Tbe Disastrous Explosion.
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We learn from Washington that this catas-
trophe is to be made the subject Of official inves-
tigation by the Naval Committee OF Congress,
who appear disposed to look into it thoroughly.
A scientific friend is confident that the gun was
never subjected to any proper tests, nor approved
by capable Judges and that the catastrophe was
morally inevitable. He says that no iron can
stand the heat of repeated discharges Of 80 or 10
pounds of powder without changing its nature
that the fragments of the gun are calcined or
crystalized by the heat into sort of coarse steel,
away by the curious. He is confident thai this
great gun business has been tried out in Europe.
The money we have wasted upon it we may coin
or save again; but the precious lives it has sac
rihced can never be restored.