Cooper's Clarksburg Register

EXPLOSION OF THE STEAMBOAT ST. James.-Robbery of the Dead.-The New Orleans papers state that thirty lives are known to have been lost by the explosion of the steamer St. James, and it is feared the list will be further increased. Four men, belonging to the schooner George Lincoln, having been arrested on the charge of robbing the dead bodies of the unfortunate victims. The Crescent says:

"Counsellor J. M. Wolf, one of the drowned, was said to have had upon him a gold lever watch and over seven hundred dollars in bank bills and other money. Several others who were known to have been sitting up at the time of the catastrophe, engaged in a game of cards, and consequently with considerable sums about them, were afterwards found floating, with their pockets completely rifled. One young lady, with a chaplet of sea weed twined in her auburn hair had several of her fingers split from knuckle to nail. She had worn rings, and the ruffians had split her fingers to reduce the swelling of the flesh in order the more readily to wring from them the gaudy gauds--the rings? Another had her arm torn and gashed, in the same manner, that a bracelet might be pirated from her stiffened, yet beautiful limb! Another showed the marks in her lacerated ears whence the ear-drops had been torn with avaricious haste by the cormorant fiends."