New England Religious Herald

—A Gibraltar letter from John E. Gowan of Boston, contractor for raising the remains of the U. S. steamer Missouri, which took fire and sunk at Gibraltar in 1843, says that the work is going on successfully. By a series of submarine explosions he has deepened the water to such an extent that any vessel can now float over the wreck with perfect safety, although, when he arrived, there was not over two feet of water above various portions of the machinery, such as wheels, cranks, shaft, and the timbers of the sunken vessel. He has removed nearly all her machinery, and is now rapidly breaking the hull in pieces, and hoisting them to the surface of the water.