Ominous

-Experimenta have been jnade at West Point with a new projec tile, made for the 1 1-inch Dalilgren guub pf the Monitor. Ata distaooe of fifty yards a shot went through a sol id plute o wrought irou eight iuches thick, ao( knocked over a pile of pig iron back of it. The plating of the Merrimac is but five iuches thick, ;ind such a shot would ficnd her to the boUom. With mentar, paixhan and petard, Wc tender oh! Abe uur Bi Hicso linos werfi go t ton up by some ■ar"uliern wag at tLc time of tio sarrendtT of Jort gurnptcr. A Kejitueky conteraporary aow hu a retort: v.::1' febelsa]] ro flying !n )Var, " tender Jell. Davis to his rep. ,.J?" A letter has Leen received in jsti.j, Oonn., dated Bordeaux, March -', wliicli et a tes tli.it tliere was a large ■knglisfl tteamcr in tbat port hayiug on board 3,060 tons of cargo, worth mil Jl(in of dollars, iátending to attempt to fuu toe blockade ut New Orlcans.