resnctsco, Stockton; sad Sacramento City. Wt . erpapers favor the ideti of bosendisrista. . So, far as the Stockton fires is concerned it seema inhere otiginated -.' where 'accidental fire. might Evilly occur the kitcheifof a - large hoteL Nor does there appearany evidence that the fire at San Francisco was other than accidental ' By . the Cherokee we shall have letters from oar . cor respondents, which may probably throw more Sett upon this feature Of" the cilimitY.— We are inclined, stpresent, to attribute it to'se- ' Mention is made above of six men who were burned to dt.stli - in the Iron store of Messrs.. Taaffe Their names Were Captain Jaime Welsh. Edward SWAM, Leon Green bain, fo?,en ' Newsbaum, and Lewis Ilosenthal. .Ihe burned bodies of Cap tain Welsh and Mr C.,4111 were found in the ro- Frm fhe Ails C rents of dfdy 5 and 6. ' " Cent, navalefficer, Mr: Brown, appraiser, Mr. Green, collector, and a number of others in the naval deparbrietit, bad all their private ef- Win destroyed. • The books and papers of the - .department were nearly all saved: The money .... was plated in the vault, : The barridng houses will all ressone business in .. 'the comae of the week. ' When Burryne's• sato' was opened, $1,600,- , 000 were taken out not singed or damaged in the least. -The books and all the papers, deposits, eame out fresh Wand free from the least blemish. This firm hail borne the teat of fires and panics, and now stands es firm, with the ex ception of the loss of their building; as they did a week ago. They will' resume business immer . Cook & Lecount, booksellers, on Montgomery street, lost their entire stock. Mr..BitightllD, of the firm of Bingham, Bey • nolds Pc Bartlett, on lianeom limed, in his elm' dons to save his building, fell from it and broke his jaw: The bnildingvas finally saved. He is doing well. Mr. Jemes,ll.r. Naglee Forst and nine others, ' while'working at Naglee's building, where they were rendering assistance to save the. building and property, 'had their retreit cut off by the fames. There they remained severe hours in a most perilous and forlorn nitliation;• expecting every moment to be beried in the ruins While in this prodicainent, one of the party saw a .min endeavoring to escape from a neighboring' build ' log—he became enveloped in flames—fell, ex haunted, and was omit - rimed. Br. E.'P. Jones' house in California street, and the,two buildings above it, all , of wood,' escaped narrowly, endowed their safety to the apace of vacant ground around than. ' • . Jones' Hotel,. at the foot of California etreet, 'was several times on fire in various places; but by the exertion's of persons connected with the house, and the'. proximity of sea water, which .was handed up in buckets, thin'popollar new ho telwin saved, ,notwithstanding its being built of _ . . -.. The safety of Macortdray & Co.'s Stores, in Sonsome street, was owing to their own fore- Sight and 'exertions. They had the wisdom to provide for such an emergency by sinking a large tank, containing 80,000 gallons of sea water. Mr. Fetrovits, the artist, having his studio in Bolton, Barron & CO.'s brick building, relying upon the security it offered, lost all his paintings. ' upward of twenty portraits, and materials. The books, papers and specie of the Custom House were not thrown into the reservoirs, as it Los beeu stated. They. were placed in the sub stantial vaults built under the direction of Col lector Ring, for that purpose, and yesterday they were all found to be entirely safe. The El Dorado stood proof against the fire, which raged round two sides of it. It is a very , • sabstantial brink building, with' ell its window frames, shutters, doors and verandahs of iron. ' " The Verandah, also a brick building, at the op . posite corner of Washington and Heaney streets, Many acts of noble and reckless daring were performed during the fire, especially by men en tering buildings enveloped with flames to save property or assist In palling them down, and in , some instances by planting casks of powder in I ' buildings for the purpose of blaiing them up.— I In blowing up the Sacramento Hotel, Broodway, the first explosion was ineffectuoL and it was thought that only one of the casks' planted ; bad .. Ignited, and yet In this uncztainty,-a. dui" I ' " ;spirit was found who walked into the building already in flames, with two more casks of pow ' der,,firel the fusses and retreated coolly. In., less thane, minute after the huge building mum- ' ' - bled into fragments upon its own foundation. Thl shipping in the harbor escaped the fate which for hours seemed to await them. Busby Meeting up - the wharves and cutting off the con nection,' the progress of the fire was checked at Battery street The only vessels burnt were the Nismic, the Apollo, and °cord Harrison, store daps; which were a long-time ago - hauled in and ' • built upon close up to high water mark. The city has eines . extended fax beyond them, and left them as it-were in the heart of the town.. The bedding of Messrs. Howard and Green, in Montgomery street, withstood the ordeal by . basing atteet iron set „up to shield the windows and doors in the basement. story. In this build , ing there are many of our most respectable low -yam, vrhoso large end valuable libraries have - been fortunately preserved. A19.011g the number '• ; nre ISIM Hawes, and Messrs. Yale, Barnett, and • Masson , whose copious libraries they generously offer to make accessible the bench and bar of Bill Francisco ' to alleviate in m some essore, ' the loss' which the profession hare sustained by ' the consumrdion of the law. libraries in this city. • Among those in the late fire. whose praiswer • thy efforts in relieving the property and effects of others, was Capt. Wm. L. Howard,laie of th'e U. S. It. 8., who has been so seriously injured - * ' as CO require close medical attention. Captain - 11. breasted the destroying element till the skin was taken from his bands and.face, and no man • - deserves more honor for disinterested action than ' - The brick safe of the B. M. S. S. Company was ' opened on Mondaymtorning,though ' filled with ' books, papers and valuables, every . thing was found to be in the most perfect ton e dition. The office of the company will be con tinned in the same place in a temporary build lag now erecting. The ship Samna Drew, Copt- Holbrook, took fire three times from the burning brands that were driven upon her by the wind, but by prompt ' application °twister, abe was each time saved.— Several others were also °afire at various times, but noes, we .are happy - 6'lv, were burned.— The Autlubon,after being In llamas ovemltimes, deliberately pump her helm and wound her way among the fleet, and succeeded in reaching a'place of safety 'without a collision or accident. of anon Thle whole manoeuvre' widadmira- , • ' • Finn Panora:7S onto of oar citizens ere deter ,' mined to be proof against fire hereafter: Moffat & Co. who escaped on the .4th, with the trifling lass of their engine room and foresee shop, are putting up a dead wall, sixteen inches thick and • • twenty feet high' entirely around it, and eripect to be in full blot again ip two weeks: . . Burgoyne St Co. are pushing aheadifireproof - ' building of much larger dimensions than the one burned, and it will of course be made proof against all fires that may hereafter occur. So of others ' ; and It may safely be predicted - that henceforth nearly all brick buildin which • ' Will be built will be of obligee:threat may'efy . the destroying element. ~ • ' • • SAN FRANCISCO REBUILDING. The following arethe only buildings preserved within the burnt district: El Dorado, Verandah, Naglee's Building, Argent's' Building. Cooke, :'Brothers & Co.'s, Mr. Selby's. Beaded ware hose, California Exchange; Haloes Building, . Howard's Building, James King of Wm.'s, C. E. Hunter's, Mr. Gibb's, Glidemeestor, De Fremery " & Co.'s, Johnson & Canfield, half the bcdlding. The whole city, is alive'with workmen ' engaged.. in rebuilding upon the burnt district. ' The Alta . California goes the following astonishing in . stance of the recuperative energy of 'tan Fran . . . • . ' . • From Monday, sth Inst., when the fire ceased; . . up to the present time, May . l4, an interval of ton days, 857 buildings have been commenced, of which the =jot part are" finished' and Deco . pied. ' , This .is exclusive of the many that are . . . going up in other parts of ' the city not touched . by the fire. Including them, the total number ~ . Hof houses just completed, or in the course of . . . erection throughout the, city, will not fall short "they 450 i ' Of course, from the rapidity with which . . have been put up, most of them are frame, but still, in every Instance in which a brick' . ... . building was burnt, - either the, walls still stand ing I will be used in rebuilding, or where they : axe =fit, anew !brick fire proof building will be • erected 111 the place of the one destroyed. Frit= Oa Calsfornia ifeinld May 14. - ... After the first severe crash of the misfortune, . ; ..mazy desponded of the recovery of the city from . . its stunning and terrible effects; but , much ener. gy as we have seen displayed on former mei ' mons of alike dc.soription, the buoyant industry • exhibited within the last tender, exceedsevery . . thing that hasgmie before. Indeed, it would seem as if, in the exercise of a strong and determined ': will, the citizens are resolved that they shall not • - ' , To tarn to some particulars of interest to our ' • • fellow citizens of the Eastern States, the articles ' I •• of iron houses land Roman cement have been . • prayed utterly !useless by this conflagration.— . . . W.b,. doubtless, under other circumstances are . ••• ', - toed in their: way; but the iron bUildings are • .. • anything else hut fire proof, and the cement has . ~..- ! crumbled away in the, brick walls which yielded 1 to the fire, so as to prove it utterly unreliable when exposed to heat- • ' ,7" • , Co IrrOPondece of the Journal of Commare. • . ' ." ' ' Pair FBA:swap, May 15,1851. '''' • - -41 1 e ereezher has been pleasant the. past fort '-- ' '; - •• -' ‘. ...t3i' ght •- . •. -l.r-°h'- rain, nave x a little 1 s how er yesterd ay ... -• i stang e,w-X-Vt.t05.E...,g0-ot wind from ApBc,aloen this morning wehad a severe shock of "mequake. The braidings all shook and • • w a dded. The gamblers upon Long Wharf . rushed from their tables into the street. They °`^ '1 _ rashed_Up the pier, leeringthelr anifailver I Upon their storFarrif, tables totally unprotecte d. --The lawyer occupants the brick blinking .house of, Ff. Amend Co., living uP stairs In the sa and sa dories, rushed into the streets Ides teremetile4 just IN thellruPed from their bias Many of the wooden buildings hand it "sad fee' end trembledas thou& they - Stern all to , be engulfedin arriontent , ... The sun was - shining be.antlibily at the time, and the thermometer ranging about 60°. , • wi th rapidity all over. the Stores are go i ng Up -- city, both in and out of ths burnt district sod I,y the 4th of Juiy proximo, I'lL sentare to say Fran cine monthMato la be standing in Sui Fran cine er fin excepted) than there were a m"Theremittruaces by the stunt day will be less anal:anal. *Many are se ra home small l eas, preferring to keep all they dare, for pre sent need. . ' FIRE AT STOCKTON. On the night of Tuesday, May 7, a lire broke out:at Stockton. ;particulars of which are given in an extra from the office of the San Joaquin Republican. The lass is estimated at a million of dollar= It *with feelings of the most intense sorrow that we Issue an - extra to inform the public that another terrible conflagretion has occurred, which has devastated our city, leaving it a heap of reins. The loss.haa been animated at upward of a million of dollars. The Are broke outlast night at 12 o'clock, under the kitchen of the Merchants' Hotel. The wind was blowing amp ly from the north-west, and soon the devouring element extended to the El Placer, whim mag nificent structure was Soon a heap of take. Thence the fire extended to the El Dorado and along both sides of Centre:street with frightful 'rapidity, but was stayed at the store formerly occupied -by Hyde A. Loring. By the incredible exertions pf the imnates of the old Stockton Times building; ind the superhuman efforts of Mr. Crabb, Mr. Endicott and others, that struc ture ' and the Galt House were saved. Almost the entire blocks fronting on the Losvettand Main street-:-11: in'all—were burned. With the nerve to meet such a calamity, in a becoming manly spirit, many of our principal citizens, while the fire was yet teeing, contract, ed for new • bnildingt. We doubt not that ere nightfall we shell see some new temporary 'true , NY gi tol;iletV4 MI 01 PUBLIBUED BY WIIITI I CO PITTSBURGH TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1851 ntimainnie and Whig County Ticket. • rsserroirr .I=do or oureslor cow, WALTER FOB W•WD, of Peebles. 1 aanirnar SCUM 01 DWI= 0001 x. 4 !LENITY W. WlLLlAllK.oflUtsbirals, rasscosor mos 0100th 07 Q 1131.1111 U.1030.11 t 40.1 NIL B.32CLURE, of Fittabstrob. - I AssoclArs moms or moor or ovum 11==0, WM. HOGOS, or loom Bt. Moir. TLIOALLS L MILLLGAN, of Alleoboo7. 15.1¢93.i. JOHN SPCLUSILBY. of Radom. JAMES 11021, _or Snowden. 020. 2- APPLETON, of Ittrosiughozo.. TUOS. PENNEY, of ICKeorprri, JOHN MLLES, of loAlans. Atom SWAM FAIL:a:ST CHI of PitroLorrst , I.I.SSEIL ALEX. 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