New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-09

: tons owned by @. vsadsrtilt and tho Vanderbilt
$3.50 tons, owned BY @. vsndert Lit hsd slso bcsa
chartered and that they would take the place u ~
Baltic and Illinois at Pier No. Al, as soon as The latter
shosld leave. Our reporter last evening found ths
Ocean Queen lying quietly at her pier fsOt Of gisg
street. and tbe Vanderbilt in like state at Pier No.
4, SUPPOSED DESTINATION OF TIE EXPEDITION.
| There seems to be growing impression among well
irA med peBoDs that both the reenforcemeBt Of Foe
pickens and the recovery of the Texas fots
! templaed by the Government.
RusfOREp RIsIGNATION OF THE pOwHARAH'S
COMMANDER.
The Nayy-Yard folks were astonished yesterday 10
gee Css,tain samueS Mercer, the Commander Of the
Powbssau, walking smong them in citizens clothes
The papers all said be Nod gone in bis vessel bat they
were az yea" instead Vt him. His resignation was
currently reported during The day bit he has not ~
ssat ill., HiAietashment, borrower, h Govemmsn
measure the meaning of w.sits Is only know to the
Cabinet Cztaein Mercer is native of Maryland,
from which sss- he was appo;ntpd in 1916. He hes
done over twcssHsx years active service, Of which
nineteen were spett at sea. He never wss popular
with sailors, hs rusnner being asstere and distant,
characteristics which Jack especially dsikes.
TIDE MAYNARD.
No orders have Jssn seceiyed TO h ous the Savannah
or Perry for immediate service. az stated. The
former Yesterday la uled into the wharf TO have
her three heavy guns taksn ont they nserfered with
the workmen.who are preparing her for 81 be ready
state" Besides their val facilitates tie labor d
putting her in the dry docs hto which she 6ostc6
at IL a. IN, tho steam-fisaae Roanoke having been
previously taken out The w. erianks Of the WasssA
were commenced on for the srsatme yesterday. Their
appearance in the wharf wcrd make an unsophistica-
ted person suppose it impossible place them all in ono
vessel The Roanotes removal frVm the dry dock be-
been partly occas5ned by the necessity for examining
the Savaunahs bottom, and psgtly from the fac thea
whatever work remains to be dene her can be. BY
rood management, prosecuted at The wharf. The brig
Perry was hauled alongside the Hadsonavsnue dock,
70 be operated upon At the leisure OF the authorities
THE NORTH CAROLINA.
3,000-tun line-of-battleship looks very lonesome
With only 100 men on board This Is exactly the oss
With "the North" She has sixty recruits forty fog
marines, and about thirty permanent men, who migh1
left out they have done all the duty Provdenos
gave them power to perform. The short watches q
he Powhstan were made up on board the receiving
hip, and many of the actors who to open the
Nautical Theater" on the LIST April have gone play
more important parts than those ons the programme n
he scuttle butt" The COT dton of the North Caro-
ina not satisfactory. 1t Is even doubted whether
The could he removed two rods with e.fety. She
ou at Philadelphia foryone years ego, and has besa
70 long at the Navy-Yard that even green reporters
Know her from the Last arrival"
TIE DEPENsELEsS CONDITION or THE NAVY
gYARDs.
The attention Of the Government hasseen called 10
he utterly defenseess condition of the different Nay
Yards Millions Of dollars worth of prblic property
nd vast quantities Of munitions ore lef TO The
rejection Of q couple Of hundfed men, What good
Al xu-allAs
pliped force of 500 could take any Navy Yard ID
le Union To- morrow with its present garrison The
ariues supposed to be the "navy's military arm
D which the Administration chiefly relies for the
of the yards. Here, then, is the force
valuable for this purpose: