What An Ocean Steamer Carries

The famous steamship Great East erïi, historicálly associatdd witli the lirst elïorts to lay Atlantic telegrapl cables, has hitherto been regarded a. the largest vessel ever launched. Lt laurels as a sea leviathan, however are of late endangered. The new ocean freighter, Pennsylvania, al though scarcely attainiug the externa measurments of the former celebrated ship, will carry f'ar more cargo. The capacity, indeed of these new freigh ships is a matter for astonisment to a landsman. The Pennsylvania, for example i rated at twenty thousand tons burden and will carry loads sucli as may be briefly itemized thus: 160,000 bushels of wheat in bulk equal to three hundred and twenty car loads, or sixteen trains of twenty cars each. 1000 tons of flour. eighty carloads. 4000 boxes of bacon, seventy-üve car loads. 3000 tierces of lard, forty eight car loads. '1300 bales of cotton, forty car loads 1200 heads of live cattle, eighty cai loads. 3600 quarters of dressed beef. In addition there will probably be a thousand tous of miscellaneous mer chandise, say eighty car loads more in all not less than seven hundred ant eighty car loads, or thirty-nine lona; trains of twenty cars each. Nor is the above by any means the load of this modern ark. The Penrsylvania will have accomodations foi eight hundred to one thousand steerage passeugers, as also for a crew of one hundred and fifty men and flftj cattlemen, with food and fodder tor all. In the fuel bins, too, there will be carried a burden of 1300 tons of coal or more than one hundred car loads. If we were to say that the entire agricultural product of sixty New England towns, or twenty Western counties, could all be stowed away in this mammoth ship, we should not exceed the facts.