Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-02-23
q TRUE DELTA--EXTRA.
TERRIBLE CONGREGATION,
SATURDAY MonsfNG FsJ. 16. IS5

CURED IN our CITY within olr recollection
broke out in The store of e.. q. Baiklry
No. So Camp street, which was rapid,
consumed, together with the lnlIuwin n:
buildings:
No. $50 cupied by G. &. Bnrk!ey
Grocer.
No. 57-Corsou & Armstrong. S,a,ioners
NJ. 59-Payne u Harrison, Commission
Mtrchan S
No. 55--Bridgcs & McMurdo, depot El
Virginia Manufactured 1'ohaccn, am
Elder & Brother. Com. Merchants.
No. 5l-Brnndrr, Williams IL Go. Com
mission Merchants.
No. 49.~-J. Ii. Brrhtel d. Co.. Book,el
lrrs aud Statiouers. - ..
No. A7-Bascment occupied by The .E,nu
Life, Crescent City. and Lexington
Insurance Companies, up stairs, h,
Fosdick & Brother, Shipping Agent,
and Downes, Cnldy " Co. Co,to,
Factors md Commission Merchants.
No. 4s--Banking House of ]. Robb
e. Co., on the lower floor; II.
Frelsen Il Co., Commission Mer.
chants; upstairs = building not
much injured; all valuable pro-
pertv saved.
No. 50--Lower floor a portion OF
Robb's banking establishment
upstairs Offices Of Gordon Plum
mer aud Lucien Hermann, No.
%taries. .. F
No. 52-Merchants' Louisville Insll-
} Company. ......
No. 54-J. G. Dunlop, China, Glass
and Earthenware.
No. STA. Hill, Wood and Willow
Ware and House Furnishing
Goods. .r-...g ..t..
No. 5s--Henry Parsons. Piano and
Music Establishment.
No. 600. s. Campbell, House Fur
nishing Store. ,.-.
No. G2--Ferdinand Kennett & Co.,
Commission Merchant.
No. 66--Picayune office.
No. 6s-Weld & Co., literary depot,
or the first floor; up stairs, o.
ney. Cottrell & Co. Building not
materially injured the property
in the interior destroyed or dam
aged. .a..v ar..
On Bank Place, the narrow street
or alley running in the reardwith, and
parallel to Camp street, the following
buildings We're in part, some: wholly
destroyed:
No. 7-Occupied as counting rooms
by J. N. Hawthorn, and J. 7. B.
Featherston'h.
No. 81. e. M. Ellis and ]. Bogart.
No.ll--Schroedcr & Murray and
Finn q Spruce. produce brokers'
No. l3-P. S. Campbell. Z
No. 15-Henry Holland and Charles
Oakly.
LOSSES BY II LATE Fire IN New
OHLEANs.--We learn by the Picayune
of the 18th. that the following are the
losses sustained by insurance COM
panies ofthat city, as far as they could
learn. A large amount of insurance
was effected at the Northern and
Eastern Insurance offices, covering
over $4,000
Crescent Mutual Insurance Co.-Picavune
Office. on stock 5000, Cor on u Armstrong
800; Henry Parsons, on piaios 2,50C; Fosdick
d. Go. 800.
Nashville Insurance COT. X. Price,
$4,000; Edwin Ferguson, $500. a.aH
Sun Mutual Insurance C0.-Nnt ascertain
ed, bnt estimated at s. 0 1000; General Mu-
tual Insurance Co. $4,000; M fchantts' Iusu.
rance Co. 10000; Columbus Insurance Co,
10000; New Orleans Insurance Co. 10000:
ST. Louis Perpetual Insurance Co. 500; Lex.
iugton Insurance Co. 500.
Estimated amount insured S257, 500.
About o o'clock, the wind having
gone down, the firemen, by their skill
and great exertions, began to obtain
the mastery over the fire, and at half
past IL o'clock it was enterily got
under. @i ..'. ..8" s
The following letter was addresse to a
gentleman of this town, who gave Us per.
mission to copy it. 1t may not be unin-
teresting to many of our readers /:
OREGON Cry, Sept. 81, lS49.
Mr.. N. &. MoFFIrT Odd friend, since |
saw you last Ishave seen some of the ups and
of life have suffered more than I
was possible for the most robust con-
stiiut,ons, but | have lived through it all, and
am amply paid, if a man can Be paid for suf-
and exposure, which he is bound to
Undergo to attain this Earth's paradise, the
valley of the greatsP Pacific. | left st. Joseph
on the 26th ct May anu arrived in Oregon
City on he "a inst, making the trip in three
months and seven days, or in one hundred
by the Road Ometar, 2,3OS
l made this trip in less line than it
ever made from the United States to any
paint On the Columbia river, and was the first
nan OF the whole emigration that arrived in
his city. You should ceme here, Moffiati :
9our business as a carpenter, and more parti-
as a manager, will insure you con-
slant business al from $40 to $50 per day,
ind the most healthy part of the world. 1t is |
10 country for farming and grazing, as has
,een represented by different writers on this
ni'a'ry wi'"-t, p~utatoeS, cahbages, heeis, |
urnips.parsnips, onions, oats, barley and rye
very well, better than in the States any
1t is a poor fruit country, and every
Of the farm which | have not enume-
ated above, does not grow, nor can they be
nade 10 grow here. But it is the best tim
cred and watered country on earth; mill
ties are almost too good and too plenty there
power enough in The Falls Of the Wa Ilame!t,
ithin tire hundred yards Of my room where
write this, 10 drive 1000 Save. together
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