Shipping Intelligence Section

The Ticonderago (sic) – we have been kindly furnished with the following particulars relative to this unfortunate vessel, by Chas Ferguson, Esq. the Harbor Master at Williamstown, who has been down to the Heads in the Empire Schooner, and returned on Sunday.  It appears there were, on Friday, about 714 emigrants on board; 100 deaths, and nineteen births had occurred on the passage, seven of the former since the ship anchored at the Heads.  There are at present 300 cases of sickness amongst them, principally scarletina.  Tents have been erected with the sails, spars, &c., of the ship on Point Nepean, where a quarantine ground has been marked out.  The two houses occupied by Messrs Sullivan & Cannon (lime-burners) have been purchased by Government, and converted into hospitals.  To this place 250 of the healthy, and 150 of the sick have been removed, and more will be put on shore as soon as arrangements are made.  The Lysander ship, too, now at the Heads, will be fitted up as a hospital for the worst cases.

The Empire Schooner left Williamstown again yesterday, for the Heads, with a further supply of stores, provisions, and spare sails, &c., for tents, taking down at the same time, Mr Farman, the surgeon of the “Mobile” to assist the medical gentlemen previously sent, both the surgeon and his assistant, belonging to the Ticonderago (sic), being in an extremely debilitated state.  It is to be hoped that the liberal measures taken by the authorities in this case will counteract the further spread of the disease, which it is, but natural to expect, when fresh air, exercise, and liberal diet are brought into operation.