Danbury Times

Gale at St. Johns. Captain Norris, of the brig Frances Jane, at this port yesterday from St. Johns, reports that the hurricane which visited that place on the 5th inst. destroyed an immense amount of property in and around the town and killed a large number of persons. The brig Gracchus, of this port, was totally lost, together with five other American and twenty-eight foreign vessels, out of which twenty-one persons were drowned.

Previous to the sailing of Capt. Norris, the British Mail Packet from Barbadoes arrived at St. Johns, and reported that the Island of Barbadoes had been visited a second time by a hurricane, on the 2d of August, during which 35 vessels were driven ashore, sunk, or otherwise injured.

Capt. N. states that the schr. Wm. A. Knox, of Norfolk, received considerable injury from the gale at Barbadoes, and went to St. Thomas to repair. While lying at the latter port she had the misfortune to be again in a gale, during which she lost her foremast and received other damage.

It was estimated at St. Johns, from the accounts which had reached there of the disasters in the different islands, that about one thousand persons had lost their lives by the late hurricanes.--Baltimore American.