The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-05-21
correspondence Of the CadIz sentinel.
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FRIEND HARPER:-In accordance with an an
cent promise of mine, which now redeem,
will write you letter, not TO inform You of the
number of my clients, nor Of my woes, for am
one of the "btrHt out" but because hold you
in remembrance and would have you not forget
inc.
The late awful calamity which, with Bosom
of destruction, nearly swept the Iron City, did |
not strike lightly wirh its fiery sceptre, the pro-
fession to which belong, and the misfortune is
that we have but few to sympathise with us.-I
BIS splendid library, and Me-'s thou
sands in Insurance stock, and BIS mortga-
ges, with the books, papers, &C., Of a hundred
Others of the bar, are gone--brt who cares!I
|" they are only laWyerS!" The fact Is, we are
Looked upon generally throughout this republic
las a band of lshmaelites, squatteIs, corsars,
when the truth is that we have far more honesty,
lberality and patriotsm-and | say it in the
teeth of those who affect TO hold US so lightly
than the world is disposed 10 give us credit for
possessing! Bat truce TO the ldlU---there is
truce, assure you, with the profits just now.
Pittsburgh is arising like a Phoenix from its
ashes. The hand of industry and enterprise ne
yer tires A blow that would have prostrated
other places never 10 rise again, seems but TO
have impaired new life, energy, and bold de-
! termination, 10 a people with wills of iron and
hearts all vitality. Go 10 the "burnt district" +"
and you see nothing but carts, and drays, and
wagons, superintendants, mechanics, and labor
crs, and your ear is deafened with the ring of
the trowe, the stroke of the hammer, the blow
of the axe, and the impusive shout that makes
labor pleasure Moie than three hundred hou-
ses are in progress of erection, and many hun
dreds Of cellars are filled with men clearing
away the rubbish. The district" will gener-
! ally be improved, inasmuch as wooden houses
are prohibited by councils--but elegant houses
will not be built at present. The Monongahela
Bridge will be rebuilt by RoebIing, the super
structure being sustained by wire cables; I'M
derstand it will have fine appearance. The
Monongahea House will be rebuilt-you may
depend upon that. Ii was an unrivalled House
The banking house of the Bank of Pittsburgh
of purely classical design, will soon, am told
be in state of repair, and 'thiS time be made
fire proof word concerning that institution
You are aware that its vaults preserved all lis eff
/ fects Of value; aad with the unbounded conf
dence that The public have in its management
and its vast means, it can be, and trust win be-
of as great benefit TO this community now as il
was at a crisis more alarming than the present,
mean The great commercial crisis or revolution
that commenced in 1887. The Bank is daily
attacked by The American, edited you are aware
4 by the son of traitor the same vile wretch, il
is said, who was hired 10 abuse it in the columns
of the Advocate, for not following the illustious
example of the Bank of the United States in
suspending specie payments principal bu.
siness of the city is now done in Liberty street
!! am tod that the stock of all kinds of goods is
good, and the prices satisfactory to those who
purchase in this market; mention this from re-
ports having been circulated that the whole stock
of spring and summer goods was burnt. 10
! Passing along Market street to-day noticed
a print, got up in the east, exhibiting "The Grea
Fire in Pittsburgh" Nearly the whole city
seemed 10 be in flames, and the air to a prodg
GUS height was full of fragments of the ruins
such as you have observed over pictures of steam
boats that had burst their boilers! The Monon
gaheIa Bridge was in flames and two steamboats,
beneath it-no steamboats, were burnt. 1t wa!
altogether catchpenny caricature of the grca
fire. tr
We have had no spring court owing to the ge
neral arrangement of the affairs of attornics il
, consequence of the fire. | don't regret the
postponcment, although we young lawyers dom
have much 10 do. =
Your paper is generally sought for by you
] friends here. We are reminded by it of pleas
ant moments bygone. --- said :ho othe
day, " Harper does not write in that bold dare
devil style now for which his pen isso admirably
suited" Ireminded him that you were married
"Oh!" exclaimed the old bachelor. "wedlocl
puts a stop TO mans eliervesccnce, ,''--'' and i
makes him more sensible" rglloinod !.