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"I* • • fa' Spn and lunvcv -r d sirsble n w w nb Ki iorouien', advaiit»j>ei us to the lo ans, aid con»is'.;n; wiilt (he rights oi tic-ng,. die whole nation should accept the off. r of a home, yet there were those, whose stores, sc farms, whose stands, whose salaries and se herd , bad an unconquerable aversion to ig encouragement to the “ emigrating par- Kven the Ilev’d. Missionaries, Smith and ipere, having imbibed the same aversion, and 0 to consider it a convenience that their es are cast upon spots” where they cannot compelled to testify on oath, is tree that the advocates of a cession were iced in numbers by the departure of the Cus lis the n gbt before the trea y was signed ! r<| 'ally true that this departure was not un heir assent to the great point in discussion had ii twice solemnly expressed —Hint such de ure was perfidiously obtained b)’ Poye'hlul -lUnlo, Humbly and Stedbam, the greatly lender! it iI es of Gen. Gaines, Maj. Andrews and Col well. I bese Cnsietuhs, in their deluded 'Ot, pro'ested their friendship for the comrnis ters and Molnt ish, giving the reason ot tlieir urture that they bud been told by Hambly Stedbam, as coming from P-iyetbla Yoholo, at if they did not all go, the white people ild have them in jail—that they must go, for (usketi i being one of the oldest chiefs, a ty can'll not he mttde -without hi i n l and that by ig, they would break up the treaty (or the sent.” 'lbe very proceedings of these our ' adversaries contain the admission that It the setulm had remained and a treaty had been icd it would have been valid. The question v occurs j siinated as we were, ought we, or ht we not to have accepted a treaty li nn those 1 remained. We had forwarned the council days before, that if any of them left the and before we concluded, we should consider nation still represented and proceed accor ;ly —We bad overcome too many perplexities e knew 100 well the wishes of the govern it and fe*lt too strongly the rights o Georgia, e overcome by such shallow devices, whether / proceeded from ignorance, prejudice or ■very. We placed o rselves in the condition c!i we occupy, knowingly, and much prefer it be derision we should have incurred, it we • submitted to die imposition and trickery of e and cunning. We submit ourselves to the ision ol candour and the experience of Indian otiators. lint in the absence of Ibis tribe re was lelt on Saturday the 12th a council, the iciency of which was not pretended to be bled. T lere we.ie upwards of two hundred efs, headmen and warrior* of the Greek nu ion stnl. They convened, the Speaker of the ion, and die Clerk of the Council being in ndence. I’m: Interpreter Colonel Ham , having the •’ yea or nay of the Upper wns,” w.s there. The Agent, sufficient 1) Sous of the encroachment s of the whites, arm id wise unmindful ot the real or imaginary in ists of the Indians, was looking and acting h eager solicitude. The Agent and luleprc themselves are duels, whether vegularovhon ■ry we cannot tell, we have it from tbemneivei t they are chiefs, and this we know from expo ice, that they are very inHuential ones. Tin ■ding provisions of the trraiy, had been fre jiuly discus-ed, and it only rema ned to pre ■e its details, fills was accor lingly Idone'. It ' presented, read, inu rpreted, article (,y article, ued by lil y two chiefs, and been ned by every 1r,3iit;; present, except one from tken Arrow, six from Tookab‘tehee, and on m faludega, While the signing was in pio ;ss l-oyethla Yolu-10, as if “ almost persuad d 1 ’ throw off h.s restraints ami d-dy lus deceivers fed that he had been instructed by his hear ief not to sign a treaty, but on seeing him ht ght yet conclude to join bis brethren and n<! ;ut friends—that be wi hed to part in perfect endsliip. Himself and bis followers did pari lb Mclmu'h and the Council under the m si rdiai salutation in presence of the commission i. Will any me believe that this chief then, d ever board or dreamed ol a la w which doom Mclntosh to death for lit; deed he had just ne. It be had, Ins conduct was a lie, and liir .’eolation butchery. After be had taken hi ve of the council and left the room, the sign gos the l eaiy was continued to a c. ’sc, and s hand-d to the Agent who bud witnessed tiie iole ceremony and be without hesitation alHxeo it the official attestation of “ John Crowell ;ent for Indian Affairs.” It was also witneised ♦Villiam Hambly, *'United Siates Interpreter.” the next day our secretary ui the request of . ; Agent, turnisbed bun with a copy of Hie trea . and wuhuut the slightest intimation of dissut action, lie wrote and forwarded bis cclebraU-d ter or protest to die Secretary of War, tie uncing the treaty as being in direct opposi'iou the letter and spiiit ot the commissioners* in fections— warnii g him against tlie rat.ficalioii, d foretelling the consequences—declaring that lb the exception of Mclntosh and perhaps two hers, the signatures to the treaty were either not chiefs at ail—that the t towns only, when there ■t bit mtion—that aldiough the : conformity with mslruc n oi I be at no distant day to e of the Government.”— I ) him any i xtraordinan P i tractions, we cannot deny it ms prophecy has been b rid state of thing:” lias e , ie ratification of the trea ~ ose to defeat its opera 111 let so true as he who has c i fulfil tils own predic on ' to his knowledge that e y were “ chin Is of low ■ad [ ?” Did he possess such low. /hen tie so equivocally >Up ng the ccuncii, and ex •ess i, ... ut lusnnsh, because it teas the Pre dent’s wish" mat they should, cede their land id-emigrate ? Did be possess ibis know ledge on ilurday, when in Ins presence, in council, the immissioners denounced the proceeding of the -vmight by the Cjssetuhs, ami its authors, and istiueii) declared that tne Gre-k nation was sub iere In it-, representatives, and would be so eated ? lie sat in that council even to the end -heard the treaty lead aiticle by article—sal by tide the signing wa* in progress aid challenged ie ami out one ot the signers as not being a chief od finally, approved the wuole by bis official at ■-taliuii. A . objections to the treaty must have jeurred to him in the dreams of Saturday nigh;, -1 ,*n. i w hile \ t ire lining he must have recorded . tm m on Sunday morning in this fabulous epistle I ue Seer; i ary of War had said to tins Agent, in s i Liter ot IStli .1 -ruaiy Inst, “the treaty is about ti ■be renewed, <!»;/,7ie j-. iJenlJei'itng much inter* * ', tn its successful n- mmtutn, 10-.ns w.t i co Ii - c to your hearty co-ope.atn n w th the comm ss on eis, luu will (are no pains itpr •• iring iht In . -bans lor tltc meeting, end contributing .o the sue i testjul tertainai on tj the negotiation." It is easy t( - discover the pred.eamen; in wlueli the Agent i i laced by ibis teller from the War t'.-p o-nn-r.t s it* duly ■mde io war against hisr/ild vst and hr ,i. slructioits eoinmand bun tod tlliu vv-ru l.i. fee indices (orb d. With ti.t enough i /, ■ .y t< nipt me on. enune, nr boldness to pm ue tin Imr, be occupies the gn und I i q-nvocatn nam iplidty. One part of bis conduct is n wire up be otnnr. He advises the cnun -il in cede, am oey do so—lbe next diy ue tells the G .verumeu i there wa? no coined present and their cession , must not be ratified- He sanctions an instrument I as with a n<tf(6/i, and then denounces it as being i with an individual, He declares that he co-ope . rated, and then declaims the work of his own [ hand . Here ha state of feeling and of fact, lu I muluary indeed, strangely inconsistent, and strik ingiy cortradictory ! But even in the agony ol all i this conllict it never occurs to himself, his friend Hambly, or even the intrepid Pnyethla, Yoholo : that there existed a frightful law proclaimed on the . banks of the Oomulgee in 1817, dooming that chief to death who should consent to “cede anmher . foot of land,” If such a strong hold had been i known to them, they would have entrenched them . selves behind it, and the General Government and i Georgia might have besieged them in vain. I his 1 letter of the Agent of which we have been speak ing, was forwarded from the Springs on the day ol its dale. But lest it might not be sufficient to per . form its office, the writer speeds his way to Wash * inglon, and more zealously than if commissioned and instructed, gives his “ hearty co-operation,” to overthrow the treaty, lie arrived before the ratification occurred and in full time to expend his , utmost effort,and to witness his own defeat. We , may well ask, whether these movements of the Agent were voluntary, or at the instance of the opposing Indians.— the opposing Indians left the treaty ground on Sunday morning, having express , ed no dissatisfaction, other than what occuired in council the evening previous, which contained in fact an implied xssent. Mis letter of protest and bis visit to the city were at his own Instance, and in these he incoatestibly establishes whai we had long believed, that he considered himself our com petitor, under an inveterate determination to de feat us if he could. The opposing Indians nut only withheld all expressions of dissatisfaction and hos tility at the Springs after the treaty was signed, but for wei ks afterwards, disclaimed to Col. Lamar all such feelings. The fir-:t evidence we have of , their existence, was not until after the Jlgent had re . timed, and met his Indians in council on the 22</ of Jpri Ami even then, the complaints were of a limi ted Sc specific character, not directed against the treaty, its signers, or the manner of its attainment. ■ The Agent ascribed them to the purpose of the Governor of Georgia of survey ing the territory, stating that “ when this was made known to them m general council, it had produced feelings oi melancholy and great distress.”—That “ excep ting were taken by them to the survey, and that 'heir assent had never been given, never been asked.” These ex icptions, says the Secretary of W ar, “ were communicated hy the Agent, to gether with the request of the chiefs that thc- Government would interpose its authority and put a stop to the contemplated survey. It there were ny other t eas ms than those above expressed, for tile “ melancholy and distress” of the I’.dia• s, urely that war. the time for them to be communi cated, and they no doubt would have been com muit'cated if they had existed. But it remained for the penetrating sagacity of the Agent and his co-workers. Major Andrews and Gen, Gaines, to discover tliai, there were other east,ns, ant! that they h-d heir origin in a “ torrent of corruption, ill graceful t f > ‘,'u nj,;iun,” 'The communication first refi r;vd to fr mtbe Agent to the Departmen l w tta aftt r the massacre of Mclntosh and was inten ded to f> rnisb an apology for that savage outrage. ’ Up to the time of its .late we hear noiiimg of the | violaliou of a general aw forbidding a ce-sion urn dtr pain of death. Bui the homicide being com mitted, ;t wa- n.cessary to justify it by law, really . ex fiust facto, b n established by expurte, interested, htdins evintn eto have long existed. It was soon I scovered that no credit was given to the allega non, mat the contemplated survey produced the , exc lement. The Indians themselves in the ex ‘ etcise of their “untu’ored” faculties knew b e 1 fallacy of such a reliance, and took occasion by an r.riy rmiice in the Alabama papers to seek ano 1 ther justification in the Walk- r code, first enacted at Tookabalchee, and afterwards revived and ’ amended at Pole Cat Spring. Both of these have been abandoned as urn-mi ; f i by tne dismis 1 sion ot Walker thti author, the gov nirncnt ha " no p a nly shewn that (hey would be disregarded The Ocmu gee tr d turn then, is th* ir last re sort. And how docs this m«f rab'.e and unstable | subterfuge vanish when we ruler to the tteaties of - IBlßaiui 1821. both concluded by a *mdi repre ’ semation of chiefs since the pretended enactment oj j the law, and without producing dissatis action i JI excitement. The Agrint tiad been four years in oth :e, and under cohs tn# obligati- n to inform * himself of the jv , customs, government and even traditions ol be 'ndians. Ihe fact is, rude as the y are/ I hey nave a written code, but (hit contains no such sanguinary” prevision, <lei out • cing death as the pena ty of a consent to ce e * But we are free to admit that if we had know u ol lie existence of stub a law, we should have treat ’ ed it as a nullity, imposing no obligations upon tlu 1 Indians which we ought to have respected. The 0 Hinted States cannot recognize the validity of any 1 -i.cn proceed ng necause it is calculaied to obs ruci e tier po icy and defeat her purposes. The recog nition oi such a law wcull be, virtually, a recog ■ nitum ol .he inde tendence of the several tribes, ai idea 100 preposterous to require comment or relit tution. Besides, we had been taught ourselves and had so taught the .ndians in our conference! I with th.m, that the. r existence ah a nation ar com > munily within the limits of Georgia or any ottiei II state, was incompatible with our system and mud s yield to it. ( ) Above ail, the admitted ohligatior 1 t sued a law was totally destructive of the s< ve 1 reign right of Geo.gia to the territory occupier 5 by tne Indians within her limits, and theespecia t- object ot our mission to the Creek nation, wai d "peaceably and on reasonable terms” to red ct > that ngbt to possession. To this end we were in It struc ed to “ attend particularly to the feeling ) and whiles ot the Btale of Georgia in any treat! ■ that might he made with ihe Creek nation.” t\ i well knew what those “ wishes and feelings” were d they were identified with our own, a d we actei n alike from inclination and from duly. Under thesi e j impulses, in the pursuit of so great an o ject, wt e I hail deserved tlte reprobation of our fellow citiz .-n d and the censure of the Government, if we had ac It comuiodated ourselves to the ‘advice,’ os to tin <’ wi lies of our adversaries, superinduced by pi e it judice and sell interest. ’I is true that we "re > soiled to pursue the subject by every me»ns with u in our control,” bin it is not true, that any of tlie“t I means were not warranted by universal mage With such an anay ot opposi ion, it may well bi e regarded as mutter of surprise, that we obtainei ! , any succtssal all. The Cherokees had suggestn d the plausible scheme es u'iu.nce, and it found a active and perfidious s voca ein the Vge u’s th * partment. In turtherance of the design, decree | | were insidiously procured and indu trimi, ly oto * jmulged, confirming the c nli lence of one part o I the ualio ,a >d exciting the fears of the ohm ' F.ven Mclnlnsti dreaded the coinequenc>s of ilu ijmg right—.el his ashes attest how w II gronn.lt" r were his fears! Himself and his ad e enls hat <’iattested their friendship to the United States am s| io Georgia, not oily in the councils oi their iwi t nation, but in many a hi. d fought actio . Hint I j. It at.d Ins adherents at the Springs in P bruary r ;were “in fact, the Creek nation;” but Croe’ >j. .a o i as they’ were, tnev had t eir enene -a, an " jiroin tue-r character toiekm w their operations, o We had witness ,1 some of ihe displays ofbilte li .tr dan I unr.-ienting revenge. For these ret id (sons w ■ stipulated the " protectio.” of the "eir A grating party,” against the “eiicrotchine.il i hostilities and impositions of the whites and of all [ them.” The terms used in this article of the p .reaty cannot be misunderstood. By the “emi - grating party,” was meant not only those who i made the treaty, but all whom they represented and who, living within the ceded limits, should resolve to move to the lands given in exchange 1 beyond tlte Mississippi. The nation had aa-emed, 1 “ 'Tookabalchee excepted.” This, and some ol i its dependent towns, felt themselves secure under ; he alliance of the Cherokees and of Walker and ( Hambly, and others. Protection for them was not r desired, but protection against them was abso i nitely necessary. That the United States should stipulate with the Creek JVatinn to protect it a i gainst itsidt, may appear a solecism . though it is s not without precedent in principle. We plainly - perceive then, who were the subjects of protec f tioo, and agasnst whom it was to be exercised. — - Viewed in tins sense there is nothing absurd or inconsistent. This pledge of protection has been 1 ratified accordit g to tbe solemn forma of the con ’ slitution, and lias thereby become the compact ; of the United Slates Government. Although we s are the instruments by whom the promise was - made, as ter the ratification of the treaty we stood • in the same relation to it as did others. We may ; indeed be able to explain wha* is doubtful, but - we have no power to mforce what we stipulated - should be done. We may with others, deplore i the apathy which leaves the murder of Mclntosh i unavenged, and arraign the delusion and folly 1 which makes Javorites of his assassins, but mus 1 leave the decision to the impartial tribunal ot 1 public, opinion. In the anxious search made by so many for ex . ense or justification tor the assassination of tins : cbieftian and his associates, every effort is exhatr . ted witich ingenuity could design or art suggest, , and that which was murder, was murder still. Bn l -by the new lights of the government new discove (. rics are made, and it is announced that the treaty . is “tainted with intrigue and treachery,” and r might to be cancelled. The workers of iniquity . eize upon tbe suggestion and resolve to effect ii. ; Tne difficulties of such a task, vanish at once, when . i f is detei miiu-d to make die Creek nation tbe ! theatre of the enquiry. There, the interests of all , were suspended on (he investigation—there, were ; to be found those whose prejudice were greatly i excited, and whose passions were highly inflamed —there too, were those whose consciences were t so very flexible, and imaginations so prolific, as to i furnish facts in any form and in at y quanlny. Os r the latter class and perhaps the most conspicuous, .is inierpveter Hambly. With devotion to the .- agent, and possessing more understanding and in i genuity, iie consents to be his tool. So destitute ; of character as to have no inducement to act fight i ly, and nothing to loose by doing wrong. In the , late examinations conducted by a “special” tor the . m nefit of an Indian agent, we are informed that the interpreter has sworn that the sth article ol 1 tne ’ teaty was not read or interpreted before it t *»■' signed by the chiefs. It was certainly tin ; ko d it. Ins |)-trull io exact an oath, when a mere i\suUement w- uid have had the same credit before , .is mpanial judge. How many more ot the i “ voluntary” 'vitnesscs who testified in behalt the “ persecuted” and " highly injured” agent were guilty of perjury, we cannot undertake to say, bu. . aouht not, bm hat the harvest was liberty. It „ nothing bad occurred subsequent to the treaty . more exceptionable and more criminal than what . preceded its signing, neither the treaty nr its aego . tiaiors would have ought to fear. These ,-übse quent proceeding'-, felonious in some ins a ices, ii extraordinary and unprecedented in others, cat. produce nothing rn ire titan temporary inconveni t- .nee. There are tribunals which have not j. ve judged ourseives or our proceedings, and before p t ,ese we are ready to appear, n We proceed to notice the last entry in the jour i nai which he kept. w.,ile our proceedings were J p uding. This entry was made on the 14th Feb. J L'2s, ancle ms.sts of this statement, “ Tiie com ( nissioners then convened the chiefs, distributed . some presents, ordered them furnished wdth rations to take ihsni l.nme, advised ihem to temperance a d unanimity, took friendly leave and adjourned.” Wi- have sometimes thought that, the words •' dis libuted some presents, ’’ have given rise to the it charges of fraud, bribery, Sun which h»ve. been !■ so lavishly heaped upon us. We should certainly j' t. rbcar to make any remarks upon this branch ot r the subject, had ottaese accusations been princi n pally made by the agents of the government n H wever imposing these imputations may appear it obe on account of the cbancters from whom e they came, we are not without confidence, that is t ■ the general government, and the people of . Georgia, we shall be enabled to demonstrate that whatwever we have done in this respect, can be >( supported by thtx principles of sound policy, by man I herless precedents, and by our instructions. All lha t was done in this regard, is known to the govern e mt nt, to a single cent, and we have no objec y lions to the publication of our accounts item by hem. If further particulars be required, weave . juepated to furnish them; but until they au required, we are left to infer that the administrs n tlun is satisfied, and to infer further, that the r- special agent and General Gaines hate v. iunteer «, leered, without ins true ioos, their busy efforts ■h ipon this subject. We make no appeal to them, i but to others, in whom reliance may be placed, ■r we do appeal, for justifies l ion of this part of our t proceedings. Gen ral Jackson has treated with n the Chick saw;, Choctaws, Cherokees and Creek i- —General Harrison has made many treaties with clit ic northern tritns—Governor Clark and Gov ;») I Cass have re derod conspicuous services to the is government m this department—General A kin :e son is reporting treaties almost daily which he n has concluded with separate tribes of the great > s Sioux nation of tbe west, and this too, with suet y facility as scarcely to retard bis march—Genera e Merriwether and Vlaj, Forney concluded a treaty c, on the Btli January 182 U at tbe same place ai with Creeks, fewer in number, and not bighet ie in grade, than those with whom we trea'edoi ejtltc 12‘lt February 1825. To the decisston o ss these distinguished negotiators, and to the de e cision of any and all other impartial tribunals, d< it jwe submit the (reaty and (be manner of its pro e .cure uent. But the protest against the. decis'oi e- ot men who have shewn themselves capable o h- being duped, by Indians and Indian agents.— <ejl lias been objected to the treaty, and it shew c. | upon the face ot it, such extraordinary pur iaiiiie >tit ) Mclntosh. A word in explanation will greatb :d weaken, it not entirely destroy the force of tin d| ihjection. He bad procured the nations relit;- in iqi i :Ii me lit to tbe Indian Spru g and Or kmtilge - j reservations, and had lea;ed them to tenants so es the term of twenty years. 0 Valuable improvements had been already made otjHi’d t" remove Ihe incumbrance of the lease, am r ' unable turns It to convey, he gave to one tenan o-! the: rum ot four Ur usand dollars, and to the othe ;d | nine. So that the amount ah ch lias accrued to h idjbeiufit of his family is only twelve tin.usand dot nil lavs, a sum much less than a fair eq dvaleiil f r t ■n prnp rty. I.et the treaty then, b est.mated ac u I cording to the. circumstances which attended ;t , i "egotiatii ii, or ie! it b ■ tiicd by itself, audit seen, •k ! o in, that .he most rig’d observer, tr. util be at nt' to s 'o drer era competent reason for its i evrim - i The circuit stm ct s were such as ordinarily alien " such tra saclinns, except the perfi i’niiis oppo-itio ■a - vtrch we encountered, and a treats* war nevv n or nod with Lidinns, has so beneficial to then 1 , set'.' s, as this. No error then, being detected i I the treaty itself, or in the manner of Its obtain f ment, we are to look for the cause of the mischief, • to the manner in which both have been msrtpre’. a seated. Let those who have originated the misre presentations, and those also who have given them I currency, be arraigned before their own consci enees and their country, and we know that their . trial will be more fearful than ourti. 'I DUNCAN G. CAMPBELL, r JAMES MERRIWETHEIt. [ i United Suites' Commissioners. II Mn.r,Kiir.KviiiK, November 12, 1825. " ■ (1) See the lete.r of the Indian agent, Col. Crowell, dated 3 13th Feb. 1825. He wasjalso present in person at the ratification, i ('i) These accusations were by the Guv. of Georgia in his s communication to the President (3 d* 4) These allegations are to be found in the communica • tions of the Special Agent and Gen. Gaines. (5 &. 6) The Special agents’ communication to the Governor of Georgia. (0) Vvilhinafew days past, a deputation of Cheroke.es, in ** company with, a Creek chief, the only one from Talledga who It refused to sign the treaty, have come into this state, and are nu I. ways reserved in their remarks concerning our Indian relations generally, and the late treaty in particular. They are very open in declaring, that if the Creek lands is not obtained by this trea 0 ty, it will never be obtained by treaty hereafter. S (9) Upon the subject of the Uniled Stales funds, D. G. Camp \ hell severally remarks, that the sale of drafts, the recept of the Ll funds and their custody, intervening the periods of actual nego y liation, have chiefly devolved upon himself. That from no res -1 ponsibilily upon this subject, however high and delicate, does he seek to exempt himself. He has regularly accounted to the proper tribunal—He. is willing for the government to subject him C to the strictest scrutiny, but cannot consent in a proceeding like this, to give further answer to the vulgar personal allusions, of a public agent, who is aiming to divert the public indignation ) from himself, by an adroit manoeuvre, of fixing it upon others.— i H. G. Campbell admits that Col. Williamson is his bruther-in j law, and is willing to submit the, decision to those who know him, whether •» negro trader,” as he is charged to he, any agent of the government, would be dishonored by the connection. > (10) (Jen. Gaines professed to maintain the validity of the 5 treaty, while in his correspondence with the Governors of Geor k gia and Alabama, he denounced it as a work of intrigue treache ry and fraud, and hoped that the complaints of the •• sons of the * t forest” would be attended .to. *. i (11) Quotations from the agents’communication to the War lit department contained iu a communication of the latter to the Kiecutivc of Georgia. ) (Id) This declaration is shewn to have been made by Gen. i Gaines, by th« report of the board of stale comrnissoners to the . Governorof Georgia. \ 13] See Gen. Gaines’ letter to the.Govcrnor of Alabama. • [M] A circular was addressed to them from Washington city, 1) and the. utmost caution used in giving it publicity through the lu e dian agent, and a special messenger. 11 ”* ' „ New-York, November 21. y James Reynolds was executed on Satur- J day, pursuant to sentence, for the murder s os Captain West. An immense concourse [j. of people assembled to witness the suffer- . .ingsofa fellow creature. His confession eis published from which it appears that he * was instigated to commit the act by a man e named Townsend, of whom he gives no ac- t ‘ counte xccptthat he was “a wicked man and .Jan old offender.” Reynolds does not as - 1 1 sign any reasons for the act, but on the con trary says that West was very kind to him, and offered him money, &c. -ao®- e New-York, November 19. Fire. —A fire broke out about half past 5 t o’clock this morning, in the two story brick . jbuilding at the corner of Broad way and • Liberty-Street, occupied by Mr. N. Smith |Prentiss, as a dwelling, and fancy anti per ’ fume store, which together with nearly all the property it contained—furniture, cloth i, ing, ike. was entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at 850,000, 30,000 of which was insured. So rapid was the progress of the L . flames, that the family were obliged to es cape from the second story windows, by means ofladders. • , Degrand’s Boston Weekly Report of the d 12th inst. states that—“ Cornhill Square s was saved from the lire, which originated in Court-Street, on Thuisday last, by Blan kets which were sent at once from the Man p ufacturer's Ins. Co. by whom 810,000 u were insured on that build ing. The beau ’ tiful block at Water Street was a few ’ r months since saved in the same way.” -eo*- * Applications are to be made to the Legis- I t lature of New-York at the next Session, to K :i incorporate the Jefferson Wet Dock Com- r ■t pany in the city of New-York, with a capital f e of g 250,000 with a privilege to increase to I | 8500,000; the American loan company, 1 capital 8200,000 ; the Onondaga company - Bank, to be located at Syracuse, capital ) §300,000 ; and the Erie canal transporta- O I tion company, capital 8200,000. * 90Ma*- i fe Another Bank Failure. —The “ New t I - Jersey Protection and Lombard Bank at ’ ■ J Jersey City,” lias given notice, of having & payment for the present. —The I rjbills of this bank are signed I). M’Laren, K II President, and Edward I. Priest, Cashier. 1 £ The Evening Post states—“ It was only 1 i. yesterday (Thursday.) that this same Bank ej advertised in the papers that their bills i “ would be redeemed in specie at their Bank- j ( ing House in Jersey City. The crowd all ,*1 this forenoon surrounding, the building in j a! which this Bank transacted their business i y1 in Pine-Street, has been immense, and a- J jmong them \ve saw a great many poor mar ’J ket women, mechanics and labourers with / 1.1 the bills of the broken Bank in their hands, -'begging to have them redeemed, that they 1" might have a shilling to buy a loaf of breait ’■ for their children. of -Q&&- The ship Bengal, Captain Garwood, has arrived at this port from Liverpool. Capt. j( G. left Liverpool on the morning of the 1 6th / ic ult. having put back on the 4th. Ashefix - ed no day of sailing, neither papers nor letters were put on board later than the 1.1 12th, Capt. G. reports that Cotton was e . selling a IGd. No additional failures ul had taken place. nt Phil. Nat. Gaz. 17 th inst, er ic >!• Incendiaries. —Within a few evenings at ■c tempts have been made (o set lire in various I parts of the city. On Tuesday night, we , it understand, a brand was thrown into the, bistable of the Indian Queen tavern, but for- Innately discovered before it had communi 111 jeated to the hay. Matches and other com “ '.bnstible materials were likewise found un j dor a shed, in Morton Place, on the same in evening.— Huston Gaz, Xjlhinst,