Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-10-10

by the last accounts at Rio from Buenos
Ayres all was in confusion. The citizens
were in arms defending themselves agains,
Alvear, who was without the town, with
body of desperadoes, aud threatened
obstruction to the place If lie entered il.
II is reported, however, that be had been
defeated, 10 some Of the rencolnters that
bad occurred.
From Chill the accounts are as late as
the 28th of June, at which time the ex.
peditiou for the invasion Of Peru was inl
great forwardness. 1t was TO consist Of g.
vessels Of war, 20 Transports, aud about
5000 troops, 10 be commanded by San
Martin who. with the Supreme Dircc-
tor, were at Valparaiso. 10 hasten the
preparations. 1t was expected they would
sail the beginning of August.
From the Montreal Courant Of Sept. 6.
The effects Of Fright.-For the tratb
Of the following occurrence we cannot
yonch, though we have ii from source
sufficiently authentic, aud imagine II musr
have its foundation in some such circurn.
stances, though perhaps exaggerated: we,
therefore, shall omit names aud place, TO-
giving the particulars. Some days ago,
we learn, half-pay officer, residing in a
village ia the district of Montreal, bought
a couple Of foxes. After he bad brought
them home, he began to play with them
but one, not sufficiently tanned, bit him
severely in the hand. Alarmed, he inn
mediateIy went TO physician Of the place,
who used all the precautions preventive
Of hydrophobia, and, there being several
notorious quizzes in the village, earnestly
cautioned them against making the patient
the butt of their pleasantly. Notwith-
standing this entreaiy, the officer 20 5000
er appeared on the usual place Of CONVEX.
sation than the quizzes. lifting up their
hands and eyes with the utmost horror
and solemnity, declared The wound to be
precisely similar 10 that of the Duke Of
Richmond. This was too much for the
unfortunate young man, who had prev
ious TO the accident not been in very Wig
oTons health, and whose nerves we're
wrought up by alarm TO an extraordinary
degree of excitation: ne Immediately fell
in a frightfuI Git Of appopiexy. Two ply
siciaps were summoned and bled him CO.
piousiy; but his reason was gone and has
not since returned. He is now 10 state
Of confinement, Of which he seems TO be
conscious, and wishes to liberate himself
from, as he passes his time in Ruthless and
fatiguing attempts to scale the walls Of the
room, like fly endeayoring to ascend the
sides Of bason into VIII ich it has fallen.
ViNcEENEs. (Ind.) Sept. 2.
We are once more enabled to present
our readers with something 10 the shape
Of newspaper, and hope soon to be able
| to resume ourlusual size. On this subject
| it is useless 10 be silent; the situation of
the town is at present truly deplorable.
Nearly one third Of the population appears
TO be confined on beds Of sickness, while
the houses Of the humane farmers in the
vicinity are crowded with our fugitive
convalescents. Yet, amidst all their dis
| tresses, our citizens have this great con-
ISOLATION, that the number of deaths are
surprisingly fem, and bears no kind Of
common proportion to the multiplicity of
the cases Of disease. The disorders are
almost solely Of the intermittent type, and
appear generally to yield to timely appli
cations. The majority of the few deaths
which have occurred, are attributed to
the untimeiy haste with which the patients
fled TO the country, beyond the reach Of
constant and watchful medical attendance;
the wearied physicians being chained TO
the town, with scarcely liberty to crawl
beyond the precincts of the borough.
Nor is this calamity confined to Vim
cennes; nearly all the towns on the waters
Of this state and Illinois are similarly af-
flicted. BY some this is attributed to the
unprecedented lowness Of the streams; by
others TO this and other causes. But let
any person look at the situation Of the
river bordering on this town-with the
water scarcely moving on its bed-with a
surface on both sides, ia some places.
covered with green purified matter, TO the
extent Of $50 yards from the shore, and
then say whether our citizens, at this sea-
500, can be healthy. When standing on
the bank at the lower part Of the town,
the spectacle, for mile downwards, is
| revolving and affrighting; and, as the
breezes at this season chiefly blow up the
river, there can be no trouble 10 account
ing for the gloomiuess Of the borough.
That this source Of pestilence could have
been removed, we cannot say; bat that ii
is source Of pestilence, there can be no
reasonable doubt.
HALIFAX. Sept. 20.
The intelligence from the County Of
j Annapolis is distressing in the extreme:
the fires which have prevailed 10 several