Show angland H show tin ln niri or S aaa potter sept 13 naval officers here and others alio leave hail to ilo with constructing find much to encourage their fai h in the american navy aud console them or what appeared to iw our bid failures in marine architect re in lie report or the latest naval which lias jaet the this report is er titled to weight aaita male by ahe our adm rala commanding tha squadrons as to torpedo boats they find these b aa rc of great va lueto blockaded boits but illy adapted to blocked ng work their machinery ia in need 0 repairs they require frequent atea uon in the matter of atter aad coal the deterioration of their machinery boon ccok away from them the speed which constituted their principal value touching larger vessels the report fays from all sides during the manoeuvres cabie com paint defective machinery the squadrons were constantly impeded in their speed aid movements by lame ducks repairs thefil lure to realize tha speed at which the ships were artt d from 10 to 17 knot has cne of the most of the manu avres alie best speed the rupert could make at the ix ang eight knots the shannon kept up nine knots ith difficulty and dropped abslem making lea the inflexible alo fell behind from a break in the engine an was teaming easily at the time under two bo ilera the other ships in act seem to have adne lery well the vessels that appeared to ravel with the and the least smoke bere iere the lilack prince built in 1881 the hercules built in 1886 and the in 1874 the hotspur northampton and active rated at 15 knots had difficulty in keeping up 10 knots every one of the fast cruisers filled to scam up to nominal speed or maintain the maximum pressure w ben it was readied alie mersey an 18 knot ship beam d at 14 knots but had to slow down for several hours to clean out her tubes the mercury w as the only cruber ia the first capable of making 16 knots for 43 hours this chip was boalt to compete with the and oher fast boata built by tha united at the close of tre war the mohawk clas failed in and tubes and alia ka coon pr broke down the archer and cossack had their boilers re before they had been oliree monha in commission are alie types for our new 2000 ton vessels but the machinery has been improved in design and durability 1 I he serpent was almot almo t constantly under repairs la port an effort was made to introduce like machinery into our practice ship for an napolia the rattlesnake class praed to be entirely too delicate for rough work in point of fact sa e the report we are in this position tre last manoeuvres were rendered abortive in lie inefficiency of our atean power whatever else the brigs out it will demonstrate ali s to a certainty that there is not an officer of of the four that feels the itasta confidence in his slip to etcar in an emergency winding up the c iticia m aion the machinery trials their admirals say that in view of the failure of the ordinary boilers at agh steam pressure inquiries aud experiments as to the practical employment of or coil high pressure be followed with increased interest our own navy department has already beun to mike trials of boilers at tle tl e instance of chief engineer melville and upon his recommend at on they will be placed in the new coast d fence vessel ATI sept 13 the national adapted a platform it declared all laws changing the time or manner of payment of the public debt since are ex post facto laws and should be repealed that all legal tend r notes now should be immediately change for ahers of a like denomination to be ie soel with the words bromwe to pay stricken from their face and that an additional amount be issued to subsidize an american merchant manre to build an american navy to erect public buildings etc antil their volume in circulation shall amount to at apost per capita of the entire population ula tion that the indications point to a greater financial panic in the near future than this or he world ever before saw unless wise and immediate provision be made for a vast amount of money to sustain the lp oples tottering confidence the convention appointed a calion al executive committee among them being A keystone Ked stone of cala alie committee is organized as follows jones chairman lee crandall district of columbia ace ilnia man T J indiana and wm secretaries IM bis Fini lings NEW YORK dept 13 franklin lane correspondent in new york of the tun francisco chronicle has pent a communication to secretary of the treasury windom getting forth that he has received seems to liim a very reliable source information that aru being brought in over the canadian border line in defiance of the exclusion law he says in bis letter it seems the smuggling in of these lias almost reached the proportions of a rei rolar business and is carried on with a high band almost under the very notes of our officials the chinese aro brought from british columbia on the canadian pacific railroad and at n abt when near the boarder are shipped at a petty station and alien carried a short distance ferried i the river and so landed on united baates tvr of charities SAN sept 13 at the national conference of charities and corrections today to day john glenn of maryland gave a statement 0 alie affairs of johns hopkins university he was followed by dr C iraln fisher of alts in an on the plea for the hopital ho pital A paper on the protection of ill treated children waa eai by stowe add alra C W Bube imai 0 stok ton cal spoke of the r cognition of the kindergarten system by the state the conference decided to hold a session at portland oregon the time to be fixed hy the committed commit tea at tha evening A G vi ar ner of nebraska Ne hraska delivered an ad upon our charities and our churches me lire ia a slum sept 13 yesterday the british were defeated by land in tha sham battle off north point at pimlico and again to the sea forces of old hoeland were repulsed repol sed and baltimore Is bate the bombardment ft as witnessed by people tte fort was commanded by colonel U 8 A the fighting force was the fort garrison of conr batteries batte rieB of the third U B artillery the was dark and threatening the british naval force was represented by the war ships yantic the ship pensacola and a number of merchant and tugs with guns aboard |