The Old And The New

Powerful aud large as are the greatest of modern Qnited States vvarships, tbey are all of luw stature coinpared vvith the towsring strnctnres of CO or 70 years ago. The United States steamship Pennsylvaina, built about 1828 and Bupposed at the time to be one of the largest warafaips ever launehed, was 220 feet long and 5S broad. She carried 220 gnns and towered aloft with five decks. Her couiplement of men was 1,400