Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-02-11

mail coach from fnilaheiphId ~ w"
York has long been 10 dollars. This
season a line Of opposition stages were
started. The charge of seat IN those
stages was fixed at dollars. We now
learn that the postmaster general has
sent orders to the United States agent
for the mail stages TO lower TIE fare in
the United States mail coaches to 5 dol
lars seat from Philadelphia to n. York.
Democratic Press.
.Nsw- Fork, FEB. 4,
The sudden and violent storm o! wind
accompanied alternately with hail, rain
ana snow, which set in yesterday from
the n. Z. did not abate in its fury until
yearly at midnight, when the wind chop
ned round to NV. and about half past
IL O'Clock it cleared up, pleasant for
winter. The wind blew almost hurri'
cane, and fears we're entertained tor nc
shipping in the bay but we are haPR.bb
learn by the British schr Sisters, S s"
came up this morning from Sand m' .n
that they all rode out the gale. 90. ms
counts from vessels close on nc si Io IT,
are fearful will be less fs.o;;sole. ihe
steam ferry boat York, st,dtsd from Row
les Hook Yesterday mo,Oins at hall past
10 o'clock, having 90 , Or smd ,b %
s sassencers. Fipdins 1t impossible to
p pas.I t.. ",.,m boat dock at the foot OF
tsaou 'e s,rsrt, she endeayored to run
. . Wtn;.sS,n slip, the east side of tie
,A. ~ " .' t1S meeting the strong ebb tide
G Suou, ,bs est river, and the wind CONT
no'u ~, =" Increasing, she was driven out
aue'E "a. tie Williams down through the
P pas where she met the food tide,
' "J vas enabled TO make harbor under
Sr Diamond, about half past 4 o'clock
yesterda, afternoon. Here she landed
The passengers and horses, and about 2
O'Clock this morning put her machinery
in motion and came up to town uninja.
red. We ought not to omit to state,
that during the most violent part of the
gale, and while the steam boat was DRIFT
ing between Bellows Island and Rob.
bins Reef, at the mercy Of the seas, Mr..
packet ferry boat Dread,
went off to her assistance, and succeed
ed, at great risk, in taking from her ~
passengers, and landing them at White
hall.-Erening Post,
February 6.
The editors of the Gazette have re
ceived from their correspondent HALIFAX
pa peTs to the Gath u|timo.
The inhabitants of Halifax, generally,
have evinccd their regret at the death OF
her royal highuess the Princess Charlotte
Augusta, by appearing in monrning.-
The royal standard at Fort George and
the colors nj the vessels in the hsrbor
were, on Sunday, displayed halt-mast
high. The public places OF worship were
hung with black, and discourses suited TO
the sad event addressed to the congrega-
tiOns.
The Halifax Chronicle of the 18Th Of
January contains the names OF those who
subscribed in this city for the relief OF
the sufferers BY the late fires at St. Johns,
N.F. The sum is carried forward. and
formed M thus: 5.61s dollars and 40
cents besides provisions, clothing. &c.
to 4,72S dollars, and drafts
for $40 dollars, to purchase such articles
as the place Misunderstanding grand
total of IL ,eO5 dollars and 49 cents.
The sum If Ss7i had been collected at
St, Johns for the relief OF the sufferers by
the late FIRE.
Ftbruary7.
BLOODY BATTLE
In Yesterdays Gazette we promised
the following particulars, which We find
in a Jamaica paper Of the l4ih uitimo,
copied from curacao paper OF the 9th
OF December.
The official despatch Of colonel La
TORI. is dated Calvario, 9Th December,
and contains the following in substance:
That ON the I'd December he attacked
the Independent army, posted o. a
heigh, in the Hato Of Hogaza, to the
number of 1900 men, with 2 pieces Of ar
tiIlery; his army composed but Of 500
cavalry and 600 infantry advancing with
undaunted courage, amidst the cries OF
i" long live the king His cavalry, un
der Arrogones, being attacked by that Of
the enemy's left, he ordered this officer
to charge them, which he executed in
such gallant manner as Immediately to
repulse and disperse them at a great dis
lance in the rear of their line. Col. Juez
was then assailed by the enemy's cavalry
of the right, reinforced by the squadrohs
of reserve, but he routed them also that
this event, added to the gallantry WIKI
which tue infantry charged with the bay
onet, threw the enemy iuto such complete
disorder, that they took TO flight, leaving
-. .L;n- hoh;nd Thorn Pursued nv