Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-24
Anosioaa Improvements ia OrduanoS and
Shlp BuIldlnH.

OF vessels On ths same plan, improved as
experiences suggeais, each having two a.
teen inch guns, the whole navy Of EnglEnd
eoulf be destroyed. The heaviest guns
WhiA they possess Ia large numbers, are
one hundred FOUNDER Armstrong rihed
guns and ninety.eight FOUNDER smooth
borpk These are playthings in comparison
Win the fifteen inch smooth bore and the
tWtlye-inoh riaed mounted at Fortress
Monroe. Il Is 8 question admitting Of
many doubts whether our little Monitor
would not be q victor in q contest with the
great and bossted British frigaie Warrior.
The English have quite resently been i'm
pressed with the improvements In ordnance
made in this country, aad Il Is . source Of
modification to them that their gigantic
arssnals have turned out nothing to equal
the guns which are already in service on
this continent. A correspondent Of the
London Telegraph, writing at Washing.
ton on March 11ih, Of the combat between
the Monitor and Msrrimao, says;
HBut enc hope 1t will, ct least not be
premature to express. Il is, that the Eng
fish Government will ct once see the wis
dom Of attaching the best military or naval
engineer IN the country, and also the best
Royal artillerymen, to the British Legation
ct Washington, with q view to observing
and taxing oOgniEanoe Of all the many ex-
psriments Of this highly ingenious people
in ordnance and ship building. It is high
tine that our ignorant superciiousness
and eontemptuous indifference Of America
should cease. kore is to be learnt here than
sDyEhsrs else in the world"
Ths same writer describing the forward
movement Of Gen. MoOlellan's army, says:
Hsnch sn imposing display Of strength,
go much Of the PODp, pride and eircum-
stance Of glorious war, has rarely been
Witnessed in any nation as was yesterday
visible in Washington. From dawn Iili
dsWy eve infantry, cavalry and artillery
continued 70 pour in an unbrOken stream
across the Potomae; and if 1 should say
that old military men Who have seen camps
and armies the world over, and have
watched French troops filing up in Paris
for two hours together, confessed that they
had never witnessed such q manifestation
Of power, I should convey a very imperfect
and inadequate idea Of the Impression con-
Voye6 - al beholders, By far the most
imposing arm In the service is the arlille.
~. Il is said that Gen. MoCIellan ordered
twenty batteries, in oil one hundred and
tweRsy guns, 10 cr0ss the river. am con
6dent from what saw that this is the low
est estimate OF the field guns which yester-
day moved 10 the front On the held OF
6olferino, Louis NspOlen had one hundred
snd eighty guns in position; bUt here, iH
eoaascti0n gith only single amy, one han
drsd and tloenty 0UnI, and Of calibTs far SW-
pgior to The FfcIlsh, tOers "a melton together,
srelusive Of fhoss which d crossed long BE-
foTs; and e cannot Be pFeteHded that any
aafion on earth Is 90 strong IN artillery al this
moment az the Federal States Of America
Brass hoWi,Esrs PErrott guns, caissohs,
fumbrils, ammunition wagons, fOrges, NOV
ed forward in long and endless line"
The London Telegraph, Of March 9th,
says in sn article about the Monitor and
Msrrimse fight;
Goodbye to the wooden walls Of Old
EuQlandi Good bye to the " fighting Tenn
erairesp and "ssuOy Arethusss" Of the sea,
With their wings Of White canvas, and
4hsir ribs Of inland oak Never sgain
win their dainty prOWs plough the blue
water 10 fight the battles Of Albion. They
nay carry stores, like humble traders, or
rot ct their noorings, like hulks, but their
agatinE days are oVeri They, aud their
fellows, are as much Of out date ss Greek
trirsme or Roman galley. It is the. sge
Of ironi We must hang q coat Of mail
upon our wooden men-6fWaF, and build
our new ones Of the solid metal. Down
uust come the stately iapering mssts, snd
away must 90 ell graceful curves and lines
of beautyl Bluff and ugly bows, topsides
tumhlinE home Ike tie roof Of CATER
Giles big barn, and tie spaFs Of q bsrQue
on the hull Of 3 line-of battle ship; this is
the new order Of the day. Forests sre
rnothing nov, and mines ere everything
We must dig our new navies out Of The
bowels Of the eGrthin place Of telling them
from the green woodlands. There is an
end for good and all to the poetry Of Sea
hahtI In those to come the air must be
foul with q hundred tunnels, and the We,
far Be loaded with hundred thousand tbni
Of metal Enormous bolts Of iron will hur
tie upon enormous iron plates from iroI
guns Of sWfal dimensions. The ship
themselves viii not be ships, but meta
monsters, horrible .beaked ses-unicorns, o.
turtles floating up with death and destruc
tio1 under their impenetrable shells. AND
eli beoauss Of the fight Whish was Tough
in America ct Norfolk waters on the 81
Of March Of the present year Of grace
We must learn ell about this great en-
counter, and give up, though With q sigh
the thought Of shiI less costly or com
Ilete than the Merrimso and her antAgon
ist. Il is fortunate We have already th
baRinning Of our iron navy; We mus
forge snd rivst the rest, st sl oonVenien
speed, for We cannot surrender the emPiF
Of the sea, and the little Monitor admor
ishes rs that It must belong, for the futurt
70 the best iroaNGJtrTs