DESTR UCTION OF THE
STEAMBOAT BUCKEYE-BE-
TIVE EN- 60 81 so LIVES LOST.
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On Friday the Ist inst. the steamer
| De Soto ran into the steamer Buck


eve. in Red River, about miles above


the mouth. The b. was struck near


the starboard hatch, and sunk to her


hurricane deck in 5 minutes, in % feet
water. The scene that ensued is des-
cribed as having been heart rendiEg in
the extreme.-The passengers were in
their night clothes and the warning was
so brief that all was CONSERVATION;


mothers screaming for their children;


husbands, fathers, brothers, rushing
wildly from Cne part of the boat TO an


other TO save their dearest earthly trea-


sures, lurnisheda "a scene truly horrifying.


To save oneself was the most that


could be done and the helpless women


and children-those who, In such an ex-


treme and pressing emergency as this


would have commanded the best aid


that human effort could give-were left
10 the remorseless hand ofdeath. The
Picayune SAYS:


1T is impossible, al present. TO give
the number who have thus been carr
ried into eternity with certainty, but all
accounts agree that ii must have been
between sixty and eighty Mr.. Hyams
of Alexandria, whose family was with
him, lost his daughter, a beautiful lit
tie girl Of about ten years of age, with
his wife's sister, Miss Elizabeth 5 mith,
who is described as an accomplished
vouag lady. This gentleman also lost
some fifteen negroes. who being on the
lower deck could not be saved. Mr..
Alex. Mckenzie, la;e of Florida, lost
his wife, seven children, and four me-
groes; Mr.. John Blunt, also from Flori~
da, lost his wife, child, and seven me-
rroes; and two of the children OF Col.
King were also lost. A young man
named Pollard supposed to belong to
Natchez, had an amount OF money in
.he clerks office. 1t was handed TO
him, but since then he mas not been
seen. A child of Mr.. White was lost;
and two sisters of young man, whose
name we could not learn, are also
among the drowned. The latter had |
been taken on board but a few hours |