Daily National Intelligencer

From the Rhode-Island American.
Providence, March 17

Melancholy shipwreck.—Captain Haraden, of the Janus, has politely furnished us with the following circumstantial account of the melancholy loss of the schooner Quaker, Captain Leonard Journegan, on her passage from Boston for the Chesapeake, in lat. 37 35, long. 73 40.

The Quaker sailed from Boston, Feb. 28, with cables and cordage for the Columbus 74, fitting for sea in the Chesapeake waters. She had on board 39 men, which had been recruited for the Columbus, three naval officers, and six mariners, including captain Journegan—48 persons in all.

On the morning of the 6th of March, the schooner was struck by a squall. and in spite of every exertion to prevent it, capsized and the passengers and crew were washed overboard by the surge. William Miller, the mate, succeeded in hauling himself into the main crosstrees, where he found four others—the topmast and crosstrees being for the most part out of water. Captain Journegan, when last seen, was holding on to the main chains, and Lieut. Samuel P. Macomber, of the United States' Navy, was clinging to the weather quarter. The mate and his four companions, remained in their perilous situation till Tuesday, the 7th, when three of them perished of cold and fatigue, and were washed away by the surge, which was continually breaking over the mate and his surviving companion, who expected momentarily to share the fate of those who were lost.

They remained without a prospect of escape from death, until the forenoon of Wednesday, March 8, when they discovered a vessel standing towards them; they contrived to hoist a signal of distress—the vessel approached within hailing distance, sent her boat, and took from the wreck the two sufferers, who, after the lapse of 56 hours, were nearly exhausted by hunger and fatigue.—This vessel proved to be the brig Janus, capt. Haraden, from Turks Island, bound for this port, where she arrived yesterday. The feelings of the mate and his companion, on the prospect of their deliverance, may be more easily conceived than ascribed. They had previously been passed by four vessels, who did not observe their signals.

The preceding particulars of this melancholy shipwreck, by which forty-six human beings unfortunately perished, are derived from a very minute statement, drawn up by the mate, and communicated to Capt. Haraden. The name of the mate's companion, who was saved, is Saml. S. Pierse, of New-Jersey, a seaman of the Columbus. We subjoin a list of the persons who perished.

Leonard Journagan, Capt, of the schooner.
Lieutenant S. Macomber, late acting captain of the Navy Yard at Boston, going on to Washington city, for preferment.
Bordain, Master's Mate on board the Independence 74, going on to Washington City, for preferment.
An elderly gentleman, a Lieutenant on board the Independence 74, going on to Washington City for preferment.
Seamen—William Taylor, John Edwards, Ira Ferrington, James Fairbrother, John Lane, Arthur Lindsay, Philip Maxfield, Michael Kenney, William Jones, Thomas C. Logan, Peter Smith, Daniel Harken, John Thomas James Nelson, James Crosby, Samuel Trowbridge, J. Henderson, Peter Cole Henry Baker, John Bryant, Andrew Barrett, William Sheffield, John Smith, James Broadfield, James Greene, John Parsons, Thomas Butler, Joseph Wilkinson, Luther Evans, Charles Lusett, Reely, Phelps; and six others, whose names are not recollected, and three men and the cook, belonging to the schr. in all, forty six.

Lieut. Macomber was the eldest son of Col. Ebenezer Macomber, late of this town, and sustained the reputation of an active, intelligent and intrepid officer.