Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-26

the crinples comes the sloop-oi-war, Haeed0nio;
She has been raced and almost re built; she Is
! sharp looking craft, and judging from appear.
ances. will soon hoist her colors agnin. She rs
pierced for 20 guns. AZ
most savage and active looking vessels belong
inc TO the Navv-Jferrimde. She is OF the
same dimensions as the Rodnoke-a little oTeA
9nO feet in length-being so feet shorter t'lan
tho YIa1Ira. but intended for just i've tunes
MS many guns-the Niagara carrying only
twelve, / do not know how to express my
opinion of the AerriR,Ie, better than by say
ing she is dreGdtntky beautiful approach
her as she lies with her bToadsile 70 t .lt,
wharf. and take a peep Mt those "vaTmints
of destruction with their black noses PoKeo
out through the port holes; then go aboard
and examine the stands of minnie rifles,
bright as new dollars, and the great quantity
of sabres hanging up around the port holes;
next take look at the two pivot guns, piace1
fore and aft, on the upper deck. stick your heaa
in the muzzle of one of them, II you are not
nervous hundred and twenty-five pound ball
goes in there: measure the length and you will
find it is twelve feet long and weighs Just ste
t/,s and will throw n ball into vessel Mree
nilss and n huff distant; you will perceive that
these two like all the others, are provided wlt.l
nicely adjusting sights and percussion locks
next examine the other guns ON this deck, those
that seemed to be growing atyou when coming
aboard, you will perceive they are smallcI, be
ing only eleven feet in length and weighing nine
thousand three hundred pounds each, the halls
used in these weighing 93 lbs. Decency will tell
YOU not to spit upon the floors of either deck as
you pass through, they are kept secured as
white ms thu wood can be made. Now let US go
below, here You perceive the guns and SabreS
are arranged just as they were above on the
spar cleck;-tuke your hat of, and if you are
not quite six feet high, you walk through
the ship without stopping. In the forward end
YOU will see the hospital whilst at the stern are
the apartments for the officers, all the balance
of the space is left unincumbered, and for the
very unpleasant work of fighting. lfyou should
go down to the lower deck you will see the ma
chincry which is mostly in the hold, and all en-
tirely below the water line. There is but one
engine, which has cylinder of five feet in di-
ameter and only three rect stroke of piston
Those unacquainted with vessels of this kind,
1.-THE persons for whose entertainment am writ
ing) would not, Mt short distance, take them
for any thing else than sailing vessels, no wheels
being visible, the propeller is IF course, entire
Iy under water, while the tops of the smoke
stack, is so near on level with the deck that it
is likely to escape notice. The tall masts, and
rigging are equally extensive with that on any
other ship, SO that it, in an engagement, her
machinery should be injured, she has only to
spread her wings in order to maintain her po-
sition. The Ksrrmac carries $50 men, as her
compliment of sailors and marines She is now
under orders to start on cruise and will take
her departure within a week or ten days from
this time. HAMMER AND ToNGs.