From New York

NEW YORK, March 11.

The bark Edmund Dwight, from Trinidad, Cuba, reports that on the 8^th inst., in lat. 55, lon. 74, she spoke the U. S. gunboat Saxon, having in tow the British schr. British Queen, captured off Wilmington, N. C., while attempting to run the blockade.  The Saxon was in search of the U. S. frigate Vermont.

The brig Isabel Buernan arrived at this port to-day, from Port au Prince.

A sever shock of an earthquake was felt at that place, on the 19^th of February, at 4 o’clock a.m.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1862, p. 1