The New York herald., 1863-12-19

truno balance IN 20 BE- forgea nor s,lse itr,os mIde
ga tnis That unne.- assurance.
suey. No who has heard lsherwood eXaulned here
woa.a suspect hin of making false statements. Wo
have heard HIM here admit under oath that n ste m
bsat could 90 with expansion than without he
WAS In error and the navy a wrong yet when we went
to the Po,a &C river ana tired that very experiment
the FIRST oot to, and 1t showed that win SIX
huAdred pounds Of coal hour the wheels would turn
twenty revolutions minute when usug the exp IN
sion, and with seven hundred pounds ur the same
whees could only BE- turned twenty revolutions minute
without ex 1snsiGn. he still came back 10 the stand
aud without pretending 10 eSplssi or question tht TACT
he repeated the oath with VIII ch he started that no such
thing possible We have heard HIM admit that If tho
steamship America could make seven hundred revolu
tiJns OF her wheels hour then no all wreng and
the navy botcb; and yct wnen We proved more than
tina, heewhen proved the hours OF her rum and the
distances made over measured mes-all much greater
than the assumed which be swore TO be mposs
be-yet he sti adheres with brazen efrontery TO his
text as N he were the chief witness the defence
prove ab after Irish murder, aud could hope TO
defeat the eternal laws OF nature as be might have
cheated the law OF No doubt he is reliable to re
port any resu Is OF experiments which he might make
What been the result OF all this ignorance the
ships built by the navyS YOu have heard Mr. sherwood
explain that the failures have seen occasioned by
the bsh workmanship and tho poor material OF the
shps-all OF WHICH is idle pretence Mercpapts use
the same materials and the same workmen; but their
ships go when they finished and never stop till they
But the fact still remains that all OF those
sloops built the plans Of this man, have been
weeks and months at the docks Of Philadelphia New
York undergoing repairs and alterations after they first
got steam before they could 20 to sea The Junata had
her officers and crew In commission for several weeks
go frequently and at last sho put out Of commission
and her ordered to another vessel while teegram
published stating that the engine all right but
the snip leaked The Tconderoga was six weeks n New
York being altered after she waa first tried before she
went to sea; and the lackawanna broke down at the
dock and had extensive repairs before she could 60 The
ossipee reached Washington from Boston on her trial,
broken down and remained here months for repairs One
of these vesselsthe Ticondoroga-went FROM New York
to Fortress Monroe and forty hours the passage,
seven miles hour and the akawanna took thirty
six hours to run from sandy Hook to Cape Henry which
l- nj iha atn thn
to catch blockade and broke down twice in the
effort. although she was only running sixty turns min
ute and gave the chase Captain Boggs reported TO
the department about ten months ago and the osspee in
the Gulf Mexico starting as ten O'Clock IN the morning
in pursuit OF a blockade runner was overtaken and
passed at about O'Clock at night by the De Soto, an
old New York and New Orleans packet which certainly
cannot twelve knots hour but which starting five
hours later than the 0ssipee, from the
place and in the same chase,
In eight hours further than the Ossi could IN thr
and captured the prize hch the Ossipee could
overtake may be by report on file In the de-
partment mado by the captain Of the Ne Soto. on vii.
mingon the fastest bcckader now is an old New Yorkfer
ryboat And heard the commanding officer OF the Mobile
squad declare the Navy Department that schooners
would away from these United States steamers with
steamer which at least would compel them to set their
foresails.
In printed specifications issued by the department
under which these sloops built heyare required to
run nny revolutions minute at which rate they would
do as well s such vessels usually do but IN fact they 90
not to exceed sr and that speed they cannot manan
At that speed their but ton and hall miles
an hour on their average PITCH supposng they were run
ming in solid block instead OF water aud, after deduct
ing the sp" the speed does not exceed nine kaos an
hour while the lroquois ship built under the last I'D.
mnistratiou, whose engines were made in Now York on
we'll known planssuch used generally by the Eng
lish and French naviescan thirteen knots an hour
as her logs show and her sailing master Capt Mcae,
the AND ~ ali these facts have bsen we
known TO the Navy Department for year or more-are
well known to the counlry-and yet they are now build
Ing vast number Of ships Oh the same plan, to pro
duce tho Same results refusing TO listen to any one. and
utterly Ignoring their own experience OF the past the
lessons OF all the the world and the self evident
truths of science which you have heard in this
Finally however, goaded e. madness by their shocking
failures the Department s determined to have speed at
any and for that they have put out
trace for engines whose cost Is ser1 hundred and ghy
thousand dollars each engine which are to I'LL up the entire
ship below deck with boilers and machinery so that the
coal has be carried the berth here mon usually
live, and to accommodate the crew thus driven out by
building forecaste and poop decksbove to swnig ham.
m0cks And all this Is done upon the insane idea that
steam engine can be made to 60 by enormous boilers.
which, in these fill up the ship below but which will
not give speed for the plain reason that as the steam
is to be used without cutoff on this new discovery 80
much weight or boiler and coal Is needed 10 produce
the Increased quantity thus required that the load thus
produced will more than neutraze the power incident to
he steam thus wasteuly and frutlessy used and the
more boilers ship has after certain point, the slower
she goes Isherwood's idea is the Same as that OF q
elows ignorant Of horses, who proposed 20 drive
lay. "Why you cannot do that said the livery stable
nan, "yy not said the cockney, we've got a yipn
Va
engines rum whether they use the steam NOS
and In this case his vip composed OF boilers htvng
more CRATE surface burn coal than the Adratic the
Fob KEN and the America ali together. while hs ships
only about per cent Of the size OF the Adratc
lone Thus folly IS added 70 ioliy oy TINS combination
country, We shall have squandered AL our money on
lavy whose value will be less than the raw material ot
which IL Is composed and will hnd ourselves prey 70
rst naval power which chooses TO drive us on the
cean verify belvs that navy had been effective
IN the Blockade this rebellion would have been crushed
III n II they have their supplies from
abroad any OF their blockade rnnners ever pass our
ships, tney neve overtaken although none OF the
blockade that have ever did or ever Will 90
ten knots an hour with asSoad
While sherwood was writhing under the cross exami-
nation which unmaskng his vilanies his vengeiuce
got the better OF his discretion and he thought 70 sting
me by calling up the Pensacola steamer, the en-
gines which he said had built, and which had tnrned
out "compiete failure after had sent man to
New Orleans who had put them IN ''cumplete repair
heard sent to New York for the proofs which
have exhibited TO you the atrocities committed by this
man aud the Navy Department on that SNIP 10 order 10
enable him 60 with his other designs on the
navy. The Pensacola was built during the last ad
ministration experimental ship, not for the pur
pose of finding whether there was any benefit Ia ex
pansion for these books tell you no fool IN the world
doubted that TIL long since the time the Pensacola was
begun but for the purpose OF testing whether various
plans which IN successful use on side wheel engines
could be applied TO screw steamers, and among other
things whether these tight valves called single poppet
valves" could not be used instead o tie ieaky slides
now usually employed. The understanding with
the department that when the ship was
TO experiment with for IL conceded by all the
gneers Of government OF that dayand II does not
admit OF doupt-that n these plans could be made 10
work a propeller. they would vastly improve
the efficiency OF the navy Unfortunately, however, the
ship not finished ti this man came into power; and
he knew thar she completed and succeeded there
end OF his carefully prepared scheme 70 climb
into power and WELD OF this nation 10 his
own great prons so he at began TO OIL the papers
day BY day with lutte kilograms from Washington that
Chief Engineer sherwood pronounced the Pensacolas
gpes faureand all this before they had steam.
Mr.. sickes was here attending the completion OF the
engines, aud coming 20 make the final adjustments,
when al at once Mr. Sickes imprisoned BY order
from the Navy Department. board the ship and tbe
gan be given from that delectabe place that Mr.
Sckes and were raors-that we were preparing this
ship TO fall into the hands OF the rebes-and that my
well known intimacy with Mr.. Yuee, Mr.. Mallory and
other leaders rebellion accounted for the fact that
Pensacola ready Isherwood had studied the
great villains Of Shakspere for model and
mad selected Richard for his instructor In this
part his plot who whom he WAS about 10 murder the
princes in the Tower, by way OF preparing the public
mind, thus instructed Buckingham
There, at your meetest vantage OF the time,
Infer the bsstardy OF Edwards children"
And 70 he prepared for the arocious work he had
do by thus siandcring US, who had done him HARM
All this while submitted without word; for was