The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-05-16

inAictinga severe, though 1t is hoped not fatal
wound. Doyle's friends coming up, he was
overpowered and taken to Jail. The ".aaer
escaped. Upon the person OF ttc one arrest.
ed, was GounA large amount OF good money.
Since writing the above, we are informed
that TWO men, of similar description, passed
counterfeit twenty dollar Bill TO Mr.. A. ID.
Hembrec, of this District a few days before
the occurrence in PiLkens.-Gazeie.
From the Charleston Mercury Of Tuesday, 9Th inst.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
About 4 o'clock yesterday morning work.
shop in the centre Of the block bounded by
Meeting, Henrietta, Elizabeth and Boundary
streets, and owned by colored man named
Weston was discovered to be on fire. From
the highly comhlstible character of the ada.
cent buildings, being mostly old wooden struc-
| lures, and the great scarcity of water, the
flames spread rapidly, until all the houses on
the block west Of the line Of the fire some
three weeks since, were destroyed, except the
grocery store on the corner of Meeting and
Boundary streets. The fire then crossed Hen.
rict,a street about two hundred feet east OF
Meeting street, and penetrated through to
Charlotte street, on The sonth side OF which 1t
DESTROYED all the buildings to Elizabeth street.
Two or three small buildings on the east side
of Elizabeth street were also consumed by the
! fire, or pulled down by the fremen in their
efforts to stay its further progress, which hapPI-
ly proved successful. Although, perhaps, there
were between sixty and seventy houses destroy.
ed, large proportion of which were compare.
tively of little value, and were inhabited by
colored persons, and the loss may fairly be
estimated at between thirty and forty thousand
dollars. Upon inquiry we learn that there was
insurance to the amount of $4,000 in the
Agency of the Hartford Insurance Company,
abou, $500 in the South. Carolina Insurance
Company, $1,000 in the Augusta Banking and
Insurance Company, $1,000 in the Charleston
Insurance aud Trust Company.
The iremen never Displayed more energy,
but for long time, owing to the great scarcity
of water, the fire retained the mastery.
By the most strenuous excrions the buildings
on the south side of Boundary street. though
several times on fire, were preserved. Flynn's
Church was also for time in imminent dan
ger, but hose having been carried to the root
of the building, its safety was secured.
There is scarcely any reason to doubt that
this wide spread con0agraton, which endan-
gered the safety of the entire city, was the act
of incendaries, and the most active efforts are
making for their discovery, the Commissioners
of Cross Roads, having, with prasewor'hy
promplilude, offered a reward of five hundred
dollars for their detection.
We learn that a negro fellow was yesterday
arrested on tho charge of having attempted to
fire the dwelling Of Mr.. Joseph 4. Enslow, on
the Neck. Alter an examination, in which he
was detected in several Ealsehoods, he was COM
mittcd for further hearing.
The Commissioners Of Cross Roads were EFF.
gagged throughout the whole of yesterday, with
zeal and perseverance deserving of the high
est praise, in an investigation of the causes that
led to the recent conhagrations on the Neck.
During the day several white persons were ar:
rested, and brought up for examination and
the disclosures made before the Board have de,
termined them to commit three of the individ.
uals for trial, one on a charge OF larceny, and
the other under suspicion of being the incendi-
acies of at least one ofthe recent fires. We
are not permitted at this time to say anything
further on the subject lest we might defeat the
ends of Justice.
IMPORTANT DIscLosuREs.-Du During the in.
vcs,iga,ion yesterday by the Commissioners oi
Cross Roads. Of the young men who had becn
arrested under suspicious circumstances, con-
,ecr,,, with the recent fires OH the Neck, very
imporlan, disclosures were elected from one OF
the company. His testimony, taken ta"n by
G. W. Egleston, Esq, duplicates several u MS
companions in wickedncss, in setting fire to the
premises OF Houston, on King street, which
caused the fire Of the morning the 81 Inst
Two of them we understand have been turned
over to the Attorney General 4; and means have
been adopted by the Board to secure others
who are at large, and without the limits of the
city. and we have no doubt. from the energy
displayed by the Commissioners, that their eff
forts will he crowned with successful.
VIRGINIA GoLD.-On Saturday, we had the
pleasure of examining some Of the richest and
most beautiful specimens Of gold ore we have
ever seen They are from the mine Of w. NJ.
Mosey and Co.. the old Booker Nine in
Buckingham. These specimens were taken
seventy or eighty feet below the ground--Ihe
veins thirty or forty feet thick. The company
work some thirty five hands, and their machine
~ (noved by seam) is simple. costing about
81 800. They expect iolcalize 81 O,OOO this
year. The gold washings pass over blanket
TO which the particles adhere. Quicksilver is
then applied to the balance.
| A similar process is used at Stockton O.
ueiss's mines in Snoitsylvauia but there they