UNITED STATES FRIGATE "POTosTAC,"
(Flag Ship of the Home Squadron,)



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Havana. l7th March, ls44.
To the Editor Of the Standard:


My Dear Sir: Shall "spin you small yarn" ?
Having traversed the atlantic and Pacific Ocean almost
constantly for three four years past the present small
er1se is but mllpond excursion to me- Yet you, and
perhaps some others of our friends about Raleigh, may
possibly take sufficient interest in the movement Of
vessels war; read the memoranda Of the track Of this
ship. which hereto append


GA great man has fallen in" North Carolina. am
panied to hear Of the death Of Judge Castor, for am
afraid the State will ne'er look upon his like again.
Poor Old North Stae She 10 fated to be beref OF her
brightest jewels: BLakeEy,-CG'sOu Statue Of Wash
i,sgton- Gaston ,-were gems that would have added
ustrs to the escutchson Of any nation. They
thy be the pride and boast Of North Carolina and their
loss will be mourned calamity by every true
hearted Carolinian.


The Potomac sailed from Boston 18th January; and,
standing the southwark and eastward made the high
land of Dominica 7th February. Steering along the
southeastern coast of that Island whose majestic mount
aims exhibit the lotiest peaks in the West Indes Mar
Unique was deserted the evening and next day
we entered the Caribbean Sea by the passage between
those two Islands looked into the harbor of Sanl
Pierre and cruized to the southwark in view of ST
Lucia ST. Vincent and Granada. Tacking ship at thai
point and standing the northwards kept close il
with the Islands of Guadaloupe, Monserra Nevis, st
Chrstophers ST. Eustatius &C., and came to anchor al
ST. Thomas, Danish island, the 18th. We here
found the s. Sloop of War Preble, employed in setting
up her rigging. sc. having encountered gale of Ber
muda She got under way next mornings and, sautins