Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

BALTIMORE, November 19.

The stables belonging to the Globe Tavern were destroyed by fire on Saturday evening last, together with hay, harness, &c., and five stage horses, belonging to the Pilot line of stages. From the calm which existed, added to the exertions of the citizens, the conflagration made no further progress. The danger of the surrounding property was great. Mr. Fulton cannot have lost less than from $1500 to $2000.

The catastrophe was embittered by the death of a worthy stranger of the name of Straw, from Wythe court house, Va., a lodger at the Globe Inn, who was killed in the warehouse of Mr. George Hoffman, by the fall of a bale of goods which was lowering with block and tackle, when the rope gave way. He was about 24 years of age and had just commenced business in the mercantile line, under the auspices of col. Shefey, one of the Virginia delegates in Congress. The fire is supposed to have been the work of some vile incendiary.

With the greatest regret we have to state that a most afflicting event occurred at the fire on Saturday night. Mr. Peter Straw, a respectable stranger, and trader, from Wythe county, Va., who had his lodgings at Mr. Fulton's, perceiving the hazard to which all the property of that square was exposed, removed, early in the alarm, his effects to an opposite neighbor's, out of immediate danger, and then proceeded to a warehouse adjoining Mr. Fulton's Globe Inn, where he had been dealing, or the laudable purpose of assisting in the removal of property. In a few seconds after his entry into the warehouse, being with others engaged in removing packages from under the well-hole, the rope of a heavy bale, (which was descending by block and tackle, and had got about half way down from an upper story) gave way, and Mr. Straw was almost instantly killed by its weight, which struck him on the neck and shoulders. He was immediately removed to Dr. Crawford's for medical aid, but alas! it was unavailing.

After the coroner's inquest (at Dr. Crawford's) the corpse was removed to Mr. Fulton's and decently interred in St. Paul's Church yard.

We deem it due to the distant relations and friends of this unfortunate stranger to state the circumstances of his untimely and melancholy fate.