The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-17
Hours Ahead of the Mai
The following additional particulars of the great
fire in Philadelphia, are telegraphed to the Louis
en- fo,,rier.

The following additional particulars of the erea
fire in Philadelphia, are telegraphed to the Louis
vile Courier
PHILADELPHIA, July g.
The most severe and most alarming fire ever II
this city is now raging. Ii is thought that thirty
| persons are killed by explosion. The fire extend.
from Vine TO Race streets, including the wharf
Water and Front streets-all are in flames. No one
can tell where it will stop. The panic caused by
the explosion of gunpowdeP caused a rush of the
thrown on the crowd in the water. The firemen are
frightened and running in all directions
One Hour Lotey.--The fire is sui raging. All
the telegraph lines to New York are burnt down.
SECOND DISPATCH. AZ
At half past 3, P NJ, a fire broke out in Brock.
Kent d Cos wholesale grocery, on the wharf below
Vine street, and in few minutes the flames spread
with frghtfu rapidity, communicating to the ad-
jacent warehouses In Brock, Kent & Co.'S ware.
house was stored about 1000 kegs of saltpetre.
Shortly after the fire broke out tremendous explo-
SION took place and q. number of persons, about
thirty, were killed. Some were blown into the
river. The scene which ensued battles description
The shrieks of the wounded and diving, the roaring
OF the flames as they spread from house to house
with the rapidity of lightning, formed one of the
most heart-rendng ghts witnessed in this city
The fire now encompasses four large squares, ex-
tending from the wharf to Second street Il is i'm
possible, amid the confusion, to tell who are the
sufferers. Ridgeway d Budd's, -four merchants ;
wright q Nephew, salt merchants and -four fac
tors, are among them,
Along Front and Water streets the buildings are
mostly occupied by poor families, and in some OF
them twenty or thirty families have lived Their
spfferings are most acute.
1t il reported that one woman was found dead
with child alongside of heralive, and another re.
port says that woman and five children were
found in house, burned to death. Almost con.
stantly some person is carried off either killed or
MANNED by the falling walls
The loss is estimated at g 500 000.
81 P. M,-Ths fire is still raging with great vic.
lence. 1t will not be subdued tonight
The following telegraphic summary of the pro.
ceedings in Congress on the 9th, we received by
way of Louisville, being twenty-four hours in ad
vance of the mail:
SENATE.-Mr. Walker introduced bill to
change the time of the annual meeting of Congress
TO The first Monday in October.
Mr.. Mangum remarked that there was a large
amount of Executive business at dead stand still
awaiting action
Mr. Bradbury's resolution relative to removals
he moved to make the special order for tomorrow
at II o'clock-agreed to.
The Omnibus Bill was thentaken up at O'Clock
and Mr.. Butler having the floor, he said he believed
the issue now pending had produced the present
CRISIS and that il was past adjustment. 1t had be-
come unmanageable from the lapse of time and
failure TO take advantage Of passing opportunities
Tor us settlement lie maintained ALSO that only
two Stat es had ever come into the Union with a
Constitution formed without the previous consent
pf Congress.
AT quarter-past o'clock Mr. B. suspended his
remarks, at the request Of Mr. Webster
MI Webster communicated the extreme illness
of the President, and the Senate Immediately ad.
journedl
HoUsE.-on motion of Mr.. Venable, the Com.
mlttee for the District OF Columbia was instructed
to enquire whether the condition of the canal and
the workmen engaged in clearing IL does not affect
the health of the city, and IL so, to consider and
recommend some mea MS to remedy the evil
The House then resumed the consideration of
the report on the Galphn claim.