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Columbian .museum, Jwu SAVANNAH GAZETTE. I’Uiwteb iM) published on the bat, bt MICIUEL J. KAPPEL , & CO. Term t daily papf.b....Sß payable in advance. ooiYTitT paper; issued on T ties tiny, Thursday, and Saturday . (containing all the news and new advertisements of the daily paper) $5 per an num—payable in adyaiice. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, Dec. 10, fir. . .. ■ “ -—nr.- 1 CORN IN GREAT DEMAND. There is but little of this article in our mar ket at present, and we fully believe that almost any quantity of good corn would readily command 25 cents per bushel, delivered.—We should have quoted corn in our prices current yester day at Si 25, instead of 90 a 100 cents. The probability is that corn will be still higher, on account of the crops falling short in this section of our country the past season. A meeting of Irishmen, and descendants of Irishmen, was held at Harmony-Hall, in New- York, on the 25th ult. and attended by a large number of very respectable gentlemen, for the purpose of promoting the settlement of Irish em igrants in the Illinois territory. A Circular, highly creditable to the occasion, was address ed to their friends in various parts of the United States, inviting their co-operation and support. The following resolutions were offered by Mr. Emmet, and unanimously adopted— 1. Resolved, That it is expedients form a so ciety of Irishmen and descendants of Irishmen, for the purpose of endeavoring to procure from Congress, a tract of land in the Illinois territory, to be settled by emigrants from Ireland. 2. Resolved, That every person of the forego ing description, who shall on or before the se cond day of December next pay the secretary of this meeting the sum of five dollars, shall be en titled to become a member of the said society, until tlie number of subscribers shall have a mounted to one hundred, after which time the subscribers shall be at liberty to elect thir own officers, and no person shall afterwards be ad mitted except by ballot. 3. Resolved, That it be recommended to Irish men and the descendants oY Irishmen, in the other cities and towns of the union, to form sim ilar societies, for the purpose of corresponding and co-operating with that which is about to be formed in this city. a n-1 .4, 1 rl r -Q 1 - A*-/• will shortly take place, and in order to prevent the loss of time, a committee of fifteen be ap pointed to prepare the outlines of a memorial to that body, to be submitted to the consideration of the society, when formed and organized ; and also to adopt such measures as they may think expedient for promoting and accelerating the organization of that society. The following gentlemen were then appointed a committee in pursuance of the 7th resolution. COMMITTEE. Andrew Morris, John Meyher, Thomas Addis Emmet, James Bride, William Sampson, Cornelius Heeney, John W. Mulligan, William Patterson, Thomas Kirk, Col. Mullany, James Moffit, David Bryson, Robert Swanton, Capt. O’Sullivan, Matthew Carroll, James J. M‘Don?ld, William Jas. M'Nevan, Dennis H. Doyle, Capt. Skiddy, James Hayes, Dennis M'Carthy. COMMUNICATED. The directresses of the Savannah Free are again called upon to acknowledge the re ceipt of “Obscurio’s” donation, so unostenta tiously bestowed. By the repetition of an act so disinterestedly munificent, and so conspicu ously pourtraying that goodness, which flows from a heart fraught with angelic piety, the warmest sentiments of admiration are excited; and the directresses, in offering their thanks in behalf of those under their care, pay but a small tribute to the good Obscurio. They, however, feel assured that his reward awaits him in heaven ; and the approval of conscience, in this world, wilf be no small earnest of a par ticipation in the happiness that is in store for the good and cluirit able. Prices at Kingston, Jam. Nov. 13 —Flour &15; rice 8 ; meal 8 ; pitch pine lumber 51 a 54; R. O. staves 54 ; W. O. ditto 56 a 60; 22 inch shingles 13 a 14. Exchange on London, 483 dolls, per 100/. sterling. From the South. —By a gentleman just arrived from St Mary’s, which place lie left on Friday evening last, we learn, that, col. Bankhead with the U. States’ troops have arrived at Point Petrc. The object of the concentration of troops at that fort, Aury appears to lie aware of; and is only wait ing for vcfcaeU to arrive, when lie and hi*! black heme's will evacuate the Island of | Amelia. We also learn, that Woodbine; has at rived at Pensacola, from New Provij deuce, nitli au expedition lifted oat (rum the lattcrplace; and, that he had enlisted in liis cause a number of Indians and- It is said that Mac Gregor is with him—we hope not The United States’ brig Sara nac took possession of a prize on Thursday last, going into Amelia. Florida will be taken possession of by the United States’ troops as soon as the frigate John Adams, brigs Promethus and Enterprizc, and schr. Lynx, arrive; which were expected daily. There was a rumor at Amelia that a Brit ish expedition was fitting out in some of the West India Islands, for the purpose of ta king possesion of the Floridas. At Amelia the most shameful outrages have been com mitted by Aury’s troops—several murders were perpetrated by them with iirpunity— neither life nor property was safe if with in the reach of these freebooters and brig ands. Republican. We take the present opportunity of adding to our files another specimen of the eloquence of COUNSELLOR PHILLIPS. A Speech, delivered at a dinner given on Dinas Island, in the lake of Killarney, on mr. Phil lips’ health being given, together with that of mr. Payne, a young American. It is not with the vain hope of returning bywords the kindness which have b en lit erally showered on me during the short pe riod of our acquaintance, that I now inter rupt, for a moment, the flow of your festiv ity. Indeed, it is not necessary; an Irish man needs no requital for his hospitality; its generous impulse is the instinct of his nature ; and the verv consciousness of the act, carries its recompence along with it. But, sir, there are sensations excited by an allusion in your toast, uuder the influence of which, silence would be impossible. To be associated with no. Payne must be, to any one who regards private virtues and personal accomplishments, a source of pe culiar pride ; and that feeling is not a little enhanced in me, by a recollection of the country to which we are indebted for his qualifications. Indeed, the mention of America has never failed to fill me with the most lively emotions. In my earliest in fancy, that tender season when immpres sions, at once the most permanent, and the most powerful, are likely to be excited, the story of her then recent struggles, raised a throb in every heart that loved liberty, and wrung a reluctant tribute even from dis comfited oppression. I saw her spurning alike the luxuries that would enervate, and yus iegiOHSxnaimv!urtr uasmflg from her lips the poisoned cup of European servitude; and, through all the vicissitudes of her protracted conflict, displaying a mag nanimity that defied misfortune, and a moderation that gave new grace to victory. It was the first vision of my childhood ; it will descend with me to the grave. But if as a man, I venerate the mention of Amer ica, what must be my feelings towards her, as an Irishman. Never, oh never, while memory remains, can Ireland forget the home of her emigrant, and the asylum ofher exile. No matter whether their sorrows sprung from the errors es enthusiasm, of the realities of suffering, from fancy or inflic tion ; that must be reserved for the scrutiny of those whom the lapse of time shall ac quit of partiality. It is for the men of oth er ages to investigate and record it; but surely it is for the men of every age to hail the hospitality that received the shelterless, and love the feeling that befriended the un fortunate. Search creation round, where can you find a country that presents so sub lime a view, so enteresting an anticipation ? What noble institutions ! What a compre hensive policy ! What a wise equalization of every political advantage ! The oppres sed of all countries, the martyrs of every creed, the innocent victim of despotic arro gance or superstitious phrenzy, may there find refuge; his industry encouraged, his piety respected his ambition animated ; with no restraint but those laws which are the same to all, and no distinction but that which his merit may originate. Who can deny that the existence of such a country presents a subject for human congratula tion ! Who can*lcny that its gigantic ad- vancement offers a field for the most ra tional conjecture 1 At the end of the very next century, if she proceeds as she seems to promise, what a wonderous spectacle may she not exhibit! Who shall say for what purpose a mysterious Providence may not have designed her! Who shallsay that when, in its follies or in its crimes, the. old world may have entered all the pride of its power, and all the pomp of its civiliza tion, human nature may not find its destin ed renovation in the new! For myself, I have no douht of it. 1 have not the least (doubt, that when our temple* and our tro phies shall have mouldered into dust—- when (lie glories o! our name shall be but | the legend of tradition, and tho light ot our achievmsut* ouly live in sung ; philosophy’ will rise again in the sky ofher Franklin, and glory rekindled at the urn ot her Washington. Is this the vision of a i oman tic fancy ? Is it even improbable ? Is it half so improbable as the events which for the last twenty years have rolled like suc cessive tides over the surface of the Euro pean world, each erasing the impression that preceeded it ? Thousands upon thou sands, Sir, 1 know there are, who will con sider this supposition as wild and whim sical ; but they have dwelt with little re flection up;;n the records of the past. They have but ill observed the never ceasing progress of national rise and national ruin. They form their judgment on the deceit ful stability of the present hour, never con sidering the innumerable monarchies and republics, in former days, apparently as permanent, their very existence become now the subjects of speculation, I had al most said of scepticism. I appeal to his tory ! Tell me, thou reverend chronacler of the grave, can all the illusions of ambi tion realized, can all the wealth of an uni versal commerce, can all the achievements of successful heroism, or all the establish ments of this worldfs wisdom, secure to em pire the permanency of its possessions ? Alas ! Troy thought so once ; yet the land of Priam lives only in song! Thebes thought so once ; yet her hundred gates have crum bled, and her very tombs are but as the dust they were vainly intended to commemo rate ! So thought Palmyra —where is she ? So thought Persepolis, and now— “ You waste, where roaming lions howl, Yon aisle, where moans the grey-eyed owle, Shows the proud Persian’s great abode. Where sceptred once, an earthly god, His power-clad arm controll’d each happier clime, Where sports the warbling muse, and fancy soars sublime.” So thought the countries of Demosthenes and the Spartan ; yet Leonidas is trampled by the timid slave, and Athens insulted by the servile, mindless, and enervate Otto man ! In this hurried march, Time has but looked at their imagined immortality ; and all its vanities, from the palace to the tomb, have, with their ruins, erased the very impression of his footsteps ! The days of their glory are as if they had never been ; and the island that was then a speck, rude and neglected in the barren ocean, now rivals the übiquity of their commerce, the glory of their arms, the fame of their philosophy, the eloquence of their senate, and flie inspiration of their bards! Who siiairsay, xfii f .i, contemplating the past,that England, proud and potent as she appears, may not one day he what Athens is, and the young America yet soar to be what A thens was ! Who shall say, when the Eu ropean column shall have mouldered, atid the night of barbarism obscured its ruins, that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule, for its time, sove reign of the ascendant! * Such, Sir, is the natural progress of hu man operations, and such the unsubstantial mockery of human pride. But I should perhaps apologize for this digression.—The tombs are at best a sad, although an instruc tive subject. At all events, they are ill suited to such an hour as this. I shall en deavour to atone for it, by turning to a theme which tombs cannot inurn, or revolu tion alter. It is the custom of your board, and a noble one it is, to deck the cup of the gay with the garland of the great; and surely, even in the eyes of its deity, hia grape is not the less lovely when glowing beneath the foliage of the palm-tree and the myrtle. Allow me to add one flower to the chaplet, which, though it sprang in America, is no exotic. Virtue planted it, and it is naturalized every where. I see you anticipate me—l see you concur with me, that it matters very little what immedi ate spot may be the birth-place of such a man as Washington. No people can claim, no country can appropriate him: the boon of Providence to the human race, his fame is eternity, and his residence creation. Though it was the defeat of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin. If the heavens thundered and the earth rocked, yet, when the storm passed, how pure was the climate that it cleared ! how bright in the brow ot the firmament was the planet which it revealed to us! In the production of Washington, it does really appear as if nature was endeavoring to improve upon herself, and that all the vir tues of the ancient world were but so many studies preparatory to the patriot of the new. Individual instances no doubt there were; splendid exemplifications of some ■ingle qualification: Ciesar was merciful, Scipio was continent Hannibal waa pa tient ; but it was reserved lor Washington to blend them all in one, and, like tht lovely chi f ihrarre of the Grecian artist, to exhibit in one glow olassociated beauty, the prole of every lootiei Ik the perfection ot every master. As a general, lie marshalled the peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience: as a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage; and such was the wisdom of his views, and the philosophy of his coun sels, that to the soldier and the statesman he almost added the character of the sage ! A conqueror, he was untainted with the crime of blood ; a revolutionist, he was free from any stain of treason ; for aggres sion commenced the contest, and his coun try called him to the command. Liberty unsheathed his sword, necessity stained, victory returned it. If he had paused here, history might have doubted what station to assign him, whether at the head ofher citi zens or her soldiers, her heroes or her patriots. But the last glorious acts crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation.— Who, like Washington, after having eman cipated an hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created ! “ How shall we rank thee upon glory’s page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage ? All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less, than all thou hast forborne to be ! Such, sir, is the testimony of one not to be accused of partiality in his estimate of America. Happy, proud America ! the lightnings of heaven yielded to your phi losophy ! The temptations of earth could not seduce your patriotism! I have the honor, sir, of proposing to you as a toast, the immortal memory of George Washington ! From a London paper, received at Charleston. LONDON, OCT. 11. The French journals of Tuesday last have arrived, but contain little news of im portance. Grimaldi, the police spy, of Black Pin memory, has addressed a circu lar letter to the editors of the Paris papers, wherein he complains that his honor has been attacked ; and threatens to publish a memorial, by which the said honor shall be vindicated. The Sieur Grimaldi seems not to understand the comfort of being gradu ally forgotten. A change is announced in the home de partment of the Russian ministry. The chevalier de Troschensy, minister of jus -1 tice, retires upon a pension, and is succeed ed by prince Lobanoff Kostoftsky, general of infantry. Ilegnault of st. Jean de An i v,-who-wa to Ko,v*3 : senses m America, has arrived at Aix'-la . Chapelle, supposed to be on his private t affairs. We regret very much to mention, or •. rather to see it mentioned, that one of the ■ state prisoners confined in York castle has, , we suppose in a paroxysm of insanity, de ; stroyed himself. The name of the maniac •is Riley: he had been apprehended some time ago by an order of the magistrates for treasonable practices, and whatever his conspiracies against the state might have been suffered to mature them, the poor fel low’s plots against himself have been fatal . enough. The coroner’s inquest proved his derangement, and the continuance of it was , ascertained by his having made an attempt of the same kind some time before. He was in consequence watched, but though three other persons were confined in the ■ same apartment, one of whom slep with him, he found means to cut his throat. At present we are but imperfectly acquainted with the circumstances of the case ; we hope they will be farther investigated ; but we must doubt the propriety of confiding the custody of a maniac, who had already made one attempt upon his own life, to his fellow prisoners. NORFOLK, NOV. 28. The ship Atlas, capt. Jennison, 46 days from Havre-de-Grace,bound to Alexandria, anchored in Hampton roads on Wednesday evening. Capt. Jennison, who came up to town in a pilot boat, states, that he is the bearer of despatches for the French minis ter at Washington, and has on board sev eral French passengers of great respecta bility, as well as several Americans. The cargo of the Atlas consists of plaister of paris and some of the furniture for the palace, at Washington, which, we learn, constituted a part of the cargo of several other vessels about to sail from Havre for the U. States. The Atla9, we learn, brings an accession to the library of the sage of Monticello—rare works, no doubt, intended to furnish some new lights of science, in aid of the benevolent and patriotic pursuits to which his attention has recently been directed. Capt. J. states, that the subject of the new pretender to the throne of France, (claiming to be the legitimate sou of Louis XVI,) occupied much of the public atten tion at Havre, ami created < otuitlerable speculation among politicians. Though’ still kept in confinement at Rouen, !; ere . I ceived all those nuqks of attention l pretensions of doubtful validity,would urally command from those whose interests * might be immediately affected by their ej .* tabiishment or rejection. 9 Within a week past the Ohio has ri; tn 9| more rapidly and higher ttian it was ever * known to do at this season of the year such a rise is unusual even in the sprinjl It is within two feet of the top of the bank* in front of this town. The rise is estimated* at more than 40 feet of perpendicular height I We are fearful it has done considerahlel damage to the corn along the river. It has,* however, afforded a facility to emigration * which has brought a vast crowd of stranger** into our town. Every day we witness the* landing of boats filled with emigrants, and* a vast number pass by bound for Indiana. 9 .tdjip -povt of &auannaf). 1 High Water this bat 10 k. 45 m. a 9 ARRIVED, 1 Ship Congress, King, st. Mary’s, 2 days, in 9 ballast, to J. Battelle, consignee. Spoke off st 9 Alary’s bar, ship Commodore Rodgers, from N* York bound in. £ Schr. Laura, Lewis, Nevv-York, 11 days, to* Wm. H. Joyner, consignee—with sugar, bats* shoes, butter, candles, saddles, salt-petre, fin’* niture, buttons, pepper, &c. to Johnston & Hills* M. L. White, I- K Teff't, Win. Gaston, T. Long!* worth, jr. F. Marston, Taft &. Sibley s, J Battelle* Hall &. Hoyt, Butler &. Murray, Anson Blake, J.* Latln-op & co. George Schley, Calvin Baker, J, I Shaffer, Campbell & Gumming, W. T. Williams,* C. D. Hayden, Lethbridge St Deuel. P. Brascft,* Mary Wallace, Wm. Barnes, H. G. Fowler, li * Kelly, A. Wilkins, and Ralph May—two pas*?-'* gers. Left the ship Mary-Augusta, and brig’ I Aurilla, to sail the next day. Spoke, on Hie* 28th ult. in lat. 36, *3,the ship Ocean, 79 (lays 9 from Cadiz, bound to Xew-York—supplied Iter I with provisions! . * Schr. Adventure, Builoch, Havana, 9 days, la * B. M’Kinne & co. consignees—with fruit lime stone, to the master. The day before the* A. sailed, sixteen merchantmen, under convoy* of a government brig, sailed from Havana, bound* to the windward. Coffee was selling at 18 cent;* and scarce —flour 17 dollars, and plenty. I Sloop Resident, Adams, Alexandria, Va. 4* days, with flour & bread, to Greene &. Lippitt, * —4 passengers. The steam boat Enterprize, with the compa-* try’s freighting boats Nos. 3 and 10 in tow, start-* ed at 10 o’clock yesterday, for Augusta. 8 Sloop Ann-Maria, Greene, arrived at Charles.* ton, Btli inst. from New-York, 10 days, bound to* this port —stopt at C. to land passengers. I Clearances for this port. 1 sloop Three-Brothers, Pratt, Charleston, Sth inst* ship Kensington, Silliman, Philadelphia, Ist. inst* brie Sallv, StQW, , -xlf). - -M-fl ship Mary-Augusta, Porter, New-York, 29th nit I ship Adonis, Champlin, do do I brig Roderick, Harding, do do 1 schooner Saloma, Atwood, Boston, 26th ult. I Vessels vp for this port. 1 At New-York, Nov. 29, ship Cotton-PiantJ Fash, to be dispatched immediately ; ship U-* cy-Ann, Arnold, do. do; ship Adonis, was ti* sail on the 30th ull. positively; ship Jacksorj Harsen, positively on the 4th inst. I At Alexandria, Va. Dec. 1, ship Boston, Fin-* ley, was up to sail on the 10th inst. 9 Charleston, Nov. 8. 9 Arrived, Br. brig Margaret Boak, Rosi, kiugr ton, Jam. 21 days, with about 52,000 specie dol lars ; brig Despatch, Gibbs, Baltimore, 19 days; brig Eliza, Upton, Salem, a7 days ; schr Satcl ite, Hilliard, Havana, 13 days, sti£ar, coffee, se gars and fruit; schrs Phantom, Tomassen, Bar racoa 10 days; Oranges, plantins, bananas and lance wood spars ; British schr. Chart, (of St. Johns, x. ii.) Donga), St. Lucie, 22 days ; schr’s Maria, Latham, N.York, 5 days ; Tontine, Hoyt, N. York, 11 days; Mark-Time, Carrs, Norfolk; Betsey, Fitch, N. London, via Amelia-Island, W days from the latter ; Mary, Seabury, George town ; sloop Ann-Maria, Greene, N. York, 10 days—bound to Savannah ; british sloop Gree nock, M’Nult, Honduras, 20 days. Cleared, ships Milo, Bronson, Liverpool; Roger Stewart, Cooper, Greenock; brig Gen. Ripley, Drew, Boston; Spanish schr Opposi tion, Lopez, st. Johns; sloop Hazard, Starbuek, Martinique. Baltimore, Dec. 2. Arr. scli’rs Ann-Maria, Stansbury, Port-au- Prince, 21 days. Left schr. Jane, Fish, for Balti more ; Gazette, Selby, for N.York; Eliza Bigot, Waterman, do; Union, Crosby, Norfolk; brig Heroine, Keel, do. All kinds of American pro duce plenty.—Also, Gen. Jackson, fr- Philadel phia ; Elizabeth, Snow, Boston. Philadelphia, Dec. 1. Arr. British barque Sarah &. Susan, Parker, Greenock, via Boston, iron and coal; sell. Com et, Redwell, Port-au-Prince, 22 days, hides and fustic; sch. Planter, Diinkwater, Portland; sell. W illiam, Pittee, do. Cleared, brigs Gen. Jackson, Tear, W. Indies; Leamier, Allen, W ilmington, x.c.; sch’rs lator, Boston ; Holla, Newburyport. Boston, Nov. 26. Ar. brig Ontario, Dorr, 174 days from Canton via the \ iyeyard ; brig Thomas Edward, Ha# l urks Hand, 19 days salt, sugar and rum ; sell George Beckwith, Fisher, Havana, 15, molass-j es ami coffee ; brig Peggy, From st. Eustatia, o* cape Cod, in ballast; schr. Rising-states, biv> New-Oi leans, rum, molasses, sugar, and br*^ lettowood; Sally, Hall, st. Peters, n. f. 9 sugar and rum, , Cleared—brigs George, Raich, Brazil ; of Life, Snow, Curracoa; schr. Midas, Sou worth, Lisbon. For Providence, n. i. , The fust sailing ! *‘^ P t< * | ‘or to TjhVtiT^ i}S Uce 10 ,4HK