The weekly Butte record., 1862-06-14
Supremacy of the Seas.

the American nation for the retrOgade move
ment occasioned by the civil war, it may be
found in the incident Of our little home broil
that has arrested the supremacy of the seas
from the arrogant and overbearing John Bull
The best Yankee trick ever played" was
for the American Government to get along
as they have heretofore. with as small an old
fashioned navy as possible; and the next best
was the fact, that England, as soon as war :
stern alarm reached Albion's shores, COM
menced the construction of a dozen frst-class
war steamers. None of the ordinary slow sail
ing craft but powerful steamers, that could
navigate the boisterous ocean. and batter down
the seaport cities of any nation that Bull did
not happen TO fancy Work was crowded up
on the vessels by our respectable PARENT, until
the Merrimac returned from behind Cranev
Island, to attack our feet in Hampton Roads
Her iron clad sides rendered her impenetrable
to the old-fashioned shot of our feet, and her
iron ram sunk vessels as rapidly as it could be
brought against them. Her first DAYS per-
formance destroyed two of our frigates, when
she retired for the eyening. Coming forth the
following morning 10 participate in the job of
sinking of the balance of our feet, taking For
tress Monroe, Baltimore and Washington CITY.
she encountered the Monitor, and retired after
few hours engagement in a sinking condition,
from which partial recovery was vouchsafed.
but fit Of melancholy supervened which
resulted in suicide
When the particulars Of this memorable en-
gagement had reached England, up went Mr.
Bulls horns, with more surprise than was ever
exhibited by wild steer when surprised in a
neighboring corn-feld. "'Old hup old hup.'
roared the now thoroughly amazed John Bull.
" Hits no use building a dozen wooden sided
war steamers. The neutrality of such craft is
a little too strict for our purposes, if not for
our professions" And so it was of no use
/ The main strength and awkwardness of Eng
land was no longer available in bullyragging
the world, and in domineering the seas. A
ragged and poverty stricken rebellion, in less
than one year, had extemporzed navy capa-
bic of destroying the entire navy of Great
Britain, and yet the rebel invention had been
sunk by battery of two guns brought to bear
upon it by the Government of the United
States.
/ OF the 149 available first class war ships, to
which England, in view of the American diff
culties, was adding dozen new war steamers,
were rendered wholly useless, with the excep-
/ tions of two, the Warrior and Ironsides and
ent state, their sides only being covered with
1 iron of inadequate thickness, through which a
/ l70 pound shot, such as used by the Monitor,
would crash with the ease OF rifle bullet
through box of clay pipes.
/ What shall we do, now ?" is the question
propounded to himself by this modern hippo
centaur and the answer comes from the Eng
lish press that, it is a question of such solemn
import as even England, iO all her mGmentOuS
history, has rarely had TO decide upon" They
acknowledge themselves without war fleet.
They see their boasted supremacy of the
seas pass from their grasp. In their trepi-
daton and dismay, they exelaim: =. We must
act, and act instantly. There's no time now
for any more scientific experiments or for
red tape to be indulged with its usual hesta-
tions and mental difficulties We shall be out
stripped. to a certainty by America, and,
possibly, by France, if we do not move at
once" Their press demand that the construc-
tion of sea board fortifcations cease that iron
covered batleships, with towers and eupoas,
be built, that they make an Ericsson of one
Capt. Coles, and hereafter offer attention and
reward to men of geniuSl Magnificent, gene
rous and appreciative John Bull. How un-
easily sits the yoke on their untamed neckS.-
Their naval wealth and supremacy of the seas,
disappeared in the smoke of the engagement
between the Monitor and Merrimac. Let our
unfortunate and bankrupt parent be of good
cheer. A maintenance of the strict neutrality
proclaimed, may save him from humiliation
greater than that Of hereafter acknow lodging
the name of the firm to be that of Jonathan &
Father.
REPUBLICAN SEE sAwING.-The Republicans
of California lately essaycd national airs on their
harp of a thousand strings" but Wade,
Cameron, Chandler, Sergeant, Phelps Love.
JOY x Co, have brought them up as suddenly
as the lariat Of native raequero checks the
impetuosity of an uuruly mule As the Re-
publican leaders at Washington have broken
the constitutional borr, their party. in Califor-
MIA, may as well hang up their Union fiddle
They have uiol-ated laws enough.
A REPUBLICAN exchange says that its