Concord Register

BANGOR, MAINE, Sept. 8.

FIRE! FIRE!

The Fires in the woods continue to rage, destroying everything with which they come in contact. We are told by credible persons, that the whole country from Passadumkeag to Matanawcook, on both sides of the Penobscot river, is one general conflagration-that it appears like a "sea of fire."-The Islands in the river do not escape-the Matanawcook islands have been completely burnt over. The distance of the range of fire on the river is about thirty miles; the width cannot be ascertained. We are told, by a number of persons of veracity, that in the vicinity of the heaviest fire, the ground actually trembled--and that the roaring of the fire, which sounded like thunder, was heard at the distance of 12 or 15 miles. In other parts of the country the fire has got in among the settlements. We have it from authority which leaves but too little room to doubt the fact, that it is raging in Williamsburg, Brownville, Sebec, Atkinson, Blakesburg, Milo, Kilmarnock, Seboois, and in most of the unsettled lands in the vicinity--and from reports, it is also doing the work of destruction in a variety of other places. It is impossible to compute the damage already done.-What will be most immediately and severely felt, is the destruction of houses, barns, fences, cattle, &c. &c. Among these latter, we have to state the burning of the house and barn of James Campbell, jr. in Kilmarnock, with most of their contents. In Maxfield, the house of Joseph McIntosh, 36 by 26, two stories high--the barn, 80 by 36, which was completely filled with hay and grain, &c.-a building 50 feet long, used for a wood house, tool room, &c. one end of which was a store room, and contained a small quantity of goods-a house built for a school house, and barn, owned by Thomas Dewitt --a house owned by John Lunt, and one owned by J. Morse, with its contents, except a small quantity of clothing-the crops and fences of the above farms are almost entirely destroyed, and the soil itself much injured. A saw and grist mill, owned by T. McIntosh, and the mill house, occupied by Mr. Wm Sweat, and a barn of Mr. Lindsey, in Seboois, were also burnt. A son of Winbourn A Sweat, Esq. of Milo, returning from school, through the woods, was so badly burnt that his life is despaired of. Mr. McIntosh states, that 5 of his pigs, and many sheep, were found dead, several of his cattle badly burnt, others that were in the woods have not been since seen, and are probably dead. This is no doubt the case in other instances. Hawks and other birds were found dead, killed by the fire-and even the fish in the river did not escape. Mr. McIntosh states that twenty Bass, weighing from 20 to 40 pounds, and numerous young Salmon, Shad, Trout, and other small fish, were taken out of the shoal water or found dead on the shores of the Piscataquis. The fire is running in this town, within a mile and a half of where we now write-it has done much damage to the woodlands, and occasioned considerable alarm for several houses and barns. We have numerous other reports relating to damages which have occurred, but they are not sufficiently authenticated to publish for facts.