Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
LOSS OF THE SCHOONER QUAKER.
We have seldom had to record a more melancholy shipwreck than the following, which we copy from the Providence American :
Capt. Haradon, of the Janus, arrived in this port, has politely furnished us with the following circumstantial account of the melancholy loss of the schooner Quaker, Capt. Leonard Jernegan, on her passage from Boston for the Chesapeake, in lat. 37, 35 long. 73, 40.
The Quaker sailed from Boston, February 28, with cables and cordage for the Columbus 74, fitting for sea in the Chesapeake water.—She had on board 39 men, which had been recruited for the Columbus, three Naval Officers, and six mariners, including Capt. Jernegan—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. Capt. Jernegan when last seen, was holding on the main chains and Lieutenant 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 a lapse of 56 hours, were nearly exhausted by hunger and fatigue.—This vessel proved to be the brig Janus, capt. Haradon, from Turks Island, bound to and 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 described. 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. Haradon. The name of the mate's companion, who was saved, is Samuel S. Pierce, of New Jersey, a seaman of the Columbus.—
We subjoin the mate's list of the persons who perished :
Leonard Jernegan, captain 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, 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 Kenny, William Jones, Thomas U. Logan, Peter Smith, Daniel Harken, John Thomas, James Nelson, James Crosby, Samuel Trowbridge, J. Hendrickson. Peter Cole, Henry Baker, John Bryant, Andrew Barret, 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 schooner; in all, forty-six.
Lieutenant Macomber was the eldest son of Colonel Ebenezer Macomber, late of this town, and sustained the reputation of an active, intelligent and intrepid officer.