The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1851-06-28

INV. o4.S' he year OF Oh
[destructon. Some place it twice or three
times as high. It's sufficient to say that
more than three -fourths Of the business part.
of the city is nothing but smoulderns
cinders.
The principal buildings destroyed are
| the following, to wit the Custom house.
Union Hotel, Parker House, Jones's Hote',
| Adelphi Theatre. Dramatic Museum, wa
t,onai Hotel, New World, City Hotel.
Dcimonico's, Merchants Exchange. Post
Office building. the ships Mantle anu
General Harrison. and every newspaper
office except the Alta California. Nearly
or quite ali the banks are in the burnt d's-
trict. kurcovne & Co., Wells & Co..
James King Of William. De'mon'co aass
American Hotels, Revere House. Pac'hc
, Mail Steamship Company. are all consum-
ed. Not a house was left on Leidasdo'i
street, and everything on both SIDES OF
Long Wharf to beyond Whitehall was
destroyed.
Scarcely a fire-proof building IN the
whole burnt district has stood the test.
Such as have, are the California Ex-
change, Ell Dorado. Verandah, and the
buildings Of Captain Howard. IN which
, was the United States assaylDS ONCE ot
. Mo1at & Co., on Montgomery street:
= The officers Of the custom-house save"
| the specie OI tne OtHCes " C"oN"o
. we'll. About 81, ,OOO,O were saved III
% this way.
= A. j. Cost, naval officer, MIR Brown,
of appraiser, Mr. Green, collector. and mum,
bes of others in the naval department, had
l. all Of their private effects destroyed. Inc
- books and papers Of the department were
- nearly all saved. The large United States
:. bonded warehouse, containing about 1000
&c tons of merchandise, in bond, was saved.
:, The banking houses will all resume
b business in the course of the week. When
), Burroyne's safe was opened Sl,5OO,Ooo
=. was taken out not sinsed or damaged III
the least.
p- The fire swept everything down on the
ms easterly side Of Kearny street, Jackson
~. street. and all the intervening blocks to
Battery street. The shipping IN the haro"r
,ev provden,is!y escaped. The only vessels
Nv, burnt were the Mantle, Apollo, and the
- General Harrison, storeships. California
49, Montgomery, Pine, Sansome, Commercial,
and Clay streets. were nearly destroyed
The Sacramento Hotel is blown up
I'll. Howard g. Green's Building, containing
MANY valuable law libraries, Jones, $
,;to Hotel. the Savings Bank, and Dodge
'se 'ss Cos Express Office, Agents buildings
~. California Exchange, Cook y Bros stores
,;ah were saved. The Dramatic Museum
fra Custom house, Jenny Lind Theatre, Park
M .a er House, Adams & Co.'S Express Office
4er the Engine House, the Union Hotel, are
Nth among the buildings burned
'ah "'t" The following are among the principa
''es' losses: w. ii. Robinson. $4,000
Webber & Hammond. $4,000 Baker
H.. c. Kenan. $4,000; G. J. Brown
$50 900; Heath s. Emory, Colvin Pa's
o & Co., $4,000 Paige & Websse'
O. $4,000; Gilingham. $4,000; Davis
;'sc" Smith. $4,000; Exchange. SIS. .Ooo
She J. S. Owens. $50, 1000; Dickinson Hous
OZI &c nth merchant
May noc aooH
III III The total, according to the estimat
ca mot be less than 81, 500. 900.
The The destruction of the Union Hotel II
sew wolves loss OF S25O,OOO. Messrs Ada"
oil Of & Co. saved their books. &c. The d'
our postes of Wells 8, Co. are saved.
Il his Measures have been taken to supply ii
ms Of city with water from lake near--thr'
About miles distant. A proposition had be-
fire" laid before the council by Mr. Merrihe
lake. and was to be acted on May 18th. and,
paint fayorably, Mr. NJ. would leave immediate
uare, for the Atlantic States to contract tor
nerly pipes and other materials.
rcan The rebuilding had already commence
first The list Of sufferers included the names
upper seven hundred firms and in'lividua
e en- Among the heaviest are j. 3. Bidd
com near 8 300, coo; Simonsheld, Bach, \ T.
IN one SI5o.OOO; Starkey & Bro.. Si50.0O
lessrs Kelsey, Smith. & Riley, Sl2o.OOo; Ottt
ment. heimer, ilrsch < Co.. SlaO,0O0 Moo
n the Tickner, & Co., $15O.O00; Debool
enely Eyneaux s. Grisar, SLAP, 900 f; MIC
treet. & Co. 100000 Dali. Austin, q I
Clay $3.50, 900; Middleton & Seiorr. $3.50
>. Six men were burnt TO death at {
le fire building their names are Captain w ell
n the Lewis Richlaud, Edward McCah,l': 1t
IS pro- Greenbaun, Reuben Baker, and Nesba
$ they Rosenthal. Many individuals were ser't
fore it iy burnt and otherwise inJured-am
other them General James Wilson. N'so1
it took measures have been already taken tor
:hance building the burnt district. and build
To the were going up in all directions. The
to the a, stockton was the work Of an inccndI
eeping originating in the Merchants Hotel.
rect to r, IsIA
sn"uth We have Oregon dates to May D.
n num- weather was exceedingly warm
,h and miners from Clamouth mines 10 no'
gomery very hatter'ns acco" no., diem The
down. digging from 30 I" ..s 500
:, " nu9" 49, ram the Sandwich Islands t
~ ~ .,on, "ua OH IF April had reached San Franc
III. Alta California says we have
'o's " .ry good authority that the ilaw