The Engineers of the steam sloop-of-war Pawnee have reported her as being weak; that her excessive working, owing to some error in construction, throws the engines out of line to such an extent that It is impossible to keep them in order. The subject has been referred to the officers on board, and the probability is that a board of naval officers, constructors and engineers, will be ordered very soon to examine the Pawnee. That the result will be condemnation hardly any one doubts.
New York Herald, March 21, 1861