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hriUan War. Jacksonville (Florida,) Bee, 10. During a few days past, our town has been the stirring scene of busy preparation for a compaiga on "the Indian Frontier. By the last accounts, the Indians evinced a determination and preparation for hostilities little anticipated. The. friendly chiefs, (or such as professed themselves friendly), are said to have removed fi*om the Fort and joined the hostile tribes, with the exception of two or three immediate dependants of Charles O'Mathla, who, it will be recollected, was a few days since murdered. They have retired in a body to a large swamp near their villages, and are carrying their wives and children to places of security. They are reported to liaye made an attack upon a party of vvhites, and plundered and burnt two or three more plantations. In obedience to the call of General Clinch who has the command of the U. S. Troops, Gen. Hernandez has ordered out the Militia. Col. Warren left this place yesterday momlinitr) kio wvn'mAnt. lfiftVlnP UIg ttl U1C IIUIU VI ???0 iV^Miaw.^ g only a number sufficient for the protection of the posts near this. Every man is enroled for the service on the Frontier, or for service at home. At such a time as this, a great want of muskets is felt. Such as, have rifles, have taken them. But a great, part have been compelled to take their fowl" ing pieces, or such guns as they could lay their hands upon. There has been an alacrity in their preparations, creditable to all, . arid particularly to the officers who have directed the movements. We hope, that by such a timely display of militia, the Indians will be induced to abandon their intention of furtlier hostilities, and submit to the stipulations of the Treaty made at Payne's Landing, without further resistance. CHERAW GAZETTE. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1835. An error was committed by our Foreman in making up the matter of the last column of the first page of this paper, which the reader can correct for liiinscK. The last paragraph, on that ^ page, beginning " Upon the other," Sic. down to the bottom of the column, should como in ater the second paragraph on the second page. Wo havo complaints from different quarters by persons who pat their names to subscription papers for the Cheraw Gazette, that the paper has not been sent to them. The reason is that the subscription papers have not been returned tons. We hope persons still holding any with names to them, will be good enough to return them with, out delay. - We have roceivod the last number of the West e&x Farmer, published monthly in Cincinnati, at the very moderate price of one dollar per an. 1 num. It is a largo paper, printed in octavo form, and conducted with judgment and ability. The number of abb agricultural publications now sustained at the North, South, East and West is proof of a growing taste for improvements in ?* - ?*.t 1 V ./aI agriculture-. 'I'tio readiness w*n *nica. mew publications exchange with a paper, so great a part of which is devoted to miscellaneous subjects as is the case with ours, evinces a liberality which we deem very creditable. We havo not sent the Gazette to a. single agricultural periodical which was not promptly returned to us in exchange. We return the publishers our hearty thanks, and solicit our patrons who are to profit from this Jiberality, to furnish original matter for our col. jimns which shall afford some little compensation for it. We shall in future keep in our paper a stand ing list of the agricultural periodicals received in exchange, and keep a file of them m a boon store which we own under the same roof with our office, hoping that wo may thus induce Planters to subscribe. J. N. Whitmer was elected by tho Legislature, Solicitor of tho Western circuit, J. C. Caldwell,. Solicitor of the South Western circuit, and R. W. Hill, Sjato Repoucr. . The Legislature of North Carolina adjourned ?a Tuesday, tho 22d instant. Romulus M. Sanders has been elected Judge of the Superior Courts of Norih Carolina, in the room of Judge Martin, resigned. Judge Lynch, the White candidate, has been rleetod Governor of the State of Mississippi by a few hundred votes over the late Gov. Runnels, who was the Van Buren candidate. John M. Niles has been appointed by tho Gov. ernor of Connecticut, United States Senator, in place of N. Smith, deceased, till the meeting of the Legislature of that State. - In the election of Charnnan_xdLiiiA_Co/tt7mttcfc p/ PrrrniLi. Tft fnfinTiiin t1-- StKteS Sonata, Mr. Clay received 23 votes, and Mr. King of Alabama 15. For Chairman of tho Committee of Finance, Mr. Webster received 25. and Mr. Wright 17. For Chairman of the Committee of Commerce, Mr. Davis received 22, and Mr.IIill 17. The President's message was received by express in Boston, twenty-six hours and fifty minutes after it left Washington City The distance being 450 miles, the average distance travelled per hour, night and day, was 16| miles. The enterprizing Editors of the New York Courier and Enquirer have established a daily express from Washington to New York, to run during the session of Congress. Death of Bishop Emory.?While on the way from his residence to Baltimore on tho morning of the 16th jnstn his horse ran away and threw him out of his carriage with such violence against a stono which lay near the read, tliat be expired on the afternoon of the same day. 44 Bishop Emory" says the Methodist Christian Sentinel of Richmond, 44 will be a serious loss, not only to his family, but to tho church. lie was one of our most efficient superintendents, and at this time, his loss will bo severely felt by the Methodist Episcopal Church. " # l " A meeting of the Whig members of tho Legis. latum of Virginia has nominated Hugh L . White, o-f lb? fho PtrsMe5CT.- * I V -: A Convention of Anti-Masons, and another of i Whigs, which recently met at Hani sburg, Penn. both nominated Gen. Harrison for tho Presidencv. *. The Editors of the National Intelligencer pro- j, pose to publish from tho first of January to the end of tho picsent session of Congress, a weekly G paper to bo termed Tne NATio.Nan,und to comprise so much of the proceedings & debates in-Congress ? as its limits will admit; with other selections from the Intelligencer. Terms: For five or more copies, g one dollar each. For a single copy, one dollar f< and a half. . ' at Governor Wolf in his message to tho General a< Assembly of Pennsylvania," rebukes tho abolition, icts in strong and plain language, and admits, as n. every body except the abolitionists do, that the subject is one in which the northern states have 0i no right to interfere. He says that " tho present el crusade against slavery is the offspring of fanati. cism of tho most dangerous and alarming charac- tv ter; which, if not speedily checked, may kindlo a fire which it may require tho best Wood of tho at country to check." And yet he advises against ^ legislative enactments to restrain it,from the chi- m meric&l apprehension that they might lead to violations of tho freedom of the press. & . " ? of Steam Boat Accidents.?Two Steam Boats have recently tipeh snagged in tlie Chatahoocliie C river near Columbus, Geo. One was sunk, the " other not badly injured. The steam boat Lady Franklin, in ascending the Ohio lately, was run ?,: into at night, by the steam boat Portsmouth and sunk. From 16 to 20 persons werp drowned. ^ The boiler of the steam boat Oglethorpe, on the a _ 1 i Tko o.nfain malfl. I __ aavannan nyci'j uuidi> ibu?^ ? u? ?-?, twoenginoers, and a negro were killed, and several others more or less injured. ?y In consequence of the riots in Baltimore last of summer, a City Guard of 1200 men has been formed, exempt from other military duty, and bound to sustain tho authorities when necessary. ^ . The number of students in Yale College is hi 572.' The number in the Freshman class is 135. OTj It is said that no Freshman class in any College in tho United States has ever boen so large. The vil friends of Evangelical religion, of every denomination, have great cause to regret that there ^ I should be connected with a College so flourishing* I * Theological Seminary as corrupt as the one in ? ? o _ New Haven. The Faculty of that Seminary, while they profess to hold the doctrines of the Reformation, teach the worst errors of Pelagian. Oi ism. ~ v We take pleasure in copying the following from the " Cearlotte Journal." If laying in printing materials for an establishment upon Su. J gar Creek, we should hardly havo thought of a U1 " * ?4 n"* mn*>K nlAajMvl tha* Steam uoai cui. uuv *?? wv ....... r. ?. our friend of the Journal found so appropriate an tin occasion forits use. tic We mean no disparagement. For although we have never had the pleasure of seeing Charlotto, we learn on the best authority that it is an among the most decidedly respectable of our up int country vilfages. - Jj} The arrival of goods at this ploec in 12 days and even less from New York, wilHve think, in en future, bo no unusual thing. We last week re- vie ceived two boxes of books, only 12 of 13 days ?/ from New York, although they were unavoidably detained some days in Georgetown. crt inj COlXG ^i, lfT|rf AHEAD. ?i aSEBBBnfiillK rcj We havo lately hoard, from our mercantile ^ fnends in this town, of many instances of gteat .. despatch in receiving goods from the North by CQ the way of Georgetown and Cheraw. One gen- je] tlomau assures us that he has got his supplies in le?? than a month after they were ordered; and . another has handed us a letter from his corres- J? pondent in Chrraw, (an extract from which we ' . give below) showing a fact hitherto nnprecedent- !. ed, we believe, in tho commercial annals of our section of tho State.* If this state of things seould continue, (and we do noi sco why it should i not, since it is proven that the Pee Dee Rivor navipated by steam,) we can ^ see in it cause for congratulation to all classes of It* our community. Despatch in receiving goods , will enable the merchants to sell cheaper, while ^ the producer will also bo benefitted in the dimin- ^ ished expense of time and money in sending his productions to a Northern market. We look up. on this new impetus which the carrying trade has received, from tho delays and perplexities ' hitherto attendidg it, as a type of the old North ^ State's future rapid advancement in every thing _ that adds to the prosperity of her people, now jJ( that she has escaped from the shackles of an ^ unequal and unjust constitution "" ? . Pj The receipt of goods in 12 davs from New York.?Gaz. '3 Sinco the above was in type wo have seen a ~ 9 9 * ' . XQ letter from a gentleman in Wadesboro' to liis ^ agent in this town, from which we are permitted at to make the following extract: w 441 think wc aro about to commcnco a now era m _in business in this section. Some of our mer-1 U1 cnams i?mu icceivetfgoogstyt&swv rteawrooat f * * ~ * J""* KftTw Vm-Lv nrrivincr I Ataiania in nine wiy* uw>u *v.., & . here half a day in advance of the mail from George *n Town." , - ' ft W It should bo remembered that those goods had fr, been waggoned from tliis placo to Wadesboro', a th distance of 25 miles. T . bl The Directors of the Cape Fear Bank have g( determined to establish a branch in Washington . N. C., and have appointed Benjamine Runyon Cashier. ' ^ h; . ic The Governor of Louisiana has issued a proc. C1 lamation guarding the citizens of that state against violating the pacific relations of the th United States to the Government of Mexico. S ' ' tc . | | ~ i. Steam Doctor?.?A petition lias been presented th to the Logwlature of Georgia for establishing a] by law, a board of Steam Doctors. The com. mittee to whom the petition was refered, reported oi favoraly. Whereupon a Mr. Hill mavud an aj amendment to include " Durhamiets or Dutch,, ol Doctors, Radicals or Root Doctors, and Conjurers, ^ an equal number of each ^ declaring them equal, th ly entitled on the grorgnds set forth by the pctr. hi tioners. A friend of tne petitioners moved to strike w out11 Coujurers," saying he had no objection to inelude in the bill ? any thing called a Doctor." ni If the Conjurers wauld only change their nam3 a and call themselves Doctors, they too might ho p: authorized by law'to pracl:33. The amendment vi . was accepted, andf the House by a majorityjof ouo th votes giro ?ncf v >l\ ?, ? r^- t!<nfc< * ^ ? Jm + . p + r. JM .1ST OF ACTS P.VSS2D EV THE LCGI5I ATI-BE OF 9. CAT TI1E SESSION OF.1835. 1. An act to raise supplies for 1835.-.v- . 2. An act to make appropriation, 1835 3. An act concerning the free schools. 4. An act to authorized the formation of the larnweil Rail Road company. * 5. An act to incorporate the American and rerman trading and insurance company. 6. An act more effectually to prevent; free egrocs and other persona of color, from, patering itQ this state and for other purposes. 7- An act to amend the laws in relation to ranting licences to retail spiritous liquors and >r other purposes." *8. An act to incorporate and establish a bank t Hamburg in S. C. 9. An aet to incorporate the town of Hamburg Id for other purposes. 10. An -act to vest in Madame Talvande tho ght of the Stato in certain real estate in the ity of Charleston. 11. An act to alter and amend tho 4th section fan act entitled an act to provide for the more Fectual performance of Patrol duty, passed oh IA IfttVl IWnmKnf IfilQ . 12. An act to cause surveys for a rail roal between Cincinnati and Charleston. 13. An act to incorporate Cokeabury School Cokesbury in Abbeville District. 14. An act to authorize the city oouncil; of; harleston to shut up certain' streets near the arket in Charleston, and forjother purposes. , 15. An act to amend the charter of tho Edge, ild Kail Road Company. 16. An act^ to incorporato a Bank in tho town ' Camden. 17. An act to incorporate the Cinch ~ti and harleston Rail Road Company. ? . 18. An act to incorporate tho Charleston and biiladelphia Steam Packet Company. 19. An act to incorporate the Charleston and iverpool Line Packet Company. 20. An act to amend an act entitled an act con. irning Hawkers and Pedlars, passed on 17th ecember, 1831. 21. An act to establish certain Roods, Bridges, id Ferries. . .? 22. An act to alter and amend tho Judiciary stem of the State.' 23. A act to vest in the Wardens of Wansbane mreh -in St. James' Parish. Sumter, tho ri?ht 'the State in certain property. . 24. An act to amend the Tension law of this ate. ^ . 25. An act to consolidate the first company of e Charleston ancient Battalion of artillery, and e Jefferson artillery into one company,-and to corporate the same and for other purposes. 26. An act further to provide for the military ganization of the State, . 27. An act to incorporate certain towns and ilages, and for other purposes. lie following Report was unanimously adopted by both branches of tko Legislature of South Carolina: - REPORT - ' the joint committee of Federal Relations on eo much of the Governor's message as relates to the institution of domestic slavery, and the incendiary proceedings of the Abolitionists in the non-slaveholding States. . - | Mr. Ilamilton of the Senate, from the com. ittee on federal gelations, submitted the follow. Ef report. The joint committee of federal relations, to iom was referred so much of his ExcpUeney a Governor's message, as relates to the instituin of domestic slavery, and the incendiary pro. edingsof theabolitionistsin the non-slavchold. r States, beg loave te report:? .w ' That they nave given to this subject the deep d anxious consideration which both from its . xinsic importance, and from the profound and triotic raflnciipns. of the Executivn. it so obvji ' sly demands. * j.y. They desire to respond in torms of the moii iphatic concurrence and approba-ion to the >w which his Excellency is pleased to present mild and patriarchal character of the institum of domestic slavery in the Southern States, influence on national character and civil libty, and tho nature of thoso obligations, resultt from our constitutional compact, and the ' ? - - r -v. ?1 1 tnciptes OI lnwnidUUUiU un, UJIUU *rwvu uui sure to this species of property so inviolably its. , ,v. The present condition of the slave question in o States of this confederacy, presents one of o most extraordinary spectaclas which, your mmitteo will venture to assert, has ever chah: iged the notico of tho civilized world. We. b sovereign States, united by a common league, about one half of which States, the institu-. >n of slavery not only exists, but its legal ex.' once is solemnly recognized and guaranteed by cir compact of union. Yet in the face of this ropact, and the clear and distinct admission* at the non-sl&veholding States have not the ghtest right, either constitutionally or other, ise, to interfere with this institution, tho most cendiary associations ara tolerated of permitted exist within their limits, the object and ends: which not only strike at the prosperity and ippinoss of eleven States in the confederacy, it at their very social existence. n. :* M dS. X UiMiUi iltj IX JUUjT UCi ib iO |Ui|rvDOiiMv vw lisc the fact, that this is a condition of thing* bich cannot, in the long ran, be permitted to ist- Every wi6e instinet of self-preservation, rbids it. Let it. be admitted, that the throe illions of freo white, inhabitants in the slave>lding States are amply competent to hold in cure and pacific subjection the two millions of ives, which, by the inscrutable dispensation of rovidence, have been placed under our doininn. Let it be admitted, that, by reason of an Gcient police and jadicions internal legislation, o may render abortive the designs of the fanatand incendiary within our own limits, and th&t e torrent of pamphlets and tracts which the tolition presses at the north are pouring forih ith inexhaustible copiousness, is arrested the oment it roaches our frontier. Are we to, wvit itil our enemies have built'up, by the grossest fsrepraseotauons and fahrehoods, it body of pub. : opinion against us, which it would be .almost lpossible to resist, without separating ourselves om the social system of the rest of the civilized orld ? Or are we to sit down content, because om our own vigilance and courage the torch of, e incendiary and the dagger of the midnight aatsin may never be applied 1 This is impossie. No people can live in a state of perpetn^' [citement and apprehension, although real da& rr may be long deferred. Such a condition of te public mind is destructive of all social hapness, and consequently roust prove essentially jurious to the prosperity of a community that is the weakness to suffer under a perpetual pan. . This would be true, if the causes of this extement proceoded from the external hostility of foreign nation. But how infinitely interesting id momentous tlie consideration becomes, when ley flow from tho acts and doings of citizens of tates, with whom we are not oiuy in amity, but whom we ale bound by the strongest bonds of common union, which was framed to promote 10 happiness, peace, security and protection of L . .. We havo. therefore, a claim on the governments f the non-slaveholding States, not only moral ad social, but of indispensablo constitutional ihgation, that this nuisance shall be abated, hey not only owe it to us, but they owe it to, gmselvee, to that Union, at whose shrine they irc so often ffored up the highest pledges, by hich man can plight his temporal faith. Your committee would bo inclined to rocomlond to- this Legislature to mako an explicit detendph tlie non.slaveholding States, for the srffc of ponal laws by their Leg itd stuns, pro. iding for tho punishraont of incendiaries within fair limits,'.who aro engaged .in an atrocious jnspiracy against our nghts of property and j zc^r:Ii.alconf:drn'.o, a frs'r.rrjilf'oMng, I y ' 1 -it * * -j ">J . zm: \?r. -J wff* " and the Comity which belongs to oxn-t^ciuj and political relations, forbids us for ono moment to doubt, that every effort will* be made by tk<* States to whom this appepl is referable, to meet, not only our just expectations on this , subject, but every emergency-which belongs to this crisis ,of pubtyc peril. Indeed when wo romcmbor the strong demonstrations of public opinion, which were presented at various gratifying public meet* Ings, which were held during the last*summor throughout tho non.slavcholding States, denouncing as anti-social and unconstitutional the proceedings of the fanatics and incendiaries; when wo remember, too, the avowal, universally made, by the public press, in those States; that a vast and over whelming majority of their people, viewcd such proceedings with horror and detestation, wo cannot-but beheve that every rational cxpec-. tation, which the slaveholding States can cherish on this vital question, will be cheerfully met and responded to by those on whom we have such inviolablo claims. > ' * * We concur entirely in tho view which our Ex. ecutive takes of the grounds, on which our .right to demand tlio enactment of such conservative , legislation rests. ' > Apart from those obligations, resulting from tho constitutional compact, which unites these I States, and which mal>c it thu imperativo duty of one member of this confederacy, not tc allow its citizens to plot against the peace, property and Snd happiness of another member, thero is no principle of international law better established, than that even among foreign nations, such atro<? cious abuses-sro not to be tolerated, except at the peril of that high-and ultimate penalty, by which a brave and free people vindicate their rights'. Vour committee are aware, that it has been said, that no legislation can bo -adopted to arrest the'proceedings of the Abolitionists by the nOnslaveholding States, without violating-the great principlo of the liberty of the press. We consider that tliis objection rests on no just foundation. Tnere is certainly some difference between , the freedom of discussion, and the liberty to del- I ugo a friendly and coterminous state with scdi- i tious and incendiary tracts, pamphlets and pic- torial representations, calculi ted to excite a por- ( tiou of itfi population to revolt, rapine and bloodshed. We would fain believe, that the Northern liberty* of the press, would nevor be construed in- ' to a liberty, to lay the South in ashes. Under & ; law honestly passed to meet this crime against society, and treason against the Union, the whole. < circumstances of the case, and the quo animo of the offender might be left to a jury to determine 1 like any other criminal issue, and if .we are tobelieve inrthe condition of public opinion, as re- i cently exhibited in most of tiro non-sl&veholding , States, we are far from thinking that such legislation would be a mcro dead letter. South Carolina will not anticipate tiie crisis, which must fate, presented by a refusal on the part : of the non-shveholding states, to accord to us the J protection of such legislation,or such o'.h$r means, < as they may select for the suppression of the evil? of which we complain, for she will not douBt tho good fuith and amity of her sister states. She desires to live in peace and. harmony in this Union 1 In tho assertion of her rights and in the prefering her claims to be secure in tlio enjoyment of her property, under the compact, she desires "to act in entire concert with thoso states, whose interests aro identical with her own. She is, how. * ever, prepared to do her duty to herself and posterity. under all and every possible conjuncture of circumstances. ' In conclusion, your committee, desirous of making a matter of record, both of oar rights, and tho assertion of the just expectation that they I will be respected by those, who are united with s as in the bonds of a common union, beg leave to oiler the following resolutions, for the adoption of both branches of the legislature. 1. Revolted, That the formation of the Abolition Societies, and tho hcts and doings of certain fanatics, calling themselvesabolitionists, in the non-slaveholding states of this confederacy, are. in direct violation of tjlB rdiK<rntinn? nf the ?nm- _ ]5Sctot union, dissocial, arid Incendiary in the extreme. 2. licsdctd, That no stato-having a just regard , for her own peaco and security cairacquicsce in a state of things by which such conspiracies are ' engendered within the limits of a friendly state, united to her by tho bonds of a common league nf nnntimtl 4(Knciation. u-khonl cither surrender. ' ing or compromitting her most essential rights. [; 3. Resohed, That tlie Legislature of South , Carolina, having every confidence in the justice and friendship of the non-slaving states, announ- * ces to her co-states her confident expectation-, 1 and ahe earnestly requests that the governments 1 of these states will promptly and effectually sup. ] press all those associations within their respective , limits, purporting to be Abolition Societies, and that they will make it highly penal to print, pub- 1 lish and distribute newspapers, pamphlets, tracts, '} and pictorial representations, calculated and hav- j ing an obvious tendency to excite the slaves of | the Southern states to.insurrection and revolt. 4. Resolved, That, regarding the domestic slavery of the Southern states as a subject exclusively within the control of each of the said states, we shall consider eveiy interference, by any other J state or .-the Genera] Government, as a direct and unlawful interference, to bo resisted at once, and under every possible circumstance. 5. Resolved, In order that a salutary negative 1 may be put on the mischievous, and unfounded 1 assumption of some of the Abolitionists?the ( non-skvcholcling states arc requested to disclaim by legislative declaration, all right, either on the part of themselves or the government of the Uni-, 1 ted States, to interfere in any manner with domes- ' tic si avcrv,either in the states, or in the territories where it exists. 6. Resolved, That wc should consider the abo-. liiion of slavery in the District of Columbia, as a violation the rights of tlie citizens of that DisJ~:-V4iWkm thn irrrnlieH <>oni)ilin>i<nn which vngifuoavruuviu i that territory wm ceded to the General Govern* rnent,' and as an usurpation to be at once resisted as nothing mora than tho commencement of a scheme of much more extensive and flagrant in* justice. ' 7. Resolved, That the Legislature of South Carolina, regards With decided approbation, the measures of security adoDted P<w* n**r?. J Depxrtnfcflt ot tlxe United States in tolation to the transmission of incendiary tracts. Bat if this highly essential and protective policy, be coun* terioted by Congress, and the United States mail i becomes a vehicle for the. transmission of the ( mischievous docaments, with which it was re* ccptly freighted, we, iu this contingency, expect thai tho Chief Magistrate of our State, will forth* vfHhr call the Legislature together, that timely jnrcifiurcs mav be taken to prevent its trunsversing ear. territory. 8. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this report and resolution , to the Executives of the several states, that they may bo laid before their respective Legislatures. , THE FIRE AT NEW YORK. Abridged from the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser of Dec. 17. A large section, and that the oldest and most respectable portion of the.city, is in ruins. Since the conflagration of Moscow, no calamity by fire," so extensive, and so dreadful, lias befallen any.city in the world. The fire broke out in Merchant street, in. the triangular block formed by Wall,'William and Pearl, at about 9 o'clock last night-?[The night of Dec. 16,] A.fierce wind wqs blowing from the North-West, and the weather so intensely cold as to render the efficient working of the engines i impossible. The consequence was, ^that | the fire held the mastery through the night ?spreading with great and .destructive ra[pidity. It was an awful night for New I yvvy far tha .couutrv. Cut wo.'can * r . r - y -TV * " * " 1. " \ neither deksito the groiicicap of tiie spectacle, nor its terrors,-nor the desolation brought more distinctly to.vie\v bymorning light. The arm ,of man was powerless; and many of our fellow citizens who retired to. their pillows in affluence, were bankrupts on awaking. * The fact of the powerlessness of the firemen, from the almost instant congelation of the water, and the benumbing influence of the cold, increased tlie consternation which prevailed among the thousands of the agitated multitude who were witnesses of the calamity?many of them doomed to stand and see the destruction of their own fortunes, without bcihg able.to lift a finger for the rescue.. To airest tiie flames was at pnee seen to be impossible, save by the. biowiug up of ranges of buildings in advance of the. fire, that "its. prpgress might thus be.interrupted. But. the "difficulty wasv to obtain .]X)wder?-none of consequence being allowed. in tbc city. ' A sufficient supply,, .therefore,, could not be obtained, short of the Navy Yard?whence, also, the mayor was obliged to send for a strong military force to preserve property from the sweums of robbers who .are ever ready on such occasions. What a commentary: on the depravity of man ! Sach is the confusion.that prevails, and such the difficulty .-"of. working one's way among the- sroofce, aqdjifle, and heated ruinsj tfetitclVhnpossffile.tO'dotail particulars wkh ony pretensnoas to wuracy,. Seventeen blocks of .buildings, of the largest and most costly description, are totally destroyed; the large block between Wall street and Exchange place,, bounded on the west hy Broad street, that between Exchange place and Beaver street, fronting on Broad street, and that between Beaver and Mill streets, also fronting on Broad, are greatly injured, and may almost be said to bo destroyed?except the single range of - stores fronting on uroad street. During the whole night the scene was ono of awfuJ terror and indescribable grandeur. The drought, of this season had contributed to-the combustibility of the matter, and the rapidity with which house sifter house, and range after range, were wrapped in flames, was truly astonishing. The wind, being high, large flakes of fire were borne whirling aloft through the dark vanlt of heaven with fearful splendor. From the direction of the wind?to which, under Providence; the salvation of perhaps the whole city is; owing?the city of Brooklyn was considered in danger) and the flakes of fire were borne along in quantities beyond Flatbush. [The roof of a house in Brooklyn did take fire, but it was extinguished.] The buildings on Exchange place having become involved in the conflagration, the flames communicated to the Merchants Exchange itself the exemption of which had been so strongly confided in, that a large amount of goods was deposited there for safety. Before these could be removed, and the numerous tenants of that edifice could remove their private property, the fire corrmrofliearca to tne 'roo^antt thTs soon falling in, carried with it the wall at the east end of the building, beneath which several persons are said.to have been buried alive. The mere amounf of property said to have been wasted and destroyed, not by the flames but in the confusion, and hurry, and desperation of the time, is probably equal to the entire loss at ordinary fires. A number ,of able and cool calculators in consultation this morning, have estimated the loss at fifteen millions of dollars. [The loss is estimated by others at oight or ten millions. All or nearly all was. of course insured. Some of the insurance companies are broken, arid'will be able to pay no more than 50 cents in the dollar; others, ' " , .11 i nowever, win oe awe 10 pay uu.j iw fire insurance capital of this city?to say nothing of the insurances effected elsewhere?is about ten millions. The calculation is, that about six hundred stores have been consumed?the insurance of which does not avorage more than about five thousand dollars upon each?making the sum of three millions. The loss, therefore, in real estate, is not by far as great as will at first be supposed, inasmuch as the lots themselves constitute the chief value?being often worth three or four times more than the buildings on them. Whatever amount, therefore, the insurance eoir.panics will be able to pay, the holders of real estate will be able to sustain and bear up under the loss. Under this view of the case, it will be seen ?W will remain seven millions of in bUUk w ?? ?? ? ? ^ , surance capital to be divided into a pro rata dividend toward covering the fosses on per- : sonal property. Many merchants, likewise, have doubtless insured their stock ofgoods in other cities. 'So that, girt the whole, it rmt wit itot ?r^> ^rprjjf nf York will be<Kstbrbed. The losses most severely to be- felt and deplored, will be those of widows and orphan^ whose property has teen invested in stocks. POSTSCRIPT. 1 o'clockj P. M. The fire has been mastered. Ftm the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer. The following, will be found a tolerably accurate statement of the number of houses 1 .< ?? ii-ifK ttw* mrvnnil UHU SIUltZS IIUV. lyfvuvu nIMA wiw ^Aviuiu* 20 on Water street, | 79 on Pearl street, 0 en South street, 70 oa Water street, 70 oa Water street, 80 on Front street, 10 on Hanover-street, ^ .> 62 on Exchange Place, 31 on Exchange-street, 44 on William-Street, 33 on Old slip, 16 on Cx?nti6s slip, y 60 on St)ne-street, ,. ' ' 3on Hanover square, 23 on Bef.ver street, 20 on Goierneur's lane, 10 on Jones' lane, 20 on Culler's Alley, .. 38 on Mill-fllicct. """"""""m^m ^ Vtfs I \ .. . j -: A 1 t-t ' Six hundred and sirejifyw^ur tenement'"' By far the gftater part in (heOcCtipaa^v oi pur' largest shipping uhHwholosaie fbv goods merchants aiiL^Bed whh^ie * "% products of every portion of the'Globes How estimate the immense loss sustained* or the fearful consequences to the generaS** #% prosperity I Of the Merchant's Exchange nothing but its marble \ralls remain standing. * Three or four vessels laying at the wharves on Soutb-street wcrp slightly injured in their yards and rigging; They weiu a^ out into the river as soon as practicable, . \ - J| As wc cannot state the "loss of ITrwiU^*. precision, wc abstain from giving surmised ^ ^ * The cofchdwing the whole time was excess sive, the Tliermometer at Zero. It may kfc *1^ easily supposod that- this greatly paralyze# , jB tne rxenions 01 tne riremen. - we saw ootr ^ who sank under its eflectsand wh6 was wirti j difficulty resuscitated, , i ' " 't: " :J Every littie boy, arhl every little girl too, Who .'Av^ sees this paper, is requested to read the first article on the last page. 03" The following Periodicals devoted to . Agricultuije are received in exchange at this office, and files of them kept in the bookstore, which Planters are invited to call examine \Vith a iiooe that for their cum t?- * M teres* they may be indacecf to subscribe.'. The Southern Agriculturist published . monthly in Charleston, S. C. at Jive doRdrt per annum. The Fabmee "and OabUener, successor , to the American Farmer, published weefcly in Baltimore at five dollars pet annum. The Cultivator, published monthly in . . Albany, N. Y. at fifty cents per annum, The Western Farmer, published monthly in Cincinnati, Ohio> at one dothr. per~DIED, , . In Robeson county N. C. on the 41th net. L ? 1 NEILL BROWN Esq. in pie 86th yew of h i* age, a patriot of the revolution, Tin ^ } and very deservedly esteemed by all who knew him. He wm chosen & delegate* to w- ?tatt* Convention of 1788, mud afterwords o- member , of the General Assembly for severftyells. ^ &? ?* '* '-<> had been lonjr & consistent and useful leader ytf ,.. the Presbyterian church, and died in the triozflu f COMMERCIAIr J^V>1SP? PRICES CURRENT, PEC. JS 1 ' s*-f Bicfia markets' ? fo '/ :"^JT'( + 3if~ Bacon lb - 8 ; . Beeswax18 lb 16 ' 4* yaA n;.i^ jnuco grcuu ju -* * 5? !* ? 5-'l Leather solo . ib 3i" . 3ft Lead bar Ik & >. te? gS ? ?... N*"?Srd ' o*? , ? **. "ss".. -g -tl *j linseed ffil ' Paints white lead _ * 35?. Sag." ?- 10 at, Zl # '# Steel American blister lb W ???: d? lb ^ I! Tallow ^ ,lh ' ^ |3^ To&acco manuiacuirea iar o | wl, Window gh.. 8 x 50ft W ? COTTON?One prime fat .eld JS 4 " ag" r^ARRIVEP. 1 . E On the 24th December, stoamofJttalbtflfUr o' ^ ** days from Georgetown, with menltutd^e to J A !*-r * W Leak, D Johnson, >A- Bine, F Long, Bcott & Keeter, W HL Robbing, 1 & C Powell, Jl Mnc ** Lean, J C Ceit, DAt J ^lorv H Hutchinson, J S Stinenwtz, A rfopton, J J WestT Co S B WiUiamaJ A JoU7, K?e?'&#?^hlV . J McCMl^a, GW4ER " J p.im?o Sm;?K * w;rn*m. n Pftrk. J9&*&? m JS cSMrfS-'iSSE:' *- : 4 ORDINANCE. , - , BE it ordained by t Uc .Tom Council of Crt*Wft*, and it iB hereby ordained by ti? jSftT** thority of the same, that fronp end after the pa-;r sage of tliia act, wlwn any of the Petrel i-At}' up any negro or negroes, belonging to th?. town thii a i plain ofsuch patrol shall iq{Lk^H??> In/itched, each corporal punishment as he Way tieoni proper, not exceeding nineteen ksbee. ibid should the patrol take np any negro of negroes from the country, or tin* pesqpos of coterr aft such shall be put in the guard house until skxe. . 1 irtg, when they shall bo brought Up b^p the Council, or some one of them, to be deaitwhh accdrding to law. FELIX LOXG, Clerk T. C,J0T Dae. 23, 1835. v . ' *>. - '< I > . ? ; PIANO FORTS- MUSto: i'.IS.j ' . 100 sheets, well,selected, jmt rccefwM?* & J Hook Store. oome boxes of new books, A^hich ^nll 'be sold fully as low as they can b-i bought,*'at in-New York or Philadelphia. * ? : . ", l> " A GOOD family Barouche,' which ha* bo; 9 < in userbut is in good repair, with-barn raj, for sale. Apply to . _ If R. H, "CROCKETT.' D?.29?J8?; __ I V,; .NOTICE. I THE subscribers hare censignpdio them and I are daily expecting the fol lowing articles, I 2 casks Porter, wST I 10 barrels Floor, . ^ I ;1? J0> Tte, ' fl 100 do Potatoes, M bunches Onions, ' / M 5 boxes Herrings, / fl 25 pdrpf trace chan*, AAirct*n* M 1 qu irtor cask ofWine, tehicfrft.3 cd to be equal Co any in the Vn&Z ' * th~ Yi:^of 1^1, caek ?r iu fl