The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-06
PREPARING FOR WAR.
ururANn BUYING HORSES AND TOR
PEDOEs, BUILDING SHIPS OF
WAR, ETC.

rrondon Correspondence Of N. Y. Times.l
The arrangements for fighting are going on
with ceaseless vigor. Two army corps OF
al 600 each are ready to be dispatched at once
lsnt military authority that their equipment
ii as perfect as art and money can make 1T.
Lord Napier, Of Magdala, has been selected as
the communicating Of any expeditionary
force that may be sent out, with Sir Garnet
Wolseley az chief OF the staff. This selection
Of officers has given great satisfaction. and
The other appointments Of the Horse Guards
are evidently being made on the same
principle Of placing the best men
ID the highest positions. An army 81
10 leave Malta. The Guards have been put
an a wal. footing and other regiments are
being recruited up To their full strength. me
volunteers are Offering their services for gar
rjsm duty at home or active service ABROAD
1T Is pretty well understood that IN the event
OF war the home barracks and forts would be
lett In charge of the volunteers ana militia, 80
that all the regular troops could leave the
country. The coast guard Is being strength
ened, the local forts are, mounted with
3B-toln guns, torpedoes and torpedo boats
are distributed ut the various stations,
and the home defenses are generally be-
ing put into condition to meet serious
full investigation Of the organization and
capacity OF the army, comes to the con
ci,sion that ION the whole, the country Is,
we think, justified In assuming, now that the
purchase Of additional horses has been en-
ergetically commenced. that though chiefly a
maritime power we should yet be able TO
strike q severe and telling blow with our
army" All the war department store-ships
and many private vessels are fully employed
In conveying munitions Of war 70 and from
the ROYAL Arsenal. Additional hands are
being taken on daily ut thegovernment estab-
iishments. Close upon $1,000 artiteers, smiths,
laborers and mechanics OF all kinds are said
TO be now employed at Woolwich, and the
material Of war turned out daily is on scale
of vast magnitude.
Tie Elswick Ordnance Works ut Newcastle
on-Tyne has finished the manufacture OF 100
tpruedoes, and is said to have received orders
this new weapon might lead one almost to ex.
pect that the encounter between England and
Russia will be q torpedo fight. Telegraph
cable 500 miles in length has been purchased
of the Silvertown Telegraph Works for tor
redo connections. Great dissatisfaction ex-
Admiralty order which has just been Issued,
directing them to wear arm badges AT Chat
ham the artiticers have applied for their dis
charges rather than wear them and Ii the
order is attempted to be enforced, those at
Davenport dock-yard have resol ved to give
similar notice. A firm Mt Dundee has received
orders for $4,000 sand-bags, to be delivered
within three weeks. Contracts Of oil kinds
have been given out right and left, and there
Ii no doubt England will shortly be in O posi-
ton to do considerable mischief.
Whether England would venture upon the
enterprise Of turning Russia out OF Constan-
tinopfe single handed is a mooted question.
In her present humor she L. equal to any I'M
dertaking, however Quixotic, and I don't
think at any time she would consider the task
OF freeing the Ottomite city from Russia toe
big for her.