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Great Fire At Charleston

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
December
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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norioiiv anu ïwcmnona papers gie details of the recent destructivo lire at Charleston, iS. C. 'J'lic (iro bruke out in 11 sash and blind factory on the lltli nst., was speedily coininuuicatcd to ottier buildings, and swept a broad track through the City from Kast IJay to King street. The Mercury says fifty-heven buildings wero destroyed, including five churcIicH, several hotuls, and otlior public buildings. ïho loss is estim:ited at $7, 000,000, and the list of suflerers from 200 to 300. The owr.er of the faetory in wfaioh the fii'O originatcd, thinks it the work of an iocendiary, or causcd by tbc negligence of the negroes. Nothing is eaid of any insurrection, and tlie f;iet that the fire, ïf an incT.diury one, was only set in one building, is an evidente that thcro was no couspiiaey. - The Confedoratj Congrcss, in view of tho loss, has generou?ly opproprialud 8250,000, ' as an ad vanee on account of the claims of Soath Carolina upoii the Confedérate States," Sy Tho riüiu;rol evnouQtton of Fort Puhuski by tho rebeln, and its occuprttion by onr troops, is probablv unfuuiulud. Onr bravo boys necd not anticípate gutiing poiMteeioQ of that strongf'old without a iight, :it leaet not unül the rebels havo concludud to evacúate Savannah. jj" Capt. Seymour, special mepsenger fiom tho Biitish govcrnnient to Lord Lyons; ulso a epecial messenger irotn Minister Adams, arrived it Boston on Tueaday by tha Europa, and luft immediatcly for Wnshington.

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Old News
Michigan Argus