Republican Herald

Eyrien's Boat.—This boat left the foot of Courtland street, at 22 minutes past 7 o'clock, on Monday morning. The Erie, which is considered the fastest sailer in the line, was then from 4 to 5 miles ahead. Mr. B. continued gaining on the Erie until he nearly reached Catskill, and in a very few minutes would have passed her, but for an accident that occurred to the machinery. The lever of the cut-off-steam valve gave way, and the consequence was a great waste of steam, and reduction of the revolutions of the wheel from 23 1-2 of a ten foot stroke to 16. Mr. B. finally stopped the boat, and with the assistance of Mr. Snodgrass, Civil Engineer of Glasgow, under whose direction the engine has been constructed, repaired it—but not so well as to enable Mr. B. to regain the speed he was previously going, viz. about 19 miles an hour.

The time lost in repairing it, and the difference of the speed in consequence of this accident, may be estimated at about 3 hours—still the boat reached Troy in less than an hour after the Erie. Had the machinery worked well, Mr. B. fully calculated to have made the passage in nine hours.

Mr. B. is about building another boat, 100 feet longer than his present one, the parabolic spindles of which are to be of iron.