The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1835-12-26

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stores burnt ia. Pearl street, according L
our reckoning, il 80 in Water street.
rs in Front street, 78 IN South street,
38 in. William street. 43 (; in Merohan,
or Exchange street, 4e !; in Exchange
place, 30 /; in Wall street, Is; in Ole
slip 33 in Coenties slip, Stone, Mill
and Beaver streets, about 60 in all, q
little rising Of 500. Estimating these
these stores as worth in average, sc, 900
the buildings alone would amountto g.,
OO0, 900, and if we estimate The stock o
goods on hand of6O0 mercantile houses
| (many ofthe stores were occupied by tws
houses) at $40, ,O0J each, on an average
the worth of the goods destroyed woult
be $l2, 100000. More than the value
of the Erie Canal has vanished in this ci
ty in single night /! The 18th Of De
cembcr, 1885, will be a memorable day
in the annals Of New York. The vanity
of treasures on earth has been written Ia
letters of fire on the cloud which has ris-
en- over us. Hundreds who yesterday
counted their wealth by tens ofthousands
are now worth nothing. Oh, tha. we
might all read in this calamity the lesson,
Lay up your treasure in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt" and
where the fire doth not consume.
The aggregate of the capital ofthe fire
insurance companies in the city of New
York, is little rising Of ten millions Of
dollars. We presume that the amounts
iut ured OF. the buildings consumed in this
fire alone, will more than exhaust the
means Of most Of these companies.
Immenso quantities Of goods, after be-
ing taken from the stores and piled in the
streets, or carried to places of supposed
security, were afterwards consumed in
the progress Of the fumes. MIR. A. Tap
pan, we understand, had deposited the
greater part Of his most valuable stock in
the store of a friend in Water street, and
in few hours this stol itself was in ash
es. We learn, however, from a card of
the firm, in the Evening Post that, "the
largest portion Of their stock in goods, all
their books Of accounts and most of their
papers, were saved"
The passengers descending the Hud-
son, saw the flames from the Highlands,
lorty-f miles distant, and the light was
also distinctly seen IN New jersey as far
as Cranberry.
| All the fire companies from Brooklyn
came promptly over to our assistance, as
also two engine companies from Newark
for the active exertions of all of which
the thanks of our citizens are gratefully
rendered.
Meetings we're held in the different
Wards last evening, and volunteer pa
troles organized to aid the civil authori-
lies in protecting the immense amount of
property that still hes exposed in the
streets,
A meeting of the Presidents of the
Banks Of this city was held yesterday
forenoon at the bank OF New York, at
which it was unanimously resolved 10 ex-
tend every possible facility to the mer-
chants and traders, and the public geuer-
ally, in the present emergency.
Messrs. j. Campbell & Co. paper
dealers, who were burnt out at the great
fire IN Ann street in August last, and
had removed into Merchat street while
their store was rebuilding, lost their whole
stock.
| /. s. A. Brown, importers Of Irish
linen in Merchant street, lost $40, 900.
William Redmond, importer of linens
and British dry goods, in Merchant st.
lost 100000.
Hyslop s. Son lost $4,000.
MIR. Stephen Whitney had just built "a
stores at an expense of $4,000 each
all were lcveIed with the ground, and no
| insurance.