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 firr.-On Monday night last, about nine o'clock, the Penitentiary was discovered to be on fire The fire broke out in the roof of the long range of two story work shops, d- rectly in the rear of the main building, and in less than 10 minutes the whole roof was in a fiame All efforts to save the other buildings were vain, as the wind blew the flames directly over them. The whole was consumed, toge- ther with a wooden building belonging to the institution outside of the wall, and the county Ijail, and most of the out buildings attached to lit.

 The loss in stock, including raw materials, manufactured articles, and working tools, is between and 10 thousand dollars. None of the prisoners escaped. They were first brought out and put in the jail; and when that took fire, they were guarded in the square, until tine fire had abated so far as to allow of their being put within the outer wall of the Penitentiary. -i't

 The whole town was in great danger, as the wind, which most fortunately happened to be light, carried burning coals directly into the thickest built and most combustible part of it. Several houses were on fire, but by the great exerton ofthe citizens they were saved. The Books,and papers belonging to the Pe- nitentiary, were all saved. 4. No lives were lost, and no serious personal accinent happened to any one Jasper Wilkinson, who was confined in the Ijail, on charge of robbing the mail, made his escape, and has not since been heard of.

 There is no doubt that the Penitentiary was set on fire by design, by some of the convicts; by whom has not yet been ascertained. ises Journak