Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-12
SHIP NEWS.
PORT OF ALEXANDRIA. (D. C.
ARRIVED. APRIL II,

ARRIVED. APRIL II,
Sloop Advice, Crowell. Providence, r. l. !;
Potatoes and Onions to VIM. Fowle & Co.
SIoop Union, Taylor, Philadelphia; Freight
for the District.
Steamboat Potomac. hewitt, Norfolk; freight
and passengers for the District.
SAILED,
Schr. volant Wyman, New York.
Schooner Duroc. Stetson, cleared at Norfolk
for this port 9th inst.
The ship Anacfeon, White, from Liverpool.
bound to Richmond, ran ashore on Hog Island a
few days since during thick foy Size had bill
ged. and has probably gone to pieces. Crew and
passengers saved.
Melancholy Shipwreck The schooner Eliza.
beth. Of Borden,owu. IN. J. Douglass, master,
from Plymouth, N. G. with cargo Of slaves and
shingles, bound to Kingston, Jamaica. sailed from
the former place on the 7th March, and from
OCracOCk Hn the 3th, and the 10th follow ing,
sprung aieak, and immediately filled with water.
On the next day her foremast was carried away.
The crew-with the exception OF Thomas Boz
man, mate, who was drowned, Nathan Phelps
and Samuel McCarty. seamen, who persisted for
want of water-were taken off the wreck ten
days after, during which time they had nothing
tU subsst on but few potatoes by Capt. Hard
Ing, of schooner Banner, from Plymouth, bound
to Kingston, Jamaica, who transferred them, on
the 3lst, in lat 26, long &C., to the schooner ia.
son, Duncan, of and for Folly Landing, from St.
Thomas, which put into Hampton Roads yester-
day, for the purpose Of landing them. The sur
vvng crew lost every thing but the clothes which
they had on. Mr.. BpzmaD aud Phelps belonged
to Plymouth, N. G. and McCarty to BALTIMORE
Captain Douglass takes this opportunity, in be-
half of himself and surviving crew, to return
thanks to the above named gentlemen. for their
kind attentions to them --NoJok Beacon.
.qnother Melancholy Mipwreck The schoon.
er which was sunk below the Light Boat, in the
heavy gale on Sunday night last. vas the Friends,
Captain Anderson, from Newport News, with
cargo of sand for the Dry Dock. Ill on board
-four in number ,oeat down 10Th the uesset.-
She lies in about eleven tathoms water. The
schooner belonged to Captain Freeman, of Ports
mouth. -Norfolk Beacon.
New ORLEANS, March 10.
Shipn,eck. new ship Knight, Captain
Knight, from Portland, arrived and anchored at
the s. w. Pass about ten days ago. Being in
that situation, she struck an old anchor, buried
in the sand. The wind coming to blow fresh,
and being unable to get her anchor on board. the
Captain vas compelled to cut her cable away
She was driven out to sea, and was soon found
to be leaking at the rate OF SO strokes OF the pump
a minute. The crew being exhausted by CONT.
nual exerton to keep the vessel from sinking,
the captain drove her on the Gallon Island, with
eight feet water 10 the hold. She had 200 tons
of stone ballast and l6O bales Of hay on Board;
was insured IN Boston, we understand, for the
sum Of $4,000. The amount Of property saw
ed, is rated at $4,000, in furniture, rigging, and
spars The Captain and crew came down in the
Cora from Lafourche.
Loss of the ship Ghde-By the arrival at
this port of the brig Henry Tailman, Capt. Lee
mont, from Matamoras. we learn that on the 9TH
inst. he spoke schooner bound from New Or
leans to S. w. Pass. VermiIlion Bay. which re-
ported, that the new ship Glide. Of Portland
bound from Boston to New Orleans, with small
cargo of hay, &c. was cast away on the Tambel-
Ter Island, on the 5th. All the information
which Cant. Lemont could gather, was, that the
crew were all saved-the ship had IS feet water
in her hoId-supposed to be entirely lost
Franki,n Republican. March IS.
Tho shin Hsllesponf.-We learn that the fact
Of insurance having been effected 10 this city, at
an advanced premium, on property on board the
Hellespont, and the circumstance that no notice
has been taken by the public prints. OF the Try.
sail Mast and Work Bench picked up by the
Martha having been sent here, as was the case,
has revived fear that the Hellespont is lost
There ia not the slightest ground for this appre