Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-08-31
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\ Ciha Fleet.

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WAsarxoTos, Aug. 20.
There il . great stir stout the Navy
Department to day. I, is said that .
special agent Of The gover"ne't. wh"
~.s set " EngI md some time ag. TO
a.cests,n the real facts about the alleged
flung oct Of . feet :" iron-clad Co"-
fedsrats steamers At British ports. re-.
sssned to this county 10 he s,e.mer
CITY Of Baltimore, which arrived . New
York on the 24.h, and reached this city
yesterday Of e'noo". have ssccr,sined
pretty neatly tie burden Of bis ,ntelIi-
gencc, which u 10 substance - follows:
M. Mason, 10 . quiet way, IL dong
quite % mnch for the South ~ Mr.. Sli.
dell 10 Paris, ard can chow . grea, d. q
more for bis ialors than NJ. SLIDE eau.
Besides The ,srg bic evidences OF his snc-
CO ., Of ~h Oh will spesk presently, be
his received CERTAIN secret assn snc .
from the English government, aud from
the lead ny memMr- OF both Lons . OF
Parliament, which were communicated
TO TIE g. moderate 20, Z, nmen, At Rich
mod some time ago, aud which reude'
it certain thai, note itLetand,Dg al pro-
fvssiors to tie contrary, there Is = per-
feet ond rsta"d ny between t e Engirh
Frcnch g vernments on the subject Of
tue scknuwl dgment Of son,h~ru ,nde-
pendencs aud active intervention 10 w.
hs'f Of the So"th, ssd that. when thai &C.
knUwled sment or int-rveEt,on does take
plses. thvss Two pow srtul nation. will te
found to be acting IN perfect accord, 20
hst, u ws 20 10 war " tn one OF them
il consequence, 10 viii have to fight
them both and the South besldes.
There arc nov in different ports u
EngIssd and Scotland no lees than thr.
teen o the lsrge.t aod most powerful
IRON clad s,esmerr. in j # rent stages OF
completion, besides Elk tina, are now on
their wy across he OCEAN. Most. o.
TIA, IN are n, Liverpool. Two of them
a'e ~ GLASGOW, Two ut G,eenock, and
one II Dunharton OF six now q, os-
sing she ocean, two were built 1t Dun-
barton AID two vt Liverpool Or the
thirteen vessels FIRST named above. one
was launched at Liverpool some we ks
ago, aud her ma .h'nery wa being put IN
place on the 10Th mt. Sht was t.
uavs been ready for sea BY the got inet
aud ~ould sail 1t once. Her officer
aud crew we're At liverpool. The 6,s,
mate AID nearly half the crew were
.gi.n S.l.or. and 6rst-,ate seaman.
Tao other steamers were launched on
the l,t aud 81 met, and we're berg fit.
ted with Their macbiner. and o. mamsn,
dur : the fist ten days Of this month
rh. y will 10 b be ready for sea during
he fist week In September. The re-.
m.ining ten vessels will he completed
aud launched hetn,e ,be end OF August.
| have spoken Of these vessels a. e..
'ner-, WHICH they are. hut some Of
them arc rams VI the M At powe,tui d...
.rptio", aud Others rave two tutrc .
ami are furnished with guns OF Tar more
destructive p ,~er I. al s,y nov m use
!" Ame'io-. A Of ttem are iron OF
s@eI PLATED. sli hsve powerful q, ma
tuent-, AID I'll are built 30 as to nn,
"estI, seswOrthy, hut also TO eA,tl j.,
sp. ell any iron-cI.d yes eis nov fl a.,
| TIE agent Of the & ,v-r".nent referred
TO a owe is .a,d t. have a.certa,ned he.
yond al douh, The pnrposr- ard des',-
nat'"n OF til re,,cl f1.et The ak nov
on the way are to make direct to,
Z arles'on, TO raise the bio k.de and
..ge Of that c,t., md 10 i've away al
d-stro. the f,de,a al ,ron-c,sd fleet nov
At work there. TIE other Thirteen a e te
be dispatched "a eoon az ready, six ia
Ne" Y TX, four to Ph,lai.Iph,a, aud
three To B sttn. These cities are to be
Ait, cked. and the defence. 4 d all III.
90, ernment pr"pci t, and national yes
sis At each place de-tr"yed.
) ich 10 the substance OF the news
which is said to have reached the gov
eminent Ia t evening, and which la,
caused such futt.r to-day at the Navy
Department. The ne~s.w not alto
ge,her unexpected. The goyernmen,
hid already been warned BY the ., e,s
that tueh feet va beng built IN Eng
lad. But the gov. rnmeut hsd doubted
the accuracy Of the ststement. Its own
messenger, however. now confirms it,
truth. It wonld be idle 10 say that the
administration hss taken any adsquat
measures to guard against this new and
sppalli' G danger. 1t the intelligence
bought by this newspaper be correct,
he blow, when it falls, muet fall upon
us with crushing force.
Therefore it is that great p riurba.
ton has fallen upon the vene' atlc read
Of the Navy Department., wto i. lite,-
ally at his wits end. All that can BE-
done will be done bv the activ. and en-
rrg"'ic Assistant Secretary ofthe Ma y;
and. indeed, it may b. sst.iy ssid tha,,
had Capt. FIX been the real head OF the
Nav l,epar. ncnt, the barbnrs of New
| 70 k, Philadelphia, and Boston would
not nov be defeuc.l less.
THE CA PAlCsN.