Litchfield enquirer., 1829-04-23

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
AUGUSTA, GEO. April S-6 F.

 occurred in this country. It brokC out in pitch-pine building in Ellis-street, two squares below the Post Office, at about quarter past 2. P. M.. the wind blowing gale from w. to w. s. w. ever large portion Ofthe city, built almost entirely 0f pitch -pine-the whole Ofwhich is destroyed. The number of hou- ses burnt cannot be short of 800, perhaps greatly to exceed that numher. Those of your readers who are acquainted with the city will know better the range the fire took hy giving the boundaries it has laid waste that part of the city lying east of Jackson street, and on the south side of Broad-street' to Centre,st. or Bridge Row; there it cross. ed Broad-st. 16O feet wide, on the north, ana extended almost to Green. street on the so'th, destroying both sides of Bridge Row to the Bridge and from that in one continued llne' to Courses bar, distanC" of one half to three quarters ofa mile-the Bridge Bank buildings arrested the flames on the north Of Broad street; and with great exertiOns of the fire' men and citizens, they were stayed on River street. on a line with Bridge Bank buildings. No cotton has been burnt; several hundred bales were rolled out of Beers. Booth g. St. Johns warehouse, which, however, was only partially injured. The greatest sufferers are the poorer classes, who have almost to a family, lost their all; for. when the furniture was removed unless 1t was put in boats at the liver side, it was invariably burnt in the streets. The market house is destroyed with the rest, and all the powder under the con- l trol of the City Council, was burnt in blow ing up houses. hope the liberality of your citizens will be called forth instantly in aid of 1 the suffering poor, who, to the extent Of, think, at least, 95O families, have lost all they had in the world; and you can judge of the little chance there was of saving property, when in the space of four hours, from to 500 houses have been reduced to ashes, which spread over portion of the city fully one half mile long and one quarter wide, and, there, was believe, only one brick building, (Phnizy's, in Bridge Row,) in the whole space.-M Y. Spec.
 Ld,o Case.-A decision has lately been made in the Courts of South Carolina, that money, ing table, is recoverable by law from the win- ners. One Main, the clerk of $. & M. Al. len, had in his possession bank notes belong. ing to his employers, amounting to $95O0. He went to a gambling establishment, a faro table, kept, it appears from Judge Bays O. pipion, by Henry l.. Watson, James H. Wat son, and Nicholas Spalhing. g.---Main was in- duced to stake this money, and heinz the los. CT. paid it over to those persons. The hank notes were afterwards demanded of the Wat. sons and Spalding by the agent of s. & M. Allen, and they refusing to deliver them up, an action of trover was brought for their re- cOvery. Judge Bay was of opinion that as the notes lost at play belonging to S. & M. Allen. and as they had done no act to di- vest themselves of their property, they were entitled to recover them from the defendants by this form of action.
 Sessions Court, Nssv- Fork. April iS.-The People vs. Thomas JOnes, for having tn his possession counterfeit notes with an intention to pass them, sciemter.
 Benjamin J. Hays testified that by order 0f the Police. he went with Jacob Hays and Zebulon Homan, to a place called new Vaux- hall, about five miles from the city. These officers were introduced .t0 the entry of the house, through the agency of Smith Davis. who was indicted at late term of the Ses. sions for similar olfence--while in the entry. the officers overheard Jones say, that he would barricade the door. and for that pur- pose he had moved several trunks against it. so that they found some difficulty in forcing 1t. They succeeded at last, and on opening ,'e uVVV uiSCOVcrpU JOUeS Nnu StnDtn UNVtS- Davis escaped by suffsrence. being already l under bail Jones made stout resistance; he ] was armed with pistol heavily loaded with s'ugs. but had no convenient opportunity to use it-on a table and on the floor, the off, cers found 5000 counterfeit notes, all of the Mechanics Bank of New Haven, Of different denominations. Those on which the indct. ment was founded were SEQ notes, signed Nathan T. Smith, President, w. w. Board. man. Cashier. ..,
 Mr. Boardmnn, of New Haven, testified. that the signatures were forgeries, that the margins of the notes and the Vigmettes were well executed, that the name ofthe President was good imitation, hut that tho filling up was bad, and that to the best of his knOwl- edge. the Bank had never issued any notes of the denomination of SEQ. Tho notes were all new. and had not apparently been in circu. lation. MT, Boardman had acted at one time as Cashier Ofthe Bank during the sickness of that officer, and was familiar with the sigma tnre of the President.
 . The jury, Wi.hent leaving the. bar, brought tn v'rdict ofguilty.-N. Y. Mere. Ado. t' ni 'Sess-sa-' "f
 Gen. WiHfeld Scost.--It is said, that the Secretary ofWar has returned Gen. Scott's propositions to him, with the offer of fur tough for twelve months. The General is now on visit to his friends in Dlnwiddie; and we are not informed what is the course which he means to take. But it is obvious, that the offer frunn fhn XVau narn.a vs.nvt se nonnns.nl