The Evening Post (New York, NY), Tues., 16 Aug 1836, p. 2, c. 4

New Orleans, August 2 - We learn that while the Texan schooner of war Brutus was lying off Matagorda, the captain's boat, on its passage from Matagorda to the vessel, was capsized in a gale of wind, and a seaman by the name of James Rusher (from Smyrna, Delaware) was drowned.