The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-05-28

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ANOTHER :. ,BROADSIDE FROM
ja 4slat2 5.~3;- TRAIN :a4n:.,x: u. ~. !
~. Mr.. Train has been firing off anoth-.
er broadside in London. !, He thus
touches upon the superiority Of Amer.
ican iron clad boats with gentle
hands snt :n<Tasi - Ts{4GHt2sYG - !
III <sThe Monitor had two guns, the
Mcrrimac ten; the Monitor had fifty
men, the merrimac. Ave hundred, tie
Monitor is not twelve, hundred tons
burthen, the Warrior. five thousand; !;
the Monitor draws but eight feet, the
Warrior twenty eight 3 the Monitor
cost fifty thousand ponds, the Warri-
or five hundred thousand. ~ 2$'.i7 ""@
i: Tire keel of the Monitor was laid in
the middle Of October, she was launch
ed ii. the middle of' January, and be-
fore the ,mi,l,1le Of march, edemonstra-
ted; a principal that has rendered value
less a hundred navies and athousani1 a
line-ofhattle ships. The Warrior was
two years in building. The wooden
wallis of England are buried with
Campbell, who in poetry made their
name immortal; and Tennyson, l. trust
is already atswork on the iron sides OF
England, for Britannia does not need
Bull-works since the Monitor has rem
dered unsafe her March upon the deep.
The Monitor has introduced new
epoch in naval history; already the
French Minister has received plans
from our Secretary of the Navy; al
ready the Russian legation has got the
models, and Lord Lyons has sent Lord
John Russell plans for the Admiralty.
GU see that America is generous
we will not only send you the plans,
but the men to make the steamers, as
they did to make the Enfield rifles.
Who wonders at the establishment
OF the Times. How anxious Napols-
on must be to get to work, for the
Monitor could steer into Cherbeurg
and sink the navy Of France; for can
non balls rattle off her bomb-proof
deck like MINES off the side of rhi-
nocerous, or buck shot off the corrug.
ated back OF an alligator. The frs,
naval power Of to-day is America
Our navy consists of the Monitor, but
we have voted five millions sterling to
build hundred more during tie mex
SIX months, some of which are to &C
like Stevens battery, fifteen miles an
hour, and to throw Rodman shot
some one writes TO Laird Ching
half a ton. Do you know why yo,
crnnot fi'e over hundred pound sl.o
without bursting your Whitworth
and yohr Armstrong;? Let me tel
you secret-as you know l bear En-
gland the best goodwill. It is becaus'
you have not learned the art of gun
powder; you have been spending you
time on shot and shell and cannon, am
|, armed plates, but you still use the OLE
fashioned small grained powder vhicl
has made the armstrong gun a failure
! (by the bye, as your Government ha
} the monopoly of that gun, will some q
yon b~ kind enough to tell me wher
the Mrrrinac got her two Armstrong
from? y
Yes! you are not awake to the us
OF powder. When Dupont was buy
ing up the saltpetre, he seemed aston
ished at seeing large guns loaded wit
small-grained powder. Your Wa
, Department should konw that duri,,
3 this war all our large guns were loat
: ed with kind of gunpowder an inc
J cube in size, which gives new powe
D to the projectile--a fact which you
E Admiralty should have made use {
Q long before this. This is the age
:. Monitors and gunpowder! Have yo
2 not noticed Nelson's animated appea
:. ance since the recent naval battle
: Odhge me by standing 4 minute o
the steps Of the Hotel du Morley, an
contemplate his manly attitude bot
in peace and war. How surprise
old Napier would have been could h
y have had one Of the reserved seats
e the late trial Of armor. clad bait
!, ships.
Why! the Monitor could have stean
;, ed through his fleet in the Baltic
Z sinking his men-of-war right and le
i as the Merrimac did the Cumberlan
u and the Congress steamed into Gro
f stadt-sunk the Russian squadron
fiup the Neva and asked the Empero
k in his winter palace for small tribu
d # he preferred it to the destruction
h hi< capitol! Nay more the MONT,
d nnihgt have paid her respects to Du
Il das in the Black Sea, and SWEPT ava
0 the Agamsmnons and Napoleous Il
e Third of the allied fleet like 80 mar
l. wooden houses; run into Sebastope
l. sunk the Twelve Apostles, .mashe
!. Fort Constantine, aud made Menschi
l. off on bended knees beg for the safe
of Sebastopol! OF such, gentleme
is the Monitor. You must wipe {
e 1.-THE old score and commence ane,
r. You have no navy now. Suppo
n both of us go to building Monitors,
$. that in 1888 we can start off on a ,
.rIratical, fillibustering expedition ov
!. the world together, instead Of 20
,e| going alone - formerly