The fact of this ship having been carried into the Arctic Ocean by the ice at the commencement of the winter of 1853, has created much interest. Up to our last accounts no news had been heard from her, notwithstanding H. B. M. ship Rattlesnake had coasted up to the utmost limits of navigation allowed by the ice, and a whaler had also taken the course the Monongabela took, - still there was nothing which would give any indication of her fate more than the statement of the natives to the Captain of the Rattlesnake, that a three-masted vessel had gone into the Arctic Ocean. This could be no other than the Monongabela, as there was no other vessel that would be likely to be in the situation. By the arrival of the E. L. Frost, we learn that a r report was current among the whaling fleet that a cask had been pied up at sea containing articles belonging to the Monongahela, as proved by the marks. If this be true, there is but little doubt but that the vessel and her entire crew are lost.- S. F. Herald, October 27, [1854].

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