Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1821-01-30

owing, as IL turned OFT, by having cyl.
inder Of Goals in her chamber. This is
another instance Of the effects ofcllarcoal,
and the sagacity Of the dog.-Bost. pap.
QUEBEC, Jan. l3.
Much alarm has prevailed in this city
for some days past, on account OF repeated
attempts in the night time, TO set fire TO
the Ursuline Nunnery. From the awk-
wardnatnre Of the attempts, they appear
TO US to be the work Of some insane per.
SON, or Of some one more DESTROYS OF
creating an alarm for some interested
purpose, than Of actually occasioning q
conflagration. A reward of fifty pounds
is offered for the discovery Of the offender.
New YoRK, Jan. rs.
A,vfut Conaagration. is our pain
full duty to record one Of the most de-
structive fires that has occurred in this
city for several years and, besides the
subsequent catalogue Of buildings which
have been laid 10 ruins, a very large a.
meant Of properly has been lost. particu-
larly the heavy stock Of wines, &c. Of
Mr.. Bloodgood, which was estimated al
$4,000. The severity of the weather
at the time the fire commenced. prevented
an easy access to water, aud when OBJ
tanned, it was difficult to force il through
the leather conductors, the mercury in
the thermometer being only ten degrees
above zero.
Yesterday morning, about half past 8
O'clock, fire broke out 10 Front-street,
near Crane-wharf, in block Of wooden
buildings, and the following stores and
dwelling, houses we're burnt:
Front-street. south side.-No. 1875,
Lewis Moore's Store, mot occupied
slightly injured. No. 1917, Waterbury &
Coles Flour Store, destroyed. No. 100,
Graft & Smiths Grocery. destroyed.
No. 203, Warren Rogers Flour Store.
destroyed. No. 2o5, John Nathaway's
Coopers' Shop, and Smiths Boarding
house destroyed. No. POI, Samuel Will
let's Flour Store, and Adam Motifs In
spector's Office, destroyed. No. 200,
Peter Guion's Grocery, destroyed. No.
Oil, Harrison & Torrey's Agricultural
Repository, destroyed. No. 2l3, How
ard Furman's Grocery, destroyed. No.
2I5, Isaac Frost's Flour Store, destroyed.
Front-street, north side. : Fire Proof
Stores No. 200, Wait Wells Grocery
little injured. No. 2o2, Matthew How
ell, Military Store, and Dwelling house,
materially Injured. No. 204, J. & J..
Coddington's Store, received trifling in
jury. No. 206, Thos. Bloodgood's Gro
Gerry, immense loss, No. 2O3, Horton &
Weodhull's Grocery, seriously injured
frame Buildings.] No. 2l0, Thomas
Freeborl's Plough Store, destroyed. No.
2l2. Stratton e. Aikman's Cooperase, de-
stroyed. No. 2l4, Rogers add Jones'
Flour Store, destroyed.
Fulton.sli p.-No. 10, John Earl, jun's
Store, and Woods Plough Store, destroy
ed. No. IL, Joseph Lyons Store, de-
stroyed. No. Z, Nathaniel P. Watsou's
Blacksmith Shop, destroyed. No. 5,
Samuel Bells Grocery, destroyed. No.
3, S. ID. Woods Grocery, and Green's
Carpenter Shop, destroyed. No. I, J. C.
Langdon's Steamboat Hotel, destroyed.
Crane wharf No. Is, Mr.. Alexan-
der's Boarding house, destroyed. No. 8,
Francis O'Brien's Cooperage, destroyed.
No. 8, Nathaniel Conklin's Cooperage,
destroyed. No. !, two small Houses,
occupied by colored people, destroyed.
Some damage was also done to the spars
and sails Of the shipping, but they we're
saved by removal +; particularly the U. S.
ship Hornet, which vessel was promptly
cut out of the ice with which she was
enclosed, and taken to Brooklyn.
During the fire, the wind was fresh
from the northward, which prevented a
more extensive conflagration. 1t is be-
lieved to have originated in a boarding
and dance house, EOS Front.slreet.
1t will be recollected, that the ground
now covered with ruins, is that on which
it is contemplated to build new market.
We understand that much Of the pro.
perry destroyed was insured.
The firemen, on this occasion, as Cd
others of a similar nature, behaved like
men. Their exertions are beyond our
praise; and while we mention their ex-
treme sufferings, we are certain that
their fellow citizens are not unmindful Of
their imnortarlt services.
TRENTON, Jan. %.
Imposlor. On tile goth inst. an old man
calling himself Reynolds, was taken up
and examined before Justice Taylor, in
this place on suspicion Of having robbed