The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-31
Another Destructive Fire in Charleston.

Another Destructive Fire in Charleston.
We learn by the Charleston Mercury, that an.
smencing on the morning Of the 29th inst, and
CONSUMING portion of the most beautiful bust
ness part of the city Ten of the twentyone stores
composing that magnificent block on Hayne street.
are now heap of ruins, besides the large Groce-
: ry Store, corner Of Market and Meeting streets
: also some three-story brick tenements destroyed
on Market street, east of Nee iing street, which
were occupied by large number of famits g. The
Charleston Hotel was in imminent danger of be
| ing consumed. The numerous doors and win
dows of its Southern front were repeatedly iE|
hames and nothing but the most energetic efforts
on the part of the numerous citizens, could posi-
3bly have saved it. The injury it has sustained
is considerable, and the loss of furniture is not anI
3nconsderahle matter to the enterprising proprie-
tor, Mr.. Mixer. We are pleased to see, however
that the Hotel will be open to receive visitors; audi
We hope an increased and liberal support may
continue, and eventually remunerate the proprie-
tor for all his losses A very large and valuable
1amount of merchandise was destroyed, and the
whole loss of property cannot be less than four
hundred thousand dollars, all of which, We arel
/ glad to learn, is covered by insurance pretty
equally divided between Southern and NorthernI
sofices so that the entire burihen will not fall upon
jany one or two particular Offices. This was al
wise arrangement aud shows very readily thatI
our city merchants displayed great prudence andI
udgmentin providing, far as they could, against
contingencies. The Mercury, In closing slengthyI
and full account of this confagraton, says:
From the manner of its origin, there is every
reason to believe that this disastrous fire wasI
1.-THE work Of an incendiary, as there had been
neither fire nor lights used on the premises fot
several weeks past. Mr.. Francis Miller, whoI
occupied a room over the store of Mr.. Waldron,
and had returned from party little before
1.-TWO o'clock, distinctly heard tho sound as Of
some person. leaping from the fence, and he had
retired to rest but few minutes when the
alarm was sounded. There is but too much
reason to believe in the existence of band Of
these miscreants in our community, and we
trust that efficient measures may be taken for I
their detection, and if apprehended that no mis-
taken notions of mercy may interpose betweeb
the offenders and the most rigid penalties of the
law.
D-T The following letter is copy of one written
Ito the Georgetown True Republican, by one who
Iis al eyewitness and judge ofafars in Wah-
|ington-
WASHINGTON, May %. 1850.
Dear Sir wrote you some three weeks
since, when things here were suspended in
great degree, awaiting the report of the social.
ed Compromise Committee, and | ventured in
THAT letter to predict failure by that commit,
tee to propose any thing that would vindlcate|
|or protect the rights of the South in the great
struggle going on, in which she would be de.
graded and ruined. again repeat that altho
THE great compromise is before the country,
that have seen no time in my life when have
seen the North more determined in wrong
against the South, lhan at this moment. When
j say this, mean in substance in contradis.
tnction to professions and shadows, by which
they would gid over their measures-huy up
Southern men with the lure Of office and plum
der, and in the meanwhile, divide and weaken
us at home, so as to perfect their schemes with
the least possible danger to the Union, in which,
tbey would hold ia. until bv dssension among