The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-23

Hsw the Yigha - BsgarAeA IN Hrnnes.
The Faris correspondent Of the N. Y.
Tribune says
Icannot more ftly begin this letter from
Europe than with the hrst sentence Of IN
article which | read in the Semi w eekly
Tnbune Of the Eth inst: "Tbe problem
OF casing vessel in shot proof arnor, on
which the European nations have spent 50
much time and labor, without ARRIVING n
any definite solution was elucidated on
Sunday; in Hampton Roads to very con.
siderable extent." Yea, I should think
SO J; very considerable, indeed, and very
msch considered on both sides the chan
nel--let alone up the Baltic and down the
Black Sea. The affair iu Hampton Roads
10 ior the Maritime Powers OF Europe q
sensation battle. The Mernmac and
Monitor make ell the more impression on
France and England, for making 30 little
impression on each other. The shots that.
glanced harmless from the iron sides OF
either ricochetted across the Atlantic, and
have made big holeS in the English ana
French treasures. French and English
taxpayers may count on still "increased
activity in the dock-yards.' The vibra-
:tioas OF thatcannonade In Hampton Roads
the other Sunday have set a.swaying the
trembling balance of power 10 Europe -
The famous old wooden ualls, Of Eng
land totter ut its roar. In srrDofed YES.
aels tho French navy 10 already superior
to she British navy, and now, the great
struggle will be 70 keep il superior. A
struggle between the naval budgets Of the
two nations, in which the taxpayers, /. e..
the entire population Of both nations, will
be the sufferers. But the substitution. in
future naval battles in European waters, |
OF iron-clad steam batteries for sailing or
steam wooden vessels, sliminates What 10
her past glosioas naval history has been
one Vt the chisfesl dement's Of England's |
numerous victories. "Ye mariners ofl
England will be no better worth inside |
= foasing irsn tortrcss than ye artillery
men of the Imperial Guard. Sailing mas |
ten and tarrisst Of ta5s must yield to en- |
gineers and coal-dusted stokers. A mers
chant marine will no longer be the so |
necessary condition Of a Narike marine Il
and military nations but slightly mari-
time, like Russia, for example, may soon |
throw the new weight Of their iron steam
ers aud Of the metal of their batteries into
the skaken balance Of the Maritime Pow
erS.
Now that an iron sheethine and forms
Of naval architecture have been found i'm
penetnhle TO the neuest guns, the press
ing problem 10 to invent I newer irresist-
able gun which, being done, will call on
civilizations snd 0hristianisv
for Jet more rachy ydermatous iron sides.
And 20 on, in alternating graaaaiou, sil
the ideally forcible nissils. eiancins harm
less from the ideally strong armor, the
futilely hostile ships viii draw up and be
laid up in ordinary il their respective M.
tional museums, IS objects Of curiosity to
the following necessarily peaceful ages
Such naval engagement aud final xpoths.
sis Of Bsrth0id Schwartx and Tubal Cain.
will probably come OF On Millennium Eve.
which hsing like TO happen long after our
time. 1 return the present, to the do.
ines of the AeHrimac and the counter do I
ines Of ths Monitor. b assss4.
Beside IL fsnaskable resisting uuxii.
ties ofboth vessels, their other tive fsa-f