Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-12-24

> WILL FORTHWITH APPROPRIATE
! THE SURPLUS REVENUE TO ENA-
. BILE THE UNDERWRITERS TO MEET
} PARTlALPAYM YMENT OF TIlElR LOSS
! ES. THE PROSPERITY OF NEW -
;, YORK II THE LIFE OF THE GOV
ERNMENT.
4 We also indulge the hope that the Govern
or of the State will recommend loan of the
State credit to n liberal amo unit, for the pnr-
pose Of sustaining our Insurance Companies
and protecting our property from sacrifice by
the foreclosure Of mortgages.
n And further, we trust that the Presidents
and Directors of all the Banks will meet forth
with to adopt measurs to IN ct this distressing
commercial crisis and arrangement of mona
terry concerns. The utmost liberaty and for
bearance must be every where exercised ut
this moment Of awful calamity.
! One cause of the immense loss is that no
one imagined as the fire progressed, step by
step, but that il would be speedily arrested.
Hence when it reached near Hanover Square
1t was thought it would not cross Old Slip; but
| it swept with the fury ofa hurricane over that
wide space and soon leveed 10 heap of ru-
! ins the immensely valuable stores between
that and Coenties Slip on Front and South
streets. many of which, including the cellars,
were filed with teas, brandies, &c. Conse-
]
to remove the same at three or four O'Clock
this morning, it was too late! and they had the
melancholy scene to be the spectators of their
own ruin.
! II is impossible to tell what quantity of
goods in bond are destroyed. Every item of
property between Coentis and Old Slip II de-
stroyed; even the piers on South st. were on
! fire at ! | o'clock this morning
! The docks, many of them are strewed with
casks, bales of dry goods, &c. as if there had
been sbipwreck.
i 1t is computed that quarter Of mile square
i Of brick and mortar in the first ward, Is en-
tirely leveled to the ground.
i At7P. M. Yesterday, the thermometer had
| sunk to below zero and so continued the
whole night, and was at zero this morning at
: seven O'Clock. In fact, great part oi tins
j desolating and truly awful scene, is to be nm
! puted to the intense degree OF cod, by which
! the flames burnt with greater violence, and
every one who was in measure incapaclta-
ted from rendering that assistance that he
otherwise could have given. Many groups OF
| poor women aud children, residing IN the VI
! cinity of Broad and Beaver streets, and al
most without clothing, except the blankets ia
which they were wrapped, were seen SILVER
ing near the heaps OF furniture every where
strewed in such masses through these streets.
! All business is nearly suspended.
i The Post Office is removed TO the lower
floor of the Custom House, in Cedar street.
All the mails letters, and every kind of pro-
perty belonging to the Post Office, were
saved by the Iraiseworthy exertions OF the
+ Postmaster and his clerks, who were on the
spot throughout the night.
ii The sun, as it broke dimly through the lu-
rid clouds of black smoke, which hung like
funeral pail over all the lower part OF the
city, seemed, by its blood red glare, to be-
| token some portentious and dreadful event.
Many were sensbly struck with this phenom-
enon, which added to the desolatng scene OF
horror, shooting fames, crumbl!ng walls
crushing tlmbers, impenetra6le clouds ol
smoke, which rendered almost totally impas-
? sable the entire quarter where the confiagra-
, ton was burning, presented an assemblage
, of heart-rending objects which, even to the
, most Indifferent spec tator, was slckening aud
ugonizing to behold.
The appearance Of the Exchange tins
morning is that of venerable ruin: the brok-
. en- shafts of its white columns-the crumb-
, ling, defaced cornices, scarcely sustained on
, their tottering capitals, connected with the
halfburnt edlfices broken walls and gene
, raj scene of havoc every where peering
|, through the volumes of smoke, might wei
cause one to imagine that he was III the
, midst of the smoulderng relics of some an
cient city, rather than in that young and
prosperou queen Of commerce which yes
terday was the metropolis OF the western
A world.
I And among the ruins, not the least to be
lamented, was the loss OF that splendid stat
> ue of Hamilton, which towering brightly a
midst the sea of flames that dashed again
r its cracking base, cast mournful glance OF
/. the terrific scene and then fell nobly, perish
= ing under the crush OF the edlhce OF which Il
. had been as it were, the tutelary genius.
n The handsome church OF the Rev. DIR. Mat
thews, Garden street, long while resisted The
A mass of flames in their course towards Broa'
street. The bright gold ball and star above
A it OH the highest point of the spirc, gleame'
. brilliantly, and still while they were bot
), shining on the deep blue concave, with an IN
tensity Of splendor which attracted genera
q remark, gave one surge ana tell IN al tnei
; glory into the heap OF choas beneath them:
;, A man was caught in the act OF setting mr.
~ to the house at the corner of Stone and Broa
! streets. II is scarcely possible to conceive
y that there could exist such hend as thus !
!, human shape, without supposing him to be e.
y ther maniac or drunk with liquor. IL "onl
- seem, however, to have been done IN dla
- boical design, when it is considered that tI'
n fearful apprehe nsions of the whole oi Una
part of the city were directed To 'h's pom
=. least the FIRE would cross u ana reach III
M Battery.
~ Awful as the loss is, we must not suppos
" that the business operations OF the W hoIe cl,
=, are ruined. On the contrary, deeply as II
a. = losses NAV be, we shall, with the blessln!
;, 20 of God, be able to get Oh ahd sustain o.
,d credit.
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