The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-12
NAVAL.

We announced yesterday the arrival at Norfolk
Of the United States ship ST. Louis, Captain Mckee
yer, twenty-nine and half days from Eio. The
following is list of her officers
Captan--ysaaG McKeever*
Lieutenants-John r. Tucker, Benjamin M.
Dove, Montgomery Hunt, George ". Preble, (act-
ing)
Assistant Surgeon-Wm. S. Bishop.
Purser-nJames C. Douglass.
Master, ingJ---Andrew Vert
Midshpmen-Wa Washington Hammond Nathaniel
T. West Marshall ] Smith, James L. Johnston,
Cyrus Oakley, (acting.)
Captains Clerk. o. Montalant.
Gunner--James d. Ben,hall.
Samaker--James Harvey.
Boatowain, ng)-Joseph Petty.
Carpenter, (ac,ing) =-Adam Bass.
The following officers have been attached TO the
ship during the cruise, viz:
Commander Fl. II. Cooke, joined at Norfolk, and
left at Capetown, Cape of Good Hope, on account Of
i'll health.
Lieutenant l.. G. Keith Joined a, Norfolk, de-
ached, to command the brig Perry, at Macao, June,
1874.
Lieutenant E. G. Tilton, ordered from the Perry
as acting commander, June, 1874, and detached on
the arrival of Captain Isaac Mckeever from the
United States.
Passed Midshipman VIM E. Boudinot, ordered
from the Brandywne, acting master, promoted
acting lieutenant, and ordered to the Brandywine,
June, 1914.
Passed Midshipman John Hogan Brown, order
ed from the Columbus, at Rio Janeiro, August,
IS43; made acting muster June, 1874; and ordered
Captains Clerk Henry Wrighman, ordered to
the Perry June, 1874.
Acting Professor Of Mathematics VIM. t. Wal
tha ordered to Brandywine, at Rio, Aug, lS43.
Midshipmen Tenant McLanahan and Frederick
P. Wheelock detached ut Rio, Aug, lo43
I nrdpreu n The RranuV-
wine june 1874.
Midshipman Stephen p. Spence, ordered to
| Brandywine, May, 1S45.
Acting Boatswain John Knight, resigned July,
1914.
Deaths during the cruse.--Thomas Kenyon
marine; James McGannon, seaman; John Uncas
ordinary seaman
| Left at Rio United States ships Columbus and
| Vincennes, from New York, bound to the East In
dies; frigates Raritan and Brandywne, the Brandy.
wine to sail for the United States in four or five
DAVIS The United States brig Perry sailed in com.
/ pany, bound to this port. Mr. Everett, who went
out in the Columbus, has been quite sick, and may
return to the United States in the Brandywine.
The United States ship Vandalia was lowed from
Craney island to the Norfolk navy-yard, yesterday
afternoon, by the United States steamer Engineer.
Joined at Macao. August, 1874
| Joined from iigate Brandyw Canton river :,
| Joined from brig Perry Canton river June, lsil Tn
remaining officers have performed the entire cruise in THU
| ship.
NAvAL--A letter published in the United States
Gazette, says that the United States ship st. Louis
Captain McKeever, has sailed $1,000 miles; beer
absent nearly two years and half; quelled, with
her seamen and marines, in 1874, AN attempt by the
Chinese burn the foreign factories at Canton; re-
cved the distressed settlers at the Bay of Islands
at their recent conflict with, and defeat by, the ma
ves; has visited, during her absence from the UNI
ted States, the Cape of Good Hope, Singapore
Hong Kong, Macao, Chusan, the Canton river
| Manila, Batavia, Hobart Town, Sydney, the Bay
of Islands, Auckland, Valparaiso, and Rio Janciro
Three of these ports--Chusan, upon the coast o.
China; Hobart Town, Van Domans Land; ant
Auckland, New Iealand-had never before beer
visited by an American man-of-war But fou'
deaths have occurred on board since her departure
and her officers and crew, returning in general goot
health, after an exposure of all to all the changes o.
climate incidental to this voyage, but, and do
feel sincere gratitude for their preservation.