Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-02-09
NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF.

NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF.
Frprs IN NEW YoRK-From Saturday morning
last TO Monday morning, in forty-eght hours there
occurred in the city of New York seven fires by
two of which at least one hundred families were
rendered homelessl On Saturday night fire
occurred on Elm, Centre, Pearl and Duane Streets
by which some fifty poor families were turned out
of doors The Times says: Most Of the sufferers
lost the larger portion of their furniture in addition
to being driven from beneath their roofs at the dead
hour of night, with the thermometer at sixteen de-
gress above Zero 1t was intensely cold, and the
wind blew such gale as to carry the burning GIN
ders and sparks distance of several blocks. The
despair and suffering of the conntenances of those
robbed of their homes and the suffering Of the thin
y clad children, the piercing wind came in con-
tact with their shvering bodies, formed painful
picture, that must be witnessed to be realized it
beggars description
Another occurred in the first ward in the vicinity
Of the Battery. BY this confagration there were
probably not less than forty fifty poor families
turned into the public streets and left to the mercy
of their neghbors and the policies Many of the suf-
ferers were conveyed to the station-house, others
were taken to the dwelling houses in the vicinity,
and, finally the balance of them were placed in
large room at No. Pearl street. procured by the
| police, where they were kept warm for the night.
The loss by the fire on Duane street is estimated
at from $4,000 to $4,000. The principal suffer
ers are PETER MORRIS & Co., proprietors OF the
Columbian Foundry about 100000; TURNER,
LANE, & MORRIS, Glass Cutters, $4,000 c. D.
BRANT, Clock Manufacturer, $4,000 There was
an insurance on the whole of about $4,000
nR- We learn from the Lexington, Mississippi,
Advertiser that destructive fire occurred at the
town of Tehola, Holmes county, Mississippi on the
| 22d ult. which destroyed two cotton warehouses,
containing 1900 bales of cotton, and other proper
/ ty to the amount of $500 000 The fire originated
in some boys tying pack of fre-crackers to dogs
tall and the frightened animal into the shed for
protection, and communicated the fire to the cotton.
So rapid was the spread of the flames that only 81
bales were saved from the two sheds The loss is
confined mostly to Holmes county, and will be felt
pretty generally among the planters of that county.
| CHALLENGE-The New Orleans Picdyune contains
an advertisement from Mr. Ten Brock, in which he
offers to back the progeny of Boston against any
horses that can be produced against them, condi
tons (says the Pcayune0 which very explicitly
stated and which seem to be quite fair He first
offers to run two of them against two of any other
| pedigree two mile heats over the Metaire Course,
on the oath of March next for s., 900 or $4,000;
and then he offers to run the same match over New
market Course at Petersburg, Va, on the 18th Of
| June next for $4,000. He also offers TO run four
of the get of Boston, in "Post Stake" over the Me-
taire Course for $4,000 or $50 coo side, two mile
heats, March oath, three mile heats April 10TH and
four mile heats April oath; he will run similar
match over the Petersburg Course on the 18th 18th
and oath of June; or he will name the same fonr
hores for $4,000, for an 'insde stake" on the 9Th
9Th or Sth of April.
- JULIA DEAN has accepted an offer of $780,
600 and expenses for sixty nights to appear in
California. She will leave for the gold region from
New York in March next
- A special Geographic dispatch from the town
Of London, Ohio, to the Cincinnati Columbian,
states that most destructive fire broke out there
on the morning Of the ID inst, about 2 o'clock
Two whole squares were swept clean; five dry
goods store, two drug stores the telegraph Office,
Odd Fellows Hall, two shoe stores and the Ameri-
can Hotel besides two clothing stores one printing
Office one furniture store house. and several other
buildings, were destroyed. The loss is estimated
at 100000, but cannot be definitely ascertained.-
1t is supposed to have been the work of an ncen-
diary, as several houses in different parts of the
town We're broken open. The amount of insur-
ance not reported.
London is on the Cincinnati and Cleveland Rail
road, between Xenia and Columbus
- The rumors of revolutions in Bolivia and
Peru are confirmed. In the former country the |
administration of General Beluz has been deposed,
and the revolutionsts have taken the management
of national affairs into their own hands In Peru |
the insurgents accuse General Echenique of mex
cusable procrasnation in the settlement of the diff
fculties with Bolivia, and declare their determine
ton to compel him to abdicate. They are believed
to be in possession Of about half a million of dol
lars, which will most likely enable them to carry
their intentions into operation.
ALBANY, Feb. 4, NJ.
The residence Of Jarvis Parker, at Oakland
Michigan, was recently burnt. -Four children per-
ished in the flames.
The ship Hartford, 80 days out, from Liverpool
for Mobile, has not been heard of-supposed to be
lost.
CHARLESTON, Feb 2
Steamer Eagle from Columbus for Apalachicola,
was burnt on Monday last, together with 1900
bales of cotton.