Mr.B.engaged it on his arrival for three years, at two hundred and forty dollars per year.

His landlord informed him a few days since, that on the expiration of his present lease, he should raise the rent to three hundred and thirty dollars.
Mr.B.is acquainted with a gentleman of wealth, who has been endeavoring for the last twelve months to purchase an estate in this island.

He has offered high prices, but has as yet been unable to obtain one.

Landholders have so much confidence in the value and security of real estate, that they do not wish to part with it.
After our visit to Silver Hill, our attention was particularly turned to the condition of the negro grounds.

Most of them were very clean and flourishing.