Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-08-26
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Tho gelo yesterday week, seems TO have pervaded
the whole from the Delaware to Savannah. las
far south heard from) and have been OF extra
ordinary severity. The damage to shipping, crops
and different knds of Improvements. has been n,-
mefse Guls were driven up to this vicinity, strong
proof Of tue severity the blow. The further SOUTH
che sooner the gallo commenced, winch marks it
Cuinoctlai IN its character.
The New bern Spectai or describes the effects at
that place.
Of unusual, we might cay xampled Violence. The
gale commenced about 10 P. nj a, s. Bast, and
moderated IN the morning Ut 5 West. The ship
pug IN port stained much damage-every vessel In
the stream was drivcI from her Inoorings and many
from their tasien,ngs at The wharves. The opposite
shore, the mex day, presented the novel spectacle OF
cr'gs, scaooners ana smai. CrdH siaudrd hgu anu
diy. On Thursday afternoon the Revenue Gutter
came up dismasted the Captain, wbo been at
eca frun cudhoud, says he never experienced SD
we're a ON. Ofth vessels at the bar, several
entirely lost, and all sustained less damage,
eHccp, the Henry City aud Piandome. We have
not heard That my lives were lost. The dredgG
boat, We are glad TO learn, rode out the gale safe
~. Al Ma tamusket he loss is severe-sf sevon-
teen sail large and small Ill we're driven the
fields and the crops which Were rearesented the
hnest they have mad for thu last ten years
Y ruined. WE have not we, heard from Beaufort
We learn BY lgu'er from Core Sound at ship
bound from New York Tor Charleston shore
and entirely ost-also brg-names not KNOWN
~ Swansboro' several cnmueys were blown down.
We have not heard OF the pIrtlcuars-Ihe gallo
compared a tornado. rHe following IS a list OF
the vessels at che bar, with hr damage sustained.
NoRPoLK. Aug. 20
Farther Disasters by the late Gute "A gent.m Al
from Alligator Creek, Tyrre county. IN CT arrived
here last evening informs That the Gale on Tues
day last very destructive at that place. The
srhrs. Sally, Nay Ann, Harvest. Sidney, and one
o her schooner, which at anchor there, yero ali
driven ashore, every one of hem ustanmg npre or
loss injury.
Washington. IN. c. who came in tue stage IN com-
pany, that the gale was equally severe nj 0cracock.
All tho vessels which at aucher there including
the Revenue Gutter Dallas, excepting from
Sew York; were driven ashore.
Capt. Tunnel, who arrivc-i here Yesterday fr,m
Phadepma inform us that h. about 90 sail of
vessels ashore The Break Vator, in tho Delaware
Bay.
NORFOLK, August 2s.-Arrived, ship s,a,ira.
Wheeler, New York, adays, with an assorted CARGO
bound to Savannah. 18th inst. in lat 1884, lon 75S
experienced very severe gale of wind, during which
was knocked down on her beam ends lost SPAR Sails
and othc' wise damaged. A pilot boat which
boarded the ship last night, went of to the ossls-
lance of dismasted vessel, the captain Of which eta
tod tho! he boarded few days previous, q schooner
abandoned from which he TOOK some watches quad
Brig Edwin. Fl pkins, Ro do Janciro. ca days 9Th
cDFee. July Esd, IN lat g, lon 81 spoke brig Bogo
u, L. N
DOM Goth INST. Cape Hatteras bearing w by. s. dis
10 miles, the light in sight saw he skysa mast and
part of the royal mast, apparently OF large ship
SINK; same day spoke pilot boat who reported T. al
they had spoken ship from New York bound to
Charleston with loss of sails they intended to Pot
iuto the Chesn peake; same day, saw a water cask
bbs Of flour and sevial deck knees aaoar, ssd fell
in with large mast, with head painted green and
some fancy chairs drifting Capt Hopkins experen-
csd the gle the 18th inst, lot 81 ID, lon 1a,
but sustained no damage.
Schr InvincIbl Slower, Gloucester MAS \ in
distress, with loss Of foremost, and nainnast sprno
Capt Slower reports that in lat 81 As Ion IA Ct he
fell IN withtwo briggs the Antelope of Boston for
Norfolk, with tho loss of both Inasts rudder
&c; the other, name unknown, under jury mast and
apparently standing for Cape Henlopen
a dismasted vessel Below WIilouahbye Point
last evening bound up.
Capt. Furman, of the schr Three Sisters, reported
yesterday, passed about 5 miles to the n. of Hog
Island, vessels bottom upwards and saw parts OF
boats and bales Of cotton adrift.
ELrzApETH:CrTr, IN. C.) Aug. 81.
The Gdk.-Af"r q long spell Of hot and dry
weather, Tuesday morning last beforr day light the
w'"d commenced slowing gale from p. sceonpa.
MED with ram which continued great part of the dav
the wind working round 60 about west. -bloynr the
whole tine with considerable violence. Through
par, OF tins aud Perqumsns County, which travel.
led the next day sad havoc has been made with the
corn crops having been nearly Frustrated bv the
wind previous its shifting, much III the corn ,ya.
blown back and the stalks lie cross and nile IN tb
field. Tic fodder IS so much mi ired that IN moat in
stances It will not be worth saving. We learn from
a6entlemen from Currituck County that the crops Of
corn there are also very much njuredi the late corn
being almost entirely destroyed Our informant think
the farnsrs IN his neighborliood will not re lize half
crop w fear the gale has not only been severe but
extensive in this section If country Thus have the
hopes of the farmer, whose heart but fe DAYS s1e
beat high with the expectation OF bountrfuI harvest
for his years toll. been in measure blasted by the
hand OF all-wsr but mysterious Providence whose
ways are dark and InscruIable, past findin. Out,
We apprehend much shipping has been driven on
our coast. We learn there a,e % sail sshtre near
hittamuskeet, in Psmp,Ico Sound; among them the
Frames ID. Williams, owned by NJ. R,bi. VI. Knox of
this place. with the loss Of her W. have not
heard from ocrscock, but presume that no vessel
there could have rode out the gale. vessel about
tons, name no, known. laden with turpentnc, was
caps'z d Mt anchor near the Hatshes
lie rose so high here to w. raow some of
our wh"rvesn and sweep 'way bridges creeks
near The town.
CHARLEsros. August 90.
.Ssip~r'eks--The brig .nary, Captain PoRrsn.