Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-04-02

NEW YORK QUARANTINE .-The examination,
by the health officers, of all vessels arriving between
the first of April and the first Of November, subject by
law to quarantine, will commence on THURSDAY next,
the I'd Of April, at the quarantine anchorage, as near
as NAV be to the Marine Hospital on Staten Island.
EDGARTOWN, March 23.-Arrived. brig Planter,
Pearl of this port 10 DAYS from st. Thomas Left,
brig Haley on, Jackson, from ST. Petersburgh. in dis
ress repairing to sail in ten or twelve days tor Bos-
ton; schooner Only Son Astrum and many other Am.
vessels, names not recollected.
The following is from captain Cyrus b. Worth, of
schooner Celer, respecting the conduct of the ship
Drono
March g. lat. $40 ~, long. 72o sV N with loss of
fcremast sails and rigging, leaking from one thousand
to fourteen hundred strokes hour, thrtysiX days
from New Orleans on an allowance Of pint OF wa
ter aud about three Of bread per day. the crew
nearly exhausted, sail to wndward, maize SIC
nal Of distress which he discovered and run down to
me-proved to be the ship Dromo, Sleeper of Boston.
The captain very kindly asked me what assistance he
could render me I told him the situation my vessel
was in, and begged he would supply me with provi-
sions and water, or take me board his ship. He
told me to send my boat on board. told him my boat
was stove and could be kept aoat, the sea being
rough and the wind fast increasing to gale, and beg
ged he would send his boat to my assistance, 1t being
much larger than mine, have the kindness to lay by
me until i Was smooth enough for me to get on board
his ship. He lay under my lee about thirty minutes,
and bore away and left me. Reader, judge OF my
feelings nj that moment Late IN the day-a gale last
increasing-my vessel unmanageabe- sail that
could set upon her-her upper rudder iron gone-but
one shroud the s'arboard side OF my nainnMst-no
play to support -This was the situation in which the
humane captain of the promo ltit me- On the 18th,
was taken off the wreck BY the brig Pembroke, OF
Pembroke, captain Orlander Mathew, and landed at
Edgartown on the ed Notwithstanding they were on
short allowance board the brig, We were kindly
received and partook equal share of their scanty
allowance. While on board the Pembroke, We were
treated with great kindness, BY the captain, officers,
and crew, for which feel grateful and tender them
my sincere thanks F"
Loss ofthe Gutter Crawford From captain Paine,
Of the revenue cutter learn that that We s.
sci was unfortunately cspsized on The 10th instant, by
sudden hurricane, which occurred when of the High
Point of Cumberland island The cutter, at the time,
under sail but such the force OF the wind
that she Immediately capszed and sunk-and the cap
tain, officers, and part Of the crew, were, with mm-
nent hazard, saved by swimming. Two OF the crew,
named Peter Anderson and Henry Baxter, and CO.
lored man belonging to captain Paine. went down
with the vessel
Captain Paine and the remainder of his crew arrived
last evening nthe schooner Betsey and Maria On the
High Point Of Cumberland Island. the wind bent the
tops of oak saplings to the ground, prosrated the
fences of Mr. Downs, living on the Point, and shook
his house to its foundatien-S avannph Georgian.