The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-11-26

a CHINESE paper fort does to one of the ar
mor-platcd forts at Spithcad or Cronstadt.
Sow rs to the thirtN-ninc wooden YES
sells. We viii dismiss them more briefly,
chnractcrziug each in the following cata-
loguc:
The Colorado. wabash, and Minnesota old fashioned
nu,il p, nle crci ir rlio- hui NO iNti Will steam
uiNu snHH- 100 hNNt 900 i"r iN"r ,'' cituns. ihcc
traneiin same a. ihcse EXCEPT ABOUT mule ~ hour
0r sp.t. ION u thO Nc.t runtan So sari ~ n'tt-
its re- murant ami r,rrertor alta cost OF 1900 per
iiotd, cine old wamnanorrl. K. own in the navy a.
to engine carrier; feeble battery Of caHron .mooth
i,nue.soc about ne rscfni forany active naval work
LIN. s,iaf. pr.olivn Pensacola Hartford ana Rich-
ni'n hut lunut 1864 ol.f sutoud tula ;stcau about
aNuols. WIN ihc usual htOc battery OF ,aN'ron
Povtatsn old paddle vessel % years Old, battery Of
Alases. cnicla, Oinana, and Plymouth, aif down In
lNh wniic oak trawe,t WORTHLESS ishEtW,Sh ,tt .
icr, condemned by ADMIRAL GoLpsRoEcueI rs no
lacSavannl lan udalsua shenando.h and M.gon.
t..Di Nuvp- nullt Ky lh lne wa 10y w
lufpos. SLOW aud fcrby armed boilers above the
va O. line nsclr's. ,, MI,
slo"rs hunt Tor hockading purposes durns tnc war :
boilers anovc yer line poor sea boats feeble arma
svaiara, new wooden vessel IN far conditions;
anne Wit the old cmt-iron .uooth nores.
lroqu.s aud w'9mn5 ou T. o . before tie l war
rn. onc aq nv, tnni.i y opl ''"oo'" ''''s
All nee. Aert nd ltnser nult loops Of 400 IONS ,
Narr gansett. aa ord soop ~ hut n6 toms huit long
before tue " lf. amt always looked COG %. tiailnrg
ai6 Of tc ednbosiso Of 80 tons bult during he war
aud Of yer, sli.nt account.
The Times also names the following
as ships (which could be prepared for sea
within a given umc:'
rcrn'ylv'ri, Trenton java, and New Yo G,,, Ga
u.s. r,n iring a. mt sdcipnii a fair mo- tal na.
niait A. Wa loh fShdl. N,s tl, now i,p rug /
sloops. most oi them nov bulldog
Nct one Of this long lit Of ships is suitn-
bly, armed, nor il one OF them capable
of meeting on equal terms ship Of a
Ike class in foreign navics. As fight
lug ships they are not worth count
ing. On what he calls their "repairs,"
SEcoR RonEsoN has spent in i've years
my millions 81 dolldrS-euough, if there
had been no stealing. TO have put the
navy IN nrst-clnss condition; whereas now
II ranks us the most worthless among all
the navies of civilized powers. Yet only
two of the great states of Europe spend
more on their naves than we do.
To sum 1t all up, the navy IA fighting
machine is M the very lowest ebb. Com
pared with the money II has cost, IL is n
| DISGRACE TO the country, aud II ought alone
to put an indclble brand on GRANTS ad-
mmistratlon. Corruption and Ignorance,
jobbery and folly have presided over the
expenditure of the fifty millions squan-
! dcrcd on its repairs alone. 1t might seem
unpairiotic to thus exhibit our poor navy
rs II is, but 1t Is not. The attaches OF every
naval power know its condition exactly
| far better than SEcoR RonEsoN knows
| anything except Madeira aud tcrrapiu.
| Even if we are only going to talk about
war. We had better refrain from braS -iug
about our navy. We only humbug our
] stlNc--uO Oti. elise.