New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-29
MARINE AFFAIRS.
DEPARTURE OF The WABASH.

About 81 O'Clock yesterday morning the steam
fiigate Wabash came in collision with the razee Sa-
vapnsb while she was being hauled out Of the deck at
the Navy Yard. The force of the collision was sufii-
ciett to crush the quarter boat and captains gig doing
damage to the extent OF ,O0O A boat Of the Savan
nah wss also somewhat injured. The accident was
caused by the bupgling manner in which the Wabash
wss being hauled out of the dry dock
The Wabash dropped down the bay and anchored at
Quarantine yesterday afternoon. She will put to
to-day and may soon be heard Of among the British
cruisers.
The United States propeller Arctic, Commander
Hartstene, left the Navy Yard yesterday afternoon for
the Gulf of Mexico hut on reaching Governors Island
put back She lay at anchor of the Wa.about last
night
IT,, n,c pu,.R pH, r.t 1 Hs,sn,n from ci.Df.,o.
arrived here last evening, and reports that on the
18th met, in lat 23o 81 Ion. S3o 81, she hailed
from British war.steamer, bark rugged, and asked
to htaye to- nor Yves she boarded did the steamer
fire at her. Capt. Hsthorn says the commander of
the steamer conducted himself just q, any decent
shipmaster would when speaking another vessel at
sea.
The brig Eliza MeIrithew, Capt. Gordon, from
Sagua la Grande, arrived here yesterday afternoon.
While at Sagua her captain says she was not troubled
by tie British, and he believes twothirds Of the Sc
of whole cloth.
Capt. Cline, the boarding officer of the Merchants
Exchange News Room, says that he has converted
freely with the officers and crews of every vessel from
Cuba which has arrived at this port and he declares
that not one Of them considered himself damaged TO
the amount sOf cent. Many Of the stories about
having been fred into need confirmation. In two
where the captains report having been fired at
neither the crew the mates know anything OF it;
ard the about the Overlooking conduct of the
officers was too often invented. Frequently Of
wars boat has dropped alongside, and the officer,
without leaving her, has asked few questions, and
showed OF again Those who wish to create senss-
ton and see their rames in print, make outrages of
common courtesy. The British officers generally the
crews Of our Cuban trader epor appeared anxious to
avoid giving ofiense. Boston Traveller, 18th.
NAVAL.
The steamer Water Witch left this city this morning
for Cuba to aid in preventing outrages on the Ameri
can merchant marine. Saturday evening last, a tele-
graphic dispatch WAS forwarded to Boston from the
Navy Department in this city, ordering Lieut.. Lowell
to repair thither forthwith. -Four hours before the
dispatch reached Boston, the Water Witch had sailed
for New Yok, ard thither the dispatch was sent On
its receipt, Lieut.. Lowell ctarted Immediately for
Washington reaching here at about ii o'clock yester
day morL ing, in 46l hours after leaving New-York.
AS soon as he arrived lie commenced getting the ves
sci ready for her cruise and at o'clock last evening
had slowed away on board her supply of coal and
PROVISIONS and her guns. She also broke her shaft
the passage from NewYOrk, and the damage was re-
paired, and she was got in good sailing order. Lieut..
Lowell ~as relieved from tue command last evening,
ard the Water Witch sailed with the following
officers:
Commander John Rodgers Lieus H. X Stevens r Welsh,
Clark H. Wei Austin Pendegast Passed Assistant Surgeon
sis,aut Engineer w. Wheeler Sd Assistant. B. H. Whsr
ton, 4. X. Ripd B. J.. Chs,saing Wash. Star, 2s.h.
TIE United States frigae Constitution now upon
the railway OF the dock at the Portsmouth Navy
Yard, having been thoroughly repaired and coppered,
will be put into the cry dock On Thursday, and loaed
into the river on Saturday. correspondent Of The
J0ur nal says that the panking outside and in has
been taken off, and between six aud seven hundred
new timbeis have been put on in place Of the rotten
ones removed, ard new plankng, ceiling, clamps and
decks take the place OF DID, "Old lIonsides' is
as good as now, when first launched in Boston
sixty years ago Size will be fitted with a heavier
battery than she has hitherto carried, and with
all the improvements Of the age, while the model of
course tIemains as she originally constructed.
The new ordnance building at the Yard had been
completed, and the interior fitted in fine style. The
annoy in this building viii be one of the best room,
OF the kind in the country. Workmen are now pre-
pairing the foundations for guncsrriage shop which
is to be thtyye by ninety three feet size and two
sores in hight TO contain machinery 10 be driven by
steam power, &c. The stone walls Of the dry-dock
basin are TO be relaid in more thorough manner.
There are now ,l70 men employed in the Gosport
Navy Yard who busiy pushing forw ard the work
emaining to be completed. The sloop.o war Cyane
lie in the dry deck and it will be some four or i've
weeks before lie will be ready to be taken out The
Sarstoes is ing at the wharf, and will shortly be
ready for sea- The work on the new steam soop-oi-
wal Richmond is progressing rapidly. The sloop-of
war John Adams is now at the wharf dismasted