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TorAL WREoK OF THE U. 5. SHIP BosToN --The Crsm all Saued We are in receipt of tic following letter by the schooner Volandt. via Nor fok which confirms the rumor of the loss of this in" vessel, noticed by us yesterday :--

 Correspondence of lhe Baltimore Sun

 U. s. Ship Boston. Wrecked, 2

 Isle of EIetheura, Nos'r %, 1916.

 Messrs Edtors-I take the liberty to address these few lines To you 10 inform you that our ship total wreck, now king on this sland having went on shore on Sunday morning, Nov 18th, 1S46. l will give youa sl of he officers. which will perhaps be gratifying to some of their relatives. as great many of thetn have connexions m your clly. am happ. to add that out of our whole ships company of Z05 men, not one has en lost. 1 send ih's letter by lbe schooner Voandt, which is dying to' of the island. In haste, very respectfully

 THOMAS B ScHAEFFER,

 Purser's Cle,k. U. $ N

 Geo,ge Pearson, Commanders; Lieuls H K Thatcher, B Moeller, s Haggelty; Acting Master, II RoI nde; Passed Mi pn, Wm q Temple, John WaIcot, T $ Phelps, Jno Mad,gan, Wa ger, Jr; Mid'n, Y Wainwright. Jos Smith, Geo $ King, F A Roe; Captains Clerk, S orey B Boatswain, William Black Gunner, w C Thomp- sop; Sailnaker, Sauna Rhoades; Carpen CT, Jos G Thomas; Puiser's Clerk, Thomas B Schaefer

 The following slip, from he office of Ihe Norfolk Herald also giveR additional particulars of the loss of the U. $. ship Boston:

 By ths arrival al this port of the schr Nolant. Capt. Matthias, from the Ragged Island, we are puI possession O the following particulars O' lhe WsS of the U. $ sloop-of-war Boson. Com. George F, Pearson, from New York; bound the Gulf oi Mexico.

 The Boston Jeff New York on the Sih of Novem- Der, and had very pleasant weather until the morn ing of the l5th when, during heavy black squall, accompanied with thick rain, and going then al the rate of per hour, she struck an outer reef on the northern point of the Island of Eeathera, (ons of the Bahamas,) and drew up within fifty yards of the shore, broadside 1 immediately cut away the masts, and threw shot When daylight appeared, il brought clear weather burlog ,hs sqall the qusrler-boat was swept away and swamped.

 All the officers and crew succeeded in reaching the shore in safety, where they had been living in tents for two weeks, when tie Volanl 'ook of TWO officers and ten men. whom she has brought to this port. The officers Passed Midshipmun w G. Temple, and Mldshipman J c. Smiih The re- maindei of the officers and crew were Jeff the Island and expected 10 embark in few days for Nassau, N. P. from whence they will take passage for this port They had already sent two schoouers lcaded with stores, Sc 10 Nassau, ,Tand expected 10 ship the balance by the vessel that was to carry them 10 that place.

 The Boston now lies high and dry. and bilged. within fifty yards oi the shore, stripped Of every thing except the guns and water tanks, which II was impossible to get out.