New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-18
Generosity Of tie Rebel Congress
They Advance $25O,0OG on AceWiut

Special Dispstcl 70 The,J. Y. Tr5rne
FoRraEss M)xRoR DsG l6,}
Via EAIvIaORF, Dee. IL. 5e6t
To-days No5ji D0y- Book received by flag
OF truce, brings The following news;
The names Of over 800 sufferers BY the fire
at Charleston are reported.
The loss is over 81 ,Oo0,odo. Nesrly all the
public buildings, including the churches, are
destroyed.
One man. }lr. Russell, in whose Eacrory the
fire begun, attributes she IRE to the treachery
OF negroes.
Tie Charleston Neryury gives a list of nearly
600 buildings burned. Over 500 were destroyed
in one day "wednesday. One negro woman
wss burned to death.
The Virginia Legislature adopt1 measures to
nd the sufferers.
The largo at amount OF private subscription
reported in The Deg Boef is sieO given for the
prrgose of making up loss of seven millions.
The Nils House of Charleston was consider
ably damaged. jefferson Davis proposes to aid
Charleston by paying some of what Congress
ewes South Carolina. The Rebel Congress
have no money to give away jest now.
A kindly Rebel soldier is reported to have
said the great fire was started by negroes
firing various places at the same time.
10 the Associated Press
FORTRESS MONROE, Dec. iG. 1851,
Nis BALTIMORE. TuesdsY, Dec. Il.
Capt. Millward went TO Cunev Island to-day with
a fag of uuce, and was met by Lieut. Smith off the
island.
No passengers came down from Norfolk.
n. II. t,,If
ticuars of the extensive conaagation in Charleston,
sc.
The fire broke ont a. about O'Clock in the even
ing CT the 18th inst, in Russell & ODDS sash and
blind factory at the foot Of Hazel street, extending
TO the machine-shop Of Cameron q Co. Before mid
night he FIRE had assumed az appalling magnitude,
and Meeting street, from Market to Queen, was one
mass Of flame. "a teneInelt after tenement was
envel1ped in flames the Peuic became awful, and
thousands OF families evacuated their houses and
filed ,be streets. The buildings in the lower part OF
the city, where the die broke out, principally
of wood and extremely infammable, which accounts
for the remarkably rapid progress Of the ire.
At midnight the Circular Church and Institute
Hall were buruing, and the proximity Of The flames
10 the Charleston Hotel and the Mills House caused
them to be evacuated by their inmates. At o'clock
the fire tended more southwark toward the Of
Archd,e and Queen sreets 70 tie Of the Charles
ton Hotel, and to the end Of Hoyne street Cross
ing Market street tie fire spread down East Bay 10
Cumberland street and across TO the Mills House, in
Guiding in its destruction the Circular Church, lnst
tute Hall, and the Charleston Hotel.
All tie buildings King street, from Clifford
nearly 70 Broad, Were destroyed before o'clock
Gen. Ripley, who superintendent the movements Of
the troO7s who arrived on the scene az about this
time ordered several buildings the rOute of the
oonflagration to be blown up. After some delay the
order was executed but not before the Tbeater,
L,oyds coach factory opPoite the Express Office,
the old Executive building and all the houses from
this poin. 20 Queen street had caught fIe and we're
DESTROYED
At abos. o'clocl, the wind changed the direction
of the flames toward Broad street. Soon after, st.
Andrew Hal took fire. and subsequently the Cathe-
dral. the srre of which fell shortly after O'Clock.
The fire made a clear sweep through the city,
making it, track from East Bay to King street.
The Charle,ton Coarier of the 18th inst. gives a
list Of between 200 and 900 sufferers and says that
the loss is estimated at from five to seven millions of
dollars Mr. Russell, at whose factory the fire orGi-
mated, thinks that il must have been occasoned By
an incendialy. or by the negligence Of the negoes
employed there.
A dispatch from Charleston, dated the 18th inst,
says: "The Mills House, although threatened, and
several times on fire, eventually escaped, and IL
only slightly damaged"
A Message was sent TO the Confederate Congress
on Friday, By President Davis in relation to the
con1agraton a. Charleston, recommending an aT-
preparation in &id OF the sufferers
resolution WAS accordingly unanimously adopted
by the Congress, apfrOpriating s25O,o0O as an ad-
vapee on account o. the claims OF South Carolina
upon the Confederate States.
The latest particulars in regard 10 the fire at
Charleston are as follows: Five churches were de-
s,royed, viz: The Roman Catholic Cathedral, st.
Peters Episcopal Clinrch, the Cumberlaad Street
Church, the Methodist Church, and tie Circular
Church.
The Charleston Mercury Gays that 80 Buildings
were destroyed by the Gre.
CHARLESTON IAEBOR PROBABLY
CLOSED.