After six months of continued expectation, the Exploring Squadron has reached our shores. Many of us have looked with more than ordinary interest to the period of their arrival, as one which would bring to our homes, valued friends, relatives, and acquaintance, whom to meet again in this far distant spot from our common country, would give a pleasure, such as those alone can tell, who have experienced similar reunions. To them, also, it must have been an event of equal interest. The long expected news from home, tidings of parents, wives, children, and friends, for weal or woe, the hopes or fears which were here to be realized, the enjoyments of rest and society, all contributed to render this place the haven of much cherished desire. Our best wishes attend them, and may their visit be one of unmingled satisfaction.
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