New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-09
MARINE AFFAIRS.
THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

Tb, old shio went ashore on Jopees Beach, Long
Ilapd las heretofore reporteG) on Tuesday morning
| about o'clock. She had been out from Glasgo"
three month";, and Der crew put upon short al
| lowapce. When the heavy snow storm OF Mon.
day night subsded Capt. Sheldon found bis vessel
close in shore and attempting to wear ship the
brsces being frozen 10 the blocks, could not do IT, In
short time she struck the outer bar head on and drove
bisb DID. where she row lies Her keel is broken in
two and the mainmast has sunk through her bottom.
| The sea wss very violent when the New-Hampshre
struck, and she thumped on the bar some dne but
could not clear it. The people on board, nineteen IN
rumber came ashore about 10 a. m. on Tuesday, in
their own boats the first capsizng as il touched tae
be ach, but the shore people ran into the surf and
| saved the men.
After all of them had been landed the new keeper
of the Life. Saving Station, VIM. II. Nichols got out
his suIi-boat and made show Of attending to his
| duty Had Mr.. Zacbsrah X. james. whose house Is
close BY the station been nrusted With the keys as he
was for several years before any salary was attached
to the Office the boat would have been manned, or
line thrown to the vessel, after che struck
Az was he sent boat across the bay to the main
imme diately after the vessel came ashore, and dis-
patched express messenger to New-York for assist
srce. The New. Hampshire lies four miles east OF
New Inlet, $50 yards from the shore, In ten feet OF
| water.
She bss about eight feet water in her hold and will
DO doubt remain where che is This the third time
she ba, been ashore ard being % ears old and badly
brokep she would not pay the cost Of getting her aoat
AGAIN. Tie Underwriters schoonor Excelsior Capt.
James Perry reached Der yesterday, and the work OF
| diecbsrging her cargo will be pushed forward with
yieor and if the weather continues mild, most Of il may
| be savtd.
The schooner j. G. Rotche and soop Gen. Wash
ipgoL sailed esterdsy morning, in ballast to receive
her CARGO of which the following is list: 3O2 bags
paste $50 tuns pig ron us chimney cans 3s bundles
hoop iron, Il casks bepzole, III do. rvets, plo~s,
| ii boiler tubes 81 casks alum, 163 do sulphur ammo
MA AS d. bottled ale 43 bales rags, 81 crates sheath
irg felt 2s packages grain bags so tuns gas coal IS
boxes merchandise, bales do, 5000 empty bags.
| Vessel ard freight are uninsured
THE NIAGARA.
This epic ndid steam gate hsuled out from the Navy
Yard yesterday afternoon and steamed down to the
North River, where she came to an anchor
| the Wabash. When she will leave port on her trial
tip not known her orders from the Secretary Of the
| Navy not having arrived AZ she passed through the
East Rverto her anchorage her noble sppearar
the admiration Of body and people on the piers
and f.nJ boats cheered her in the most enthusiastic
msnner.
LAUNCHES.
In endeavoriDg to launch she steamship Queen Of
the Pacific at Westervelts yard yesterday morning,
in conse quence of the ways not being long enough
they did not succeed in getting her Off She now lies
with her stein in the water, and men are engaged
digging her out. At iundown last evening, she
still fast but high water this morning il is believed
that che will float.
The chip Roger A. Hem, 100 tuns burden, built
for Post Smith g. Co.'s Antwerp line of packets, will
be launched by VIM. Fl. Webb, esq from his yard
foot Of Sixth street. East River. at O'Clock this morn
rg She is 172 feet long, 36 feet wde and % feet
hold.
COLLISION.
The pilot boat Christian Berg No. l6, when off the
Woodlands at $50 on Tuesday morning, while lying
to, was run into by schr. Snow Squall. hence for
Georgetown IS. CT The boat had her eide cut down
to the copper, and owed up to the city by steam
tug Hercules The schr. had but one on deck at
the time.
ANOTHER SUBMARINE EXPEDITION.
The Bangor (Maine) Journal says that Mr.. r. d.
Bartlett Of that city has purchased the iron ste snship
PhIadeIphia, which was wrecked and sank near Cape
Race, Newfoundland two or three years sioce, and
intends to make an attempt TO raise her. He is now
feet long. twerty-seven wide, and seven and half
deep This is TO be propelled by two ecgoes OF
TWO hundred bore power. There are also to be con-
siructd in the ssme locality twenty five csissons,
hinge boxes, each thirty fret long, ten feet wde and
seven feet deep--n ell capable of sustaining weight
OF fifteen hundred tups. The submarine apparatus for
The expedition il in the process Of construction in
BostoD. The total cost of the cuff. will be about
$50 eco. Fifteen or twenty mechanics will accompany
The expedition. The wreck of the Steamship Pbilsde
pbis lies about ten miles north of Cape Race, and at
low water her stern is visible.
AMERICAN wEEcEIyG-EXPEDITIos TO RUSSIA.
The Boston Submarine Company have beea for
time past vigorously engaged in pushing for ward
their preparations for raising the supken ships Sebas
fopo under an arrangement made at ST. Petersburg
by Col q. w. Lane, and on Saturday last, the day
Fixed for sailing at ST D. m, of the vessels of the
expedition, the Silver Key cast loose from the ~hHf
and tcok her departure for the Black Sea. When
f.irly under way she was greeted With three hesy
cheers from large number Of spectators who had
seDbled on the wharf to see her off which were as
heartily returned by those board She Is beautiful
craft fast sailor and will undoubtedly make quick
passage. She was freiqhted entirely with machinery
and apparatus adapted to raising ship, and to other
tubmsr'ne operations, and Is commanded by Capt
Jo.eph C. Curer, well known as one of our most re-
able fhipmasters.
TIE screw steamer General Knor, another vessel OF
the expedition Is already In the Black Sea. Numer-
Gus mechanics and the beet divers IN the United bas
are now on the way with several complete eeS OF eup-