Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-12-25
Charleston CONFEDERATION.

FORTRESS NOM z. Dec It. RIA Baltl-
more-Captain Miiiwa-d went II Cranev
Island to-iay with a Ia. Of truce. and was
met by Lieutenant Smith, OF the I-lsql
No passengers came down.
The Norfolk and Richmond papers give
fun particulars of the extensive firc AT
Charleston. 1t broke cut at about eleven
o'clock On the llth. instant, IN Russell ~
Oli's sash and blind factory. al the foot ui
Hazel street, crossing Hazel street. extend
ing to the machine shop II Cameron ~ Go
Before midnight the FIRE had assumed an
appalling magnitude, and Meeting street.
from Market to Queen. WAS 1ue mass of
flames. As tenement after tenement WI
enveloped in flames, the panic was awful
and thousands # families evacuated their
homes and tiliei the streets. The luii,1i -
IN the lower part If the ciiy, where -. fire
broke u1i Vrre principally IF w,-pd a'1 e.
;IeIneiv inf h'mmable. which arCnuuf~ f.r
the rapid progress f the fire At milln5 -.lt
the Circular Church and Institute Hall ~. re-
burning. and the proximity # tie flames "a
the Charleston Hotel and Mills House caused
them to BE- evacuated 10y their intim .tes.
vt one e'cluCk the fire tended more : nth
ward towards the corner Of ArChiale and
Queeu strsetS. 10 the rear Of the Charles. n
Hotel and the end of the Hayne street range
( Crossing market street, spread down E2~t
Bay TO Cumberland street .he fire then tl,ck
across to the Mills House. including In lis
destruction the Circular Church. Institute
Hall and the Charleston Hall. All the
buildings on King street, from Clifford near
: " u Broad, were des Teyed before three
( o'clock.
General Ripley, who superintcndei the
movements of the troops who had arrived
at the scene about this time. ordered several
: buildings on the way Of the cnuiiagTa:ion g.
B be blown mp ami after some DELAY the order
! was executed. but not before the Theatre
I Llnyds coach factory. opposite the Exprcs,
( Office, and all the hou~.-S from this point :,
I Queen street had caught fire ard been de
I struvei.
Al about four O'Clock the wind change
1 the direction of the flames towards Broat
/ street. Som after y Andrews H.n tool
fire, and subsequently the Catholic Cathelra
the spire Of which fell shortly after fiy,
. O'clock The fire made = clean sweep thTuugl
the city. making it, track from East Bay L
King street.
Tie Charleston Courier Of the 18th sive
list Of between 200 and 500 sufferers an,
saws the lusS l. estimated from . 600 GOO [,
100000
Five Churches were destroyed-Cath
St Peters Episcopal. the Cumberland stree
The Methodist and Circular Church.
The Charleston Mercury saws that fyt
hundred and seventy SIX buildings were de
stroyed.
Mr.. Russell. at whose factory the fir,
originated, thinks that it must have beer
occasioned by an incendiary OF by the Leg
lgence of the negroes employed there.
\ despatch from Charleston. dated the /;
says the Mills House, although threatene,
and several times on fire, eventually escapel
and Is only slightly damaged
a message was sent to the Hehei CougreS
on Friday, by President Davis, IL relation
to the conhagration, recommending an ap
preparation IL aid Of the sufferers. re
solution was accordingly adopted apprupri
ating S25O,O as an advance on account @
the claims of South Carolina on the Rebe
States.