The Keokuk

According to accouuts thus far reeeivec! the Keokuk has been sunk in the attempt on Charleston. She was the well knowu " Whitney Battery," and was the first iroti-clad vcsscl built at Now York. 'She was constructed by Romeo Undorhill, of the Dij Doek Iron Works, who h:s beeo complitneuted by the authorities on the excellence of his work. The Keokuk was a two turret ram, conceived on a principio prosented for the adoptiou of the government commission some reara since by Whitney & Kowland. Mr. Rowland, having uudertaken to build the Ericsaon ships, relinjuished his connection with Mr. Wbitnuy. The Keokuk's ram an extensión of tlio baekbono of the vessel, as it were, was composed of heavy wrought iron, It was five feet long, tbree aud ono half inc'ics thick at the frout and foot, and back tö the main huil of the ship ten feet. Tbe ui:ensions of the ship were: Length over all, 159 feet 6 inches; breadth of beam, 36 feei; denth of hold, 13 feet G inches; draught o water, 9 feet. Tht huil is built of half inch rolled platea. Her side btand at au angle of 37 degrees, which it is thought will prevent artillery from getting a square shot at them. There are 5} inches of wood on her deck, and on the huil the bars of iron alternáis for a considerable spice with layers of tirtber. - She bas three keelsons running the whole length of the veggel, aud two foro and aft bulkheads, leaving on eaeh side of the ship's length a separate space, and forraing an inner skin and two water tigbt bulkbeads, one forward and the other aft, which can be filled with wator, if advisable, to sink the ship lower down. - These can be filled iu fifteen minutos and emptied by pumps in forty minutes. - The forward bulkliead also answers anothcr putpose. If that should receive a severe wreneh the leakage would bc coiifined to that compartmeut, and would not embarrass the draw or endauger the ship. The ship shows an ordinary trim of 15 or 16 inches abov the water. The rudder and propeller are guanled by an overhanging struc;ture,and a wrought irou on tlie after parfc. Tlie vessel has capacity in her magazines for 200 11-iuch shot, 150 11-inJh shell, shrapuell and uauister, small ainniuJitiou and powdor in proportum. Her aruiaroent consista of two 1 1 -inch guns, there btiiig only one in each turret. Tlie turrets are G 1-2 incbes of iron, or 5 1-2 less than the PaSsaic or Montauk. However, the inclination, the builder believes, will make thoni stront enougli. Tho turrets on t bis vessol do not revolve at all. They roinain stationary, but the gans itisido niovo to the desired point. ïhero are three of these ports iu eaeh turret. The turr(?ts nroabout tYeuty-t!iroe feet in diameter at tlie base, nnd fourtecn feet at the top, and stand eight feet high. Tho Kcolcuk nade thrue trial trips here, the last proving tliat her machinery was first rate. She went to Fortress Mourou, left there on February 22, nd arrived at Hilton Mead in five day afterwards, her inventor being on board. face of national and Stato patronage, and n spite of the ory of " copperhead" and " traitor." If the Demócrata of Washtenaw remain true to themselves and the great priueiples which have ever been the boast of the party, il will be ü Jong timé before we Bhall have to record any more 600 "." 800 Repubücan majoritios.