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Among the Librories Of all kinds that are now being published, Carey and Lea nave undertaken one of the most important, and which, if well executed, will be the most valuable Of them all. 1t is GENERAL HIsToRv OF AMERrcA, divided into parts, making together q continuous whole, yet each having an integral form, adapted for separate pub lication. Each portion will be brought down to the period at which it shall be written, and will contain popular de- scription of the geology, climate, and productions, and the civil history of tho country to which it relates.

 Mexico, the various $. American Provinces, Russian, British, Spanish, Dutch. and Danish America, the United States, &c. will form each separate volume. Such work is desideratum in our literature, and is much wanted.

 The following account of the less of the Steamboat Cumberland is commu~ nicated to the editor of the Cincinnati Daily Advertiser by gentleman of that city who had just arrived from Newe l Orleans:

 About the beginning of the month, precise day not known, the Steamboat Cumberland, hound up the Mississippi, with between three and four hundred emigrants, ran on the bank in fog, I when she let 20 her anchor; which not holding, she dritted olsa reef of rocks, where she broke in two, and her boil CTS slipped out of their beds overheard ]; at the same time the steam-pipe hurst ing. The Captains wife and daughter were scaIded, but not fatally. Before the boat sunk, she drifted six or eight miles down the river, which afforded an opportunity 10 the passengers to save themselves, with the exception offrom ssfpe te nisse," who were drowned. Ac. counts yaricdas to the exact number.