The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1867, Page 6

6 GREAT of Yokohama, Showing the Map of the City ee * 2—Jariine, Mathesos & 00, ‘2 Welsh, Ball & Co, ‘8 Wilkio we Robinesa, pia & Co, S=W. M. Van der Tak, (Clown dows) 7 Se Beard & Co, —~Ress, Barber & Co. S8—-Hecht, Liienthal & Co, ‘3--Go.dowas THE GREAT FIRE IN JAPAN Partial Destruction of the City of Yokobama. Immense Loss of Property by Natives and Foreign Residents. FELL DETAILS. ade. de. ‘Twelve days ago we received per Atlantic telegraph Trem London the following despatch :—‘‘Advices from hina report that a great fire had o¢curred at Yokohama, Japan, causing a loss of over $5,000,000." We now lay before our readers the detailed statement of the great disaster, recetved by our Pacific communica- Moan with Japan. The following compiete description is ‘extracted from the Japan Herald of December 1, for ao @arly copy of * we are indebted to Messm Heineman & Payeon, of the city. We receive thie news ten daya tm advance of the overland mail, und probably earlier than Me receipt in London. It ia with feelings of profound gretitade that we find eursélyes able to sit down unscathed to record one of the mont awful catastrophes it has been our lot to witners. ‘The:d 6th o: November, 1866, will ever be remembered tm Yokoba ma as one of the biackest days in its annals, dor the conflagration which consumed nearly two-thirds @f the native settioment and one-fifth of the foreign. COMMAN CRMERT OF IHR MER. ‘The morning broke on one of the brighteet days of the eeasen, but the win é, which hat! been blowing strone!y from the south-southwest during the night, increased in powsr,-aud, blowing over the bay towards Kanagawa waleed the spray tm perfect clouds. At aiittle before nine mm = the morning abe Gre bell rang out its flerce alarm, and all rashed to the scene, which wos found to be the street Wading from Benten-dori to Yoshiwarra Ins few minotes, however, flames were seen issuing in ‘various quarters amultaneourly, Otta Malebi broke out at several pointy—the pew Amerian toneular building. at the distance of fally a quarter of a mile, showing flames through the roof atthe same time. The flames ‘worked up against the wind from the locality in which the fre originated, and in half an hour the whole of ‘Youn!warra was dertroyed. with the exception of one er Wwo Breproof go-downs and ihe temple at the end, ‘moi a ringle *tick was standing to mark the boundaries ae JOS OF LIOR IN THR SURURR OF TORMWARKA. Unhappily we have to recent that there wes a werninie of life, if we may Selleve the reporis of the Japanese themselves, who tate that thirty-five Podies have bron fond, Yeshiwarra beiug quite sur g@ounded by water, and there beng only one narrow Driage, wh led into the street arbich wae already in Games, beomne a cui de ste, from which the only retreat was by improviced bridges of boards, or by punts which ‘were brought into use with all the celerity possivie; hut ‘the flames were xo rapid ip their work of derolation that soany fled from them ently to meet death in another @ement. We bearthat im several parte of the native town persone were burved or crashed to death. In Otta Maichi the efects of thoughtlesenees and disorganization owere painfully apparent. Ali along the street the people were getting Weir iittie moveables out to fly with them to Muméchi or aome other but towards were apemeumbered, found great difficulty im whilst thove who were carrving loads were on in their effin, women and o} ldneo were very moe @RRADING OF THE RFE TO THE FoR! TRE AMPRICAY CONNTLATE Dow, Meanwhile ibe fre stead towarde and setilomen| to pas, and many rt ON PTTL EMENT— in the foreign ih The pew Amperican Consulate was now literaly jevel with the grownd, and weperta flew around that No 3, the private res. | dence and go-down of Weews. Janine, Mathevon Go, had canght. In mother few seconde it rewched the whole attlonent that the privnto remdence on No. 2, Mostra, Woleh, Hull & Co, was on fire #imnl | Atancopaly with thie the whole range m the teulld the hte Prusman, Cay! 4m which several Capa b m00 consniste were ing, Were swept @ndor, The wind increased very mach, the sparke com. ‘eranicated witb the old custom house, and eee camel t takes to pen this tale of lesen, thing of the past. Mow sovived on the ground © party of soldiers, who to knock Lx the portion the new bot the len Mappity NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1807. 23—X. Saliabello, %A—Scbultze, Reis & Co. 2a—Textors k Co.'s, (blown-down), &)—Dr. Lysnar, (blow down), ‘ @—Fisler & Co. ‘4—J. Byrne, sailmaker. @1a~Meyer & De Jong, surgeons. 42—Dwelling house and go-downs, unoccupied, 43—Dwelling house and go-downs, ‘anoccupiea. 4A4—Deffis & Co. and H. ©. Morf, direction ag when the fire broke out, and hopes were entertained that the direct line the fire had taken would when it reached be that in which it would exhaust itself seashore. the THE PIRE REACHES THE NATIVE TOWN, Already the native town had foond s boundary beyond which it did. not pass, and all was level, bat smouldering, when a momentary shift of wind sent the sparks on the nearest go-down to the native town, No. 89, and immediately another strip of build- ‘ngs caught, and in @ most wonderful short space of time whole blocks Nos. 70, 50, 41 to 43 and 1 and 2 were all ablaze, Now serious apprehensions began to be felt for the setdement, as, should the wind continue bigh and shift to the westward, nothing seemed at all likely to save it. The fre engines re brought out the instant the alarm fire was given, but alas for the efficiency of the Yoko- bama fire bricade, there was not the slightest organiza- tion, and some of the engines were utterly uscless, having got out of order probably from disuse. SCARCITY OF WATER. Tt was difficult also to procure a syfficient and continuous supply of, water for ome of those that were well manned. and in order, so that at length there seemed to be an almost entire absence of effort to make them available. About eleven o'clock the wind shifted a little more weet- eriy and quickly laid hold of the houses and dn the new direction. No. 7! d part of No. main street, Nos, 51, 52 and 53 were speedily attacked ; proceeding i the same direction, Nos. 44 and 49, 21 to 28 and $ to 8 became sharers in the general woe. About eleven o'clock much apprehension was felt in consequence of its being reported tbat there were three cannons loaded with ball at lot 51, and thatthe bolls could not be drawn. It turned out that there was one, bot the difficulty was got over by the military, who either removed it ton place of safety or otherwise made it ae- care. Soon after there was an alarm spread by the re- port that ove of the go-downs that was about catcbing had a quantity of gunpowder in it. ‘The proprie- tor allayed any apprenension on that score by contradicting the report. Up to this time the naval and military bad worked well, as (to do ther justice) all the officers and some few of the men continued to do through- out the day. Colonel Knox, of her Majesty's 2d, 9tb, was in ali directions, trying to direct the efforts of his men; and Admiral King and Captain Jones, from the Princess Royal, with Captains Courtenay, Stevens and Waddilove, with detachments from her Mayesty’s ships Seylts, Perseus and Adventure, used every possible ¢x- erton, Liewtenant Pond, with bis eappers, worked with the utmost zeal throughout the whole day; but all seemed hopeless; there was no impression made on the geners! confagration, aud in spite of everything that the Caen and their employés could do, in spite of the willing amd hearty co-operation of their frieuds and of al who had hands to help, and the daring of the evidiors and eailors, the fre had it all its own way. BLOWING OP THE BOERS. At length it was determined to blow up a umber of buildings across the line the flames seemed likely to take, and « commencement was made in the house of Mr. Vander Tak. A protest was made the owner, and it iv sad by come of the Consuls; but the Admiral, deeming it the ouly thing that could be done to cut off the communication, persisted. Whether the step was jndictous we will not pretend to say, for the debris of house canght and burnt to ashes The adjoin- ing house, the Club, however, was not consumed although it caught fire once or twice, but it was ternbly. sbaken by the explosion and much damage was done to it, The exertions of Mr. Smith and his staff succeeded 10 extinguishing every ignition that eccurred. Ip most instances the houses blown down subsequently ignited and became an easy prey to the Sames, end the last, a new fireproof house belongine to Messrs. Texter & Co., was only raved from combustion by a miracle, as the stone work, hating been all ehaken down, left the wood work quite exposed, and at nightfall the premises exactly opporite, No, §, having been entirely destroyed, the wind changed and a perfect rain of sparks fell among the rub- Dish How it failed to ignite is, we say, miracu.ous, and if it had caught we do not know where the mischief would have stopped. As it was, the buildings of which it former a part escaped througti the resistance the cor responding Nreproof walls on the opposite side offered to the tire, so Unat, with the exception of the sparks before mentioned, the fire did not reach that hmit On the bend, the first building Uat escaped was the French Hospital. It was propored to blow this up, but the Come missaire objected so strenuously that the {dea was, as it happened, fortunately, abandoned. The house of Mr, Davies (Adameon & Co.), on No. 28, was in great peril, Some of the other buildings on the lot were destroyed, At one time it reemed that Nos. 54 to 58 in the mais Street must inevitably go, but happlly, although all re ceived some damage, it is of no vi great extent To save them, howover, their ewners had to use almost ineredible exertions, and but for the assistance of a party of men from one of the merchant ships we do not think that No, 58 could have been saved. AXTENT OF THR DESTRUCTION, The blocks destroyed, thon, are Nos. 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, T (bungalow saved but much damaged), 8, 2i, 24 (smoall bungalow eaved) 25, 26, 27, part of 28. part of 41, 41A, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 (part Tide io thes soe vsk at 4, ied viown down, faved but mel 70, 7) and No, 89 buvidings containing the French, American, Portuguese and Praseian Consul and the old British Consviate boildines, the newly built American ulate the whole of bonded warehonse A, and all the adjoming butidings—the whole of the Ja) Custom House and tie fire engine house. Of the native town fuliy two-thirds were ntterly destroyed within two hours of the ovgins! bursting outof the flames. CRARORD TO INCENDIARIE®. Many declare the whole to be the determined work of jne@ne tay bet there can be no: es ueae aging certain in thaveands chance of injuring ‘Keenan We cannot, think that incendiarism bad anything to to with th THE RRGINERR'® WEN GET LIQuoRS We have said that up to about eleven o'ci@h the man 5 daeiiete: ditties, SHMUEL led ARE 45—Carts, Leleand & Co,’e, go-downe. 46—Textor's & Co,’s, go-downs. 471—Schulize, Reis & Co.'e, offices and go-downe 48—R Lindaw & Co,’s, offices and go-downs, 49—Corneliue George, livery tables. 80—Ch. Thorel, Zeigler & Co. $1—Quon Chang, @ilor. 61 4—A. Morris, Clarendon Hotel. 61 »—P. Ferguson, hairdresser. 51 c—J. Hartley & Co., druggist. i belonging to the eervices’ worked well. By that bowever, eo many had found the means of drink that they became, with few honorable exceptions, almost uncontrollubie. It was tm) to keep them immediately under the eyes of their cers, and the moment they were out of reach their worst passions were quickly and deplorably exhibited. It was most humiliating to see fine fellows in whom ordinarily their country takes such pride so completely lost as.on this memorablé occasion; for we never saw men 80 utterly and helplessly drunk as many of those were on ‘whom 60 much dependence was placed for help. One gentleman whose go-downs were on fire went into bis houve adjolping them, and in the dining room found several who had been sont to assist in removing some of the things helping themselves to wine with such deters tion that he had to draw his revolver to drive them out. Many of the men went in only for plunder, and we heard one sty to a sentinel who was true to bis duty, “Now, you look here, you may as well shut your eyes a-bit, and we can all divide it afterwards.” We also heard one man ask bis comrade if he knew which were the bes! houses In the place; a question asked in a way that revealed plainly the ‘meaning of the questioner. But it is unnecessary to dwell here on individual cases of this kind where there can be no anthentication; our main duty {s the description of the fire. CHANCE OF WIND-—WIDR #PREAD OF THE FLAMEP, About balf-past five o'clock in the afternoon, the wind changed to the northward, as it was fearod it would, and there seemed but little hope of confining the fam the ground they occnpied. With the change, however, eame moderation, and there was no longer that fierce farnace blast that made every spark amatch. The fire ceased to spread, and although on the space over which it had sway, several large go-downs were still blaz it weemed to burp more quietiy, and to content itself with the victims it already had, without seeking for mere. Up to baif-pest seven the win continued light and after that time veered to seaward again, Thus danger seemed to lessen, men’s minds became jess perturbed and ap- prebensions for the remainder of the settlement sunk to rest. 1 i MALICIOUS NATIVES, We hear of some attempts of Japancee to set fire to certain European buildings in anticipation of the proach of thegreat fire. We believe four are in custody for this crime--eome of whom, if not all, are said to have been taken ip the act. From all we can gather this appeirs to be a mistake, The first man wken was at Messrs. Hecbt, Lilienthal & Ca’ but his employers declare him to be one their best servants, and that he had worked munfully throughout the entire day to save 4 and when he was taken he was merely pausing to light bis own tittle Japanese pipe, which all here kuow con- tains but three whifls at the most. The excitement of all was eo great thnt an incident so trifling was magni- fied into a conspiracy of the Japanose to eet the whole settiemont on fire. It had a good effect in one way, in- asmuch as it induced many to set @ watch over their whole premises through the night. Ip the course of the morning many persons who felt fearful of the spread of the flames had caused their furniture to be removed, as they hoped, to places of safety. In many instences the places to which ney were th were destroyed, and, of course, everything in them. EPYRCTS PILED 1X TOR STREETS, All along ihe bund, along the main and other et farniture, clothing and other effects were deposited, aliare much dawaged by the usage received, Every Japanese house in the vative town and at Homam is crowded with those burned out from the Japanese tow! moet of whom saved very little indeed. In all casos this kind there are some whoee lot appears harder than others, and the present is no exception to the rale, Sti the visitation must be looked upon as a general one, all must strive to bear their ehare in the calamity, Those who are safe can do much to alleviate the sufferings of those who have lost, and it is a certainty that there are many among us who in this. will be found wanting, THE CNTTED STATRS CONSULATE. The new consulate of the United States caught in ‘three places at the same moment; so that various accounts aro given of its origin, and all of them cor- rect. It ecangit in the roof in the manner originally described by us; it caught underneath the verandah by the eparks flying through the open lattice roof of it; and xt caught by a xmall carpenter's shed at the side of the house that was to have beon removed on the followit It was the first coi built by the Unit a ra ind we know how great was the pride Colonel Fisher took in :ts superintend- ence, Tt was on the spot where Commodore Perry made his first treaty with Japan in bebaif of his country. Tho interior was exceedingly well arranged for the public business of the conswiate and s comfortable residence for the consul, Colonel Fisher ia, we understand, heavy personal loser by the fire, He was in ti building at the time he heard the alarm given of the native town, and immediately rushing over to the old consulate took out all the archives and lodged them, as he imagined, securely in the bondew warehouse, Almost as soon as they were there that building iteelf caught and they were consumed. THE POST OFFICE DESTROYED, At the French consulaie M. H. Degron, the port- master, Jost everything ho possessed ; and notwith- standing the most strenuous efforts of French marines and several French gentlemen, all the postal materials wore destroyed. One marine named Delaunay ‘was seriously wounded, In the Post Office most of the letters, documente and) vatitables, including money and postage stamps, were consumed. ‘The strong box could ‘hor raved. The fire was #0 rapid that little could be done, and when some hours fater tne spot was searched hardly anything could be found, in the aa ry the bee nang very few wero save hardly any gentlemen occupying the Frenc! Prassian and American Consular buildings, Sr the roaue. men connected with the English Legation and Conenlete who lived in to same range saved more than (he peo At nd --* We ae hope that in the case of portone io oficial employ their respective govera mente will hold them ban from joss, M. " los was the more to be deplored, as the rian of Jongthened period were in the house, and were ail swept away io a0 instant We cannot couchude without saying 8 word for the Cuinese cotapradures aod servants com nected with the various bongs Ther seyvity, zeal Burned District and the Cause of the “purst out, but ae new. groand ~ CONFLAGRATION IN 51lp—W. Boyd, storekeeper. 62—Ladage, Oelke & Co,, tailors and clothiers. 52 a—Groseer & Co. 70 o—Jelovitz & Co., auctioneers. 70 p—Demoney, Brewer’s Arms. 70 s—A. Malvalle, Prince of Wales’ tavern. anxiety and watchfulnese for their empleyers’ interest in several instances came under our observation, and this notice of their faithfulness is jastly due to them. Seo ene: oe, Semone eee too, the Japanese servants behaved very staunchly and stood to their posts at their masters’ houses in spite of apprebension for safety of friends or relatives in the native town. On Tuesday morning some of the Japanese were already beginning womens ties almost upon and certainly the smouldering ruins of their former domiciles. inary rapidity of this fire and the com) ive inefficiency of the best stone go-downs to resist the flames, show us that a better system must be devised for rendering ourselves secure, and the fire brigade mast set to again to 1m in caso of future necessities. In the which ie stil! smouldering, although we can have no certain data on which to base our calcula. tions, inte are inclined to bacon peaboinn been Japan- ese and foreign y—honses, wns — at between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. Truly, wfondsy, the 26th of November, was a black Monday for Yoko- hamn, the like of which we may never exporience agaiu. thes: THR eas eis abe, exe polite e Japanese rament as in condoling with us on the Premprenyehweer bers dorm ers through the fire that commenced in the native town. Early next morning Mr. Locock, in beence of Sir Harry Parkes, received the Governor of “eo nig | and in the afternoon an official arrived from Jeddo with the condolencies of the Gorogio. It is now ascertained that tbe fire had its ip a small cookshop; some grease dripping on to the fire, csused a blaze that caught the dry woxlwork, and in a few minutes attained mastery over the whole place. Mr. Locock and Mr. Myburgh saw the Governor of Kan- agawa the next morning on the subject of the Yoshi- warra space. which was already condemned, and is not to be rebuili upon. The Governor gave his assurance that the erections now commencing shall be of the most temporary description, and only such as may serve as shelter for a short time, while permanent arrangements are being AN ATTEMPTED MURDER. An incident oecurred the same morning betwees Kana- gawaand Yoshida which reminds us that foreigners must contines to be on their guard beyond the limits of the sottiement. As Mr. Vander Tak was driving homo from Jeddo, having a lady in the phaeton with him, adrunken Yokon!n drew his sword and gave chase for a considera- distance, From the of the biti, near the Gov- ernor’e house, to the Mr. Vander Tak was obliged to Keep bis horecs at full speed to avoid the fel- jow, he succeeded in distancing him, although ut bo risk of an accitont to horses or to carriage through dcecnt. We do not know that we attach much importance to the fact, but it cer- tain! is exteaordinary that 1866 acw up to the charter, and refuses to allow November to pass with- out trouble to foreigners. Baldwin and Bird poor ‘were murdered in November, and most of the untoward eveuts that have succeeded each other in the history of Japanese wad foreign intercourse bave happened about the same period of the year, Another Account of the Fire. Although everyone will probably give a different ac- count, yet having been at the very firet of the fire and ‘watched and even timed it at our corner of the settlement, I venture to offer you my notes of that part; the other side of the piace I know nothing about, The fire broke out shortly before mine o’cleck, the wind southwest, About fifteen minutes past nine an outhouse of the American Consulate took fire, and at half-past nine the new Consulate itself wasina blaze. At half-past nine the fire was at the old United States Consulate, and ina very few minutes the whole block of shanties in front of the bonded warehouee A wore in a blaze We hed to retreat, and with difficulty saved tho fire engine which was outside the warehouss A, By ten the flames were sweeping over to No. 1, and Defare we could get down the paling, No, 21 was blazing; we bad to retreat from this corner, and I suppose the dwelling No, 1 almost immediately took fire; then the g0-downs about No. 1. Messrs. Jardine’s go-downs, op- pone, took fire one by one, then the enormous wooden \weliing on No. 2, and with it the bungalow and other bm buildings on No, 2—the flames roaring in every rection. Shortly before noon the two storied office on No. 3 took Gre and soon after the go-down on No. 8, next to ‘Water street, with bungalow, The flames swe round the wooden bhilding on No. 24, and about half. past twolve or one o'clock Schultze, Reiss & Co.'s two ftoried house took fire. The wind at this juncture voered more northerly and threatened to sweep down the whole bund. I should add here that the two and thre¢ storied go-downs on No, 2 stood splondidiy amid the blaze about them, It was two o'clock before they were thoroughly in a blaze, and then their blaze was aw- po the one storied wey on same compound, next be Stood til about three o'clock. to blow up Mr. Vander Tak’s house, which cut off the ames io that direction, and, with tho interposition of two go-downs on No, 4 and two on No. 6, which stood ‘out the fire, somothing of a barrier was made, A junc- ton, bowever, had been made from the fire which had come scross from Now 81, 51, &e., and now Carat, and other places went—Mesers. Angustine Heard & Co.’® bungalow, he. ‘The two buildings on No. 7 standing along Water street (two storied) were biown up in succession, the bungalow on No, 31, and finally Texter's new house at tho Mg <4 of No, 20—this last about foun in the afternoon. ‘wind was now luiling, and witfl the made, the fire olden cee the tan one: aiding on No. efforte were turned to put out the fire over the airvady destroyed. ‘The agente of the various fire inpurance offines held & MEling yesterday moreing when 4 transpired thas tbe JAPAN. Great Fire of November 26, 1066. 70 y—F. E. 8. da Roza. . 20 c—E. M. Van Reed. Lyall, Still & Co, 71 a—Dwelling house unoccupied, 80—Hooper & Clarke, 9 4—E. L. B. Crace, 4—New United States Consulate, B— Bonded Warehouse A. m—Japanese Custom Houre, Total. ......0+eeseeesse vee as£2Q0, 700 $1,145,900 In round numbere $2,150,000, We believe that a resolution was come to, that the rates of insuratice should be increased, but as yet are unable to state to what extent. The City of Yokohama. This town, a busy mart of Eastern and European trade, was almost entirely unknown by name to the out- side world previous to the negotiations of the treaty be- tween the United States and Japan—after the mission of the late Commodore Perry in 1853—existing only as a scattered commercial and export suburb of the great imperial capital, Jeddo. Since that time it has grown Tapidly into notice, and at the moment of the great con- flagration it maintained:the same relation to Jeddo as the ports of Amoy and Hong-Kong do to the more inland industrial centre of China. Indeed, it may be said that Yohohama was built up for Japan within a dozen of years by foreigners, particularly by Americans and Englih. The town is situated about twenty-three miles south nication outward rans-from Jed@o to Nagasaki and thence to Yokohama, the travel being reversed, from Yokohama inward, to persona coming from abroad. Its lic build tem: pu ry ples, pd bat considerably imrprovernents city fuetuates toa certain seven hand ‘thousand called down by the demands of meet the hundreds—sometimes who make it their temporary resi ag that the resident wn i ; a r : =f < themecives vastly. eatwe contain a heavy stock oth orto Cosmas to er rine tnd the contents of the principal ‘tshops"™ being valued quite lately at 2500.00, on which insurances to the extent of £233,000 were effected—£163,000 of which was taken in London, and £70,000 im China. ae THE CHANNEL MARKS IN NEW YORK HARBOR. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Ihave noticed several times of late complunts in your paper, represented as coming from the pilote, in relation to the marks’ for the channels through the upper and lower bays of New York. Suggestions are made, too, for altering them. In a paper some time since ~I forget the date—it was suggested that the nun and can buoys should be left during the winter; and in your paper of the 22d inst. it is represented that a petition to the Lighthouse Board has been drawn up aud signed by a number of pilots to mmerease the size of the spar buoys, &c. Now, sir, the spar buoys used are from fifteen to twenty inches in di- amoter, and of a sufficient length to show fifteen ar twenty feet above water. be are the only character of buoys which will stand in their proper positions dur. ing the winter, The io going over the buoys scours off the paint, and, as the pilots say, makes {t often difeult w “sTatogesh the red from the black without a,closer examination than is usually given, If the pilots ‘any to prevent the scouring of the bue; bythe toe would nothing Ld be at once and gladiy adopted, tor $8 more desirable than to have ali the aids to navigation easily distinguished. The plan them of ha a a on the bye marking the ede of the channel tried and failed, the ice usually taking off the spindle with the paint. It would be utterly to can oF pun io their po- itl when the ice is ranuing; the first teld coming in contact would move them, By request of pilote and a a tg to to Gedney’s chaunel 8 fal that being 90 far out the jee would not move it; but i es already been swept from its position, and pilots have called at this office to report the fact and certain irihey would be paid for recovering and delivering it at the they Le ip Bey it could be found, By giving the the same you have the complaints you will oblige. Ree a tA bthoves Inepector Third Naw Yon, nots 1867, heen Fa nas tine st Se Ne CaS YY p—O4 United States Consulate, —Prassian Consulate. ‘a—French Consulate. 1~Engine House. Nattve town—F, Perregaur, E, Schnell, G. Gleckmeye, Thos. Hogs. ‘The cook’s shop in which the fire originated DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Equat Ricets Rervsep.—A colored man, named Asrom Alpeira Bradley, applied to Judge Fleming, of Savannahy, Ga, recently, for admission to the bar of the Easterm © Circuit of Georgia. He made the point that, being @. member of the Superior Court of the State of Maine, he- should be admitted under article four of the constitue tion, which provides that “fall faith and credit shall be- given in each State to judicial proceedings of every other State; also, that a citizen of one State preserves all his: rights and privileges as a citizen in any other State.” Judge Fleming decided that the Court had no right to ition, as the matter was one entirely of im ternal po! and municipal regulation, over which the: State has exclusive jurisdiction. Query—How about the test oath for lawyers in Missouri? Rartroad Accivgxt.—Near noon of the 24th inst. am. old gentleman named David Hunt was killed at Pitte- burg, Pa, while walking on the railroad track. He was ‘7 years of age and nearly deaf. A Fiontixe Eprtor.—The editor of the Chattanooga Unie, during an exciting local election recently, adver. tised jocosely for a ‘fighting editor.” One came, highiy recomm ‘and was formally installed. Three days af~ ter the joke presente itself in the sorious shape of a bia: for $45 wages, which man of warlike deeds ciarmed for bis services. The case was tried before a justice, who awarded the fighting man six dollars for three cay’s use of bis muscle, with costs of the suit. PorvnaTion oF ATLaNta.—A census of At ger 2 has recently been taken, which returns 10,940 w' The figures are Whougat ‘ and 9,228 ke; total, 20,168, to be too large by Georgia journals. Dexaprvn Desrr.—Mr. Jeremiah Bamford, a soldier the oar oF was killed a day or rte setae @ nnemins tens 7; whined ‘acount ® shaft making two hundred and minute. eighty-five revolutions ® was trying to adjuat the belt around ‘ts palley. 2uaBe TURE. (OU NEW OBLEANS CORRESPONDENCE. New Omueans, Jon. 16, 1567. debaran, by the Com- tava by Geng, p, by Hempland Jos, Wolford names b, m. Georgiana. ...... ‘Time—0 :439 25 4 —9:3334. Mevainre Course, Jan. 21.—Handicap of $10 esrb, half forfeit, for all horses; mile hetts, Purse $175; first horse, $100; second horse, $50: third horee, $25. Hamilton & Harper enter ch. h. Seipio, 4 years old, by Momnon, dam by Tempest; to carry a Ta ae a1 om Jalph Ogle enters b. g. u Se eee meres 4 8 pee; to spe esesecevose 1 Howh outers b. h. Sheridan, @ youre i ve ee sister to Fashion; to 2's Jnines Grant enters b. m. Favorite, 5 years old, by Voucher, dam by Trustee; to carry 10l.ips 5 3 3. L, B, Ar omer ft. Minnie ©., & years old, by Wood er, dam by George Martins a a fy dam Release , Dee dtotistasartiin eats 4 6'UMb: Hemp, 5 years tencoe; to earty ACCIDENT ON THE HUOSON RIVER AAILACAD. Povouneeram, Jan. 27, 1867. ‘The Montreal passenger train on the-Hudeon River Raltroad, which left this city at three o'clock this morn. ing, rao on a broken rail about a mile and a balf abore ‘Hyde Park, near the spot where the run off of Jast week ocourred. Throe express freight oars and all the pas- wenger including one car, were throws from the track, but did ot eject they abstrncted bots tT he hon, “Superoont e Sete ceeded te" the ‘toes here this morni on