Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-24
Intoresting Letters from the o. 8. Japan
EfTnadition.

The editor of the Newark Advertiser has been
eroted 10 neruse some private letters from Joseph
A. Halsey, IT., of that CITY, clerk q the nEst
lieutenant on board the U. S. steamship Powhat-
ian. Of the Japan expedition. The inst one Is
dated MAY 18th, at Port Louis, Isle OF Maurtlus.
We make the following extracist-
con NAV 10th, about 10, o. M, land was report
ed and at 80, p. M, we came to anchor IN Port
Louis boy, one of the finest pl- ces have ever
seen Port Louis contains about 10000 inhal'i-
tants. principally French although it Is under the
English flag. There are also great many Malays,
moor, miserable wretches, who live fnm hand to
mouth, and are clad in nothing but piece oil
muslin tied around their waist They do oil the
work of the Island, getting about III c~nts uay'
and hundredso of knock downs. American slavery
is freedom AMI wealth compared with the situation
of these poor devils. Our crew have all had
liberty here, fifty goirg asqore at time, and have
all acted very well. Only one has been hurt; he
was stabbed in three or four places, but Is doing
we'll. went out TO the burying ground, and visit
ed Paul and Virginia's grave. There is beauti-
full little ponu surrounded by flowers of all kinds
and on one side Of IT is Paufs grave, and on The
other Virginia"
The next letter is dated Singapore. June 18th,
where they arrived that day, and states that during
the whole voyage from Norfolk they had enjoyed
exceedingly fin weather.
owe ave had all kinds of news from the
States; some say the Japan expedition IS recalled
and some say not; others that America IS gong 10
war with Spain about Cuba, and that we will be
ordered home and go there. They also say9pL
Navy Bill, for increase of pay, has been vetoef 3
The weather is described as hot, the thermoB
ter beng 80 to 50 degrees in the shade. The
was to be detained some Jour or five weeks, as
YVES leaking, and was going 10 be repaired.
following piece of intelligence We do not ~ =,
Der to have seen from any other quartet:
''AfteI we leave here we shall go TO BOZ y Il
ratify a treaty with the Bornese. There are, {B
here that the Bornese and Dutch are ightins ~
briSkly, and il that is true, our boats may have 10
mix in tile scrimmage, il they are attacked. Three
Of our boats ale going up-the two launches anu
the gig. Tie launches will each have d%IO'
howitzer. and the crew armed 10 the teeth. From
Borneu we shall proceed to Hong Kong whete we
shall await the commodore, who has gone 10 ia
pan with the steamers Mississippi and Susqueh"n-
ma, and the sloop of war Plymouth. The borneo
expedition will be dangerous one apart from Tue
prObaI ility Cf getting mixed up IN tue hght' lot
the river which the boats go up IS lined WIN pre-
datory tribes, no know no law except Plsscy ana
murder, and the captain expects they Will all. OK
the boats. They won't do it more than once"
Tie New York Trlbu. has advices trom Sham
ghai to May Is. The sloop of wnr Plymouth was
10 remain there, and not to accompany the japan
Expeditions as expected. The American mercan-
tile houses had addressed letter TO Commissioner
Marshall, asking that they should not be lett DE.
fenceIess, exposed to any emergency that mlEht
arise. Commodore Perry, therefore, had detached
the Plymouth for the present, from the japanese
Bayiofd Taylor, Esq, of til" N. Y. Tribune, had
Joined the Expedition to Japan, having been as
sigued place in the corps of artists, with the
rank of Masters Mate, on board t e steamer Sus-
uuehanna. The Expedition was to sail from Shall
ghal on Tuesday, May II, aud though, its lmmeti-
at destination was not known, il was supposed 1t
would rendezvous at the great Loo Chou islands,
there TO await the Saratoga and Powhattan. a
rumor was in existance tnut the Japnnse,e had
fortified their shores and stationed war iunks to
prevent The entrance of the steamers into their
waters, bur this regarded as piece oil Chinese
The Mississippi arrived at Shanghai from Hong
Kong, on The I'd of May, and was saluted by the
Susquehanna. Commodore Perry, during hlsst9y'
became the guest of the American Consul. On
the 9th Commodore P. transferred his pennant 10
the Susquehanna. his flag ship Of expe Ition.
The Saratoga and Supply were to sail from Shang-
hal between the 10th and 18th Of May, and the
Mississippi aid SusquehaEha on The nth. The
feet, it was supposed, would make its appearance
IN the Bay of Jeldo early in June.