Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Ed. Pittsburgh (P.) Mercury.

Extract of a letter from a gentlemen at Savannah to his friend in New-York dated Aug. 13, 1813.

"As to the times I never saw such in Georgia before : we have no business of any kind doing, and every article of necessity is scarce and dear Brown Sugar at 20 dls. per cwt. by the hogshead. Loaf 62 1/2 cents per Ib. Hyson tea 3 dls. Ib. Shoes and Boots from 25 to 50 per cent on former prices Dry goods from 30 to 50 per cent higher than formerly.

Rum, brandy and gin first quality from 3 dls to 3 50 per gallon, and every thing else in proportion. Cotton and Rice no sale. The last sales, cotton, short 8 cents, long 18--Rice 3 dls. per hundred. The stores are nearly out of goods, and many of them shut up. Alarms every day or two of the arrival of the enemy-but no enemy has yet appeared. All valuable articles, and great quantities of furniture are moved into the country. Crops, corn very bad, and cotton but little better, owing to the drouth in the first instance and the heavy rains which succeeded. The place continues healthy as yet. The people now feel the war, and I hope it will open their eyes. We are told all this is republicanism-I can hardly believe it, at all events it is not the kind we used to have in '75, 6, 7, & 8. Upon the whole I really think the government ought to make peace; it is impossible to carry on a war like the present. It is ruinous to ourselves alone ; and the cause is not sufficient to interest the great body of the people. The almost certainty that the French Emperor has a hand in the thing; the uncandid conduct of the executive in concealing the real situation of our affairs with France; the total- failure of two campaigns in Canada ; the enormous expenditures, for which we shall have to pay heavy taxes, all taken together will impress on the mind of every true American the necessity of changing a course of measures' so ruinous and impolitic. I hope the Northern people will not forget that united we stand divided we fall."