New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-16
FARRAGUT,s VICTORY.

Admiral FARRAGUT'S splendid acnleVemcn'
at Mobile together with the Now Orleans nara
tiyes, clear up some points which the Rebel des'
patches LEFT doubtful. Not this war nor any
other affords q parallel to the action OF the oth
August, nor has any other naval engagement
done SO much to unsettle still further the ques'
ton for the last three years at issue, touching
wooden and iron clad vessels of war.
Fanagut's feet consisted of four Monitors and
fourteen wooden vessels. The remarkable
phases Of the action are:
/. He engaged Fort Morgan in broad day
| light. There was no effort to run by under
cover Of darkness.
The Admiral formed his line Of battle at sun.
rise, four Monitors leading, wooden ships coupled
closely following.
III. The ,oooden ships silenced the fort. 1t
does not appear that the fire from the Monitors
had any considerable effect. Their eight guns
capable of being discharged about once in fifteen
minutes, could no nothing against the tremen'
dous armament of Fort Morgan-stated at lac
heavy guns. But Admiral Farragut took his
ships of wood close in under Fort Morgan, and
with broadsides Of grape and canister drove the
Rebels from their guns-and 30 steamed past
little hurt Such tactics, and such herosm a.
it required to put them in force. are beyond
praise. o., .-.
1t is idle to talk Of anmor. plating-more thar
idle to eulogize numbering two-gun monitors
when the brosdsides Of wooden ships are made
by the genius and courage of one man, 10 dt
such work as this.
The wooden ships defeated and sunk the rob
ell iron-clad feet. Rebel papers excuse their de-
feat by the overpOwering strength OF Admiral
Farragut's force That will do for ater the
fight. Before 1t, the ram Tennessee and her
consorts-all amor plated-were heralded in
vincible. 1t is clear enough they were an
oyermstch for the four Monitors-Or three, il
You please--the Tecumseh having been sunk by
a torpedo before getting into the fight. Nothing
could be more gallant than the way the Moni
tors were taken into action, nor do any officer
deserve more credit than theirs. But the Ten
nessee was beaten by the assault Of the Lacka
wanna, the Monongahela and the Hartford-th'
shock and the broadside Of the latter, Far
ragut's own ship, finally bringing down her flag
} The helpless clumsiness of the Monitors was I'M
happily illustrated in the collision between the
Hartford and the Mctacomet-the latter run.
ming almost at full speed into the Hartford,
spite of all efforts to prevent It, and the
Admiral had the modification Of seeing biz
flagship, almost unhurt by the rebel fire, roduc.
ed to wreck by the unmanageabuity of one o.
Mr.. Ericsson's machines.
We shall get later news in a day or two. The
arrival yesterday brought nothing 20 late as had
come before through Rebel channels. There is
no exact information as to the position OF the
cooperating land forces. They are said t.
have invested and caused the surrender of Fort
Gaines on Dsuphine Island; but while there il
no doubt of tho taking Of the fort, 1t Is little
uncertain how much the army had to do with
the capture. Rebel accounts said the surrender
was to the naval force.