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THE MONITOR.
ssIcs,aons Historic Ironclad and It's Trip
 to Hampton Roads.


 4iee,aon's Historic Ironclad and It's Trip
 to Hampton Roads.
 Ihe Monitor had been formally com ni stoned on Feb. 25, 1862. under com. naud of Lieutenant John L. Worden, J. $. N Twelve officers and 45 enlist ed mon comprised her personnel. Chief Engineer A. O. Sinners, the superin- tandent of construction, went to sea in the vessel to observe her performance and give the officers tho benefit of his knowledge. Eo was, as stated by Colo nel " c. Church in his Life of John Ericsson, the only man on board who thoroughly understood the eharacterig- tics of the vessel. ''
 The voyage to Hampton Roads was eYen6fal, and almost ended the career of tho Monitor, aud with it the fate of irouclads for an indefinite time. Rough weather was encountered, and water broke over the smoke and blower trunks, nearly putting out tho fires and stopping the pumps from lack Of steam for four or five hours on one occasion. Loss by laundering was imminent at this time, because of the great quantity of water that got into the vessel under the base of tho turret and through the hawse pipes. The blowers stopped because the belts got wet and the engine and fire- rooms filled with noxious gas from the fires and had to be abandoned. h try ing to remedy this trouble the chief en- gineer, Mr. Newton, md his assistants were overcome by the gas and were car Eied to the top of the tarret, where they revived, though they were thought dead when dragged cut o4 the engine room. Trouble and danger also resulted from the wheel ropes jumping off the steer ing wheel and becoming damned.
 After two days of toll and peril the Monitor escaped from the dangers of the sea into the presence of & new eno- my. Late in the afternoon of March 8 she passed in at the oapes of Chesapeake, and from the sound of shotted guns knew that her time for action had come thus early in her career. Tho Merrimac was abroad that very afternoon, and wreck and destruction fouled her wake A rude improvised ironclad herself, she marked Q new era in naval warfare, and before her lay large fleet of supposedly formidable ships of war as helpless as flock of sheep assailed by wolf
 Night fell before the Monitor came up to the seemingly doomed Union fleet in Hampton Roads. The Merrimac had glutted her thirst for blood for tho day and was at anchor and at rest, but in her silence in presence of the ships that she meant to attack in the morning she stood for all that men understand by tho dominion of the seas Lighted by the burning wreck of the frigate Con- gress, the Monitor moved mp toward Newport News and anchored near the stranded Minnesota, upon which vessel, 1t was certain, tho first blow of the morrow would fall.
 From either a historical or a theat rical point of view the stage settings were now complete With the night the curtain had fallen upon the last of a long series of glorious deeds, performed under an order of soamanship or sea tactics that had already long passed it's meridian, but which for romance and ohivalry exoelled any that had preceded it, and, it must be admitted, eXoelled that which was now to rudely supplant it. A new type Of sea warrior and new type of warship were about to ap- pear upon the waters. The engineer E machine of John Ericsson was to face the fabric that represented the engineera ing ingenuity of the American south, and the result of tho encounter would inflict fright upon the romance of the sea and transform the masted navies of the world into useless relics in a day. r. NJ. Bonnet, U. $. N, in Cassier's Magazine.
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