New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-01

The following is the condition OF shese vessels
as near as can be ascerained, stated by Commodore
Nichols:
FIRsr RATES Colorado in commission as receiving
ship New-York; needing new boilers and general re-
pairs Niagara, engines and boilers broken up nun
nartly broken up; needs 10 be rebuilt Wabash re-
ceiyinghip at Boston engines and boilers condemned
will need considerable expense to fit up
SECOND RArEs-Connccticut. rotten on the stocks.
Iowa. rotten. broken-backed and condemned Antetam'
pscd rs store-sip at League Island Delaware, made
one cruise is now rotten and condemned; was sold at
auction last fall $4,000 but the sale was not CON
frmed. Java, New-GOrk, and Pennsylvania, on the
stocks and said to be rotten susquehanna originally
sdewhee frgae but for some years beng changed TO
screw and will not be ready for sea for long time
Lancaster Tconderoga and Canandasua need extensive
repairs Congress- lately put out Of commission but re-
rorted TO be very rotten Severn, condemned "olcts
ter recevingship at Norfolk; said to be unseaworthy
THIRD kAIEs-Juniata. Iroquois, Narrarausett Kan
sas and Nyack need extensive repairs; Qnnebaug ana
Galena rebuilt and incomplete; Adams Enterprise and
Essex unfinished; Wachusett, needs boilers and eN
tensive repars Mohican and Npsc, supposed TO be re-
building: Wyoming, under repair at Washington; Ashu
eliot and Monocacy iron hull sdc-wheei steamers (dou
ble-enders now China considered unsafe or general
naval purposes.
SAILING Observation-Disclosures, on the stocks; Ohio,
rotten and unseaworhy Vermont, independence, Mace
DOMAIN Potomac 81. Lawrence, Cyane, ST. Louis Sara
toca Dale Pawnee and Relief, unseaworthy; Consutu-
ton, under extensive repairs.
MISUNDERSTANDING, C2manchc, MantonOmoh'
Monadnock and Terror rebuilding with iron hull; COos-
sns Massachusetts, and Oregon, on the STOCKS, ana Dc
leved 10 he rotten; Puritan, mover completed -
OF the aforementioned 80 Ycsst Is, II s bceNcO Eat
with tic exception OF tie incomplete so0pS ana the two
Fdc-yheel in CnuG not one c0ulc DC put lo
elective condition for war purposes under TWO IoiH'
The majority would take very much longer, ana some
could moi bc made available at all. Deductiug these %
from the whole number leaves 80 vessels from winch
number must be further deducted 20 tugs. dlspatch,
tender md special vessels sailing Stoie-,hps,
aud serviceHlc sailing vessels, leaving as Tue ti,t Fc
force OF the navy for purposes, IL Ntsaeis ana :
tOrpcdob0ats or the sery!ccdb!e sailing vessels
are In commission at present as receiving. gunhhs'
store and training vessels. Of the - effective SHIPS or
supposed 20 effective, - are iIOncatS for coast aud
bar6Or defense, and the remainder distant cruising ss
Those interested that tcre Is zeal and talent I'D The
navy among its officers which, IL brought into tCqui-
ton with the ad which liberal Congress could give,
would soon place the navy upon footing as 10 en-
Cheney with any other Capt Phelps gives as BIS OPINION
that total absence Of policy has been the hanG CI
this most important arm of he country dc'cnsc dnd IS
the true reason why the United States Is TO-DAY iar DC
hind all other nations IN its naval power ana ue pm
cpal requisite q strong naval policy 10 be adAefcd 10
through all changes OF the Administrator, Without IT,
gard 10 It's political complexion.