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COLUMBIAN CENTINEL. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. EIRE ! ! ! ON Wednesday night last, a fire broke out about half past ten o’clock in a small, building on the south side of Broad street, a few doors above the mar ket ; the alarm was given at an early period, but the house being very old, was all in flames before the citizens could collect to suppress it. It com municated in a few minutes to the ad joining buildings on each side (there be ing a considerable culster of them all wood) the progress of which was not suppressed until it reached the cross street on one side, and a large brick building belonging to Mr. llignon, on the other, Great praise is due to the citizens for their active exertions in sav ing Mr. Bignon’s building, as nothing but their resolute determination to sup press the fire at that particular spot could have borne them, through the exertion ; the house of Mr. B. took fire several times, but was as often sup pressed ; had it passed that spot it most inevitably would have burnt up a great er part, if not the whole of the square. The fire continued to rage until half past twelve o’clock; the raininess of the night added greatly to the exertions of the citizens in the suppression of the flames —there were twelve buildings fronting the street burnt, the whole of which were occupied as grocery stores ; the loss we have not been able accu rately to ascertain, but it has been very considerable. The following are the sufferers :—L. Barrie, Scco. Messrs. Shadrack Sc Carrie, Mr. Tardy (whose house was never opened, consequently there was not an article saved) Mr. Charles Johnson, Messrs. Lafitte and Brux, Mr. Wright, Mr. Francis Sain cric, Mr. Lester, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Lartigue, Mr. John Cashin, Mr. Jillett. The principal sufferers are, Messrs. Lafitte cs’ brux, and Francis Saincric. *** Messrs. LAFITTE & WM. BRUX, return their grateful acknowledgments to the citizens of Augusta for their kind exertions in en deavoring trt save as much as possible their property from the fire of Wed nesday night, and particularly to Messrs. Creswell, John M‘Kihhe, Bostick and Randolph, for their great exertions in saving the contents of one of the back stores. They inform the public that they have taken the house next door above Mr. James Murren, where their business will be conducted as usual. We announce with pleasure, that Mr. James Frazier, is appointed Post-Master at this place, in the rootn of j. B. Wilkinson, Esq. resigned. It is reported, that Czesar A. Rod ney Esq. of Philadelphia, has been pointed an Associate Justice of the uni ted States ; vice William Patterson, esq. deceased. Times. The President of the United States has revoked anc! annulled the Exequa tur lately held by Ant«ouv Morales, as Consul of the Batavian Republic, to reside at Charleston. DEATH OF GEN. KNOX. “ To the Editor of the Boston Gazette. “ Warren, (Maine) October 26. u Dear Sir —lt is with the deepest regret, I have now to inform you, that the great and good Gen. Knox, depart ed this life yesterday morning. He was confined about six days. It is suppos ed, that the cause of ids death was his swallowing a sharp chicken bone which perforated his bowels, and produced a mortification. The event was very sudden, and unexpected by his physi cians, till a very short time before his death. It has covered us all with the deepest gloom. The funeral will be to-morrow, when every testimony of respect will be paid by all classes of people. New-York, Nov. 7 • Extract of a tetter from Galli/iolis , (a few miles below Marietta',) dated Se/it. 10. “ Mr. Burr’s intended expedition, is much talked of here. He lias many proselytes : and reports are in circula tion, that a large niimber of boats are building at Marietta, to answer his pur pose ; say I f or 15, though I cannot vouch for the exact number, not having been there for some weeks. Yet it is certain, that there are boats building there to descend the Ohio, and it is as certain, that Mr. Burr made himself very busy, while residing there.” November 8. Extract of a letter from an officer, dated Rafiids of Red River, Se/it. 20. Dear Sir, “We are within sixty miles of Nach- i toches, where we have met Claiborne and letters from Cushing, which leave no sort of doubt, that the Spaniards mean to dispute ground with us at the point of the sword; and they are aug • menting their force. The Governors Cordero and Herrera will be opposed to the poor American Brigadier “ Faret mieur.” The Gen. has called on the two territories for militia.—Claiborne will furnish 450, Sc Mead 250 men only } no matter, we have a few hundred con fidential, and the greater disparity of force, the more fame* We shall be ready in ten or twelve days, and then the governors must retrogade, or taste our steel. Claiborne and Cushing have demonstrated strongly and repeatedly to Herrera, who with much decision repels their demands and reiterates his determination to maintain the territory of his niaster, east of the Sabine. The rights of humanity and the getlius of his country will induce Gen. W.... to make one more attempt at conciliation, but he will be prepared to strike the moment it is rejected. The accounts we have of the carhp arid equipments are mar vellous; they are represented as disor ly, Undisciplined and overcharged with the precious metals. What think you of a subaltern brifiging with him thirty thousand dollars for pocket mottey iri doublobns ? Who knows but we may rriake a coupd’or and secure a birth in the bedof hottor, fifteen days will dicide.” A Gentleman juist arrived froth' Washington, whose veracity and cor rectness may he relied on, reports, that a letter had been received at that place, by a Mr. Henderson, employed in the Navy yard, from his brother, resident in Kentuckey, stating that, in conse quence of a commotion of the people, who had declared that country indepen dent, he was about to remove his family to Culpepper in Virginia. The serious nature of this report for bids us to repeat the names of the per sons implicated as leaders, until the au thenticity of the report is fully ascer tained. It is by no means improbable that the rumour of a process being isued to ar rest a certain individual who once stood high in the opinions of his countrymen, is connected with the important intelli gence, the substance of which we are told had occuppled the executive of the United States, convented in council) during four days ofthe last week. The President of the United States was seriously indisposed on Thursday, and by the last accounts was still con fined. Jackson's Phila. Political Register. Kingston, (Jam.) October 18. Information has lately been received in this city, that there is every probabil ity that the mock Emperor of Hayti, has by this time been deprived, not on ly of his regal honors, but his life, and that his principal officers are no more. The circumstances which led to this event appear to be these : Insatiable of blood, Dessalines had taken the resolu tion of making the remaining people of color suffer the same cruelties which had been, on former occasions, inflicted Upon the unhappy white inhabitants, of that unfortunate colony. Having form ed this diabolical project, he visited his dominions from North to South, in or der to devise the most efficacious means of carrying his plan into execution, and having arrived at Tiburon, he ordered the Mulatto Chief, wiio commanded there, to be put to death. This unex pected circumstance was, it seems, only the signal for the massacre of all the of ficers of that description in the southern department; but his intentions having been discovered, were completely frus trated, and there is every reason to be lieve that he has in turn become the victim of his own sanguinary projects. During these transactions in the south, General Christophe, it appears availed liimselfof the discontents that prevailed among the troops on account of their not being regularly paid, and seized on the treasures of Dessalines, which he distributed among the troops generally, and it is supposed, that by his artful conduct, Christophe will succeed to the Chief command of that unhappy county. ® AUGUSTA PRICE-CURRENT. Cotton . . « . 18 Tobacco . . . . § 4 Salt . . . . . $1 25 1 Hour . . . . jjjjj 9 bl. \ Pork . . . . £ 6 • Bees-wax . . . 33 to 35 f Corn Meal . . .75 cents. Butter . . . . 25 r -JM ,*•*■* > . J r • -f , Beggs & Barnes, HAVE JUST OPENED, at V.he corner store lately occu/iied by 7HOMAS BARRETT^ AFRESH ASSORTMENT OF DRY GOODS AND Groceries, Which they will sell very low for cash or Cotton. They hare also Received on Consignment ? • Fine Rose Blankets, London particular Madeira Wine, in half pipes and quarter casks, And a few casks of Hibbert and Sons’ Best BROWN STOUT. November 29. 19 FOUND, A SMALL sum of money.... The owner may obtain it by giving the description and paying for this adver tisement, by application to HUGH KERR. November 29. 19 LOST A RECEIPT of Barrett & Sims for six bales of cottort lying in their ware house. All persons are cautioned against buying or trading for the same, as the said Barrett anil Sims have alrea dy delivered us the cotton. I. 6c I. BUTT. November 29. 3t 19 FOR SALE. On Thursday the 1 \th day of next month , at ten o'clock In the forenoon , to the highest bidder, at the subscribers plan tation) on the Kiokec , Columbia County) A hew Valuable Negroes, A Large Stock of Hogs and Cattle, the crop of Corn and Fodder, a good Stage Waggon, a handsome Distillery, with every apparatus complete; some house hold and kitchen furniture, and a few barrels of Good Rye YY hiskey, &c. Terms made known on the day of sale. JESSE SANDERS. November 29, 18®6. 19 SHERIFF’S SALE. On thefrst Tuesday in January next) at the court house in the comity of Burke) between the usual hours , Will be Sold, HO BUSHELS of CORN, more or less, levied on as the property of George Dickson, to satisfy sundry executions. ALSO, 500 Acres of land, more of less, bounded on the east by S. Neile, on the south by lands of Mr. Scott, on the west by Mobby’s Pond, on the north by Elbert, land levied on as the proper ty of Mathew Clark, deceased, to satisfy Joseph Henderson’s execution. ALSO, 300 Acres of land, oak and hickory, more or less, adjoining lands of James Gwinn and James Mai tin, ly ing on the Rosemary Branch, being the plantation whereon Jeremiah Mil ler now lives, levied on as the property of the said Jeremiah Miller, at the in stance of James Murrcn and others. Gross Scruggs , S. B. C. November 29, 1806. 19 BROUGHT to Edgefield Jail, South Carolina, a Mulatto Fellow who says his name is ROBIN, and belongs to Major Cuthberth, in Sunbury ; Robin is a small fellow, has on a red uniform coat, oznaburg overhalls, black waist coat, half boots, with a number of other clothes ; he brought with him an iron grey horse, saddle and bridle, which he says he caught on the road near Louis ville, Georgia. The owner of said ne gro and horse are requested t* come forward, prove their property, pay charges and take them away. E. JVhatleV) Jailor. November 29. 19 NOTICE. THIS is to forwarn all persons from trading for a certain note of hand given by me on the 28th November, 1805, to the legatees of Samuel Doo little, deceased, for the sum of Four Hundred and Sixty-six Dollars, as J am determined not to pay said note, it be ing fraudulently obtained. ' RICHARD NEWMAN. November 22, 1606. 3t ig ► *- *•*•*■*.• '* -A Jacob Datforth, Has Just Received, And is now ofieninga Large and General ASSORTMENT OF DRY GOODS AND Groceries, Consisting of such articles as are generally in demand at the firesi nt season, TOGETHER WITH A HANDSOME SUPPLt OF SADDLERY, HARD WARE, MEN’s Fine h Coarse Shoes, LEATHER, he. he. ALSO, A QUANTITY OF NORTHEN CIDER, of an excellent quality, CHEESE, POTATOES, he. All of which will he sc id on the low est terms for cash or any kind of COUNTRY PRODUCE. November 82. 3m IS Kiokee Seminary. L. D. PARKS, having been appointed Rector of this Institution, in forms the public, that he will commence teaching on Monday next, at the follow ing rates of Tuition : for the Latin and Greek Languages, l'ivc Dollars the quarter, for English Grammar, Ana lysis of Sentences, Composition, Elocu tion, the Elements of Geometry, the higher branches of Arithmetic and Ge ography, Four Dollars ; for Reading, Writing and Vulgar Arithmetic, Three Dollars. ICF’ Hoarding may he obtained in res fiectable families in the vicinity, for Sixty Dollars the year. Columbia county, Nov. 12. 3t 17 Jockey Club Races . At a meeting of the augusta jockey club on the 2oi '.h inst. RESOLVED, that the Races for the ensuing year commence on the last Wednesday in January, 1807, free for any Ilorse, Mare or Gelding, from any part of the world. The Purses and Distances as Follows VIZ. — First day’s running, four mile heats, for a purse of $ 500. Second day’s running, three mile heats, for a purse of % 300. Third day’s running, two mile heats, for a purse of % 200.. Fourth day’s running, a sweepstake, two mile heats, for the entrance money and overplus, supposed to be worth from g 250 to 350 The weights and regulations agreea ble to the established rules. By order of the Club. GEO : S. HOUSTON, Scc’ty: November 22, 1806. 18 Officers for the ensuing year* John Catlett, President, Chesley Bostick, Vice Piesident, Geo : S. Houston, Secretary, Geo: E. Randolph, 7 reasurcr. EDGEFIELD Jockey Club Races. RESOLVED, that the Races for the ensuing year commence at the Cherokee Ponds, on the second Wed nesday in January next, free for any Horse, Mare or Gelding, from any pat of the world ; the purses and distances as follows : First Day’s Running, three mile heats, for a purse of about two hun dred and fifty dollars. Second Day’s Punning, two mile heats, fora purse of about one hundred and seventy dollars. Third Day, a sweepstake, one mile heats, for the entrance money. Weights established agreeable to the Augusta rules. STEPHEN GAftRETT, Sec'ry. November 22, 1806. 18 IG7* ALL subscribers are requested to pay their subscriptions to the subscri ber, on or before the first day’s running. JOSEPH HIGHTOWER, Trcas'r. NOTICE. TVfINE months after the date hereof, I.N application will be made to the honorable the Inferior court for the county of Burke, for leave to sell all the real estate of Thomas Spights, late of said county deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors. CHARLES WARD, Adm'r. November 22, 1806. 18 *« r* -* M