Weekly National Intelligencer

From the Louisville Journal of Thursday:

We are again called on to record a most melancholy occurrence on the Mississippi river, by which more than thirty lives were lost.

About 12 o'clock on Saturday night, the 14th instant, as the Belle of Clarksville, from New Orleans for Nashville, was rounding the bar below the Horseshoe Cut-off, she came in collision with the Louisiana, from Memphis on her way to New Orleans. The Belle of Clarksville did not obey her helm, but sheered off, by which she came directly across the bow of the Louisiana. The engines of both boats were immediately stopped, but not in time to prevent collision. The Belle of Clarksville was entirely demolished, the hull parting from the cabin and the cabin breaking into two pieces. The hull instantly went down, and the cabin floated to Old Town landing, about twenty-five miles below Helena.

The Louisiana took from the fragments all the persons on them. As far as can be ascertained thirty-one lives were lost. Below we give a list of them. They were nearly all residents of West Tennessee.

Wm. Tabb, P. Linn, W. Linn, J. Ryan, R. Malisle, N. Sills, Wm. Jones, T. Whitley, N. T. Allen, A. Kirkland, J. Askew, G. Hyer, son of J. W. Hull, J. Peay, Jno. Holiday, (assistant engineer,) four negroes belonging to J. Peay, twelve negro hands belonging to boat—31.

The survivors lost all their baggage. Nearly all the passengers who were saved came up on the Duke of Orleans, to the clerk of which boat we are indebted for the foregoing particulars.