Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-27
aallp gtational democrat.
-...er from Dogto,,n, Butte County.


The following letter has been handed to us
for publication;
DoGTowN, Nov. 2jth, 1858.
Eo1rxp There was considerable eX-
,;temept here, yesterday morning, on account
af an alarm of fire which was very nearly
,,o;rc the destruction of the Dogtown House,
,1 If the town. The fee broke out about
: o'clock. A. ", and was found to be in the
unper part and South end Of the Hotel in the
,aft The trap-deer was opened out of the
,oroe hall and the FIRE was found to have OBJ
toioeJ great head.way, Mr., Joseph Hale
,,os assisted into the loft, and water was
,,.ssed to him, which was thrown upon the
Ere within, but could not be extinguished un.
I'll the fire was blazing through the roof and
she wbcle south end of the upper part Of the
Hotel was in flames. Water was at last,
however, got upon the roof and after the
most frantic exertions, was ultimately and
fortunately extinguished Mr.. Hale, for his
oxartiops. deserves the greatest credit
As are not much accustomed to alarms
If fire. and have very few facilities for extin-
gujsbing the same, you can lie positive that
tbe excitement was intense and that many
amusing incidents occurred; our merchant
.Jones when the cry of "fre" was sounded,
could not find his clothes and managed to get
one boot on-which constituted his entire
wardrobe-and not being able to find his key
broke the door of his store open, crying most
tfrantically, won't somebody help me save
nv goods, care not for myself but for my
creditors" man by the name of Sterling
at the first alarm of fire, managed to save
faro-box and watch, insisting at the same
time that he could not save either, and that
all was lost, and begging Mr. Pollard, with
hands extended, to "save the watch, to save
the watch" he having it all the while safe in
his possession. Mr.. Derby, one of the pro
prietors of the Hotel, was sleeping across the
way, when hearing the alarm of fire, in his
excitement, rushed into the butcher shop and
soon emerged with butchers cleaver in one
hand, and small piece of beef in the other,
crying, "All is up, but will save this much
for breakfast anyhow" Mr.. Hobbins was
anxious to be informed if he had not better
take sack of barley out of the barn, and
turn the "'osses' out he was found the next
morning by some Indians under log, down
near the West Branch, bewailing the loss of
his wife and poor children, who were dead
dead i Our butcher, John Mccormick, slept
through the whole of it, and it is my opinion
that the angel Gabriers horn couldn't wake
him. "Pike" was there too, (R. Blair AT
ter the fire was put out, he went to the sleep
ing rooms and called for his baggage; some
one in the room asking him where his bag
gage was, and what it consisted of, his an
swer was "Three decks Monte cards and one
dirty shirt" imagine that those cards are
oreasv enough to be condemned to fire, with
out waiting for an accidental one. AS for
myself, was excessively frightened, but the
above incidents, and numerous Others OF the
same character have restored my equilibrium,
and even if the town had been in ruins,
could not have controlled my cachinatory pro-
pensities. Messrs Pollard d. Co. were for
tunate in saving the hotel, in fact, it should
be a source Of qualification to the whole com
munity.
We came very near the other day having
an elopement in high life. A Mr.. -, a
driver of the California Stage Company, with
Miss -, but the love.strcken swain had
not calculated on "big hrothersin law" and
on account of whom the lady was not forth
coming and Mr. --, Ia Ia B., of Inskp,)
was left wifeless and hopeless; the lady, like
the Apostle Peter, emphatically denies her
Lord 1t nearly terminated at last in a civil
war between one of the proprietors of ho-
tel and the disconsolate driver, who, it seems,
are rivals for the hand of the sweet creature.
The matter was, however, quietly settled by
the reading of the "riot act by our worthy
Justice of the Peace.
Messrs. Willard Il Co, and Burch d Co.,
and miners at the Forks of Butte are doing
as well as usual, and are taking out large
q antilles Of gold The Ditch for bringing
water into Inskip and this portion of the
country, will probably be finished next
spring, and, as a consequence, many miners
are coming in and making preparations for
mining Nothing else can think of just now
that would interest you, so l will close
Yours, &c, A. b. ?.