Daily National Intelligencer

A writer in the Democratic Press objects to the increase of the Navy by building Seventy-Fours and Frigates, rather than sloops of war and smaller vessels, which are represented as of great efficiency for service. This is a subject we are not much acquainted with, but enough so to understand and repeat the reasons which we have heard given for this course. The description of vessels, so much recommended, can be built in a few months, or even weeks, the timber being at hand. To procure the timber, and build vessels of the largest class, requires almost as many years. Our Navy is sufficiently large for present purposes, and it is increased with prospective views. It is because the foundation of a fabric is laid before its superstructure, that large vessels are built at leisure, whilst smaller vessels can be easily multiplied when occasion calls for their employment.