The New York herald., 1869-01-02


THE PERUVIAN FLEET.
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Its Trials and TribuIatIsns n New Orleans
Description Of the NIonitors-Names Of the
Omcers-The Peruvian Gcvcrnmenf victin-
lied.
II IA q trise saying that 'misfortunes never come
singly.n The Peruvian Minister. Senior Garcia
Garcia and the on1cers Of the neet fitting out here
have experienced it's truthfulness. No sooner had
Secretary Stewards diplomacy squelched the enorts
OF Collector Fuller to prevent the sailing OF the meet
than the discovery is made on the eve OF their de-
parture for sea, that the monitors Atahualpa Qate
Oneota and Nance Capac Qste Catawba) are unnt Tor
. sea voyage and their nnat departure from United
States waters will probably be delayed three weeks
or month. The readers Of the HERALD have
already been GEOGRAPHICALLY Informed Of Collector
Fuller's action towards selling the Havana, one Of
the conveys Of the monitors and OF his sudden ces
sation Of hostilities on despatch being received
from Secretary McCulloch ordering him not to inter.
fere with her. as her nag covered ner and the state
Department guaranteed the feet its protection.
con tend with was the mutinous course Of the
crew. who had been shipped In New YORK
for years service and p,a two So m1Isa ,ss
to blackmail the Minister, tampered with the crew
and circulated the report that the neet was destined
sued out for the discharge OF the crew, but the Mn
lister instead OF responding discharged them and
Wished Wished to reshp, but were not permitted to do So
Now, when everything was believed to be favorable
fer an immediate departure, as ! nave aireadJ
by Captains Moor and Tileria OF the Peruvian Navy,
and Captains Dubois and Gillespie, 1eet pilot and
deputy neet pilot, shows that the wooden beams and
wooden decks Of the vessels are badly decayed and
the vessels are not ut for sea voyage me Mlnls-
ser Ea e e next
proceed TO Pensacola for repairs. It Is understood
that this action Is taken on adespatch received nom
the President OF the Peruvian republic ordering the
Minister on account to permit the lives Of the
oncers TO be eopardzed by sailing IN vessels unses
This survey has established the fact that the Peru
Wan government has been badly victlmized IN the
ST. Ooo under the representation that they were
in complete condition.
The following is absorption OF the monitors both
alpa being built in 1885 and the Nance Capac In
1885, by Swift Co., Of Cincinnati They are 2So feet
long forty-one feet beam and thirty feet depth OF
hold. Their beams are Of IRON, one inch thick at the
bottom and tapering up to nveeghtns OF an inch at
inches thick and reaches nom the deck three feet be-
low the water. the decks are six inches OF western
oak with oak beams, and three inches Of iron plating
solid iron with two ffteen-inch Dahlgren guns 10
| EACH capable of throwing . $50 pound soaid
IOOOhorse The engines are Of the Ericsson pattern.
The guns worked by hand but the turres rev0lve
sns me men @ Dsng 1os vc
the place Of ships tmbers are OF
| inch iron, nve inches Wide ana elgnteen incnes
apart. They have each six iron bulkheads, which ex-
| tend from the bottom to the deck, supporting the
| latter and srifening the ship. The vessels are
schooner rugged and carry about 5000 yards OF
These vessels are named after Atahualpa and
ws with us
tural enemy tie spaniard, and from whom many OF
the present celebrated families Of Peru are de-
| scended. The vessels are capable OF making seven
and half miles an hour IN smooth water, out not
more than four IN rough sea.
| / append complete list OF the Peruvian omcerg
now here, connected with the expedition. Nearly
all Of them scions Of the first families OF Peru
two Of them sons Of President Balta several , o.
Spain and Chile. The Commodore has made DIS
tnguished name in several contests by sea ana land
and il high-toned gentleman OF daring and cool
C0mnaodo,e-B -Benjamino Marategin.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Moor, Julio Felleria ana
Pavmastes-Manuel v. vidurre.
Cdptafn-Camil0 CarritO.
Firon, Carlos FerreyrOs, Carlos Thorne.
Second Lie,fendats Elias Agenirre, Enrique Car
reno, Ramon Friera. Jose Rosas, Federico Aguero
| Ensi0ns-Frenan Guerrero, Juan f. Balta, Nicanor
Aramburei, Manuel Delgado, Carlos Coimenares.
Iego reTI Fe.ceaso Enrione Paacos Ezeouei Ca
Kadsapmen-Juan Francisco Balta, H. Federico
| Rincon. Emilio Benevdes, Carlos keros. Rlcardo
| Pareja, Santiago Sanchez, Enrique Hidago.
| spanish man-of-war has been lying In the river
for some time watching the neet while another Y
cruising on Southwest Pass. What their intentions
are cannot be divined but they had better give the
monitors wide berth In smooth water or they will
be apt TO 60 TO Davy Jones' locker,n Is the sailors
| say.
The Americans attached to the expedition are
Captain T. B. Dubois Of Brooklyn formerly OF the
| Albatros, under Farragut, who recommended him
as fleet pilot. Captain Dubois, 1t VIII be remem-
bered, took out the Stonewall TO Japan. Captain
william 7. Gillespie, deputy fleet pilot, an expert
enced navigator, and Captain Gllchrist sailing
| master OF the convoy Havana, or Maranon. The
names OF the officers OF the Monterey, the other
voy now on the way from New York TO this port
have not ascertained. The engineers are Ameri-
cans.
The American ensigns on board the Atahualpa are
| G.. Parks Flyler and August Bayer, OF the United
States Navy and gunner Haynes, OF the Confederate
| navy. On the MANGO Capac the ensigns are Jonn
| Mamere and william Mckay, OF the United States
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