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Show llrlllsli lliinknsl llislleilrs. Nnv Votilf, Doc. 10. It was given out htro today hy war department officials that they have Just received new battery dulgna of tho llrltlili gunboat Petrol, launched during tho month of Novimler last on the great lakes, and that tho guns to bo carried by the l'ltlil wi ro sulllcleut lo destroy any United Btatea poet on tho lake Irontier. The same Is said of the Ilrlt-Uh Ilrlt-Uh gunboats Constance nnd Curlew, sister ehls of thu lYtnl, hunched scvirul moutlii ajo. |