The New York herald., 1863-12-19

himself pubcly dsg aced If he mad said
would h i've been the truth-and he did come. Aud
u Mages had appeared I should have ASKED him;--Did
you against Mr. Sckes because he
exposed you IN deraudng the government by having
hundred dollars overchnrged on bill or gauges which
you were sont Ne~ York 10 buv for the ship and was
not ns transaction brought by him 70 the notice OF the
captain the quarter deck and did not publicly
say that you not afraid for that sherwood had
received 10 your knowiedge, fifteen hundred dollars
just then building there, and that you thought you might
get little hundred dollars out OF these guagesf And as
ths was Just the transaction AS occurred Mr. sherwood
dd not want 70 see hae on the and 80 lie did not
como.
But let us follow this ship in the hands OF this
precious party her voyage. She struck on Flori
da Keys. and there remained eight days, beating
on tho rocks, until her armament and stores
taken o1t, aud she was got OF with
with great difficulty In this operation the ship was
"hogged and her SKIN broken between the engines and
condensers 80 that the ppes which connect the engines
with the condensers torn out OF their astenings
and the air admitted TO tho engines. Still, when the
ship hoated the engines worked in that disabled Cond
tion and she went on Finding that the engines would
not break Down, under this trial, there
thing left 70 be DONE and that to take away the oil
proYed. But even then person In the engineers do
bartment whose name will not mention, because he is
still In the service and do not wish TO sub ect him TO
the vengeance Of the Navy Department. but who be
produced when needed, used privately to smuggle oil
from the tank 10 the Journals aud 30 kept her going but
be could not be there always, by night and day, and
at last in his absence the brasses were melted with
vent heat and ran Of in great drops OIL molten metal and
the machine stopped with shrek, as II It were living
thing, reproducing Its murderers. But still the engine
did not break down, although in all probability It
should have done 80, and the ship was got to
this disabled condition and attempt the department
made have condemned and sold for old iron
Forbes offered to buy these engines be used In pri
shpfor these the best propeller engines which
now are running-and that baied the scheme 70 have
them destroyed for knew that they won't into
private ship their record would condemn him forever.
and that could not be allowed But they reported from
New Orleans that the engines could not work and the
useless and at the OF Mr. Forbes
sented to send macnnst there 10 put them in such
order as that they nigh, be brought TO New York
though warned hin aud the government that the ma
chnery badly dsorganized by the breaking of tho
ship and could only be got right in dock and where there
shops and good workmeD. When Mr. Cameron wont
there he ound as he to you mere tha1 tno conuenses
were uil of mud, OF which he took two hundred and
four buckets full out OF each one that the pumps were
all choked ard had been cut TO pieces by running
them when the packing screwed down 50 hard nat
the brass itself was melted into gobuies that there were
no tools on the ship, not even chisei 70 cM a
piece of metal with. and that he had to send
ashore for simple thing as cold chSol.
There, however, he worked with such facilities as he
could get doing such things the engine drivers OF tho
ship ought done rather such they ought not
to have made necessary 10 done until he got
into such order that they could work. bat he report
cd expressly writing and here are tho papers on the
table, that the engines could not be put in order until the
SHIP into dock, and there repaired and brought
into line. Whom ready the ship was run. aud the log
aud the report OF the Commodore are on the table, BY
which IL appears that in that disabled condition, with
the screw loose the shaft whhe condenser sucking
air till the showed only thirteen inches OF mer
curry instead OF twenty seven as 1t would have done
the engine was artisnt az II ought to be- this great
ship, section large the Persas went
knots hour burning only tto'sard pounds q
hour Now these facts Official reports, which
drew out OF the department by subpGna and which are
before you. should dare TO tell these things
my own knowledge for they great be believed
Ia question. Here turned TO lsherwoods book again,
and found that OF the ships he gives account Of very lit
to larger than the Pensacola, mono of them
reported by him to 60 seven knots and all OF them
burn than three tmies as much coal as tho Pen.
sacola hoy being in perfect order and she disabled
then asked him to maine any vessel, small or great n
the navy which could 30 seven Knots an hour on thou
pounds coal hour, and he that tho Tcon
deroga could but said that hor log was not 10 the do
parlment. Now, will undertake 70 say, gentlemen, that
The Tconderoga which Is scarcely half the size Of tho
PENSACOLA but which has nearly twice much b0ier
surface the Pensacola could seven knots an hour
with twice coal used By the Pensacola, aud have
no doubt her log will show that when produced. IL
viii astonsh tho officers Of these ships when they hear
they knots with about tons OF coal
day FOR they that knots their iull
speed and that their coal is noary three tmes ten tons
day. And to make the record OF the Pensacolas out
RACES complete, proved 70 you by sherwood him
ship Island. tho blowers by which her ar tight Gre
room was kept cool. in consequence OF which the in
tcuse heat OF . closed furnace chamber, unsuppied
by the forced circulation which airght 6rero0ms de-
pend for cooluess and BY which they Tho most
Portable OF all rer0Ofns, became insuppor table, SO that
they enabled have the assistance or tho emen
their attempt 70 destroy and put ont OF sight the engines
me % hS. shp seven Rncs vh
pounds OF coa an hour and which, when Ia order, did
turn that screw forty eight revolutions minute whereas
they only it twenty two. and yet pro-
duce immense results The history Of the Pensa-
cola diaboca than anything have read OF
the world; and It's monstrous nature has deferred
from telling except to my Estimate friends for
who should rotate 1t In ts simple atrocty as It hes been
developed before you by testimony OF
crested denying the truth Of the charges made would
be entitled to De believed because It is more probable
that any one the world should be mistaken ia his
estimate, should lie, than that such deeds those
should be perperated n the world But ago and Uriah
Hesp are realities and not the inventions OF
wrought imagination.
But you will ask, how does this "count his gains,
OF AL this vsIianyS Again, have but to appeal TO
he ex;orted from Sckes share OF the money paid to
Sckeis by the government for cuton put United
states ship and he did IL he uuder the plea OF ad
vocating MIR. Sckels plans which he then approved
But he did not tell you all OF that story all OF the
other where he has advocated other people plans
lie did not tell you that he advocated the plans OF
Sewes condenses whose OBJECT Is TO make fresh water
Tor the boilers, but which, from the drst one tried til
made fresh water, and have LETT the boilers
If there condensers, although immense
had paid for the patents lie did not tell you
that ne advocated Martins boilers, the patent for
which Is owned by Montgomery, aud mad compelled
contractors pay the wrong indeed Is OF
the sewa condenser the patent which, used
owned BY B,rnum In this sort Of business
killing sheep, when the dog once tastes blood his
appetite Is never coyed TIL the nock M killed. or the
hound is throttied-and In this fhis
rupon thus admitted by hmseif-admitted because he
knew had the proof ut hand to convict him he denied
it-has rpened into and Ia carried by rule
in tho ongneer department. They have boldly written
etters-and them and advised parties
submit 10 wronE-in contractors
pay hundred thousand dollars for advance
copies the drawings which the engines they hsvo
contracted Tor to be built aud as the contractors
know that they be much inconvenienced by these
bureaus by delays, as they perhaps have men waiting
Tor drawings they pay these extortons rather than do
worse.
And this book Of Isherwoods another sample Of the
same Of rascaty-a book teeming with fraud
which is Of no possible interest TO any man Of science
earth, except the metaphysician and moral phoso
pher engaged In defining the shadowy boundary which
separates the dark regions OF moral depravity
scarcely obscure limits Of Intellectual insanity and
whom would afford abundant material for
10 either direction This book he made the
publish for him at their cosand It very costly a.
you Sew hie he mako every engine driver the
navy buy for ten dollars apiece When no was
lcvyug tax the contractors protested against
10 some of them, saying that did not how much
money they paid him. but Ldid object 70 their vang the
public Information and poisoning the channels
through which young men coming up TO this business
will be compelled to draw their INSTRUCTIONS and you
see gentlemen, how serious ths consequence for he
boldly avows the patronage OF the Navy De-
partrnent, and says shat IL "granted permission
Tor its publication" thereby giving tbs sanction
OF our government AZ this fraud and all this igno
rance and wbclmng the minds OF unlearned and