Daily National Intelligencer

On Monday night week, at the close of a severe thunder storm, the town of Boston was alarmed by the fire bells, occasioned by the conflagration of the new and extensive Rope Walk and Manufactory, improved by Mr. John Edwards, and situated at Cambridgeport, near the new meeting-house. The fire was communicated by lightning, and its progress was so rapid that very little of the contents of the walk could be saved; and thus, by an act of an inscrutable Providence, an industrious and worthy citizen has not only been reduced to poverty, but, unless aided by a benevolent public, deprived of the means of subsistence. The buildings, we understand, were owned by Messrs. Bemis and Eddy, of this town, and the property destroyed estimated at 30,000 dollars.—Boston Centinel.