New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-03

Thfco wears having now neH''S N~f'
~. rrchIs lefs the United States preparations
80 made for her return home 10y the way Of tue
Cane og Good Hope. But when on 'he eve "
..,i;rr orders were received from the Navy ~
..-.-ent for her immediate return to tne 0o~s' u
r.Ne,rn;s Ina obedience TO these, she therefore
-, -, ,hs 10Th of June lsi9, for San Fran
cisco. 49,, month
I'm the 18th sea account Of the same moh'"'
oxo p M land was discovered, when AFTER
wards proved to be a large island l's eH''|''
touo,sr could not be ascertained, as tue fIeoie
,,a 40, altar her course from that on when sho
.,s,Nns when the land was first made ou
chi, course IL. y. e. she ran thirty-seven miles
..~.uol with the coast before it began to trend OH
from her track.
Tbe Island is mountainous and rises into re-
variable peak near it, southwestern extremity.
The position Of this Peak, as ascertalned by tn'
preble is in lat e5o n n. and lon. 1897 rs H.
The ship passed quite near to the land, but owing
.o the extreme hsziness of the atmosphere 1t was
;uDossible 10 determine whether it was inhabited
or not There were four different charts on board
of this part of the Ocean-one English one
French and two Of American comphauon-ye1
none of them had this Island laid down and from
subsequent inquiry it is very satisfactorily deter
mined that the credit of its first discovery is JUST
l dine IN the Prebe, and it is believed that Com
msnde- Glynn has given it the name OF Preoie
Island.
Auon board were DESTROYS Of making recon-
,oisance of this unknown land, but the malignant
tvpe which the dysente y had assumed among the
crew entirely forbade any delay. This epidemic
had made its appearance the day before SAILING
from Macao and there had already two men died
ofit and forty.two were upon the sick report. Its
,svages were so fearful that apart from the num-
her who had died by the early part OF August
abere were upward of fifty officers and men In
sheir hammocks under medical treatment. In ad'
dition TO this the system Of every person In the
ship was so impregnated with the disease, that
there was no telling at what moment any portion
of the whole ships company might be Frustrated
with IT, Under these circumstances twas deemed
advisable not to venture into the ungenia climate
of our Western Coast, but 70 bear away for the
Sandwich Islands On the arrival of the Preble
1t Honolulu hospital was at once estahshed on
shore to which the invalids were all removed, bnt
nnfortur stely too late for several Of the poor fell
aows. The very flower of the crew were swept
Dffby this fell disease. AS body they were as
frue.hearted and noble set of men as ever tr01
ahe deck Of any ship. Their terrible suferings
were borne with heroic fortitude and Christian
composure and resignation.
While the Preble laid at Honolulu difficulty
occurring between the Consul General OF France
and the Hawaiian Government, detachment OF
soldiers and seamen were thrown on shore from
the French men-of war, and the fort taken pos
session Of After having dismounted the guns,
and destroyed the ammunition they retired.
The p, in the meantime, stood ready to pro
feet and shelter the American residents in case OF
any collision or bombardment.
II was not until December following that
FRAGMENT of the crew were sufficiently GONZALES
cent TO admit of the Preble venturing to Cali
fornia With few men loaned from the squad
ron, she was then taken to San Francisco, and
ultimately to Benicia, IS men having been left be-
hind in the hospital at Honolulu.
The terms of service of the having ex
pired. they were all discharged as fast as they
covered sufficiently to leave the hands Of the
physician The of many Of the officers was
30 greatly impaired, that they were sent home
by the way of the Isthmus. The ship was thus
left entirely without crew the copper was
and other spars, were falling to pieces will de-
cay; and there was not sail left aboard tna'
kvas fit to spread to a moderate breeze In July,
however she was patched up, the maln'mast
fshed, and a suit of old sails given her, and as
MANY officers and men as could be spared from
1he already disabled squadron put on board and
she sailed on the Sd day of August for Valparaiso
where she arrived in 10 days, making one Of the
quickest passages on record. P,re the Prebe
was detained one month from the necessity Of
having new suit of sails made.
On the second arrival of the Preble at Homo
Zulu, sine had been absent from the United States
g years and IL months, and had sailed 1888
miles, an amount, it is believed, unequaled, in
= she same space of time, by any man-ofwar of any
nation that has been foated and up to her re-
1urn to this port she has sailed nearly 100000
miles, and been in commission four years and -four
months.
Every port Of any importance whatever, in the
North Pacific and China Seas and upon the West
Coat Of South America, Mexico and California,
has been visited, and many Of them several times
during the cruise. Unfrequented parts of the
ocean have been trsversed-a number of strange
ports bsve been entered, where no National ves-
nel had ever before shown our Flag-and our COM
merce los received succOr and protection from the
Preble in a number of most important instances
Thus il will be seen that the Preble has made one
Df the most interesting, and certainly the longest
cruise for both duration of time and distance sail
ed, that has ever been made by an American
man Oi.war.
The following is lis; Of deaths that have &C.
CURED during the cruise:
Edward Parker seaman. fell from sof Jan. l9. 1871
james Jscks cabin cook, intermittent fever Aug a.
1871 Jobu Timm. ordinary fell from sOfS. Sept
il. 1871 VIM Lloyd, ordinary seaman dysenery, June
rs 1919 Jmes Dci boaiswains msIe, do June IT, l849
James Thompson, ssmaker, do, June 20, 1919 Talua
(SaL eh lsandeIl do. June =. 1919 Peer Thompson