Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-07-24

and that the army OF the POTOMAC and the army oil
Virginia" should act in concert To enable this TO be
DONE il asserted that Gen. Haleck will be put in com
mand, with the understanding that he will remain in
Wishing on.
THE TRLEoEs OF TIE NORTH.
Among the last acts of Congress was the one author.
Ing the issue Of postage and other government stamps
as currency. The act goes into operation tie lst OF
August. The New York World (Republican) strongly
condemns the act authorizing the issue Of this currency
aud Gays:
Mr. Chase has thus the exclusive honor of being the
first financial agent Of any government that ever ven
ured TO ssue legal money OF the denomination
Of tone cent" This bill the final cToWniOg act Of in
sanity that consummates this iniqutous paper money
system oil Mr. Chase.
Too much paper money has caused gold to advance 10
nineteen per cent premium, or rather has reduced the
value Of Mr.. Ohases legal tender dollar to eighy-ohe
cents and Mr. Ohase's remedy for this is like unto that
Of Rhoboam for the evil OF the children Of lsrae-he
causes them by increasing them he decreases our paper
money by adding about forty to sixty millions OF dollars
in this proposed supply Of postage stamps
Gold s at nineteen psr cent premium from the use oil
absut $40 900 600 legal tender notes. What then, will
be- lis price when the politicians and SPECTATORS paper
scheme Is carried out TO iLs full 6xentY Any one can
make the calculation.
The injury 10 commerce from this act 70 ncalculable.
The discount OF nineteen per cent every daily and
gain this per centage OF nineteen per cent on all they
buy from us and We lose IT, The paper system OF NJ
Chase is sRpping the ytals OF the people, and must end
in national bankruptcy and ruin, unless Mr.. Chase Il
stopped very his headlong to destruction
The poor will become poorer and the rich richer owing
TO Mr. Ohase paper system and the interests Of the
millions and labourng classes will be sacrificed to those
tf the rich and favored few.
In DETEcTs / THE MONITOR AND GALrsA.
The Scientific American has received letter from an
officer on board the Monitor from which publishes the
following extracts: g. ...-
The present hot weather Is making apparent some Of
the defects OF our vessel The principal is the want
of sufc ient ventilation. It supposed that the air
forced into the engine room taken in under the floors
and admitted by Of registers into different parts
of the vessel would be sufficient but it does not prove
TO be so. As long the weather cool was well
enough but as sooE hot weather came on We found
that the air in its passage through the re room where
the thermometer ranges from 1870 deg. TO l40 deg be-
comes heated The galley, If you remember is in tie
fire ROOM Just behind the boilers consequently the
smoke gas and III Iyia arising from our culinary OPERA
tons Ringe with the current OF heated air from the hire
room and give Il additional stencil from the bge water
a. il passes under the lor OF the vessel before get
| il for venlating purposes.
But Il is with the deck lights and matches closed, in
an action, that We experience the greatest Of a
pure wholeso atmosphere and more perfect venti'
aton The draught at such time what little there s
is upward through the turret which forms sort oil
chimney for carrying of the noIious gases from below,
40 that the gunners therein, whose abors severe,
inhAle the air that has not only taken the route have
described but has been deprived OF nearly all its oxygen
BY passing through nearly forty pairs Of lungs on the
b.rthdeck b.fore reaching them. All on board suffered
severely from this in our late fight with the Rich
mond batteries
Again we find that the pilothouse Is in the wrong
place as prevents the boat from being fought head
which is her best position her eide and all that
oortion of her ait the turret would be much better pro-
t,Jed
We find, too that our guns cannot be fred aft over
the smoke matches without endangerng the boilers This
would suggest the eXpediency oil having but one open
ing in the deck from the furnaces which would allow the
| guns to be trained further aft.
The ports do not allow OF sufficient elevation only
degrees.
exist, vii be remedied, told, In the new vessels now
building.
The severest blow we have yet received the turrei
was at Fort Darling L. from solid ten inch shot
| fred from q very heavy charge OF powder from dis
lance of about Ell ht hundred yards IL struck the tur
very nearly perpendicular with s side, making an
ndentation of threosnda quarter inches but withou!
any visible fracture of the plates On the inside OPP
posite the indeHadon the plates were somewhat frao
tured.
The iron clad Gslena severely handled in this fight
the fire from the batteries beng mostly concentrated
upon her finding that their shOts penetrating her
sides positive that any shot passed entirely
through both Sides but where ten inch shot had
gone through her portquarer, where her plating Is two
and half inches thick with six inches Of wood bIcking
and after passing her gun deck had gone through
the wood backing the sTsrbosrd quarter and crowded
| Uff the iron plating.
Shells penetrated her side where It was Of the thick
ness have stated above and exploded on her gun-deek
making terrible hasOc am ag her rrW 10 two or three
PLACES where her spardeck struck by Icochet shot
the entire substance II the deck both wood and iroD
for the distance OF three feet and the width of the shot,
was seooped out leaving clear opening through 10 te
Space below. Tnis deck, however, is ndcucusy light,
being made of tWoirch plank covered with two inch
iron plates As far as resistance shot is concerned,
she is d miser able failure.