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DISTRESSING ACClDENT-THREE

 HUNDRED LIVES LOETl

 Nov. S.-Another dreadful accident has occurred upon our waters, which have late " become the scene of so many heart-rend- ing and appalling catastrophes. The steam- CT Monmouth left this port about d week since, laden with several hundred Indians. |, portion of the emigrant Creek tribe, as pas- sengers. In travelling up the Mississippi, through Prophet Island Bend, she was met by the ship Trenton, in tow by the steamer Warren, descending the river. It was after dark, being near eight o'clock at night, and through the mismanagement of the officers and the obscurity of the scene, collision took place between the meeting vessels, and the Monmouth immediately sunk from the violence of the concussion. Out of the large number of Indians on board, near three hum dred perished. Whether any of the crew were saved or not we have not learned. The mlshap IS ascribed chiefly to the neglect of the oflicers of the Monmouth. She was run- nlng Tn part of the stream where, by the usages of the river and the rules of the Mis- sissippi navigation, she had no right to 20. ard where, of course, the descending tow did not expect to meet her. Here is another ev- ldence ot the gross carelessness of class of men to whose charge we often commit our personal safety and precious lives.

 &AhOAhEh ACCOMPLISHMENT MO0mOutne hence for Arkansas River, run into the ship Trenton, Gin tow of steamer Warren,) on the morning of Slst Oct. at 8 o'clock. in Prophet Bend, and immediately sunk. The cabin of the boat parted from the hull, and drifted some distance down stream, when it broke in two parts and emptied its contents into the rlver. There were ell Indians on board the M.-only 300 of whom were rescued by the crews of the Warren and Yazoo. The ship lost her cut-water. The bar- keeper and a fireman were the only persons attached to the M who lost their lives.

 After the loss of the steam boat Home which oceur red ln the early part of October, committee was ap. pointed at Charleston, South Carolina, to inquire into the circumstances attending that important event. Their report has been published; and 1t consists in were on board, and who rrovidenia!ly escaped with the,r lyes Some of these were experienced seamen and as 1t would seem well qualified to judge of what LOOK place on that melancholy occasion. They as- cioc the disaster to the worthness of tie eteam boat and to the fact of the captains having been nfit for his station by of his having been in state of ofntoxlcaton. Both circumstances well calcuat. ed to make deep impression npOn the public mind- II seems difficult to be believed that the master of the Home could have been habtually an in temperate man, without its having been known to the owners who facquainted with the fact would certainly ney- CT have ntrusted him with such an important and res ponsIbe command. X common regard 70 their own interests and regulations, we'll the lives of their feloW men, would to forbid the idea that they could have known that he was an intempera,e man.

 Hartford Cour1nk