The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-30
The Great Fire in Albany.

A telegraphic dispatch from Albany, dated P. M
the 18th inst, the day after the fire, to the New
York Courier and Enquirer, gives the following par
ticuars of the late terrible cOnfagration in that city
The losses in the various streets were
In Pier sneet g PuIdpss-priqcips Losers Lay & Graft
ard Co. in the Basin, BotOn SchOOneS and tOwbOats
belonging to the Swsure Line floats, lake boats and
barges belonging to the Eagle Towboat Line and several
canal boats in Quay street % buildings most OF them three
and four story brick stores. Broadway 1872 and dwell
ings including the Eagle Tavern. Townsend House. United
States Hotel Columbian Hotel etc. Church street a build
ings; Diagonal street, buildings; Unon street "a houses
son street. houses Elizabeth street. % houses; Dennston
street. houses Lydu street 30 houses; BeeCker street Il
Total, 434
The total loss by different Insurance Companies
as far as can be learned, is $56S,2OO.
A city meeting, to adopt measures of relief, was
to he held on the evening of the 18th.
The Courier suggests that the telegraphic reports
of losses to the Insurance offices be considered eau
tiously, as the reports by telegraph conflict.
Twenty persons are said to be missing, four of
whom, it is known, are dead. The names of two
have already been published. The other two are
Mr. johnson, who lived next door to the Columbian
Hotel, and his grandchild. His wife and daughter
were horribly burned, and ale not expected to live
The estimated loss varies from $2,0OO,0O0 to
S5,O0O,OOO. The majority of the estimates set it
down at S3OOO,OOO The authorities of Albany
have called a meeting of the citizens, to devise
means Of relief for the sufferers, and Mayor Have
meyer, of New York, has called meeting for the
same purpose. Should not something be done here
The CHOLERA IN ST. PETERSBURG.-A cores
pondent furnishes the Boston Courier the following
information with regard to the curious connexion
which this disease is said TO have with the cleo
trcity of the atmosphere:
During its greatest prevalence, the quantity of
electricity in the air was so much diminished, that
about the l-l3 July, (the day on which most
deaths are repOrted) a large magnet in some
Government institution, which usually raises or sus-
tains piece of iron weighing two pools, or seventy
two pounds English, would only lift half that weight.
The disease appears to have diminished as the cleo
tricity Of the air increased, and on the 6-l8 July
there was very heavy thunderstorm, between
and A. NJ, the first thunder and lightning since
the cholera had appeared, though it is usually OF
frequent occurrence at this season..
H5- The inhabitants of Nassau, n P, were re-
Gently terrified by the appearance on their coast of
brig, supposed to be pirate, or at least, SLAYER.
The militia we're called out and vessel with the
posse cOn,mitatts on board, sent in pursuit The
brig turned out to be harmless Spanish merchant
man, and the firing of nuSketry from on board her,
which first attracted the attention of the Nassau
people, was to keep off expedition from that class
sometimes termed g land pirates,' and at others
" wreckers."
INsURRECTIoN IN SIAM.-We see it stated in an
English paper, says the Boston Traveller that there
has been a serious disturbance in Bangkok, the
capital of Siam. According to this account an
eaeute occurred among the Chinese in that city,
who are very numerous; and two battles were
fought among the insurgents and the Siamese au-
thorites, in the former of which 300 Chinese were
killed, and in the latter 1000 Since these contests,
it is alleged that there has been indiscriminate
massacre of some 5000 persons. We give the state
ment, adds the Traveller, just as we find it, having
no means of deciding how much truth there is in it.
OF Lieut. Mayne Reid, one of the heroes of
Chapultepec, Northern paper says, has new
tragedy nearly ready for the STAGE and said to be
production of great merit,