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and weighing 00 tODS ; 2 cylinders, 20 inches in diameter and 12 feet stroke; wheels. 41 feet in diameter, 10 feet surface, and 8 feat 6 inches in dip. 8he has 32 farnances, with 20,-000 superficial feet of fire surface. The estimated power of her engiaes is equal to that of 2,000 horses each, at a steam-pressure of 25 pounds, the wheels making 20 revolutions a minute. Daily consumption of coal from 8lt;) to 90 tons. She will carry 1,400 tons of coal Messrs. Secor A Braisted, of the Allaire Works, built her engines, at a cost of $200,000.The Vanderbilt is full brig-rigged, with spars sufficient for any purpose, should her engines fail her. The Vanderbilt has the walking beam engines, or such engines as are used by the river boats in this country, and which Commodore Vanderbilt has applied to sea-going steamers with great success. The Collins steamers use the side lever engines with the exception of the Adriatic, which has oscillating engines. Toe Cunard steamers use the side lever engines. The beam engines are not attached at all to the sides of the vessel, being placed on beds made for them directly on tbo bottom of the ship.The Vanderbilt now draws 17i feet of water, and when loaded will draw 18 feet. It was intended to take her up to the Navy Yard, but the difficulty of following the channel was such, with a vessel of her site, that it was concluded to anchor off the Arsenal, where she will remain during her stay.The Vanderbilt, thus far, is officered as follows : Captain, Charles E P. Lefevre, formerly of the •■Ariel;” First Lieutenant, L B Jewell; First Engineer, Wm. Lighthall; Second Engineer, John Jcrmain; Third Engineer, — Sanford; Steward, W. J Doran, officers and crew, 40; engineers, 4; firemen, 24; coal-heavers, 18; water-t*r.ders, 3; stewards, 2; waiters, 24; cook', 8; porters, 3; butchers, 1—total 127.She is furnished with eight large boats, four of which are of wood, and suspended from davits; the others are Raymond’s iron lifeboats, and are carried on the forward hurri-cano deck. She is also well provided with steam and hand pumps, in case of fire or leakage.The \ anderbilt is one of the three largest steamships adoat. We subjoin their maindimensions :Peril• Adriatic V»nr1«ibilt. **0 ft. »M n. • in. 33'. ft.3SO 343 10 321«5 4S 9 —71 50 4olength ov*r all ...Letifcrh on load llr.a breadth of beam {molded) breadth of Le*iu (extreme) . ieptii of hold from under apar..... 82 89 2The reader can judge of her immense sizo when he sees that she is some 32 feet longer than the Minnesota, now about leaving for Philadelphia, to be coppered.The Vanderbilt, we learn, will be open today for the reception of the public To-morrow, the President and his Cabinet aro expected to visit her; and on Saturday, the two Houses of Congress. Sho will probably leave on Saturday night or Sunday morningBoasting 'Em —Our brief expositions of the fact that Mr. John C. Fremont, for very very good and sufficient reasons, passed for a vehement Catholic here ere being smitten with a desire to become a half Know Nothing and half Abolition candidate for the Presidency—and we were first to take up the subject —have fairly laid the foundation of one of the most stupendous wrangles the world has known for a quarter of a century at least. The Republican press are devoting, not columns, but pages, weekly and daily, to prove that his acts in vehemently defending all the doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, his assumption of the obligations entered into by marrying a Protestant under its ministry, his erection of the cross rather than the flag of the United States in taking mock possession of the Middlo Pass of the Rocky Mountains, his failure to show himself in un Episcopal church at least once during his sojourn in this city of years’ duration, Ao , Ac., Ac , are by no means incompatible with bis profession of life-long membership of the Protestant Episcopal Church 1 Well, politios, indeed do induce men to make great fools of themselves What but the heat of politics could induce such a journal as the New York Tribune to essRy its present garno with reference to Fremont’s late religious proclivities, upon the intense anti Catholics who, for the most, are the patrons of that journal. The New York Express, however, is very ably exposing the shallowness and the utter want of sincerity of the labors of the Republican press in this connection.For our part, we feel so thorough a oontempt for the paltry game of deception on this subject, which the Republican managers seem to be playing by and with Fremont’s advice and consent, as that we have no patience with them whatever. We know, too, that there is not a Catholic in the Union whose heart does not recoil with horror from the idea of tbo support of any man for the Presidency, whether Catholic or Protestant, who has cut such a pigeon wing’ ’ about his religion, for tbo sake of an office, as that of Fremont. Tho dancing-master blood in bis veins may, perhaps, fairlyaccount lor his singular tergiversation on this subject; such early associations not being those which instil very high-toccd principles about anythirg, In a man’s mind.The Naval Promotion*.—The following isa correct list ot the recent confirmations ny the Senate of the naval promotions growing out of the action of the late Naval Retiring Board :Captain.—G P. Pendergr*st, William C.ic ho Ison, Joseph B Hull, John Kelly, Wm.Wilvn u’ Ad (V Farra*ut- Stephen B. wuson, Thomas A. Dornin, Robert B Cun-mngham, Victor M Randolph, Frederick Engle. John Rudd, Wm McKean. Franklin Bu-chanan bamuel Mercer, Chas Lowndes. Louis M. (Joldsborough, George N Hollins, DuncanWimg,rasaXSL' nhnMar8ton' I,enry A Adams, ue F ,n F* kE-.0eor«* F Sum!A M. DulPontI- William L Hudson, GeorgeChS w iv Pope’ Lavin M. Powell,F.iii a £*’ Trho“a8 0 Selfridge, Henrye i.Van Brunt William M.drew a! iTerwood. 1 *“»•■ An-Commander, -Charles U McBlair, John K Tl I T °DV Archibal,i B P“irfax, HenryBlair Shn’ I'V? 1 Howan’ Wii,iam Mc‘ Blair, John 8 Missroon, Richard L. Pane*•***»J Ar:II A B i ti “ Hitchcock, CharlesLanman W Brent, JosephCharies H Plt; r r i?1’* ThoulQfl T»»«r,1 t 8vt Timothyford?8^!VFDUHa«^rj?hnWMUT ^George A. Prentiss, Alfred Taylor Samuel Phillips Lee John P. Uillii, Samuel Swart wout, Raphael fcemmes, James P. McKinstrv Oliver S Gibson, Juo A. DablgLn8 C. Rowan, Edward R Thompson, GuertGan sevoort, Charles Green, Edward L Handy Melanothon Smith, Cicero Price, John r! Goldaborough, Charles 8. Boggs. Thetdore P Green, John R Tucker, Tbo*. J Page, Geo Minor, Pereival Drayton, Robert F. Pinckney, Thomas R. Rootes, Edward M Yard, Wm 8. Young, Jos F Green, John De Camp, Chas. W. Pickering, Overton Carr, Luther htoddart. Wm. M. Walker, John A Winslow, Benjamin M Dove, Thornton A Jenkins, John Rogers,John B. Mareband. Wm. Rogers Taylor, H J. Hartstene, Benj F. Sands, Henry French, Samuel Larkin, Henry L. Stellwagen. James L Henderson, Daniel B. Ridgely, Wm T. Muse, Charles Steedman, Wm L Herndon, Jas Alden, Augustus L Case, Roger Perry Lieutenants —Edward Simpson, 'WilliamG. Temple, George P Welsh. Samuel P Carter. William Nelson. Charles W. Aby. Edward C Stout, Reuben Harris, James B McCauley, Thomas S. Phelps. Alexander F Warley, Garrit V. Denniston, Leonard Paulding, Francis 8 Conover. Edward Barrett. Colville Te* rett. John W. Bennett. Homer C. Blake, Clark II Wells. Stephen P. Quackenbush, Earl Inff-lish, Joseph M. Bradford, Reigert B Lowry.Jonathan H. Carter, William H Parker. J. Pembroke Jones, David A. McDcrmut, William B Buckner. Richard L Law. William H Willcox, John T. Barrand, Thomas Roney, John H. Upshur, John Van N. Philip, Samuel R Franklin, William D. Whiting, Wm. L. Powell, 8 Ledyard Phelps, Edward Y. McCauley, Theodore L. Walker, William Mitchell, Francis A. Roe, Joseph B. Smith, William M Murdaugh, John M Brooke. Wm Gibson, Edward Renshaw. Joseph D Danels, John T. Walker, J C. P. De Krafft, John Van MoCullam, John E. Hart, Oscar C Badger, Thomas C. Harris, John Kell, John L Davis, Alexander A. Semmes, John B Stewart, M. Patterson Jones, Watson Smith, Alexander M. De Bree, Joseph E De Haven, Alexander W Habersham, William T. Truxton, Green leafCilley, Horace N. Crabb, Samuel Magaw, James H. Rochelle. Robert D. Minor, William C. West. Nicholas H. Van Zandt, Francis G. Dallas. Simoon S Bnasett, Robert C. Duvall, David P McCorkle. George H Hare, William Sharp, James J Waddel, Wm M. Gamble, Jonathan Young, William K. Mavo. Thomas Gonng. James E. Jouett, T. Scott Fillebrown, Joseph Fry, Leouard H. Lyne, Milton Hax-tun, Robert Selden, Albert Allmand, Robert Stuart, Theodoric Lee, Geo H. Bier, Pendleton G. Watmoagh, George W. Young. JohnH. Russell, Edward E Stone, Dawson Phenix, Robert F. R. Lewis, Charles P. McGary, Hunter Davidson, Andrew W. Johnson. Stephen B Luce, Dulaney A. Forest, Robert W. Scott, Walter W Queen, Robert R Carter, Edmund W. Henry. Thos T. Houston, Ralph Chandler, John R Hamilton, James Parker, Philip C Johnson, John Watters, K. Randolph Brcese, Oscar F. Johnst-n, Lewis A. Kimberly, Beverly Kennon. S Livingston Breese, George U. Morris. Edwin F Gray, John G Spro8ton, Bancroft Ghcrardi, Daniel L Braine, John T. Wood L. Howard Newman, Charles K. Thorbnrn. Richard T Bowen, Charlos W. Fluster, William 5 Lovell, John R Eggleston, Andrew B. Cummings, Bayard E. liani, George E Belknap, Edward P Williams, Jared P. K. Mvgatt, John D. Rainey, DavidB. Harmony, William Gwin, John J Corn-well, James P Foster. Henry Wilson, A. E. K Benham. Robert T. Chapman, William P. A Campbell, Wilson McUunnegle, John Ir win, Joseph S Skerrett, James A. Greer, Charles II. Greene, Francis II. Baker, Isaac W. Hester, Edward T Spedden, Elias K. Owen. William T Glassell. Aaron W Weaver, Austin Pendergraat, Joseph P Tyffe, William P. McCan, James Stillwell, Julius G. Heilman. Joseph D. Blake. James H Gillis.Chief Engineers.—El bridge Lawton. Robert Danby, and Robert Long.Professor of MathematicsJoseph W'in-lockChief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography of the Navy Department —Capt Duncan N. Ingraham.A Card —Mr Burlingame has been absent from tho city since tho evening of tho 21st instant. As his frier.d who suggested the propriety of his absence. I ask a suspension of the judgment of the public, who may have read Mr. Brooks’s card and its “exhibits appended thereto,” published in the Union of to-day. until Mr. Burlingame returns and has a hearing Lewis D. Campbell.Washington, July 23, 1856.The Current Operations ol the TreasuryDepartment.—On yesterday, the 23d of July,there were of Treasury warrants entered onthe books of the Department—For the redemption of Stock?.... 31,263 y IFor the Interior Department .....30,269 46For Customs.................... 155,056 00War warrants received and on-t®red......................... 95,115 31War repay warrants received and entered....................... 10,506 33Interior repay warrants receivedand entered.................. 8,304 13From Lands.................... 294,578 06From miscellaneonsscurcea ......57,946 10On accoant of funded stock, per act of 28th January, 1»47.... 100 00PERSONAL..... Cardinal Wiseman has arrived in Paris.• ... Gen. Totten, Chief Engineer of the United States Army, is at Newport, R. I.Admiral Lord Lyons passed through Paris on his way to the Crimea.....Deacon Jonathan Howe, the oldest printer in Boston, died at his residence in Charlestown, on Saturday last, aged 75 years..... Col. Hardoo, of the Dragoons, has been appointed Commandant of Cadets at West Point, vice Brevet Major Walker. He is now at his post..... The Hon. J. M. Sandidge, of Louisiana,who has been for several days detained from his seat in the House of Representatives by indisposition, has so far recovered as to be able to resume his duties..... A late letter from London says : —“ The Emperor of the French appears to be out of health Ue is about to leave Paris for Pom-biores, where he intends to stay for three weeks, to enjoy the complete repose which hard work has rendered necessary. The Empress will remain at St Cloud.”.... Dr. Vick, of Sussex, Va , while conducting a post mortem examination, a few days since upon the body of a colored woman, formerly a slave of Henry Birdsong, Esq , accidentally rut his hand A portion of tho virus from the body entered tbo wound, andcommunicating with his blood, caused his death a short time afterwards..... Dr. N. C. Whitehead, a venerable citizen of Norfolk, died suddenly on Monday night of a disease of the heart. The deceased acted temporarily as mayor of that city last summer on tho deathAf Mayor Woodis ; and, sinco 1836, has been the President of the Far-mera* Hank nt Vssrf. Jlr IL k -
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