Weekly National Intelligencer

ANOTHER FIRE AT PITTSBURG.

We condense from the Pittsburg Gazette the subjoined particulars respecting another fire of some extent which occurred in that city last Tuesday night :

We are pained to be called on to announce the occurrence of another fire, not so much because of the destruction of property as the distress it inflicts upon the poor, who, with few or no exceptions, are the sufferers. The fire broke out about nine o'clock on Monday night, in the stable of Mr. Samuel Young, a drayman. The origin, we believe, was accidental. It immediately spread across a narrow alley, and, the whole neighborhood being composed of small frame houses, it spread rapidly. The space burnt over was just upon the edge of a steep bank, and difficult of access from below. The stable was on an alley running from Prospect street to Coal lane. The fire spread across Prospect street, and took the houses on both sides up to Washington street, where it was stopped. On the side of the bank it took all the back buildings, sheds, &c. Thirty houses or more were burnt; but, with few exceptions, they were of very trifling value: nearly all were frame, of one and two stories high, none more than the latter.

The loss in value of property being so small, the fire at any other time would be thought very little of; but what makes it felt is the unsheltering of so many families belonging to laboring men, draymen, and others of like occupations, when houses are so difficult to be got. Their furniture, being easily moved, was mostly saved, except in the houses first burnt. Our citizens, we have no doubt, will be prompt in aiding their necessities.