The Daily State Journal

Money Destroyed In A Fire.-Some Specie Recovered.-We gave in yesterday's issue a short paragraph of a fire which occurred at Petersburg yesterday morning. From to-day's Index we learn that the loss was more serious than at the time anticipated:

The building was owned by an old colored man named Peter Jones. The fire first broke out in his barn, and was evidently the work of an incendiary. The flames then spread to his dwelling house, which was soon laid in ashes.

After the fire, "Uncle Peter," with the assistance of some of his friends, searched among the ruins for some specie, he had stored away, in some stone butter-pots." The specie was found, and when asked how much he had, the old man astonished his friends by answering, "about $3,500." Sure enough, when the coin was washed and counted, there were $280 in gold, and about $3,000 in silver and copper coin.

The money was very much disfigured by the fire, some of the coins being melted together, and most of it blackened and otherwise damaged.

The old man had, in addition to his specie, about $1,000 in "greenbacks," which, of course, was entirely destroyed-all of this money being the earnings of hard labor. He has the reputation of being an honest, correct and industrious old man, and no one save his wife, his faithful companion of many years, knew that he possessed so much treasure.