New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-14
MARINE AFFAIRS.
FROM TIE SOUTH AMERICAN SQUADRON
Correspondence Of The N. I. Tribune.


Correspondence Of The N. I. Tribune.
UNITED STATES SHIP SAyAsNAH,)
or MoS1rvIpEo. Friday, May ., 1886.
Although this is the country for revolutions, the
only one that has occurred lately has been in the
American Squadron. In the Summer of 1855 the
Naval Board placed Commodore Salter on the retired
list and early in September the Secretary of the Navy
and the President Of the Emitted States approved the
act. On the Goth April, 1856 only little more than
seven months after Commodore S,lter had been de-
clsred Inefficient his detachment reached the flag.
ship, and Commodore Mercer received orders to take
command of the Squadron.
The retiring Of Commodore Salter was made the oc.
easier of espoadence between him and the crew.
Sailors very impulsive beings, and they sympa.
thize with . fellow man in distress, wit bout asking
How came ye sol" They did 90 in this case, and
also thanked the Commodore for contributing in his
official capacity to their welfare and happiness This
was capital joke as at that very time in quar-
sntipe IN consequence OF the Commodore having inpru
dentIy kept in the Bay Of Rio oil through long
tropical Summer, with the exception of ten days
February, and by that means an epidemic of painful
though not dangerous kind Appeared In tho ship
scOurgpg night and left putting at the time Of our
arrival at this place. seventy five on the sick list The
three hundred persons who had the fever must have
felt very thankful for it, And beside this, it had been
o, er a year since the crew had been on liberty.
Sailors great wags sometimes. Let us look a
little further into this joke. In Brazil Summer begins
in earnest in December and bazes away through JAN
usiy, February and March-the latter month giving US
some of our hottest days. The Savannah arrived in
Rio Nov o. 1854, and lay there till March 49, 1855,
with the exception of twenty days at sea- most OF
which time was spent in the tropics Nov. = 1913, she
arrived in Ric and remained there It'd March 81, 1856,
except the twelve days in February already mentioned
Thus in disregard Of the health ard comfort Of the
crew, the ship was kept through two long tropical
Summers in the Bay of Rio Janeiro the las. Summer
Just escaping the yellow fever but getting Dsoued
that after absence of forty days, the fever which
we took there has not disappeared.
These waggish fellows also alude to the gallant man.
ner in which the Commodore prevented the right, OF
American citizens from being trampled upon. When
the Paaguayans fired into the United States steamer
Water Witch, and morally wounded the man at the
Wheel Commodore Salter very promptly began to in.
quire all about it, and when after days OF sberious
investigation he had ascertaned the facts he wrote
rigM off to Washington to ask what he must DO
Very prompt and very prudent, this. But perhaps
"the Blue Jackets" do not refer to that afa-but 10
the protection the Savannah gave the merchant
ste amer America which was suspected OF being iiln.
buster The joke here lies in the fact that Commodore
Salter made il sure thing that armed vessel would
dispute the right Of the America to go to sea- andhen
be let Capt Hudson tow him out, and so gave convoy
to the steamer No doubs the courage of the gal
liant Commodore and can fail to admire hiS free
dom. Funny fellows these ssors very.
We'll, as this revolution he's changed our list OF OH
GERS, / WI give it as il now stands:
Odore Samuel Mercer Acticg CS@msnSs s George T.
Chaplain, joseph ckbrdssi Lieutenauts G. Spots
WI W. L. ny ioaa ysa
Surgeon, W. LOwber Asssta snrseSD, j. tnoD voI@o
9o, A nSs'%sS s.' csps Ia %
son Gun nsr A. +. ThomIson saintkef, H. T. Van Voohs
This ship sailed from Rio March 81, and arrived off
Monte video in the night Of April TO- and the next Gay
was sut in Quarantine account Of the large number
scl with fever; the prsuI ption on the part OF the
Spanish officials being that, as we came from port
where cholera and yellow fever existed, we must be
dangerous. We continued in Quarantine till the after
loon Of April 30.
The United States ship Germantown sailed from here
for Rio on the Sd inst to be absent about mooth.
The Unite States stO e-sh Relief sailed Tor Rio,
Oh her way to the United States, the 9th inst hav-
ing supy led the Savannah and Germantown with pro-
viaops. Captain Cook M ie very quick ssase
here being only 81 days from New York. incluiing
tie & ing into Rio and Remaining there three days.
Lieut. George Well of the Germantown goes to the
United States in the Relief on sick leave.
Tie Savannah will go to Rio next nth, and re-
main there till ordered home. The time of more than
nearly every 10 the frigate wi have been shipped
three years more. No little ossal SfastDn Is ex-
pressed by at being detained after their three
yesrs ale out and ceianly it has tendency to make
he service unpopular, aud Increase the difficulty Of
shipping good Besides ths IL is expensive to the
Government, each man 30 detained is EMIT ed to an
Increase OF pay equal to t~enty:tSe per cent;
San Francisco fom New York, with Government
stores and other cargo has put in here in dis
tress. She has been surveyed, and the survey al:
yised the discharge of her cargo, and the work will
be ced forthwith. Here will be bill of some
thirty thousand dollars for somebody to pay, and the
the parties interested will do we'll to take notice, for
ship who put in here in distress have mao very
bad luck in communicating with the owners and get.
ting fund.- year ago the ship CALICO, of Providence,
came near being sold and, of course. at great loss
because the captain could not hear from her owners
The ship Adristc, which went ashore on the English
Bank last Autumn and got Off by the s'Oopof war
Germantown, is detained here yet tor want of fdods
Capt. Jewett can get word from his owners Money
be obtained here on bottomry only, at most ex-
orbitant ates such "a no man is willing TO submit to.
Business is very dull in MontevideO. The revolu'
tons have driven away to Bueuos Ayres come OF the
most enterprsng merchants and tradesmen The
pious hope is entertained by some thai the up-ryer
Countries will 90 to war with each other, in which
event business would revive in Montevideo