The Kanzas news., 1858-04-03
From the NY. Tribune. March 9Th.
Death of Commodore Perry.

From the n. 2 Tribune, March 9Th.
Death Of Commodore Perry.
The death of the distinguished naval Off
Ger, Commodore Matthew CaIbraith Perry,
took place yesterday morning, at his resi-
dence in this city, No. 38 West Thirty sec
ond street. He was attacked with gout
about four weeks since, but it had assumed
SO mild a form that no fears of its fatal is
sue were entertained by his friends until
about two O'Clock yesterday morning, when
time after he breathed his last
Commodore Perry was born in 1896, in
South Kingston, R. l., and was consequently
in his So year at the time of his Death
His father became an officer of the q. s.
Navy in 1898, and his elder brother, Oliver
II. Perry, was the celebrated hero of Lake
Erie In the war of 1919 with Great Britain.
He entered the naval service of the United
States as tnid-sbipman, Jan. 18, 1909,
and made his first cruise in the schooner
Revenge. Shortly after he was transferred
to the frigate President, under command of
Commodore Rogers, in which vessel he
served little more than three years. In
Nov. 1918, he was ordered to the frigate
United States, and after FIVE months duty,
was returned to the President, then com
manded by Commodore Decatur, under
whom he served for eight months. He was
then ordered to the brig Chippewa, in which
he served until Nov. 1915, when he was
stationed at the Navy yard at Brooklyn,
where he remained for nearly two years,
having. in the mean time, been promoted TO
the rank of lieutenant. During the above
period of active service he was engaged in
many perilous transactions, and was initia-
ted into his profession amid the din Of con-
f1ict.
In August, 1919. Lieut.. Perry was or
dered to the ship Cyane, under Ctpt. Trench
ard, and served in that vessel for about nine
teen months. He assisted in the attempt of
the Colonization Society to form settle
ment of free blacks upon the Island of
Sherbro, near Sierra Leone, but the spot
proving in the highest degree unhealthy,
he selected Cape Mesurado as a more favor
able locality, aud thus decided the first set
tIement of Liberia. In May, 1919, he was
promoted 10 the command of the schooner
Shark, in which vessel he twice visited the
COLONY at Mesurado, and also cruised in the
waters of the West Indies, where he cap
tured several pirates. On his return, he
was again stationed at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, where he remained until 1924; then
on the ship of the line, North Carolina, COM
manded by Commodore Rodgers, in which
he served as first Lieutenant and Cap ain OF
the feet during her whole cruise. He was
then promoted to the rank of commander,
and after a tour of duty to Boston, III the
recruiting service. in 1880, he was ordered
to the command of the corvette Concord,
in which he conveyed John Randolph as
United States Minister to st. Petersburgh,
and afterwards made a cruise of nearly
three years, chiefly in the Mediterranean.-
On his return to the United States in Janua-
ry, 1888, he was again stationed at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, and served there as
second in command for over four years, su-
perintending the School of Gun Practice,
and taking an active part in the organlza-
ton of steam naval service.
He was promoted to the rank of Captain,
February, 1897, and after declining the com
mand of the Exploring Expedition after
ward given to Commodore Wilkes, he was
transferred to the steamer Fulton, IN which
vessel he cruised on the coast of the United
States for nine or ten months. In 1888 he
was sent to Europe to visit the dock yards
and light houses, report on which, offer
ing valuable suggestions for the United
States service, was made the following year.
In 1910 he was appointed to the command
of the steamer Missouri, and in June of the
next year took command of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, where he remained till 1843,
when he was ordered, at his own request,
10 the command of the African Squadron,
ont he of ho ASh
burton treaty for the suppression of the
slave trade, After serving for three years
in that position, he returned to New York
in 1916, where he superintended the con-
struction of Government docks and steam
ers, and then sailed to the Gulf of Mexico,
as second in command to Commodore Con-
ner.
On the retirement of that officer in March,
1847, he assumed the chief command of
the Home Squadron, and in that capacity
directed the naval bombardment of Vera
Cruz, and performed other important servi-
ces on the coast of Mexico, during the war
of the United States with that country. In
Nov. 1848, he was ordered TO New York as
the general superintendent, on the part of
the Navy, of the construction of the ocean
mail squadron. In this position he remain
ed until March 1859, when he was ordered
to the command of the Japan Expedition,
which sailed from the United States Nov.
cath. of that year. The treaty with Japan
was signed March 81, 1854, and since the
return of the expedition, Commodore Per-
ry has resided for the most part in this city.
The deceased leaves a widow and six
children-three sons and three daughters
One of his sons is now Consul at Hong
Kong. Two of his daughters are married.
Mrs. August Belmont and Mrs. John