Richmond Palladium

$250,000 worth of Property destroyed.--On Wednesday last, says the N. Y. Sun, a fire, originating in the carelessness of some charcoal burners, broke out in the woods about forty miles from Brooklyn, on the Long Island Railroad, and notwithstanding the exertions of all the men that could be collected, it spread with great rapidity. The wind varied many times, and as the fire was conquered at one point it broke forth with renewed violence at another. Retreating in number of places from cultivated farms, it destroyed all the timber and shrubs between Deer Park and Thompson. The width of the burnt district is six or seven miles, and it extends from a half to three quarters of a mile north, and from two to three miles south of the railroad. 11,000 acres of land have been burnt over, the timber destroyed being some of the finest on Long Island. The loss, amounting to over $250,000 will fall on fifty or sixty persons. At one time the fire caught in a farmer's yard, but was speedily extinguished-whether in any other case it has destroyed houses or barns is as yet unknown. In several places it made a threatening attack on Babylon. The scene is said to have been grand and terrible. Dense volumes of smoke, which could be seen at Bedford, darkened the sky, while the crackling and roaring of the flames as they curled about the lofty pines or darted up towards the heavens, will not soon be forgotten by those who labored in the burning sea, and after the greatest exertions only checked the conflagration yesterday afternoon.