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has become our painful duty to rec ord another steam
boat disaster and another sacrifice of human life. Tho
boiler of the steamboat Oliver Ellsworth which plies be
tween this city and Hartford, explodedor rather in steam
boat phraseoogy, the coapsehuc burst-on Thursday
evening, half past o'clock, miles from Saybrook
the passage to New York. Mr.. Henry G. Porter, OF
Hartford who Of the passengers has called on
and communicated tho following particulars g.


Seven Of the passengers and three OF the crew were
scaded One Of the latter, named Andruss died in few
hours, and was buried yesterday, at Saybrook.
The Rev. DR. Spring, Of this city. with Mr. Stephen
Lockwood Of the elders of his church, on board
returning from Hartford whittier they had been to attend
the installation of the brother OF Dr. over the third Con-
grega,iona church in Hartford We regret state that
Mr. L most estimable man is badly-nay, dangerously
scaded He passing the boiler at the moment OF the
explosion, and his face is badly scaded He was in the
act Of inspiration, at the moment and is feared that the
lungs injured


MIR. Penfeld the Engineer, who belongs in this city,
badly scaldedThe steward Of the boat is also among
the scalded.


Kessrs Eratus Goodwin Of Hartford Asahe Hinckley,
Of do and Stephen q. Gardiner, of Weathersfeld
all considerably acalded


U. s. Sic per Cent Stocks.-It may be of i'm
portance to such of our readers as may be either
holders of or dealers in U. S. Stocks, to know.
says the N. Y. Post, that the bill for exchanging
the 16 millions of six per cent. stock OF 1918, now
redeemable at the pleasure of Government, which
passed one house of Congress, did not become a
law. In consequence, interest, at the rate OF six
per cent, will continue to be paid to the present
holders, until the state Of the Treasury may autho
rize the payment Of large instalment of the prin
cipal. This may perhaps be the case at the end OIL
this year, at least to the amount OF several mil
lions.


The above is the bill that was recently spoken
of by our Washington correspondent. the failure of
which in the Senate, causes the loss Of very large
sum 10 the Geyernment7 Bait Pat.