Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — A War Time Relie. [ARTICLE]

A War Time Relie.

A rolio of tho war between the States is now on tho dry dock, receiving such minor repairs and cleaning as may be necessary to commission her for harbor defence. This was tho second Monitor over built, and the record of her usefulness and her hard service may be seen in tho shot dents of tho turrets. Those are painted in n color different to that of the surrounding Iron, in order to emphasize their story; and they serve as an objectlesson to show that, after all, when compared with our days, how innocuous were the boasted shot and shell of tho re- 1 bullion. Of course it dose not make much difference whether a giant is killed by u toothpick or hoisted with a petard; he is dead all the same, and worms will eat him; but wo were proud, and with good reason, of those big smooth-bores and of their charges in those parlous days. Then tho theory was that for overy ten pounds of shot one pound of powder was needed, u UO-pounder being fired with nine pounds of powder;,to-day we have for ouch pound of powder two pounds of shot, tho 10-inch guns of tho Miantonotnoh, tho Nuntuokot’s neighbor, using 250 pounds of powder to drive tho 500 pound projeotne. Tho Nantucket has also a sentimental interest; for when the great Ericsson lay in state on hor decks in the harbor of New York, she was the immediate representative of what his genius had evoked to save the country in a time of porii, for tho original Monitor went down one dismal day off our treacherous coast, and left ns the second product of her wonderful type the little coast-defender which now lies half hidden within the walls of the dry-dook.—[Har-per’s Weekly.