The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-03-03
THE LATE GALE.

with great severity till abou, 4 o'c
Friday morning when the wing h.
to ). w. and gradually abated in v.-
lence.
The following are all the parliculai
damage at the wharyes we have We,
'aneo Com AdtS b
AT Whitehall slip, the sIoop Min,
OF Newark, carried away her bows
stove in her gunwales, top timbers, S
sloop Intrepid, Mum, Of do los, herr,
and bowsprit, and is a complete VIZ
This is the second sloop capt. NJ.
lost within weeks schr Swiftsure,
Gibbons's Ferry, N. J. starboard stoy.
and much chafed sloop Osiris, Off.
Rochelle. carried away her bowsn,
sloop Farina, OF Dosoris, L. l. stern S..
in, and other vessels much chafed.
AT Pier No. 10, the new schr Mon.
was damaged schr. 'fhc,is stove in
stern, Stove her stern boat, bulwark,
and carried away her bowsprit. 4
AT Pier No. II brig Peruvian, the p; '
boat Ulysses. and sloop Neptune we.
injured (; the larboard bow of the SCI.
Atlantic, of Eden. was stove in: slo.
Hunter, stern stove in, bulwarks CARR.
away, &c. the larboard quarter
stern boat of schr. Herald of Baltimu,
were stove.
Schr' Columbia, of Portsmouth. L.
her bulwarks, stern and larboard bo, /,
damaged ; sloop Nancy, Of South riv,
bewsPrit carried away, bulwarks st,y
and Otherwise damaged.
AT Pier No 9 brig Free Ocean, rece;-
we'd some damage in her stern b..
Bramin, Of Boston sustained consideral, ..
injury schr. Florida, OF Brunswit
Me. lost her channels, sc. The Swr
dish brig Magnes, dragged with b.
anchors into this slip, but received We. y
| little injury.
AtOld slip, schr. Ontario carried awa,
! part Of her stern, main shrouds. iib-boon
&c. Brig Rebecca, of Bath, davi,s CO.,
ried away, and stern much chafed bri .
Mazzinghi, from Port su.Prince, sto,
her bulwarks and received other damag.
schr. Remit ancc of Philadelphia, carrie
away her main channels.
At Pier No. Ia, brig Cygast Of Salem
had part of her stern stove in, and q 6:
head of ship Susquehannah was carrie +;
away.
AtCoffee House slip, brig Numa, a.
Portland, received some trifling damae,
| brig Greek, of Baltimore, main channel
bulwarks, and rails carried away, ar
otherwise injured schr. Emuious, ard
sloop Atlantic, considerably injured.
At Flymarket wharf, the brig Finan
cier, carried away the s2oils TO which ST. e
was fastened, drifted into the stern Of br 2
Radius, of Providence, and both vessel
were much injured.
The ship Chase, lying at Pier No. g,
] N. river carried away her timber head.
and received other injury. She swune
round in the slip. carrying the posts from,
the wharf, but held on by her stern fasts
The brig Milford, of Milford, at FLY
market wha'f was much damaged in her
stern.
Considerable damage was done to the
wharves ON the north side of the city.
We regretto add TO the injury to the
shipping, the loss of lives. Peter Gorce.
a native Of Bordeaux, and seaman or
board the Howard, from HAVE, wen,
ashore on Thursday evening, after the
ship bad hauled in, and in returning
about IL O'Clock is supposed to have
fallen in the dock and been drowned, as
his hat was found yesterday morning.
Edward Cooper, colored man, be-
longing TO Portland, fell overheard dur.
ing the gale, from the brig Numa, lying
at Coffee house slip and was drowned -
His body was found yesterday morning
Cooper we understand, was wrecked
about three weeks since on Long Island.
in the brig Mary x Martha, from Havana
for Boston, He entered on board the
Numa to work his passage to Portland.
where he has wife and family.
The most extraordinary effec: of the
gale, may be seen on the battery. Near
~ opposite the end Of Pearl street, seve.
raj lengths Of the stone coping on the
front wall, were not only thrown from
their places, but some OF them broken
BY the violence of The waves. This CO.
ping is formed OF free cut stone, in slabs
Of from a to feet in length, abou, feet
vide, and 8 or 10 inches thick, bedded or
the wall with proper cement, and the
ends OF each secured with iron CLAIMS
lDlaid, and loaded 10 their sockets. From
Inc secure manner in which the coping
was placed, and the facts of such effects
having taken place upon such weight.
some idea may be formed of the force o,
the wind.
Yesterday noon, as our news collector
Mr. BaDcker, was going on board the
brig hoslna, then off the Quarantine. he