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EFecnabaFp. Blue kSsiiets &d clerk; - Clark, let mate; and AfstaF Mccoy, ad en- einees; Abrnham Flynn, voipdteef from G.een county; and several negro deck hands. Badly Wcanded Capt. E P. Oliver, no, expected to survise;l Gecsge Kirk, ls. clerk and acting captain of the Tuskaloosa: and Col. Wm. Arfnstead-

 Mesars. I.ilIaFsl, Moshy & Co, of this city, have received letter from Mobile, dated the 29sh inst, from which we hays besh politely permitted io make the following extract olI the same melancholy subject

 sThe steamer Tnskaloosa, Capt Kirk, bnrsled two of her boilers last evening about

 10 o'clock, and afterwards burned to the wa ter's edge. The explosion was so loud that i, was distinctly heard in Mobile, although the boat had been absent from the city near ly an hour. Capt Kirk was very badly seal- ded, as was also Capt Oliver, lnie eomman- der of the Warrior---the 2d Clerk, lst Mate, and 2d Engineer. were instantly killed, and nearly all the deck hands and Eireuen. There are 30 passengers supposed to have been killed oT wonatlesl-snany of the passengers and crew are badly maimed and scalded, and cannot possibly survive. The scene was most dreadful to behold.-the lady passen- gers were all saved, though the night was a most stormy one. The total loss of lives has no, been asceriained, but cannot be much less than 5. Strange as il may appear, the explosion was caused by the smoke-pipes having been struck by lighiaias--she fluid passing down tlse pipes, striking the boilers and causing the must horrible explosion ever witnessed, since the Ben Franklin blew up in 1886. There was quantity of powder in the hold of the boat. which exploded si- muIaneodsly wi,h the boilers, proving most conclusively that the boilers were struck by lightning.