on Wednesday night near Cape Girardeau. The Talisman sunk immedi ately in deep water. She is a total loss. The loss of life is estimated at 40 some think more. Passengers lost every thing, escaping with only their night clothes. I hey were taken lo Girardeau by the Tempest. The steamboat Carolina burst a boiler on Friday near Shawucetown, by which two individuals were killed, and three scalded. PlTTSBDHOIl, Nov. 2i 3 P. M. There is little news from the army. General Lane had returned to Pueblafrom Atliaco. He destroyed a number of cannon carriages belonging to the enemy ; and had invited buck the inhabitants of Puebla. All was quiet at that place. The French steamer Union burst a boiler on her last trip, seriously injuring herOver and among the Alleghanies, it is Switzerland almost. There is a race of men among these mountains, in whose form, stature, robust, vigorous health, the world knows no tierinr. If, after the war, De Witt Clinton, the embodied genius of American peace, bad been a Viririnian. and could then and there, as in New York, have broken the trammels of all prejudices, Norfolk would have been the emporium now of the commerce of ihe American world, and canals aud railroads, prefitulde, too, would have threaded every important valley ot Virginia, teeming with Ihe rich trade of the vast and fertile West. It is an unnatural circuit of trade that draws the Ohio valley lo New York by the lakes, and it would have been easier far to