Fire At The Presidential Mansion

Last oight, at 8;4Q o 'dock, smokc was suen issaing froin th.6 private bta bles of the President. located bet.weei the Presidential mansión and the a sury building, and almost !n8..antHñeous with the disoovery ui the Piuuke, the entire baslijiug was enveloped in flaineu Tiiö buildingwhiuh was of brick, contaiued at the time some evt horses, al] of vvhich were buraed to duath before they could bo ejetricated froin the utablos. Two of these horses, of a brown color, wero the private property of the Presideiit ; a pair of bay blooded horses wure owüed by Mr. Nicolay, the Presidv.Uf.'s p:ivaie teuretary, while the reriiiníc- é poixletí iere, thoee used íy tne rt-6f:tisur son, " Td " Lincoln. O.ieuflhese ponies was all the more highly prized, in oonscquence of having oiice been the property of Willie, lbo deeeased son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln. Three carnajes, one oí tbwn the proporly oí Mr. Nicolay, vroru fortunatelj- saved from destruction. The fire was undonbtedly ihe woik of au Jncendfary. The jabíes viera ügh.tud with gas, the pipes of w.Ljct 1V P1'0 trudud from the walls of the building (ifi either side, in the rear of the horse and all combustible matter was far re■Mfted ioin the jota, ünly a few ihifl. lUes-hulQM the disuovery i4 tha firo, the P:vsid.ü[t's private couhujau had k-ft thj sia'jlo to get Lis upper, aod :it that ti'ne uo iiidicatinus if :, fir ov. isled. Early i.n. the evening JNioolay had givuu orders to üio coaehmug to h:ve iiis. taniaga ip rcftdiueea at Ü u'oL.cJi, but, before leaviug ü]C stablo ilie oautfiman receivcd wrd that Mr. X. had couutennunded bis oidcr. But fur tliin íact the "Mthniáa w.auJJ havo beon in U.u stablcs at tha táoad of the pctjuirenco of the fire. and niijht probubly have obtained somu cioe to the oriin of the fire. The different ste;n eiigines and fire companies of the yty were on the grouud within a shqrt (iin.u after thü alarm was given ; Uut wiug to the combustible nature of the material withii) the Btüblee, but Jittle oould ie efiected by them other than ppjvent'tng a iurtlior spreadiog of the ñames. The large quantity of old timber sCtttIjBiod ovsr tha grounds in the rear of lliu TieanuL-y bijilding triada tliis act quite a Usjf of t.e time being. The building was ünLir;3ly gutted, and will iiu joübtedly hav4o bfi-ebuilt tjjrpughjUUt.