minute's warning and by a single movement of the hand. The engines are provided with expansion valves, throttle valves, and governors, all constructed on the most approved principles aud arranged for working iu the most efficient manuer.

The combined paddle engines will work up to an indicator power of !,000 horses of 33,000 lbs. when working 11 strokes per minute, with steam in the boiler at 151bs. upon the inch, aud the expansion valve cutting off at one-third of the stroke. But all the parts of the engines are go constructed and proportioned that they will work safely aud smoothly at 8 strokes pe minute, with the steam at on

a without expansion (beyond what is unroidably effected by the slides,) or at 1G

av

strokes per minute, with the steam in the boiler still at 25Ibs. and the expansion valve cutting off at one-fourthof the Btroke. Under these last named circumstances the paddle-engines alone will give a power oi about 5,000 horses.

There are also permanent indicators at both ends of each cylinder, so that the performance of each will be constantly under observation. Tho paddle boilers are of wrought plate iron, with brass horizontal tubes, and are adapted for working regu-

larly at a pressure cf 251bs., though they are perfectly safe at GOlbs., as they have all been tested with a hydraulic pump to a great pressure. These paddle boilers arc in two distinct sets, and each set has about 8,000 square feet of tube service, exclusive of flue and furnace, and about 400 square feet of fire bar furnncc. Each set i3 equal to supply, with steady moderate firing, steam for an indicator of 1,800 horse power, though with full firing each set of two gives steam to the amount of 2,500 horse power, or 5,000 horse power in all.

Two auxiliary high pressure condensing engines are fixed adjacent to the paddle engines for working pumps and other necessary work of the ship. These two engines together are equal to 60 horse power when working at 40&s., though, as they are made to work at 601bg., their power oan be doubled if necessary.

The screw engines consist of four cyl-

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inders of 84 inches diameter and four feet stroke, working horizontally. As with the paddle cylinders, each of the four is in itself a complete and separate engine, capable of working quite independently of any of the other three. They work up to an indicator power of4,500 horses of33,000ft's

when working at 45 strokes a minute, with steam in the boiler at 155s. and the expansion valve. .putting off at one-third of the stroke."

They are, however, made to work smoothly either at 40 strokes per minute, with steam at 35Jbs., without expansion, or at 55 strokes per minute with the expansion cutting off at one-fourth of the stroke.— Under these circumstances they will be working at the' tremendous power of 6,500 horses. The boilers are of the same kind as the paddle boilers, and ten in number.— Connected with the screw engines are two auxiliary high pressure engines of 70 bor3c power, working with 40!b. but these, as with the other auxiliary engines, are made to work at OOlbs. Both these, beside doing ordinary ship's work, are connccted with the screw shaft, abaft the ordinary disconnecting apparatus, so as to enable them to

drive the screw if necessary, when discon-

nccted with its main engine. It will thus be seen that the paddle and scrctv engines, wheu working together at their highest power, will exert an effective force of not less than eleven thousand five hundred horse power, or sufficient to raise 200,000 gallons of water to the top of the Monument .in less than one minute, ,i lor to drive the machinery of all the cotton 'mills in Manchester. The consumption

whole, although I am suro you are worthy j0f coalto pVoTuce this amount o7locomot.lv to be Schcick, I am not certain that I am force is estimated at 250 tons per day.— All the other details connected with the ship are on the same colossal scale. For instance, she will have four of Trotmans, anchors, each weighing 7 tons, and 2 small anchors 5£ tons at the forward part of the ship. At the stern there will be two anchors of tons each. The chain cables

TIIE GUEAT EASTERN. The nautical leviathan is represented as rapidly approaching completion. The London News of Sept. 8, says:

There will be two

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forward of inch diameter (about GO ibs. the link) and two of 2.'. inch diameter. In the after part there will be two of 2 inch, and each cablc will bo 140 fathoms long,— The total number of crew will be 400, of which one-third will belong to the engineering department, one third for victualing and servants, and one-third the sailing department. The ofiiccrs will be Captain W. Harrison, (late of the Cunard's line,) a chief officer and chief engineer, 12 other sailing officers, 16 subordinate ei^ineers, a sailing master, a purser, and two or three surgeons.

In addition to the two screw steamers which will hang astern abaft (ho paddle boxes, and each of which will be 100 feet long, 16 feet beam, 120 tons burden, and 40 horse power, there will be 21. other: boats, which are now being made at Deal. Some of tchsc will be large deck boats, like little yachts, and all will be fitted with masts and sails complete.

There will be six masts, two of them square rigged, and all of hollow iron except the last, which will bo the nearest to the

The actual weights of the ship-engines and various fittings are as follows: Tons. Ship, 7,29G Timber work, fittings, &e, .3,576 Masts, rigging and sails, 385 Anchors, chains, &c, 300 Paddle engines complete, 510 Boilers to ditto (full) 362 Screw engines eoinnlctc, 607 Boilers to ditto (full)-' 632 Paddle wheels, 185 Paddle boxes aud sponeon beams, 350 Screw Shaft and bearings, 153 Screw propeller, 37

wxll take place early in October next. As I himself, his family, and all his possessions may readily be imagined, the manner of over to Bringham Toung, and then he'il launching is as peculiar and novel as the have to give the tenth of ail his income— scheme of the ship itself. From the posi-|Uie tenth day's work—and he must keep tion in which it has been necessary to build I from two to ten wives. If he dvn't a^ree her, and to avoid the tremendous strain which a ship of her length would suffer from being launched by the ordinary method, stern foremost, it is absolutely necessary that she should go into the water broadside on. By this plan no risk of straiu is incurred, though, as a vessel of her enormous weight and bulk would acquire sufficient momentum in rushing dowii yibs. and full an inclined piano of 300 feet to the water

to carry her quite across the river, great were shot down in a place called Springprecautions have to be adopted in order to field, while they were preparing h»tr ease her gently off. The launch, then, if trunks to leave. This took place about ft the process by which she will eventually o'clock en a Sunday morning, within flt'Ly reach the water mav be so termed, is like-j yards of the gates of the city. The first ly to be along and tedious affair, which will was a young man railed William Pari.-li ccrtainly occupy eight or ten hours, and he received seven balls in his body. The probably more. second was his father, and the third a

The way in which it will be effected is man called Potter, whose body received as this: Two launching "ways," or large and many as fifteen balls. The old man was powerfully built tramways, have been con- pierced in the back, and his threat cut in

structed by the railway contractors, Messrs. Treadwcli & Co., running from under the fore and alter portions of the vessel down into the river at low water spring tide mark. Each of these "ways" is 300 feet long by 120 wide, and the distance between the two is also about 120 feet. To guard against the shifting nature of the river mud both the "ways" are constructed with unusual solidity and strength. The foundation of each is formed upon seven rows of piles, the four outside rows being driven at three feet intervals, and the three inner rows at six feet. These piles are all forced home to the gravel of the river bed, so that they graduate from a

nel on the permanent wav of the Great Western Railway, and are. of course, of the strongest kind.

The rails complete the "wavs." which, thus rcstiugon abed of pues anu concrcte, form, as it were, a massive road of crossed and re-crossed timbers, stretching from under the Great Eastern to low water mark, at an inclination of 1 in 12. Down the railway metals ou these "ways," then, the ship will be slowly lowered into tho water on cradles, which are now being constructed under her. The cradles will, of course, be the same width as the "ways" over which they are to run. The}' are made of large balks of timber, wedged and driven in so as to fit perfectly tho bota a S

The timbers are principally laid athwartships with longitudinal beams and shores fastened to the outer sides. All are firmly bound together with iron bolts, and loaded with iron ballast to prevent them floating when the tide takes the vessel off. The bottom of the cradle consists of iron bars seven inches wide and an inch thick, placed at intervals of one foot apart, and with their edges carefully rounded off, so ns to offer no resistance to the railway metals of the "ways" down which they will have to pass. The process of launching. therefore, will consist of lowering th"s«.' cradles with the vessel only slowly over the "ways." yy

As we have said, it is^''expected'"take place in October, and will begin at 2 in the morning, when the-Great Eastern will be moved down as the tide ebbs till she reaches low water mark exactly at low water.

compass. The spaces afforded by the eel- her own way into the elements on which week .-lie was taken sick, but pertinaciouslular compartments between the two'skins' for years to come she will be regarded a?

of tho vessel will be used for pumping wa- a marvel and a wonder. terintoasa substitute for ballast, and as I The great extent which the hunching the wrought iron webs subdividing these! "ways" cover diminishes the weight per spaces are made perfectly water-tight, water can be put into any one or any number of them at pleasure.

square foot which they will be required to bear to littb.i more than three-quarters of a ton. Tho ordinary weight c.vcr launching "ways" is two and a half tons the square foot, though launches are frequently made in London at three tons. A tell-tale indicator will be fixed to the two cradles, so that any difference that may occur in the rate of descent of cach will be immediately rectified by the check tackle.

AN ESCAPE FROM SALT LAKE.

Total 15,375

The preparations for getting the monster safely down to the water are progressing steadily, and, according to present arrangements, there is little doubt that the launch

kscapk ri'.oa

three different places. I saw them lying

stroying Angles." Their Captain's name is

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length

of 32 feet

under the ship's bottom to 10 feet at the low water mark. To both sides of the heads of the rows of piles, strong timbers. 12 by 12 inches, are securely bolted, and the whole area of the" "ways" covered with concrete to a thickness of two feet. Above tho concrete,longitudinal timbers of great strength are secured at intervals of three feet six

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inches from centre to centre, and run the I left Salt Lake City on the 17th of April entire length of the "way." Over these in company with two Welshmen and an again are placed transverse timbers of the African. The few Mormon? who knew of same solidity, but only three feet apart, jour intentions said that we would never which are bolted together and again bolt- reach the States nlivo, but told them that ed down to the walings to keep them fixed I was determined to try, whatever would under the pressure they will liavc to bear, occur. On Saturday (the day after we loft) and prevent them floating at high tide.— jwc had traveled thirty miles from the city, On these transverse timbers, but running when we saw three men folWinn- us. straight from the vessel tf the water's I The name of one was Patrick Linoh, an edge, are screwed railway metals at inter- Irishman by birth, and Secretary to Bringvals of 18 inches apart. They are the or- bam Young: This mati fired his revolver dinary solid bridge raiis, used'by Mr. Bru- at mo, but the ball went by without hurting me. Tlioy then came near us on lheir

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horses, and inquired our names, and when we refused to tell them, they swore that they would blow "our damned brains out." With that, one of them raised his revolver as if he was going to use it—he had one on each side of the saddle. I then took out my revolver and told him to fire if he liked. I had six revolvers with me, and a rifle, containing in all thirty-seven balls. Another ball was then fired at me, which whistled by my left cheek. I then fired at him, and one ball hit him on the leg and another on the shoulder (My friends by this time had run in the woods, and I was left to fight it out myself.) I then lost my footing, and one of the men run at me with a knife and cut my belt and took four of my revolvers. I had the other two hid in my boots. I got hold of one of them and fired, and succeeded in keeping them off for some time, till I had a chance to run to the woods, where got the assistance of my friends.

We continued to travel that day and the following night, and succeeded in reaching a place called Fort Bridger, which is one hundred and thirteen miles from the Valley. The number of our pursuers had now increased to twenty, and we had to put to the woods again. We traveled till night, and were so fortunate as to meet a host of friendly Indians, who gave us Buffilo meat to eat. Tho next, day we overtook a number of wagons, known as Mr. Babbit's train in number twenty-eight. I was hired drive one wagon, which drawn by six mules. We had some trouble with a lot of

As the tide flows again :-'he will of cor.rse be floated off, moored in the centre of the river, and continue her fittings, so as to be ready for sea about February next. As a matter of course, if the monster were left to itself, the instant the shores were knocked away, it would rush down the way, and very probably staud itself on the opposite side of the river. To prevent this catastrophe, massive chains are fastened to the streets, and applied tlr a cradles, which are passed through double family. Mrs. Talbot bcin sheaves secured to clumps of piles driven 35 feet into the solid eartl

While passing over the first 200 feet of until Mrs. 'j'uibot. in conversation with' tho "ways" great care must be used, but. some of her female friends, declared that that distance once safely accomplished, the she had never been so well pleased with a Groat Eastern may be safely left to find I girl before, {hiring the kti.-r inrr of I-st

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The following narrative is from the pen of John Davies. a young Welshman, who emigrated to salt Lake with his family about two years ago from MAestoeg, South Wales. It is taken from a private letter, dated Council Bluffs City, Iowa, June 29th.

I guess you are anxious to know the reason why I left Salt Lake. I shall try, in the first place, to inform you what a man must do to be a Mormon. He must give

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to these things, he had better quit; but doing so he is in danger of losing his life every minute, for they would rather kill him than let him be the means of letting the world know how things are in their midst. Many have been shot down in trying to escape. I have seen dozens shot down on the street and three days before I left I saw three persons killed merely because they intended to escape—they

down, and I could name the persons who

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killed them. Brigham Young has got men for this purpose. Their number is four hundred. They are called the "De-

is William Hickman, and the second in

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time. The gates are so narrow that only

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"Destroying Angels" go out on the Plains in the spring, in order to intercept those who may escape from the city. Many left on foot last January. They sleep by day

and travel by night. I know of men and

Indians called the "Cow Tribe." They were well armed, and about a thousand strong. About six hundred shots camo into our tents. We killed about thirty Indians, and they killed five of our men. -----

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About five weeks prepossessing girl, who gave her name as Albright, called at the residence of Mrs. Talbot, near the corner of Elm and Ninth for a situation-in Iho in want of a nr.iestic, aud at thj same t:mc forming a

The ends of favorable opinion of she applicant, «he "at

these chains, after passing twice through once engaged iter, upon which the girl, the sheaves, will be attached to the wind- sending tbr her trunk, bccamc rcgukrly lasses, so that men working them may inducted into the family. Thnc priced oil slacken the speed of the ship, or even stop 'and she performed (lie ofii. for which it altogether, if required. Jshe was engaged iaithfullv and vigilantly.

ly refused in alloy,- the family to i-cud for physician, until, the symptoms becoming alarming, a doctor «s called in, who discovered that she was in prematura labor:"5 occasioned by medicines which s! ha taken to procure an abortion. All that medicine could eflect was had recourse to, but in vain, the remedy eamo too Into, and she expired Mrs. Talbot, who had learned the name of her relations, who reside in the interior of the Slate, despatched a letter with the intelligence of her death to them, and the day after her burial, her brother arrived in the city and took charge of her effects, f'pon opening her trunk, there was found upwards of five horslrcd dollars iu specie, besides other vnhiahlo property. Mrs. Talbot was some whal?' startled by an exclamation from her hrc!'u-

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er, thaniaug God that she was no more, and upon demanding an explanation, she was informed that the girl had. ever tvinerr she had emerged from childhood brought disgrace upon her family. Naturally dcpraved, she had consorted ov.ly with ih and prostitutes, and at fhe tin.o of her

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death there was a re-,yard o.Tercl by fho State for her complicity in aidincr the escape of two convieti from the peni-'-ntia-ry. It would appear from this tLai phe had hired herself as a servant in order to lie prrda until ti had :mde the .search for her Jess keen, but she Ins been ealh-d to answer at a. higher, tribunal for her

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Tl?r: GUEAT 5 A:TiCJlji S'i'IOA.*»SXI2i'. This monster steamship, by all odds (he largest vessel that was eve.r afloat upon the ocean, is to he laauched iu October, and will bo ready for sea by the 1st of February. Fifteen hundred men are employed upon her daily. Ouc of the London editors, who has hit'.iv visited her, th i3 describes her rngiocs

Bm Ii engines.arc of such p?r dcrous csiiher that the visitor gazes oti them, as they lie r.vit'ad beneath him, with the dumb feeJi'-if surpri.se that a sight of the tremendous rock-hewn monuments of Iveypt alwaj.s ooeasien?.. They look so dark and massive beyond ail other e'gines that it seems diff. ejlt to imagine how thev them-

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the amount of speed at which they would force even the kim? Extent through iho

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command is Porter Rockwell. uVm-nds of hersc-power. that have ever The walls around the citv are fifteen fed

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high, and thev arc surrounded by a deep |?st F'f" wrought iron Cat have cv'-r and wide moat. The city is entered cm forgr-d. I t.ic largest ca ,t:ng itia 1 .1 bavn ever b.-eu run one castin'.' are us3u four gates, which are watched in the night!. •,

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one vehicle can pass through at once. The

,. their horhest power, will exert an etiocino

force of not less than .11 /0D horse-power, or sufficient to drive the machinery of ail the eottoH milb in Manchester. The con-

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women who have traveled this way—the men dressed as women and the women as men. I came across some who were very short of food; the little they had they gave to the women, and the men were principally sustained by the women's milk. t

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Jocomotivc forcc ycr day.

jSTThc man that broke his word," has