The New York herald., 1863-12-19
swear falsely. which hs Of course embraced and read

O. fnd line four that you strike out FROM the roe
apanon Column only nvs per ssS, 700 sur ss
sse GEN. mean 10 .A foSd ont that sas
more expanded ths larger per cen'ase o. the
ans on the taeore.ai OF sarrioi.e assuming I. to
be true which hat tt5'e d,ss' the more M @ you
aiioa TO proalce power
when had thus gritasd him. turn ed TO his book (page
126 and t1us read
the condensation OF steam by the tsnsmu,s
tion Of into the power developed BY Ihe engine u Is
gresul from the direct poporhon Of the power developed II
eyapo whether the be used toitho.
p'on % no derenee ofpsaioal consequence can result in
when this read to him watched his countenance
closely and so far AS could pc ceive he never bushed
or taiered. In all my experience courts JUSTICE
where thus convicted never
one before so utterly nsensoe He stood as cast in
monumental brass by my friend Mills, aud IT, like has
statue Of Jackson, he was sefpoised by the eternal
principles OF truth and justice.
But this was only the beginning and lost all further
interest Ia him, satisfied that conscience in him was
dead beyond the power OF 10 awaken it, and passed
on to the other necessary exposures of bis frauds.
You see, gentlemen that the immense gain by expan'
endure amount OF TINS sort OF loss
before compares with non expansive steam, and that
sherwood yet had heavy work before him to mako his
table agree with his introduction to it, but he found no
| trouble in doing II. He knew that 'paper would not
refuse ink" Accordingly, on line ten OF the table he
makes another grab at expansion ~ which
three times as much as be reduces under
\ this title
OF the cylinder furnish the
heat centum
OF the weight OF steam entering the cylinder 10 produce the
4 pressure
Now, in plain English this means that one.sxth OF the
steam made by the immense boilers and furnaces of
engine is first condensed in the cylinder into water
then that the cylinder and water together hot enough
reevaporate into steam which is OF course sheer non
sense But Sherwood when pressed by questions
addressed him by his Honor from the bench, in order to
give this assertion air practical reality that
less this water evaporated engine could
run hundred strokes, for would be overliowed by
water. On crcssexamnatou had this repeated thus:
4 A.. = .l,{
water not eyaporated steam could not work
one hundred strokes withou. being stopped by wsterY
When this all settled, again opened his book and
again he stood before you convcted but without quv
or. read from p 1896
Further It nearly certain that the water condemnation
due this is deposited at all upon the cylinder
baaders or as soad sapendcd IN the axe
zoe Of s s @ o S seDdn o
through II the water Of condensation due this
does not can have no eaec. in producing any further loss
comparing different oonensations whe using aean, te
and and es,aSo" sSas o. Nth ,sa S e q I sp@n,
ties that remain after onisio" Of rhat is due 10 Che production
When this was presented to him, sherwood took it
with his usual composureus as 1t Of those
misfortunes Of lie from which man is exempt-and
coutented himself with the explanation that Of these
statements was practical and the other theoretical as If
true theory were anything but generalization from the
But all these forced balances-and another which
will not take timo to revew-yet the benefits Of
sion; d-anoher had resorted conceal
that fact, which you will see by inspecting the foot
been taken at eithor end Of the line-thas is. at
twelve expansion al full stroke-ihen the figures As
would have appeared in one Of the columns, and
| the trick was TO keep 1t concealed 80 he
| sumed his unit OF comparison above the middle of
the line, and out the comparative figures each way
from IT, On one side OF this unit which s marked with
| zero, the gains by expansion are marked by cross
which in algebra that the number is to be added
and on the other side OF the unit the losses by
expansion are marked with dash, which means that
the numbers are to DO subtracted But it is every
who would wish to know the true facts about
| who understands algebra; and such would natu.
rally read this line Of numbers II they all Of
the lowest ive but when read by their true signs tho
twenty eight on side must be added to the seventeen
| shown on this table between expanded and
expanded steam-and that TOO, after defrauding
panded steam Of more thu half OF its power well estab
shed by the scientific investigations Of the world, and
shown 10 belong to by these very experiments Lake
Erie, which tortured to disprove IT, experiments
which Mr. Reeder their witness, swore ''neither
proved tended prore" anything regarding the law
OF expansion. And yet gentlemen, you have heard him
several times that there only eighteen per
cent OF possible saving to be affected by the best cuto
over no cutoff at all
Another fact came out in this case connection with
light upon them, and exposes the Secretary OF the Navy
in mcst unfortunate position to the country After oil
this immense expense had been incurred after the de-
partmen had built vast number Of steamers this
discovery and after those by their failure
the speed which they specified run had proved
the truth OF the laws they built dey-but while
untold millions yet being expended in shop OF
the country assumption that Isherwood had
the world OF scencethe department. asked and received
last winter from Congress appropriation OF twenty
thousand dollars try these experiments again. il
seems to me that the Secretary ought not thus to have
acknowledged his doubts OF the truth Of that theory
upon which he had already staked tons OF millions OF our
money and upon which he was still proceeding squan-
dermuch In that situation he should have con.
cuded, with Macbeth:-
M % en So m ss that .ou an made IN S2Sa no more
Returning were NJ tedious as 20 o'er."
But he did the next best thing, and that to so
arrange the matter that the deception might be carried
out iii turned the department and he
longer could be arragned IN Congress or before the
country ahd hs plan was well conceived
asked Isherwood the question, and no had to admit
here before you that when this appropriation made
be himself in his own handwriting wrote the order
placing that money in his hands and those Of one OF
contractors whom he nominated to assist him, In order
thai they ght bring the past acts OF the Navy Depart
that the secretary signed that order just as he wrote
IL, When he mentioned the of Horato Allen the
colleague he had chosen to assist him this lugge.
occurred to me that had heard that name before and
do remember that some years ago such person had,
like sherwood, blown himself into immense proper
tions hng the whole world with his pretences that he
| could defy the principles OF the universe, and
| Like little wanton boys who swim bladders,
| These many summers in a sea OF CORY
| But far beyond epth,
under him. aud had suddenly disappeared from the
sight of men And do recall the fact that happen
ed to be near hand when the explosion occurred
suspected Of having prcked those badders though quite
unlustly Tor they burst with their excessive pres
| But, however tnat nave Deeo, ne disappear
cd I'm now he again appears this fitting company,
again renew the battle In which be signay failed
| long ago.
| Gathering wisdom, however, from the past and from
Isher wood appears that they have concluded, with
the Scriptures that "no goeh TO war at any time
At his own cost and they have called upon the Ameri
can people furnish them with f20 900 OF our money To
| make another attempt on James Watt and Mariote.
What an exhibition this Either Il is or not estab
shed by ceytan dmonstrason, that oil the naves Of
the world and all the private steamers In existence, are
and always have been wrong, and that only Secretary
wees aud sherwood right II IL why do they take
our test this settled question AGAIN. II not
how they dared to build an eutre navy a. boldly
as they had the experience of the world and the
mon consent OF mankind In their favor And then how
they thus, the face OF the world, 10 become
their triers and 10 pronounce Judgment on their
works, by the use OF money which, were appro
pratcd anything useful appropriated 70 expose
monstrous frauds ana arrest these fatal inques.
The appropriation itself was absurd enough; for you
might well appropriate money TO build new leaning
OF Pisa IN order to refue some fool who should
deny the laws Of gravity proved by Calico from that
curious monument of architectural art but infinitely