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enthusiasm of the Herald when we reflect that in the same article it calls the captures of Hilton Head and New Orleans greater feats than the destruction of the Spanish Armada and the battle of Nile! After this, it is not to be wondered at, that the Herald should "spread itself" in speaking of the iron-clads, those boasted ministers of Yankee wrath, which bombarded a brick fort for two months without being able to take it. Such implements of destruction must of course be very terrible to John Bull and Johnny Crapaud, and the Herald holds it up before them as we have seen children frighten each other with an ugly mask. It is the old game of the Chinese turning somersets to frighten the British soldiers, over and over again. They are building vessels that will sink the Warrior and La Gloire at a broadside. Gillmore has invented guns that shell Charleston at a distance of five miles, and says he can shoot one mile farther with them. Of course nobody but the Yankee nation can build