The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-07-16

vrcxsBuRe, July l, 1876.
State Of Things in vieksbwg. p3
This city is very healthy, and our mechanics are
(ail who are willing to worE) very busy We have,
believe, between three and four thousand inhabi-
tants, and within the past year there have been finish
ed sixteen very fine brick stores, two stories high.
and they are occupied by merchants who are bu-
siness men. There are seven more brick buiIdinas
now finishing, to be like the rest and one il 10 s.
three stories high and take the whole twenty-three
BRICK buildings together, they cannot be surpassed
yoodly city of Old Gotham.
Our merchants have all done q good safe busi-
ness, and some of them in your city purchasing
snd 'ne ray trade whilst others are On their way,
same purpose-of filling up their new stores with
fine staple and fancy goods. .1l@s
perceive by the last Nsp York Weekly Neses an
extract taken from the Constitmicmolisf, which
states that our city is slcky deaths and dead bodies
IN ne streets, that never occurred and murders that
never happened, which the author knew to be false
wnen ne penned 1t; healthier and better regula-
ea cty IS not on the great father Of waters AS for
murders and other crimes there are less here than
any wnere else We have police who attend 10
'neir guy, ana let villain but show his face among
close enough Should he have Committed crime
here or any where else, he will not escape.
iERnInE FIRE At MArANzAs-Loss ESTIMATED
the detail: Of great fire in Matanzas that happened on
the 26th ult The following translate from Taau,ors
calamity has bellen the rich city q Matansas Stss
O'Clock, A. NJ, the bells ofthe Parish Church announ
flames In fact the Are had burst out y we are Sy ss
in carpenters shop in the Marns whore large col
lection Of timber supplied abundance Of fuel to the flame
The re Immediately extended to the adjacent buildings
which all Of wood and Of such age a. TO be highly
combustble that tho conAs grafton extended rapidly
towards the Royal CusemHsuse the opposite corner
and to the house of Don tBsrtoeme de Ia Mater which
was soon seized by the devourng element threatening
and have just LETT Il. Of e.
ophe and while the ruins Of the edfces Of the whole
are consuming the principal block and anoher
tguous blocks in the West have also been destroyed in
part we may truly say that what has been the general
losses have been incaIcuiabs, and CONSERVATION SO
and children flying for their lives from the flames
The splendid house of Don vncente de Junco has been
had the satisfaction seeing III the authorities Of the
town spon the spot to whose exerons 10 owing that
the losses have not been more extensive.
The DiGrio says the fire has DESTROYED two entire
squares and third part Of more and the loss in
m;an. q da houses &C. will in its opinion be two
the fire. Many persons were injured.
The aurora describes the calamity and compares it
ran for six hours and the artillery employed in baerng
down the houses the thick smoke that obscured the sky
ture and goods with the movement Of the troops formed
a heart sickeniAg picture.
The number Of houses destroyed is set down in tho
4rord as upwards of the loss $500 000 II ID report
ed that several lives were lost but names given
The following is List Of the principal houses and
Don Bartolome de Ia Mster-of DonvieAat del Junco
!tn go 81 ooSs. q sugar. and the adjoining provision
at $so0oO the house and store Of D. Jacinto Azanza;
house and store called Pasatiempo, of Senior Deve the
Coffee houses tie provision store Of Messrs MarKss
Co.; the provision stors of Rivas Baro, with of
the goods many boxes Of sugar bags of coffee
ana PIPES OF wine; the store Of Messrs Mallory CO..
the store of Carlos Ribera.
The steamboat store-house of d. Antonio Manzanst
D. Juan de Sarria, the Fonda I'll Cierro de Orc, the
house of Donna Catalina Guiteras, in which the
fruits and shop fronting On he Hds de-
Other houses and establishments have also Lost some
de Jieno the hotel of Mr. Babin the house of Louis
Lavalette and Of ST. Gusnaurd
Fatal ACCIDENT AT SEA-On SATURDAY. after
noon, during the thunder storm, the brig Oraloo Capt
was knocked down. She was at the time about
half way between segun and Cape Elizabeth She was
chiidren-al Of whom were in the cabin at the time
of the disaster Their were Mrs Ford and child
Of Boston Mrs Dunbar, Of Nobleborough Patience.
and Abigail Montgomery and Abigail Coombs, all Of Da-
nsT1scota and another lady whose nan and place of
with the schooner Albion Of Damariscotta and Debo-
rah Of New redord which vessels escaped any damage
ing evident by the noises in the cabin that the passen
gers alive. holes in the deck and all the
dunbar Mrs. Ford and child Mrs Bates child babe Of
three months was Withdrawn at the same time but
dressing her hair and her child lying in the berth on
the other at the moment and she could not get
T. These five passengers having been saved, they
swamped. the crew Of the Deborah stu remained about
Tn MI he
bodies Having remained three hours they were just
leaving when of them thought ne heard noise in
cut through two bulwarks the wife of Dr. Ford and her
boy eight years old found be alive and rescu
composed ali the passengsrs The salvation Of Mrs
Ford was truly wonderful She and her three
hours in that cabin almost buried in In talking
with friends before she sailed they narrated how
. woman saved in similar circumstances year sor
two since in bingham packet and it gave her courage
struggle for life. Her head having between the
heavy beams of the cabin roof she was left brea-
Having fortunately also secured frkin cover she got
it under her feet which just raised her mouth above the
water. With hand she held the boy and with the
other kept up knocking with mustard box against
the roof Of the cabin her hand badly the
did she cling to her bow and to life tn, IN dull cnH
of her feeble tocsn of alarm fell on the car Of her
srs as they were about abandoning their noble efforts
was by the merest accident that she left behind her
her little girl at Cambridgepor and much against her
will at the time. But her change. Of purpose saved its
ssi0' vi cuueay ioIonoOu the wreck was discovered
from this city and preparations made send help The
cutter attempted to get out, but for want of breeze
could not succeed. In hour the propeller General
Warren had steam on her and was ON her way She
found the wreck twentyone miles from the city, and
made fast at six o'clock At half past three this morning
got her into the harbor Mrs. Ford will leave at eight
this morning. for her home to contradict BY her pre-
:ence the fearful news that has before, Of her
one from the grave.-Porfiand .frSus July IA.
FROM SANDWICH IsLANDs.-The whaleship limo
leon, late Plaskett, of New Bedford, arrived home
on Saturday In charge Of Midshipman j. Hagan Brown
late sailing master Of the u g. brig Perry having been
abandoned at Tahiti, Sandwich Islands,
The Timoleon, says the New Bedford Mercury sailed
rom this port Oct 9, 1885, and when about six months
out Capt Plasket fell from alo and injured his head
probably dcrangng his faculties The T. has been at
Tahiti and its vicinity during nearly the whole period Of
her absence and has taken only about 100 barrels oil