The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-04

We lament 10 staie that tfay. , several valuable lives lost. It is ,a "9'e regretted, where the practice exists .s ss generally of choosing the uppermost ,s s,o,;s' 50 for sleeping, as afFoftllng the purest a'a that people do not take the precan,;o.' a's having safety ladder in their rooms TT v tit however; fllere is radical chance i, .h' .l false and ffimsy mode of buildine bo..4s as prevalent in our city. we may expect . ..--s, tlsion of such scenes as were exbib;ted p.. morning. The ruins are still smoking aas .'s present scene of devastation which m.s s seldom or never before witnessed ;n aas city. It IS impossible to-day to fix inc ;,s a' mense amount of property destroyed or ,bs proportion insured.
 There has not been such fire in thrt, five years !--There were 40 valuable hn;1 ings destroyed. The engines collected = early as could be expected, considering tbs hour of the night. But there seemed io 'hs hs an apathy in the owners and occpn;s,s each believing his building was fire nroof and safe. Therefore the loss was ;ro v' mense. The very irfsubstantiaf mannet ;s which most of the houses were built,--tba;. walls so thin as to tumble nearly by ,be;s own weight, probably made the Gremen cautious in entering them. A new system of building must be devised. No insnrancs company must ever risk their funds on hons, es of this job-work character; esbecially ;s over four stories.
 1teenty-one of the finest printing offices m town--eleuen bifleries, including tirte,s publishing establishments of aelrspapers- tiUo of which were large, and eight penny pa. pers have been among the property destroy. ed.
 Roberts & Coz had most valuable per. fameTy, at 36 Ann street.-the whole of which was completely consumed. It is fact, that the greater portion of the large high buildings of brick were perfect shells, and considered, therefore, by the h. surance offices. wholly unworthy of insur- ance.
 There are 100 marshals connected direct.
 y with the executive department of OUT city. including the police officers, who are by the terms of their warrant; bound to attend every firey but not one of whom were pre. sent until s o'clock this morning, when their services were no longer required.
 The chasm left by this awful confagra. lion, and which appears the more striking, from the walls of the buildings having tum- bled entirely down, extends from Beekman; across Ann into Fulton sts. Carlisle and Waite were employed IF the printing office of the Mirror. The for- mer certainly perished in the flames, and the latter in all probability, as he has not been found.
 The Old Coantryn4an had all their pa- Ipers, 5000, mailed and ready to leave the | city, which includes the greater part of thsn subscription.
 Conner S Cooke's great printing esab. lishment, corner of Nassau and Ann, which Is the publishing office of the Mirror, was saved by immense exertions, and from havs ing more solid construction than other buildings. Their business will not be sus- pended day, which is important for country subscribers to know.
 Among oiheF property destroyed were many valuable manuscripts and elegantly bound books; of the former, at Fockes, MSS. relating 10 the early history ol ihs. church, and at Griffin's large number Of the National Portrait Gallery. Pearson. the original publisher of fhe Republic ct Letters, has been very unfortunate, this be- ing the 5h or 9th time he has been burnt out. There were three churches in constant danger--the Christ Church in Ann street, the Upper Dutchs corner of Ann and Wll- liam streets, and the Dutch Reformed, cor. ter of Anne and Nassau. The first had been sold, and was stripped of aif its furuFFs' ture,- which latter was deposited in Scoti's building. and was, with the church, both de. stroyed.
 At least 500 girls, employed in hinderies, and in the shawl business, have been thrown out of employ, and also 500 men, employ. ed in the same and in the printing and pub. fishing establishments. The scene thls morning was heart-rending, when the poof girls came down and to their astonishmeni saw the heap of ruins, which was nnexpect. edly presented to them, whereby they wers suddenly thrown into state of temporary indigence. Many of them were frantic with grief- Eucaieg Star.
 WAR WITH MExIco.--We should mol at all be surprised to see one of these days