Phenix Gazette

Captain Crocker.--This venerable Captain arrived in the packet ship Pacific from Liverpool on Tuesday morning, which completed his one hundred and sixtieth passage across the Atlantic. Capt. Crocker has been a commander since the year 1792, and, with one exception, never had occasion to call upon the underwriters for loss or damages sustained at sea to vessels under his command. The case embraced in the exception was, in the ship Otis, of New York, lying in the Downs on 17th February, 1807, when nearly one hundred vessels were either lost or injured, the Otis also sustained considerable damage. For Captain Crocker's exertions on that occasion in saving his ship and cargo from total wreck, the underwriters at Lloyd's presented him with five hundred guineas and a piece of plate, valued at fifty guineas. In the long series of years during which Captain Crocker has been at sea, he has traded only to Europe--but he has been in almost every port in that continent. He has saved the lives of thirty-two persons by receiving them from wrecks.--N. Y. Mercantile.