New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-21

to the chair bu, no resolutions offered and after
some desutory conversation among t'e 'hp-o~ners'
TIE meeting adiouroed inc e6nitey, without taking aay
action whatever
C.tyoRxf.-Ths steamship Central America,
Cart. Uerudon sailed yesterday for Aspn~al win
3j0 uasseDgers This sea nslip, long known 10 the
line as the George Law, has been thoroughly rel'ted
and repaired and yesterday made her hfs trip under
her name.
ANOTHER SLAYER DISCHARGED.
The Government after n careful investigation oil tne
case has consented to the entry Of decree IN the
Uni.ed States District Court, Diminishing the noe'
against the VIM G.. Lewis recently seized as saV
err with a certificate of probable cause.
VENERABLE CRAFT.
The R,;,isb bark William e. Ann is IN the large
Balance Dock for repairs; she will be recadkled ana
newly coppered She was formerly an English fhsfe,
and ia now lCO wears old She still retains her original
| thinkers. which are of white oak, aud are perfectly
..n,d. her pspkrg is 90 years old aud is nearly az
ne,fct M hen first put do She is the vessel that
carried zen. Wolfe to Quebec.
NO ADVANCE.
Messrs Grinnell, Mnturn 81 Co. are eudsavoring to
n,ocure a crew of riggers and longshoremen for the
racket ship Patrick Henry than submit to the
mpcsiti ns of the sailor landlords. II ether mercan-
tile houses would do likewise the landmarks would not
make much 10y opposing tue move.
NAVAL.
The United States sloOp-of-war Falmouth sailed
from Buenos Ayres May %, for Monevideo.
The United States soop-of-war Germantown, Com
mapder X. L. Page, put In commission yester-
day and in the afternoon towed down to the an
cborage by the steamer Water Witch.
The United States practice ship Preble, Commander
Green was towed down from the Navy Yard yester-
dsy by the steamer Water Witch to the Naval an
chUage.
Boatswain John Mckinley has been ordered to the
Navy Yard at Norfolk, in place Of Van X. Hall, de-
tacbed.
Gunner VIM. Cope has been ordered to the Norfolk
YMd in place of Charles Is. Oliver, detached and or
deIed to the Germantown.
Gunner William Burneice has been detached from
the Navy Yard at Pensacola, and ordered to the
United States steam figate Mississippi at New York
Lieut.. Alexander NJ. De Bree has been detached
from the United States receiving ship Pennsylvania
and ordered to the Preble. Norfolk Herald, July It.
SPANISH NAVAL FORCE THE GULF.
The Spanish naval force in the Mexican waters at
the present tie adding the vessels recently arve1 is
a very respectable in point of numbers, though
many are of small size, and whatever their present
condition. fit only for transports aud coasters in which
service they are now engaged. We compile our list
of the original force in part from the last official report
published at Madrid, aerward republished 10 Havana
and it is possible changes have since taken place.
II more than probable also that in many cases the
S1Isef the Line-Reina DOna Isabel H. &c guns.
Frioates-Esperanza. 80 guns; Baien, 40
Coyrettes-CoItes 81 guns Fenoana So - %
Brisantnes IS guns; Vades l6 Grsvila Is;
Selooner-Nervcn 10; Ju.nits Isabel H. 1; Christina,
SomesLFrsncisco de Ass 1s guns. 500 hor.ep power
Bssco de- Gaay Colon, Don Antonio de Uloa aud Pi1o
and $50 horse p9wss Zach Leon w. DGn A aa de
tuno 10 each Don Juan de Austria 100 horse power
@ Min Nina @ S, .e6.on rq so
and st smaller vessels the Vavicenco aud Soberano,
sometimes used for the same purpose
The list of historic, Neptunian and poetic names
locke at fir sight, and sounds rather large but when
carefully examined, in connection with the grand
petition with which the newly arrived squadron has
been associated, it loses somewhat of its formidable
character The only really efficient and respectable
vessel indeed in the whole number, probably is the
sbip-o the. line Isabel III, said to be magnificent
specimen of naval architecture. She IS just off the
stocks, ard consequently was an entire stranger to the
immense crowd assembled to admire her beautiful pro-
portions and welcome her on her first appearance in
the New-WOrd. N. o. Picayune, July
NAVAL OFFICER IN COMMAND OF A MERCHANTMAN.
The bark Fanny, Il days from Cagiari, Island
of Sardinia, arrived at this port yesterday after
noon in charge of Lieut.. Westcott, Of the U. S.
frigate Congress; Capt. A. z. Smith, her former
mander having died suddenly of apoplexy at Genoa.
the 18th Of February last. Lieut. w. is accompanied
by his wife. IN. o. Picayune, July9.
GLOUCESTER FISHERY.
A writer in The Boston Transcript says RI"
Gloucester will send into the Bay this season. some
300 sail of vessels manned by nearly 600 men. From
one third to one-haf the feet have already sailed aud
some vessels are now due om their first trip. About
si<tv vessels, bound to the Bay sailed this week 10
addition to the mackerel received at Gloucester each
year for two years past quntals OF Goldfish have
been landed here than at any other port in the United
States This year the amount will be from loo oOoto
1870 COO quintas The whole country supplied from this
town with fresh and smoked halibut. The vast mar
ket Of New-York takes nearly the entire product
of the Gloucester fisheries, the cod fish and mackerel
being shipped direct to that port in small vessels be-
longing to Gloucester, Rockport and Cape Cod"
LOSS OF BRITISH MAHOGANY VESSEL.
Capt. Strous Of the schooner Mary arrived yester.
day from Ruatan Island which port he left on the
9th ult reports that the British bark H. NJ likewise
from Ruatan, bound to London, mahogany laden,
lost on the island of Cozume, off the Yucatan COAST
on or about the 18th, and the wreck forciby seized
upon by the Mexican authorities or citizens, which
bad caused great excitement Capt. S. could obtain
no further particulars of the loss Of the vessel or the
events which succeeded it. n. o. Picayune, July