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Wreck and loss of life.

--The Ellsworth American says that the schooner Constitution, Capt. Seth Staples, of and from Swan's Island, for Baltimore, was capsized in a squall on the evening of the 19th ult., two or three miles off Nausot Beach, on Cape Cod coast, and sunk immediately, having an assorted cargo of fish. There were four persons on board — the captain, Mr. Daniel Babbidge the pilot, Allen Reed, and John H. Staples, a fatherless boy, of 18 years of age — all of Swan's Island, and all lost but Reed.

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