The North-Carolina standard., 1843-10-25
UNITED STATES SHIP "DALE,"
Philadelphia, 18th Oct, lS43.

Philadelphia, 18th Oct, 1913.
Editor &c Standard" Raleigh:
DEAR SIR We have just arrived here, from three
years crulze to the Pacific We direct from
Valparaiso from whence took departure 1st Au-
gust The officers and generally in good health.
have fortunately enjoyed exemption from any pre-
valent disease during the entire three years.
For eighteen nineteen months past, the ''Dale" has
been almost constantly at cruzng between Cape
Horn and Upper California. She has visited the Ports
of Valparaiso and Coquimbo, in Chile Callao, africa,
Tumbez, Islay Santa, Lambayeque, and Payta, in Peru
Puma and Guayaquil, in the Equator; Panama. and Ia
boga, in New Granada; Mazatlan, and Guaymas, in
Mexico; Monterey, San Francisco. Santa Barbara, San
Diego in Upper California and Rio de Janeiro, in Bra
ziI ;-every where keeping viglant eye American
commerce and American interests, aordng protection
the weak asylum 10 the wanderer and aid and
sstance to the distressed of counrymen who, by
their misortunes their wayward propensties, may
have been adrift' inhospitabe sho:es During
the three years. have traversed the for about
sirty thousand miles.
The Frigate "United States,'' the flagship of Com
JONES, sailed from the Bay of Lima in Peru, about the
2Oh of june bound to the Sandwich islands, where she
would probably be joined BY the Sioop of War "Cyane,
Commander Strblng from the coast of California This
movement of Com Jones is presumed 10 have been in
duced by the sudden departure from Valparaiso Of the
English Admiral THOMAS, in the Race Dublin, for the
same destination, his receiving intelligence Of the
extraordinary those Isauds and the deposition
of their King by Capt Lord Geo. Paulett, the British
Frigate Carysford.
Commodore DALLAS, the commander of the
Pacific Squadroh had not reached Lima our last adr
ces from there.
CON- CIGrtotS remains have been brought home in
the Dale. 1t will be recolected that he died on board
his flag ship, the Frgae "Constitution, while at Tai
cahuano in Chile in March, 1S41. On the
of this melancholy event, Capt. Turner Immediately
proceeded with the Frgate to Valparaiso, where the
corpse was inferred in the Protestant CemeaTy. On
application Of the widow of the deceased the Secretary
of the Navy sent out instructions authorizing OF
homeward bound vessels of convey the remains to
discretion thus vested in him, determined to give effect
to the benevolent intentions of the Department in this
respect and caused the remains of the late Commodore
to be exhumed just previously to our DEPARTURE to be
suitably incIosed, conveyed board of the ship, and
brought home, subject to the disposal Of the family and
friends of the deceased.
Two French frigates in the Port of Valparaiso
when sailed, with 700 800 troops board, destn-
ed garrison and cOIOniSe the. Marquesas and other
Islands in PAefc of which the Ffench have taken
possession
CHILE is prosperous and promising country In its
social and political conditonin the arts, in agricul
ture, in commerce, and in all the Improvements of the
age-ths Republic is fifty years ahead of the other
Spanish American States. There is of stability