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present crops, but. those here- 
after. The groundsin this quarter 
must all be replanted. 
Coley, Font Hill, Georgia, Pal- 
meto River, and Mullet Hall, 
have suffered more than any other 
in the valley, at least one fifth of 
the land is gone in this quarter ; 
all the buildings were swept away 
at Mullet Hall, and amongst them 
$5 negro houses. The loss of 
cattle has been prodigious. The 
great sufferers have been Blue 
Mountain, Mount Pleasant, Pe-~ 
tersfield, Serge Island, Middleton, 
Stanton, Pembroke Hall, Cardiff, 
Golden Valley, and Morant, in all 
upwards of 100 miles. 
It is impossible to’ enumerate 
all the losses sustained on the 
occasion. 
18.—A few days ago, a very 
melancholy accident took place at 
Waltham Cross. The Boston 
coach stopped there for a short 
time, when the horses suddenly 
turned into a low covered gateway 
with the coach, where there was 
no room to admit the passengers 
on the roof; the consequence 
was, that four of them were so 
completely pressed between the 
coach and the upper part of the 
gateway as actually to prevent the 
vehicle from going on. When 
the sufferers were relieved from 
their unhappy situation, one per- 
son was found quite dead, and the 
others were so much bruised, that 
their lives are despaired of. 
One of thesteam-boats, on Lake 
Champlain, the Vermont, was 
lost on the evening of October 
21, while on her way from St. 
John’s to Whitehall. The follow- 
ing account of the accident is 
eopied from The Boston Centinel : 
—The machinery became de- 
ranged, and beat out her bottom; 
she went down in 20 minutes af- 
ter the accident. The pilot had 
the presence of mind to head her 
directly in shore, and the impetus 
then on the boat carried her into 
such shallow water, that her quar 
ter-deck was left above water. 
The passengers were taken off 
next day by the new boat Phoenix. 
She was one of the first boats that 
was built, and we are informed, 
that by the improvements in the 
machinery of the modern boats 
they are not liable to the accident 
which occasioned the loss of the 
Vermont.” 
Extract of a letter from Leipsic 
of the 2\st of Oct.—** Our Micha- 
elmas fair has been a very busy 
one; there are a number of buy- 
ers from ‘distant countries, espe- 
cially Poles, Galicians, Greeks, 
and, contrary to expectation, Rus- 
sians. A great deal of business 
has been done, especially in silks, 
which article rose considerably 
before the close of the market. 
Leather was much inquired after, 
and all that could be found was 
bought up. Cloths, cottons, and 
the other produce of the Saxon 
looms, were well sold, although 
the competition of the English 
were still injurious to them. - The 
difference was not, however, so 
great as it had been before, as 
the English did not sell at such 
low prices. It is now perceived, 
that the reason why the British 
sold their wares last year at so 
low a price, was not because they 
sought to ruin our manufactures, 
but from their being under the 
necessity of converting into mo- 
ney the prodigious quantity of 
goods which they had in ‘their 
possession.” 
