The Evansville Daily Journal

The monster steamship Great Eastern, styled by some of the papers as 'the floating furlong,' is advertised in the London papers to leave England for the United States early in September, after making a short trial trip to sea. Her arrival on this side of the Atlantic, next month, will cause a great sensation at the East. She has two sets of engines, and two propellers; she has a ten thousand horse power, and the calculation is that she will be able to go to California, round the Cape, in thirty-two days—taking with her ten thousand tons of coal, five thousand tons of cargo, and at least two thousand persons. How this freight and these passengers are to be procured we have yet to learn. It is idle to conjecture. With regard to the vulgar, yet necessary, commercial question—will she pay?—we fear the answer must be in the negative.