The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-12-19
The Great Fire at sE.arlcsfon---i-e,ss
over Five Million, OF Dollars.
FoarREss MONROE, Dec. II

fO:TRESS MONROE, Dec. 10.
Norfolk and Richmon papers give fall particu-
lars Of the extensive conf ,gr,tion in Charleston,
s. c. The fire broke ont on "Wednesday, The tn
'nst., in sash and blind factory at the foot of
Hazel street, extending 10 the machine shop of
Cameron X Co. Before midnight the fire had as
sum; an appalling magnitude, and Meeting ST.,
from Market to Queen. was mass of flames. As
tenement after tenement was envelopci in fire,
the panic became awful. and thousands Of f.m
lies evacuated their houses AMI filled tho streets
Tie buildings in the lower plrt of the cits.
where the fire broke out, princip lily of wood
and extremely infammable, which accounts for
the remarkably rapid progress of the fire.
At midnight the Circular Church AMI Institute
Hall were burning, and tho proximity of the
flames to the Charleston Hotel and the Mills
House caused them to be evacuated 10y their in
mates.
At O'clock the Ere tended more southwark.
towards the corner of Archda c and Queen str GETS
to the rear of the Charleston Hotel al to the end
of Home street.
Crossing Market street, the fire spread down
East Bay to Cumberland street. n Il across 10 the
cua Church, Institute Hall nd. the Charleston
Hotel. All the buildings on King street, from
Clifford nearly to Bread. were destroyed before
3 o'clock
Gen. Ripley, who superintendent the mo, ments
of the troops who arrived the scene at about
this time ordered several buildings on the rout to
be blown up. Alter some delay, the order was
executed, but not before the Theatre, Loyd's
coach factory. opposite the Express office the old
Executive building, and all the houses from this
Point to Queen street, had caught fire and we're
destroyed.
AT about 4 O'Clock the wind changed the drec-
ton of the flames toward Broad str ct Soon af-
ter St Andrews Hall took fire, and subsequently
the Cathedral. tie sprc of Which fell shortly af-
ter O'Clock
TIE fire made clean sweep through the city,
making ITS track from Fast Bay to KING street.
The Charleston Courier of the 18th int gives
list of between 300 and 300 sufferers. and saws
that the loss is estimated at Il ON s. .00O.O0 to
S7.000,0O0.
Mr. Russell. at whose factory the fire origlna
ted. thinks il must have been occasioncd by an
incendiary or a negligence of tho negroes. The
Mills House is ouiy slightly damaged.
message was sent 10 the Confederate Congress
on Friday night. BY President Davis, in relation
to the condagration at Charleston. recommending
an appropriation in aid of the sufferers A rcso-
luton was accordingly unanimously adopted 10y
the Congress appropriating $500 600 an advance
on account of the claims OF South Carolina OF the
Confederate States.
The Charleston Mercury says fifty seven build
ings were destroyed by the fire
NOTWITHSTANDING the gravity of the Trent
complication, we suspect that il will not prove 80
serious obsta lie in the way of the suppression
of the rebellion as the Congress at Washington.
When it met, the Union was in the fairest way OF
complete restoration. To day We know not where
We stand, and the future seems more uncertain
still The movements % Trumbull and Chandler
and Stevens AMI Loveoy to direct the executive
ard Judicial and military Departments of the gov
crnment, and to convert the contest on the part of
the North into anti slavery crusade, have en-
Outraged the rebelh0us ard unsettled the LOYAL
spirit of the country. fthese the con.equcn-
ccs OF but two weeks of the session, what may
not be the consequences OF session prolonge ed
into June or July