Downtown: The Great Fire:
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City Subscribers.
Those of our city subscribers who moved on the First of April, will please give us notice of their new place residence and those who have been thrust out by the late calamity, we shall serve [so] soon as it is possible for us to find them out--of course, it will take some time, to get located in anything like permanent situations.


Mr. Matthew Jones, Barber and Hair Dresser, requests us to say to his Customers and the citizens generally, that he has repaired up his house and is now carrying on business as usual in the old stand in Fourth st. between Wood and Market.


Mr. John Peck, Ornamental Hair Manufacturer, being among those who fortunately escaped the dreadful disaster, is still in his old stand on Fourth street, next door to the United States Bank, now the Bank of Pittsburgh.


Injustice.
It has been somewhat currently reported, that Mr. Joseph [Mahoney] Jr., residing on [Coal] Lane, is now lying in prison for stolen goods found in his house, taken at the great fire. This we [are] fully authorized by his lady to say is unfounded, and utterly false. Mr. [Mahoney] being now down the river on [boat], where he has been for three weeks past, and the [...] of clothing belonging to [Mrs.] Mary Anderson, who makes her home at Mrs. Mahoney's, which were [...] by some persons, carried to the area of the New Court house, exposed, [examined], and returned to Mrs. Anderson [again] at her lodgings at Mrs. Mahoney's.
This report, we are informed, was raised by some treacherous colored person, who informed the officer [...] searching the house, that such goods were to be found on Mr. Mahoney's premises, not knowing but what he [was...at] home.-- Such persons, must be [rogues] themselves, or they would not thus [libel] others.


Lost.
Samuel Kingston, Esq., Att'y at Law Second st., Mrs. Susan [B...], Washerwoman, Third st., Mr. [J...], Auction dealer who resided in Allegheny city, and a servant girl of Mr. [...ingston], have been lost in the destructive elements.


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