Naval. — The U. S. schooner On-ka-hy-e, which sailed from Norfolk on the 26^th ult. with despatches, put back and anchored abreast of Old Point light-house on the afternoon of the 2d inst.  The Norfolk papers do not mention the cause of her return.

 

The U. S. steamer Col. Harnes, Lieut. Com’g Whittle, was to sail on the 3d inst. for Mobile and thence for Texas.  The Norfolk Herald furnishes the following list of her officers:

Wm. C. Whittle, Lieut. Com’g;

1^st Lieut., M. Smith;

Acting Master Geo. W. Rogers;

Passed Ass’t Surgeon, Wm. A. Nelson;

Passed Midshipmen, R. T. Renshaw, H. N. T. Arnold;

Midshipmen, A. F. Warley, J. J. Waddell;

Captain’s Clerk, Geo. Goldsborough;

Coast Pilot, John D. Wood;

2d As’t Engineer, Sam Archibald;

3d Ass’t Engineer, Theo. Zeller;

Passengers, M. M. Thompson, 3d Ass’t Engineer; Wm. Luce, 3d do.; John Brown, Emigrant for

Texas

 

The U. S. steamship Princeton, Commander Engle, sailed from Pensacola on the 5^th inst. for Aransas, with despatches for Gen. Taylor.

 

Source: The Daily Picayune, September 11, 1845, p. 2, col. 2.