The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-23
Naval Intelligence.

AWFUL FATALITY BY THE yellow FEVER ON BOARD THE
U. S. STEAMER vNES.-We permitted to make the
following extract from letter from Captain ssartwou
Of the u s. vhen to the relatives OF Of the
officers Of that vessel who lately died Of tho yellow fever
at Pensacola -
NAVY YARD, PENSACOLA Sept. IL, 1853.
ss Ny vessel has been afflicted In an unprs-
cedented BY that diIeful scourge the yellow
fever, which raging with such vruleDcs In this section
Of country expeos TO leave here In few days with
the few officers and men who well In brig bouLd
to New York Out Of ten officers attached to the Vixen
sick at ths hospital leaving only officer be~ides
Dyfef on duty AID Of forty nine men, the original
crew q the Vixen Twelve 81: dead aud twe1sysI are
at the hospital rick that at present have but eleven
proportion to the number Il inhabitants thAa in New
Yours, truly, S. swARrwOUr.
The q 8. surveying schooner Morris, John Wilkinson,
Lieut. commanding, arrived here on wsdn.sdsy last
thu sonn.1y
came passeneer on her, Pensacola Gdsets Sept. 10.
The U. 8. steamers Princeton, Commander Ense. and
Fulton. 1t Commanding Ws1cn, copposing the remsin
arrived bslow sunday evening The Fulton up TO
the Navy Yard Monday morning While running into the
anchorage ground the Fulton foul Of aooner In
the fog, her bsat and carried away
the schooner's jfb boom. We are informed that the
fishing ourds quiet and that the reports that have
ted entirely without foundation. Fish plenty,
and many vefssl had retuAned home with full The
would probably have gone .ssn.s K. bridge had not
watcbnaD ut the Navy Yard discovered II, and made
known the fact 20 the watch deck All hands i'm
n eoiately called and she csms to anchor opposite
O. nrsl wharf Tho officers and all well. II ia
raid that the Cysze will a. out hsre for another cruise
Portsmouth (N IL } Morning Chronicle.
NAVY OFFICERS DETACHED, ORDERED, &c Professor
Cn detached from the Observatory, and ordered to the
Naval Academy. at Annapolis Maryland, the Profess
for OF Mathematics. Professor ChsuveDet ut the
academy hereafter to POI the duties Of Professor OF
Astrc nomy, Navigator, and Nautical Surveying. THIS
post Ia lev chair In Tire intttuhon and bids fair to
prtve Of great tervics In the preliminary education Of
the future officers Of the navy. Passed Assistant Surgeon
James Gould, detached from the New York Hospital,
and ordered TO the avail rendezvous ct that point
Psssed Assistant Surgeon X squibb has besn de.
tsched from the Algsny and ordered to tbs Hospital
OF Nov York. Assistant Surgeon Wysham detached
from surveying steamer Bibb and ordered 10 the Ale
gsny. Passed Midthipman Woolley has bsen ordered
TO the Navy Yard at Memphis. Washington Star, Sep
tcsnIer 20.
Lieut. Eebert Thompson has been ordered to the
steamer Allegheny. Lieut.. John L. Ring, detached from
sloop Of st. barys. Lieut. Robert B. Hitchcock,
ordered Inspector II Provisions to the Boston Yard
THE FRIGA1E COLUMBIA AND SLooP OF WAR ALBANY The
Navy Department bsve ordered the Albany and the Co
lumbs (of the Home SqusdIon TO cruise and around
the Hshpg grounds for the present which will recruit
the officers ard OF these vessels after their
summer tour in the Gulf and afford additional proec
ton ard announcement TO fshermen In that quar-
ter Washington STAR 2la
NAVAL ENGINEERS ArroNrED-G. Pympton, OF the
District Of Columbia and James NJ Harris OF New York
have been appointed Third Assistant Engineers In tho
Navy Of the United States.