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Terrible Confogrdtion al Mobile. An
other disaster by fire has befalen Mobile,
the heaviest that the city has experienced
been destroyed. A correspondent OF the
N. Y. Commercial says that "it broke out
early in the evening of the 7th inst. IN an
untenanted house in Conception street, a
door or two from Dauphin street. 1t was
set on fire by some incendiary villains who
seem To have sworn the destruction OF the
city. A high northeast wind was spread


ing it, and no water could be obtained until


il was utterly hopeless to contend with the
fury of the flames, which spread upwards
with race-horse velocity, destroying ev-
cry thing before them. AT least twelve
whole squares have been utterly consumed.
The north side of Cont, from Conception
street to the Catholic square; both sides OF
Dauphin, from Conception to Franklln;-
both sides of St. Francis and St. Michael,
to nearly the same points, covering an area
of third of mile square. are utterly de-
stroyed The Episcopal and small Catho-
lie churches are burned. Nothing tended
10 save the whole city, north and west, but
the blowing up of many houses, at inter
yals, and the providential subsding of the
wind. The writer adds that he cannot
compute, or attempt to compute the loss
Much of the property was old, but the most
productive in the city. The rental Destroy
ed was prodigous. The banks, post-oilice
&C. being to the wndward of the fire, hap
PLY escaped, as did the rest of the town
south of Cont and east of Conception
street"


Another correspondent of the same pa
per says "The Fire destroyed all the build
ings on Cont to Dauphin street, St. Fran
els and St. Michael streets. Fourteen
squares containing from fire 10 sir hundred
houses, are now heap of ruins, and ven
ture 10 say that one thousand families are


left destitute, with not shelter to put their
heads in. 1t was the work Of an incendla-
ry, and understand that four persons have
been taken up, on suspicion. Adv.