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STEAM NAvIGATION.-A monument has been erected Ireland to the ue,nury of the estimable Captain Roberts, commander of the English steam ship Sirius her first voyage to America, and sub sequenty of the l-fa,ed President, m which he was hst. The inscription on the monumen, enormously clans for Capt. R. ihe hcnor of ''being the first of hcer under whose command a steam vessel ever crossed the Atlantic ocean,"

 The National Intellgencer notices the error of this inscription It is to the hold and skilfu navigator, Capt. Moses Rogers. n native of New London, Con- nectcu', that the high honor of commanding the first steam vessel that ever crossed the Atlantic ocean rishtiuy belongs. His voyage in the steamship Savannah, in the year l8l9 first from New fork to Savannah. thence to Liverpool, thence tu Copenlla. gen. Stockholm, and Si. Petersburg, thence hack 10 Savannah. and from that place to Washington, is n fact well known 10 the American public as any other occurrence which happened quarter of a cen- turv ago. The Intelligencer says:

 "We have now before the log book of the Ss- vannah, from her departure from New. York on the 18th March, 1919, lo her arrival at Washington on the 18th December following, and, containing as it does the original and authentic journal of the second most important voyage in the world, we look upon il worthy o be placed by the side of that of Co., lumbus. This valuable relique is the property of Capt. Rogers' descendants residing in Washington, and should, we think, be placed in the keeping of the National Institute, in some other safe place oi public depos,e, for careful preserSation."