New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-23
City Items.

| ..-S -, ~. Fire with the names Of the surerefs
which could lay any claim - Perieetne-s OF ao0-'
soor.ue have been able 10 ascertain HP 20 the pre-
con. ,oroent TIN. List contained er>7y house hrh 1'-
,,ina hum, out-And the only errors that ihr
.-,.in, ba. been able 70 de;ec; are four o' W. '
,;o,ed e. hum, out which in fact saved ~ "N!
rs-,allv ruined We did not stop the ire 'o"n
he one building on either side of Broad street. anu -
srv on the lower side Of s,one-street ana 'h'
error, were correciedin the Tribune Of ye''''--5
i,y This lie, was obtained in such periec'n'' - ~
goine over the Burnt District IN per'on 'H7"
Individuals burnt out intimate WIZ ''e '''N' ''-
a.tlv by examining the whole Of Do--'"
- - -. taxing down every name N the Burnt
District. and then diligently coHipHns anu ---
81 ,bie Til. process cost us al least i"ei'e ho1f-
....sf.ho, and delayed the TribHH, Two hours from
- I'M, we were more than repaid by the appro'
-. Oh ,,bicb our efforts received, especial
bv the commercial community
,ri. La, wa. literally copied into the EEPre'' Of Mon
oe,ipg and even i,s few errors and typographical
,e,osn, carefully preserved Il true that at the
end ola paragraph in another part Of the paper "a ek
very common with the EEprsss) il was said that We
COPY al. Of the buildings burnt from The Tribune
I'm, few ever saw or thought Of that The Commereai
6dcerftser Of the same evening COPIED our List but
mixed il up 60 that difficult 20 recognize II except
bv the little errors by way OF earmarks by which was
deforrned These were all carefully preserved The
Commercial gave no credit The Herald Of yesterday
morning copied the List entire adding our descriptions
If several firm. and losses in detail which we printed
separately H. too copied minuely al the errors IN our
List beside transferring at wholesale table OF nsu-
rance losses and square after square Of our general de-
.crin,onal without the least sign or indication Of the
source Of IL information The Sun also copied our si
,p,,re errors and ALL without word Of credit And YET
some Of these papers never tire Of insulting the good
sense Of the public by putting and blowing about ineir
immense en,erprze' their 'unnyaied corps oi re-
porter &c. &c.
But the Co,rier and Englar1 caps the climax ls
own lot did no, contain probably more than oHeVd Of
the names Of the suiferers-which was copied by the
Er,uia1 Ga.eti,. which borrowed type and all The
Courier in .peaking Of the various accounts OF the Fire
says:
II were As well to say here that great number Of
merchants are Represented in Of the newspapers OF
his city, as having been burnt out who were not IN 'h
Trb,os, degree injured BY the fire vast amount OF
exagreraon 10 say nothing OF an immensely OF wanton
aischood has been sent forth 10 the country through
ONE Of the unprncpled and irresponsible presses OF
he civ. 1t il certainly very much 10 be amened mat
uch presses are allowed 10 propagate 30 hmi-chet
and dfuse go widely but there seems at present 70 &c
no remedy
Ifarrogant laziness 60 farther than TINS we VIII
woodland never back. The few errors we made
were promptly and speedily corrected a. last A. tney
were ascerained and il there be any discovered
they will also be corrected The idea OF attempt
ing 10 cast censure upon Others for what vastoo lazy TO
accomplish for iisefis quite characteristic OF the Court
er and we only mcnrinn ii show that there is beau
,f consistency pervadng all departments OF that paper
Since we commenced our present form Of arranging our
taa followed hv the
,qerciaI 4drer,iso, Er,ning Gaore EraiH9 Post mr.
aH &C 6c-a course VIII ich we had not the slightest
objection But the Commercial and Gazette. not salts
fed with adopting the arrangement have been in the
daily habit Of adopting items too and this to such
,, ex,eni that We have been asked by friends whether
we did mo-, furnish items for the Commercial "a well a.
the Tribune We certainly debut not in the fashion
meant We at first attempted to rctalaie but having
coined hrst-rae item from Of our light scis-orcd
coemnoraries we discovered the next day that il was
ono of our own manufacture and that we had thus pub
! she'd il second time.
f-Sy- Some one hundred men Were al work
throughout Yesterday arnong the still blazing and smoking
rin. in search of the bodies of the dead-5ui with no
success Something found which some supposed
wa. portion Of Cowdrcys hair and wnIhen pieces
of iron said to be the Butts Of Engine - The remcn
begin to be discouraged and TO give up hope Of ever
finding their Loot brother.
~ Mr. Herring requests Editors TO give him no
more notices present of Wder's salamander Sale
n. his orders already exceed his power Of supply
"a The Special Committee OF the Common
Council appointed to investigate the facts IN relation To
the charge of gunpowder having been IN the store IN
Broad street, in which the explosion took place, VIII hold
an examination in the Board of Adermens Room TINS
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The examination VII be pablo
~ The Board Of Supervisors met yesterday
The Special Committee, consisting Of Messrs Nesseroe
Benson and Rich to whom referred the petitions for
The removal of the County Superintendent reporediha
il has been suggested them that affirmative action by
ths Committee would not be legal They therefore re-
commend that Dr. Recse with the petitioners BE- heard
before the full Board which agreed to and the
Board is to hold a Special Meeting for that pufprse on
Thursday afternoon next at o'clock IN the Board oil
Ndermen's Room where the respective parties have
been requested to attend.
~ We had glorious thunder shower Monday
nj shit accompanied by most welcome rain and proceed
cd by a heavy gus, of wind which performed several
antics about town more curious than amusing Among
other things il carried the roof Of house on the corner
NJ West and Courilandsir about two squares, de-
hosting il in pretty good order on the ground The
chimney of the - Nicholas blown down by the gust
bu, the boat suffered no DINER damage We cNpoct 10
hear Of some more disasters from of ihe water. The
blow down the Bay and must hSve been tronen-
dous The lightning very vivid and one crash OF
thunder was so sharp and followed the lash closely
that we supposed the bolt had fallen sOme~her, IN the
Ciy-bu, We hear nothing OF II next morning.
P.s.-The hard thunder shock Monday night struck
the Hckery.P ole at the corner Of Prince and Wooster
streets splitting and hverng the top in most essential
manner Some Of the inhabitants IN that region say that
the pole was struck by ball OF fire which rested
meni on the top and then exploded with stunning
,rash..A lady living in Spring street near by was 50
severely affected by the shock 70 remain nsensbe for
half su hour Several other persons in the vicinity were
consd eraby stunned "A tree in the Park also
struck A new three-siOry house in the vicinity OF
For; Green Wa. blown down and two or three other
small ones were likewise demolished. The FIRST was I'M
occupied sind belonged 10 Mr. James Brady A house
in south fourth street Wlhamsbureh belonging 70 Nj
Drake nearly finished thrown into ruins. 4 great
many trees ere blown down. A large vessel lying AZ
the foot Of Warren 81 Brooklyn. struck by Lightning
Damage was also done 10 the shipping ut New York
large willow tree Al the corner Of Dock and Front streets
Brooklyn. blown down.