One three story wood store, owned and occupied by J. Brier, tobacconist. Twelve houses in Wall-street. One wooden three story building, occupied by Steddiford and Marschalk as an auction store, and by Mr. Gavister, retail grocer. One small brick building, occupied by J. Place as a dwelling and retail grocery. One two story wooden building, occupied by Byrne and Smith as an auction store. One two story brick building, owned and occupied by Mr. Post as an office. One three story brick building, occupied by E. Backus and Co., auctioneers. One small brick building, occupied by Mr. Hyde, watch maker, and owned by the widow Douglass. One two story wooden building, occupied by Mr. Cavener, and owned by J. Jones. One two story wooden building, occupied by Mr. Fisher, and owned by J. Jones. One three story brick building, occupied by Mr. Petit, and owned by J. Rathbone. One two story brick building, occupied by Mrs. Berry, and owned by the estate of W. Bruce. One brick three story building, One three story wooden building, occupied by J. A. Robinson, wholesale grocer, and owned by John Jones. Eight three story brick buildings in Water-street. Old coffee-house, occupied by Edward Barden, owned by the widow of G. Douglass. One dwelling, owned and occupied by James Patterson. One occupied by J. H. Hurton as a grocery, and by B. Baily as a dwelling, owned by captain Maxwell. One owned and occupied by Isaac Gomez, jun. and Say and Noah, auctioneers. One occupied by H. Wylie as a wholesale dry good store, owned by the widow Hallet. One occupied as a printing office, by the Morning Chronicle, and by Mr. Wilkey, pilot, owned by M. Price. One occupied by captain Story, owned by widow Stocker. One occupied by captain Curtis, owned by the estate of I. Gover neur. The following list is an estimate of the value of the buildings, exclusive of the property they contained: FRONT STREET. occupied by Mrs. Wentworth, and Brick houses occupied by owned by the estate of commodore Nicholson. One two story wooden building, occupied by H. J. Hassey, hair-dres- Wood store C. M'Carty ser, and owned by W. Bingham. Four buildings on Jones's wharf. One three story wooden building, occupied as a wholesale grocery by J. Jones. One three story wooden building, occupied by H. Norton, commission merchant. One three story wooden building, occupied by Gen. Gibbs and W. Seabury, commission merchants. G. Shonnard I. B. Kursheedt 3500 J. Sullivan 4000 1800 H. Russel 1600 Roche and Betts 1800 Front-street 4000 December 31. Conformably to the Grand total $ 106700 directions of the law incorporating the company for erecting a permanent bridge over the river Schuylkill, at or near the city of Philadelphia, public notice was this day given, that the bridge erected in virtue of that law, on the west end of High-street of said city, was com Captain Lewis had reached, on the 19th of August, 800 miles up the Missouri. He had met with no accident, and had been received in a pleted, and on the first day of January, 1805, would be ready for passengers. The above arduous, very ingenious, and singularly useful public improvement has long been anxiously desired, though success was frequently doubted by many of its real friends; it is, however, finally, through many formidable difficulties, brought to a happy conclusion. While it affords an incalculably valuable improvement, as well as a pattern for future similar undertakings, it exhibits a pleasing ornament to one of the most important approaches to the city. Every friend to the arts, and every intelligent mechanic, admires the correctness of the structure, the beauty and symmetry of the design, and the excellence of the workmanship. The flour, butter, and lard, inspected in Baltimore, for the quarter ending the 31st day of December, 1804, amounted to 75,157 barrels wheat flour 2,495 kegs and firkins butter Newhaven, Con., Jan. 8. On Wednesday morning last, at about half past two o'clock, a fire commenced in a store in Fleetstreet, owned by Mr. Lent Hotchkiss, supposed to have been communicated from the stove. Before the alarm was given, the flames had made such progress, that all efforts were unavailing, except to save some of the property from the cellar of the building in which it originated, and also a part of the furniture contained in the adjoining dwelling, owned by J. Chatterton, and occupied by Mr. Daniels, baker, and Mr. Manice, tobacconist. The store, dwelling, and an old building belonging to Messrs. Atwater and Daggett, were consumed; and it is probably owing to the snow storm then prevailing, which protected the roofs of neighbouring houses, that we had not a far more extensive destruction of property; as flakes of fire were continually carried upon them by the wind, and the best exertions would have been scarcely sufficient to rescue them, unaided by this circumstance. The loss of property is considerable. The principal sufferers are Messrs. Hotchkiss and Chatterton. On Thursday evening, about eleven o'clock, another alarm was made. The building in which the fire originated was situated on a lane between Fleet-street and Meadow-street, occupied as a stone-cutter's shop, and was consumed, without extending farther. Philadelphia, Jan. 5. Dr. B. S. Barton, one of the vicepresidents of the American Philosophical Society, having been appointed by the society to deliver a eulogium to the memory of their late associate, Dr. Joseph Priestley, the same was this day delivered in the first presbyterian church in Philadelphia, before the society, who went in a body from their hall to the church, preceded by their patron, the governor of the state. Invitations were given, on this occasion, to the rev. clergy of the city; the college of physicians; the medical society; the gentlemen of the bar, with the students of law; the trustees and faculty of the university of Pennsylvania, with the students in the arts and in medicine; the judges and officers of the federal and state courts; the foreign ministers, and other public characters then in the city; the mayor, aldermen, and city councils; the trustees and session of the first presbyterian church; the directors of the city library; the managers and physicians of the Pennsylvania hospital, of the almshouse, and of the dispensary; the proprietor and director of the Phi ladelphia museum; the contributors towards the cabinet and library of the society. After the conclusion of a very interesting eulogium, the society returned their thanks to the orator, and requested a copy for the purpose of publication. Providence, R. I., Jan. 9. About sun-rise, fire was discovered in the paper-mills of S. Thurber, jun., at the north end. One building was consumed, with the chief of the stock and implements included. The loss is about 4000 dollars, but the property was in some proportion insured. New York, Jan. 14. As a ferry boat was passing over to Brooklyn, she got jammed between a field of ice and the ship Experiment, which was dropping down, and was upset. Fortunately no lives were lost, though it required considerable exertion on the part of the crew and passengers to save themselves, by laying hold of the rigging attached to the bow of the ship. Philadelphia, Jan. 18. Between 8 and 9 o'clock, P. M., a fire broke out in the rope and twine manufactory of Abraham Wolford, at the corner of Mulberry and Thirteenth-streets. The place, adjoining the walk, was built with the intention of preserving hemp, in which there was a considerable quantity, and supposed to be secure from fire, by being cased with glass. One of the panes, however, being broken a few days before, and the wind, blowing through it, carried the spark under the hatchel, unperceived by Mr. Wolford, until the whole was nearly enveloped in flames. Mr. Wolford finding it impossible to make his escape out of the doors, they being fastened, he rushed up stairs, and precipitated himself out of the se |