The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1854, Page 2

OUR NAVAL DEFENCES. OF MAMET, AND THR EVUUTEET? OF BOTS 48 | construction of sectional floating dock in California, | jection te the wmall etpeasr 2 ATPRENTICNS. ; the addition of a basin and railway to operate in coa- | called for to sustain thi ~ = es re er nes St et ont Bent ethene ys 'gotine RaRtlan wilh Shed Rock 28 Mare Thiand Deoemes Do ne, ae = is advise’ thet Mr. Robert L . Je vessela of tls squadron have been 5 Gumiactaing on lnensane of pay Abe oe | fee ee ee roby Anoual Repoit petsp Secretary of the Navy. im many inatands -uccessfully, @ tn ehesting the meen the compensation in the merchant “These floating docks often answer @ good pur. | tion of the irom war steamer, to and sbali pr] - Navy Deranrweyt, Dec. 4, 1554. slave trade, ani some of them have been reg: orice deae much to encourage enlistments, snd 9 for making slight repairs, such as repair- for harbor defence, in accordance with his Sim—in the annual report from the Navy Department cruising on the ¢ «sis most fi ted by siavers. The wee reorived with grateful joy by many a veteran tar, copper, cleaning bottoms, or renewing cop- | under the acts of of (SM2and 1559 be hue which I now have the honor to present, I have taken the | Ogicers in command have patsy it in their power to mach remains yet to be accomplished to give proper , where the work to be performed requires but little munication of the of October, he informe me Yberty, in addition to the usual statement of the opera | ponder assistance to merchant vessels in distress, and to pms nery and auccess to the system of , and the ship is not weakened, but always in such | ‘the boilers will be ready to put on board is about ions of tho squadrons and the general condition of the | 6. growing commerce, exposed to many daugers om the Ane! tm this itopor tant, indeed vital part of the pub- | condition that she could be let into the water at an; weeks, and the beams, cranks and links are Bervice andthe pubNe property, to recommend a still Arpicgn coast. We servier. Language cannot describe, the mind can | moment without! damages, should necessity require it; finished and tu: apd thet be bas ve further graduai increase of the havy, and to express The Mediterranean squadron, Commodore 8. H. String- wearcely grasp, bow much of haj a and wretched- | but for extensive repairs, where the plan! is removed Trankly my views of the gr vation, and the enactment of new discipline and improvement of Pphossibin they are ury ‘with seeming pertinacity, my oaly apology is, ad importance of its reo , comsista of lis dag-ship, the frigate Cumberland ander A, A. Harwood; the steam (rigate Saranac, aJ. ©. Loug; the sloops-of-war St. Louis, Com- p mander D. N. Ingraham, ané Levant, Commander C. C. oem dene the fidelity, discipline of the Sok the epee works are cut to pieces, as is frequently pegiecied » Property, life, victory, it, national | tho case, I should consider their use as very hazardous honor ant renown, have much todo with thecharactcrand | and unsafe, and I do not think they are ever used, or | cheerfel obedience and home love of seamen. Iam very | should be used, for auch extensive repairs, unless in far from recommending the restoration of punisnment | connection with eo basin. . * * rest in the magnitac the subject, anda convictionof Turner, The Cumberland will be relieved early in the a a the necessity of legislative interposition spring, @nd authority has been given for the retura of “ [do not think that piers could be constructed in Great difficulty having been experienced ia SQUADRONS. the Levant and St. Louis early in the ensuing year. such manner as to render # heavy sbip-of-war upon the | American water-rotied hemp, special agents The vessels composing the Home Squadron are, the This squadron, during the past year, has visited ma- dock safe, when reduced to the condition she must | been appointed in the districts of i ‘aoder 8. B. Wil necessarily be placed iu to receive extensive and | it was most likely to be attained. frigate Columbia, the flag ship won; the sloops-of-war Albany. Falmouth, Commander T. ny of the ports of Italy, Sicily, the Archipelago and nannies Or Gorey; |" Geeeoss and alan the cuaats Of Scala ae Barbary, and | CUF naval force will not and the steamers | has kept a watchful eye over American interests in the | for service. Weakness invites ageress: i ugh repairs occupying months, nor do I believe | tions for its inspection and recet offer every that any prudent naval constructor would risk a ‘a preparation. national ship in such condition for a length of time upon | been prin iy drawn from Russia, ant Princeton, Commander Henry Fagle; and Fulton, Lieu- | Mediterranean. £ npires respect while ackmowledgrd elreagi oo! viehie tenant Commanding J. K. \ Commodore J.T. | The Saranac, under instructions from the department, | Preparetion command consideration, ana are the trae bs d freaace § structure.’” state of affairs in demonstrates the je thia squadron, The cruising of | couveyed Mr. Chandler, the United States Consul Geue- | S*{guards of peace, And, although our miscee i | ee it also my duty to visit the mavy yard | of our not being de it om other countries for Newton still comman the veesels of the squadron has been principally among ral to Tunis, from Marseilles to Tunis, where he was | Pface, and no wartlke messengers of propagantion the West India islands, ani aloag the coasts borderiag | landed on the 13th of July, with the usnal houors. | are to be sent forth to force tepublicns Hiwety | on the Caribbean sea the Gulf of Mexico. The Fant India squadron consists of the sloop-of-war | Upon reluctant victims of murat, it way be | hia, and witness personally the operation | gupplies of this necessary article. jo! | ‘The Columbia returned to Norfolk, in obedience toorders | Macedonian, Capt. Joel Abbot, the seulor officer ou the Wel) to remember that, im addition to the ont) | ! at Philadelp z of that dock, shnilar to the one. in fwith: | Theestimates for the support of the navy standing inconvenience and expense of ne- and marine corps for the ending Geesary’at Philadelphia, the national vessels Sntering | June 20, 1856, and for all objects coming {hat port bave been regularly repaired on the dock and | under the coxtrol of this department, in the basin with entire auccesa since ita completion. | — are, in the aggregate... 610,24, During my administration of tuis department this dock | Brom’ which from the department, and on the 28th June sailed, under | station; the steam-frigate Powhatan, Capt. W. J. Me- | etttainty whieh ever ey Cy — " jastructions to "Commodore Newton, on special duty to ure, we have to encointer Cluny; and the sloop-of-war Vandalia, Commander | 224 war in the distant St. Having thoroughly ‘surveyed the Bay | John Pope. The steam-frigates Mississippi and Susque- | ily disguised jealousy of our prouliar imetivutions from 4 of Semana scertained its depth and character, | hanna, the sloop-o! r Plymouth, aud the storeship those who cling with tenacity to the old ay-tom of ger whether it is desirable to restore corporal pu ment, 1 | and basin have been successfully used for repair the | ciuding transportation of the mail in * 4 the localities in ita vicinity with reference Southampton, Supply and Lexington, are now on their ¢Fament. Hear the language of one of your pretense rent. that from ex 4s well as conviction, I do | steamers San Jacinto and Fulton, and the sloops-of-war PP ccasevssedsset vevewese to fitness for s convenient depot for naval purposes, the | way home—the steamers returning by the way of San *0rs ine band more than a quarter of 8 mot it would be desirable or for the interest of | St. Marys, Cyane, and Jamestown. The San Jacinto was —_— Columbia returned to Pensacola, and is now under or. Francisco, Commodore M. C. Perry, recently command. | Ceetury ago: “Ua injuries are oftee infiieted, the service.” Amd yet, and he and every officer concur | also hauled ashore on the railway, where she underwent | Leaves for the support of the navy and ders to proceed to San Juan de Nicaragua, conveying to — ing this squadron, is, by permission of the department, "4 even the peculiar felicity of our situation i he necessity of Ling and ing some sub- | several months repairing, leaving the dock in the mean- | _ marine COrpa..........s+sessseeeer sere that point Mr. Wheeler, Gnited states Minister Resident | returning to the United States by the way of England, ith some be ® coese for excitement and aggression. stitute, however, with a plan of re- | time ready for any ship that might arrive. I am not to | The estimate for the present fiscal year for quadron, owing to the civil war The history of the late wars in Europe furniches 8 com ward os well a# punishment ; punishment, prompt, | be understood as advocating or recommending govern- the support of the Navy and Marine dann ragua,and Mr, Marlin, United States Minister Resident to Guatemalg. The’ Princeton, Coramander Eagle, sailed from Norfolk on the Slat of October for them Psasacola, and will proceed on ber cruise as a part of | pert The vessels of sting in China, have bad frequent calls made upon | Plete demonstration that ne system ofceedect. however ene, im order to restrain the offen: * ment to adopt this system in preference to stone docks. Corps was. the protection of American citizens and pro- | COFFect in principte, cam protect neutral powers from im deter the inconsiderate ; rewart equally sure | Hut while | am decidedly nero at that this plan of | The total am ~4 and have been of great service to our countrymen | jUry from Say party: that & defencelers po and apt 4, to eneourage fidelity and promote | dock is inferior to the stone te of durability, during the fiscal year ending June res] It ia mot not severity but the certainty | xafety, and because of the expense of repairing, and its | 1864, as exhibited’ by the statement of the home squadron. The Albany, Commander Gerry, in in that remote region. distinguished love of peace are the surest | pursuance of the orders of the{Commodore, has been ac- Commodore Perry, with the steam-frigate Powhatan | W&r; tnd that there is mo way te avoid it a news of punishment which promotes discipline! | requirement of a depth of water involving often the cost appropriations for the naval service pre- tively cruising during the enti: year, having visited, | as hia fag-rhip, Captain W. J. McCluney; the slvop-of- being always prepared and willing, fora just caus, to | The sailor who now cowsmits an offence adoard ship re- | of di , 1 am also clearly of opinion that for naval by the Second Comptroller of the among other ports, those of Samana, Sisal, St) Thomas, | war Macedonian, Captain J, Abbot: the steam frigates | Meet it. It there be a people on earth whone mote from home and the fag «hip, knows that be can- | purposes the basin and railway impart to it its chief sury, was, 11,750,236 wot be tried, possibly for months, until the vessels ar- | value, and that without the former it would be unsafe. From which ded 948,502 Laguira, Curacoa, Carthazena, Aspinwall, San Juan, | Susquehanna, Commander F. Bachanan, and Mississippi, | Cal duty it is to be at all times prepared to Port Hoyal and St. Jago de Cuba. She has | Commander S.S. Lee; the sloop-of-war Vandalia, Com: | Tights with which they ate blessed, amd to sur vee im port of falls in with the Coumodore of the aquad- Congress having previously chosen to construct the doae goo service, and Commander Gerry and his officers | mander John Pope; and tho store-ships Southampton, | P&ss all others in sustaining the neceoary bardeus i sectional dock on the coast of California, the only one tion of the department, as I have | Lieutenant Commanding J. J. Boyle, and Lexington, | 94 i ubmitting to sacrifices to mak prey | | comsider it ail important that the commander of any | the Pacific coast, able and scientific officers having ex- reason to know that the appearance of our flag at those | Iieutenant Commanding J. J. Glasson, arrived at Yedo | tions, it is undoubtedly the apd of these i should be authorized by law to order pressed soacginion a) aeelgned jor ot the | _ partment, pe of 8 of the basin and rail Giyes as the total expenditure for all ob- jects under the control of the Navy De vee 41-810, 801 845 led mary ports, and the bearing of tue olficera contributed much to | Hay, Japan, on the 13th of February, for the purpose of | The well-armed and well: manned our court oartial for the trial of the petty officers aad those | necessity and usefulnes: yincon- | Butof this amount there was she cveuragement and protection of our citizens en. | fulfMling the plans of which he had notified them the | be truly regarded as so many ocean sentine’ below them: that they should bave ve. to punish | nection with this dock, and being aware that the growth for special objects the sum of. sevee 8,910,013 Jin commercial transactions in those regions. | year before, and of endeavoring to establish commercial | #long the main ‘o challenge at onee any who might dare | by dishonorable discharge in any port; by confinement | of our commerce, and the enlai nt of our squadron last official intelligence received from the Albany | relations between Japan and the United States. By in- | to neck an assault upon institutions sacred to us, hut © reduced rations and without pay, with extra labor | in the Pacific, demanded the service of the dock, I deemed { Leaving as the legitimate expenditures for vae on tho 28th of September, from Aspinwall, informing | domitable perseverance and remarkable management, | inconvenient to them. "Tis true, we are at peace with | and denial of shore privilege. When the seaman knows | it my duty “to complete and carry into execution the | the support of the Navy and Marine reaut.thatcen thn & day she Would sail | be succeeded figally in overcoming the obstinacy and | the world; and so, but few months ago, were the aa | that these punishments cam be promptly inflicted by the | contract’’ as described in the law, for the construction Goh for the fiscal year ending June 30, + York. There is no doubt of her having put to | prejudices of the Japanese government, and in- | tim of Europe, and, under the 4 infiuence of Chris | officers im command of the ship, he has much to deter | of the basin and railway, to render it secure and useful . seeereeees seeeeees es $6,091,832 he time mentioned. duced it to enter into # treaty of amity and | tianity and c'vilization, seeme! hopeful of a quiet future, | bin» frew disobedience, for the public service.” For slight repairs these docks There are, however, out#anding claims to be paid » tidings of her having peace, by which two of its ports, Hakodade and | With no rivairy but in arts, sciemee, and national de fut, in order successfully to invite diligent and enter- | ore used without the basin, and by authority of Congress «f the appropriation {or the fiscal year 1853-54. ural that painful anxiety 3 Simoda, were opened to vessels, and shipwrecked mari- | V¢lopement. The scene is suddenly changed, War, «ith | priving men, they tenet know that their integrity will be the contractors have built temporary piers, and sre Your attention is invited to the reports and uve. The prevalent opinion is that she has sustained ners of American vessels are guaranteed to have ample | #!! its bloody calamities, is convulsing those mighty | commended, their faithfuiness remembers. An | Using thls Gock in Callfornis for such porposes. But I of the chiefs of the several Bureaus connected with ‘ous injuries fro encountering storms recently pre. | protoction and kind treatment, on whatever part of the | "tions, and no prophetic statesman ean foretell honorable discharge, leave of absence, pay, shore privi- | could not consent, (except from necessi 7) 0 hararding | Department. I perform but an act of justice in tentif ent in her course homewai hat she has put coasts they may be cast. The abvve mentioned ports | tent or its termiuation, But who are {uterested the officers, will animate and a national vessel on a floating structure like this for ex- | ing to the fidelity and attention to business of all into some port for repairs. Wi view of obtaining in- | were fully surveyed by our vessels, and are rspresented y’ It is not merely the citizen whose lot is cast | eeconrage them. I hope! may be excused for repeat | tensive repairs, with her planks off, in a weakened con- | officers, and in suggesting that the compensation te formation and affording relief, the steamer Princeton left | to be very convenient and commodious. Presents i he coast, the merchan’ he | that “I deem it indixpepsable that some plan be ado dition, to be exposed months to uncertain weather. | heads of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Pensacola some days ago in search of the Albany, The alsoexchanged between the Japanese government and | lator in floating », but merchants, me- | by which our seamen shall become more distinctly and The loss of one ship would equal the cost of the pete, ‘and Medicine and Surgery should be the same department still entertains the opinion that she is safe. the United States. | chanics, planters, our countrymen the coast, | permanently « part of the navy, and attached to the ser- | basin and railway, great as it is, and blame might | that now allowed to the others. then well attach to the Secretary who refused You will perceive, from reference to the report of | ~ | to protect it with a basin and railway, although Con- | Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, t not | eda have of absence for three months, with leave of = authorised him, and experts advised him of the | importance of the action of Congress i o in making his | ateence pay, but the seamen are i aay hae et ' ry appropriations for ordnance, which will be m their ‘The Fulton, which until the 24th of April was under Lhe treaty having been concluded, it was entrusted to | UP our rivers, beyond the mountains, The agricultural | view. Whenever & sbip of war now returns from her the command of Lieutenant James M. Watson, was in Commander H. A. Adams, who was directed to proceed | interest is an much benefitted and protected by the ‘useful service, and having visited many of the ports of — in the Saratoga, Commander W. 8. Walker, to San Fran- | ®* any other. Every planter in every see! the Wost Indies, returned to the United States. On the cisco, and thence to Washington. On the arrival of tho | more truly protected by the enclosure a ‘17th May she left Norfolk under the command of Lieute- Saratoga at the Sandwich Islands, a more speedy con- | farm, than by our ‘‘ wooden walla’ which float around | ¢d—diseonaected the service. pant Mitchell, conveying to the port of Vera Crus the veyance offering, Commander Adams left her, and | OUr coast. The States which border on the Mississippi | meritorious “ propose that on i i i : i 3 = i g i tam thus cular on this subject because of the | larger than usual, in order to enable the department they be amount involved. The dock is completed, and will soon enpp the six new steam frigates with armament, whi: be tested. rhe w i i Hon. Mr. Gadsden, our Minister to Mexico, and bearer of reached Washington with the treaty on the 10th of July. | ttanaport on its bosom their cotton and grain and sugar, an .” (to be considered Ty . The contractors are actively en- signed shall be of different and heavier c the treaty recently conclu led between the United Staten Commodore Perry and those who accompanied him A and vast varieties of products, which are borne into the ve of absemer om My if wit © certain time they eased in the basin and railway. heretofore used. and Mexico, where she remained until the treaty was ra- bis novel and perilous undertaking deserve well of their Gulf of Mexico. With no navy sufficient to protect it in | choose to re-enlist in service, Thik would a informed you in my last report of the difficulties In pursuance of the suggestions of the Chief of t tified, and with it returned to She. poet of Washington, country. A new era seems, through their instru- , that region, who cun appreciate the inconvenience aut | two-fold virtue—of fair ood generous treatment at part. which had occurred in to the dock, basin and | Bureau of Medicine and , the Naval Laborat where she has since been necessarily detained, and is mentality, to be dawning upon the commerce of the | ¢mbarrassment which our planting interest will expe | lug, an imvitation to continue s member of « family car railway at Pensacola. isa balance, not a nectional | in connection with the ho at Brooklyn, was re now ready for service. world, {1 is difficult to calculate the wonderful resulta | Tience in war’ But the great cost is often suggested. ing for these Som * Abeence ” dock. When I cameinto the department, I found that | ganized in the fall of 1853, and placed on & basis to ‘The practicability of inter-oceanic communication by which present and future generations may experience | That should alway’ be vigilantly watched by the prudent wish to reise character among sea- the contractors had already been paid up for these | cure its success and enlarge its benefita to the g the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of from this promised gradual dropping off of the Staterman; who should, however, remember that every | meu. It is my design, also, immediately to adopt, ina works the entire amount upon, an well as the re- | Since January last the entire s of medicines for Darien, between Caledonia bay and the Caribbean sea cruel fetters with which ignorance has so long embar- S0llar is expended among our own people, ia the par. |. modified form, the “ Apprentice System," Fal ge | served ten per cent, and that a bond in the sum of two | Navy has been prepared at that laboratory, thereby ¢ and the Gulf of San Miguel on the Pacific, has long been —_rassed commerce, and this hopeful prospect of the ‘spread chase of material and payment of laborers’ and that it | the enlistment of Aumerioan boys from fourteen hundred thousand dollars had been taken from them for | ing assurance that a reliable article is su) on’ a sabject of much speculation and controvs of civilization and liberty and good government, so * brings into exercise the mechanical skill of our country, | t are twenty-ome yrars of age. The object in view the protection of the government. The records indicate | the service will not suffer from the imposition of sp men of science and learning. The magaitu cheering to the Christian statesman. Promotes, and thereby perpetuates, a class in our midst | will be to train them up st first om our large La | that this was done upon the certificates filed of the com- | rious and deleterious drugs. Asa matter of econom| work, aad wonderful influence which its successful ac- The saratoga proceeded on her way to the United essential to our national independence. He who visite | ships, and transfer o certais number to each pletion of the work, and the opinion of the Attorney Ge- | al o, the advantages will not be inconsiderable. complishment might exert upon the commerceof the States, and arrived at Boston September Ist, having OUT TAvy yard nd lingers a moment in beholding | starting om e eruire, to make practical seamen, te neral of the obligation of the government, and not the The letters of Commander Charles H. Davis, touch world, aad more especially upon the intercourse be- been absent from the country for four years. I have the giant frames of the noble ships now being | teach them im thels youth to familiar with all contractors, to proeure by proper dredging th depth of | the Nautical Almanac, and of Proferser Alexander, in ¥] tween our Atlantic and Pacific possessions, induced the expressed to Commander Walker and his officers, as alvo constructed by the genius, the lsber, and with the duties of a seller the requirements of the service, ater necessary for the operation of the . A gard to the character of alimentary substan ses, ace department, with your approbation, the ser- » to the crew, my just appreciation of their good conduct, material of our own country, will’ find that the sacredness of obedience to orders; to watch over had siso been appuinted, and the frigate Co- my oe report, and will explain the progress made vices of an accomplished aud exterprising rofthe notwithstanding the expiration of their terms of enlist. ™oney expended not merely results in presenting their morel sod mental training, and thus imcor- lumbia selested to test the works, in order that | their departments. mavy, Lieut. I. G. Strain, who volunteered to undertake ment. a floating battery to protect our property and our | porste inte the service, gradually but ey abedy of the Ly av) decide whether or not the 1 have the honor to be, with great re: » your the ex; tion. The Caribbean sea being embraced with- I regret to state that, whilst the Plymouth was en- fing, but gladdens the hearts of hundreds of cheerful | seamen to be proud nf +8 times of peace, to be relied | entered into ha@ been fulfilled. The report | dient servant. |. C, DOBBIN. in the limita assigned as a cruisin, und for the Home gaged iz aurveying the ‘ponin islands, Nisntanant yi ME artizans, who pay it back into the treasury with fourtold ) upon in times of danger. Tem also very clearly = of boerd was unfavorable, and I declined i ‘To the President of the United States, squadron, the department conclu that the Cyane, Hatthows, With tnittesa ofthe claw wisalia. & hone, interest. It in not wasted capital; it is not the } nion that the number of mem in the service should the works. The contractors insisted tha: Commander Hollins, might, with great propriety, cruise encountered a severe typhoon, and Sere all lo Liew. millions annually sent abroad to foreign capitalists to | increased at least twenty-five hundred. , beew dowe them in the mode of maki: The Rochester Girl. in that region, take proper soundings at Caledonia Bay, {enamt Matthews had & high reputation In the navy as | Pay, the debts contracted for schemes of extravagance, sanune cone atamating to Gent tho Colnmsbie From the Rechetler Aivertier, Dac 4.) andi theme tind wth bob iteadonal orpest, greta heen Se Messin ohare bons | avin mimeo i ig Srl 1 de ct orn drmeemt ns bar ated in writing afin Saice | on ealurcny ateraoon, the say, Jape hor convey an; tl ‘ot volunteer to e in the 4 ‘0 inere: officers, 0 en. a ‘an0! " . y any party ig: ngage among the best of the crew. large the syasdrons, and. thereby ‘iperense Targely i my M. 8. Newton, Eaq., had the matter of Misn Moore's arduous and interesting exploration. Passed Midship- The vessels of the expedition for the survey, and re- } iF see i tf if iy explained absence under consideration, and weat into! proceding her oan Truxton, First Assistant Engineer J- M. Maury, connoissance of Bhering Straits, the North Pacitic ocean | Cire andexpense of som Be ed A ‘the regular examination of the facts d peamibu from the crew of the Cyane, also voluntesred to tnd the China seas, after leaving Simon's bay, Ospe of do propose so to increase the materiel of our navy ax | a second test, and 1 entertained the opinion t pearance. These facts are:—First—That at 63, 0’ Geadark in thé adventure. “The permission of the New Good Hope, proceeded to Hong Kong, China; tae al P- at least to approximate to a state of readiness for emer- ‘the government hed been to the expense. and inconve- | °° the evening of the dissppearance of Miss Mo Greesdian government having ‘been cheerfully given, oF ¥a* Vincennes, Commander C. Kinggold, and the brig gencies which wise statesmen strive to avoid, but wiser | nieuce of furnishing ome veeal, it became incumbent | Miss Codding and the Whitney family took ton at Whi the Cyene sailed from Philadelphia in December fast, and 2 0¢POle, Lieutenant Commanding A B: Davis, "by the statesmen prepare to meet, It will be my pleasare to Foe Do” fnvuperdination ‘upon the contractors to demonstrate by a fair and | "’* 5 oo... attiedat Pocto Escoces, co-aledonis Bay, on theittn YY uot fan Dieman’s Land, through the Coral seas, | co-operate with the legislative department of govera- | st the drum-tap, ener | rensunable test, at their own expense, that the works wa pbb eae) ginetynenerone tae bn of January. The party were landed, and proceeded to Peers ot ae Hose Sef 2 | Ladrone an pg ae ee went in ractially oaesyite Sen * sndition of |, Recent ocenrenes cea | were in froth rorthy of , and that they bad a ee eee ad leek suameeat se . ; fe t . crossing ‘the Tienes: rer ace een saesenetar oe Sin eyteyel [deg hese) ‘Joho our naval force, bee vo refer pau te. a full report of oe ly ae, bs ‘Constructor, who, until receatiy, | With ey peas ene Geo beyeronu and sdjusted d ‘ it terprise, and devo- i ’ i a ‘ epair. i int mein ao com- " iow to’ duty, eminently crcatable 1 them an om Prt, lueuterant Commanding HK: Stereng, by the way ‘ln ‘ine axercise of the dixeretion imposed apon me | feaih. ‘But om land ace their services hve ever bern 1, 1b, ‘that from the ex--| Nt Na faome errands: down town to. do, but, would cers, and honorable to them 5 par, mata and by ihe act of Congress directing the construction of six ‘on shore far these repairs, &e.,1 (he) amef the | bacyin half an hour, and I ft shutting Ukasidoee men. A few of the sea Billeton passages, and the Sooloo see. Their arrival at gicam (rigates, I decided, after mature consideration and | ousd oMictent, either in the Navy Yards or meu ivilii ble to bea: der thei: Song is rej and besin are in a safe and better a re ae ental, tas Hong Kong vteported by Commander Ringgit ary in Souq, to have them Walt im the avy Jada, andere | MLM Sh, Ma Serpe epompany out met R than, won in Bay ier; | DAT ,Digsok oe bor ater thal, re, Whltay was whe party to New York. I refer you, however, {o1 mire immediate supervision of the department. their valor in many © ’ nothing to be done to it everything jose oy ty priya ballin Aes gine oeim ane ea 5 sod after enume: altera: | ter, supposing it to beher. There was no answer i$ — L — turned, and the outer or street door was closed. Has great ad > . efficiency of the dock.” Still Ide. | *¢ Emma since. Third—On the same evening, not far from 7 0’ works. The contractors propoted | yr Vandemark met Miss Emma Moore, in company z | # young woman not knows to hire, in front of Wamsley’ store; knew her before they met; could not be mist a6 to her identity. The young woman in compaay her was the taller by some half a head or so. 7 "5 “ D During the absence of Commodore Perry, with the i 1 have signe lred in field. pore particular recital of the details Of the expedition, greater part of the East India squadron, at Saban, the | Soveroment dean tale eur. ocr an ero ly | "Their nomber now is entirely toe sual, aad Wu cbetant crt of Lieut, Strain, which accom’ civil war raging in China, and particularly in the vitinity | \\yich the ver-els, while being built, could be protected bee | Freowmend an imerease, by which more Ponies, this communication, from wich you will ner- of Canton, sw alarmed American citizens holding im- | {iin exposure, ant the mecuanics’ employed could be | auld. pe allowed for thelr, proper discipline poive: at he is very decidedly of op nion that the works mense property in that region, that Commander Ring- | Cheitered comfortably, and able to Preece ould ve | drill ng berove they are to seu, and their iy impracticable, and thus, I apprehend, settles the — gatd considered it proper to suspend temporarily the spe- | jn she mont cosines edie: Fr sroaceot Ca fry reliable. 1 catia 5 hai the corpa could be improved and elevated ia charac question forever. ial duties to which he was assigned, and el tecti itis. proper that I should remark that the officers of | {sius'ecmoved countrymen anil has tis ined io acc Ou examination, I discovered that there was neither | ter. ly scopting some aystem of appolating oBlcers of her Britannic Majesty’s ship Virago, on the Pacific, were piisha large portion of the surveys that had been plan. | ™4t¢r'al, buildiug-slip nor ship-house at Pensacola, and | milit ry education and training Prompt aad generous im extending timely relief to the fei for the present year. In addition to theseembar. | ‘at the Kranshn was being rebuilt, and the Santee waned au peomn, tf avifering party, and that a proper appreciation of it h&s —favaments, Commodore Perry informs the department, | sitered and completed, at Kittery. I therefore ordered! . easels oatuedll Deon oficlally communicated to her Britannic Majesty's mder date cf August O thet, on his asrival at Hong | at immediate preparation be made for constructing | bays agin ony 4 Teeustion tt ines tone fale evening Mie Rese oecrina tonic Ice et of Messrs. Wilder & Gorton, by Mr. Mc government. penwhact ‘i | the new frigates at the navy yards in Boston, Brooklyn, latelligeoce having been received that the pro- ee eee ouine i tus nanieieneee tiem ee | Philadelphins Washington and Norfolk. ‘There is no di. | California. To keep theve yarde in proper condition for | pecty of American citivens had been improperly Commander Ringyold, which has ren if culty im securing the services of as many skiliul Secelaed by the people of San Janne Nice ee earn ee tice that he ceraiaes, mechanics and laborers ag are desired.” The public ragua;, that our Minister to Central Ameri turn to the United States. Commodore Perry ng | OMlcers at the several yards have all manifested Hon. Mr. Borland had been treated with rudeness a ced in charge of the expedition an experienced oficer, | 2¢tP interest in despatchiug the work with success. diacenpect, and that the interests of our countrymen Pitutenant Jenn the next in rent and the | Much progress has been made, and I have no doubt required the immediate presence of a man-of-war in pian of operations marked out by him being eonsidered Si frat clas# steamers, equal'to the expeciation of that neighborhood, the Cyane being the most available Mitiefousrthe department han directed bus to proceed , the country, will be completed as spesdily as men and veasel for that purpose, in obedience to instructions ‘ith all despatch to its execution. } means can‘accomplish the work. Not having facilit froma the department, put to sea again on the 19th of “The Pacide aquadron, Commodore B. Dulany, consists | fOF manufacturing the steam machinery necessary, ex- | oagt ’ ? 4 of the dag-slup St. Lawrence, Commander W. W. Hun: | cept at the Washington Navy Chad no alternative My immediate predecessor, (Bon. J. P the afternoon, she offered hi: ‘$3 bill San Juan,Commander Hollins, learn- fur. Pe & ‘ but to make contracts with’ private establishments tor | 4; » (Hen. J. P. Soeet) io ‘of 31d tons more than was used in the former wa ae gh prt ing trom Mr. Fabena, the United Staten Commercial cain *and St Mary's, Commander T. Dailey The fer, | 8x8.0f the frigates. ‘These contracts have been his last annual report, recomamended the construction of | teat. ‘The vessel is to be pladed om the dock, fcated in- | Rents, 7nich he deslined to take, sxeapt af a dlecau ‘Ago at that place, tha: the demand made Dy him, by Deralt, and St Mary's, Commander art: Cearint® this with builders. of eatablished repatation, aiid the con- | %basia and railway, in couneetion with the doating see- Dasin, and hauled sehore on the railway, and re- | {Pe Siu from Mr, Henterion, and peld for the plovee t order of the State Department, for proper reparation Groad pendant of Commodore W. Merving, sailed from _ tTactors are busily engaged in fulfiling them. The plan | taue forthe basin and railway, without which the deck yet seein. other m. Gn returning from! the store, Milos M Of wrongs committed by them, bad been treated with New York on the Oth or October, for'the Paeife, adopted was to invite proposals, so as to call fortit the | made for the be way, h the dock ‘The board considering the details of the proposed toxt | SLY'iir Henderson, and remarked about the bill derision and contempt, after due deliberation, thought Upon her arnval out, Commodore ‘Mervine will take | best skill of the country, and, ‘before adopting them, | {h’ Accision of or usefully employed. I submit it to and arrangements, reoommend it as one that may be | 8” Dr tien tie relation of Mr Roberts, i expedient, through Mr. Fabens, to makes fiual de- command, and Commodore Dulany will return to the tubmit them for my guidance to board of eagineers: | not he made witho a tures should | -uficient to enable the Department to determine whe- | “Thee trneactions cover all that is known e00! mand upon the tants for a satisfactory adjust- si p % 4, -of- nds with approved sui ave been taken for the 4 , 4 meat. “An the result was entirely unsatisfactory, Com. CT inte ao an at rete and the etoaccr faithful execution of the work, and two-Bitbs of the con- | ,q Onerews subsequently, in the Naval Mise Moore from the time she left, the house of Mr wander Hollins gave notice on the 12th of July, by @ Massachusetts, Lieutenant Commanding R. W. Meade, | tract price is to be retained until the machinery has | Dill. aPprO woh 8, 1008, adapted the & oe. Wilder k Gorven'svend front thet. tine th rage Of h proclamation, posted in the most public places, that if sailed from Norfolk, respectively, the 16th of June and | Worked successfully and satisfactorily at sea for six | '! Sint et edi Dieet will be the better able to judge of the character of these | Dos tecn discovencé ae a im a Proposed terms of seitlement were not con 6th of July, to join this uadron, By last advices, they months. Before adopting any of ‘the plans propose, | sd sate fey caiman se uocty Gvertel, te wert. (nny interest of the goveroment shall be | “The continued and unexplained absence of R , he should, af clock A. M. n€ had reached and left Rio. on their way out; but the thought r, in consideration of the greater experi- 4 in Calife it pow 4 1sth, proceed to bombard the town of San Juan, a F 3 ® | ence et Bngisnd and France in the application oC ston ne valwny fornia, in connection with be made to to the'ead that. «the rights of our country and citi: Masuachusetts, after 9 day s sail encountered and sul funchinery to men-of-war, to Order’ the Engioeer-in- | tH floating dock 1a teat ptgaate Rvcretary, ia par, and capability of the dock, basin aad railway. wena may bo vindicated, and as a guarantee for jy : Chief, Martin, to visit Europe with a vi suance of sat Purpose, given by the act In of the py - |, many conjecti ring Jeture protection.” He had hoped thatthe show of a io for repairs. ing Simeelf of asy bayeoreneuts ‘which tany bhv ember the twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hun- tion et, paseed at the last session PPE on, | intimate relation to her, have been examined. at mus Sept nothing Getermlaation on hia part would, at this stage of the _ 10 addition to the above-enumerated vessels, thereare made, The observations made during his visit, an Sead end Sty, CES: ACCS S, grese, it was “That all the =p eed ae aig rose tine J pai mai ¢ observations fu s visit, and provides ma Grounds been clicited affording the least alue to the mystery have brought about satisfuctary adjust. 8 the Pacific coast the stationary storeships Fredonia, interesting reports of Lieutenant Walker, who had been | {oF the naval service for the year ke talons of and thereunto i veoat, such, however, was Bot the case. Lueutenant J.D. Johnston, at Valparaiso: end Warren, | similarly engaged, will prove useful to the service. The | 7une,,oue thousand eigut beptes cal Whom, on the itp ey 8 people so famed as this for the mar ‘ as His appeals for adjustment were disregarded. His Jieutenant D. McDougall, at the Navy Yard at Maré garter and Sabine frigates will be completed and read; Soesstary otdesseed | ove, te same i ceded to the Mayor and It was not to be expected that the master. wi iaunption was only read to be treated with contempt. Island, California. for belay laakohed tn a: few weeks Franklin { | t¢ the honorable Howell Cobb, Speaker of the House | Aldermen of the cit; erp tothe nae and bene. eave thy Bt gles eg reat en ay javy 0: such * Cracken, who useful aervice, and to erect on them the necessary build she asked to change a pair of gloves, a bought in the afternoon of the same day. to make the change, but referred her to another c further down the store. She was accompanied this by be ets woman larger than herself, having r long facial dimensions, dark complexion, and black This woman did not follow down t! store é Roberts, where Miss Moore made the exchange Mr. Roberts is confident as to the identity of the 7] from the fact that when there to purchase the gloves & lig return to his country after allthis, without inflicting The St. Lawrence has been cruising moat of the year | progressing rapidly, and it is confidently expected that ome f 4 D, i ale Pela uary, one thousand ¢i . | clairvoyant and spiritual agencies, so called, have Se Peet moi be Bit eigual fore renewal et |: parsion ior Ch: Tip Porteaoath hisned’ how tes |'eaveing ETI useweME. arte ee oe the Gvecutionof which ope bumired and Bftyihoceand pencor'te the Or Mceapnis anid prepenty.7? im | called fn requisition. These, at Grot, promise much, but 5 u rm 5 ig fall, if not earlier. aatneeial ted a tha Mayor Wrse~. Im | Shen pet Oto fe pe insults and outrages. Having tendered boats for the Sandwich Islands to San Francisco on the 14th of Janu- RYOROANTRATION OF ‘Tink NAVY. prep ip ot Be sng me Caper pe t in the judg | pursuance of that daw, 1 ® com. | Sich Leh jor ote “pied Lined mest ‘0 ge ethno removal of property and persons to all who would avail ary. The government having received! sufficient intelli- In my last annual report I ventured to express the | tary, and evap oper ey Panam Ea neces mesieotion to the of the cxty of Memphis, toas- | Committal on the part of the mediums. up to prevea' seme TS in property without lous’ of Lie, Teould {awful expelition had left or eae avout leaving Gun | Chmicn ‘that the provent organization of the navy is | ta'my last annual report, informed Seemplanee of Sep Geaatisns” Su cessteing toms osse ious as this is, and conalusive as it onght te ci » wit e. 5 y ou ing Son pat os ially hen Sot reprore this Commoanier for his conduct. Humanity | Frantieoar for the purpose” of taking | possssslon Pegi opiretaas forint salts tae but is, in ite given the wunject auch inves ng th Wer te tatawe rate aggre poh fl y property, an order was to 7 believe jes to fe owever j i i it yy ‘ means impaired.| gems meee oan arch condemas tke ent Cray Beata o Monier prompt undmitent | Geni aneemnae gud aarste Cf thet rane of | gen, "howeret bed deed that tciol Seating he ommuntant fn nary Zarda Mepis or: | Sunlag erin, laroorns ony tho ait nt Cat Se cae ae tag viet 5 “precy nder prompt &nd efficent the public service," and “that a retired list on reduced | dock is preferable i n California; that I entertained the render the nd # imoeod, Mai soon be disclosed, andthus the very failure to tell any- brave officer who administers that punishment froma aid in assisting to arrest and suppress any such unlawful pay for the faithful who have become infirm; the dis- | opinion that a basin ts necessary to revder it safe when | The ~~ 4 LY Or. "adda to the faith in the ability of the mediums pense of justice to his countrymen whose progerty is expedition ns might be set on foot within the jurisdiction T)irge of the inefficient who have no clainy om the | Chitin thats basin ts ne Ben gdm ye io) Seem the currender isons sreqrtocey if it were proper for them to de se. Gextroyed and whose national flag is insulted. We may of the United States, and to exercise all lawful means of founty of their government for services rendered ; | te eSeae ropolse, waiae aay capone | was made, ond Ge Property is now in the possession | Neantime, nothing isk eit tates bu well ragret the stern necessity which constrained him, preventing the violation of law and infraction of treaty promotion regulated by capacity, merit, and aot by mere | ecpants of dangerous weather, 2, ore | ond wader the cen corporate authori. | Hieestime, notbing is known, and there the matter Dut it should be remembered that Commamler Hollins stipulations, To assist him in this, he was, with your Lenjority of commissions ad pay to wome. extent com. | crete sxecute te coatract unless Congrens sho 4 comets had been compelled but a year before to interfere and approbation, authorized, if necessary, tochartera steam- — trojled by ees service, are reforms not only demanded by The Gifieuitie oat the title. to Me atop these same people in their progress of destruction of _ er for a short time, on’ reasovable terms. Commander | the condition of the service, by considerations of justi Pog ives igen ge Bin yy Sh ny og pty far as peer gd A connection Particulars of the Fire at Black Rook. sale of which the department hae | PROPELLERINTERNATIONAL BURNT —FRONTIRS MILDS ‘American property; that he bad, besides, seen the re- | Dorpin considered it necessary, and for this purpose he alte! , . fore Sl out nieistee’ gpealtag ot Uirol pelng per | chartered, at Men Feanctscn, tie atéatser Colembor tee pat sae Tt toate wera eee ose ME te ; contract, the opinion of the Attorney General was asked — for the peesent suspended, at the request of the Mayor IN ASHRS—LOS8 NRARLY $100,000. Zone, almoat without exception, of notoriously bad cha- | longing to the Pacific Mail’ Steamship Company. With gion to accomplish many of the desired reforms, No | vivicd teat i eae corniiatene ta ite te lew, and be and Aljermen, on their img to the depart. [From the Buffalo Democracy, Dec. 4.} racter—some of them rged penitentiary convicts | this ateamer and the Portsmouth he proccoded along the | final action was taken, Subsequent reflection and ex. | Scvised that it was mandatory in ite terme as to the meus that they had resslved to epee! to Congress to re- | A destructive fire occurred yesterday afternoon about aad refugees from justice, habitually manifesting evil | coast; and having evinced a determination to execnte his | yericree of neatly (wo years’ connection with the navy, | tno ir the be pelt, and the esecetion of the osn- | cotabiich the Govg yord. two o'clock, at Black Rock) which destroyed the new “iaporitisne tcwards our citizens, aod indulging thove | orders, and unite with the civil authorities in promptly | An extended ‘acquaintanee, with the oficers, and au er, | {ractgitine basia and railway were decided to be seces, | The ground sud appurtenances, however, have, in pur- | propeller International, and the Frontier fouring mills. Sazositions to the injury of persons and property. when. | arresting ad suppressing all unlawful expeditions, lw | fontive observstion of the practical wovtlog of the | mzgatt wweetut to the pabite cervics, He uses the | euance of the law, Senn asevaditivnally’ surrendered, Propeller International, which usually lays over wer they are not restrained by force,” and that he was | unquestionably contributed largely to their early teraii- | present system, have wot only conGrmed me aw the cor. Fans, far coe terme of the ost | and the yard cheatened ty the guewmecat, poy Agee peeing gy me Appin a Cah ‘unable to regard them in any other ight than as pi nation, and thas to the _gaintenance of fricudly | fectnexs of those views, but constrain me, at the hasard Sas srove Foe ye ‘aaa ne’, MIPOFLL ANKOTN. Sea ee on Saturday ovening for the pur- ates and outlaws;” that he xnew that this ungoverned | relations with a neighboring power. Some of the | of the charge of pertinaciiy, to renew most earnestly | ‘J rovi wha: a tebe } jopulace had for ® season restrained an Amorican Minis. | Jeaders were arrested, and many of the sick and | ier ates 7 rovided, That, in the judgment of the Secretary, such pee peroneal erty, ‘and rudely assailed bi; that wounded avait themsslves ofthe ofr of Commander | Mideletion und edoptie with eng aolicitede, “Bo tires. | Coun ama sallway s0 moqueeney, A000) 5? Seen 68 | Rowen ‘hey had retained and refused to surrender the stolen | Dornin to return them to their homes, | Thave the authority at present, thesa views shall guide | : machines, grout proérty of some of our countrymen; that they con- | After he had terminated auccessfully his efforts in xe | my action, Tcannct recommend for promotion fo higher | “uals Tarts sxe found whlch ove mesensnty to the | an Jy turned a deaf ear to hii Is for adjust- 5 i 0 the safety, or to the permanent value, of | ben temptuoualy turned a deaf ear to bis appeals for adjust- gard to the unlawful expedition agaiust Mexico, Le re- | renk avd larger pay officers who do not merit it, trom | {he machine. That is’a mechanical question, to be } ment, and that his alternative was to inflict punishment — ¢ ived intelligence that about twenty American citizens | incapacity, eMher moral or physical. Ido not appre- | cctiled by the Seeretary, by the aid of experts and of or return to his country with a well-armed national ves- | were imprisoned im close confinement at Mazatlan. | ciate the justice or policy of promoting to s| cugincers.” I deemed it my duty to procure the | xe), and report that he had demanded satisfaction, and, Having investigated the matter, and concluding that | higher grade au officer who cannot perform its duties, | opinion and advice of experts, engineers, amd ; upon being treated with contempt, bad felt it itisduty their confinement was improper, he interfered, and de. | unicss in rare exceptionable cases, as a complimentary | jen, some of whose opinions, heretofore verbally given | to come home fi inanded their release. ‘They wore soon discharged, by | reward for acrvices rendered. It is neither moro por | [have caused 10 we reduced lo writing, 1 aelee te Br, Rash impetuosity on the part of those who boll in order of the government of sfexico, and, at the instance | le-s than clevating the incompetent and then ordering | jenthall, naval constructor and Chief of the Bureau of their hands, to some extent, the elements of war, can- of Commander Dornin, were conveyed, in the revenue | ihe unpromoted competent to do their work! Is there | Construction, Equipment an and the civil | 7 not be too strongly discountenancet. No officer should | eutter W. L. Marcy, to San Francisco, at their own re- | an alarm of fastening upon the government an odious ‘ Mr. ached —_ dare trifle with them, But I think that an acqusin guest. The Portsmouth did good service at Acapulco, ia |} eusion system? None can cherish a greater repugnance bee) Voom ee se ea _—s < oe * " dance with all the fucts and calm reflection will relive | Saiveying American steamers irom the embarrassment of | {0 {hat tran mysel(; but none can. be more fully com. | nica’ toon distings! a cee | contract bas bee anade Gar She Guection of s machine | byshele of it Raving been taken in on Babwnday last. ourown people (who are justly sensitive of national | a piockeiect thet port, When last beard from se was | vinced that if can be +0 well aurrounded with safeguards, | fertoms aud ssete, entitled tothe coumacore cog | Shev.0t Annagelis, water the ae of Cesgress sutharis. | There wore alee some 1,000 baerals of four, sseell7 com, houor,) from any fear that a wrong has been nerpe- gt theandwich Islands, and. is ‘now probably on er restrictions and Umitations, as to retain its virtues and | Sespect of 1 san tk ‘hat T shoul &, cad Tal esa Gate of Se Geet sppertuatiy | mee grades, and betworn $,000.004 4.008 bushels of sella trated, ands reference to history may well silence the way to the United States, under the order of the depart- | reject its faulte, : Tee tal tot as eioe tanieeelon, | te apd gg WB do dig criticiam of others a , . ‘ . ' ? stoop wend ase bp PD omber r The Cyane requiring extensive repairs, and owing to ment. si v E + Is the particular plan of having the aid of » board of | adverse to the construction of these floating docks, but | students sow at the is one bondeed and waty, | 8 damaged state. A on of the four ut the shed the condition of the crew from the unhealthiness ot | 4, Th¢ St. Mary's, which May Rae lst adel Dent a bc GRAM Te ibe eres a bona tact Mugg onemagen — bap vpmed ww the | Attention is te the of the Chitt of Buren #88 also saved, but all the wheat, mill feed and a few a previ . 6 of October, 1853, join squadron at objected toy Tam not w tor any other | public service, \* wa connection Ordeapee barrele were hat climate and their previous exposure in the tay of Vit oaenieo om the Oth of denunry. Complamts having rehieme, provided. the main object eam be attained. I | with the nectional dock, they have expressed themselves | sf te Meaad ef eas tast at the’ at | the propeller Taternativoal wos. vevsel cf 473 tons Cossary. ‘After receiving on board the archives of the been made of abusive hatte eg our ship- uld be content to bay re eer tens from time to | with clearness and force, and presented iments ead | mander of the hip bot Me my by 4 summer of 1864, by Messrs. Bidwell and Commercial agency and Mr. Kabens and Lis offeces, masters whose business carried them to: the Chincha ¢ officially report to the Prevident such names ax he | facts which, im my judgment, were com : The Naval te atl eatitiet Hants, for the Buffalo, Brantfor! and Goderich Railroad, Commander Hollins proceeded to Boston, and the vessel slanda, the St. Mary's was sent there in April. | Com hes should be retired or dropped; that the President | Mr. Lenthall, in andwer to my inquiry, expresers him. | support, and emuseutiy ate the widlty of um | Sowa used ane ferry boat, connecting the terminus on the lst of September was put out of commission Mander Legs | found in port about one hundred and six uld transmit, if be thinks proper, their names to the | self thus: ‘In compliance with your request that I orion! eet iiabenoet of their road at Fort and the Niagara Falls Railroad foe the purpose of repairs, which are now completed. teen sail of w Meowier' Leng of hy ee were Ameri at ‘ witha rere eon suited to each case. sree et my opinion in writing, which on se- achievements om sre, quietly eed gradually | st Meck Rock. This propeller ‘wan built expressly fer The Falmouth, Commander Shaw, has been very re. CA” a he Hesenee besa net! : a's voty beast ae ne President nm pong yee appointing power, Pai penta _ been Nee F gtens es to whether | efveted by lieutenant Maury, aithvagh mot sutractiog | ronming through the ‘on the river, was ironed and ceatly put inte commission, and proceed to sea ina ol ee ae Ln ie om be abl eae 2 oe veg ng sewer, = i apprehension o| sasal ee ton wa mo deny vn or sooseey in com- | the admiration of the melttode, nor daceling the be | hat « a powerful ine. She cost, we believe, fee 7 | chantmen, both Englis! i merican. expressed them- ar Chamber perseout : ie ing victimized by | nection wi sectional or ug dock, | would re. | heifer with sadden Geshes of triomph, have reflected | 60% 000 was inaured for enly $95,000, ‘The {1 aquadron, Commodore W.D. Salter, hasat- | Selves highly grati ed at the prompt andenergetic action rrcret inquisition, now felt by some worthy officers, spectfully state that, without such an appendage, I | honor upom himself and bis cowntry, bare brought ‘The wolll was owned by Alfred E'y, of Rochester, ama tached to it the flag-ship Savannah, ‘ander Samuel | t#ken by Commander Bailey in regard to their complaints would be quieted. But I forbear tof igue with details. | would fcomsider thia floating dock ina great measure | remote aatwns ie comparative pooutaaiy to each otber, | wee insured for 915, The mill was an old one, Morcer; the sloop-of war Germantown, Commaader W. F. and griovances. Whilst there he had an opportanity to The magic touch of reform is needed, and if skilfully | vusuitable for naval purposes. As a ahip-builder, I'| bave promoted commerce, by polmting ou | (o the mari. | though im good condition, and the insurance will not Jipnch; the brig Bainbridge, Lieut. Commanding . G, | return the protection which was afforded last your by Ad- applied will impart to the mow drooping body of our | could not recommend the execution of very extensive | ver vew paths on the great deep, where favorable winds | Cuver the lows ‘Hunter; and the store ship Relief, Lieut. Commanding | miral Moseby, of the English navy, to many ofourcoun- navy a robust health and new life, I believe that sound | repairs, which are often necessary to ships of war, upea > and currents lent friendly aid. Hie "Wind aud Corremt Mr Wy bad teased tho mill to Milo Barnum, of Black BC. Rowan. The store-ship Relief returned to New | t#yYmen, by affording assistance and protection to Capt. policy, stern justice, demand it; that true economy is | the uncertain foundation auch # dock ee and “Selling Directions,” are saving miltions | Rock, but itwas rom by Messrs. Kennedy, Gray & Os., York on the 20th of July for fresh supplies, and hav- pose sin ine adh A Pang onthe pasate ween be eS cada to co-operate with pr heme ang hy Ura pieyy A ee tae vo) aged of MeTehan! yesmein of this ei ly 1 Raced gg Ng 12,000 on the the 2 if ®ssiatance and protection hi u vy era- | Con; i i le eftiel y inger to w - treasures. atork ‘will about cover lonn. dog taken in her cargo, sailed for Rio onthe 24th of | SiotttOe oc ut the ialamia, The St. Maty'ty after’, 1 have no hesitation in eaying that there are many | tire would be expoted with s heavy abip upon it, pro CO ily tatormond “that it wae stated im a paper | _ immediately on the breaking out of the fire, Mr. Lyons ‘sloop-of-war Jamestown, which at my last report Cruising on the coast south of Lemme and showing our | ciicers now in the navy whowe names do not adotn the | D*bly formonths, im ary opinion renders this basin very | road Leture the British Association last your, tat it was | come Up ima cutter and gave the alarm in the city, Formed one of thin squadron, having completed her | fag at Iqique, Arica, and varius otter ports, was, on register, ‘There are thowe incapable of performing dut desirable. estimated in India thet a at of wind and cumrent charia | which called oat ail of our fire compamer into the dece Zruise, revarned to the United States, aud arrived at Phi. | the 26ib of August, (the last worm arom heryat the frum age or aiftiction. There are also many gomt ‘On. | ‘The following extracts are taken from the opinion of | fer the Indian ike those that bave been con | snow that bad ‘reshly fallen, cumbering the streets, Ja deipbia on the 2d of May. Sandwich Istanda, wh ¢ bad been seat hy Commo- cers rewigning from time to time, because the path of | Mr. Sauger:— strneted wt this would pro- | withing the drarcing of the machines most laborious ‘The ateamer Water Witch, Lieut. commanding 7. J, | dere Dulany, under instructions from the department promotion in © blocked wp”? by the incompetent, and the | ‘In auswer to the first inquiry, | have to any that, in these ease | Work. ‘They went Cown Niagara street, and the cloud of Wage, is still actively engaged in the surveys of the |: 7 er Michigan, Commander J. futore seema to them #0 unpromising. But it inmy | my opinion, the only feature in these works which com ‘ond ; senoke that arose over the reck indicate! to the curios wrivers Uruguey and Varans. scion on our northern lakes, picature, aa well aa my duty,toaay that the corps ia stilt | mends them to favorable consideration ax 4. AE ohh ine tolleoene tareh of oar breve firemen, vers ; ‘This squadron is efficiently engaged in taking care of | oi full of on ot ee officers, who are not only | tuces for naval patposes in making extensive repairs Nhe interests of our country in that region, with which | i anger, but would sustain the | vpoa heavy veasels of war, is (he connection of the dock, | voyage only oor bove was written we learn that the Captain bs Ls ‘The steam-frigate San Jacinto, Captain Striblin, hay. ready for the post o! your commercial transactions are rapidly growing. | ing received on board the new machinery recently com- pe ud reputation of our ot which has woo «o many | basin, aod railway, so that when a vessel is put upon | the paawnge te ‘The Africam squadron, Commodore Isaae Mayo, con structed for her, put to rea on the Pthof August, for a aurets for our country, sad hy itv brillisat victories | the dock for extensive repairs, and to remains length | been Pista of his hip, ‘the frigate Constitution, Com- | fix months’ cruivo, with a view eepecially to testing the cheered the heart of many @ Ger pending pairiot. of time, the whole «structure cap be @oated iate the ba. | waa again repeated at Loy mander J. Rudd; the sloops-of-war Marion, Com. capaeity of the mach very, ia pursusnoe of the terns of Iwill aot, however, ages At od ropeet by re) ag | sin and firmly grounded , the ship may them be takea on | ssiciauon is Laveepool.”” Th bas shee a ead. | Sence the versel took fire from ae ovee heated stove, vosoder H. Y Purviance, aad Dale, Commander Wra the contract, When last heard from sie was at th the vivws of reciAing Une 0d moni. | shore by tie railway or remarn on the desk, aad woul mated thet the velue of these charts t the commerce «©. Whittle, The brig Perry, Lieutenant R. L. Page, after | ampton, hawing undergone very alight repairs, wes, ficationa of e laws oy de my last annual | in either cane, rest ae safety rai » buildiag dip, and a of the United Plates is equivalent in the Je conformity with the decision of Judge Cortis, the Jinying been on the station two years, arrived st Nor. about pr ng on ber cruise, report, but ey antt reeewing the recom. | would be nhored and mcurtia the seme manoer fam | saving of few fomeverel m Mons ® year oe horttes of Towel: Arctine to reewve naturalization fk om tue Lith of July, The Cocstitution aad tus * eddsiiea to ibe *m,txymeat e€ the ert, oMcers, enemlation Mrereiurs of Opinion What, Congress having wedceed the |. I trust thai ‘bee considerations may prorewt all ob — papers sewed by the Lowel Police Court,