Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-10-01
.AsHTABULA, o.; SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER l. 1864

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Of impenetfabls greso,l lying like 8 ricl
emerald ina setting Of granite, upon, The
bosom Of the mountain. But. yoc casionaily
, the noon day sun darts through II verti
catray which penetrates TO its very bot
tom and shows every. cob6gnfa ton. of The
vsried bi6teriot lIS feite at that moment
that ray had dsr.ed down TO the bottom
of bfabanf Il Lihcoinsp heart, and that
could see the whole II seem ed 10 me o.
beAutifnI'Ss that emerald pool, audLas pure.
I have never forgotten that glimpse.
Wbenthel strange revocation came Of the
most rational aud reasonable pfoclamatiou
Of FremoatAotke slaves Of tho rebels shall
be set feel remembered that hearty
Amen and sti6ed ny fisfhg spprehensions
I rennembered II ID those days when Nc.
Clellan, heto.like, was fddine on James
River, and Pope was being routed before
Washington, and the report came that
prominent Cabinet minister had boasted
Z ,hht be had iosncceeded 10 preventing the
issue ofthe Emancipation Proclamation,
said, Abtabam Liucoln will prove true yet,
hnd he has, God bless MIN, hephas. ioSlow.
if you please, but true. Uuimpassonsd, il
Byou please, but tyae9d Jocose, itfifliHg, if
soo1 please, but true Reiuctant TO patt
with ubw or,hy oflciul advisers, but true
hmsef-true as steel could wish him less
a man of facts, and more o. inanyo of ideas.
could, wish him mere stern and more Wig
orous. Every man has bis faults. Roi
still say, Amen 10 abraham L,,ieoin. NY
can we do 'better, any OF us,
and aIl OF us, than to sa ~ Amen to A5raham
Lincoln, Till abe Lakes shall echo il to the
Gulf, aud the eastern to the western sea
b' Rev. John nP. Gaitiuer, In the Independent
submarine wsrfare- 4 New Torpedo Boat.
s7a From The New York Herald, we obtain
the following interesting information rela-
tivesto a torpedo boat Just launched :''i2i
ad She is seventy five feet in length, twenty
feet beam, and seven feet hold, and sub
stantialy built She sits low in the water,
and only 3 objects are visible above decks
wiz 8; plothouse smoke taik and ventcla.
Tor. These only show a lew-inches at the
most. These objects are entirely shot
proof, and their openings are pretec.
tVO tuC tDOob cCGutC Il uC CUStHC
has force enough ioowork her Through the
watepat twelve miles an hourXis tgR Gsm
as Let. us suppose that an enemy's flee.
were bockading our rha"bor, and we2were
iD possession of one or lhore oft hese torpe-
do vessels l.les ags slgisd 1o 9aii 81 BE-
Twelve men. including the engineer, and
officers, man Dihe VESSEL Thei steam is
raised, and under the cover of night she
steams out upon her mission GAS she
advances towards her victim torpedo,
varying insita charge from sixty to two
hundred pounds ofpowder.. is placed in a
baskel.formed contrivance, which is secur-
ed, ito q long rod. The torpedo is capped,
and lhe'hammer which is1to explode it is
scared, and, every thug being in readiness,
the large working boxis closed, The gate a.
the bow of the vessel isiraised J; the water
then rushes in until it is filled.--The ma
chine is now set 10. notion, and a long iron
arm carries The basket containing the ator.
pedo out from the vessel, and, closing up
TO, the enemy, by means ofla rod within
! this arm, ,tbe torpedo is released from its
receptacle and is deposited in the wafer ein
just such a position as allows it to float up
against the bottom Of the vessel int ended
TO Le destroyed. 4 Ibe machinery stillGkeeps
volyinggand tbeA same motion which
caused the arm 10 run, out brings it back j;
the vessel in7ihe meantime backs out of the
way of the vessel intended to be sunk. aud
at the moment fixed upon, the hammer
falls. abe cap is exploded, and !. the work is
done. The arm Withdrawn inside. of the
tofpedo craft, and the ibaske, is agair
charged. gcbapK DO agsuigt1 ,i7g sa 81
The torpedo is also q secret affair, ye
very simple, aud with all the experiment
Smade there has never been q failure.
must certainly do its duty. LIS effect
have been veryicarefuIly noted, ami it ca,
be made 10 act just as the operator desires
We have qaites number Of vessels on haDt
which will be converted intoIiopedo cruft
in q few weeks. 1T will not oe long befor'
the mud aud wauter will fly, aud Europ'
as well as the so.called coniederncy viii
wonder at the progress of the Yaukes
mechanics. 10 i3if9 1-..7aa q - Is i.}
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