Why The Kearsarge Won

Ships ana regimenté are what their oíficei-s m.-ike thein. It -was the good fortune oí tbe Kearsarge to be commanded in the fight which made her name inmortal, by one oí the best offlcers that ever trad a quarterdeck ,the late Admiral (the Captain) John Ancrum Winslow, and all his subordínales wcre wortliy ot' him. Sueh oíficeans can convert poor material into a good crew ; but the seaiiicii of the Kearsarge were of the best iiai-dy j-oung New Englanders, full ol fight and knowing what they were fighting for. Admiral Winslow was so modest a man that íew of all his acquaintances realized froni anythmg he had ever said that the great fight had been all thought out by him in advanoe ; that he fougïu it fram beginning to finish, hanging to his antagonist and seeing that every blow counted. Yet such was the fact, and the destruetion of the Alabama was Jiot the result of aohaiu-e hit, but of the operation of a carefully fonmed plan, steadily worked out