The Arkansas advocate., 1836-02-19
NAVY REPORT.

The report of the Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy, furnishes the follow ing particulars relative to the condition and employment of our naval force, showing that we can easily be made ready for action, if necessary, on the element of onr glory. The ship of tie iine North Carolina, has been thoroughly repaired in her hull, Is out ofdoek, and may be htted for sea in eighty days--the independence, of the same class, is now rap idly undergoing repair at Boston, the ffigates Constitution, and Constellation, and sloo5s Peacock and Vandalia, have been equipped and sent to sea ; and frigatesU. J., and sloops Concord and Boston, have been prepared and gre readily for crews; the hull ofthe frigute Columbia, at Washington, Is so nearly con- piete, that sfie may be launched ii the course ef this lnonth-the sloop of war Warren Is taking in her crew, and will sail in a few days; the Lexington will be ready for crew ln few weeks and the Falmouth and Match e2 and seho Aef Grampus have been recent Y put under repair, and may also be ready for crews ia like time. The hull of atose- ship has been commenced at Philadelphia, and steam-vessei at New | ork, but the lat ter will not be ready for service until the next summer. The ships Of the line, Ala bama, Vermont, Virginia. Pennsylvania, and New l ork, and the ifigltas sIntee, Cunber- land, Sabine, Savannah, Raritan, and St. lawrence, are ln the stocks we'll protected, and as nearly completed, as they should ba, until 1t IS determined to launch them. The snip of the line Delaware, ffigate Potomac, stoop John Adams, and the schooner Shark, have been employed in the Mediterranean during the last year. The frigate Constitu- ton sailed for the same station, from New York, on the 18th August last tAe United States returned thence on the lCth December last; and the Delaware is ordered home and daily expected On the West India station, the sloops Vandalia, St. Louis and Falmouth, and the schooners Grampus and Experiment have been employed-the Nandalia after re- pairs at Norfolk, sailed thence on the i4th January last, to resume her station in the West IEdlcs--the Falmouth returned from station on lst August last, and is now at Norfolk; the Experiment also returned in April last, and has been employed in the survey of the coast; the Grampus returned to Norfolk on the 2eth September last, is Under repairs, and will soon resume her sta ton; and the frigate Constellation sailed thither, from Norfolk, on the sth Oct last
 The sloops Natchez, Erie and Ontario con- posed the squadron on the Brazilian station.
 | Ae ANitcuSZ arrived at ISeW- ! orK OH her return, on the Sd Oct. The Enterprise has been detached and ordered on cruise to the East Indies, she sailed in company with the sloop of war Peacock from llio, on I2th of July, the Peacock having sailed for that sta tion, from New York, on 22d Apil. The Ontario was ordered, in June last, to Africa, with instructions to visit the island of ssf.
 Thomas, Bassa Cove, Cape Palmas and Mesurado. The squadron employed in the Pacific, consisted Of ti.e frigato Brandywine and sloops Fairfield and Vincennes, and schooners Dolphin and Grampus, of which the Nineennes has been ordered home, by the way of the East Indies, and the Fairfield has
 lately arrived at Noifolk.