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CO .V 6 V'iT C TI.OX AlAftT. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM J. BUNCB. Conditions, be, rrv or lha (Tf’V HAP KII, twice a week, Five Dollars p*i annum, payable in advance, fcjr DOC.\TRV HAHKK, once a week, Three Dollars per annum, in advance. »r v " paper discontinued till directions to that effect nre given and alI arrearages PAID. 'j*jr TKIIMS . . . Five Dollars per annum payable in advance- A D V KHTI3K M K.NTS .... Will be inserted at the rateof Six'v-»wo and :i hall cents, prr s.pjnre, for the first insertion and Forty-three and three quarter cents, lor each continuance jyy (’OM M UND \TIONS by Mail, mini he Post paid, fry* - lies of land and negroes, by Administrators, F.iec.utors or • ■' mirdinns, are required, hy In w, to be held on the first Tues day in the month, between the Lours of ten in the torn noon and three in the afternoon, nt the <’our f Hoose of the county in which the property is slliinle.-—lVolice ol lh«t-n sales must hr given in a public giuette SI X. TY days previous to the day of tale. # * N dee of the sale of personal property must he given in like man nor, FOKTk' days previous to the day of sale. IS tire to the debtors and creditors of an estate must heJpnMisbed for FORTY <!»ys. From the Connecticut Mirror, Sni—l have seen in the newspapers some liberal encouragement offered byway of premium, for the best story, the best poe try, the best essay, &c. lam in want of money, but I have mislaid the papers, and though I am confident of success, I know not who to call upon for the pay. As you probably exchange with those gentlemen,! 1 hereby empower ~.'i {» nblisli the fol-; lowing and receive t ,<• v Mease! pul it in the Savings ~,n t.' i‘ie icxt return of the mail to the H ind Cup, near Lai tail Brook. SCKI UO. i Doctor Faustus, or whoever else it was 1 that first set m,) a printing office, discovered l a ( misciousness ol the black art, or what Sir ( Walter Scott calls gi amarie of his trade, by; adopting the noicenclapir.; of Tophet for the i instruments, (he depositories, the functiuna*) ri.'S, and the? familiars of Ids inky occupa-J tto- 1 . B.it there was another slrmigo genius, m*we ancient still, whose name has got mis laid among the rubbish ol chronology—vi delic.it, that mischievous imp, who first look ed, with eyes of speculation, upon a goose qudl a f * wondered it it could not be ntft.de| i 'cl 'i ■■ him, in part, on Hie score » ! his iUoov'o. 'nes...; for if be could have f in; j he . he was sc re ping oil the fut7.e witn j <! !>,i ij his penknife, what sort nt tool it j, in!, prove, he would have thrown aw.iv 1., h.iriel, and kept ' . top to f> .ithi-i In*, arr .a with, a he in lianiilei s weapon oft, the. !- «. As it was, he rplit die quill, drew a it to . pm it, >dbb*d it, and gave it to the! rl<' to Kel) .nt it, like most other j >1 u*. ■ icce-ding to the use thev might put!’ s(r T er.;,.„.m,dj: hither?" employed, uim; ■.l in *| 'ngon, straws, and whistling on reeds;* hat the), music was fleeting, D I .n,fished upon the and expired upon the echoes, am there), v.ms no mu ,ins, iin.ee tin; nine had s' »ed, i| vo an -t and embmlv li ■ sound. Whi the I'n-chiei loving ell >.'as intent on his con- ■ (riviuue, the Sylphs and tl;-* OiVsds, the' lonr, oid the Muse-, the V .Vs and the 1 ' ■ ero j ■ ■ , la. . - xi uluinpo, w.v taken up and examined by (hi.. mixture of , anxious sp eta tors.— The (j races thought it j was a pity to spoil a feather to make a pen ; , the Muses after “-"oc doubtful consultative ( made their marks to a certificate in favour ■ of it ; Hie Furies laughed out right like , maniacs; and the Fates bought a quarter of , a hundred a piece to begin with.—The geni- , us who invented it pocketed his money, and . went off’ to collect his: sheep, as careless of | the consequence, as that inconsiderate , wretch who contrived gun powder. There was, m those days, no Patent office, and no , District Clerk ; and this invention, unlike modern ones, was a great while before it , took. Though the world was already full of Ink, ! green, yellow, red and black, [lor Walkden , lus no more claim than Day & Martin, for ink powder,) yet (he great men were too ac live or restless in body, and too thick-fing ered, to set. 'heiiiselves dawn, and learn to handle so diminu ive a weapon as a goose quill. Accor bagly, all the kings, heroes, bards, staiesumn, warriors, poets, knights and minstrels, either did not write at all, or reverently made the mark of the cross, and left some clerk to fill up the na nes, like (he treaty -m king Indians of this Christian lan 1. Achilles, and Ajax, and Hector— the hemes ol the crusades—Alaric the Goth and all the other Goths, were as irritable as any other mortals; bet when indignation came near burs mg hem, they kept in their gall, and if it would work over, the ,dun dant surplus wa-> com nitted to (In ear of some Fains Jlchntes, or toey won hi breathe among the reeds that malignancy of temper, that would have blasted acres of bul rushes. It'll another age has more than realized the most sanguine ■xpoctations of (he first maker of the pen. We live, say all the o rations—we live,say all the addresses—wej live, say all the discourses to all the socie-| tics—in the most intere Hug, the most im-j proved, the most enlightened age ; Vivimus !i to live now, is living indeed: To live now) a year, (no allowance for any hv spot, where a poor dog might as w, il 1> \e lived and rot ted a thousand years ;ga,) is as good his to have lived a century •• in the most high and palinjfbtate ol Home.” Mow, the Heroes, 1 by land and sea the fortunate and unfortu nate, the received and the rejected, the ap pointed, the disappoint! he contented, the disconted, and the inalco nted.run to the Inkstand. All of them, as their several oc casions require, resort to pen, ink ami paper ; and the pen is dipped in blood, gall or con -1 troversy, as occasion requires. , Writers and talkers of all sorts agree in abusing Lawyers ; yet as soon as they are in any trouble, fighters, politicians and all, they resort forthwith to the - most obnoxious f part of lawyer’s trade, and enter into spe cial pleadings at once. Formerly, the com mander of a fleet, after a successful battle, s wrote a short note to the Department under . which he acted, and referred to the capture l of ships as per margin. Now—is the war i rior angry ? he sheathes his sword, and mends his pen. The man who suggests a contin gent duel, alarms the horizon by writing let i tors to his friends. The disappointed can , didate writes', the reprieved culprit of a court martial writes-, One would suspend public opinion ; one would alter it after it is , made up; one pleads in abatement; another [ moves an arrest of judgement. Some re jfer to documents fifty years old ; others de my (acts of recent date. Thus are we visi-j •jted and favored with sheet after sheet, pa per after paper, and document after docu jinent; letters, statements, and preliminaries i —correspondences, arguing of points, vindi cations, (Lienees, and final acquiescenccs, jfrom (i nerai’s Governors, Captains, Secre- Itari'. &c. &c. The ultimate appeal is to ithe gi rid tribunal of public opinion. That It ibunal is tired out. lit Jack Cade’s time] a man was ho i... ml with an ink-horn about his oeck, because ne could write. What aw -111 iiavock would such misguided men have jmailc with • 1 writing materials of the pres |ent tinif ; \.Ucn there are forty lelie.s for Cm* quarrel, ten Courts Martial to every ex pedition—and documents, defences, and ex penses without end, in a time of »rofound [peace, when there is not even a chance for a jualtle. The ln/,y world have turned Law-) jyer* and scholars, and the trade of b«»ih has) been long since over stocked. “ Bocli in ilocli'juc scrikivius onines.” -«o>v- GRKECE. 7 'he ftHoming letter respecting Craece, writ tr •// § ' 1 would not have you think th t a Greek army j" an} thing bki ,i ri-gtt)ar one; far b’otn it; they have no onh , no di icipln*(*,l iiothii'g like i ides--th- •- arc ,»rv a scmbly! jot men, fighting without skill, without sub-j 1 >«idinat on, Imt with a valour at.d pei>eve*j ■*' • c ' ”1 would i* ; 1 uiioui io the vetrr. r.s fid Lujope. It mil v be asked it these ir are so ignorant, so a di fiplir ed, 1 they so nobly inaini. fined tneir ground hr I Hour years past.? I answer fi , fn.ai the fd ' V ‘.ml ;•»* ■<~... i■ «f ■ , M ... • ’■ 1 ui nature ot Uieir < mntrv : ! : I • K ,v > •,: t v ii,,i.„i >' ll I, • ... I ■■'•'bat the (i .I. ~t ;o ~:nt u.in , \ aide t ■ l ' Ui ) •oi, a desperate pam.an .warfa t«.— ‘ !*>" 'i do me .... cas in Amcr ;a, open and ,; C OVC Mail I,m gr,'.dually .I!-..;;, g hiiis ;[j H'* l It?.re deep iiurrow \ lies, from ipei -■dr- - i which the rocky el;l)’s ris.- abruptly, j.iod ■■ I most pi. i peiitlicularly, to a stuiiendou-H ** l ~•t-it i- fi. bgiuLil at tiiiss • -i.son, (i stai, m these vales, where the warm an I e* ilira m■"f of "'i x i... ... : .. , i he verdure, and to see the shaggy mountain rising almost directly over your head, and * piercing through the clear blue sky till its 1 lop becomes covered with the snow and ico £ ot winter. Iho roads (or sheep paths as* 'hey may more properly he called) are often 1 over or round these mountains ; and you are 1 sometimes obliged to creep along a ledge five or six Let wide, with the rock rising into a perpendicular height of two hundred feet on the one side, and sinking into an abyss of as < many on the othei. It requires a steady head 1 1 and a firm nerve to pass these defies on a ' mule, which though, in reality, the safest t way, but few can be brought to trust them- « selves to —Now where there is but one such 1 path, as (his, by which an enemy can get at • a particular sec;ion of country you nay ea- I sily conceive how a handful of bold skilful t mountaineers may cut up an army. Ainorg * these mountains and in these defiles, have t perished two hundred thousand Turks since t the beginning ol this sanguinary contest ; ; and this year I hope many more will find!* their gmy tomb in the same places ; for the' 1 Turks are making strong exenions. i I do not led the least anxiety about the •* result ot the present campaign, or any fear J ol Greece being subdued by the Turks for \ it can only he done by exterminating every i Greek—They have tasted liberty, and com- t paring it with their former degraded situa- I lion, they will die rather than return to it. s I expected to find many foreigners here, I but have been much disappointed; thev 1 li t kad over in the beginning of the contest, > expecting to reap laurels and dollars, but - finding the first thorns, and the last only t promises, they became disgusted with i Greece, the Gieeks with them, and the tew who could go, went home venting their ina- t lice in slandering the country ; that such s men were not fitted to serve the cause of li- ■ berty, their coiiiluct sufficiently demon- 1 strates. However, the fate of foreigners, I [taken in the best light, is appalling; poor J t i U ion is dead—Lord Murry is dead—Gen. It j Norman and a host of brave Germans and ! Foies, have paid with (heir blood their tri- j bute to liberty, and have left their bones « bleaching in the valleys of Greece. Tin | j lot of Norman is particularly affecting; he t was actuated by the best motives,and bi might ; over about £u6 brave Germans, whom he ■ formed into a corps, and attempted to intro duce discipline among the Greeks. H( ; thought thai he had inspired them with con ! fidence enough in their arms and tactics, ti withstand an attack of the Turks in the o ; pen plains, butot Pater he was attacked b’ 20,000 Turks, and his whole army of Greek fled to the mountains; Norman and hi i 200 Europeans stood (he whole attack ; a gain and again the cavalry darted in upoi the desperate little band, and in vain at i templed to break their hollow square ; the l were repulsed with immense loss, till Nor man seeing his men reduced to almost no thing, put himself at the head of the remain der—broke through the ranks of the enemy and effected their escape, but of Ins 20( men, only 30 were left alive. One of Nor i man’s aids, a young and chivalrous French man, determined not to be taken alive.— • He placed his back against a tree and ao tually killed ten Turks with his sabre ; a> i last they broke his thigh with a spear, and carried him ott—struck with admiration ol i his skill and courage they attempted to car ■ ry him to Constantinople, but on the route he watched his opportunity, and as his mule was climbing along the side of a precipice, die threw himself off and was dashed into a thousand pieces. Norman returned to Mis solonghi, and in a short time having spent Ins money, he was reduced to absolute want, fell ill and died in misery.—Vlanv other foreigners have shared the file of poor Nor man ; some have gone about without shoes i to their feet ; and officers who have held high commissions under Napoleon, have [suffered and died without a cent in theii pockets. You may conclude from these [circumstances, that the Greeks are the most .ungrateful people in the w«rH that they [are ungrateful, is very true, bu n fact they are not able to pay, or in a;.y way remuner ate the foreigners who have come among' them. They have soldiers, brave soldiers, who have fought for four years against the ! 1 arks, without receiving a farthing ; and itney cannot pay their own ,n di.rs, how a i' be expected they shall pay foreign iv. i now they have received largo loan fnm England, another is just opened in Pans, and things begin to wear a better aspect. . ie Greeks are fond of giving and receiv ing titles; the least th il I ever i t( ,eiu. Ilency.” I have not vet put on q ,- i >MVr r dresftj but shrill ilo it very c an quite a. : ospectable p. ir of mnsVhm. ” 01 'oiving put r-ijtor to ;v -r per ii;> for rj u . j ß i ' e °f three month ; and mi : , l i, er iiespectsam bee * ’• Greek lie I. L * l,O f '’ ria * ; , government a> : 1 T- ‘-•s»nt is -. ni > "pinion bett? ■ ‘dopled in ilf ;1 sent S* 'R ; oj tin ir affairs ■h-»i any »■ -•■••ild - bee devised * tin-v I, iv ■ -i He composer! of men-. r» from ever*’- iiar} 0! t*’ l ' c ° U( ‘ lr ' - «»>“ ! ’"r i nty, ii cluiiing ihe in* ! ■’ nt, who |(1 ..cj;, ,t coinmaiicl of the] •V- <v r .[a- «- ’ l». - 1 • • il -"' i-.. , ~lby )t; seime.ar- Ppt ■' mii t ho ate eight m numbei r t*», minister t war, of i,i..(h-e of I .iitcrmr, o{ foreign affairs, of j-of. ol re j bgion, and of finance. The duty of tlh r-ej uni" -it rs, ;s ' .mu*what I ke that id our j tune- of stall . treasm v, vc. i;n Pit- id-Mit is in power inf i.,r to !: * annually by th ■ ,S< me.l borat . & leg c body ; all business of imnortance roust pass through their hands, and it has nearly as much power as our house of representatives and senate conjoined ; all the high officers can be impeached before them, and irs "wn members, after being divested of their office, are amenable to it. Yours, &c. S. G. HOWE. A constitutional question, it appears from a statement which we copy to-day from the Richmond Enquirer, is likely to arise out "f the law ol tais state which provides for the punishment by sale and transportation ol free negroes convicted of certain criminal offences. These collisions between the State and U. S, jurisdictions are much to be deplored ; for upon however just grounds the latter may take up the enquiry, one of the inevitable results will be the excite ment of jealousy and dissatisfaction in the 1 former- In the present case, we are free top admit that the.law is a hard one ; but as no , one will pretend to doubt that the state ofj Virginia may enact that the same crimes 1 ; which now deem their perpretrators to be'' sold and transported, shall doom them to the i gibbet, it is comparatively a humane law. If the Constitution of the United States by its utmost latitude of “ construction, ” can-! not deny to Virginia power over the Hues of 1 her criminals, why shall it deny her the 1 same power over their liberties ? It appears to us that ihe authorities ol Georgetown have been somewhat officious on this occa sion and like the renowned height of La Mancha, instead of acting as the conserva tors of the laws, are only interfering to res cue a criminal from lawful puuisliment.— The letter of the law, however, has been complied with—the felon has been duly sold , and transported out of (he state; a deci sion of the Supreme Court may wrest him from the purchaser, but it cannot force him back within the limits of Virginia. Thus then, instead of selling such offenders to be transported beyond tnc bounds of the U. States, it will be more convenient for Vir ginia tu substitute whipping and a convey ance to the District of Columbia, where we presume, the Courts will have no objection ' to their being received and protected, as ' good citizens. ; [Norjold Herald. 9 “ New-York, Oct. 1. Ie The Duke of Saxe Weimar, accompanied >- by Col. Mecrea of the army, and several to other officers, yesterday visited the fortifica- J- (inns in our harbor, on which occasion sa •y >utes were fired. We understand that the is Duke expressed himself well pleased with is his excursion.— Gaz. i- Trial far Murder.— James Reynolds has n been convicted of the murder of capt. West, t- The circumstances are briefly these Capt. y \\ eat, who commanded a sloop employed in r- freighting stone, was found murdered in the J- dock with a stone tied to his leg—prisoner i- worked on board, and after the murder was I, observed to have money, and several cir -0 cumstances of a very strong nature were - given in testimony, and the jury, after five - hours deliberation, convicted him of murder - in the first degree, and he will, in all, pro-! i- bability, suffer the pains and penalties of thJ it law.— Noah's Adv. n d Murder again —Two carmen, one by the if name of Robert Harris and the other M'Cul - ly, while driving their carts near Dover! e street, Thursday afternoon, ran foul qf each e other, when high words ensued. McCullyi i, seized one of the rungs of his cart and ii struck Harris a blow on the head, which - knocked him down and fractured his scull in, t a shocking manner. H- lingered until about! , 1 o’c.l ork yesterday morning when he died, r The coroner’s jury, brought in the follow ing verdict:—“ J hat Robert Harris came s to his death in consequence of a blow given Ton the hack part of bis head, with u ring or! ?(stick, commonly called a monacher, by John 1 ] M'Cully, on the 29tti day of September. i _ [lbid. t Fire. —At half past 6 o’clock, last evening I r a fiqe broke out in the cabinet makers shop I of Mr. Mathews, corner of Henry and - Catharine-streets, and before it was subdued, r destroyed that, together with three other .(buildings on Henry, and three on Catharine :■ »feet—three story wooden buildings in the 1 latter street were unroofed, and otherwise [ i injured. The church in Olive-street under die pastoral charge of the Rev. Mr. Cowan, nairowly escaped. [lbid. ~ Os the past President of the United iStates, Mr. Adams is in dignified retirement at Quincy, quite too feeble now in body for Janv anfive omninr .q- ... • p ■ ]/> i! ■ ' 01. m- Virginia; Mr. Madison! 1 die mad of an Agricultural So.- 1 iml recently, Mr. Mm.roe I.as 1. vn dected' ,jT.' -ddint of . ie t ■ -dmi County Auxiliary! . Colonization Society, L m / itnot. ■ .! Nrw Pun.mjelphia, (O.) Sept. 13. ' , Minder with intent fa rob (he Mail. —A "I d aged ibout 18 years, named Coined,[, : s V ,l|p • < iTyim: the m ail i. a. 1 ' Fieeport to Coschur.ton. vva shot on Krid; ' ' it, in Oxford town -hip, in this ct'Mj. lV‘ JiippeniM, that about oV!.-. •< - rhe'oftc: j'-o-ioi the ;)di i i-i. ii imo m ~;V. ,> nmip. wfts .soeii tcavei; -g ,n so. ? ,p. ~ ; .’i comp(o\ with li;c mail carrier, passing j he liouse ol Mr. Booth, on t! ■ read. A -'.ort time after, Mr. Smel.zei. ‘ jot Cosclm. i.in, ai-.o ' ti, triv ! | ind a half from Mr, Booth’s he d, "overedV jjoluistom* on il e road, whocrif ti out jder murder ' and vihen Mr. S. rode nr- I 1 ' 1 the corpse of the mad .■ nnc-v' WHO ms muse, on winch were the laiMaags.j at a short distance. On Johnstone’s being!! interrogated respecting his knowledge of toe t-ansaction, lie said that the mail car- ! ■ icraml himself had been travelling togeth- 1 er, vvhen he (Johnstone) stopped at a spring to drink ; that the mail carrier rode on ; that he heard the report of a gun. and a shriek, i ( and in going forward saw the mail carrier ' lying on the ground, either dead or dying ;|) that a man carrying a rifle came from (he 1 side of the road ; that he inquired of this 1 man who killed the mail carrier; that the ' man looked surly, and using his rifle in a menacing manner, told Johstone not to ac cuse him ol the murder, or words to that ‘ effect, and afterwards stepped oft' the road[ i into the woods, and has not since been dis-i‘ covered, i his is (he so' stance of tl sto- 1 ry related by Johnston ato Mr. S. and ■ rs. ' I lie hoy was shot in the back with •. rifl,,*| ( ,ball, which entered near the spine, & Indg- *| jcd beneath the skin below the breast. When if ■Johnstone passed Booth’s he was observed :l Ito carry nothing but a walking stick. His - however, are said to be contra-! r jdictory, and he is detained until the affair' B shall be further investigated. |t -«###(f*- j v In the comparatively shor* time that Mr. » McLean, the postmaster general, has he'l * his present office, much has been done S J his talents and industry, not only towards v the increase ol the revenue of that depart- (- ment, butalvo to the facility and extension N of corresponUenee ; both of which are of ■ great consequence to the community. A “ daily mail will shortly be in operation tol*’ the western states, instead, of one three times a week. the intercourse between i ll the east and west is rapidly increasing, and S daily becoming of greater importance, this new measure ol (lie postmaster general ./ib;f undoubtedly be appreciated bvhis fellow- a citizens in each section of tin U nion. 1 [Ph il. Gaz. « —•<•■■■■ ti “I rise, sir, information,” ,aid a very tl grave member of a legislative body, who 1; then made great figure in tne. business tl in which he was engaged, but has since far !l outgrown in political importance, bath his a own and his neighbor’s expectations. “ I 1- am very glad to he ir it,” said a by-stander, i; “ for no man wants it more.” I f ] CONSTITUTIONALIST. AUGUSTA. ' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. ISaiT s Amidst the general consternation that 5 has prevailed in consequence of the news . of the failure of several extensive Mercan i tile Houses in Great Britain, many incor ' rect statements have gone abroad concern , ing the credit, not only of individuals, but . of Ranking Corporations also, much to the > detriment not only of themselves but of the : community in general. The Columbia Te - Ilescope, of October 7, states that there is a report in circulation in that place that the Augusta Bank has stopped payment, or is i embarrassed, and that the citizens of Co- I luinbia have been frightened from receiving the Bills of said Bank in consequence I thereof. VVe are glad to find the report ! promptly contradicted by the editors of that ; paper, as we are assured that nothing but .the grocest ignorance, or falsest design could have given rise to so incorrect a statement. It was reported in New Orleans on the i4th ult. that Genetal IVilkinson was dead. The information was brought to New Or leans by a traveller from the interior of Mexico * [A r at. Int. Shipwreck. —The captain of a vessel (says a Baltimore paper of the 4th inst.) arrived at Ocracock, from Savannah, fell in with a schooner, on his passage, with her foremast carried away and hanging alongside, her sails torn very much, and every tiling in a deplorable situation. He saw nobody on board ; in going very near, a dog came up from below, furiously barking, and the cap tain smelt such a dreadful stench, that fie shewed off and left her. He could not as certain her name. • r • *•* ' * ! -’ oostoti jpapers, as a proof ot the ••»!*; uwm» « . the ■'■"i-cy. that 'several ckwriut trim hi;! 'blossomed tor the second time in ci - j■■ ' v >' apple trees wjere also in blossom on the j’-Vith of September at Lynn, M.issa musorts, «d what was ■•/ill more singular, they were all at the same lime loaded with the first crop of fruit, almost ripe. The 1,/, ft .-.hip Hornet, C.v Wood [house, was rowed down from* too , y Vard. on Saturday last, la the N.ixal an chorage, oflf 1 own Point, by the steam-boat irginia, \ hence xve learn, slip, will s;i a few day v the West India stat >n. Bh. Aflli'u,. S - r . - aior.'s Bainbi idge ar ; -.i W airing' n i, n , dem Bm lie deputed by government, > ,i>, opo" and contract for .‘he purchased a • > in the Gulf of iU -xiro, for a Naval Arsen, i'll execution of ihe mw of Coni'".ss j n i -t session .Yorf Ik Iter:- ~ Oct. \ " Vn>hop Hobart —lt is stated in New- York papers, hat the Right Rev . . • n.oiAKi , wi. uas oeen so long absent in Eu rope on account of his health, having entire ly regained it, was to embark for home on board the packet ship Canada, which was to leave Liverpool the begining of September. Baptist Churches. —The number of Chur ches of this denomination of Christians in the United States, according to the lasi re turns, was three thousand seven hundred and forty-three j and the number ol com municants added during the year preceding was thirteen thousand and fifty-seven. Dreadful fire at La Prairie. —A few days *go, we mentioned that the greatest a larm existed at La Prairie in consequence of attempts which had been made by some villains to set lire to various parts of the vil lage. VVe have now the unpleasant tusk of stating that the incendiaries h«ve com pletely succeeded in their most iniquitous projects. About two o’clock, that morning an alarming fire broke out in the stable, of Mr. M‘Nab, and before any aid could be rendered, communicated to the house and s‘ore with a force and violence, (hut no thingcould resist. The fire by this means ’•vu.. communicated to the neighboring prein * i" £>t. Gardien-street belonging ti Messrs. . upie, I'homas Macdonald, Joseph Varin, aud Or. Birigault, all of which it •’otirely c jned The greatest part ol the property Hi is destioyed was in sured : and the following lias been ham it to us as u .laiement of the amount i.i ■'ured , Mr. IVo ua« Macdonald, insured to the amount 0f £750, ail Mr. Robert M'N.ibb to the amount of £7. >o, in Far mers’ r'hv Insurance Company ; Dr. Here iiiult to ih“ x.ern of £4OO, Mr. Dupre to hat of £54,000 in the Quebec lu-urance Company; Vli s Denant £JOO in the Alli -1 nee Co. Joseph Virin £soo in the Q .eoec Insurance Co. It is suppled that 1 80 J .vdl be saved of Mr. Dupre’s property. L’o he honour of the inhabitants of Laprat ie, ;hey turned out to a man when the tirsi a ,arm was given, andixerted ihemseives to the utmost 11 stopping the progress of the flames, in which utter great ex ition they it last succeeded with the aid of an excel lent engine. It is said that the incendiary is well known, though no person lias coma forward to name him.