The End Of A Famous Gunboat

v o have news this morning that tho celebrated gunboat and fam, Queen of fho West, has beer, blown tipbv a shell fruit] one of our vcel., in' Grand Luke. The (?raml ,akr, wi iuh has boen mentioned most frt'i'io'tilïy ol late, i á hi-et. ol water near the soulbeast' i'i-n line oi Arkansas; but tho Grand Lake in which ttia Qiujen mot her late, undoubteüly refei;s to the body of water al the iimijth of Grand iiiver, di reetly cast ol Chehtirnachus Lake," in Lower Loujsiana. Sinoe Faiiagut's vêsijeis pnssod Port Htidson a few days figo, the Queefl l;;s made her way fco'tn the Missi.-sipjii info Reíd Bíyer, and thence down tho Alöhafulnja, to the l'l'gion where she was destroed. The Queen rtf tho West has done a vronderfiil amnuht, of york during the last twelve iiTonths, first for us and then Vir t!ie iebsls, She lii'st caine uto notree at ihe time operationa wérë going on a! I-lamJ Nuriihcr Ten ; sutieeqgently she ptaved a brave part in the re(lurtion of the forts abuve Mémpbis, wliere her hêroic homiriander, Colonel Kllett, rfcetiivlng hia death wound She was he first bout to gn down, dömand, and receive the s'ürrerider of Memphis Subuequentiy she was put in charge of a nephew óf' her orioirial ci-mmander, ho p'jiiorini.'d the expluit, in Jantiary ImsI, f running the biitteriea at Vieksbnrg, descendingfhe Misfeissippj, a.=cen(tjng the Ked River and captmiug rebel boats, siipplies and ciiies, to his avid her satisfaotion, - but on her sec ond tour in this direction, she was cnptnred by the rebels They soon" got har in fightiitg trim, and, with another boat, attafkod and captured the Indianola. Sir.ce then she has been on various service; but lattorly, findmg rno-iumenl oh the Mistíísísippi impossfble, sbe was sent' down to take part in the important movements in the vicinity of the Teche. We have never ceased to hear of the doïngs oí the Queen of the West, for the last year, but we shall bear of her no more.