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
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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.
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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.