New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-06
MARINE AFFAIRS.
FOR EUROPE.

The British screw steamer City Of Baltimore, Capt.
vsacb lse ON Saturday afternoon, for Liverpool, with
lis cabin passengers and $50 in the steerage, ana
$500 900. The mail steamer Vanderbilt, Capt. Le-
feyre. left at the same time for Southampton and
Havre with 1856 passengers and sI 4526 GA AZ in spe
Gle. She has also taken out eight horses.
LAUNCH OF A FERRY-BoAT.
On Saturday noon Mr.. Thomas Stack launched from
HE ward foot of North Sixth street. f. r., the ferry
boat Ethan Allen built for the Peck-slp Ferry.
Che is Of the same dimensions as the Commodore
Perry launched the week before, l55 feet long, SO
wide, and I2I feet deep. The engines are being built
at the Novelty Works, and 3Sinch cylinder and
feet stroke. The cabins Of these boats are to be 90
feet long, 1S feet wide aud II feet high These boats
as well as the two others building by Roosevelt
L. joyce of New-York, and which nearly ready to
launch, viii be finished complete by the 4th of July,
and will then be placed upon the Peck-slip Ferry
The Company are spariDg no pains nor expense 10
complete their ferry soon as possible. Inc second
shp at the foot of South Eighth street ID heay co"
pleted, and by the lst of July the Company intend
thsi theirs shall be the best ferry ON the river.
RooLRss MARINE SIGNALS.
Some wears ago, says The HagerstoWn Herald a
telegraph operator in Baltimore, named Rogers, in-
vented series of Marine Signals, for which the late
William Il. Clark, esq, of that place aided the in
yentor in obtaining patent and aferward purchased
sn eoual interest therein. Mr. Rogers and the execu
tors and heirs of Mr. Clarke have succeeded in selling
the right TO the use of this important discovery TO the
British Government which agrees 10 pay guinea
vessel for the use Of the signals for period of twenty
wears and having about 10000 vessels the sale will
amount TO 5000 COO.
PFRlIs OF FISHERMEN.
Tj,..,,l ,,y.s a la, al 4 no fshny
vessels belonging to that port, which have been lost
during the last thirty years. In these vessels $50
persons were lost. OF this number pa have been
lost within the last ten years or an average OF -
lives each wear. The value of the property lost III
these vessels was about $500 ooo. Theyesr 1852 was
the most disastrous of the whole thirty. During that
year thirteen vessels lost, five of which, having
forty men ON board, were never heard from.
IGeRNvLD BLUE JACKETS.
The Philadelphia North American publishes, "fcr
what il is worth statement 10 the effect that about
cnehah of the crew Of the L. s frigate 81. Lawrence
have refused TO receive their wages rom the ship,
and have gone in body 10 Washington, TO lay before
the Secretary Of the Navy statement, OF very
seiious alleged grievances committed upon them by
the oficerp Of the vessel:
'They stste that revolving punishments have been
inflicted upon them, ths. of their heads
ing from the brong upon their unprotected heads,
numbers Of them jumped overheard. They also COM
plain that they have been unusy fined in sums which
seriously diminish the amouat so hardly earned. The
health Of some Of the men is said to have been 80
much undermined by protr acted severity a. TO inca
paciaie them for further duty in the service"
This story seems improbable. We trust that sat
isfac,ory explanation may be made BY the parties i'm
pugned, which will honoraby acquIt them Of these
charges.
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD.
At the NAVY Yard affairs going on in the usual
regular and successful way. The machinery for the
new United States steamer Pensacola Is being rapidly
constructed and even 10 the unpractced eye, the
strength and besuty Of the work. as appears uncer
the hands of the orkinep, remarkable There Is
no reason 10 suppose the machinery Of the Pensacola
viii be whit bohnd we may rather expect 1t to be
superior to that Of the MiLpesota which circumnaV
cation Of the globe has just proved 10 be unsurpassed
The Minnesotas machinery like the vessel tso!i, was
the production of the Washington Navy Yard. In
other work the yard is busy aud particularly IN the
preparation Of large supply Of iron-bnoys WHICH are
day was the hrst day Of the meeting Of the Naval
Commission Board Of Examination al this yard.
The New.lork and Philadelphis yards, and, We be-
heve, the Boston Navy Yard also, have been over
every branch OF each department, and keep an open
and yield fair hearing to every complaint,
from whist quarter It Eay. The BOard consists of
Commodore Gregory, Capt. Van Brunt Commanders
Poor and Tucker, and Lieut.. Porter. 1t will take
some time vet before their sbors a, the Washington
DEPARTURE OF THE REvESUE-cUrrER wAsHixsroS.
The revenue-cutter Washington, Capt. Huigins,
called on Friday for Orleans to take the place OF
the cutter Robert McCellsDd. to which vessel Capt
III. has been instructed by the Treasury Department