Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1872, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, THE RECORDS. Hfeeting of the County Commis- sioners Yesterday After- 100N, Discussion of the Proposition to Purchase the Ab- stract Books. Their Possession by the County Deemed Absolutely Necessary. What Will the Owners Take, and How (an the Money Be Raised? A Swap of the Normal School Grounds Suggested. Another Meeting to Be Held To-~ Day. Letter from Mr. Louis D. Hoard, The County Commissioners held a meeting gesterday afternoon, President White in the chair. Present, Messra. Jones, Ashton, Har- rison, Skelly, Stearns, Lonergen, Herting, Pahl- man, Crawford, and Roelle. Mesers. Gallowsy and Miller, clected respec- tively to Al the vacancies czused by the resig- nation of Messrs. Wahl and Teleott, qualified and took their seats. The special orderwas then teken up, being the report of the Special Committes on the Res- toration of the Records, with resolution ate tached, for the purchase of the abstract books, the sum being left blank. Mr. Crawford moved the Board to go into Committes of the Whole on the resolution. It was g0 ordered, and the Board went into Committes, Commissioner Crawford in the General White esid the report presented two questions : one whether it was expedient to bay these baoks to partly replace tho old records, the other, the price, He was dissppointed that the Committes had obtained no opinion fromthe Judges as to the ntility of the books. Theyhad given an opinion on nothing. They say it any- thing wea bought, all should be, and then con ditioned on the power of the county o pay for them, What they had said gave him no light. If ihey had said the county shouldor should nob buy the books, he wonld be far more ready to vote. To legislate at & guess as to what the Judges would approve, he did not like, Still, the law did not require them to sey more than they had. He suggested that the Board take up first the question whether it was necessary or expedient to meke the purchase at all. Mr. Harrison asked Mr. Ashton what the Judges meant by eaying they should bay every- thing—did they mean to buy duplicates ? Mr, Ashton 8aid yes—to bresk up a monopoly, and since one get might have what another did not. Mr. Harrigon said the law authorized the pur- chase of copies or origingls. There was no rea- gon for having the latter, except from the possi- bility of copy errors. Could not ‘they buy one set of books and correct it from the others, and be a5 well off as if all were bought. Of some books there were even triplicates. The county mneed not go into the purchase of these books at 80 grest & enm, when it conld get the eame in- formation for half s much. The amount de- manded for the whole was about 750,000, They ‘bsd elready eold bonds to tho amount of 8750,000. If they raised the valuation of the connty o 810,000,000, they could raite annu- ally but #750,000 for carrent expenses, which could not be diminished, owing to pauperism, ete, The interest on bonds already issued, and the amount for sinking fund, hed =lso to be conside red, which was to be deducted from the zonoel fsr. Therefore, before buying the books and issning more bonds, they had better submit the thing fo a popular vote. Nor did he £e8 ey necessity for the purchzee. A few real -eetate firms hsd suffered, but the eales in the last six months hed been immense. Where was fhe imperative neceseity ? Mr, Crawford eaid the Judges declined to con- @ider the plan of a compilation. Mr. Ashton moved that so much of the resolu-~ tion as related to the purchase of the books be taken up. The motion was agreed to. Mr. Aehton had,after much reflection, come to the conclueion that something ehould be done Yo reetore the records, and had voted for the proposition to pay $400,000. That was dissp-~ proved by the Judges, since it did mot cover ‘nything of an original natare. Why they did 0 he could not tell, except for the tWo reasons stated, that some books corrected others, and fhat it was 2bzolutely necessary to_break up the nonopoly. _The abstract men did not want to 1ell everything, and did pot think it needfal for the countyto buy it, nordid he; but he did sot like toeet himeelf up againet the eight Tudges. They had come to the conclusion they vould_approve mo plan which did, not buy naryzhini. Then the Committes had nothing .eft to do but to find what the books could be bad for. He lhnught they could get on eacily with lessthan =2l the books, but thers was the decision of the Judges. He had now no question of the necessity of soms action by the Board to do something to replace the records. A large msjority of property-owners favored the pur- chase of the books, to some extent, at least, He was willing fo vote the county should make a purchase, but, i not hedged in by the law, they ‘conld proceed more essily than now. Now all they conld dowas to eay that they would or wonld not'buy all. Then the question came as to the amount. Mr. Miller asked if the Judges eaid explicitly the books were really neceseary, and shonld be purchased. Mr. Crawford eaid the msjority of the Judges ’had go.expressed themselves to the Committes. Three often said s0. Ope Judge seid he had ‘bean oppozed, but was recently convinced. Mr. Ashton said thero was nothing in the law calling on the Judges for an opinion &8 to the necessity of the book Judges, however, &d indicate to the Committes that there was & necessity for the purchase. One or two seemed to think there was Do ne- cessity. General White said he had beenof the opinion that the county s & corporate body was ty of peglect in the way in which the records bad been kept. It wae bard to find a parallel. They were accessible to any who chose to mutilate them, smi&in case of fire, their destruction was certain., Cook County owed it to eschindividual toreplace the record of his land if it could. ould the sbetracts do it? The Judges eaid they tended-to show title, and that the county shonld ' buy them fors price within its means. He knew of no mora important thing for the count; to do than to restore these records. If it di noé every yeal estate owner must go into cour 8od prove his title. He had nothing to prove titlo to an inch of Iand except what was in the abstract books, which were now liable to loss, or removal, 1t was true, much property had been 101d, but that eimply proved the mutmal con- fidence of men—it did not prove that it conld be :arried on indefinitely, He did not think the tounty unable to make the purchase. If he voted to buy the books, he would want & %ropo- sition adopted to sell the Reform School grounds o cover the cost,—or ag much of it 8s poesible. He would never vote for 8750000 under any ciroum- stances. Half a million was ample. The means to buy-could be procured without interfering with any other grest county interest. He had generally found people wanted thebooks bonght at a reasonable price; bankers, lawyers ang real estate men thought 80. Therefore "he was pre- pared to vote it was expedient fo buy the books. -Mr, Harrison said their financial position was sbout a8 followa: The estimates for county ~purposes for the current yesr were $689,502.79. onds to the amount of 750,000 hed already been voted. Tho building of & jail had been contracted for, costing at least £400,000, which would run up the =amount of ' bonds iseued to 81,150,000, leaving $350,000 more which they had power to issue. 1If they jssued all their bonde, at7 per cent, the futerest to be peid would amount to $103,000. The einking fund, at 5 per cent, would make 875,000, That made £669,502,79, which would have to be raised by taxation, If the valuation were raised ta £120,000,000, they would only geb 59,000,000, leaving {hem & morgin of 531,000, IF it was Taieed to £120,000,000 they would have to pay the State $180,000 for the privilege: For every ) feed dred dollars added, the State put on 90 cents. It was well to consider that state of affairs, They could eell tha Reform School grounds, but not for so great 2 sum. Per&annlf +- ha would be benefited by buying the books, but he did not sea how the county conld get them, escept for a reasonable sum, and that the abstract men would not take. . General White offered the following = ‘WaznEas, The pablic records of titles to real estata ip this county were deitroved by fire oo the 9th day of October, 1871, ‘since which tirae the.evidence upon which the ownership of real estato has teszed chiey, and, in most cases, wholly, upon certain coples oF ab- stracts of satd records, held by persone who sro in Do wiso responsible to the pablic for. thelr safety fzom 7o or mutilation ; and, WHEREAS, Tn the opizion of fhis Board, it is thedaty of the county to Teplace said records, €0 far as it 18 possible to do eo, in order that tedious, vexatioud, std extensivs Litigation in establishing-tities” be avoldad, and in order that tranefere of property may bo efected ‘without the great delsy and espenee TOW Decessary 3 it is thereforo = Regolved, That the Special Committee on the Restora- ton of Public Records be, and tbey are hereby, author- ized and instructed to offer to the owners of the coples ox abstzacts of the Tecords, referred to in tho sbove preamble, the sum of $~—— in twenty-year six cent bonds of tho county for tho hole. Of said b Btracts or copies of the public rocords in their posees €ton, being originale, not coples, made by them from 6aid public_records, whether the samo wero obtained {rom records In the Recorder's office, or of the several Courte, or of tax eales, or any other officlal source Whatever ; Provided, that, prior to making such proposition, 's3id Committes ehall pre= sent fo.the Judges of the Circust and Superior Courls & certified copy of the proceedings of thia Board in the matter for tueir approval or disapproval 88 Te- N eetich, That in ca h ition be ved, Tha 0 sucl osition proved by tho Judges, sud sccepted. by, (ho oynes of the abstracte, for ihe purpose of providing for the payment of said bonds iu whole or in pariz, it ehall Do tho duty of the Finance Committee of this Board to causo to be subaivided and offered for saloat such 4ime or timea hereafter as they may appoint, the prop- erty known a8 the Reform Scliool grousds, upon the following ferms, Tamely: 20 per cent in rand, 10 per cent ennually thereafter, for three years, or until oneshalf of the purchaze price shall have been paid, and the remaining one-half of tho purchase money’ fo be paid in twenty years from the date of the issue of said bonds by the county, with the interest npon all deferred pyments psyable semi= exnually st the rate of G per cent per annum, He beltoved the grounds, sold 28 he suggeste: would produce the bulk of the money Yequire for the books. People would, on such terms, pay for thelois s little beyond their present cash value. He would avoid tazation, if possi- Dle, and believed they could do it almost entire- 1y, Hedenied the county had better hold real estate on speculation than re-establish itsrecords. He had no objectionto turning over tho proceeds of the lands to theabstract men'‘instesd of giving bonds, and paying £100,000 1n money to bind the ‘bargain. The lands they would not take. . Ashton spproved of the substitute, He asserted that Cook County was ablo to buy the Exapeny without a dollar of additional taxation. e was_suthorized tosdythatif the county ‘bought the boake oneof the sbetract-men would pay 5,000 a month for sixty months for the use of the tract indices. That showed the value of the books, The employes in the office wera willing to give §5,000 for the privilege, Ho un- derstood tho abstract menwould take the Reform School ground af ite cash value, the county pay- ing the difference in money; they giv- ing & confract that if the land sold for more, in’ two years, the county should have the difference, Men stood ready to give 2550,000 for the books. He would never vote, to ‘;)ay £750,000 for the books, thinking they conld be bought for $600,000, edd, if the Reform School grounds conld go to maka up the sum, be wonld pupport the proposition, 1Ina few years the valuation womd naturally so eatly rise a8 {0 increase the amount derived rom taxation. It was silly for Cook County to hold on to the Reform School grounds, especiall ‘when, by sa!lm&, the records could be restore Hem k:]é:]l&evefl oy could get the books for . Stearns e2id last summera resolution to have the grounds subdivided and every alternate lot sold, hiad been referred to_the Finance Com-. mittee, but Mr, Aehton hed strongly opposed it, stating it would incresse ~ 10 and 12 per cent, and the connty had been paying 17 per cent for menmey. Yet the resolution elept io the Finance Committes. He hed al- ways wanted the books to be bought, but he would not vote an_exorbitant price. ' He was willing to make a trade with the abstract men for the ground, He offered the following: Resolved, That this Board will give the several ab- etract firms for any and all their titles, books, indices, and memorands i5 their possession, which relate o any and all tittes to lands in Cook County,. the grounds and real estate known oa the Reform Sthool grounds, containing twenty aczes, more or less, for eaid above described land titles, providing the several Judges of our Courts coneur in our resolution. It that was done, they gave $150,000 more than the books were worth. If the ground had been subdivided last year, it would have brought eix or seven hundred thousand dollars. The Board had not done its daty durng the year. Still, he was willing to give tho Em\mds for the books. In two years they would be worth seven to nine hundred thousand dollars. He would vote for no exorbitant price in money or bonds, and he believed he understood the wishes of his constituents. « Mr. Bkelly said they wanted the ground to pay for the jeil with, which would cost £800,000. The Judges advised the purchase of all, since they fancied the countycould not buy all. If the abstract men wers offered $850,000, they would take it, and not sell to the county for $600,000, The jail would certainly cost 870,000, Mr. Stearns' substitute was - lost—ayes, 4& noes, 5; Measrs. Gallowsy, Stearns, Harris, and- B;x{iso(x:l in the affirmative. e Committes rose and reported progres: and asked leave to sit again, which was grunted?, The Board adjourned to meet this afternoon. - - LETTER FROM LEWIS D, HOARD, X o the Edilor of The Ohioago Tribuse: e 5t:: The writer of the article on “Abstracts” pub- lished in Wednesdsy's TAmuxE has, in discussing the genesal question of s purchaed of (1o abstract books, allen nto_several errors, and, consequently, made some statements which should ot pess unchallenged, snd I wish, if you will allow me the space in your pa- ‘per, to notica three pointa made by the writer. He £, 1t vas soon discovered fhat we could get along without abstracts,” This isindeed a remarkal discovery, and if it were only. true. wonld entitle the discoverer to s liberal reward, The facts, however, are, that we have not got along Without abetracts; but, st moro sbeizata, bave been made from thers seem. “memorands tile” (which you deapise) tinca the fira by thousands, ihan before made {n the Sam 8pace of tiin exception of about two weeks in August ber of abetracts and opinfons made have only been Limited by the capacity of tho abstract offices to furnish them, -Tho fact that 60 many searches has been ardered fa 3 special expression of opinion made by the most experienced, sble, and carefol real estate dealers, Joan-brokers, and busifiees men of tho Clty of Chicago, including mdst of the Judges, editor, and County Oommissiopers of Cook County, as {0 tho value and ‘Becosaity of the abetract books { and “ thio real estate ‘usiness of Chicago during 1573 has been unprecedent- edly Irge,” because, amongst other reasone, snd prin- cipalls, of the unprecedented ntmber of tilles which s boan exhibited fram these memoranda.? Socondly: “ Theso sbstracts will ot susisin a-bod e nor overttrow s good one.? Thot s speciousy Dutwhatoft? Neither would iho Tecords of whlch they arean opitome, It 15 not Atlowhick is Jost, bub the evidance of it, snd fhese aro whot remnin 1o 48 in thetr piace,. Tho' zecords aisciosed-what Knd of o record title » man bas to bis property, sud these alisizacts do the same substantially, end the rea- 80n” wny thoy shonld be bougbt is, that the record which the public have lost may se far ss posgiblo bo estored. It 44 the ability to show title Jrom. latful record that enables the oicrier of real”property to sell it or ratae money om it by mortgcpe, and not the Jact that e actually haa'a. good title fo Ina’ land, which he 13 un- able Lo show; and 1 constitutes now ihe value of the abetract books as, before the destruction thareof, it constituted the value of our records, tha they snsbls the owner to show such title. ; Thirdly, o 6358 : “ We have got slong without them for s year” The exact reversc of this ia true, 8 abovo sbown. We Nave got along for a year Decause af them s and £t Wl bo becanes of them that wo shall get along in the futare, and the fact thet we can. get along tupon them in our real estate-transactions, 16 ust the Tearon why they should bp substituted for the lost Tocords, sccording tothe intent of the law which suthorizes their purchase,” Yours, respectfully, Caicaco, Nov. 21, 1872, Lo plie sauiia SNORE (S5 'y . Methodist Missions,.. Among tha appropriations by the Methodist Epicopal Miesionery Board ta_the Anpusl Cone ferences for domestic missions are the foliow- ing: Ceptral Illinois, 81,0003 -Central Ohio, 82,0005~ Cincinnati, $2,000; Colorido, $7,700; Des Moines, '$1,300; Dotroit, '$8,000; Illinois, 81,000; Indiana, $1,000% Tow, $1,000; Kansas, £7,000; Michigan,. £3,0007 Minnesots, £9,0003 iseonri, -£6,000; - Nebrasks, - §7,0005 Neyade, $5,000; ' North' Indisma,’ $1500; North Ohio, £1,500; Northwest Indiana, 1,000 ; North- ‘west Jowa, 25,0005 i tain, 918,000 t. Lonis, 57,000; Sontheast Io- diane, 81,000; Southern Illinois,” $1,400 ; Upper Towa, $2,500; West Wisconsin, $4,000; Wiscon- ein, $3,500; Wyoming, £600, .. . D, Hoaro. ‘BOSTON. . Some Talk About the Fire. Gravitation of Business--Will the_City Hofd Its Trade ? From Qur Qun Correspondent.: . Boston, Nov, 16, 1672, THE HORSE-DISEASE _ will be remembered in future years as making one leading feature of the grest Boston-fire, It may be that our horse, partaking of our eiviliza~ tion, propeses to have his little asthmatic spells every £wo or three years ; in which-case we can- not rely upon him to illustiate” any fire what- ever. But it is gomewhat.cingular that ithe great horee-distemper was associated with no grester civic -accident than the Boston® fire. Hero horse would have been of little use, be- cause thefire covering 60 2cresof-ground, and ex- tending slong the lines of circuitous and vari- {ying streets, needed 1o greater aid than men werb able to give io pulling machines to sud fro, I wis aaxtous, in Boston, to iry and identify the horses and the destruction ‘with each other, but nobody seemed to know- much about the horee in the midst of the destruction, and, 2a & phe- nomenon, it may be said that the horse-distem- per znd the great Boston fire -had little to do with each other, except that horses might have carted off some gaoda. THE FIRE IN BOSTON will have accomplished nothing in the way of making changes, unless it drives some of the large wholesalen and jobbig merchants to New York City. Boston, in some estimations, pos- sesses more than its proper_share of the whole- sale and jobbing trade. 1f some of the mer- chants there prefer to go_to New York rather than rebuild expensively, the town will merely have anticipated its decline in this one respect. RAILWAYS. New York reaches the West and Southwest by about soven lines of railway. Boston reaches the country by only one line, except in the summer, when tho Vermont Central gives its merine access to the colder parts of the West. Why should & man keep a fiflm store in Boston, with only one line of railway connecting_him with monkind, when Lo can move to New York and have the whole seven lines subordinate to his trade? Chicago was recreated through its railway systom. A men may speculste_as much 28 he likes about how much pluck Chicago and Boston possess . Telatively, and about their natural advantages; but the fact‘remains that Chicago wag ‘recreated becsuge all the roads pointed to it. Boston possesses two railways which go to @ market: the Boston & Albany snd the Vermont Ceotral. The Vermont Central is of little uee to Boston after the St. Tawrence closes with ice.The Boston & Albany is & crooked and rough rosd; and, when a man approaches Boston on that line, he finds at Al- bany that he ig but four hours distant from New York, while he is, perhaps, six or seven hours distant from Boston. Until the Hoosac Tannel Do done, Boston has not_conirol of any one per- Tect outler to tho Wost sll the yesr round; and, Dby the operations of the tariff, which Boston mainly made 28 we find it, the city has cnt off its own natural morket: that of Canade.. As &. cheerful municipality, and as & per- fect,. well-ordered, plucky. town, the cit; bas sbundant reasoms to be restored, and probably will be,nearly as well as before. It belongs to the class of grest New England tovns that manufacture notions, bay wool, man- ufacture boots and ghoes and certain other ma~ chipe asticles by superior perfectness of mech- aniem and chesper Iabor. But, 88 a city feeding the couniry from its" warebouses and store- houses, the day of Boston hag well-nigh passed. NEW YORK ABEORBING BOSTOX. Even the publishers, who spend & good deal of {belr time foolishly in denrym& Now York Qity, Dava a secret longing to_get there, and follgw the game business which they now follow with diminished returns in Boeton. The whole movement of our g:eriwd is from the New England Ststee; and Providence, Boston, Port- hng, New Baven, Hartford, Norwich, and that large series of New England towns, ‘are really only eubordinate exchanges for the grest flual exchange of New York City, where Yankee-land meets its costomer. i e Boston, a8 & city, was ariginally mede by its ehipping. It bad 4 vast business with the East ln£es, and nearly all the whaling business to speak of on the Western Hemisphere. Foreign- ers carried ewey the East India business, and new developments in mining and mineral oil ruined its oil bosiness. The town has laid up = large amount of money, and upon this it spec- ulated in investments in nearly sl the Western cities, putting ‘down railroads, wooden pave- ‘ments, gas-works, water-works, and all those in- Qispensable things which make a modern city, nm? which drew handsome incomes as the same succeeded. But, as o city in the sense of a great merchant desling with ‘a mighty custom- er, Boston wusqmmy retiring from the field; and topub up thoss vast stores anew, while plucky enough in some senses, will not suspend the fate of much in the city from its inevitable destiny to be a suburb of New York. A good deal of paper could be covered in describing little mattors sbout the Boston fire; but, after your grest experience in. Chicago fighting conflagration, these mere matters of corner end suburban eccount need not be re- cited. 1hearda good many ANECDOTES, eome of which would make you laugh ; but they &re not more laughable than Chicago anecdotes of the same description. For instance: A police- man told me that he was looking out for plun derers during the fire, and he saw & man over- bauling a barrel of boots and shoes. The man eeemed to be very nice about what kind of boots . and what kind of shoes be should pick out; and- the policeman, in order to impress him with the enugnizy of his offence, came up behind him, snd, phiting his big hend on the man's shoulder, My mam," said he, “ what are yon doing with thie barrel 77 g Suid the man, in & very innocent way: “T am looking for a pair of Number Sevens!” And the men laughed at each other, and there was no arrest. - 0 PAPER REAORTS, P There was not very equal enterprise in the Okio, $2,000 Rocky Moun- | reports of ths fire by the home Boston papers. On of the_sblest jonrnals in copeidering the firo was {ho Advertiser; which bss » boyish, shrewd city editor, who worked slong with & cool head, and gave sn immense amount of in- teresting matter daily. The Boston Herald was & oool-headed, sagacions paper from the beginning fo the end. o Zrav- eller “mnd anscript fozeed around the Assessor’s office, and gave s pretty good hiatory of what Boston waa before the_fire, but very lit- tle sccount of the fire itself, Indeed, thera has been in Boston City no striking account of the fire written at _sll. "I met a number of city edi- tors ode morning, and put the question directly 2t them g8 to why theyhad made such a lame ac- count of the conflagration. ; “ For inatance,” said I, ““who can fell me what time the fire got from Winthrop equare .across 10 a cerfain point, and by what routes it ‘travelled the quickest. I want to kuow, alao, whether the fire, from the point of beginning rent most rapidly up to the Washington siree limita, or down by the harbor side ; and I want know the point of junction of the different flames, in order to come tosomeconclusion about 1he regimen of the thing.” 3 “Well,” said one gentlemen tomé, “we had & supper that night of the Press Association of Boston, and a few of us went down and looked at the Are sbout five minutes, and then went homo, becanso we had not fo_publish until Aonday morning. Thoe Boston Herald had to come out on Sunday, a1 it does every week, and that paper kext some .men ‘out, who informed mIdn u!:l:dilt' ber of persons nover came $ ed, a large number of p over of to ses thair property fe it wa dsstroyed, bub heard of the fire in some distant suburb, and sat down in their homes and said: *We can do nothing, and will know all about it on the week- day.” %ome of the most valuablo property of tho world was being given to the fiame on Baturdsy night and Sundey morning, and the men most. nearly interested in keeping it stayed st their conntry-scuts, in such towns ag Newton, and Lynn, and Quincy, and came to the city with & cool, quiet look oa’ Monday, toen- counter the insurance company's adjuster, who had, perhsps, travelled all the way from New York or Philadelphis. Asa fire with CONCOMITANT CONTBASIS, AND A DBAMATIO SIDE, Boston gave us nothing worthy of s literary commemoration. There was_little play of per- sqnal cheracter, littlo anecdote, aud 1o great moving incident, in the entire thing, Nobody is very sure o this day whether the Fire Depart- ‘ment was gallant, or only 80-80 in_energy and efficiency, Most. everybody eays that it be- haved gallantly, althongh few lmow anything .sboutit, ' - SR 1t i certain that, in our great cities, beset all the timé with opportunities for burning up, we pay butlittle attention to;our ) FIRE DEPARTMENTS. The. average firenan, 'as I saw in Boston,—snd perhaps the .same remiark wonld hold good of Fas Chicago, & recklees volunteer, who seems to kold that saving property by putting out fire is & recreation rather than a sober piece of businesa. In towns which are so Eshflnut about the price of real eatate, thero should be some mors con- sideration for the business of checking fire, of the oldest cities in the country has bean Bos- ton, and yet it was a helpless infant in the face of this conflagration, New York ought to look out in time, for the d flimsiest materials, there_line miles of strests, and yat it is no better adapted to resist a fire than Chicago was fourteen months ag - ton yesterday, - i GREAT FIRES. In Brooklyn, N. Y. From the Néw York Tribune, Nov. 19, The most _destructive fire thab bas visited Brooklyn for many years occurred " yesterday af- ternoon af the extensive bonded- Warehouses of Franklin Woodruit & James O. Robinson, which occupy the aquare bounded by the East River and Columbis, Amity, and Congress streets, The buildings were of brick, and covered an area of 180x200 feet. * The main buildings were five stories high, and there was aléo a frame elevator BeveD storiea in height. Tha fire was first dis- covered among the misdhinery on the third stoy of Warehouse P, which is cloge to the wharf nfi in Congress street. The alarm was quickly given, the firemen promptly responded, and soon there'was a. perfect deluge of water poured vpoa the burning building nm? the elevator, which had also caught fire, After a time it was found impossible to zave the elevator, and the firamen turned the stresms upon the warehouses to which the flames had communicated. These buildings were of brick, fBive stories high. They were lessed by William Beers & Co., and contained over 1,000,000 bush- els of grain, and sugar, the property of several New York merchants. Fourteen streams of water potred upon thege buildings, and the fire- men etood upon the roofs for an hour trying to prevent the fire from reaching them, but were forced at last to sbandon them to the flames, which were raging fiercely behind the massive iron shutters. Steam engines Nos. 3, 8, 7, 11, and 5 were stationed in front of the warehouses, at the extrems end of the wharf, and, after the iron shutters had been torn from warehouse P, poured copious sireams into the doomed build- ing. The other steamers were stationed on the sido streets ard deluged the othar storehouses, thus preventing the flames from reaching them." There were also several hundred men and boye at work, poi buckots of water upon the roofa of the adjoining lath, brick, and ime sheds owned by Krench, Martin & Co., which were fired in_several places by busning cinders which were blown about by the strong wind. Messra. Robinson & Woodruff were on the ground most of the time, and by their direc- tion the contenta of the storehouses A, B, C, D, and E, consisting of sugar and molasses, wera removed to parts of the wharf remote from the flames, . “The elevator, after burning fiercely for over an hour, fell & mass of blackened ruins into the alips, aud eoon afterward the roofs and side S of storehouses P and I toppled over with & lond crash, The firemen finally got the flames under con- trol and confined them to the two storehouses. Mz Beers eatimates his loss on buildings at £180,000. He is insured for 380,000 by the fol- Iowing companies: Firemen's, $12,500; Mer- chante’, - 512,500; -Nessan, $10,000; Phenix, $10,0005 Etna of Hartford, $10,000 ; Sterling, £10,000; and another company, $10,000. Wood- roff & Robinson owned the mnachinery in_the storehouses, and valued it at $50,000. They bave an insurance of £50,000 by New York and Brooklyn companies. The value of grain and sugar burned 1s estimated st 3400,000. It is covered by insurance in New York and Brooklyn companiea. In Boston. Boston (Nom, 18) Despatch to the New York Herald. Another night of terror from fire haa dawned upon the ill-fated city of Boston. At ahouta qusrter past 10 t%ni;ht, when everybody was induiging in & genss of relief from the congyer- ing of the conflagration of last week, there came an slarm which indicated a fire at. the lower end of State street. The flames at this moment had ained & fearful headway, and the skies in Do ricictiy ware moes T satly illuminated, and the fear and apprehension that State street block was in flames ware realized upon reaching the 8pos, and ite esfety from complete destruc- tion,seemed impoeaible. Thousands and thou- sands of people Aocked $o the vicinity, and the whole Fire Bepartment was summoned. Several streams wera 8oon brought to bear upon the de- vouring element, but for a long time they seem- ed futile in eiither subdaing or checking the pro- gress of thelflames. A mild breeze wafted the Bparks in all directions, and the destruction of an_untold mumber of mercantile buildings, and even tho solid structure of e Custom House, was threatened. All the Govern- ment books, daposits, and other valuables were got in rendineas for removal, and the merchants, with the aid of the army of job wagons early on ‘hend, immediately went to work conveying their 00ds. to distant pointy of eafety, T'he steamers lying at tho wharves f‘“md outinto the stream, an tugboats did a [#vely bsiness in Lanling out the ]"i: fleet of eailing vessels which gned the docks all along Atlantio avenue. The fiames meanwhile swept alcm§ the roof of the huge structure, bursting ont at intervals from the windows of the warehouses, forming what may well be called 5 scene of sickening grandour,and inspiring firemen and citizens alike with the be- lief that the terrible events of a week ago were to be repested. Oils, drugs, liguors, and other goods equally combustible and inflammable wero contained in the huge building in quantities, which it is impoesible 1o estimate, and ss the fames masched in the direction of 'these danger- oue campaunds freeh fears were created for the safety of this section of the city. At times the firemen 8eemed to gain temporary mastery of the situation, but it was moxe ti an_hour before there was any substaniial advantages glined, and then only with the eaistance of the firemen from neighboring cities, who were sent for at the moment the magnitude of the conflagration wae. realized. The wind, too, went down very suddenly, snd it was at once spparent that the Custom Houep and surrounding buildings were out of.danger, and the articles and goods which. bad been removed were 800D after ratarned. The central portion of the block will pmbuh}{ have tobe rebuilt, but the ends are uninjured. It is owned by the heirs of the late David Sears, who Jost heavily by the Erant fire of last week. ‘The fire originated on the third foor, occupicd by Gonld, Hitcheock & Co., for the storags of crockery. This same firm lost everything by last week’s fire, and had just re-established themiselves in new quarters, The following are the losses, as near as can be ascertained: Carter, Mann & Co., Nos. 205 and 207, wholesale teas, coffees and spices, stock val- ‘ed st about 295,000; partial loss ; fully insured. J. & W. Bird occupied the three lower fioors :{M%mfl 211; paints and oils; loss nob ascer- ained. D. Webster, King & Co., manufacturers, had just ‘moved {nto the fourth story, having boen ‘burned out at the great fire; loss, $1,400; no in- surance. The Boston Dyewood sud Chemical Company, sls0 burned ont by the big fire, occupied the fifth floor, with & new stock, which was badly dam- ‘gfia b‘y water; Do insurance, anford, Scudder & Co., wholessle grocers, occupying four floors of 201 and 208; atock bad- Iy damsaged by water; fully insured. 8. 8. Pierce used the fifth floor for the utnr-ge y of teas and coffees, which wag badly damaged smoke and water; insured. 5, —_— The King of the Street, New York Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commer- cial. Henry N. Smith is koown throughout the cnung'lyns one of the mosi desperats and suc- cessfal operators in Well street. It was he who Became so noted b the Black Fridsy time as the head; of -the firm of Smith, Gould & Martin; it wias ho who was in with Fisk in the bold opera- tions'’ against the Erie Railroad, and it was he .who made s Gorner on_greenbacks Inst winter by c five millions_of dollars on his porson snd Jocking it up in the Tenth Na- tional Bank,—which last operation became the subject of Congressional inguiry. Smith came on to-Washington and was examined. The Com~ mittee did not get_much comfort out, of his an- swers, They asked him if he had locked up five millions of ‘dollars in greenbacks. . He frankly said he They ssked him why he did it, He freely acknowledged that he did it to make moaney by the operation, and wanted to know what ‘the Committee intended to do sbont it," ‘Without answering, the membera of the Com- mittes asked what nfit he had.to lock up that amount of money, en he got angry and told them that it was none of their d—grguaineua: that the money was his own and ho could do with it ag he liked ; and it was about this time that the Committee found they had mede a - mistske. Smith collected = sbout fifty dollars witness fees, and returned to New York, 2ad that was the last of tho silly investigation, A gentleman, who was also & witness before the committee_said, unbas%uunfiy, that’ Smith ac~ tually carried the £5,000,000 05 his porson for two days. Tho lining of his overcoat was filled \?lh kets, and into these the money was stowe 5 - Bmith is sbout 35 or 88 years old, short of stature, slight of frao, sad Yod of Lale by Iatter he weara out close, and his whiskers a la 8 One. sard roofs,-built of the- militaire, or mutton-chop, with moustache. ‘His nawe is not Henry M. nor_Henry N. Smith, but Normsn Henry Smith. He is & native of Tiogs, Pa., a little village which is shut in with charming grace from the outside world by s cir- vle of hills; which in fall present such an en- chanting appesrance that it clings to one's mem- ory forever. In thig gzretty Jictle village, this ‘moneter operator was born, and here he 15 called -to-this day plain Tom Smith, g nickpame he gat | when & baby. It i8 notbing againat Tom that he spent his young deys about as other village boys do, sud it is nOThIng sgainst him that ho fearnod. the shoemaker's trado and was an_ excellent workman, It is eaid thers that Tom Smith can make the best *fine” oot of any man in Amer- ica. ‘A Iove scraps, if I sm correctly informed, drove bim from his hammer 2nd lap-stone, and took him to Buffalo & year or two before ihe war. While there bie attended & course of in- struction in_one of the ‘*Business Colleges” which were §0 common then. From this he opersted in Bnffalo in 5 small way, going fnally to Albany, He could-not long “remain in such a place, and he turned his eyes toward New York. Hip career a5 a money-maker i8 withont paral- Jal in'history.” It would be idle to' estimate his wealth, for to-dayit might be iwenty. milliong, and to-morrow ten. He is called the successor of Jim Figk, but this is an insult to him. He Easaesses the some reckless daring, but he rought to his experience &. keener and mors deliberate judgment and intelligence that Fiak bad. Besides, he had none of the *“fast” guali- ties which Fisk posedssed. He hus no desire to display his wealth ostentationaly; he does nob care to build an opere-house that he may have the privilege of the green-room, and 1s nob likely to run & line of steamers merely to show himeelf in an Admiral's uniform, nor to show himself 4t tho head of & regiment at the cost.of thousands of dollars. He lives as becomes & yery wealthy man, and owns a pumber -of the ‘besb horses that money can buy merely for his own driving. He has considerabie money in- vested in real estate in his native town, where be bas provided handeomely for-his father and mother. MR. DARWIN'S NEW BOOK. The suthor of the Origin of Species has just issued, under the imprimatur of John Murray, whaf i3 described by the London papers as ““a golid and closely-packed volume,” op_the #Ex- resgion of the emotions in mun and animals.” e following extracts will give an ides of ita general scope and parpose : “Meuy writers consider the whole subject of expression a8 inexplicable. * * * No doubf as lpndg as man and all other animals are viewe: as independent creations, an effect stop is put to our natural desire to investigate, as far as -possible, the cause of expression. By thia doc- trine, anything and everything cen bo equally weil explained ; and it has proved 28 pernicious with respect Lo expreasion as to every other branch-of natural history. With mankind some expres- sions, such s the bristling of the hair under the influonce of extreme terror, or the uncovering of the teeth nnder that of furious rage, can hardly ‘e understood, except on the belief that man onco_esisted in &much lower and enimal-like condition, The community of certein expres- sions in distinct though allied. species, s in the movements of the same facial muscles during Jaughter by man and by various monkeys, is rendered somewhat more intelligible, if we be- Jieve in their descent from . common progenitor. He who admits on general grounds that the structure snd habita of all apimals haye been radually evolved, will look at the whola eub- fost of sspression in a ey aad misresting light. 4 g] “7A little gesture made by sulky children may here be noticed, namely, their “ahowing & cold shoulder.” ' This has a different meaning, as I believe, from the keeping both shoulders raised.. A cross child, sitting o its parent’s knee, will Tift up the near shoulder, then jerk it away as if {rom a caress, and afterward give a backward ush with it, 49 if to push away the offender. fhuve seep & child, standing st some distance _from any ong, cleerly express its feelings by raising one shoulder, giving it a little backward movement, and than turging away its whole < Iy, ;3 We have seen that the study of the théory of expression confirms to & certain limited extent fhe conciugion that man ie derived from some Iower snimal form, and_supports tie belief of the specific or sub-specific unity of the several r80ed; but, ae far as my judgment eerves, such confirmation was hardly needed. * % % Weeping is probably the result of some such chain of events ss follows: Ghildren, when wanting f00d, or suffering in &0y Wway, cry oub loudly, like the young of most other apimals, partly d artly Folet, asa call to their parents for aid, an from any great exeriion serving 88 s, Prolonged gcreaming invariably leads to ing of the blood-vessels of the eye, end bave led, at firsl consciously, and at Iast habitually, to the contraction of the mus- clea round the eyes in order fo protect them. At the same time the epasmodic pressure on the surface of the eye and the distention of the vessels within the eye, withont Decessarily entailing any conscious sensation, will have affected, through reflex action, the lachrymal glends. Finally, through the three princi- ples of nerve-force resdily passing nla_ng accustomed channele—of ~ association, which i8 g0 widely extended in its power—and of certain actions, being more under the control of the will than othera—i¢ has come to pass that euflering readily causes the secretion of tears, without being necessarily accompanied by any other action. Although in accordance with thig view weo must look &t weeping 8s an incidental resulf, as purposeless as the secretion of tears from a blow outside the eye, or a8 8 aneeze from the retina being affected bén bright light, yeb this oea not, present any dificulty in our under- standing how the secretion of tears eervesas a relief t0 euffering. And byas much as the ‘weeping is more violent or bystericel, by so much will the relief be greater—on the same principle that the writhing of the whole body, the grinding of the teeth, and tbe uttering of piercing shrieks ell give relief under an agony of pain, * * * young children, sulkiness is shown by pouting, or, as it is sometimes called, *making aenout.,” Whep the corners of the mouth are much depreseed, the lower lip is_ littls everted and protruded, and thie is likewise called a pout. But the pouting here reforred to coneists of the protrusion of both lips into & tubular form, eometimes to such an extent as to project as far 28 the end of the nose, if this beshort. Poutin, is generally accompanied by frowning, an sometiries by the utterance of & baoing or whooing noise. This expression is remarkable, 28 almost the ecle one, as far as I knaw, which is exhibited much more plainly during childhood, at Jeast with Europeans, than during maturity. ~There is, however, some ten- dency to the protrusion of the lips with the adults of all races under the infiuence of great rage. Some chilflun“fiwnb when they are shy, and they can then bardly be called sulky. From - inquiries which Y have made in several Iarge families, pouting does not seem very com- mon with European children; bat it prevails throughout the world, and must be both com- mon and sirongly merked with the most savage Taces, 28 it has caught the attention of many ol servers, It hasbeen noticed in eight different districts of Australia, snd one of myinformants remarked how greatly the lips of the children aro there protruded. . Two observers have seen pouting with the children of Hindoos; three with IEDSB of the Kafirs and Fingoes of South Africs, and with the Hottentots; and two with the children of the wild Indians of North Amer- ica. Pouting has slways been observed with the Chinese, Abyssinians, Malaya of Malaces, Dysks of Borneo, and often with the New Zealanders. Mr, Mansel Weale informs me that he has seen the lips much protruded, not only with the children of the Kafrs, but with the adults of both sexes, when pulky; and Mr. Stack hss Sometimes observed the same thing with the men, and very irequently with the women of New Zealand. A ‘trace of the same expression may occasionslly be detected ‘even with adult Europeans, We thus see that the protrusion of the lips, especially with young children, is characteristic of sulkiness through= out the greater part of the world. This move- mept apparently results from the retention, chiefly dpurlugyuuu:, of n prmordial habit, of from an occasionai reversion to it. Young orangs and chimpanzees protrude their lips to. an extraordinary degree when they are discon- tented, -somewhat lnFry or sulky; ‘also _when they ara surprised, s little frightencd, and even when slightly pleased.” : i I have endeavored o show in considersble de- tail thist all the chief expressions exhibited by men 6o the ssme throughout_the world. This factis inferesting as it afords a new argument in favor of thoe Several racesbeing descended from & -single parent stock, which must have been almost completely human in structure, end. to & large extent in mind, before the period af: which the races diverged from each other. No doubt similar structures, adepted for the same purpose, have often been independently sc- quired through variation and patural eeléction by distinct species; but thia view willnot ex- plain close similarity between distinct species in 5 multitnde of unimportant details. Now, if we bear in mind the numerous points of struc- ture having no relation to expression. In which 51l the races of man closely sgree, and. then add to them the numerous points, some of the high~ est importance, and many of the most trifiing value, on which the the movement of expression ectly or indirectly depend, it seems to me im~ probable in the highest degree that s0 much similarity, or, rather, identity of structure, conld have been mffi:ed byindependent means, Yot this must have been the case if the races of man sre descended from several sboriginally distinct species. It 3 far-more probablo thst the many points of cloge similerity in the verious races are dus to inheritance from a gingle gutein-iorm, which had salready assumed a uman charae! HARTFQRD---CHICAGO---BOSTON. The Fire Losses at Chicago and Boston —Relative Population and Y.osics, and Loss Per Capita—Hartiord tho Heaviest Loser in Proportions - From the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, ‘The loss to Hartford insurance offices, net, by tho Chicago-fire, was - aboat clveen and & half miliions of dollars, and by the Boston fire the._ loss will be about thres millions, making fourteen and a balf millions by both fires. The two fires differ’in.cheracter as_to local grq erty interests, a8 & great portion of the uilding property in - Chicago, before the fire, was owhed, and probably 1 ‘still, by non- residents, while in Boston, the property burned is owned there. The lozs to Boston, propor- tionally, iy grester than it was to Chicago, so far as “Jocal’ property interests are concsrned and tho loss by both fires 7alls upon Hartford with more severity than upon either of the cities named. In figuring the losses in Chicago and ,;Baa::::, lgfl lgns:h be considered that a large part is restored by the payments of incarance com- panies, whilo what Hartford loses is a deed loss. ut, supposing that thelogs of these two cities vas total, without any compensation, and Hart- ford then presents a proportionate logs, which fow people probably have estimated. The pop- ulation of the three cities and their Téspective total losges by the two fires are a5 follows : s i Population. Loss. $183,000,000 32 80,000,000 - 31,180 14,500,000 Taking the population, which includes every man, womap, and child, in comparison with the total loss by fire, and it appears that the loss per capita in Chicago is $645, in Boston $819,. and in Hartford 3389, 1f we deduct the amount of insurance paid to Chicsgo, eaying mothing of tho v millions of relief fund, and of the vast amount of outside capital which fiowed thero to aid in rebuild ing, -and slso the thirty millions probsbly which Boston will réalize out of insurance policies, it will be shown that, so far as ac- tusl loes goes, Hartford is o grenter sufercr then either city. And yet, nobwithstanding this remarkable fact; our existing companies are in sound condition, and our financisl interests aro far from ‘being in bad shape. Altogether we live in & city that we wouldn't trado for any two in the country. But, after aH, it isn't best thag these large fires shonld come -too often. We heve made a good record so far, and, whilo it is pleasant to reflect that our credit remeins un- broken, and that Hartford is looked to all over the country as being the great reserve for fire losers ; yet we have hed satisfaction enough, in the way of praises and hard tests, and can now afiord to be let alone for a fow years to enable a healthy process of recuperation to go on. Give us a reasonable vacation, and then” ** Bring on your fives,” — The Indians of the Central Superins tendency. The following tabular statement eshibits the comparativo condition of the Indizns of the Central Superintendency for the years 1869 and 1872. It embraces the condensed statistics of the Kickapoos, Kaws, Osages, Quapans, Peoriss, Ottawas, Wyandottes, Seneces, Sacs-and Foxes, Absenteo Shawnees,” Chippewas and Manseos, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Wichitas, Keechies, Cad> does, Tonies, Kiowss snd Comanches, and Govers the period of Prenident Grant's first official term. The Superintendent (Enoch Hoag), and the agents for these Indians, wero nominated at %g Xeélauesb of the President, by the Baciety of rienda : ans. tod by Tndians. Wheat raised by Indians, bushels, Valuo of wheat raised by Indians, Corn raised by Indians, busbels. Value of corn raised by Indtan Value of bay. Soisss $3,5% Number of horses owned by Tndians 17,624 920 Value of horses owned by Indians..$702,250 §1,577,571 Number of cattle owned by Indians 640 ' G604 Value of cattle owned by Indians.., $15,200 $103,804 Number of hogs owned by Indians.. 1,074 Value of hogs owned by Indians.... $3,233 A‘fluncs at the above table will show a very decided improvement in the educationsl and in- dustrial condition of these tribes, and should the same policy be pursmed for the mext four years, the improvement will be still more decid- & %o stronger proof of this infaronco can ba needed than the fact that the statistica of each of the four years show a constently incressing ratio of progress in the right direction—that of 1872 belng grester than that of any previous year. Moreover many of the schools have been. in operation too short a time for the full extent of their infinence to be felt; and with many of these Indians, the means of industrial improve- ment have go recently comeinto their handsthat. they bave but commenced farming opertions. Again geveral. of these, tribes. have. mince 1868 moved to new bomesin the Indian Terri- tory, and haye, - therefore, had -to contend with all the retarding influences, connected with the opening of farms, building houses, &c., in & wild and remote region. No littls portion of the corn crop of the g;esenb year is'mpon sod broken 1ast spring. Notwithstanding these adverse cir- cumstances, we find their corn crop for 1872 in- creased about seven-fold over that' of 1868, whilst the quantity end vartety of their farm and garden products generally, are largely in- creased also. The simple fact that they own ten times the number of cattle and hogs which they hed four years. ago, indicates an appreciz~ tion that their trus interest lies in giving up the. chase and purasing the peaceable industries of civilized life. ‘Wor. NicEoLsox, General Agent of Exacutive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, LawnexcE, Kan.; 10th Mo,, 7th, 1872 Singular Fatality Among Children. From the New York Herald, Not.1T, A few days since the children of Patrick Can- ningham, a respectable workingman, of Bloom- field, N. J., four in pumber, wera faken sudden- ¥ ill, and began vomiting violently, On Thurs- v the eldest, s boy of 9 years, £ed, on Friday another, yesterdey morning another, end, ab last accounts, the fourth was gasping its last. Tso skillful physicians are unable to determine what the cause of death is, though they have been in attendance from the first, and have seen 2l the phases of the sirange disease. Alsny supposed the children had been’ poisoned, but this theory is disposed of. The bodies presented 2 vory dack appetrancs, and wers covared with blotches soon after death. The disease, what~ ever it ig, it thought to be contagious, and pre- ceutious aze .taken to keep outsiders sway. Some of the matrons assert that spotted fever is the fatal disesse, but the doctors say not. The Losscs of Harvard College. HauvARD CoLLEGE, Nov. 16, 1872, The President and Fellows of Harvard Collese lost, by the fire of Nov. 9, stores in Franklin, ‘Arch, and Hawley streets, which, with- the Iand on.vhich they stood, wera valued by the city sanessors ab $562,000. annual ‘rents of iheso stores wera 338,000, the tenants -paying tho taxes; but of this “amount only.. ‘abont £100,000 will be gfld. The President and-Fel- lows will be forthwith called upon .for. sssess- ments .in mutual insarance companies to tha amount of $6,300, and they are further obliged fo reivaure in part buildings, collections, and Libraries, at an immediate cost of several thou- sand dollars for premiums. Befors the stores burnt can be rebuilt, & year's taxes upon-the- land which they covered will also be due. Just before the fire the.President and Fellows ‘'had found that the strictest econamy would be. necessary on their part, in order to make the probable income of . the. current year meet. the salaries and ordinery expenees, and that they felt themeelves forced to refrench in All! depart- ments, althqugh well aware that such retrench- mentwould be injurions to_the University ‘and to the interests of education. They now find themselves suddenly deprived of $35,000 of an- nual income, and subjected to extraordinary ex- ‘penses to tho amount of at least $12,000. ‘The President and Fellows are, therefors, com-~ geued to aek the Allumni and other friends of beral education to contribute $50,000 for the immediate needs of the University, in order that they may keep the present- organization nnim- paired during the current year, and may not be Sorced to reduce the very modesato ealaries of tho Professors and other instructors. - It will cost about 2300,000 to rebuild the burned stores, while the insurance to be recov- ered is only abont $100,000. That they mey re- ‘build these stores, and be sgain placed in as appeal to generous and public-spirited friends of n‘z‘:?versityg education to subscribe $200,000 for this purpose during the next twelve months. _ Alany of the constant friendsof the University, resident in this vicinity, are themselves involved inthe disaster, and are temg;;unly anable to contribate to her necessities. egraduatesand friends of the University who live at distance _ 1rom Boston, or who for any reason are not seri- ously aifected by the firs, Joill, doubtless bear fhis fact o mind. Tho work of the Dniversi has not been local, but nstional. The Pr and Fellows need only tumn to the history of the University to be inspired with full confidence that her lor_sssd’in m ulashmphe_wxgm bs romptly repaired, an & now, as in e gast,%ntwny the graduates of Harvard, bal many other friends of education, will gladly come to ber aid. Subscriptions and remittances may be ad- _dressed to Nathaniel Silsbes, Treasurer of Harvard Col- "lege, 112 Washington street, Boston. ‘msrres V. Extor, President. ART. ted Displ: of EForei; AnUnprecedented Display of Foreigm From the New York Erening Post. The galleries of the National Academy of Des sign were opened Mondsy evening for & private view of one of the largest and most valuabls collection of foreign oil paintings ever exhibited in-this country. is collection of pictures i® thoe importation of Mr. Henry Derby, of this city, associated with the famous art dealers, Messrs. Everard & Co., of Europe. It numbers upward of four hundred paintings, and may ba eaid o embrace almost every name of conse- quence known to art on_the Continent as well 88 many of thoge of the British Ieles, St To give an idea of the magnitude of this dis- play it is only necessary to stete that it covers all of the available walls in the Academy, includ- ing the sculpture Toom, and exceeds any exhibi- tion ever before given in this spacious edifice, The interest taken in the display also appeared to be great, for at an early hour of the evening the several galleries of the institution were filled to overfiowing with throng of ladies and gentlemen, which included some of the most eminent connoissewrs of New York, Brooklyn, and neighboring cities, who, if judgment may De formed from_expression, generally apoeared delighted with the fine character of the uf]sy. Tie collection is of o quality to plesse all, for it embraces subjecta of so many kinds that éven the most critical art collector will find something in it to gratify the taste. The name Bougue- reau is reprosented by two superb pictures, <A Fisher Girl,” which wes exhibited at the Goupil Gallery a fow weeks g0, and there attracted the greatest admiration ; and 2 groap composed of & oung shepherd seated on the mountain side 0lding in his arms g litéle child, who is eodeav- oring 10 drayw musical notes from o simple reed flute which he holdsto his Jips. The painting of this child with his bara srms end lege is exqui- eite, and the composition, which is altogether quidt and unconventional, attracted great atten- - tion during the evening. - ““ Honpeur et Patrie " is the title of a brilliant work by Emile Saintin. It represeats o woman of rare beanty, dressed in the garb of maurning, standing at the gateway of a tomb_end in the act of decorating it with flowers.” Her beautiful face wears an expression of grief, and her atti-. tude also exemplifies the fact that her sorrows aro great, The subject is finely composed and exquigitely painted.” The original finished sketch for thia picture, but differing from it in many of the minor details, was sold in the Chicago col- Jection. A companion paintingto_the sbove work by Seintin represents an interior of the most brill- ient character. It is an interior with the figure of s gorgeously dressed lady seated as if in éxpectation of 8 coming visitor. Her pose is very graceful, and a pleasant play of light falls upon her cherming face. Every par: of this . work is finished in the most realistic manner, and its superb soloring s other marked features of excellence was remarked by all visitors at the opening. Of the other demonstrative works SRfrea SStevens wes repressnted by compenion pictures, an interview witha lady atfired ina gorgeons crimson velvet robe, nnd a garden Scene with a single figure elso, These two works exemplify this great master's best style in draw- ‘ing and broad and mu:tstlglmnf.hod of coloring ; E&ulum’cz by several fine examples, cmong Which companion works, omo_ showing & lady standing in & richly-farnished drawing- room in the act of embroidering, and the other cenvas illustrating a similar scene, only the lady in this instance is playing the mandoline. Both jictures are beantifol in color and finish; Am- org by en interior with the full-length Sgure of & Indy leaning for support on the back of a chair 85if in deep meditation. This picture, fn senti- ment, i8 expressive of szdness, & vein of which rons throngh all of the recent works from tha easel of this admirable painter; A. Baish bya Iendscapo with cattle, painted In the broadest stylo of landecape ark and brilliant iz color and the effect of light and shade. This &rbshsnmm cattle from life, as all will admit who study the sirong qualities of this picture ; and Gustave de Jonghe by an interior which fzirly glows with Tight and color, with the figure of o Indy seated and playing with parrot and & little girl kneel- ing beside her. There are several other fine examples by this artiat in the collection. Charles Chaplin is represented by the full-length figure of & maiden reclinipg upon a mossy bank in the woods. It is pmiEihfly graceful in composi- tion, and light and plessant. in tone. 4 picture of this size by Chaplip is rarely seen in a collec~ tion in this country. Pierre A. Cot bye largeand important subject representing the ench cnstom of lighting up the h tones in the cemeteries at evening. In the foreground_ is the life-size figure of & widowed mother holding 8 prattling infant in her arms, and by her eide i3 =B girl in the sct of uppfyinis light to the open lantern which hangs from the cross at tha head of the grave. In the distance, here and there among the graves, many lights appear. The pictare is beautiful in toge and very ex- pressive in sentiment; and Ch. Landells by tha figaro of an “ Ltelian-Girl,” brilliantly costumed and strong and effective in its coloring. Among ' the. other fine pictures are & “Yaterfall by Moonlight,” by Herzog of Dus- seldorf; figure of & naked child holding a dancing-jack, very brilliant in_color, by Lobri- chon; & cabinet_interior with fignres, which rivals ihe best efforts of Meissonnier, by Casa~ Dova; an interior with lady and dog, by Florent Willems, painted in 1357, and reprosenting tha best period of this_accomplished artist; & su- perb market scene by candlelight, a characteris- tic work by the late Pierre Van Schendel; & skat- ing scene of rare brilliancy of color and in which the figures are besutifully. drewn, hl:{ Henri ‘A Persian Mother and Child,” by Cesare Dell' Acqua; an interior in which the acefal %?na of ‘a lady is the work of ules Goupil, and {he various objects of still life with which she is surrounded are by David Do Noter ; & bumorous scene, showiug & group of drunken soldiers at the door of an inu, by Bellange; and a beeutifully toucked interior With the figure of & women reading the Bible, by Meyer Von Bremen. The collection also embraces eighty-five ex- amples by Eug. Verboeckhoven, and athers by Charet, Isabey, Escosura, Nichel, E. Ducker, Siegert, Achenbach, Hasendever, Pecrus, Plas- Ean, Duverger, Meissonnier, Merie, Brillounin, Perraalt, Nornar, Cortazzo, Emile Levy, Riche ter, Alma_Tademd, Pauisen, Bangniet, Portaels, B.0. !iLoek-Kaek, anda hundred others equally eminent. —— ‘The Tobacco Crop in Connecticuze - From the New Haren Palladium, The tobacco crop of 1873, from the time of getting until now, hasmet with a series of rc- vorses unprocedented. Tho ravages of the cub~ worm threatening its entire exterminaiion and in some cases actually suzceeding; the terrifio -hailstorm sccompsnied by s severs wind that - was disastrous in som localities; the early frost, and still greater loss by pole-rot and sweating, are sufficiont proofs of the uncertainty of cult vating the weed, and yet in Gespite all thess dis~ heartening results, the finest crop of tobacco ever raised in Connecticut Valley is now in eome places in the hands: -of the sirippers. Unlike that of 1864, which was-very fine, that of this year's growth is much superior both in regardto color and textare. . All throngh the valley thers seems to b but oné opinion in regard to this— namely, evenness of color. All agrea that the entire crop is of that shude s0 eagerly sought after by _buyers— light cinnamon. Last: seasom tabacco ol this color brought extremely high prices. -Now, when almost i Connecticut seed leaf is of this color,.who can donbt that good prices will ba realized? Much canbesaid inregard to the texture: of this year's tobacco, nearly every grower, spesking Of it as boing extremely fina and_silky. It basnoneof that harsh, rough feeling, £0 common with tobacco of o Jead color. This 18 doubtless owing, in part, to the _quick growth of the plants. Indeed, it ecems a8 if nothing finer could be raised than many lots 58 heve examined, andall are confident that i3 yoar's growth will increase the demand for £0B= Decticut seed leaf, not only at home, but abroad. Doubtless & much finec grade of tobaccowillbe shipped this year than Inat, as the crop 18 in all respects much better, and possessing qualities that will command the vuryg.i i ready buyers are around anxious for the crop to be thrown upon the market, and’_doubtiees will- ing to and expecting ‘to paygood prices for the s, while poorer qualities will- no 00d & financial position a8 they were in before | bring much larger, prices than wsa & fitat sups Eha fire, thn}‘xespident and Fellows must further | posed. igheat prices. Al- . i