Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-10-13


THE CHINA SEAs.-We learn on undoubt-
ed authority that the preparations for the
U. S. Expedition TO Japan are rapidly
speeding to completion. and are OH a
scale of great efficiency and completeness.
The expedition is to be. too. much more
formidable than was at first contempla-
ted, and will consist Of three superior
steamships of war-and all this notwith-
standing the many rumors from time to
time that the expedition had been aban-
doned, and which have as otten,been con-
tradicted by our well informed correspon-
dents at Washington and elsewhere.
The steamship Mississippi, Cap. Long,
as part of the expedition, is to sail from
New York from the LIST to the 10th of
November, and will be accompanied by
The steamer Princeton. Capt. Lee, as the
flag ship of Commodore Perry, COM
manding the expedition. The Princeton
is now in the harbor of Baltimore recei.
wing the splendid new boilers and other
machinery contracted for by Messrs. Muir
ray IL Hazlehurst, of this ciiy-and as
far from her being condemned as unfit
for service" as unwarrantably stated by
some of the New York papers. she is now
deemed. since her Reconstruction al
Charlestown, Mass, very model of ma
val architecture.
Owing to the fact that no such boilers
as those now being made for the Prince
ton, were never before constructed in thi.
country, and the necessity of from time
to time altering the plans as the worl
progressed, Tor the purpose of accom-
plishing certain valuable Improvements
considerable more time has been reQui
site for their completion than would have
otherwise been needed; but the work or
board the steamer is now nearly finished
and trial trip down the harbor is early
contemplated.
The third steamer to compose the ia
pan expedition is the Allegheny, now al
lering and repairing at Gosport, Va. She
however. is not expected to sail before
January, next, when she will join the
other steamers at some convenient poin
on the way to their final destination.
With regard to the survey of the Chi
ma seas, to be made under an appropria
ton of $l25, 900, lately granted by Con
gress, we learn that the sloop of war Vim
cennes is to be the flag ship of the squad
AOhS anu bhat ~ 10 OSSlbueO GO purchase
two other vessels for that service. TheI
will have to be of light drsught, of course
such as arc our Baltimore clippers, and
the Government could not do better thar
to look to this quarter for the vessels tina
are needed. Com. Ringgold has charge
of this surveying expedition. The Vim
cennes, it will be recOllected, has Just re
turned TO New York from the Pacific, az
ter a three years cruise.
Commodore Perry has paid visit t.
the Princeton here in our harbor las
week, and was pleased with the execution
of the work, and we see by the New Yorl
Herald that the Hon. John P. Kennedy.
Secretary of the Navy. in company with
Commodore p. will pay an offcial visi
to the United Safes steamers Powhatar
and Mississippi on next Tuesday. at the
Brooklyn navy-yard. The Herald add,
something about the Commodore desiring
to supply the place of the Princeton with
the POwhatan. but we have reason to be.
lieve this is mistake Baltimore Sun.