Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1872, Page 8

¥ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, e — 1872. BOSTON. Going to See the Fire---A Moonlight Walk Through the Ruins The Second Night After--- Darkness Over the City. What Made That Which Perished--- Past and Future of the purnt District. Recuperativeness of Boston. From Our Own Correspondent. - BosToy, Nov. 12, 18 4 telegraphic despatch from Chicago to Wesh- 1ington made me know that Boston was burned ‘before I wes else aware of it. Stirring down in the city, I saw the Spanish Calvinist, as he looks, Secretary Boutweli, mov- ing along in hie cloak, with that eort of high-air s if he would stop this thing of towns burning np by & judicious avalanche of bonds. When 2 man becomes head of the Treasury, end stock-bull at will, he is a formidable cbject in Nature. The email-pox gets ont of his way, and ' the compass dances on its pivot as if a human ‘loadstone was making & campeign, or the mag- xetic mountain had sworn & fearful oath. No convuleion in Natare moves more understand- ingly than a great man on good terms with him- eelf! OX THE BOAD TO BOSTOX. At 9 o'clock I was nearly asleep on the night- train. Soon afterward, if Imaybe allowed the supposition, T was fully asleep. Thenext thing, I was in New York, studying the newspaper-maps of Boston, and wondering how they were made. Next, T was taken with the queer look of people in the Boston trzin, all of whom seemed to want 1o insure each other ; and these, as I had found -out on my way to the Chicago fire, were the in- surance adjusters on their way to Boston to set- tle losses. Nothing is so noble and 80 praiseworthy, besides being un- common, as fo €ee s young man, sged 83, the possessor of a telegraph despatch across the cable saying: ¢ Williams, proceed to Boston, and settle our losses dollar for dollar. The Great London & Cheapside Company settles without 2n auvdible murmur, 2nd asks a continuance of the same.” Conscious that some of these much-irusted gentlemen wanted to tell me about it, I opened -both ears and shut my eyes, and the next thing I heard was “Springfield!” There I ate my soup at the Maseasroit House, and wished that it had. more of the fire in it, From Springfield to Boston, we took on sight- seers, and people troubled in their depths, one of whom told me, with @ sigh, that he bad lost everything in the world, and borrowed a cigar of me. With thet cigar he smoked like the smouldering ruin that he was. Said I: “How the duece doesamsn who has lost & ‘million feel 2 ““T¥ell,” enid he, *after yon get a million and 1ose it, you don't feel any woree than if you only Tad & Hhousard dollars and lost that. There i€, unfortunately, no change of grade in totel bank- ruptcy. The man who has lost his only cigar approaches the mental ecstacy of the man who has lost & part of Winthrop £quare.” All the railrond-depots were full of admiring ‘people merely watching the train. Nest to see- ing & great fire yoursell is the happineas of the man who is going to it. We passed throngh four or five towns called Framing} and half- s-dozen or more called Newton; and then we begen to meet great trains of cars, each drawn by two locomotives, bringing awsy the sight-seers who had preceded - us. = We were stopped outside of Boston by other trains haul- ing fire-engines. After a long delay, we got down snd walked between brick walls to the d:gnt, which, as we were chagrined to know, bsd been right by us all the time. About_6,000 eople were in and around the depot. I took he Tremont coach, and saw_the old twilight lare of fire from settled ruins, which I sd seen in _Chicago, climbing up the sky like northern lights, and a senee of awe fell over me. The vistas of many of the streets were closed by this opague veil of silent, 2lmost breathing light, pink and blue, like the deur in fire slowly throbbing out, the dying ‘of the mighty Scourger around whom the very heavens bend. At 9 o'clock I went down into the burnt dis- trict, with Mr. Walter Allen, of the Boston Advertiser. THE QUESTION OF PASSES. 5 We were provided with night passes, signed by the Chief of Police; but. presenting these on ‘ashington street, near Mi been stretched across, several colle Elaa cloaks, who looked to be in great danger of their pievts, atopp stopped several hundrod of thair fellow-citizens. “That poss ncb part of the armed college. ¢ Call the Corporal of your guard!” “Eon't do it!" said the descendent of In- crease Mather. ‘“We don't recognize any civil ‘posses. commonder, one!” At thin point of great moral discipline in thes| Lmightly soldier, a person who did not know our business, nor we nflyfiflnfi.n\mut him, but whom i 1 suppose to have been akind of uatural commi ‘sionaire, loving to guide people for tho delightd! of it, volunteered to squéeze us_through aside street, and, before we could draw breath, had remarked to 2 set of thick-waisted policemen: “ They're all right!” With these words the man disappesred, like the Genii of the lamp; and go did we, the other way. apparent, we came to a venerable and chuffy policeman, all muffied up in a woollen comforter, ‘who took our civil passee, and climbed up the side of & lamp-post, and thero read them upside down, with a part of one eye. “« Pags, gentlemen!” he said, and, in another minute, we were under the rope, and in & per- fectly quiet and abandoned piece of wide atreet, right opposite the great new Post Office. It was Davonshire street, and all before us were THE RUINS AND THE LOW FLAMES, covering many acres, and very striking and pic- taresquo 2s they still consumed in the dark night, illuminating the wretchedness of each Sibar, ‘A Tim or frame of other buildings, scorched but erect, girt round this great crater ot flame and void on_every side but one, and there we beheld moving lamps of green and white, dropping along the harbor on vessels, or flining down the bay, and, by the pelpitating Jashes of grent_coai-heaps, we could see the \vater iteelf, and some_masts withdrawn from the danger of the ignited wharves, Where the streets of the burnt district passed out of it and besond, a wall of blacker shadow, still revealing some perspective of things plain to be seen along its refiecting side, met the view; but the tzll temnants in the foreground, bearing their martyrdom of slow fire, absorbed nearly all our consideration. The ruins which I saw in that more narrow space of desolation WEBE MORE TAIPOSING, drawn close together, than on any like piece of ground after the Chicago fire. ~One very high chimney—high and thin, like & shot tower—rose on & slender stem of masonry to the fullest pe) fection of its former self, every brick in place; and along it the fire, far below, shed from every side such egual illumination that it looked white 2s ivory to the very tip. It might have been 150 feet high. Flanking this chimney were several porticoes of ir:en w{nfinfl, Bnppurfi?hgn tier or two of i blocks _apiece, e granite b de1 Tiko great bouldors; but the effect at o small distance was that of a number of Grecian orders surveying each other after some ancient sack and waste, The cor- ners of brick structures, where two walls, meet~ ing at right angles, buttressed each other, stood most frequently amongst the remaining wit- nerges of the city; but, in the distance, there were nearly the whole broadsides of gables chipped off near the eaves, and sharpened up in ymge, and standing there unsupported, like the spurs of b ) i visible. The eye at one time conld Srforty of these ehaggy, orslender, or nonde- seript forms of masonry tottering in " the black Boarens, polished with light o their summits, and often reddened there with coals still slow- Iy wasting, as if some _ smacrifice was extended to a barbarian’s deity. Below this hi’ghez stage of exceptional trophies of the town, s ower stage of yuing rose to a more intense and far more numerous than the | should be 80, illaminatio: first;l-mint , where a rope had e boys, in ed us short, as they had/| ood here!” geid a a large We've got our ordera from the_military - and, as he said_he shouldn't poss‘ anybody, we shouldn’t rend his poss if you had trict. Passing down the slley, with the smell ofgl the old Mercantile Hall buildin ‘burning rags and the fall ‘of faky cinders quite)| offices, her mountain farther back and in- still below the seeend were hungdreds of clumps of mere heaps of tumbled masonry, choking the flames and flues of each other. mXc Iast were the outlines of cellars gaping open, and lurid with the wintet's coal, all on fira ai once and emitting goses; and, in theso cellars, the gas-pipes, tWisted off, burned like the taper- bearers of the Nemesis who had done and was enjoying this thing. BEHIND US, THE GREAT POST OFFICE; the finest building in New England, and never yet occupied, stood empty, through all its open indowe taking iNumination to light its iron slel- eton, which stood straight and unwarped, while tho Mansard ribs sbove the cornice stood also revesled against the brightened air. But at one corner, near the head of Federalstreet, & column in the second order was split down the whole face of the shaft, and the capital was spoiled ‘beyond recognition ; and, as the eye wandered still higher up the building, it was plain that much of all the granite under that corner pavil- jon bad split liko the quarries of Quincy under the quarrymen's wedges. 4 There,” said & fireman standing near, who had been silent as ourselves in the firat awe of his arrival,—there is the wall which saved the Fost Office, But for that brick wall next door, dowa viould be Mr. Post Office at this minute! Yes. Likea great wing reached up to cover it from danger, an enormous surface brick wal, Delonging to a private storehouse, which had all gzriahed except this wall, stood parallel with the o5t Office, covering the back of it, and only snar- row alley between, The fire, burning down Milk street and down Congress at the same time, flashed up in the granite face of the Post Office, and passed by £o attack it in the rear, where ihe storehouses nearly touched it. The storehonses fell, and the united columns of the fire fought around thie piece of standing wall, end leaped over the top of it an Beeled the granite corner of the Post Office. ut the brick curtain stood like a fortification ; the fire swept round farther, and retreated along ZLindall and Centre streets, nearly to the Custom House; and there stood, all blackened, bub faithful still, the brick wall of the private citi- 2zen guarding the Government architecture. The route of former streets was more or less plain to be seen, and we began to pick our way through THE AXIS OF THE BURNT DISTRICT,— old Congress street,—over bricks and great grenite blocks, now chilly cold, although the debris of the fire burned 50 near. In this region it was very quiet, escept that we met half a doz- én or a dozen women walkin‘g through the pud- dies, with their police or soldier beaux. At the corner of High and Summer sjreets, one narrow building of Concord granite 8tood almost complete, A LANDMARE AMIDST THE WASTE, and its stony face was white as marble in the flashes of the fire. This was a stationer’s estab- lishment, on & sharp corner, and perhaps the flames, in their fury, would not tarry for go thin &n object, but were divided by it and rushed on to find a broader resistance. The splendid series of stores which used to_bear the name, 2s the occupied the site, of ¢ Daniel Webster's Home,” were all gone, and the wondrous monnments in ranite to the modern boot, in Pearl street, were ikewise extinguished. Of the boot and shoe dealers, 303 firms had been burnt out, and 200 manufacturers were dis- cugmo%ed of dteskArgnm. £ ¢ ary good .qually prostrated were the al goods and cloth%ng blocks of Demngfxgire street, and the wool-houses of Congressand Federal. The fastidious Church of Holy Trinity blinked, as if with nseless eye-glasees, out of its many Wwin- dows; and there, said one beside me : “ THE DEST CLAY OF BOSTON BESTS. 1 thongh that greai Crsar's clay, ab this in- stant, would be 2 poor substituté for building material.s At the spot where the firebroke out to take its travels, there stood many empty walls to the west of Summer street, nearly perfect, but un- dermined, and probably doomed to come down. Over the tops and through the breaches of these, people could be seen in the windows of many tenement houses, Feepingduwn at the burnt dis- trict apprehensively. Surely o great a fire was ;:_?\"e‘r 0 punctilions sbout™ destroying human ife ! From the formerly noble Winthrop square, a fino view opened out_on three sidcs, and the gable of Tarley, Amsden & Co. stands erect and nearly unsupported to its perfect height. In Winthrop square, there stood = wooden door swinging on its hinges, preserved despite the fire ; and, in the rear of the ssme block, another ‘beautiful chimney, calm and white in the night, 28 if it were a vestal's monument. Thence we passed along Washington street to Milk, surfeited with ruins, and uneble, between the duties of telegraphing and writing, to pay particalar attention to details. 4 DESCRIPTION OF THIS FIRE, if I should attempt to be precise about it, would take two weeks of inquiry, ‘and then would be inexact. Many owners and custodians of great warehouses were not present to see the progress of the devastation of their premises ; for it wae Saturday, and hundreds had gone to thecountry, while even the newa;:fier-panple were holding 2 fele somewhere, and all the Boston press has not furnished an adequate account. sides, & fire like this moves upon 1o strategic line, obeys 1o law of advance, but, like the wind, bloweth where it listeth. In some ceses, heroic personal efforts stopped the fiame by tho resources of desperation,—blanketing the windows and draft-holes, and keeping walls and_blankets de- luged with water before the fire should come. Inthis way, the Washington building, opposite Franklin street, was made toturn the irresolute column of the fire, and one Alderman (Jenks) closed the path of the devourer on Devonshire streot. Powder stopped the advance of the fire upon State street, and the firemen fought it after midnight on Bundsy morpieg, With a8 much valor 28 could have been epected. OUR WEASSESH 2 in American cities lles ia caring nothing for fire until it isuponus, We scarcely know that we have firemen at all, and give our Fire Depart- ‘ments over to deprecated classes, until the Tiighty scourge makes a night attack upon us, ons wa fnd that fire s the Smnipresent enemy, 2nd v are withoutan army. Well may the Toncon fournals scan and criticise Boston, de- ‘| Toured by flame, though at the edge of the ses, 20 old and established city taken unaware. THE GENERAL HISTORY of this fire is, that it broke out near the southern margin of the rich and dense_business district, on a west corner of Summer street. Itgotall its headway before public attention was directed to it. and in 8 twinkling hed jumped to Winthrop equare end carried the bet- ter part of the dry goods die- ict. 'The best feed for it, starting off, wes g, & garret of on Summer street, between Arch and o Hawley. Ithad speedily swept part of Frank- .| lin and Devonshire streets, the vaunted granite *}. fastnesses of Boston; end, from the piace of beginning, radiating like & fan, it swept im- partially northwest, east, and north, until it bad Durned to the water's edge by midnight; and then, carrying off all the new business houses on High street, all the flimsy housee on Broad and Purchase streets, and getting tne wharf com- bustibles on fire, 1t THREE_COLUMNS OF FLAME, whose general direction wag norfl‘anrd, and which—forced out of their paths of advance by Tesistance, explosion, or change of air-carrents made an attempt to carry State and Washing- on stréets, and were stopped in the attempt bo- fore noon on Sundsy. Sunday night, the re- 1reufinifire get B corner aflame which it hod wpared before, and ceased. 1 climbed up = ladder and out upon the roof of the tall office of the Boston Post, on Wednesda; anorning. Mr. Nathaniel Green, the editor, fol- Jowed mo up, and explained THE SCENE AND ITS BOUNDARIES which stretched below. There was the whole of the north part of the ruined district, & vast mass of cellars 2nd fzllon bricks, and part of nearly every building maintained some tall fragment erect of hard, black, Eastern brick, better and Tedder than that of Chicago. Soms of these ehafts of monumentalization were very high, and yet over the tops of many higher fragments «could be seen in the distance, and the steam and emoke which came up under the fine sunlight anade & haze and veil which disguised some of | the western boundaries of this desert, but took mo ray_of besuty from the bright water and ‘barren-looking islets of the harbor. We saw the cellars . 0f men dgltheljing iron, -pulling out safes with ropes and horses; and, at antervals, some solitary fireman, smoking his «cigar, held a hose and directed & stream upon the smouldering coal-pits. The bright uniférms of the soldiery were sprinkled throngh the land- scape, striding up and down where, perhaps, a eafe lay still entombed, while the propretor Tooked on _with nervous and suggestive motions and directions, and the fnfimrflm worked with pick and dgmhe, and by hard labor, under the dangerous walls. THE BICH ANKD THE POOR. TUnder how much obligation are the rich to the poor! How nobly does the poor man keep the silent observations of society, and lend his hand and heart together to belp the misfortunes of therich! I could not help but think that the obligation was with the wealt] {; and the nobility with the poor. The fow have theirinfluence and aristocracy of orgenization; but the working many have the harder duty, and well do they observe it, of obeying. Reverse the conditions and wages, and how many of the wealthy wonld be as loyal to the occasion as these laborers? All the institutions of society rally around the capitalist, The %oo_r employe votes that this and he is the hero of the calamity. e saw the great Btate Btreet black, just be- 3 i | yond the boundaries of the fire, 8 80kid granite ‘mass, strong as’ & citddel. ' Noarer was thé Cus- tom House, lifting its low round dome near the margin of devastation. "Along the water-front, a large brick block stood perfect a8 before the fire, Oiitside the waste were tho SHRINES OF THE COITY, ALL UNTOUCHED,— Fanenil Hall ; the little old gabley State House where the Boston Massacre was enacted ; the thin stretch of roofs between the burnt district and the Common, where the 01d North Church steeplo hield ite place among tho praves as when Paul Revere uaeg it for & pignal-tower. Beneath us, chipped and scrawny sb the corner nearest the fire, the great, empty Post Office stood un- finished. “There,” said my guide, **you see what But- ler’s Cape Ann quarry is good for. TLook across Devonehire street, right opposite us, and see the Lawrence building, with its cursed domes and. towers of wood cut by the gig-saw. 1y office saved that Mansard gimerackery, or all thonews- paper offices on Washington street would hava gone, and the fire might have broken through to the Common ! 3 “Djd it blow hard that night ?” I said to Mr. Smart, the city editor. “No. If it had, nothing could have saved the remainder of the town. They used gun- powder with decided effect b ONLY IN_TWO INSTANCES. At 6 or 7 o'clock Snndsy morping, they blew ap a block on Kilby street, s fow doors from State street, and also a block on Congress street, opposite Lindall. Those two holes arreste 6 extension of the fire when it burnt up to them about 10 o'clock. The rest of the fire was chiefly the burning out of what was already aflame. Up yonder, at Summer and Washing- ton, we had & new bresking out before Sunday midnight, which swept off another million. %1 was on this roof the better part of Sundxz night,” said Mr. Greene. The wooden Mansart took fire like the wick of a candle; the scuttles and elovator-ways gave draft; and granite ‘walls, like those you see behind us, dropped down_to their basements while scarcely yot ablaze, The streams of water thrown up here were mere nothings. Wo fought the blaze from the inside with pries and picks, tearing down everything that savored of wood; and we were two or three times afire, but got it out every time.” THE GREATEST LOSERS. A #\7ho was the greatest of all losers in Bos- ton 2 I asked. “It is impossible to know. The hews of David Sears probably lost the greatest amount of building edifice, but the greater losses wero in goods, and there it is difficult to arbitrate be- tween stock, consignments, and insurance. We have settled down to the beliof that the fire burned over 60 acres, and destroyed $75,000,000 of property.” g " + How will it fall upon the town?” «Tt will probably come harder upon it three weeks hence than at present:” “ Which interest has suffered most 2" “Wool and boot and shoe cleaned out; dry goods next to cleaned out ! TUESDAY NIGHT. described a part of my romaunt Mon- dsy night, I will take up Tuesdsy night 28 & social continuance of the same theme. Monday night had been s lively night, the streets fall of gazing people from town and country. S, "After the progress made toward the re-adjust- ment of all Bocial affairs, it was thotght that Tuesdey night would showa re-enlivened city ; and, eerly in the evening, the stores and theatres were made ready for entertainment, and the ‘promenade began. But at the fall of darkit was found that the gas burned worse than the night before ; it would scarcely burn at all; at 6 o'clock it bad Having ALL GONE OUT, . and the streets were clad in darkness, like thoso of old London when highwaymen swarmed, and the gentry ventured abroad in their chairs, 553 s2d surrounded with fsmbeauz-men. §ittie Jight was reflected from the now smoulder- ing and nearly epent ruins, and the Narrow ar- tories between the Common and the Revere House, whore the homeward-bound, the belated, and theidle and eyprian clags walk, werefilled with currents of indistingniehable forms, passing the dim candle-lighted windows in foriornness feeling, until those who meditated folly or crime wore dispersed by & peremptory rain, end then o etreat.cars rollad slowly and crowded to the pubirbs, It was a good night for candle-makers and this city exgorted in prior timo $75,000 worth of candles annually. A city with a bij holo burnt in it whers the driving whe used to stand_will feel its injury sooner or later; but the absenco of modern light it ill feel at once. Every man not beguiled by & sullen and forward spirit to séek worse company. than_ his own, repaired to his lodgn_:%, with a couple of candles i his pocket, and "listened to the steam fire engines tooting in the dark ke stoamboats in & fog, and to the monotonous roll of militia drums as they marched to change guard in the burnt district, and to rushing water $rom the hose-pipes, and the patter of rain. This was the hour of reliet for us to ask 'WHAT WAS THIS BOSTON that had nearly beon wiped out of the world? Tt was a city of 250,000 souls, which bed grown nearly 60,000 since 1860, and in the year 1800 Dad but 80,000 people. It had been a settlement more than 250 years, and was the firat in mari- time and commercial place; and nearly & contury and three-guarters bofore this fire, it had pub- Tished the first newspaper on the American Continent. It was the turbulent cradle of the owned one-third of all the shipping in the United States. 4 A In 1822, Boston became a city, dividing 15,000 585,000,000 of &roparty and weslth,—an increase of more than 100 per cent in ten years; and g;cgo gnhnbitmt, counted pro rafa, was worth It had also become a very different city in topographical ontline from its ancient self, hav- ing reclaimed 880 acres from the ges, or 800 more than were burned over in the .fire; and, by suburban reclamations of Back Bays, and the annexstion of ita suburbs, it had in- creased from its original 690 acres to 10,170 scres, all well populated. Of this the great fire burned over less than one-hundredth part, or sbout 90 scres; and, of the wealth of Boston, one-seventh, or little more than a year's increase of wealth in the current period. THE BUSINESS OF BOSTON. Boston's career hed been diverted from the sea to the land by natural causes, and the effect of legislation of its own seeking ; but its imports atthe time of the fire were about 855,000,000 worth, and its exports abont 315,000,000 The total movement of tonnage from its doors was about 800,000 tons, with 3,400 rrivals and de- partures of vessels sez annum; but the vessels entered far exceeded in business those clearing for foreign ports. As s home port of vessels, Boston _has 240,000 tonnsge, or four times more than hicago; and mearly 60 steamers and above 870 sailing veseels are registered here. Its larger mercantile muon’n%;aeemad algo to be slipping toward New York, which had the sdvantage of 1t in_faller railway connections to a wider market. Boston meintained eight railways, and had stestn coast- wise lines mo farther south than Norfolk, and westward only to the British Provinces, except one weekly steamship to Liverpool, which feeble tenure on Europe it had all but lost. It had 1,000,000 of cosatwise steam tonnage arriving snd degufing annually, but it great India com= merce had dropped to 16,000 tons. But the trade in boots and shoes, leather, and wool, and matorials for use to do manufacures, Boston still kept in an eminent degree, and ita banking and reserve c?itnl was very formida- ble and widely invested. It gave sli::se and support, perhaps more than any other luence in America, to the policy and establishments of the Federal Government, particularly to its financial eystem, and owned one-tenth of all the capital of the National Banks,—o Emsa sum of not less than1855,000,000 of green- ack currency. Its hand wasin many & distant bank; it controlled railways to the Valley of Salt Liake, and, by its Vermont extension, con- trolled & large system of roads tothe Mississippi Valley. Innearly every prosperous city of the North and West it made and profited by the greater improvements, and was not less mindfal of its own civic_architecture, embellishments, and more spiritual institutions. The ‘public achools, libraries, aud University Were the best in the Republic ; its intellectual and public life were_ better o ized than apywhere in the world ; aud these excellencies it bade fair to re- tain, thougb it had surrendered to the inevitable and lost the commercial suppremacy at home. §GCH WAS THE BOSTON OF 1872, whose fame has been & household word over the world for a week, due to its great cahm:tyk name it sequired from the small English shire town whence several of its prominent first set- tlers came. This conflagration had been preceded by A BERIES OF CONSIDERABLE FIRES, War of Indopendence, and by the year 1807it —B term of_years,—the No great fire has taken place in Boston, out of the common ran, for thirty-seven years. . That the fire we aré now ‘lamenting should have made havoc in Bostox Oity would surprise none femiliar with its densify, and the slley-like labyrinth of its streets (so miuch like elder Lon- don in the neighborhood of St, Paul's), except {or the solid and stone-like cast of its business edifices, which were built of all the varieties of | NEW ENGLAND GRANITE, - . the Quincy and and Concord grenite predomi- nlh_ns. ut the two great fires of our period haye disproved the incombustibility of stone, which, uhlike brick, the creature of the fire, became the victim- of heat, if not of flame. A goologist might find it well worth his ‘while o roam over this waste of granite, and ask whether the boulders he has sttributed to the action of water were not quarried from the mountain by its inner hest. They ae true boulders in’ shape, and need only tor be rolled awhile in the rapids to appear oval #nd polished like the mammoth boulders on the plsins. The Etob]em of the builder would seema to be est. as well as flame,” after this wholesale combustion, which expands the atout- est walls ag if they were elbowed asunder. -The very 'slabs of granite pavements are, in plsces, aghntmfl, and the “corrugations made upsn them by the chisel gcarcely show in relief. thThB part of the city devastated by the fire was's| 5 T NATURAL SITEE OF THE CITY Dby its position on the most open part of the har- bor, facing directly toward the gea, and also occupying the lowest and most level plain on the hlllyg)enm sula of elder Boston. To look tipon in old days, the city cite seemed to be three hills, whence the name Tremons, and between two.of these o dell rolled downward to & plain and cape facing the port. Here the business town was built, aud some of the streets circled ronnd the foot' of the nearest hill, while others, desconding straight to the water, crosged them or emptied into them without consideration of angles; and again the docks, reaching up into the town behind the hill, dernanded conduits of their own, which assisted. confusion. There the business part of Boston i WITHOUT FORM OR LIKENEGS, and the growth of the city and uniform pros- perity have given no time to set new stakes and straighten the perverse paths. These streets were often.mere lanes, and one of them burnt over by the fire, now called High street, used to be Cow lane, manifestly surveyed by cows. Another, which has reached the d.i[éuity of Broad street, was called Hatcher's lane. Congress streot, nnlessmy charts deceive me, was Long lane, and Pearl strect was a ropewalk, Buttwo of the leading miodern streets which the fire chose for its spoil.retain their provincial names, pamely: .Summor street and Milk street. Devonshire street was Pudding alley, and the great Washington _ streel of our period ‘was alternately Cornhill and Marlborongh strcet. Itis to be wondered at that conflagration; delayed 6o long to take ad- vantage whati was' Bo oasy a prey; and to monumentalize these narrow corridors with some of the highest business-blocks in the world seems, after this lesson, merely to have erected fiues to gnide and ventilate the fire. ERICES OF LAND. Still, few pieces-of gronnd in our period com- manded prices such a8 were put upon this business part_of Boston. As long nqa a8 1857, when the neighboring State streat block wes ‘built apon imed land, sa.much a8 §18.75 per superficial foot was asked snd received. The site of the Sears Building, just outside the burnt district, brought 343 per square foot in 1868, and 50 per foot would not, pnrhuis, ‘be deemed a preposter- ous valuation for much of the ground now cov- ored with waste brick, pulverized atone, and cel- Jars of molten coal. As Boston now stands, demruded of the greater part o:a its dense businessquarter, there is nearly a wasf ACBOSS THE WHOLE DENINSULA .of the clty, from-tho harbor to Charles River; for only a slender neck ornavel of stores divides the burnt quarter foom the Common and Public Garden. e city stands somewhat like the Biamese Twins, two living parts connected by a pand of sersiblo_communication, which is about 500feot wide 2nd mearly a third of a mile long. On_one side, the Common and Public Garden make a Bpace bare of houses, nearly 70 acres in extent ; on the other, the burnt district makes » desert one-third lurger. It would seem to be a fovorable time to cut‘'a broad modern avenue from the Common to the harbor, scross Tremont and Washington “streets, of vhich Tremont is atipresent the only great chan- nel'of communication between_ the head of the Peninsula (called the North End) and Roxbury. The North End, now nearly dissected from its basg, resembles on the map a great cabbage E‘mwing on o stalk, The wharves have suffered ut a little relatively, while the fire has bevelled out abroad PITCHED AND HANDLE-SHAPED DEARTIH, .as if to make another lung like the Common on “the east and sea foont of the clty. The dayafter the fire was put down, the Joint Commities of Boston City Councils, by a vote of 10 to 2, con- sented to let the burnt-ont busincss tpeople xmove across to the Jommon and put up fempo- wary structures. When Boston burps, let the frogain the celehrated civic-pond join their voices to the two vates; for it is death to them. The burned epace accommodated, approxi- mately, OSE THOURAND BUSINESS FIRYS. The Assessors’ books rated this property at above $18,000,000, of which the highest assess- . ments wara $300,000 in the building jointly pos- .sessed by Jobn Joffries, Jr., and Edward D. Petors. o Trinil;y Church lot was assessed at to osition, although in the first k s Yoot of Washington's Administration, it had con- | $100,000 0; spiccool property belonging to Flar, {ained but 18,000 Fenple. vard College at ); Spooner’s building at Tt was, at the time of the fire, possessed of { $100,000; oshua Sears’ heirs'_edifice at 3150,~ 2?%; the W. P. Masan. estate at $120,000; Mason 0y tares; and some others $100,000. n order to catch the mail, T must conclude. Suffice it to say, that the Boston fire will be KO TRIAL TO CHARITY, butmnuch ' to organized industry and straight- forward business. TIt‘bears no comparison, 28 a social phenome- non, “or 85 & test of grit, to the Chicago fire. The problem hero is not that of existence, but of continued.mercantile prosperity. GATH. Crowded - Churches Yesterday—The Post Office Swamped with Mnil Matter—Blarvard College in . Pecus niary Difficulty—Recovery of Valus able Souvenirs — Recovering the Wead. Bostox, Nov. 17.—The crowded churches to- day were in remarksble contrast to the thin attendance on the previous Sabbath, when the audiences wore composed of a few women and children. The great conflagration was the sub- Ject to-day in all tho city pulpits. ‘Washington street is now open for travel, and other strects in the burnt district will probably be'cleared of debris during to-morrow. A small military guard 1s still on duty. Thousands of people visited the ruins to-day. * The Post Oftice in Fanenil Hall, is so swamped with mails that they are obfiged to send s larg! :_mo\mt ‘'of matter to other offices for distribs~ on. 4 Harvard College has Iost g0 heavily by the fira that it asks for 850,000 for jmmediate us, snd $200,000 for rebuilding. - The most interesting locality among the ruing to-day, and one to which hundreds Wero attraci- ed by the vperations there in Qrogress, was thy xear of the store of Shrieve, Crump & Lowe. Benesth the sidowalk was & brick vault fifteen feot long, ten fest wide, and ten feet deep, which contained between worth of silyer, including the “altar service be- Tonging to Trinity Church, & partion of the sac- ramental @ilver of the Battlo Square Church, a interesting service in Boston, to-day, was the one held in the Old_South Church, probably the last, thatwill be held there. No words can add to the historic renown of this veneratedland- mark, which was erected in 1730, and is now for the ~ second e occupied by , troops. The sudience was co:gposed ol i geveral companies of _ soldiers which have been quartered there, while guarding the city, & few citizens, and half a score of ladies. The interior of the church presented a strange scene, the floor bewg strewn with the articles of a soldiers’ camp. The choir was composed of soldiers, and a soldier presided 2t the organ. The services were conducted by the Rev. Drs. Manning and Murray. The Society held their services at the Chapel in Freeman Place. New Yong, Nov. 17.—A Boston special says it is xaughiy estimated that 38,000,000 hides of upper and rough leather and calf skins wera destroyed. Already prices in upper leather have advanced from 10 to 20 per cent, and it is quite likely that & corner will be made in this staple. Of sole leather it is known that 300,000 sides, at least, were burzed, but the quantity of hides destroyed was very small, and thers is no rea- son for an advance in this material. A rise in boots and shoes is-inevitable. Peeple who come to buy must be prepared to pay much higher prices than formerly, and select from much smaller stocks. The boot and shoe trade is re- garded a8 in good condition. The dealers {| burned out had, as s general thing, lighterstocks than many supposed. The most .exact statemont of the quantity of ool destroyed, just made, gives a total of 10,225,000 pounds, distributed as follows: Do- | mestic floece, 425,000 pounds; Californis, Ore- gon, etc., 2,000,000; tub, 50,0005 scourad, 750,000 pulled, 1,325,000; Amstralian, 1,500,000; Cape, 150,000 ; South American, '200,000; sun- dries, 604,000. These figurcs were obtained yestarday direct from indivividual losers. " The smount now in the bonded warchouses in'this city, a8 reported at the Custom Houso estorday afternoon,eis 147700,000 pounds: in hiladelphia, 200,000, and insNew York, 17,000,- 090 tpmmds. 5 Most of the small jobbers hero are produbly all right; bat it is feared that two or three of ‘the large jobbers, between whom thexe Was a gaod deal of rivalry, may fail. There hgs been a brisk inguiry from manufac- turers, and sales since the fire, up fo last night, ‘haue been 800,000 pounds. P Cotton goods are not likely to ba rauch affect- ed. It was thé close of the season when the fire cmme, and the -amount of stock in store was small, Therewat quite & large destruction of carpets, some getting it as high as 200,000 rolla. The Lowell Company had o large atock 'destroy- ed. The stock fromthe carpet mills was mostly stored in the city, and within the buarnt dis- trict. The market forwwholesale clothing willinot be seriously affected. & Tt is noticeable that outsiders owing bills are.. ton great extent anticipating their payments. Several instances of payment of bills due Dec. 1, 2and some 2s late as July, hav been reported to- day and yesterdny. This is the best possiblo aid or relief that can be giver to the sufferers by the fire. Tho paper hald by'banks is largely that! of ontsiders, indorsed by the burned-out houses, and it is fortunate that the general state of busi~ ness abroad in other commorcial centres is so satisfactory that calls are not“to be made for their settlement. 4 There is some talk about town: regarding the cause of the fire and its management by the Fire Department. There is much said sbout the blowing up of bnild.ingu during the fire. It is asserted by many that the work was done im- geveral heavy sums for various struc- | Erogerlya illegally, and that the city can be eld by the owners of the property thus de- stroyed for damages. ‘It is eaid that o loosely were the permita- to use wder, drawn and given to different parties, that they might have, under them, blown up the entire city at their discretion. ~The number of buildings blown up is quite large, and of those shattered the num- ‘ber is also considerable. Report of the Citizens? Relief Com= mittee—Speech of the Xev. Laird Collicr. At the public mesting in Boston, Nov. 18, Mr. William Gray presented the following report from the Citizens’ Relief Committee : On the nomination of the Mayor of Boston, & Committes, consisting of William Gray, Willimm Claflin, Mayor Gaston, Otis Norcross, and fifty- six others, were appointed to take chargo of ancl distribute any contributions which might be made in aid of sufferers by the recent fire, and to consider and_advise what action should be mket on the various subjects presented by the even| This Committee has established & burean of relief, with headquarters at the Charity Bareat, in Chardon street, to whom all applications for nesistance may bo made, and wno will investi- gate all cases presented and advise as to the relief to be granted. The General Committes has appointed Mr. Otis” Norcross as its Treas- urer, and he will take charge of all contributions in money which may be sent to him. It has appointed & Committee of Finance, un- der whose direction all pecuniary subecriptions will be applied; also, & Committee of seven to take into consideration the whole subject of the fire, and to report such recommendations to the General Comtnittee 28 it should see fit. A Committes of ladies was appointed, con- sisting of Mrs. Harrison Gray Oftis, Willism Gaston, and twenty-six others, to secure work and aid for such women as may have been deprived of employment by the fire. The General Committee has approved the fol- lowing resclutions, and directed that they be submitted to the citizens of Boston at a.public meeting ta be held on Wedneeday, Nov- 13, at noon: Resolted, That the appeal to the City of Boston to eatablish naew in the burnt district the lines of “all of the streeta which are too narrow or oo crooked for: the prosent 21d future wants of the chief city of New ‘ngland ‘mperatively demands immediate action, Resolvel, That the citizens of Boston respectivaly but earnstly request the Commisaioners of Streets amvl City Concil of Boston immediately to revise and estab~ Lish thelines of the streets in the district upon & com- 876,000 and $100,000 . gservice of silver presented to Colonel William Aspinwall by the merchants of London, whose ‘names inseribed thereon include those of George Peabody, Baring Brothers, and others; a pitcher presented by Daniel We?)ster_to Peter Haney, and other mementoes, besides silverware belong- ing to the fim. The goods were placed there after the fire got under way on Summer street, the yault being considered the most secure place in the mneighborhood. ~ When the build- ing was blown. down by the explosion of gas, at least 200 tons of granite was piled upon top of the vault, but upon opening the vault, the sscramentel silver presented to Trinty Church by King George the Third, the Battla Square Church pitcher, bearing date 1704; the ‘ebster pitcher, and ~ other gilverware, were Drought forth in good order. _ In some parts of the vault, exposed to the hotiest fire, articles e o atte search aterin the afternoon search was continug under the sidewalk with Zope of finding a s:fl vice of ilver which had been gent down to the ~workmen on Saturday 10 be cleaned, but with +what success basnot transpired, The remains of Daniel Cochran, late gecond foreman Of Hook and Tadder No. 4, were exhumed from the rpins on Wufiington_ strect to-day. They were charred ‘beyond recognition, but identified by atag, to ding_through & lon| . 7 ogn gfi%{ ‘which, in 11;676 co%anmed 45" dwellings, | which * Kris” was sttached. Ho was 32 years gome warehouses, and & church. Three years | of age, and leaves & flwnl(c and two children, later, 80 dwellings, 70 stores, and eome vessels Shortly after _?-hBF ding of Cochran, the body Wereburned, mear the site of the present fire. | of Captain Wll!mla\dnn;li% of the same’ company, In 1711, at another large fire, gunpowder was | was exhumed, and idenf ed by & gold chain b, used to blow up buildings and arrest the flames, | longing to his wife. Fifty years after this, and of the present waste, 85 destroyed; and, to aid the sufferers, Whitofield took up & collection in London. I 1787, 100 1895, 53 on the spot 850-houses and shops were George structures in Boston were burnt; in fed the flame; and, in 1835, 40 other edifices went down before the ssme destrover, ’ichael Cuddy has been missing i and was last seen ap the fa fotur ight e e Bummer strest. PR e 1 William Kelly ha o - " This forenoon, m Kelly had his 1 Jog broken by the falling of & wall, e ent wag engaged In xemovmi. ‘BOSTON, :{w. 17.—Perhaps the most novel anq | tific men to investigate the cause of the rise and pro- prehentive and liberal plan, relying on the character, ‘energy. and progressive spirit of the people to approve such adtion, and we pledge ourselves to support the Commssioner and City Council in the cxercise of the powerand sesponsibility baloaging to them {n this Tegar “eesired, That the citizens of Boston earnestly, Te- quest the City Council to prohibit any furthor con- strucsbon of hansard roofs, and to limit the height of trildings within the city limits, =o thatsucha confsgration 88 has just taken place mey not be re- eaded. 5 P ioiced, “That the time snd opportunity for the erection of a Merchants’ Exchange in the centre of Dusiness, asdoclating together all engaged in mercan- cuntilopursuits, tias arrived, and'we strongly advise that s ba taken at once to procure a_chariér from the Jegislature to purchase a proper site, and to ereci a stitable building adapted to the uses and worthy of ths merchanta of Boston, The General Committee has appointed 3eyor 3aston, Postmaster Burt, and Hon. E. S. Tobey a Committee to petition the General Government to acquire stroets so as to enlarge tho present site for Government buildings. It has aieo appointed the Hon. Josiah Quincy, Collector Russel, and Mr. Jawes L. Little a Committee to request Massachusetts Senators and Representatives in Congrees to procure the S:““ga of an act of Congress allowing the same awback on building material as was allowed to l{:}'flmd and Chicago after the fires in those cities. : 1t has appointed the Hon. William Gra; Avery Plumer, Mr. Martin Brimmer, Mr. B. Spooner, Mr. Semuel Hooper, end_ir. Wili- iam Claflin, s Committee to request His Excel- lency the Governor to call s special mesting of the Legislature of Massachusetts for the pas- Bq;ge of such acts as the present emergency re- ired. The General Committee adopted the following Votes and resolutions: Voted, That, in the opinion of this Committes, the Position’ and construction of the Coliseum makes ita continuance . dangerous to its immediate neighbor- hood, and'they adyise that it be removed a8 800n as practicable, Resolved, Thot the Mayor be requested, in behalf of the city, torequest his Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth, to call an extra session of the General Councll for the following pt e, Viz.: § To pass & law enabling the City of Boston- to make and jssue bonds not exceeing $20,000,000 In amount in the whole, to be payable in not leas than ten- years, st 3 rate of interest not 'exceed- ing 5 per cent for those payable in gold, and G per cent for those paysble in currency, to be-called the Summer Street Fire Improvement bonds, to be placed in the hands of a commission of not more than Tive persons, to beappointed by the Mayor, with the approval of the City Council, Whose duty it shall be’ to Jend such bonds or their proceeds to such gwners of 1and burned over by the recent firb who sball make ap- plication therefor, and commence rebuilding on the burned land within one year from the date when the strests shall have been laid out anew and been made zeady for rebuilding, snd shall secure said loan upon the £atd land by & mortgage, conditionsl for the use of said loan in rebuilding upon said land €0 burned over, and conveying a title satisfactory to the City Ballflm;i and the proceeds’ of said -loan mot to bu sdvauc until the building npon said land has mada_such pro- gresa aa to nsure its completion in the belief of said Commission, and such further provisions und coudi- tions to be annexed to said loan by the Commissioners 28 hall, in their opinion, afford the greater necessity of its uso for the purpose of rebuilding on said land, and of its being repaid to the city. Voted, That the City Council bercquested to appoint. sion composed of engineers and other scien- y, Mr. am Wi 8 com) gress of the fire, with the view to the adoption of suit- Hble moastres fo prevent iho recurzenco of such & ty, Yoted, That a copy of this report, attested by the and Secretaries, be sent to the Mayor, with Tequest that he will loy the sxme before the iwo Tranches of the City Counieil. Mr, Henry P. Kidder, of Kidder, Peabody & AUCTION SALES. By WM. A. BULTERS &CO. Auction Sale VALUABLE PEOPERTY On Wednesday, Nov. 204t 11 o'elock, B By WML A. BUTTEES & O, & JTTERS &0, 8t 55 and 57 On V&'/'nabaéh-av., Corner of Fifty-nintst. 231 Feet Northwest i:ix Faot Northgast oy t 16 in Mood: ivi feet on South Par} %i‘é‘.’;‘:&‘”:s:@%‘: ty-fifth and Thirty-sixth-sts. Tots 1,'4,°5, 8, Co., roved the adoption of the report, and said the news came to him just s he was entsring Chicago on Sunday morning, and expressions of Sympathy and offers of sid were made by all. Mr. Kidder's motion also constitutes the Com- Eittee a permanent Committee, with some addi- ons. Mr. Mudge offered an_smendment, which wag accepted, which was that Mangard roofs should not be constructed exceg;r of fireproof ma- terialg, and the motion of Mr. Kidder was then adopted. REV. BOPERT LAIRD COLLIEB, OF CHICAGO, was noxt introduced, and greeted with a storm of applause. He raid Chicago was in bonds, and the debtor of Boston. Their memories wera quick last Sundsy when the news came thata great fire was Taging in Boston, from whence came the best things that Chicego had. After her fire C‘hica%o beheld, as the first money sent them, 925,000 from Boston, lsid upon the Mayor's table by the Hon. Mr. Gray. [Ap- plause.] The banks had been bumed, and Chicago was without and water, for want of money to fay off the laborers, ‘but that money was nsed for their wages and the 30 3 g d 9, BiSk 18, i articleawere procured. - Boston had sent Chicago ton L. B , fronting R oot Tosiden thonssnds. af | O onLeexington-av., i nents and other nsefal articles. Tho Chicigo EG ANDALIE, ommitteo had now £500,000in their treasury, with 1,000 families to support, but Boston eho bave all of it if she ne: it. They came toget- hher lact Mondsy and agreed to offer all in their | power. Citizens snbscribed $50,000 ‘within minutes atone meeting for Boston. He would say not only that this money was for Bos- ton, but that' she had to take it.. Her sewin; ggl:l and others out of employment would nee: money, and they must have it. When the speaker was hore last year he was told that tho very district now in ashes was indestructible by fire. Boston should see to it when she rebuilt thatghe did not pile & lumber-yard on the top of her ron and granite buildinge, and that she -wideted her streets so as to give s lesaer chance to thefiames. Mr, Collier concluded ‘amid great applaise and cheers. Eitwes; Elm & (55th) and ‘Walmt (54th) sta. ots 34 and 35, Bl chard” | ibdivision, n Sos. 35, Town Jo oachard’s T'itle pecfect. Torms made known at thesals, ‘WAL A. BUTTERS & CO., Anctionsers. IMPORTANT SALE OF TIRY £00DS, BOOTS & SHOES Clothing, Piece Goods, Woollens, Cassimeres, Satinets, YV00L SHIRTS AND DRAWERS HOSIERY, HOTIONS, &¢, &€, i B Ve S Vessels Passed Detroite On WEDNESDAY MORNING, it Drrmer, Mich., Nov. 17.—PassEp Dows— 3 an s Nariagve 1 Propelles’ Merchant, City of Chatbam, Bay Gity, Mudota, and barges; schooners E. Fitz- a:fig: (E:‘e M}zmy!rwmgwn, Alice, Light- 8, mo. T. A . Je Guard, Fhme, Jno. ott, W. J. Whaling, PAssED Tp—Propeller 8t. Clair; barks, Nich- ols, Summyr Cloud, H. Bissell: schooners, Osborne, ¥rrd, Nellle Redington, Mary, Hattie Jas. Paige, *hilo Scoville, Nabob, Idaho, M. P. Hunter, A. Body, C. B. Locke, Eliza, Gerlack. W; ouhwest. ¥ z 95 o'clock, avour Salesrooms, & and &7 A 5 e R L ELISON ¢ FOSTER, Aactionsess. 264 RESIDENCE LOTS HYDE PARK, FRONTING ON South Park, Colfax, Vincennes, “Forrest, Charles, McChestny, Langley, Evans, and Cottage Albam Live Stock Market. ‘WEST ALBANY, 2 ol ot Tp Week ' hy b o Tasant, aod although the supDL: was large, still an advance of 3o was matniaied Tha ol atiendance of arte New York and local nyers guva the market sair of animation, and a8 allyanted cattle the price demanded by holders was Tea(ly paid. ‘Those dealers who bought early came oftthe buklnmfi got all they want. €2, while thoss who he back In hope of afallin the market suffered the dople disappaintment of seeing ot ey coudd pa Bopaizd to pay full rates for * they conld B¢t Iowy ther was o market of any o & 5 bonght on Bio arrive were principally commiseion YeSyday, and the few not 50 \disposed of were readily ought by il [T s ght by retail dealers. % Adtogehes, tho mackey Df%ouk Tas proved vy | GIOVE-BVS,, bet. Sixty-fifth tisvctory to buyers. REcEIPTs—The following S the recuipts for the weok in car-loads, 25 taken frin the books of the Ceno tral Rallroad: Blonday, 50 cale, 90 hogs ; Tuesdsy, 10 cattle, 8 nbeeg,hed hogs ; Tdnesday, 39 cattle, 3 sheep, 50 hogs ; Fhureday, 96 citle, 31 rheep, 63 hogs ; Fridas, 112 catle, 8 shoohy #ogs; st 3y, 41 cate & eep, g8; Sundays c B hogs. Total, 564 catfl, 0, i, u‘?fil}-‘ ooty tabléof compart to correspond with the main rukg fi"@n"?‘éfifx&f‘a‘&'fi: ‘week : Premium, $7.87¢@8.37)5 extra, $7.76@7.87% ; Srst quality, $662)(@T.62)5; send dually, $5756 6.50 ; third quality, $£.50@5.25 ; ior, $2.25@4.25. ‘Mirce Cows—Demand active ; iceipts light, Good cows sell readily at from $50.00 £0775,00 3 fancy stock carrespondioglybigher. ‘orKING OxEN—Demand and* 3 ‘“’g o pply fair; prices arEP AND Lamms—Demand stdy for Esstorn trode, Quatity fulr, . Pricsasciespon 220 Hoos—Demand active far local ade; prices un- chonged. We quote the followinggalea: William Lester, 274, averaging 280 1bs, st 54(C 248 do, averag- 1ing 290 s, at $5.30 ; 218 do, aversging?g ivs, at $5.10. and Sixty-sixth-sts., On Thursday Morning, Nov. 21, AT 11 0'CLOCK, ByWm. A.Butters & Co. § & 51 SOUTH CANALST. These Lots are finely situated between Six« ty-fifth and Sixty-sixth-sts., south of the Great South Park, und accessible by 20 DUMMY TRAINS to and from the city each daz;, and only two blocks each way from De- pots. Fine houses already built and occupied : streets finely graded; ground high and dry: in every respect FIRST-CLASS PROP- ERTY. Sale absolutely without reserve. Terms--Only $50 cash, $50 in six months, $50 in one year, $50 in two years; balance in three years, with interest at 8 per cent. Contracts to date on day of sale. Title unquestionable. Platsare nowready. For other particulars see JACOB WELL & CO., 131 LaSalle-at., or ‘WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctioneers. ~—We learn from the Liberta thathe Pope mads 5 dbcres, B0t 36t iseted, in Wat begrdons the secular clergy of the Roma gdiocese to undergo aweek's penance, and ms) a general! expiation by spiritual exercises. "\e circular letter with which Cardinal Patrizi ehorts the clergy to observe this penance iS syt to be publishcd, and contains instructionwhich in 1his instance amounts to peremptory clers, that each priest shall confine himself for'ght days to severe penitence, as the Divine Fyvidence demands that the sacerdotal virtues shi he put. on proof, like gold in the refining'amnace. This is the first order for penitence Wich his. Holiness has ordered since 1850. DIED. GOODYEARsunday moraing, Nov. 17, Birdotiands , age ‘months, 7 e A e He. Won, Gootyear, 7 Jagest By GEO. P. GORE & CO. 23, 34 and 2 East Randolph.st. . Faneral will tako place from ihelr rosidence, Slwest Lakest., to Rose Hill Cemotery, Tuesday, N i & B, o St BT G, "Renlly? 80| GREAT- AUCTION SALE wsa‘mlummaefil:tcfleduuyne.l Oa Wednesday, Nov. 20, commencing at 9.30 8. m. ince thou g0no to resf i T l = 1n Hoaven's bright homo-b A B Heaven s g o hogpy latz, Tho eatire_stock of the Clicinoatl Branch of o lazp ouse, commission dealer BARTON—Ou Nov. 16, at the residence of her fat., te, Elizabeth S., qy Bos e e o Shens Basion, ‘aged I3'yoy ] LA | ivitad 1o stbind: the funersl b F]NE BUUTS _A_N]] SHUES fathers, atids. m., to-dsy. mEE:;}::oéirg’nnmpmmh tomeet liabilities cansed Iy ~ AUCTION SALES. By the Messrs. LEAVITT, N. Y, A STOCK OF HEAVY GOODS , will be sold at the same time. b o Botatlors of Sue goods biaro mever had such a3 oppere GEORGE P. GORE & CO.. G_Ie at Art S a']. e 4 Auctionsers, 22, 34, and 2 Randolph-s. ; : 1 500 Army Overcoats, 500 Dress Coats, 500 Cavalry Jackets, 500 Cavalry Pants. A large line of HATS and CAPS. ! -Aline of CASSIMERES, NOTION3 ete., AT AUCTION, ' *OnTHURSDAY, NOV. 1, AT 9% A. M. ' GEO. P. GORE & CO., 4, 24, and 2 Rando'ph-st. IATIONAL, ACADEMY. OF DRESIGN, Twenty-third4t. and Fourth-av., New York. GRAND EIHIBITION (OF PAINTINGS! The largest and most. important, colleotio tings ovex BrOGEHL 1o AmErics, How o8 SXIbIuiog a6 the. RBPII:E?ONAL AQADEMY OF DESIGN, N. Y., ENTING MORE THAN N ORE Toa TWO BUNDRED By HARRISON & CO. Day and evening, from 3a. . to 0 p. m. P ?fi&'f}’fi'&,{ from ?E gpé_? ¥ ‘;:-fi B it SPECIAL SALE. ; ERN A 2103 3 of thefrench Germs, and Belgiansotionly eecently e sotmol v an Bocond Eand Faraisns SGiocls 2 goctal E mfinum’, o exhibiied for the Srat time t this e, o O Y SR ISR e Hon S Fpde ™ SMONG THE PAINTINGS AREOHOIORE: SrRe L TAEFOLLOWING nmowué-:gfl‘xr@gf‘ss Bhent Merto, Jumes Bowtrand, Gh. Gadin SPEGM SM:E UP PRBN AlfredStevens, _ Duve: Adolf Dillé: K Blbrealave % g puterger. lolf Dille On TUKSDAY, Nov. 19, at 10 o'clock, 100 pes. Huest Bougers e e i, e ok, |Thibetx sod Cashmeres ia all the fashionable colors. The Chmpia, Hoyervon Bremen, losatot, st ot of soods sgery ifened w4 Sation ln Chicage F. Willems Plassan, Bakalowics, W& 00 Suctimeos B. 0. Koekkoek, E. Verbosckhoven; Breuboalse Latons & oy LARGE SAL ) Phess, Prayor, . W, Salentis, B SALE oF L Renbacn, 2 Geblur, : Bty o s, ¥ Wahiby Ey ! C d SRS R G ondemned Houses! ey o Y xg‘h’b teck, u“' (b T . R & Qo Bharctoren On WEDNESDAY MORN'G, Nov. 20, 1%L at 10 celocks T Cart Hul i e g:fi:;" urra ‘,({;{‘_hnm wo will ssll st auction, ou the premises, all tiscone Tutanbac) and moro thac thies hundred | demned hoases ou Jine of the . & 1. . Railyod, bee ! ginning st North Ourtis-st. and xteading west. toValene | tinost., camprising Over 75 Houses of all Descriptiors. Full particalars can bo had at our offico, & Cansl-st. Tuo sale witbe strictly cash, and the houses must be | muvea of (s promtes. % HARRISON & CO,, Auctionsers. others. By ELISON & FOSTER. The whela to be s3ld by suction on Dec. 3, 4, 5, 6, 2nd %, ‘We shall sell THE MESSRES. LEAVITT, AT A UCTION. Anctioneers, CLINTON HALL, New York. 55« Bilbasobtay, AT Descherniuhs o0 This colloction of palatings sopresents s moneg valuo of | WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, st 3p.m., that nearly HALF A MILLIO! tract th tures. LLARS, sad should at- ttendance of every lover and bayer of fine pic- splendid comer proporty at > WOODLAWN STATION, Consisting of L.ots 38, 41 and 43, béing 180 fest on Bixty-fourth-st-, and 150 feet on *| Grace-av., two minutes’ walk from Station. THEY MUST BE SOLD ! Terms 1-2 cash, bal. 1 year with 8 per cent interest. Also, Lot on State-st., near Thire ty-first, if not sold previously, and Lot on Michigan-st.,, near Dearborn, ‘We have alist of choice property TO BB} P. GORE & CO., 24, and 2% Raudolph-st. AT ATCTION, TUESDAY, Nov. 19, at 11 o’clock, : Alargaand elegant assortment of ofl palntings and chromos, in gold and finely-finianed walout frames. @ P GORE & €0, AUCTIONEERS. By G. yfl: On By & JFe OORRE & 00. CLOSED OUT, situate in all Darts of the ottt DTN iy, || ST S04 ambshey and vt the attention of 0 W ed g rant. Bullding, on B misos, | parties desiring to invest. : Kingy, Restasint Bollint,, o, lnchding s arge T. 8: FITCH & CO., Tot of fire ellcs. Least 'il“‘.‘;%‘fi’é 157 Dearb: &00., Auctionsers. | ELISON & FOSTHR, Auctioneers, Grand Auction Sale