Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-04-19
THE LATE FIRE AT PTTsBURG.

fire Of Thursday last:
City Gas Works. Monongahela BRIDGE Merchants Hotel,
American Hotel Monongahea House, Globe Cotton Factory,
three Insurance Offices, Doulas Iron Works in Pipetown,
Bakewels glass warehouse Associate Reform Church. May
ors Office Pisburg Bank, Western University Cooks Pc
odcal Office ID commission and forwarding merchants, 20
wholesale and retail groceries, druggists l6 dry goods mer-
chants oil factories hardware merchants queensware
merchants booksellers, newspaper and job printing ofces
paper Stores coneconers and bakers iron and nali lac
tories ioundes cotton factories, soap factory n ana
sheeron factories glass factories comb and brush stores
Is shoe Stores hat stores, wachmakers tobacco and
cigar factories IL hotels and coeehouses, bell and brass
foundres, white lead factories, livery stables IL cabinet
and chair factories, 10 physicians, tailoring establishments
exchange brokers, &c. &c. &c.
The loss is variously estimated at from eight to
twelve million of dollars. One paper says: 1t is
impossible to calculate the loss. Merchants me-
chancs, workngmen-all, all have been ruined.
Nor do we believe that the insurance Offices will
be able to pay one hundredth part of the pro-
| perry insured by them. Ruin stares hundreds OF
families in the face that yesterday morning rose
from their beds with plenty of this worlds goods,
and they have now no place to lay their heads or
bread for themselves and children. All the In
surance offices are broken up--they will not be
able to pay two per cent Only about $4,000
were taken in insurance companies in other cities
In the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Monday
special message received from Governor SKUNK rela-
tive to the fire at Pittsbg Both Houses, by unanimous
VOTE passed Immediately thereafter bill for the relief of the
city of Pitsbug which appopates the of $500 out
the State Treasury the relief of the suffering suspends
the cancellation Of relief notes. releases the State and county
Of the sufferers for the present year, and the years 1885,
At and 4s, and REMIT the licenses taxed upon dealers In
merchandise whose establishments have been destroyed.
Measures for the relief q the sufferers in progress in all
of the cities from which have yet received information
AT Baltimore, Tuesday, the first branch of the City Coun
ellis passed resolution appropang $4,000 to be applied to
this purpose The bill did reach the other branch until
after had adjourned but Of its becoming law there remains
no doubt On the day large and respectable Town
Meeting held at the Exchange in the city, at which
adopted collect pecunary contributions from
the citizens generally in aid of the object and, sub
scptonbook having been opened at the mecting large
number Of the gentlemen in attendance promptly for
ward and made liberal subscriptions.
In view of the magnitude Of the calamity which has be-
fallen the people of Pttsburg is least satisfaction
to be assured that they by inclined to yield to
dependency The Gazette Of that city holds the following
| cheering language
"We have carefully inquired of many of our cleaest-
headed business men, those most thoroughly with
the of the city, the probable effect of this dis
upon its prosperity, and coupled with own knowl
edge of the strength of the merchants who burnt out the
position of their circumstances &c., fully convinced
that though the commercial prospects of the city terribly
shaken yet il is not totally pyostred and in due time vii
rise above it all Our large manufactures uninjured
the only mills Of any importance which burnt being ths
Globe Factory which the smallest the city, the kensng
ton Iron Works. and Blackwell q Pearss Glass Works Va
rous other small establishments destroyed but it is witt
satisfaction we announce that the great leading branche
comparatively untouched and that business far the
arc concerned, will go usual. $3.50
GAS for wholesale merchants in the grocery queens
ware and dry goodsbnchesw who burnt out numbe
of them will forthwith Some wholly ruined
many much crippled, but believe the majority go
usual and yesterday they busy getting places Of bus
ness and Offices
SIT with heartfelt pleasure we observe the fotude will
which they bear their losses. There repnngno des
pairno sulenness but calm, determined spirit, which
carry them up again. The effect will be back for
moment but had confidence in the strength
and spirit of merchants il all in time.
be supposed that all the business portions of the city
consumed Most the dry goods obbers untouched
of the hardware merchants, and number of the heavy
houses of the limits of the burnt district And for
tnatey happens that large of groceries from
the east for the city, had not arrived We repeat therefore,
that though the city terribly shaken, it is neither ruined
nor totally prostraed."
The Gazette also gives additional particulars of the
/ fire. II says
The destruction of the second south ward nearly the
oldest part Of the city, and of the most popuous of the
five wards complete and overwhelming II is left almost
without inhabitants, only three dwellings remaining
In the morning and the Of this ward
thronged with crowded and busy population, numbering
sac thousand souSin the evening not single inhabit
left its deserted streets and squares and stalk
ed supreme Nearly all the goods and household property in
this ward were lost The fire ragged with such uncomfortable
fury, and the distance necessary great that
the frightened and flying inhabitants had only time npa
with load upon their backs such conveyance they
could procure moments warming and return and find
their houses in flames and inaccessible The complete
destruction Of any ward we think known.
Kensngton is well nigh annihated With very few
ceptons all its inhabitants operatives in dependant
on, the mills and foundes; and, by this calamity hundreds
Of them are houseess and homeless"
The Of the pas of the Bank of Ptsburg were
Of those who depended their ron-safs doomed
disappointment The Gazette says that every book and
paper the safe of Messrs SIBBETT & JOKES were burnt
up and the gold and silver melted together Hardly
of en exposed to the fire in the buildings saved any
thing in them large number completely destroyed,
with all their contents
Mr. SAMUEL KrSssroS has been missing since the fire.
He last going into his burning Office. It feared
he is lost.
AT the last accounts the fire in Dismal Scamp raging
passed through the canal Thursday Norfolk were APP
pehensve times that they would be compelled abandon
their vessels, SO intense was the heat.
THE CrcLorSpIA OF PRAcrIcaL MKDrcISE, complete in