New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-15
MARINE AFFAIRS.

THE STEAMSHIP CITY % BALTIMORE TO BE RAISED.
The Board OF Underwriters Dispatched two schooners,
the Excelsior sod Isdors, on Sunday, " tn chsins,
hydraulic pumps, bed screFs ard other appliances Tor
raing the new steamship City of Bait more, recently
sunk off Thomss Point by collision With the steamer
Patapsco. james ii. Perry, wrecking engineer, and
force Of Il men, under Capt. Bennett ef. this Cty
yesterday by railroad, to get the rteAmsr sGoat-
TIE british FRrG.rE cUR.co..
The vessel seen off Sandy Hook on Sunday evening"
was not the Briiish steam fngsts Cmscos, which 10
bound to this country VITA Lord LyOOs, the British
Ambassador on board. The probability that tae whole
report is mistake lie enhanced by the fact thst the
Curacos is under orders 70 proceed direct TO Chesa-
peske Bay and and Lord Lyons a; Annapolis, without
coming fir: to NexYork.
ssyaI.
A detscl ment of United States marines arrived st
the Brooklyn Barracks on Sunday, from Aspnwsll.
They posed the late guard Of the sloOp 81. Mays
and will be leit to the dispossl OF Col. Edelin,.
Our news from the Home squadron reports the Off
cers and crew Wen. From the Pacific We hear that
the sloop Cyane, which had us arrived out, was pre-
paring 10 ssil from Cslao for PanamA The Vsniais
wss on the Mexican coast but you'd also 90 to Pana-
ma for stores and provisions TIE Merinao, whose
machinery needed little reIOya.ing was about lesv'
ing Resl,jo to get her straps and cutoff, which
were forwarded in the last mail s-esmer and tho De-
cstur sso Rsaejo, had not received the orders to
90 to San Francisco although they were sent out some
time since by the Navy Department. The Sarsnac
has not been mentioned in our le,ters.
In the Civil Engineer Department under Mr.. Grs-
ham, at the Brooklyn Navy there areonly twelve
men now employed, ell the others having been dis
charged. The Dry.DOck force lately 500 men, is now
reduced more than orehahi the carpenters are also
cut down. the aborsrs being sent away in scoresi
and even in the ChefEngineer's locality, sweeping
process s on the of adoption soon a. the press-
ing work now on hand be finished. Since the
Convention Of the famous Committee not single
Member II Congress has entered the Navy. Yard, or
even applied for the employment of solitary indi-
vdual.
The United Ststes chartered steamer Caledonia ST.
rived a. Pernambuco on the 18th January, after
passage of sixteen days from Barbados, where she
left the Me,scomet steamer, OF tie Paraguay expo
dition, repairing dsmsges TO machinery having her
cylinder cracked loose from bed plate After receiving
coal and water on board, sailed, the LIST Of Feb
rusry for Montevideo direct. On the 18th OF January
the W. ii. Cnapin arrived, having coasted al the wsy
from Clara. Aftsr failing from Barbados, the W. ii.
Chaplin steeIed due east about 800 miles, and after all
fell 20 the leewsrd OF 81. Rogue. Having expended
her fuel she ran into Clara where shs found coal in
abundance The steamer Chaplin, under all sail and
s.esm before the wind and in smooth water, will run
a. the rate OF only five miles an hour The Csledons,
under like circumstance will sail seven miles an hour,
ard the Metacomet eight miles sn hour The Brazil
isns at PeusmbuCo don't like the Paraguay eIpe-
diton They say that the United States viii mex! full
buster tie Amazon They don't believe in manifest
destiny
Our correspondent at Baltimore writes in relation 10
the schooner Elizabeth British vessel, that, on the
night Of tte 4th instant, the wind blew very fresh
from tae South, causing heavy sea, carrying away
the rudder and parting the chain the anchor bsins od.
The next day tie tide ebbed and flowed in her. Her
bottom is damaged otherwise the vessel has sustained
no damage Sic viii be hauled on the beach And
maze tight
The oCHCTsE WHALE EIsHfRr.
Oar date. from Honolulu 70 the 10Th OF January.
Although the cschipgs Of the season Of 1875 are small
per chip in comparison win those Of ls91 aud 1870,
IL viii be seen by the following exhibit OF total IN
barrels tina, the quantities shipped Est this year con-
.iiersbly exceed those Of 49,: