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NADAL, BERNARD H. 



NAVY, UNITED STATES. 



or later will become the inalienable patrimony of her 

 sincere defenders. 



Count Montalembert was one of the first 

 among distinguished Catholics to take issue 

 with the ultramontanists on their extreme 

 views of infallibility, and, from a bed of sick- 

 ness, wrote an earnest letter, in which he 

 mainly advocated the ground at first taken by 

 Bishop Dupanloup. Besides the works we have 

 already named, the Count de Montalembert 

 had published the following books : " On 

 Catholicism and Vandalism in Art," 1839; 

 the Duty of Catholics on the Question of Free 

 Education," 1844 ; " Saint Anselme, a Frag- 

 ment of the Introduction to the History of St. 



Bernard," 1844 ; " Some Counsels to Catholics 

 on the Direction to be given to the Polemics of 

 the Day, and on some Perils to be avoided," 

 1849 ; " The Monks of the West from St. Bene- 

 dict to Saint Bernard," 1860-'70 five vol- 

 umes of this had been published, but he had 

 not completed it at his death ; " A Nation in 

 Mourning, or Poland in 1861," 1861 ; " Father 

 Lacordaire," 1862 ; " A Free Church in a Free 

 State," 1863; "The Pope and Poland," 1864; 

 besides numerous articles in the Revue des Deux 

 Mondes, the Encyclopedie Catholique, and the 

 Correspondant, of which he was one of the 

 most active editors. He was elected a member 

 of the French Academy in 1852. 



NADAL, Rev. BER^AED II., D. D., LL. D., 



a Methodist clergyman, author, and Professor 

 of Church History in Drew Theological Semi- 

 nary, born in Maryland, in 1815 ; died at 

 Madison, N. J., June 20, 1870. In early life his 

 educational advantages were limited. He grad- 

 uated at Dickinson College, joined the Balti- 

 more Conference of the M. E. Church in 1835, 

 and for a number of years preached in Mary- 

 land, Virginia, and Delaware. About 1850 he 

 accepted a professorship in Asbury University, 

 Indiana. While there, Dr. Nadal commenced 

 the publication of essays upon Church history 

 in the Methodist Quarterly Review, of which 

 Rev. Dr. McClintock was then editor, and in 

 other Church periodicals. These writings 

 made him widely known as one of the ablest 

 theological writers of the Methodist body. He 

 returned East after a few years, and preached, 

 under the direction of different conferences, in 

 Washington, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and New 

 Haven. At Washington he was for one session 

 chaplain to the House of Representatives. 

 Upon the organization of the Drew Theologi- 

 cal Seminary, he became Professor of Church 

 History, and, at the death of Dr. McClintock, 

 became acting president of that institution. 

 Dr. Nadal was a courageous and able exponent 

 of the antislavery views held among his de- 

 nomination at the North, and during his min- 

 istry South proved himself an able debater . 

 on that subject. He was a forcible writer, 

 and was one of the principal contributors to 

 the Methodist, besides frequently writing for 

 other periodicals. He was also an acceptable 

 preacher. 



NAVY, UNITED STATES. At the close 

 of 1869 the navy of the United States consisted 

 of 188 ships of all classes, calculated to carry, 

 when in commission, 1,322 guns .exclusive of 

 howitzers. Since that time four small gun- 

 boats, the Seminole, Clinton (tug), Maumee, 

 and Unadilla, have been condemned as un- 

 worthy and sold. The tug Rescue was sold, 

 under an act of Congress, to the Republic of 

 Liberia, and the tug Maria was run into and 



sunk in Long Island Sound, with a loss of four 

 men. On the afternoon of the 24th of January, 

 1870, the steam sloop-of-war Oneida, carrying 

 6 guns and a crew of 176 officers and men, 

 steamed out of the harbor of Yokohama on 

 her return home after a cruise of three years 

 on the Asiatic station. At seven o'clock on 

 the same evening, in the Bay of Yeddo, about 

 fifteen miles from Yokohama, she was run into 

 by the English steamer Bombay, carrying the 

 mails and passengers for the last-named port. 

 After cutting down the Oneida and carrying 

 away entirely a large portion of her stern, the 

 Bombay proceeded on her way, leaving behind 

 her in the darkness the unfortunate Oneida, 

 which in less than fifteen minutes from the 

 time she was first struck had sunk, and of 24 

 officers and 152 men but 2 of the former and 

 57 of the latter escaped. Thus reduced, the 

 navy consisted, on the 1st of December, 1870, 

 of 181 vessels, calculated to carry 1,309 guns ; 

 of these, 52 are of the iron-clad or monitor 

 class ; of the remainder 30 are sailing-vessels 

 without any steam-power, and the balance 

 steamers, or sailing-vessels with auxiliary 

 steam-power ; 45 vessels, including store and 

 hospital ships, mounting 465 guns, are attached 

 to the several fleets, and 4 others, mounting 7 

 guns, are on special service, which, with 6 re- 

 ceiving-ships at the various stations, and the 

 tugs and small vessels on duty at the navy- 

 yards and stations, make the naval force then 

 in commission. Ten other vessels, mounting 

 143 guns, were ready for sea, and would join 

 the several fleets as soon as they received their 

 complement of men. The whole available 

 force of vessels, sail and steam combined, in 

 commission, under repair, and laid up, is 53, 

 calculated to mount 779 guns ; 4 of these, in- 

 tended to carry 92 guns, being built of unsound 

 timber, and requiring great alterations, will 

 never be of any use to the service. Out of the 

 whole number, 24, mounting 362 guns, are un- 

 der repair; this leaves- 29 available sea-going 

 vessels of sail and steam power, carrying 417 

 guns. There are six screw-steamers on the 



