Martinsburgh Gazette

It is stated in the western papers that the trunk containing the papers and valuables of General LAFAYETTE which were sunk in the steamboat Mechanic, on her passage from Nashville to Louisville, have been recovered, and that they have sustained little or no injury. We believe all the articles belonging to the General, which were on board, have been recovered. His watch, which, in the haste of quitting the cabin, as the boat was sinking, was left in his birth, was found in the birth after the boat was raised, and forwarded to him before he left this city. The body of his travelling carriage floated from the deck of the boat, as she went down, and was picked up some miles below; the wheels did not float and were raised with the boat; so that the carriage was entirely recovered, and was sent down to New Orleans; from there it has been shipped to France, and will be preserved by the Gen. at La Grange an object of interest to his family and friends, as the vehicle in which he performed his immense journey through the United States. Nat. Int.