The Arkansas banner., 1844-01-16
LITTLE ROCK, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16 Is44


 Pleased with the name, southern legislators have seldom thought to inquire into its con dition. IL Is in remote part of the country, out of the line or the great thoroughfare of f travellers few visit 1t, and these few are sui- pfised 10 find 1t a mere place of deposite for q few stores brought and left there by vessels from the north; nor does it partake ss much ot the character of an American naval station as the Spanish town of Port Mahon iii the Mediterranean, where oursquadron regularly went to winter and refii. A ship has never i been built nor repaired at 1t; nor is there a shop or a mechanic, the material or the means of any kind for building or repairing shipsatthat yard. CD Disabled cutters have been sent thence to the private ship-yards of Charleston even 10 have their sides eaulked And if larger vessel of the West India squatl- ron sustain an injury never 90 slight, if she even find few shellfsh sticking to her bot tom, or an inch of perrPped from it, she must and does go fifteen hundred or two thou sand miles to the north to have it cleaned and repaired.
 In illustration of the degree of importance which Pensacola really enjoys as a naval sta ton we copy the following from the Army and Navy Chronicle of May 1llh, printed at Washington. On such subjects it speaks au- thoritativelv:
 "NEw SLoors OF rWAn.-Preparator or ders have been issued for building, as early as practicable, a first class sloop of war at each of our ndpy-yardS, viz: Portsmouth, N. H., Charleston, s. C., Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, and Norfolk. SIX Ix ALL"
 Here we have proof that, really and prac- tically, Pensacola is not considered ut the Navy Department in the light of a anayy-yard. No mention is made of il, and there is no building 10 be done at it. Again--the adver- tisement is copied from the public prints
 NAVY BEEF AND PORK FOR lsif.
 ssNAtY DErARrMENr
 Ru'eau ef Prorisions and Clothing, Jug. h, 1913.
 "sR1Lrp PRoPosALs, endorsed 'Propo- sals for Beef and Proposals for Pork as the case may be, will be received at this office until three o'clock P. M., on Monday, the 2d day of October next, for furnishing and delivering, free of all cost and risk to the U. States, seven thousand eight hundred barrels of Navy Beef, and seven thousand eight hun dred barrels of Navy Pork. To be deliver ed at the respective navy-yards and naval stations, as follows at Boston d,516 barrels; at Brooklyn 5,l26 barrels; at Norfolk 5,l26 barrels; at Charleston, '. C., 30 barrels; at Pensacola S2 barrels ;'' and so OH. 5,l26 barrels of Navy Beef and Pork for N orfolk, and 30 for Charleston, 4.5l6 at Boston, and X at D-,nI.l..,, I.<.p po, cola and Now-Orleans. Such really is the degree ofimportance enjoyed by the so-eallet < Naval Stalionso at the south. In the face of such facts, comment would be lame.
 Festive under the sense of continued in justice of withholding the disbursements O all naval appropriations from their constitu I ents, southern members at the last session o Congress succeeded, with more zeal thar Judgment, in diverting from New-Y ork ar appropriation of one hundred thousand dol. lars, and in giving it to the Gulf fora floating dock at Pensacola; we we're present on the occasion, and were reminded of a country lad we once saw buying purse, and begging a shopkeeper 10 trust him for ito Under present circumstances, there is about the same use for hoating-dock at Pensacola as I there was for purse to this penniless lad All the materials for repairs are wanting there and when ship in the Gulf wants repairs advantage will be taken of this circumstanc, that she may be still sent to the north, wher the materials arc already provided and th worEmen at hand. The want of these a Pensacola, and the collecting of them in smal , quantities and from a great distance, woul I consume much time, and, in this state c things, any slight repairs upon the first yes se will cost many times as much as the would al the abundantly supplied navy yard at the north. The quicksighted member from the building districts at the north sas this at glance, and suffered the south L take the bait. For obvious reasons the frs ship that is repaired on this floating dock will cost good round sum, and ihis enor nous cost will De advanced as reason why no more repairing should be done at tn. south. Or, should the officers, on accoun of the difficulties of having work done at yard so poorly provided with means and ia clifies as Pensacola has ever been, De deter red from having their ships repaired there as 1t is likely they will, the southrons here after, when they ask for any naval appropri duCliS lOI cilsucci,5 VIII dlNdyo uC u1o ti . ed with twit at their useless floating dock We could not but regret that they had no procured in its stead the building of two 0 more of these new sloops of war at Pensaco la, which would have involved an cxpendi l tare large enough to bring together the ne ! cessary materials and workmen at compara lively small cost
 Our southern and western readers wht have never experienced any of the adyanta ges which the annual disbursement of larg sums of public money conlers upon the com Imr.ity in which it takes place, may peThap derive some idea of the consideration il which it is held at the north, where public expenditures have been so long and so boun tifnlly made, and felt, and enjoyed, when they are told that an order. from Washington te suspend labor in the navy-yard atPhiladel- phia, and therefore to curtail the disburse. ments there of public money, IS enough te cause an uproar among the people even II that quiet city: straightway public meeting