PITTSDURG IN KUINS. (From the Pittsburg Advocate and Gai., Apr. 11 MOST DREADFUL CALAMITY. ' AWFUL CONFLAGRATION. At 6 o'clock, P. M., Thursday evening, we ait down to our desk with a gad heart, to record the most fearful calamity which ever bifel any r ty the (iize of Pittsburg'. While we now write, mi awful fire is raging, consuming the fairest portion of our city, and no human being can tell where it will stay its ravages. It ha now been burning for six hour a, and confusion reigns su preme, and it cannot be expected we shall give anything liku a particular statement of a calam ity i.i extensive and involving aueh fearful ru in. What general particulars we can give we I i v before our renders. The fire broke out about 12 o'clock, M., to i'iv, in an old trame shed on the east tide of Ferry street, used as we believe, for a smoke house, immediately surrounded on two sidrs with old framo buildings. The weather was 1'xinMiinly dry, and wind high, almost a gale blowing from the west. The houses adjoining, on Second street, caught fire immediately. The engines at this time b.gnn to pay, and had there been a sufficiency of water, would have subdued the fire. But from want of "nter, and high wind, the fire ex tidpil across Second street to the Globe Cotton Factory, which together with a dwelling ad joining, was consumed. The Third Presbyte rian Church was on fire, but was saved with great exertion. The fire, also, about the same time, extended cross Ferry street, to the west side, where it consumed some six or eight dwelling, when it was stopped iu that direction, the wind being favorable. Out it was cast of Ferry street where the fire raged with most fury. It immediately extend ed towards Market street, sweeping every house on both sides of Second street, and the whole iquare bounded by Market, Ferry, Second and Front streets, except one building, the ware house of the Cotton Factory. In the square bounded by Market, Ferry, Second and Third streets, every building was destroyed except tho Third Church, and Johnston & Stockton's Printing-office, and the American office. Th square bounded by Market, Ferry, Front and Water streets, waa caved, with but little injury. Tlws fire crossed Market at Front street, and then began to rage with awful fury. This was l limit two o'clock, P. M., and the wind had in creased to a perfect gale. The fire absolutely appeared to dance from room to roof, and in an incredible short space of time, the three im mense squares, composed mostly of warehouses, huuncd by Market and Wood, and extending fiom Third to the river, were a sea of flames. The heat by this time was tremendous, and the wind blowing a gale. Wood street formed ti j barrier at all. The flames went hissing a eross as if eager for their prey. Thpy also crossed Third street, bolow the new Post-office, and went rushing up Wood street across Fourth and Wood street was a sea of fire from the river to Diamond alley. But this was not all ; the fire had become un governable. The arm of man was impotent. Even the goods removed to the ttrocta for safe ty were seized upon and destroyed. On, on, marched the raging element. A sea of flame rolls on from Wood street to Sinithticld. The Monongahela House, tlmt noblest of modem ho tels, is surrounded with flumes ! it takes fire ! Still the ruin rolls on crossing Springfield and Grant 6treets, sweeping Scotch Hill entire ly. F-ien the canal does not stop it, the Gas Works take fire, and directly all Kensington is in (1 .lines ; and the fire rolls on, and is only stop pej in that direction, abxitone mile from where it commenced, frou. the want of food to feed itt voracious maw. In the mean time, the Monongahela Bridge has taken fire, and is entirely consumed. The Pittfbiirn It ink, supposed to be fire-proof, exten ding from Third to Fourth streets, is in flames. The Mayor's office is also on fire, and the new I tost office is in great danger. Let any one who is acquainted with Pitts burg survey the scene, and look over the extent M ground covered by this vast conflagration. So rapiJ did the fire progress, that at one time, be t A'een four und five o'clock in the afternoon, the fire was raging with undiminished fury, over a rpice extending, beginning at Market street, corner of Third, down Market street to the ri ver, up the river to the upper end of Kensing ton or Pipotown, opposite to Birmingham, down from Kensington to Fourth street to Siiilhfield, up Smithfield to Diamond nlley, d iwn Diumond alley to a large brick warehouse on Wood, across Wood, e xtending in a danger ous direction towards the Bunk, up Fourth street to the Mayor' Office, and across to Third street, the place of beginning. In all this vast space, the very heart of the city, including mutt of the warehouses of our manufacture, and our principal wholesale gro wers and commission merchants, there is not ono house .tunding that we know of. Twenty tquarca are entirely destroyed, and several partt of squares, besides all Pipetown. and till the buildinga around Bakewtll's glass works, which were also consumed. The loss of property must be immense. We shall not attempt to compute it. The fire spread so rapidly it was impossible to save pro perty. The Front street merchants, whose immenso warehouses were full of good, groceries and Pituburg manufactures, removed their goals to the whtrf, which thry covered over its whole DISASTROUS FIRE I'lTTSIlUUO IN 11UINS. ) I'.nrnt Gas Works Saved. I Burnt I Ross St. Grant at. Church Alley. Sm ithfid Street Wood St Market Street Liberty Street Feiry st Redoubt Alley 5A Hired C. Huhn Saved. Saved. Saved. hurt! CANAL. 7Uiiim'ni.' Alley, Point. Saved. Saved. !li.r't Saved. Sv'dj Burnt. Burnt U. S Punk Saved Hit Strict Burnt Burnt 31 Street, Burnt Burnt Burnt Burnt Burnt Bunk of Pittsb' rg Burnt P. O sv'd Saved. Saved. Saved Saved. Saved. Saved Saved Burnt Burnt Burnt Burnt 1'iirnt M Pr.Ch Saved 2l" Mreet. Burnt Burnt Burnt Burnt Front St, Burnt Burnt Burnt Burnt Wultr St. Bukewell's Glass S 2 House, Burnt. S. 5 X 2. n o S 3 2 j Mon'gahela brii'te Burnt Burnt lirii'l Saved Saved Saved Buint Burnt Saved Saved Burnt Burnt Burnt Burnt II II II II II II II II li II Burnt. Mauoug's House Burnt. 1 Steamer Burnt. Almost all the boats have hit the poit. Saved THE AMERICAN. Saturday, Jtpril 19, 1845. i. it. r.irnnu, J??., of At r:. tale ami Coal OKce, .V,. 69 Vine St net, Vht ladrl)thla, it authorized to art at 1frnt, ai d receipt lor alt montet due this oilier , for nb scrtition or attrerttnlnf. Jllito at hit Off ice Vb. lfiO .Miom h'trrrt, Mw lVrft. ,tnd S. K. Corner of Baltimore and Calvert ., Baltimore. K7" Friit Trem hav not, we believe, sustained any serious injury in this quarter, by the late cold weather. They are all in bloom, and will, we trust, produce abundantly. D7"That "incorruptible democrat" and great champion of the "ancient usages" of democracy, Horace M. Martin, a reporter, at Harrisburg, for the Pennsylvanian v and the North American, (whig paper.) who, in the fervor of his indigna tion, aided the Pennsylvanian and a few other "Old Hunker" Journals, in lavishing the terms "rascals and traitors" upon the democratic mem bers who voted for Gen. Cameron, for U. S. Sen ator, has been, it appears, expelled from both Houses. The Old Hunkers must be in a bad wa, indeed, to see their renowned champion thus cavalierly kicked out of their presence for his blackguardism and ungentlcmanly conduct. extent, down to the water's edge, but there they caught fire, and the most of them were consu med. Among the. public buildings destroyed, are the Pntsburg Bank, the Monongiheln House, the Merchants' Hotel, the Mayor's office, known as Philo 1L11, and all our Pittsburg insurance offices. The Chronicle snd Ago ( dices were remo ved. The Chronicle lost its presses. The Presbyterian Advocate and Protestant Unionist offices are both destroyed. But it is impossible for us to attempt to give the particulars of this dreadful calamity. Pitts. burg has received a dreadful blow, but we trust she will again rise from her ashes. At this time, seven o'clock, the fire is not extending, but it is yet Mging with awful sub limity in the burnt district. Hundreds and hun dreds of families are houseless and homeless, and their goods fill the streets. To add to the distress, the Gns Works were destroyed, and our city will be involved in darkness as soon as the lurid flumes die away. Jones & Sihbct's F.xchange Office, corner of 4th and Wood streets. Wm. A. Hill's Exchange Office, between Fourth st. and Diamond Alley. It. & It. H. Patterson's Kagle and Bazaar Livery Stables, Diamond Alley and Fourth st Associate Reformed Church, Fourth St., near G rant. Baptist Church, Grant st. IJakewell's extensive Glass Works, Water, above Grant street. The Monongahela House, destn yed, with all the furniture. Monongahela Bridge, entirely destroyed. It is rumored that several lives were lost on the Bridge. The Dallas Iron Works inPipi.lown, entire ly destroyed. The loss sustained in the destruction of the ubove buildings is iimnerise, but it is small when compared with the destruction of merchandise in the warehouses on Water, Wood, 1st aud'Jd streets. The merchants found it impossible to attempt The Legislature adjourned on Tuesday Inst. A vote of thanks was voted to the Speak ers of each House. Mr. Wileox, the Speaker of the Senate, bavin; resigned, as usual, the Senate elected J. B. Sterigere, of Montgomery, over H. Chapman, of Bucks, by a vote of 17 to 10, two votes scattering. 03s" The Legislature was convened, by procla mation from the Governor, afW the adjournment on Tuesday, and kept in s -ssion one day longer, for the purpose ol final action on some important bills that bad not been reached. They adjourn ed on Wednesday. The Girard Bill was killed in the House, by a strong vote. C3 Thk Great Fire at Pittshi ro. In ano. ther column our readers will find a full account of the most awful conflagration that ever occur red in this country. It is estimated that about 1200 houses, one third of the whole city, is laid in ashes, comprising about two-thirds of the bu siness part. The high winds and the dry Weather were no doubt the principal ciuises of the great extent of the fire. Meetings, we are pleased to see, have been called in all the principal cities, to aid the suffering inhabitants of the ill fated ci ty. The Legislature also, before the adjourn ment, appropriated fifty thousand dollars in aid of the sufleiers. M.llinn. of dollars will not rennir the loss ex- ' ' 6uVC anything ; while blocks were destroyed perienced. For t xtent of loss and wide-spread j a ,iw "". ,ie '""7 c"ulJ do desolation, no fire in this country ever equalled I wa8 lu '" u i 10 f"ve l,,L',r 'U- "d it To morrow wc ohall be able to give more 1)1,1 f-'w f lh '"ccecded even ... that particulars. It will be many years before our city can re- Stili. Later. At dark, you might see, at I cover from the effects of this dreadful calamity ; every direction, families sitting without shelter, I it has cast a blight over the commercial and nnarding such portions of the r household furni- J manufacturing enterprise of hundreds of our ture ns they were able to save from the flames, j most worthy citizens, and in an hour has swept and not knowing where they would lay their j from them all the profits of yean; of toil and in heads, or procure a morsel of food. Of course jdio-try. the kindness of their more fortunate fellow ci-j To their fellow citizens who have been for jizens did much to alleviate their sufferings, j lunate enough to escape this w ide-sprefcil des and as we believe all were provided for as well struct ion, they must look for aid to ''commence as the melancholy nature ofafliirs would al- j the world anew," and we ore confident they low. . w ill not look in vain. The Councils met in the afternoon, ond at- j We write in the hi.rry, confusion snd excite tempted to deviso some means to stny the con- ! iiirnt of the terrible lime, and under the physi flsgration. It was proposed to blow up houses cal weariness caused by laboring to save the that seemed in the wav of the (limes, the deli- i furniture of the house of one of the editors, lierationn, however, were ineffectual in results, and we bel eve but one or two buildinga were C7" We publish, in another column, a plan of the city of Pittsburg, showing the extent of the ravages of the late fire. Pittsburg is probably the most enterprising manufacturing city in the United States, and hardly exceeded for the extent and variety of its manufactures in the world. The city contains probably 10,000 inhabitants. ZI7 The IJittsburg napers say that the busi ness of the city is not prostrated that the great manufactories, of tbe city, with one or two ex- ceptious, were saved. The business portion of the community, we presume, has not suffered as much as was at first expected. TiorwATKR XorKs. The Legislature have passed an act, compelling the Company to receive 15 per cent, of their notes in payment of tolls. A bill of this kind was passed last win ter, but was vetoed with another bill to which it was attached. The Legislature should not have fixed the amount less than oue-thiid. Still, this is better than nothing. blown up. It seems to us indeed, that there could not have been time to accomplish any thing in the way of destroying houses, so ter ribly rapid was the progress of the fire. There is abundant reason for thankfulness that so few lives were lost. There are many rumors of men being killed, and burnt and wounded but they are not authenticated. One woman is certainly burned, and we saw a poor old man, tottering along with the help of two friends, his face badly burned. The loss of life, however, cannot be learned in the awful con fusion which prevails. We know not how topxprt.es our sense of the lively gratitude to which the firemen are enti tled from our afflicted and ruined citizens, well as those they have saved nothing in the shape of reward can compensate them for the inces sant toil they had to undergo, and for tho un yielding heroic firmness which they manifested under the appalling terrors w hich turrouudt d them on every side. If they had had a sufficiency of w ater t'uriog ( three others the whole time, they ci.uld have saved much j btioyeJ. more property as it was, they prevented the destruction of an incalculable amount. The following are the principal public build ings, manufactories and others that were des troyed : Globe, Cotton Factory, corner of Second and Ferry streets. Fire Navigation Insurance Office, Market, between Second snd Third. Pt-nn Insurance Office, corner of Market and Third. Bank of Pittsburg, Fourth, between Market and Wood. Office of the Daily Chronicle, da Job Printing Office of J. B. Butler, SJ be tween Market and Wood street. Merchant.' Hotel, corner of 3d and Wood sla. A. Kramer's Exchange Office, do. which was burned to the ground therefore, we omit much that we sought to notice but we have endeavored to five as full an account of the calamity as we could. We are informed that two lives were lost at the fire yesterday. One was an old woman, in the neighborhood of Grant and Third streets, w ho had no a'd to remove the furniture, and she refuted to leave her dwelling until it was loo late to save her. The other that we heard of was a gentleman doing business in Wood street, but we liopo it miy be a mere report. We hear rumors of many lives being lost, but as none of the reports are authentic we refrain from giv.ng them until we receive more reliable information. PoMAor By the new law, Postmasters may receive and transmit money to publishers ol pub lic journals, but cannot frank the letter. rowitiia Mill Blown IV The powder mill ofj. 1. (iaresche, near Wilmington, Del, was. blow n up on Thursday afternoon, at live o'clock, killing one nian and mortally wounding two or SO00 pounds of powder were de- Bow LAMo Hill. It is stated in a recent Kng i lish paper that Rowland Hill, the originator of j the cheap postage system, received fiom the Lon I don Mercantile Committee on cheap postage a check for $' 0,000, w ith an intimation (hut they reserve till some future opportunity a further de- nion&tiation of public gratitude. Mutual (Iain by Marbiauk. On the 20th ult , Mr. Charles W. Moore and Miss Martha Ann Moreland were married in Macon county, Alabama. By this marriage it will be seen that the gentleman has gained Murt-land, and the la dy, while she loses her land, has actually gained more (Moore.) Thy It. Sage put up into a closet, or any place frequented by those troublesome little vi sitrs Bed Ants it is said, will driva them a-way. ITT" Fire in the Woods and Moi'ntains. We have been surrounded by fires in the woods and mountains, for the last ter. days. The Blue Hill, west of the Susquehanna, immediately opposite this place, has been burning to its very brow The Mahonoy, Locust and Broad Mountains, ex tending about twenty miles, between this and Pottsville, are all on fire. We have been infor med, also, that the woods about George Conrad's, about five miles from this place, were on fire. If we should not soon be visited by rain, we hardly know to what extent the fires may reach. Pro fessor F.spy's theory of ruins will, we think, suf fer considerably, if we are not soon visited with genial showers. The high winds, it is true, pre vented the smoke ascending perpendicularly, ac cording to his theory, during the last week ; but the weather, during the lust three or four days, has been cairn. Our Borough, for a week past, has been shrouded in an atmosphere of smoke. The moon, ns iUiises, presents a blood red ap pearance, betokening from its lurid glare, all the direful conflicts of impending war. Since the above was in type, we have been fa vored with refreshing showers, which certainly strengthens our opinion in favor of the theoiy of Professor I'spy. At the fame time, we refer our readers to a communication upon the subject, iu another column, fiom tho pen of an intelligent correspondent Thf. Icon Ri'sinkss Persons, with ca pital, have now ai opportunity of doubling their money in a few yeais, by investing it in lion Woiks, in good locations. For Anthiacite Fur naces, there is no place in Pennsylvania that has advantages superior to this. The Coal, Iron and Limestone are all convenient and accessible at all times, requiring no great stock to be kept up. At the present prices, (and ihey cannot be much lower for year,) tenor fifteen thousand dollars expended in the erection of a furnace, at this place, would more than double itself in one year. Besides, it should be recollected that the best Anthracite Iron made in Pennsylvania, was made with Shamokin Coal, at the Shamokin fur nace. Shamokin Coal can now be delivered here, at all times, at fl CO per ton, and lower if an Iron track was put down. C7 The democrats havecairied the charter election, in the city of New York, by a majority of about six thousand votes. The Natives, after holding office but one year, have been terribly beaten. The Whigs say they did not expect any thing better. Mayor Harper, however, was, we believe, au excellent officer ami a worthy man. E7 Mail Co-mtr actors The present mail contractors were never favorably disposed to wards the new postage law. They are quite in a quandary in relation to the new law. It is stated that five hundred stage proprietors are in Washington, endeavoring to prevail upon Mr. Johnson, tlm Post-master General, to alter his intention of letting out the mail contracts under the new law. The new law authorizes the Post master General to give out the contracts to the lowest bidder, who will contract to carry the mail in the time required, without any reference to the way in which it shall be conveyed ; while the old law provides that the mail shall be car ried in four horse post coaches, and any new con tractor who underbids an old one, shall take his couches and stock of horses, c. off his hands, at a valuation. The proprietors sav thev will be ruined by the new arrangement. (Jj A messenger was despatched by the au thorities at Pittsburg, to the Governor, request ing hitri to invoke the aid of the legislature in be half of tl.e suffering inhabitants ofthat city. The following is the messagf sent by the Governor te the legislature, for which we are indebted to the Hurrisburg Union Extra: T lite Senate and limine of Rrpreteittnlh-es vf the Cum-Miiwealth of I'enm ylvania ; Gkvii.kmfn The destroyer has come upon our Western F.mporium. It is estimated that one-third of the city of Pittsburg including t'vo- thirds of the business capital was consumed by fire on Thursday last. The mind is appalled by the contemplation of this desolation. About 1 100 dwellings are in ruins six or eight thou sand inhabitants are houseless, and ni'llions of property are destroyed. This visitation of Pro vidence strikes from beneath us all self-dependence, and in forces the instruction from the Book of Life, that, 1 other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesns Christ," and the necessity of that faith, ' that looks for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and ma ker is God." A week ago Pittsburg was like the season ex panding its energies, renewing its vigor, and an imated with abundant life. Now its strength is humbled. A more hospitable, benevolent, and energetic people than its cit'i7.enscan no where be found. The weight of trfeir present distress is tremendous. It appe. Is for some relief with resistless force. 1 have had an interview with a committee of the citizens, a'ld received a writ ten communication .rom them. This, and a let ter which Has been received while this message is transcribing, are h'ewith transmitted. They give a graphic outline of their loss, and express manly confidence in their ultimate ability to re store it. This is one of those public calamities that speak to the whole pople and their representa tives in terms that are felt and under tood by all. It invokes your immediate a'tention. I shall most heuitily concur in any measure of relief, w hich your wisdom may suggest, know ing that it will be worthy of the commonwealth that gives, and tiie people who receive. FRS. R. S'.ICXK. Executive Chamber, I April 1 I, IS 15. Constructive Jnnrnejra f V, S. Senators. A Washington correspondent of the Herald furnishes a list of the Senators who have drawn money from the public treasury for journeys which they were supposed to have performed to their homes and back, between 2 A. M. on the morning of the 4th of March, when the Con gress adjourned, and the reassembling of the Sen ate at 12 o'clock, noon, the same day. These constructive journeys have been allowed and the money paid. The list stands as follows : Democratic Senator irk hnv received Mileage for theft Comtnict'ive Juurneyt. Ashley, of Ark., $1,6S0 00 Scveir, of Ark., 1,6S0 00 Atchison, of Mo., .1,336 00 Bagby, of Alabama, i,o 00 Lewis, do WfiO 00 Breese, of Illinois, 1, 480 00 Scmple, do 1,480 00 Colqnit, of Georgia, COS 00 Dickinson, of N. York, say 500 00 Dix, of N. York, say 500 00 llannegan, of Indiana, say SOD 00 Niles, of Connecticut, 000 00 Sturgeon, of Pennsylvania, 210 00 Thirteen Senators, $!2,52t00 Whir Sen'itorn who hare received Mileage for thett, Ciinttruclire Journey. Burrow, of Louisiana, $1,810 00 Johnson. do 1,8 10 00 Berrien, of Georgia, COS 00 Dayton, of New Jersey, 1GJ 80 Evans, of Maine, 514 00 Jurnagin, of Tennessee, say 1,200 00 Morehead, of Kentucky, 010 00 Pcarce, of Maryland, 10100 Phelps, of Vermont, 421 00 Cpham, do 421 00 Simmons, of Rhode Island, 3G0 00 Woodbridg-, of Michigan, 903 00 Jl,0.'.2 00 Twelve Senators, Sew Kena'ur vho were entitled to M'lea-'t. Cass, of V'ch'.gun, 003 00 John M. Clayton, of Delaware, 0(5 00 Corwin, o C i:o, Green, of Rt'ode Island, Johnson, of Maryland, Spe'jht, of Mississippi, Web ter, of Massachusetts, a so oo 300 00 101 00 2,074 40 3(,0 00 $1,17 00 Seven Senators, Senators who have nut yet received this supposi tious Mi e ' t,'e DEMOCRATS. Allen, of Ohio, $123 20 Alherton, of New Hampshire 430 00 Woodbury, do 435 00 Benton, of Missouri, 1,330 00 Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, 80 00 Fairfield, of Maine, 51100 Haywood, of Noi th-Carolina, 2S4 00 Hu ' .-. of South Carolina, 73S 00 McO.iflie, do 4S0 00 Walker, of Mississippi. 2.071 00 Ten Senators, WHIGS. Archer, of Virginia, John Clayton. Delaware, Crittenden, jf Kentucky Vangum, North Carolina, Huntington, of Connecticut, Miller, of New Jersey, $0,071 40 SI 32 00 HO 00 C40 00 2 t 00 300 tiO 22" ro His Excellency, Frakcis R. Shcsk. Dfar Sir: We implore you, iu behalf of a ruined city, in behalf of thousands of helpless women and c'l'ldren, and in the name of the msst high, und for the sake of every hurrane and be nevolent emotion of the heart of man, to extend by the interposition of authority, vested in the Executive, the session ot the legislature now drawing to a c'ose in order t'.at the condition of this suffering and prostrate people may be laid before the general assembly, for the purpose of considering such suggestions for their relief as we confidently trust will meet the prompt and willing assent of the constituted authoiities of the State. With great respect, &c. R. C. GRIER, W. ROBINSON", Jr. w. Mcknight, WILLIAM HOWARD, Mayor. E. SIMPSON", THO. LIGGETT, Jr. HENRY S. MA IK JAW, LYON SHORI1 A: Co. CHARLES SIIALER, GF.ORGE A BAYARD, JAMES A. BRIGGS, J. B. IRWIN, In behalf of the citizens of Pittsbuig. WILLIAM J. HOWARD, Mayor Six Senators, $1,657 00 Recapitulation. Democrats who have re ceived 'he money, in $12,524 00 Do. w'.'o have not, 10 Whigs who have, 12 0,012 00 Do. who have not 6 NewSenatois entitled to mileage, 7 Mr. Bates, deceased, I One vacancy each in Virginia. Indiana and Tennessee, 3 6,738 -10 1.C57 CO Ma Dallas. Some of the Whig papers are making a gieat noise and finding fault with the Vice President, because he did not retire before the close of the Session, and allow the Senate to choose a Speaker, as has sometimes been done heretofore. We presume Mr. Dallas intends to take his seat at the commencement of the next lssion, and perform the duties of the station himself. He is emphatically one of the people a working man, and will share none of the re sponsibilities, or neglect any of the duties of the office to which that people have called him. We perceive by the papers that he is now industri ously engaged in the duties sf his profession in tbe courts of Philadelphia llarrhb. Argus. 52 21.576 00 S.306 00 Twenty-one thousand five hundred and seventy six dollars paid for travelling, of which the first mile was never performed, and if it had all been taken, it would have amounted to thirty thousand doll I! '. One Senator, it is said, claimed pay for three journeys home and back, one when appointed by tho Governor, another when elected by the Le gislature, and a third when the extra session as sembled, though he had not gone a mile from Washington city all that time. Tiif. Postmastir GtsrRAi.ailvertises that he will receive proposals, until the 10th of May, for furnishing fifteen thousand balances for the various post-offices in the Cnited States. They are to be constructed on a plan best calculated to ascertain the weight of letters, and other maila ble matters, under the post-office law of 3d of March, 115, and will be required to indicate a halfounce, and any given weight between half an ounce and eight ounces. Washinoton Irving. Apprehensions are ex pressed in the New Yoik Sun that Washington Irving was on boaid one of the missing packet ships, the President. EXICI TION or Mi Cl'RRV, THK Ml'RnERCR. The Baltimore Sun says Gov. Pratt has appoint ed Friday, the 27th June, as the day for the ex ecution of McCurry, McCurry has expressed no desire that his life should be prolonged and de clared his readiness to die st any time. I'iii Dwelling Houses. The Montour Iron Company, at Danville, have now contracted, with two contractors, for the erection of one hundred and twenty dwelling houses, at this place this season. The houses are to be of good size, and well arranged for the comfortable ac commodation of families. The carpenter work of the great Rolling Mill ol this Company, new approaches completion, and the contractor for the Rolling Mill has taken a large portion of the dwelling houses. Danvillt Intelligencer.
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