The Dolcoath

This vessel, the British steam-ship Dolcoath, laden with a cargo of cotton and grain from New Orleans, bound to Antwerp, went ashore on the south-east point of North Key shoal, Tortugas, at about half-past 6 Saturday evening, March 31st of this year; running on a smooth and even, though hard, rocky bottom until she was driven up out of water about a foot and nine inches. The master endeavored to back her off by the propeller, but, failing in this, commenced at midnight a jettison of cargo, and by 8 o’clock the next morning had thrown overboard, as he estimates, 50 or 60 tons of corn. By this…