Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-01-24

time before on the eastern side
The event If this Iamenrable occurrence !
have the honor of communicating sumnarily to
your Excellency, and as soon as reports from
the public officers are received. your Excellency
shall receive more official accounts.
Government General Of st. Thomas and st.
Johns, lst January, 1882. RHODE.
His Excellency, Chamberlain J v. Sobotker,
Knight of the Order of Dannebrog and
Daunebrogoman, Governor General &c. :"
After the above was prepar ed for press. we were
favored with the annexed extract of letter from
the American Consul at st. Crnx, which gives
some further particulars Of tins severe visitation.
From our own knowledge OF the place We are
convinced that the estimate of the damage a. ex-
pressed 10 the closing part Of the Consuis letter,
is not exaggerated. We learn from other sourc
es, that the following persons are among the suf.
ferers:-Messrs. De Cosar & Co. w. P. Fur
Mss s. Co.. Soufron, Son & Co., Read. Whit
more & Davis. Davis s. Lattimer. and Yaarde-
man & Anderson. all of whose stores and proper.
ty were situated on the Bay street near the wa
ter, both sides Of which, from the City Hote.ex-
lending westward to the market, a distance OF
more than quarter Of mile. a heap Of ruins.
The stores on the same street, east Of the City
Hotel have mostly escaped. Among them are
those of Hicks & Kettel and Burgeest Ullhorn.
We hear that many American houses will suffer.
as most of the above individuals had extensive
commercial transactions with this country. A
letter from ST. Cr0ix. dated the Cd instant, pub.
ished in the American, has these paragraphs:
The day previous to the calamity. -four had
been selling there at S1Oa IL per bbl., and since
then the destruction of property having been so
extensive, it is the general opinion here that the
unfortunate place is destitute OF the article, with
the exception of the stock the two houses NAV
have had on hand, who have escaped the general
wreck.
"Mrrchandize of almost every description has
risen here in consequence supplies and produce
beng most materially affected by it,"
Extract of letter from the American Consul, at
St. Croix. dated Sd January.
IL lave to communicate to you the news Of a
most dreadful Fl e. which broke out in st. Thomas
IN the evening If the 5lsi Dec, and continued
burning until mid day on the 1st inst. 1t was
seen from this island on the same evening at 9
O'Clock ill near morning. There has been an
express sent from the Cummandant Of the Island
TO the Governor General Of ST. CrOx. The fire is
said to he the effect Of accident. 1t commenced
North Of Roses Tavern, and extended to Lange's
large house below the market, near the gut OH
the north side ofthe street, and on the south side
IL COUHeuCtu east VI tue SllS TIOleI. uOWH To
the gut past The market. Even the fire proof
stores are burnt. and should estimate that two
thirds Of the value of the place has been destroy
eds
.Jamaica-Insurrect,on of the Mares--The
Jamaica Courant of the S0th ult received at New
York, states that an lnsurreCton among the slaves
of the island had taken place. Two companies
8 tl, a 4, Al bad
detson for Montego bav to assist in restoring Or
der in the parishes of st. James and Trelawny -
Fires in the direction of St James were burning,
and postscript to the Cornwall Courier, dated
at 1 O'Clock at nis says :" The work Of destruc-
ton is going on. The whole skv in the south
west is Illuminated. From our Office we at this
moment perceive five distinct fres-One appa.
rentiy in this parish. the others in ST James and
at no great distance from u.s." Another post
script, dated midnight says. ''One fire is raging
with undated fury. We apprehend it TO be the
whole ul the works and buildings on York estate,
IN this parish"
Martial law had been proclaimed by the Cover
nor with The unanimous advice OF Council VI
War According TO accounts from M0ntego Bay.
the officer commanding there had thought il prl-
dent to call in all his outposts, and concentrate
his whole force in the place itself On many OF
the estates in the vicinity the negroes had refused
to work, and one is mentioned on which there
were 700 Desroes The parishes of st. James
and TreIawany were particularly in state Of
excitement.
Advices were received Yesterday at head quar-
tiers from all the Parishes in the Island except
81. Jamai, a, stating that the slates we're perfect
ly tranquil. Ii is manifest, that there has been
no preconcerton among tn" negroes, aud tha The
disafftction is confined to few estates IN st.
James's. Troops have been sent to tina, quarter.
York works on the borders of Trelawns, have
been burnt. Ii has been discovered that negro
preacher was at the head If the whole plot
Jamaica Courd1t. Dec. So
From Smyraa.-7he Choiera.-A slip from
the office OF the Boston Sentinel, announces the
arrival Oh Wednesday at quarantine, OF the Brig
Curlew from Smyrna, bringing frigAuul intelli-
gence of the further ravages of the cholera in
Smyrna aud ontne confines of Europe andAfrica
In the Cur-w, the slip saws, came passengers
Frederick w. Moore, Esq lady and three chill
dreu. and Miss Margaret f. Hathaway. all Of
.hom fed from Smyrna on account Of the cho-