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The Mobile Herald says, that a young lady had child on board the steamer iSelma during the night of Sunday last, and to pre- vent discovery, attempted to throw it over- board. lt fell on deck, and was discovered by an officer of the boat in time to save it's life. The Herald adds:

 @Suspicion of something wrong had been excited on the passage by the evident dis composure of Rev. Mir. J. D. Lee. who embarked with couple of ladies at Gard ner's Landing, in Autauga county. Upoa him and his companions, the passengers fixed as the guilty parties--al,hough none of them was absent from the breakfast table. On being taxed with tic crime, the Rev. gentleman, with tears in his eyes, acknowl- edged is. l. then appeared that Miss Reddy, one of Mr. Lees companions, was the mo- ther--tlsat the child was born on Sunday night, and the guilty parties threw it from the state-roOm with the intention of hidinp the crime of the girl in the river. As related, the innocen. baby fell on the deck, and so exposed this most startling deed of the wicked mother and her companion.

 aAs soon as the Selma arrived here on Monday morning, the parties went on board the boat fos New Orleans, where we presume til5y now are. Mir. Lee had some twenty or thirty negroes with him, The child was carried with the unnatural mother"