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brigs proves erroneous; but that of his fi rst offi cer is confi rmed. He had taken a coaster and was making for Key West, when he was pursued, and was obliged to run his prize vessel ashore. With fi ve of his own men and fi fteen prisoners, he got into the long boat, when the latter overpowered him, and thus he was taken.
Capt. Elliot of the U. S. ship CYANE
has presented the editor of the American Farmer with a pair of carrier pigeons, as an object of curiosity, and a pair of hogs, less destructive to vegetation than those com- monly known in America.
Yankee Tars. – A number of Spanish
prisoners, released from Algerine slavery, arrived at Port Mahon in February last, in the most distressed situation. The offi cers and crew of the U. S. frigate CONSTITUTION, observing that destitute condition, volun- teered a handsome subscription to relieve them, and paid their passage to Spain.
The quantity of cotton landed at the
wharves in Savannah, during the months of March, was twenty-seven thousand bales.
MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived
ET, Shute, Boston. April 28th
April 24 – schooner BOSTON PACK- – schooners TRAVELER,
Thompson, of Portsmouth, from Bangor; FAME, Norwood, Hingham; sloops COM- MERCE, ---, Branford; MECHANIC, ---, New York.
* * * * * Arrived at Providence, 21st ult. schoo-
ner PACKET, Hopkins, and BOSTON, Carver, from Prospect. Arrived at Newport, 20th
ult. Schooner
TRAVELER, Merithew, Bangor. Cleared at Boston, 23rd
RIET & ELIZA, Stanley, for this port. Arrived at New York, 16th
, schooner HAR- , schooner
AMERICAN HERO, Eustis, of Prospect, from Wilmington. At Halifax, 12th
Tucker, of Penobscot, from New York. At Liverpool 10th
, schooner VERMONT, March, ship AN-
TIOCH, Rich, of Castine, for New Orleans; ship SIROC, Nichols, of Bangor, for Savan- nah.
The brig BUCKSPORT, French, of
Bucksport, from Wilmington, has arrived at St. Jago de Cuba. At Fort Royal, (Mart.) March 30,
schooner MAGNET, Emery, of Hampden, discharging. The brig TORNO, Snow, of Bangor, has sailed from Baltimore for St. Thomas. Arrived at Havana, 6th
ult. schooner
MARY JANE, Dyer, Castine. The brig BETSEY, Ryan, of this port,
has arrived at Trinidad, Cuba, and to sail soon for New York or Philadelphia. The schooner NANCY & HANNAH,
of Frankfort, [sailed from Darien in Feb- ruary from Point Petre, and we believe not since heard from] was falling in with, April --, Lat. 28, Long. 62, 30, masts, sails, rigging and rudder gone, hull not damaged – cargo, rice and lumber. [The above is a new vessel, having
made but one voyage; Capt. A. Child, of Frankfort, was master – the fate of the crew is unknown.]
Boston, April 27. – Schooner MILO,
from Penobscot, with lumber, was ashore yesterday on the Great Brewster, with loss of rudder, having beat over the bar between that Island and the Lighthouse.
HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 9 May
Reminiscence. – The following oc-
currence which took place in the month of January 1787, and which was then put on record as a remarkable instance of divine preservation, may not be without interest at the present day. Messrs. Samuel Pulcifer and Samuel
Elwell, of Rowley, being on some fl ats between Plumb and Hogg Island, digging clams, were overtaken by a severe storm about that time, in endeavoring to get off Hogg Island at low water, they lost them- selves – but fi nding a stack of salt hay, they dug a hole in it and lay there that night – the next morning the tide was risen so high as to oblige them to quit the hole and get at the top of the stack – which soon after was struck by a cake of ice and set afl oat; in this situation they continued, a long time the sport of the waves, until, to their utter surprise, the stack was breaking to pieces; – fortunately at this time an entire stack was fl oating near them, to which they leaped, and on which they continued two hours – they were almost perishing with the cold, when one of them espied land, to which the stack struck, and stopped, but near four rods from the shore; – after undergoing every peril, and one of them, owing to the benumbed condition of his legs, being obliged to push them forward with his hands, they reach shore, on an un- inhabited island – they however observed another stack of hay, into which they got, and continued some time hallowing for help, which was providentially heard, when they were almost spent, by a son of Major Smith, of Ipswich, who with his father and brother were looking for some strayed sheep – the Major knowing the ground, went over to them, and took them to his house, where they were provided with every necessary their circumstances call for. They got home on the 8th
instant, and though their limbs
were considerably frozen, they are likely to do well.”
Intercourse with Maine. – We suppose
the steamboat navigation between this port and the state of Maine, will soon commence, since the season has opened so favorably. When the road from Québec to Hallowell shall be opened for carriages, we think it will prove one of the most attractive routes in the summer, for visitors of the United States from lower Canada. It is singular that though this road was early considered the most direct and favorable channel of inter- course between New England and Canada, yet that it should never have been rendered practicable for stagecoaches. In Edes’ Bos- ton Gazette, published October 18, 1773, we fi nd the following notice on this subject. “The Hon. Hugh Finley, Surveyor General of the Post roads in North America, arrived in town last week, from Québec, by the way of Kennebec, which he found to be the nearest and best conveyance between that and the New England provinces.” - Boston Evening Gazette
FOREIGN FROM EUROPE. – By the Boston and
Liverpool Line Ship SAPPHIRE, Capt. Cal- lender, papers to April 6, have been received.
Lieut. Percival. – The New York Ob-
server states that Lieutenant Percival, who commanded the U. S. schooner DOLPHIN at the Sandwich Islands, and whose conduct was so off ensive to the missionaries, arrived at that port last week, as First Lieutenant of the frigate UNITED STATES, [Commodore Hull,] and was arrested before landing, by writs of individuals, for grievances uncon- nected with the outrage upon the missionar- ies. For want of bail, he was committed to
prison. A second vessel has been chartered by
the Greek Committee of Philadelphia; and is to sail about the middle of the present month. A large amount has been collected in the State of Pennsylvania for the Greek since the fi rst vessel sailed, which was early in March.
From the Sandwich Islands. – Very
gratifying intelligence has been received from the Sandwich Islands. The labors of the Rev. H. Bingham at Woahoo have succeeded beyond the most sanguine ex- pectations, many of the natives being able to write, and read the scriptures translated into their own language. The population have destroyed their idols and abolished their former improper practices. Capt. Jones, of the U. S. ship PEACOCK, at San Blas, from whom this intelligence is received, has aff ected some arrangements with the Chiefs of Otaheite, by which many of the evils complained of by our countrymen engaged in the whale fi shery, &c. in the South Seas, will be removed.
The latest intelligence from Commo-
dore Porter is by the way of New Orleans. It is stated that Capt. Porter the nephew of the commodore, had sailed for the Colombian coast, to conduct a squadron under Beleucho to the Key. In the meantime, Commodore Porter was busy in perfecting the discipline of his crew, exercising them daily at the guns. Large supplies of provisions from New Orleans had already arrived at the Key, with a recruit of mariners.
Navigation of the Red Sea by Steam.
– From Calcutta papers to the close of De- cember, received at Boston, it appears that arrangements are making to establish steam vessels on the Red Sea. We are no further informed on the subject, but presumed that the project which was stated some time ago, and has been occasionally referred to in the English papers, is to be submitted to experi- ment – that is, to open a route for commercial intercourse that way between Europe and the East. The results of the experiment will be looked for with interest. If conducted with proper prudence and skill, sanguine hopes will probably be entertained of its success, after the wonders which have already been performed by steam.
MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived
May 4th
Dean, Salem; brig VENUS, Tilden, Castine. May 5th
– schooner MARGARET, – schooner ROB ROY, Donnell,
Newburyport; sloop ABIGAIL, Gilman, Boston; schooner CHERUB, Libby, ---, Boston. May 6th
– RANDOLPH, ---, Yarmouth;
CHARLES AUSTIN, Davis, Hingham; JUDITH, Parker, Boston; sloop BRUTUS, Clark, Boston; LIBERTY, Freeman, Nor- wich; schooner HARRIET, ---, Stonington; sloop RAPID, ---, Chatham. Sailed
May 3rd
Thompson, Portland. May 5th
Shute, Boston. May 8th
– schooner TRAVELER, – schooner BOSTON PACKET, – UNION, Boyles, Nantucket;
and several other vessels bound west, with a fair wind.
* * * * * Arrived at New York, 27th ult. brig
CAROLINE, Tyler of Frankfort from Mo- bile, 25 days; schooner CAMDEN, Hiscock, of Camden, Wilmington fi ve days. 28th
– Arrived schooner FAME, Ather-
ton of Castine, from St. Thomas 19 days; cleared at St. Thomas schooner PIEREE, Glover for Belfast. At Surinan, March 28, brig RUBY, Cole of Bucksport for Boston. At St. Pierres, April 6, brig LYDIA, Hamlin of Hampden uncertain.
16 May FOREIGN to 16th
Latest from England. – Liverpool dates ult. inclusive have been received at
New York by the ship DALHOUSIE-CAS- TLE.
Shocking Steam-Boat Explosion on
the Rhine. – One of the late foreign papers contains an account of the dreadful explosion of a boiler of a new construction, on board a steamboat at Lyons, which was provided with an engine of a hundred horsepower. The fragments were thrown to the extreme parts of the town, wounding several persons and doing considerable injury to the buildings. One of the fragments took a man’s head off while passing the bridge on horseback. * * * * *
sailed from Rio on the 4th
The SPARK, Clark, of New York, of March, for
Montevideo, and was captured the same day, by a steamboat, which left the port for the purpose) on suspicion of being bound to Buenos Ayres. A prize crew was put on board, and the brig brought to anchor. On the sea breeze setting in, her cables were cut, and she was carried into port. After lying near a fortnight, and every attempt to obtain her release proving ineff ectual, she was abandoned. After her capture, some of her crew
were impressed, carried on board a Brazilian 74, and put in irons. Mr. Raguet, the Amer- ican Charge d’Aff aires, and Mr. Wright, the American Consul, had demanded an explanation of the cause of their impris- onment, which was not only refused, but it was understood they were treated with indignity by the Minister of Marine. Mr. Raguet had demanded his passports, which were granted, and he would return home the fi rst opportunity that off ered. A full account of the facts connected with this aff air, have been transmitted to our government. The French and Colombian Ambas-
sadors had not been well received by the Brazilian government. The CYANE, Capt. Elliot, sailed from March, for the U. S. to touch
Rio on the 5th
at Pernambuco. Bath, May 8. – Arrived schooner LIB-
ERTY, Capt. G. W. Cory, of Sedgwick, from a fi shing cruise with the loss of one man overboard. On Tuesday last, May 1st, Lat. 42 47, Long. 65 4, about half past 4 o’clock PM discovered a large brig some distance to the leeward, laying to under double reefed topsails showing a signal of distress, and I immediately wishing to know her situation and lend her assistance, if possible, attempt- ed to run down for her, although the wind was blowing a gale from NE and the sea running very high, and after getting near enough to see her name, which appeared to be the HENRY TITE of Belfast, with the letter P on her quarter, in a ballast trim, and a large number of people on deck, attempted to get my boat out, but fi nding it impracticable, as it was too rough, requested Mr. Thomas Norris, one of my people to take the helm, while I reached down the gangway for my speaking trumpet – and just as he took the helm, a heavy sea struck us, which knocked the said Norris overboard; although every possible exertion was made to save him, still we could not. The wind continued blowing, and night coming on, could not ascertain the
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