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SAVANNAH UliFUBMCAN. Fut.UElllCtC S. FULL, cm FHMTR*. i Pwiiarirerui. &*w«t—t-acaTir.nx, ran xsa. pjmm t» AorAVt*. n* x«v«epMBIB'*T *»r**ni* aura rirx:*-**>* swrr as nuni.iv (pit XS i m-A— Tuwmoi riAf; jiA». . m cot»cn, . • * ‘I’ii • ' aUmtWft, 19'* Oilrfcrr, llftil. The City Council of Sunni'sh. deeply imprcsa- e,1, ht’eonamon with their l'«U»v etUaer.a, with gniyt'td* t» Out*, for the prcuUr Nesting* con- : F<:ri«ct on thvaitjr ‘torn* «h« Im* y**r. derm h TexnriCent end proper, tint » day te »tt epert for , »a.i»*n,T**Wai*t** anil easier: jle it, tid'i/i-r, rtitW, Thai, THURSDAY, Tfltsurtll SOVEMKEIf XRX I', be tel epert u e day of (Ota** r*iT*a.T****““vr*a end rails* ti» Al»iotr& Rent end, that hit Imaor the Mayor do ref] iieat the Uaeerend Clergy of all denomiqat tiuna to deliver appropriate tUeouraea on that Jay. Extract from the minuirt II. R. Cuyler, ex roe tbi liTitfriB aarcaucav. LETTERS FROM ENGLAND.. Enr.ct from a U’iei of letter!. writter. if an Arne titan genlltma-i tetaU in England It Air JrlentI A* Savannah. NO. TIL •'I nvnt return to the old /own which I bare left rattier abruptly; ami before I had finished my aurvey of fe. »K little removed fmmiligh-itreet i« parlistrent bouse; in a (Uii!i .-mil inaijpiificant squire, in v> Inch there if a colossal statue of Charles It on horse back. Here the sessiciii courts are held; and they are re now si-ting. I wu desirous to sec the proceeding* in a 3soteh court, ar. I went in. In tlie-oulerrooan tliere waj 4prctnucuuustaKmbkige of prul'Cisiiinal and other men, walking with their bate on, and cngigeil in conversation; whileaev- cral of tlie tetatbttilg more Jearnr.i doctor* of the dawwere luteniog to pleaders whom 1 could not hear at (lie distance of five f*.et. 10 . cr witness, ed such irreverence to the reverend hiking pow ers in uuithont)i or heard .0 much noise in a court of justice. There was less respect to the presid ing judges of whom there were several in the -room, seated within a small semi-circular inclo- sure, tlianl have seen in the moot jetty courts heM hra msgiatrsti'. In the United Sutra- The roflf or this room is of singular construction. It is of oak .most cutioualy learned; ami turrits the notice of every stranger. Here the peers and commons of Xcjtkmd formerly sat “From ihii room 4 arent into t|ie inner room or court, wliere the lord-chiefjustice was sitting with -four of his brethren of Uie law; and here I w. ( dued to notice more decorum, order, and ti- cnce. I was anxious to hear Mr JeffHrs speak, sod I ws* gratified. The case .(Clark vs. Thomp son) wa* not hi tfiat stage of toe trial which w as calculated to call-forth tin- cl- qu. ’.c. . 1. said to -possess- He speaks del-heiat.-ly aul with preci- eion; his language is good; sod r.e never hesitates or fanhers. Hr- voice is nut harmonious, nor i* it hard!.* Hit manner it somewhat-impre-jivr;— neither labortd tiur graCi ful. ft is tvulent lie .possesses great powers and it is only necesiarv -to have a fit occiuior -to call them into anion. In add. sun .; n jury he is palticularly powerful, per- COah 1, and id .quent.. '•I i another and adjoining room was Waller v Scott - a writer who I as outstripped most of Ins competitors in 'he race for poetic fame. Iliad' formed in my imagination some picture of his cou il'.-nancr, sad that it would be indicative of a ir.tnd hr.hiant with aplendi.i imagery, as well ns pr.ui end in thought.. 1 was dieappc mted, and 4 would say it wet one not likely to woo or court* -the muses. 'There was nothing interesting in ir not a single trait which prepossesred in his favor: t was no marked expression; no brilliance of ei c; —tripling, in fine, which impressed thebe-, holder that he- had a mind of unusual powers; or an imagination wrong, prolific, and vivid. Thi was an another instance of the fallacy of physi ognorny; and that little reliance is to be place. ' on the conformation of the skull, or the forma turn of the features, to lead to a knowledge of disposition, or the powers of the mind, “P.11 lumcnt square, insignificant and menu -enough in itself, is rendered moregso from being- surrounded by some -of the oldest and higher. : buildings in the place. Immediately contiguous to it is the old cathedral church, now called the Parish Church of St. G les. In this the general assembly, of the church of Scotland is held annually, in May. “It hat antiquity and nothing jliftr land;, in order to labor in the mine*, proved fatal t>< many. Diseases of vari- oua kind*, some occasioned by the hard ships to which they were tapered, and oVtmijy tlicir intcicourse with the Euro peans, completed the desolation of i)»e island.” Fur a abort lime a miserable sub stitute wa* found for thi* tleci rXsing popu lation in the (.reimportation of the natives of the Ltcayo isljmla to Hit)|ianlol?, un dcr the pretence «f civilizing and convert mg them with more facility. Thu* is the sactetl name of God eternally prostituted an. Fu -else to entitle it to notice and observation.’ /Vest (te Richmond Compiler. ORIGIN TO THE SLAVE TEA OK. America and Europe, the whole feeling and civilized world, have been in arms against the slave trade. The; complaint has been just, and the remedy is in a course of operation. Virginia was thefirst to for bid it by her laws. The United States ha*'', solemnly interdicted it by their cou stitution. England has roused herself in the cause of humanity; and treaties are regularly and earnestly drafted for limi ting the range and the duration of this abominable traffic. Bat,, is it kuown-to «/f our readers, • that an evil so afiectingin the eye of humanity, .bad its principal origin in the bosom of .one of the most huinahc enthusiasts that ever lit upon the globe?—that it was Las Cases, the friend of the Indian, who or ganized the servitude of the African into a regular trade? Those who saw the wind, -know not always how to perceive the whirlwind that ia to be reaped. ,Las Casas, -in tjie spirit of a false enthusiasm, sowed a- seed, which Jiaa vegeti tated into an Upas -tree of the most frightful dimensions, and the most poisonous, qualities- The history of the slave -trade is briefly this: Within,a few years after the discove ry of America, the native 4ndians .were- reducedto a roost humiliating and intolera- r ibla sense of servitude by their .Spanish' conquerors- Humanity shudders -at the picture which histocy presents to her.— We are told, that, .when Columbus disco-; vered Hispaniola in U&2, the number of ita inhabitants was computed at a million.' ;In the apace of fifteen gears they were re duced to. sixty thuusaud! Their, constitu tion was too feeble to aapport the labor thry were doomed to by their Spanish task masters. Their food, too, was scanty, and supplied but little nourishment “Ma- : ay (says Dr. Robertson) sunk under the lattgih* and ended their wretched days.—- c0there, prompted by impatience and des pair, cat shot t their lives with a -violent .baud. Famine, brnughtoo by compelling . sneh numbecs to abandon .the culture ot to the vile purposes of man. Forty thou sand ot these simple Lucayana were de coyed into the island, only ”10 mingle their groans and tears” with those of the oppres sed residents of the island, Ily degrees, all the indulgences nrigiq- aCygrauUd to tne Indiana were done away, “'like small gratuity paid to them as the price of their labor was withdrawn, and at the same time the tasks imposed upon them were increased. Ovando, (a Spanish go vernor) without any restraint, iiiatribuied Indians among hi* friends in the island.- Ferdinand, to whom iht queen had left by will one half of the revenue unsing from tire settlements in the new un id, conferred grants of a similar nature on Ida cou tiers, as the least expensive mode of rewarding their services. They farmed out the Iq. diaria, of whom they were rendered pro prietor*, to. their countrymen settled in llispupiold. And that wretched people, being compelled to labor to satisfy tiie ra pacity of both, the exactioiis of their op-, pressors, no longer knew any bounds.” Ir. tne year 1517 A census of tlie Indians in litspanioU was taken, and it wus found that, in nine years, they had dwiudied from sixty to fourteen thousand! Fur this miserable remnant there was 110 touch of humanity in the bosom of the Spanish go vernment. They were cast into separate lots and bestowed upon such as would give the highest prices tor them. . The ecclesiastics suunded the alarm— they denounced these proceedings iu the most indignant terms. The Dominicans in particular remonstrated against the re- partimientos or distributions. The dis pute was referred to the cabinet. Tbt evil, however, went on, in spite ot tlie pal liatives which were attempted t» be applied. In this state of things Las Casas appeared on the theatre of action. Dr. Robertson describes him as a native of Seville, and one of tlie clergymen sent out with Columbus 111 his second voyage to Hispaniola, in order to settle on tnat isl and. He early adopted the opinion most prevalent among tlie ecclesiastics; became the avowed patron of Indians; in whose be half lie exerted all the abilities he possess ed, aud all'the influence attached to ins character. He lain his complaints at tlie loot of the thtone. The subject was re-' furred to commissioners, _wuo visited the scene; they reported ni favor of the repar- timientos, upon the ground that the Span ish inhabitants were too few to wurk tin mines and cultivate the country; and, that “if they were deprived ot die iaoor of the natives, they must instantly relinquish their conquest, or give up all the auvanta ges .which they derived Irotu them.” Las Casas was dissatisfied. ' He propos ed various schemes for meliorating the con dition of the Indians. But he was uni firmly met by the objection, that toe im pi overaent of America could not be earn ed on, “unless the Spanish planteis could command the labor ol tiie natives.” To obviate this objection, he sowed the seed of the slave trade. “He proposed to pur chase a sufficient number ot natives trom the Portuguese settlements on the coast ol Africa, aud to transport them to America, in order that they might be employed as age was dead; that he nextheir was missing, butliadbeen traced to a voyage to America, and beseeching that no cxeniona might lip spared tb seek out the man 011 whom 1111 cd.ldomundan estate liad thus uuexpeit edly fallen. The house in PliiUdclpli.. accordingly made the most anxious/nqui- r* after this obscure stranger) adverti.--.; ments were put into the newspapers, stal ing bis name, and requesting him to caliat their house, where he might hetfr of.some thing to liis’tldvantage. The investigation wasfruitlesx; no trace ot the stranger could be found; 110 clue to direct them in tli«ir enquiry. So much time had elapsed, without producing any fights upon Ins des tiny, they came to tlie conclusion that lie was dead. It was not so—fortune in one of her freaks did more in one minute than the re searches of years had been able to effect.^— One day, one of the partners of the house, passing along the street, called at the mar ket to purchase a piece of meat. Having suited himself to his taste, he was ill the act of paying forliis purchase, when a third person stepped up and addressed tlie butcher by name. What was tlie men- chant’s astonishment to hearJnm called by the mine of tlie person whom ho had so anxiously sought. He prudently conceal ed, however, hi* surprise, aud alter mak ing some inquiries, returned home—re curred to the documents in his possession, and satisfied himself of the identity of the slaves in working the mines and cultivat nig tiie ground. One of the first advan t..ges winch the Portuguese bad derived from .their ’discoveries iu Africa, arose from'the trade in slaves. As early as llio year .1503, a few negro slaves liud been sent into the new world. In. the year 1511 Ferdinand permitted the importation of them in greater numbers. They were found tv be a more robust and hardy race than the natives uf America. They were more capable of enduring fatigue, more patient under servitude, and the labor of one ne gro was computed to be equil to that of tour .Indians. Cardinal Aimcnes, how ever,'when solicited to encourage inis commerce, peremptorily rejected the pro position. .Bui.Las Casas, from the incon sistency natural to men who hurry with headlong impetuosity towards a tavorite point, was incapable of making the distinc tion,” which.evidently grew ou t of the na ture of the transaction. “In the warmth ot'his^eal to save the Americans from uie yoke,” he pronounced it expedient to car ry on a tra’de with the natives of Afric'a.— ilis plan was.adopted. “Charles grauted a patent to one of his Flemish lavorites, containing an exclusive right ofimporuug 4000 negroes into Amejuca. He sold his patent (coutiuucs Dr. Albertson) to so . e Genoese merchants, for50,000 ducats, and they were.the first who brought into a re gular form that commerce for slaves be tween Africa and America which has since been carried on to such, an amazing ex tent.” Aud which let us repeat, Virginia was the .first to interdict oy hei laws, ami the United Slates by a solemn provision in.their cuusutuiion.- uaoa tux aicaaoxu coxfilxb. SCRAP OP Blue RAPHT. Some years since, .an Englishman left nia liative country, young, unprotected, but.blessed with spirits and enterpnze. He reached the United States, the.asylum of the.stranger, and tne home of the home less. -The puiment he touened our shores, he mixed with.tlie busy inass of our active population, inthe obscure shades of private lile. Bat'events -were silently working to bring him back -to hu native country, m a very tinier cut situation hum .that in waicii 0e had left.* Several years after bis de parture, a letter addressed.to a respecta ble mercantile house in Pnilfideipbia, stat ing that the fast incumbcntof a British peer- person. V Most persons in his; situation would have flown to tlie stranger, broke the mat ter to him abruptly, and turned his head by the dujtzljiig information. Not so tlie merchant! lie was u man of prudence and discretion. lie was aware of the intoxi cating eflect* id rapid elevation upon a bratii not prepared , for it, determined, while lie communicated the extraor dinary dispensation of Providence, to do it in such a way as would make it a real blessing to the stranger, He accordingly kept his own cuunse); cultivated an ac quaintance with the butcher, introduced uim into a new line uf business, which compelled him to associate with men of greater information than he had been ac customed to—tiiew him to his own house, and took every pains to introduce him gra dually into tlie most respectable, and gen teel society. At every new step of his ekv vation, the manners of ms protoge became more and more polished, and his informa tion more expanded. At length, when he thought 111* friend was sufficiently prepar ed for the strange event. he had to an nounce, he imparted to him the unexpect ed change which fortune had' wrought in his destiny. Conceive ids astonishment, ins wonder! What, to be raised, a* it Werr, from .tlie shambles, toau carldon and a princely estate!—How much was he in debted to the discretion of his friend for Uie seasoning he had received, and for the modesty with which he bore tlie change!— Reluctant at first to encounter sucii a re voiution of fortune, he almost wished decline it—but,at li'ngth he determined return to Great Britain, and assume tlie mantle which the laws of the empire had thrown over his shoulders. And thus Philadelphia butcher is now converted into a British peer, an earl with an im men.se estate, aud a member of the house of parliament. To his honor be it reported, that he bears his prosperity with the utmost mu d< ration. His head is not turned by his elevation, as is too frequently the cen dition of the new nobility of England.— He is modest and unassuming—seeks the society of Americans, and speaks of the country in terms of respect and grati tude. , , Is this, again, yon wilt ask, fancy, or is it fact? is it borrowed from romance, or from real lile? You will scarcely con ceive it is the last:.but such is believed to be the substance of a story, whose then tre was Philadelphia, and 'whose hero is now a British peer , NARRATOR. FBOJT Hills’ BESISTXa. EMIGRATION to the UNITED STATES. Tf^,'current of emegrati'on from the Britisn dominions to the territoiy of the United States, never was as strong as it is now. For the week ending the 31st August, 21,50 passengers, “nearly the whole of whom were emigrants from Eu rope,” arrived at the single port oi New- York for the subsequent week; we kept an account of tlie passengers reported' in the newspapers, (which is far short of the number that arrived) ami found them to ainouut to nearly .4GuO, for 5 or 6 princi pal ports; and the aggregate may be fairly stfhib!c fueling* have* ten excited by such pressure upon our shores—with such an accession . to tiie wealth aiid strength of cr country- When we hear that tlie “Harman)' society,” as it is called, raised COO!) bushels of ivheatiu the present yiar, on a field wiieh "three years ago was cover* ed wtih its .native forests, we caonot re frain from calculating the auxiliary fo/ce uf such aJiody of such emigrants in caus ing the wilderness to smile, and tuakiug our wuods resifbnd with tlie busy hum of men." The emegraliono!'the presentyear will give ns-not less than 25,000 days’ la bor; this labor passing through all its sta ges of production, cannot be estimated at less thau 23,000 per day, exclusive of the value of articles consumed by the laborers, ami those fl. pendent upon them—a gross value added to the ueneial wealth of near ly eight millions per annum, with fifty or sixty thousand persons to the' population in onc year. What a source of revenue, if the country’* need requires it—bow great a force in arms to repel a foe!. \Y e do exult; we cannot help exulting, at the jreat strides the'npublic is making to wards a power to command the respect which its love of peace aud justice entitles it to. - estimated at 6000 for the two weeks pre ceding the 6th of September. We desi ^ned to have published the names ol the vessels, 'with the places they arrived at, with their respective number of passen gers, as we have done on several occasions, but thought the long list might unnecessa- ity occupy a page ofonr paper. Oftlie 6000 that arrived in the two weeks—about 4000 were from England, 1000 from Ire land, and the rest from Scotland, Holland aud France—aboqj 400 only from the lat ter. Ike emigrants from England that we have seen, (aud we have conversed with several) appear to be of that class of people which lately were the bone and sinue of that cuantrj—respectable far mers: driven from their homes by taxes and titties, yet generally before they were too much reduced to make their way in com fort to a strange land. Some of them, indeed, appear to have considerable sums of money; with which they purposed Co buy and improve a form ofttn ir own, and number .were making their way to tiie eat settlement that Mr. Birbeck is tiding on the Wabash, in Indiana Alany of them are persons ot intelligent minds; and, in geueral, decently apparel led- - As.weare.ofthose who are always ready say to the well disposed but oppressed people ql any'pai t of .the civilized; world, •come and partake with Us of the hies- grea IJUll Boston, October 27. We have stated that the government of the United States were ready to protect, by force of arms, the eight which they have of treating the South Americans as they do other nations, and the right which th,y have, to carry on commerce with the patri ots; and in fact to treat them as they do ali other countries with which they are at peace. This is protecting, not the rights of South America, but the rights of tlie United States. It is in this viettr that we are advocates of the doctrine, and deter mined to adhere to the course pursued by. the administration- To confine itself to the protection ofaJl tlie rights uf the Uni ted States; to keep aloof from every con test in which those rights are not trampled upon, is no novel course for the govern ment of the United.Slates. Washington first led the way in that policy; and* su* tained by the good sense oftlie people; steadfastly adhered to it, notwithstanding tlie great excitement raised against it b y many men deservedly popular; but, in this ‘nstaice, not so clear sighted as Mas! ngtoii. Adams, with equal (orecasl, sup ported that policy, althcuuli violently op posed in it by a part of ins cabinet 'tiie administration was changed: * e republi cans wrested the reips ril government frou. the federalists; Jeflerson came in. But this policy invariably remained tiie same, amidst all this political turm il. lieu: neutrality was still the rrouud4akeHat.it adhered to. Under Madison, under Mon roe, still it is the same- Is it then to supposed, even for a moment, that a t« 10 which the people have been l&ilhiui I so inanr Tears; a course which has contri buted so highly to the.many oh s-ings w now enjoy, is to be abandoned to gratuy the ambition of a lew leading men? Is to be supposed that blustering will drive the administration from such stron ground? No, never. May wc be permitted to inquire what the duty, in this respect, of the members of the house of representatives in congress anil especially of the republican members? Tiiey see the government of the United .States engaged in supporting justice the only true and permanent basis of na tional prosperity; of national happiness; aud of tliat sort of national character which alone is worth having. . In the invariable result on this policy, under every adminis tration, they fiud a sure index of the will of the people. Are the members of con gress then tp form new parties fur the pur pose of thwarting the views of just neu trality and the will of tne people? Or are they to brace every nerve to sustain the administration, in a course so highly bene ficial to the country. It would indeed be very desirable if the United States conld redress all public wrong. To aim ai this object does honor to the heart of any statesman; -but practi cable good should be Ids uim. the people of the United States give him power, only for the vu'rpose of protecting their rights. —Fatriot. hoc tempore ver.lum cst. quibox nec vltia nostra, nec remala paii possumus.” Wo live in stlch a time, that the remedy is just a» dangerous as the disorder “Do yarn know, dear friend, how we are off? Ea* rope is about tumbling down,and to move over to America. Here in Europe, every thing is worm-eaten ami rotten; laws, re ligion, arts and sciences, and all this will rise anew in America. I say this by nt| means in a jokej and it has nothing at alt to do with the disputes between Eng* land and America. I nave announced and preached these twenty years, and hi- t'lcrto every thing that I have- predicted has been fcdp.-kbly fulfill.d. . Therefore’do not, as you intend, buy a house on the Chaussee IFAhtin in Psris, but porehase one for yourself in Philadelphia. For the rest, I sliaM not fare so remarkably well in the impeding revolutionsof tilings, as there are no Abbeys iu America! And on the value of tiie state constitution of Ame- ric* the English themselves are pretty well agreed. One of ilieir best heads, lloscoe, judged of it in a public speech: “It is not desirable only, but also tu be hoped that political chemistry may yet discover way* and means to combine'*a very high degrea of civil and personal liberty,' with high rectitude in public life and in civil admin- istiatiun.” The example ofa rising free state war rants us it« the anticipation, that so der sirableaunioncan by no,means be con- sideied as unattainable. Under the head of scientific intelligence, the lierlinische JVachrichten (Berlin ac counts) have the following article, which is interesting to Americans. ‘The high and flourishing state of in tellectual improvement to which the Uni ted States of America have attained, is perceptible among others from this cir cumstance; that the Journal of Arts and Sciences,’’ edited by the memners of the royal institution ol London, is republished iu North America.* Each number ol that journal contains 14 crowded sheets, large octavo, and embellished with engravings, (sometimes colored.) Though uo premi um is required on the re-pnnting of this work, yet the expenses, particularly in America, cannot be inconsiderable; and as the American publisher nevertheless sub jects himself to those expenses, we may from.this infer the number of purchasers, a number which would be truly wonderful in so younga sta te as North America, were it not that this part of the world in eveiy respect approaches with uncommon rapi dity towarifca perfected state of formation.' Already in the year 1783, six years be- : the breaking opt of the French revolt!- 1, the Abbe Batumi, .one of the most sensible and penetrative writers of Italy, (see. Grintm’s Correspomlence) wrote to Madame IFEpipag, the amiable author of Conversation JJ’M.mUiej (a work .which the French, Academy crowned with a prize,) “as to the reforms^—sayings at the court and in the civil administration— which you anauunce to me, -as near at hand, lam well pleased with them, 'espe cially as none of them affect me personify. However, Liviouslias already;&aid iq his age, which wasjvery much like jip-a, “ad •Bjr James F.astburn tc Co. Brqadwj.y, New- Y<,&.T-Tnaulofor* : , ‘ .' ' It has been reported here, for some days past, that general Swift, of the corps of engineers, has resigned; and that a lucra tive civil appointment under the general government, at the city oi N<.w-Vo'rk, lias been, tendered !;imfVashiesicn City Gazette, 31st uli MILITARY C.J VP NEAR MEXICO. About sevn leagues uj nu river « rir.i-' ty, and in tufvi-t.v.ty of *iie grout J cio- seu by ge;:'.•!.> 1 Laiirmsnd'for his Kdiitaiv camp, is a town, containing near 500 hous- es, occupied by iuciatn add rpai.wds, called Trinity, 'h s u:.t I ;,i St. Antonio, ir. the f.i'.vinceot Mexi> o, about 120 ie-ipues. 1 he number of Litllemand’s tol-, • wers >t:ll keeps fiicreasiiig, by the nddi- 011 ol'fugitive Frenchmen,* who find an, asylum in this establi.-liint-ut. Neither provisions, mousy, or atm*, a re said tube wantin';; and the patriot privateers, cruis ing iu the Gull ot* Mexico, deposit their surplus prize goods, tin* produce of the West Indies, at lids spot, between whom and (lie-new settlers the must fricudly re lations subsist.—ib. N 'ur-Orleans .s said fn have increased in population toll three-fourths since its annexation to the United States, aud now contai..-lm ty thousand inhabitants. It js suppuied tint tilts yellow fever would not be known there under a proper system of police, which, it is piobahU, will tie so far improved, by the next season, as greatly to contribute toward.* its extinction. ii. Norfolk, October SI. The Thoma» T enant, captain Carra- way, arrived here,, touched at St. Eustar; tiaand St. Martin’*, ar.d saw at the latter place, two fine looking ships anchored on tlie coast, and no person on board of' either. Their yards were some of them up, and some of them settled upon the cap; and the sails and rigging flying in every direction. Captain C. was inform ed at St. Martin’S, that said ships had been taken and retaken by patriots, three different times, and that finally their crewa fell to plundering each other, and theup abandoned their vessels in the situation, in which captain C. saw them. Captaioi C. also understood, that art American, brig, latleo with mahogany and cotton,, had been sunk in sight of St. Martin’*^ about the lst-of October.—Herald. MOST EX TRA OB DINAR F. The great cash prize of FIFTY THOU SAND DOLLARS, was awarded yester day afternoon in the Masonic Hall Lottery. It tanife out to No. 7966, and was sold at Cohen’s office io a whole ticket. The continuation of luck from that office is in deed remarkably astonishing—and it is with satisfaction we learn from Mr. Cohen, that the owner of this magnifirient prize- is a resident of this city.—Baltimore A- merican, 29th ult. On Thursday evening last, the citizens of Columbia were alarmed by the appal ling cry of fire, which was discovered to be in a blacksmith’s shop of Mr. James Glaze- The fire bed communicated to the roof r which was nearly burnt off, and had not the evening been favorable to its qgtinc- tion, the whole square irquld have infalli bly gone without remedy. We think this-' should act as a.salutary caution to our ci tizens. Columbia has escaped that ravage: with which Heaven is sometimes pleased. t.i'visit the careless in a wonderful man ner, surely more by good fortune than pro— dent foresight and proper provision for itz* prevention. What state is our fire engine* <n? Where are our ladders, fire hooks, etcj* What provision is made for a speedy sup-* ply of water in such casualty? Perhaps wa: shall touch upon the subject again, in thg* mean time let each citizen consider hip. duties and interests, and lend a band tp> have there things better ordered.—CoL. (j. c.) Gazette, 6th inst. One hundred and fifty bands are now atj work on the Cape-Fear river, between Fay-* etteV. * and Haywood, under the Messrs.. Strodes’, and the. work' ia progressing with great spirit.-“Go ye and do likewise.”—— Camden [S. C.) Gazette.' . Tp l*t, And pollution given it The Store lately occupied by 'Me Blanch.* city. Also, fire proof building on the some let. fronting' on Broughtonstreet. Anpiv to . ' Edward Copped November-?.—1—218’ v- , f