New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-12
Marine AFFAIRS.
JAMES r. HOPKINS,
HhAsTUS BROOKS,
2. 5. DASfORTH.

L. S. SLoOr-oF-W WAR DECATUR.-The u. S. sloop-
of.war Decatur, Comm'r Isaac s. Sterrett, which
called from Rio de Janeiro the 2lst September, had
not arrived at Valparaiso on the 18th January, and
fears are entertained for her safety. The following is
O list Of her officers
Commsnder-Issc sterrett. Maryland. Lieutsnsnu-Ed
,ey A,ron K Hughes, New York surgeon-Rchsrd ". JEFF
fiery virginia, Assistant SurseonJohn Taylor Delaware
PSep Blame Fs..a O,s. Ma
ssehuseus, Georee y Morris New York Md.hp@en-M,r
.ets Acting Bo.t.~sin-Henry Bhsht, New-Yort Jun
Miller, Delaware. Saimaker-Ausustus A. Warren, Maine.
ARRIVAL OF THE DIS GESEys.-The Sandman
frga,e Ds Geneys, from Genoa, was towed up to the
City yesterday, By the steamtug Achilles, and an
chored in the North River.
ARRIVAL OF THE L. S. STEAMFRrGArE SUsqUk-
HAsSA.-The l.. S. seam-frigste Susquehanna the
crack steamer of our Navy, arrived at the Phisde-
phia Navy-Yard, from the Pacific, Saturday morning.
She sailed from Valparaiso January II, and from Rio
Janeiro, February IL. The susquehanna has been
absent for several years during which she has been
attached to the East India Squsdron-has played an
important put in the Japan Expediiion-has visited
the Sandwich Islands, San Francisco and other Pa
cfc ports and now returns to the port where she wa
built having proved herself the best steamer in the
Navy and, as some think, the finest warsteamer
afioat.
The following is list Of her officers:
Tho. T. HunieT Tx on Napoleon coa:
John X Duer George Cooper. ieutea.n,.; sersmh
ser Chaplain tusen Harris Master; VIM SLACK, Byt
Capt MsTnes saul Ar.tbsd Chief Engineer, CHI Hay
s, h9s' Ii Msy o Edwin fS.n
"a Do Thos Shock Alex. HendeI-oa steohen
p. nteT; John H. HsrI1en, Par.er's clerE.
The Susquehanna was built at the Philadelphia
Navy. Yard and completed in 1850. The cruise
from which she has jus. returned was her first one,
and has been very long one. She sailed from
Philadelphia on the goth OF December, 1850, for Nor
folk In June, 1851, she sailed from Norfolk to take
her place in the East India squadron Some diff
Guilty occurred in the working Of the engines, but this
WIS overcome by the skin and intelligence of the
| Chief Engineer.
| The Susquehapna has been absent from the United
States three years and ten months during which she
| has crcumn iyigsted the globe, made long cruise
in the China Seas, and headed the Expedition to ia
| pan. She has touched at the following ports, VIZ:
Madeira. Rio Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope, Msu-
ri,us Isle of France, Zanzibar, Ceylon, Penang,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, Annoy, Manila,
Wbampoa. Shanghai Loo-choo Islands three ports
of Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco, Acapulco, Val
paraiso stopping again at Rio on her return, and
making the run from that port in twenty-four days.
The Susouehanna left in port at Rio, on the 18th
nit the L. S. frigate Savannah and the L. 5. store
ship Relief
For EuRoPE-The steamship s.. Louis, Capt.
Wotten. left this port on Saturday, for Hsvre VII
Cowes, with "a passengers. She carried s3is,i'o ID
specie on freight.