Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-26

The Yankees have an iron-elsd nearly fin.
ished which It is contended will be the "tarror
Of the ssss" when compisted. She is not in.
tsnded to operate I'D Confsderate rivers, nor 70
leave her tracks q wherever the ground is I. lit.
tie damp, but is built for ocean service. TIE
New York Times thus describes her.
From = visit to the iron-clad Dictator, living
a. The foot Of Thirteenth street, North river, We
learn that about the 2Olh of this month ssssm
viii Be got up snd her engines tested lnsH.
lie over three months. 1t is hoped, she viii u AXE
her trial trip up the Hudson river The vessel
is 3l5 feet long so feet wide, aud 225 feet d,,sp
with side sTmor Of IL inches Ct iroa, backed
mp with AZ inches Of oAk, armed with ran
271 feet long, and two heavy guns. The inte-
rier Of ths vessel is filed with busy mechanics.
The engine room, 5S by AZ feet, and II feet
high, contains the two powerful 100 inch cyin-
deTs, direct acting, vibrating, lever engines.
The main rock shafts, weighing "a tun5 each,
are in their places, and the greater part of he
valve gear is also stationed, and viii be entirely
completed this week.
TIE suction fen is already connected and
ready for steam. The main steam pipes are in,
and all the copper piping is nearly finished. The
smaller engines have been completsd some time
since; the six boilers, each weighing sbeut
seventy tons, are in their places and nearly
lnishedI situated on each side of an iron street,
nine feet wide, are ranged ths enornous boil
eIs, reaching TO the deck Of the vessel and rest
ing or the bottom in the middle of this subtyr-
rsneau street is Railroad track running throulsh
the center, by which to convey the coal into The
6fty-six furnaces lining the way
We were then guided under the turre., vvhiish
is advancing towards completion. Locking up,
we saw ihe g delieets gear, 60 called recently
ard seOrnfully BY the London TINES As in-
stsnocs Of lis delcEey, the msia spUr-whesl
Reiehs nearly tel tu8s, sud wrought irtn
pnioa weighs ton. IhsIe srs slso : pair of
heavy wrought 1Oa braces, SIX IN diameter AID
ten fest hng, and othsr things in propogtion
Tho inferior Of the turTst Is twenty ionF fest In
diameter, Of thTes parts, the iuteThal aud eKfsF,
nal being il iron plates, and between them si'e
slabs Of iFen FIVE inches thick, making in al
ltseen inches in thickness. Imnediately BE-.
low the turresis the magazine. The AT Of u q
turrst is completed.
Next to the engine room are tho seven ssale
rooms and one wand room for the twelve eogi-
nsers. They sTs comfortably, and even srtisll-
eally, fitted up with black walnut fittings berth
places, drawers, windows and COMICS. Tie
ofhesTs' qusTtsrs, a little forward the center tf
the vessel, and lighted from tbs ceiling, are conl-
Inodioass and contain At least twenty stale
Toons, ntied up IN the sane style IS the eDgl-
neeTs' quarters, but mot yet completed.
The crew, consisting not of @round- backed
JACKIE" bu. OF 6remen and coal beavers, about
one hundred in number, viii sleep in TooIa
about iifty feet long BY twenty fest wide, with
state rooms on each side. They will be accom-
mOdated with portable beds, so as to be taken
down or put Rp in two and half minutes, ami
fastened 70 the beams Of the deck Of the vessel.
y is well lighted from the deck, and leads d.
fecely into tAs engine room and machinery Of
the vessel. If the expectation of her inventoE
is at all reached, the DietstOr viii prove the tel
for Of The seas.