...uscle of armies. It is believed a majority of the South are sick of the war, and would gladly return to the old Union, even with the peculiar institution impaired. The "turreted monster," Admiral Porter says, was an old coal barge, with pork barrels piled on top of each other for a smoke-stack, and two old for quarter boats. Her furnaces were built of mud, and only intended to make black smoke, a...