Port Tobacco Times, And Charles County Advertiser

THE GREAT SHIP AND THE WORLD'S FAIR.—The Portsmouth (Va.) Pilot, of Monday, says:

"Orders were received at this navy yard on Saturday morning, from the Navy Department, to ascertain the cost and time required for preparing the big ship Pennsylvania for the world's fair, and we understand that Com. Sloat, with that systematic promptness which ever characterises him, made up estimates, with the aid of Constructor Hart, and sent them to Washington by the return mail of the afternoon. It will, as we stated in our letter from Washington, require an expenditure of between three and four hundred thousand dollars; and while the time is too short for her to be in readiness to transport our American portion of the world's fair, at the period designated for the reception of articles, (5th March,) it is probable that she can appear on the Thames as a man of war. Let this gigantic ship go, on this occasion, with a picked crew; let them be volunteers specially for the big ship, but, of course, under the strictest naval discipline, and let them all be Americans—Cape Coders and Chesapeake bay men."