The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-07-18
NEw YoRK, July 9.

No 20 Soutbstreet, the west corner OF Cuyers Alley
The building occupied by Messrs Davis Brooks, com
mission merchants who had large and valuable stock OF
merchandise hand The fire commenced in the third sorys
and the opinion of that caused by the spon
aneous combustion of wool The fire ragged with fury for
me and about IL O'Clock the gable end of this build
ing fell against the of Messrs Tucker Laurie the
opposite side which forced in At this moment shud
der manifested by the crowd of lookerspn, as 1t was
known that almost the whole of Hook and Ladder Company
No l. were in the fourth loft of the of Tucker g.
Laurie The attention generally drawn from the
fire the sufferers when found that those who sustain
ed the injury MFR William Disosway the inde-
atgabe foreman of Hook and Ladder No. l. and MIR John
sper, member of the company. These gentlemen
drawn from beneath the ruins very much bruised and
mangled We are happy however, to state that Mr. sos-
this morning. considered out of danger and that hopes
others who were injured are Mr. sylvester Phillips Of Hook
and Ladder No. Mr. Woods, of Engine No IL; Mr. Saw
yer, of Hook and Ladder No A Mr. Gaud. of Engine No
Al Mr. Anthony of the Engineers and Alderman Zebra,
of the first ward.
The loss by the fire will be severely felt by of
insurance companies The of Davis & Brooks nearly
Destroyed and the goods either all burnt much damaged
by water. These gentlemen had an insurance of thirty
thousand dollars on their stock four thousand the
The of Messrs Tucker s. Laurie, Inc
formed also insured fN-s
p s. Since writing the above we have conversed with the
Chief Engineer and several others who at the fire. On
the four-story ladder, when slipped, Mr. Francis
Gaud of No conducting the pipes he chung to the ladder
until reached the ground He severely injured Below
Mr. Gaud stood Mr. Wie also belonging to No A. When
he found the ladder going he from it, and caught hold
of the sill of the third story window, supporting himself by
his hands, until another ladder raised this time the
fire raging within the building and the window sill
to burn his fingers he however, but slightly
injured The Chief Engineer struck the back by the
ladder but not severely injured.
Mr. Conrad Jun, printer, belonging No A, in the
garrett of Tucker Laues with Others when the
gable driven in Mr. c. sprang the fall and sezng
the rope letting himself down; but before he had eaoh
cd the second floor he knocked from by another per-
son. who had fallen through they both fell and much
injured. MIR MDonald of No A. slightly injured; MIR
Osborn, of No - do; Mr. Hengan, of No z, do; Mr. James
Van Antwerp, do
We understand that Mr. Sper very i'll at I O'Clock
He completely covered with the rubbish, that only
part of one hand after he fell Com. .fdu.
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Washington July live do not know how far
interest is yet felt by readers in the case now
before the Circuit Court of the United States for this
District of the United States against the late Fourth
Auditor of the Treasury 1t appears to us however,
to be duty to let them know, from time to time, what
progress is made in case, that presents unusual
number of difficult points of law, which the ingen-
and able counsel on both sides contest with zeal
and pertnency seldom seen in Courts.
Yesterday the Chief Justice delivered the opinion
of the Court upon the demurrer to two more of the
preserving one, yet undecided) OF these
two, the Court sustained the demurrer to the one
and overrued it as to the other.
Exception, however, taken by the Counsel for
the accused to opinion expressed by the Court up
on point not introduced in argument before the
Court nor suggested by the Court before delivering
its judgment, upon which the general opinion of the
Court mainly turned. As far as we, who are no law
yers, understand it, the Counsel for the accused main
ained one of the grounds of demurrer, that this