Year: 1870

A Reception on the Great Ship.The Monarch


as Opposed to n Monitor.


correspondent of the Baltimore american
writes as follows in that paper of yesterday
As the Phlox approached with the visiting party
on board the "blue jackets" were "piped" to the
upper deck and at given signal ascended the rope
ladders until they reached the cross yards, where
they disposed Of themselve on each lower yard
l6 on each top-sail yard and on each top-gallanT
yard-one hundred and fifty men in all were aloft.
An officer below gave them many admonitons to
'keep quiet and "cease talking" and also gave
couple of boys on the top-san yard OF the mzzen
mast very peremptory orders TO put their feet
closer together"


and little red pumes, that look precisely like shaw
ing brushes, and the marines in cloth hats with
little black pumes shat greatly resemble door knobs
and stand up about as stify, were drawn up on the
quarterback The Phlox was lashsd to the big
ship, the plank was thrown across, and General
Sherman and his party came on board, the Jand
playing three measures OF "Hail Columbia" and the
marines presenting arms The hundred and fifty
"blue jackets, in the rigging, were 'piped' down,
and the formal reception was ever.


am not well posted in the history or the arts OF
attack and defense in naval warfare but am under
the impression that the guns are at present a little
ahead; that s, no aTnor applicable to the sides of
shots Of the heavy guns that are carried by the
sells OF war; There was great trial as Shrewsbury
ness England year or two ago. IN which all the tar
gets representing the walls of ronclad ship OF the
strongest build were utterly demolished by the heavy
smOOth-bore Armstrong guns This being the fact the
the best shipOfwari is such an one which cannot be
at all, or presenting such a surface that the proec-
tiles will inevitably glance on. Applying this prin-





before which all other vessels or war must lower
their nags in humble obeisance In her exposed
sides, three hundred and fifty feet long, it would be
strange II bolt could not b9 started and shot put
through her some place near the water line In
such vast surface there must be some weak spots
In close quarters l do not think that her guns
could be sufficiently depressed TO strike the sides
of monitor at all. The turTets would be
the part exposed TO her fire. In engage
ment between the Monarch and Amphtrite, for
instance, the fight would be like that between
fierce bear and active and vicious bulldog. The
bear would stand upon his hind legs aud deliver
some heavy blows, but they would be above the
dogs head. and would not hurt him. The Amphi-
trite would direct her shot at the Monarch's ribs
near the water line; there would be no possibility
of missing the mark, and when one OF the terrible
Should the monitor nnd herself in range OF her an
tagonists guns she could whrl around as
il her fudder was pivot, and got
ou OF the way, while the Monarch would have
TO describe circle with radius Of half mile to
perform the same evolution. The average American
BOY, who has been reading up the sea lights as de-
scrlbed in the school histories, confidently believes
that two monitors, commanded respectiyelV by
the Monarch in less than thirty minutes. This is a
good honest patriotic falth even II 1t s not founded
on the most extensive information, and / rather
incline to il myself


The Monarch would have this advAntage-should
her engines become disabled, she Is sailing vessel
and could still continue the fight on the other hand
should her masts and rigging be shot away, as long
as her engines remained In working order she would
not miss them, and would only become helpless
when both masts and engines were destroyed
When the engines of the Amphitrte are disabled, she
is helpless wreck, rolling In the sea at the mercy
of the waves. The monitors are constructed on the
theory that no shot ever will reach their engines.


Nevertheless the Monarch is great ship. She
can cross the ocean, sail around the world, and
pnTsue her enemy from sea 20 sea, while the lnOnl
iprs. IKE sulen watcb-dogs, have 70 lie about tbc