The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

Prow Boats.-- These steam vessels, in favor of which a committee in Congress have reported, are to move with 150 horse power, and run down, or run into any thing that cleaves the waves. There will be no mistake in them. They will be more terrible than the torpedo and the steam battery put together. Nothing will be able to resist or escape them. They will outstrip the wind in swiftness, and out do the battering ram in force. They will walk into the seventy fours, and all sorts of big ships, and walk over the schooners, and all sorts of small craft. The rows of teeth of ships of war, let them show them as much as they will, let them even gnash them, will have no effect to frighten off the small but fierce and powerful, prow boats. They will not quake, nor turn pale, nor turn back:--but as a hard headed negro drives head foremost into the soft bread basket of his adversary, butting life and breath out of him at once--so these new boats, running prow onwards, will stave into the sides of the stoutest ship, causing planks timbers, and all to give away with a terrible crash and sinking the great Leviathan in less time than it could discharge itself of a single broadside.--N. Y. Transcript.