The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-12-13
YAZOO CITY WIG /
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NCityis mass o. ashes and burning ruins.
Aboutnine o'cIock yesterday morning, the
FIRE broke out in servants room connected
with the WAsHINGToN HorEI, and was only
arrested 1t the plantors' Bank on Main Street,
consuming every thing III its course. The
buildings were all wood, very dry, and the
wind blowing considerably made the flames
spread with great rapidly.
Our Office was about the fourth house
burnt, and our materials being in the sencond
story, we were unable to save but portion
of them. Our Press, a part Of our type and
a great number of notes, accounts &c. shared
tie common fate of every thing else around
ii. 8.
The principle suffers and the chief build
ings burnt, so far as we can ascertain in the
present confusion, are as follows The two
principle squares on either side Of, Jefferson
Street are entirely destroyed. The Wash
ington Hotel was the first building destroy
ed, the Drug Store of H. R. Randolph the
house of Major Maynard, occupied by A. S.
Perkins as Store, the dwelling house of ]
o Hunter, the store Of VIM. d. Seal, on the
north side of jefferson street, the dwelling
housesof Mr.. Casey, the dwelling house of
Edward Kimbali, the Store and ware house
Of Messrs. Hoff & Wright, very few goods
saved; the next house was occupied by Mr..
Parish as Saddler Shop below and by our
Office in the second story, building owned
by Wm D M'KinstrJ and 2 A Merritt; the
next was the corner, large frame house oc-
cupied by Jennings, Merritt & CO., in which
was q large quantity ofmerchandize, princi-
pally on consignment. The buildings con-
sumed on the south side of Jefferson Street,
below the Washington Hotel, are, the Office
of Drs Barber & Barnet, the Office of Q d
Gibbs, Esq, the Post Office, the valuable pa
Ipers and letters of which, were with great
difficulty, principally saved, and the Grocery
Store of Messrs Hunter & Bell. The fire did
not cross Main Streesbut proceeded down
on the South East side, consuming. several
Offices, the store house of Mr. James Hay
den, (vacant,1 the store house of Messrs
Vance & Andrews. occupied by Mr. Tibbs as
a Grocery Store, the house ofN Royster, oc-
cupied by Messrs Jackson &52Edmonds as a
Confectionery, and the house occupied by
the Union Printing Office, which aioined the
Planters Bank. All the above named houses
are entirely destroyed. Most ofthe materials
of the 'sUnion" Office were saved. The
Commercial Bank was for a long time in great
danger, but was saved. The Planters Bank
was on fire several times, but being of brick
and higher than the adjacent buildings was,
with very great exertion saved. The build
ings on the opposite side of Main street
were-on fire several times, but were saved
with great effort. M4
Our citizens turned out to a man and adj
dressed themselves to the flames like men.--
Nothing but their intrepid and undismayed
vigor has saved what's left Of our unfortun-
ate City. They were however, without a
Fire Engine and not well supplied with wa
ter.
We cannot in this hasty moment state,
with any probable correctness the amount
of property lost, but it is very great. Our
particular friends Hoff & Wright are perhaps
the greatest loosers. Out of seven houses
they have one left. Merit, jennings & Co.,
are also heavy loosers. Amongst other thugs
we are extremely sorry 10 add that they lost
$1,000 dollars in cash. No lives were lost
and no one seriously injured that we1have
heard of.
It only by the prompt courtecy. and rea-
dy politeness of the proprietors Of the Union
Office that we are enabled to give this slip to
the public; Our own Press, as we stated !,
being destroyed we have been favoured with
the use of theirs which was by great exer-
ton saved from destruction, and for which
we tender them our hearty and sincere ae-
acknowledgements. Such timely favours we
shall not forget.
The confusion into which our Office is
thrown will in altprobability Preventus from
issuing our regular paper on Friday. But
thereafter the Vine win 60 forth to its patrons
as usual s @ ssa a
0rer Our OFFICE is now in the north end
of the sManchester Hall, 'on Main Street
FIRE.-seventy bales of cotton were late
~ burnt on the Mississippi Rail Road, near
Natchez. =.
-ai 20 ssslfght Victory.''
The Mississippian calls the late wing tri-
nrnph in the State of New York ga slight
victory. Well, if triumph in the STATE
Of New York, Van Buren's own State, with
her forty-tl0o electoral votes, is slight
affair then We. give Il up.
VERE MUCH oUT'or PLacE.-A horse race
advertisement in Natchez paper says that
the ladies are to attend. We don't believe
4 word Of Il. The ladies Of Mississippi de-
serve better compliment than that.