THE STEAM PACKET PULASKI.
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The following intelligence reached us by this Friday] mornings mail. It has evil dently been collected in great haste. Itnow appears certain however that boiler of the steamer exploded which was the cause of the accident, and not that she ran ashore. It al- so appears certain that one boat with sixteen persons are saved. As she had four boats, there is.still room to hope that greater num- Der have been rescued -Cou. and Eng.

 Office of the Norfolk Beacon, June 20. 7

 ANOTHER DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

 UpDards of One Hundred an4 Eighty Lives Repor,e.. to hGre been Lost From passengers who arrived in the cars from Wilmington, we learn that the steam packet Pulaski, Cap- tain Dubois, which lcst Charleston on Thurs day evening last with about POO passengers, bound to Baltimore, was lost on Friday night last, about 40 miles to the southwarG of Will. mington, North Carolina, during heavy gale, in which her boiler exploded. Eight persons were killed by the bursting of the boiler. The boat sunk an hour after the ex- plosion. Previous to the sinking of the steamer, a boat with 2l persons left her, and were drowned. We have also been inform ed that the mate, Supposed to be Hibberd, formerly of this place, and who brought inc melancholy tidings to Wilmington,) was the only person of the entire crew who was sa- we'd. Two ladies who were in the boat, got ashore safe.

 The passengers also inform Us that two Judges from South Carolina, (one of whom was C0lcOck,) were on board, as also were Messrs. Wilde and Lamar, of Geo. with their families.

 From de Wilmington Adperfiser. June IS. On Thursday, the 14th instant, the steam. CT Pulaski, Capt. Dubois, left Charleston for Baltimore, with about 15O passengers, ol whom, about 50 were ladies. At about II o'clock on the same night, while of the North Carolina coast, say 90 miles from land, weather moderate and dark, the star- board boiler exploded, and the vessel was lost. with all the passengers and crew except those whose names are enumerated among the saved in the list to be found below. We have gathered the following facts from l the first mate, MT. Hibberd, who had charge of the boat at the time. Mir. Hubbard states ! that at about 10 o'clock at night he was call. ed to the command of the boat, and that he was pacing the promenade deck in front ol tho stcerage house that he found himself shortly after, upon the main deck, lying be- tween the mast and side of the boat !; that upon the return of consciousness, he had . confused idea of having heard an explosion something like that of gunpower immediate. ly before he discovered himself in his then situation. He was induced, therefore, to rise and walk aff, when he discovered that the boat midships was blown entirely to pieces that the head of the starboard boiler was blown out and the top torn open that the timbers and plank on the ssarbOard side wero