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STAR SPANGLRD BANNER SUNK Is with regret
that we have TO record the loss of of our finest
steamers the spangIed Banner The officers ofthe
steamer which arrived here last evening reports


that on Thursday about o'clock PM, tho steamer
Star spangled Banner, Capt Phillips, bound from this
port New Orleans with about two hundred and fifty
tons Of freight struck snag ct the head of DEVILS Is
land, hundred and fifty miles below this city,
and sunk Immediately TO her guards in about eight and
half feet water She left here Wednesday afternoon
and in order to make OF getting without damage
took board but little half the tonnage she could
have carried She a fine boat, fitted up in ele
giant STYLE and did great credit to her and build
who went to the expense of between 240o0 and
in order to bring out something superior to the
usual run of Ohio steamers This her second trip
to New Orleans and unfortunately will prove her last
for learn that there s little hope Of raising
saving anything below her main decks. She 10 owned
by Captain Phillips her commander, Mr.. Bateman first
clerk, and firm in Cincinnati at which place she
built and finished six or eight weeks since


We understand that she partially insured, but to
what amount unable to ascertain. Her cargo,
the largest proportion Of which in her hold will of
be badly damaged not entirely lost The heavi
shippers in her Mr. H. D. Bacon, who had about
400 barrels Of -four; L. A. O. Farwell Co. 1000 pigs
lead SO hhds Of tobacco, shippers name unknown; be-
1900 and bushels Of wheat belonging to A.
W. Fagin; $40 barrels Of -four, Wse Lee Co, Alton
I60 DO McElroy and Libby Alton besides several
other lots shippers names unknown-Sf Louis New Era
Aug. 10.