Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-10-19


We understand that capt. Charles Nor
ris has been appointed TO the command
made vacant by the iamented death of
commodore Perry. The command will
consist of the Constellation, capt. Nichol-
son, the Cyane, capt. Trenchard, and the
John Adams, capt. Wadsworth all of
them 10 readiness for sea, and TO sail as
soon as capt. Morris, who is now at Ports
moath, (Ne@-Hampshire,) joins the Con-
stellation. This force, il will be recol-
lected has been equipt in compliance with
two acts Of Congress, passed the last ses-
sion, one of them having for its object to
protect the commerce of the United States
against piratical cruizers; the other to
enforce the laws prohibiting the slave
trade.-DemcCraii Press.
\ A letter to the editors of the National
Intelligencer, under the date of Scptem-
Der 10, from the neighborhood at Mobile,
(Alabama) affords very distressing ac-
count Of a mortality at that place. The
Yellow Fever, in its most malignant form,
prevails at Mobile. The whole popula-
ton of the town does not exceed eight or
nine hundred. But there died, in the
week preceding the date Of the letter, on
Monday 4; Tuesday g.; Wednesday g.;
Thursday II; Friday I; Saturday IL !;
Sunday, before nine o'clock, A. Making
an average OF nearly eight per day, or
one per day out of every hundred souls
( The Plague cannot be agorSe than this !;
and, what is most extraordinary, the
Mobile paper of the 18th, is silent on the
subject as silent as the New Orleans
papers are, whilst disease is peopling their
cemeteries with scores day. Our in
formant adds, that the town OF Blakely is
entirely evacuated, as he is told, in conse-
quence OF The sickness. 1t is unpleasant
TO communicate such news; but It would
be treacherous to withholdit.
From Ne,u-O Orleans. Letters from New
Orleans of the 18th ult. give distressing
accounts Of the mortality at that place by
malignant fever. In some instances per-
sons have fallen victims in twelve hours.
Mr.. Dundas, who kept soda water shop,
complained little of drowsiness aud a
pain 10 his head, went home, was seized
with the black vomit, and was 10 his grave
/ 10 fourteen hours after. Whole families
i Of seven or eight have been swept away.
1t is particularly fatal TO strangers. Some
i say that so, others from 80 TO 40 die a
day, but the average number might not
exceed 20. 1t is deemed unsafe for siran-
gers TO go there before Christmas.
i N. r. Gas.
/ Mr.. Jefferson lay dangerously i'll at
Monticello on the 18th inst.--his disorder,
bilious cholic, had in some measure yield
ed to medicine after severe struggle for
SO hours, and hopes were entertained Of
bis recovery.-ib.
| Coz. Ldngdon--A Boston paper states
81 that the late Gov. Lansdon bequeathed
$500 to the American Bible Society, 1000
TO the church of which he was member,
and 500 to the Rev. Mr.. Walton's church.
i We are informed by gentleman from
Islip, Long Island, that very large
Whale was drove into one of the inlets
| on the East side of Long Island, in the
equinoctial storm, near Babylon. In his
struggle he passed over shallow into a
hollow, where he was left when the storm
abated and the tide fell. The inhabitants
we're busy when our Informant left there in
cutting him up and making the most Of
hinl.-N. Y. d. Adv.
i Copper Coin.-It is suggested in ST.
Louis paper, that a copper coinage, bear
ing the national stamp, and considerably
tighter than the present, might be very
seryiceable to the country. and even for
/ the vaults Of our banks. 1t is added that
our OWE country produces copper in such
amazing quantities that it might, as in
Russia, form the basis Of our national
currency.
| The seat Of these copper mines is about
|, the falls of St. Anthony, along the south
shore Of Lake Superior, and all over the
country which lies between. In all these
Il nlaces the mines are not only abundant, but