The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-05-02
Aeother ninst from Train--
England No Lonaer Mistress
OF the scns--'rhe Monitor.

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half Of his ywn county md is irsliu.
tons. Thc fearless manner in which, on
all occasions, Mr.. Tram has berrdcd the
lior in his den, aud defend Il tins countr,
against tho selfsh designs ol naughty
Hogland, have cndcarcd him more and
more to his country. The happy faculty
possessed by Mr. TRAM, of tollingh great
deal Of truth in very lew words, and az
The same time sricing them to The relish
OF the popular palate, makes his speeches
readable and entertaining beyond meas.
urc. From the last TAN had with his
Eaglish cousins by Mr.. TRAIN, we extract
the following spicy paragraphs;
The M,rr nae has proved herself not q
sale vessel 10 lay around loose, suppose
the Monitor had have been forly-cight
hours sooner, she would have been In
Washington. --lUriy-c ight hours lator the
M M'rrimao might have been there insteud
Give her csnls aud munitions ofwar, what
prevented her from running down ihc
coasts aud smashing up cur lcclsl Who
wonders that New York was frightened
NJ doubt We would have found means a.
have stopped her progress, bat not bcfnrc
some magazine Of mischief had exploded
---herr is my point. Tho Wurror will
destroy any half.dpzen wooden mcn-oi-
war hhJat. And in Thirty minutes the
Mcrrimac would destroy the Warrior
hence the NJ rrimsc alone could destroy
the British Navy, while The Monitor gave
the Mcrrimac one crack between the eyes
and sent hrr back to her corner. | saw
the Warrior VISA failure when | found
that shc could only 20 into Portsmouth
for Goals fifteen days IN month.
The Otlundos, the Emcralds, and The
Warrior arr all too deep FOR any port IN
American wat.rs No creator event hus
happened this last three hundred years;
the locomotive was &c tructIvc t1 the
staec.coacchs; tdcgraphs made havoc Of
The lctt,r-hags; the revolver proved it4uli
n lullb CODED coli smong horsc.pistos-
Thr Eni ldr lnuyhcd al the old brown
Be and the nnt.loci, smouih.bor ofthc
carly wars, 80 The Monitor la naval war
fare is what Mr.. Peabody is In clarity
You had better tell Laird 60 stop the De
faucc a, Drkenhcod, and Bell 10 stop
vast hcnying on the other iron.s lad bat.
tcv. Telegraph 70 Portsmouth, O. dis.
chargo the workmcn ON the lortihcutions
aud order the Admiralty 10 turn your en-
tire navy into cotton ships, coal ships aud
lrmbermen, Cor half dozou Monitors
wonld destroy as many Empircs.
Some gon,lcm u doubts II, but her re
cent action cuuv.nccs me that tho Moni-
tor, having proved herself bcttor sea-
b at In the terrible gallo on the 7lh than
the WARRIOR did in the Bay OF Biscav.
Rnu1I gf Iftft tsI II.
Liverpool under tribute, knock down your
Notifications bt Spithcud, destroy your
h'et at Portsmouth, steam up the Thames
for you know how opposed England h to
sinking vessels IN The r'vcr--tnd plac,
London at her mercy, with her turrci re-.
volyers pointed AZ the ll4uso of parlia-
mcni, while Lord palmerston was discus.
sing the prorrioiy OF spending twcly,
million stctling en- the Notifications o
Engalnd. The Monitor has two guns.
the Merlin &c ten, the Mouitor had fty
men, the Mclr,mac five hundred; IA,
eipniior is not twelve hundred IONS bur
th'r, the Wurrior FIVE thousand; III,
VI nitcr draws hut cght feet! the War
rior twcn y-oight; thu NJ nitur cost foy
thousand pounls, tho Warri five hun
dred thousand. The keel of tho Monitor
wrs aid in the middle Of October, she was
launched In the middle Of January, and
hciorc the middle Of Mlrch demonstrated
a principal that has rendered yiluclcss q
hnrdrsd navics aud thousand lnc-ni-
bntt'c ships. The Warrior was two ycarf
IN uldiny. The wo ,don walls of Eng.
lard sro buried wi,h Clmphcll, who in
poetry made their namo immortul and
Tcnuyso trust, is already at wuri, ON
the iron sides Of England, for Britannia
docs need Buliworki since the Monitor
has rendered unsafe her March upon the
dccp. The Monitor has introduced a new
epoch innoyal history; already the French
Minister has received the plans from Our
Secretary Of Wars al raty th, Russian
legation have lot the models, ard Lord
Lyops has already sont Lord John Rus
sell plnns for the Admiralty. Yuu see
that America is generous. We will not
only send you the plans, but tho men to
make tie steamers, as we did 10 make the
Enfield rifles.
Who wonders nt tho as,onshmont of
tho Timesa How anxious Napoleon must
De to get work, for the Monitor could
" or into Chcrb lurg aud sink the navy Of
France. For cannon balls rattle oTher
bomb-proof deck like the celebrated Min
MES on the side Of a rhiuocer s, or buck.
shot on the corrugated back of an allipa-
tor, the first naval power of to-day H.
America. Our navy consists of the Moui.
tor, but we have voted i've millions stcr-
ling to build hundred more during the
next six months, some of which arc To 20,
like stevens Battery, fNeen miles an
hour, aud T. throw Rodman shot-somr
one Writes to Llird--weighin halraton.
Do you know WHY ynu cannot fire over a
hundred pound shot without bursting your
Nh'tworths aud yoUr Armstrunpsl Let
me tell you a secrtt--as You know |
bear England the best Of goodwill II Is
because you have not learned the art of
gunpowderi you have been spending yout
time ON shot and she'll, aud cannon, aud
armed plates. but ysu siill use the old,
iishloued sma llWaincd powder, which
has made the Armstrong gun failure.
(bf the by, as your Govrrnmp p4rt-t-r. I'm
monopoly ss--- mi mn WI some os ycu be
Kind enough to tell me where tho Mcrr.-
mac got her two Armstrong; fromD
Nesl you are not awake TO the use of
powder. When Dupont was here buying
np the saltpeter, he was ssionshcd al
seeing large guns s,ill loaded with small.
grained powder. Your War department;
should know that during this war all our
iarge guns were loaded with kind oi
gnnpowder an inch euho in size, which
gives new power 20 the pro iccillc--a fact
which your Admiralty SHOULD have made
use of long helore ,his. Tnis is the age
ofM1nitors and gunpowdsrl Have YOU
not motto d Nelson's animated nppcaran, 70