Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1873, Page 2

2 ™ CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, I873 iudges.—both in favor of Slavery; Genersl =mes B. Moore and Edward B. Coles,~both in izvor of Freedom. Coles wwas triumphant. After 8 inanguration, the Slavery men assembled in front of the house where he stayed, and vepted their feelings by, hooting and hissing. The Legislature was 2geinst him, and decide: by s two-thirds vote, to call ‘a Convention to amend the Oonstitution 50 as o admit _slavery. "The peopla rejected the Convention and Slsvery by 2,000 majority, and made Tllinois ever aftor 2 Free State. . To Governor Coles much praise is iue for that glorious result. GOVERNOR EDWAEDS - reigned from 1826 10 1830. Hs was a finc-look- ing map, if hia portrait does not Ii The feee is heavy, but handsome,—rather animal in the low- e part, but intellectaal higher up. The oye are large, the forehead expaneive, the montl plens- ant, His beautiful bair “~is brushed back all around. Brass, or perhaps gold, but- tons decorate his biue coat, beneath which is * = vest of & sort of buff hue, Aronnd the neck, - under tho cont, is & sear! like what is worn now by genteel young men. Of imposing personal sppearanice, ho arrayed his person iu gorgeous Taiment, cat in tho fashion of the old schaol ; and it is on record thaf, ot his inauguration, he wzs 20 eloganily made up that he impressed tho rustics with an exalted idea of his magnificence, in which bo fuily Leliovedhimoelf. He had boen out in the world at Waghington, where he served in the United States Senate. ‘When running for Govnmorfiho was op({mued 'p! %‘ Thomas C. Slos end Adolphus Frederick [obbard. Ford's History preserves a few words of ong of the Hubbard's addresses {o the intel- ligent people. He ezid: ‘ Fellow-citizens, I offer myself ns acandidate before you for the cfico of Governor, I do not pretend to be a man of extraordinary talents, nor do Icleim fo o equal to Julius Ciesar or Napoleon Bonaparte, n0r Yot to bo 28 groat man 88 my opponent, Govarnor Edwards. Nevertheloss, I thunkT can govarn you pretty well. I do not think it will Toquire 3 very annaxd.iuua smart man to gov- ern you, for, to toll you the trath, feilow-citi- zens, 1'do ot think you will be very hard to -overn, nohow.” Inspite of his opponent, Mr. fiu‘wm!a wag elected. < Governor Edwards had Loen Governor of Iifi- nois Territory for nino years, and had scrved in tho United States Sonato. After his inaugura- Eon, the Governor bogan to war upon the State Bank; but the politicians defented bim, and tho Bank continued to flonrish, He charged the Cashier with fraud, but a whitewashing Commit- tee, like others of & more enlightercd period, ro- rtod the accusationunfounded. The Winnebego \War occapied congiderable attention at ono pe- ricd- of this Administration. The Indians were chastised. The * Butcher-Knife Boys "— 50 called because they wero _weaponed with murderous dirks, and materislly influenced, 2d, in some parts of the Btate, controlled, the elections—wero the terror of decent people. Thoe Judges wero under the influence of such ‘persons, and never liked £0 give offence to crim- inzls or thoeir friends. Their etiquetts was novel in those plain and primitive times. One Judgo presided over s Court -where one Groen was found guilty of murder. 1t became his delicate duty to pasa saatence of death upon the gontlo- sman; and, vhen it is remembered that superse- deases were ot 28 common then a8 they have gince becomo, the following will be approciated. Said th Judge to the gentlemanatthe bar: #Alr, Grean, tho jury, in their verdict, say you aro guilty of murder, and the Iaw says you are to bo bugg.. Now, I want you, and all your {friends down ‘on Indien Creek, to know thab it is not I who condemn you, but the jury and the ew. Mr..Green, the law ailows you time for ‘proparation, and so the Court wants io know what time you would like to be hung.” Tho ac- commodating manelayer responded : “ May it ploaso the Court, T am ready at any time ; thoea who kill the body have no power to kill the soul ; Ty preparation is made, and I am ready to suffer ot any time the Court may appoint.” The Judge then administered a friendly admonition, eaying, *Alr. Green, vou must know thatitise cery serious matter {0 be hung; it can’t happen to 4 man moro than once in hi life, and you had better take ol the time you can get; the Conrt will give yon uutil {his dey four weeks. BMr. Clerk, \noi at the Almanse and see if this day four weeks comes on Bunday.” The Clerk exam- iued the calendar, ard found that *this day four weeks came on Thureday.” The Couwrt then continued, -snd -remarked: ‘“Mr. Green, tho Court gives you until this dey four weels, ~at’ whicli time yon are to bo hunz.” The Attorney General seemed to think that the occasion was not safficiently solemn, and intimated to the Judgo that ho had better imflmm upon the pris- oner something about the brovity . of Life, and cspecially yhen it is limited to-four weeks. 4Oh,” geid the Court, ‘‘he understands the sholo” metter” 38 well a8 if I had reacked to him a month. He. knows o has got to be hung this day four weeks. Youn understand it in that way, Mr. Groen, don’t you?” “Yes,” answercd Mr. Green'; ond Mr. Green was removed to_jail, the Court going home satisded that he had finished the job diplomatically, 50 a8 not to impair his .chances of Te-election. Buch was the fazhion of the times. 3 © GOVERNOR ' REYSOLDS, who swayed the sceptre of authority from 1830 to 1834, .wes painted like Cromwell, with his warts on. It ia & bony .face,—a wrin- kled front. The forehoad is high and furrowed, and . crow's feot have lefi their footprints around the eyes, which are Isrge and liguid. Tho long nose Teacheés almost down to the month, a8 it were about to drop into that wide aporture, and it would but that the lips are firmly closed. Ho weara short side- whiskors, and the hair Jooks a8 if ho slept i it 1l pight, and sat for the artist before he coul find any comb but his long fingers. Tho shirt front and collar are horribly mussed, and he looks as if it mmde no difference to him., Ho bears -the reputation of having been a curious specimen, and a look abt the picturo co it He ran sgainst ' Baptist preacher named Kinney, who was armed with ‘“ the aword of the Lord and the Spirit,"— the former being # Bible, which ho carried inone pocket for the'edificntion of the pious; the latter ‘a bottle of whiskoy, carried in ‘another pocket, for the dolectztion of thirsty sinners. Roy- Rolde, by sl accounts, never drank himeels, Lt 1ind 10 Ecruplos about making his friends hjtazi- ous sbout election-times. whiskoey did not mix very well for Mr. Kinney, for TReynolds beat him, Kinney 5vas a Jackson man, and the anti-Jackson men snpported Reynolds. -Roynolds was a_sort, of nondescript character, remsarkable for his individuality. He bhad an unyiolding will. Ho cared nothing for party, and followed his own h)dnt?_aendent course, ro- gavdless of - party or politicians. Daring his term, tho Black Hawk War came off. The Galenian, the only paper. publishod in-Illinois or JWieconsin, contained narratives of the battles. Judgo Dreceo was clected to the United Btates Seuate during this Administration. e GOVERNOR. DUNCAN camo next. He served from 1834 to 1883, He +20s the features of an Indian in tho picture,— ‘prominent chock-bones, thin, clesn-cut lips, a Torgicad lov, but wide ; datl piercing oyos, s elraight hair. Ho ' ix described a3 a men of - “geoteo), affable, snd manly deportment,” " of - moagro education, but of sound judgment and undoubled moral courage. Hewas a Kentuckian, and served, whon qnite(yom?, inthe war of 1813, distin. guishing himsolf under Colouel Craghsn, when that officer, with & bandful of -mon, defonded Fort Skoghennon against ten times their namber of British =nd Indians. -When Lo became a cit- izen of the State, his milifary fame secured hi the position of Major General of Militia, to which Lo was clected, by the .poopls. Ho ‘hed rerved in the. State Senate in 1824-'25, and was the =author of the first Comuron-Bchool law peesed in the State. GOVERNOR CARLTY s eerved from 183310 1812, Ho has a thin face, square chin, long nose, 1o lips,—simply & lit in the faco under the noso,~prominent choek- bones, o high foreherd, side-whiskers, largo ears, and spectacles. Ho ie o Langry-looking Governor, and scems tobe in necd .of . square meal. Ho was charnoter in_ his way, 88 ob- stinate 88 & mulc, but withal able. Onca upon o time, in hi* younger daye, Le cntered & horso to yun 3 race down on tho American Bottom. He 338 to presido on the borse's back s jockey. * Whon weighed, he was too heavy. He begen to lighten bLimeelf by = stripping, snd, by the time he was starl naked, tie scales stood even at 140, That was right, The eaddlo was taken off tho horse; he jumped aboerd with nothing on but Lis cuticle, and rode tha race. It was a barebacked ride in more genses than one. When the struggle was ended, he licked the owner of the opposition quadruped. An old gentleman who knew him pereonally informed me that he was a 13 Deriome. Aiy wiy T was Qoveruor: T fhe Teginning of 1642, the Siate Bank, with circa- izticn of three millions. burat, and the Shaw- ncetown concern soon followed. - ¥ GOVERNOR ¥oID ° Leld oftice from 1644 to 1846. He was the Demo- cratic candidate, having taken the place of Adam W, 8erder, who died after being :nomi- ed, ord_was on the Supreme Liench at time, and had been twice appointed State's Y, and four times -elocted Judge tl:o Legislature. Governor Duncan, the date of the Whig - party, was beaten. Ford’s portraif presents s aharp-festured man, 1 & hooked nioee, dosp-set eyes, small mouth, twisted skyward on the right side, and an abun- dance of apparently black hair, but no whiskers. £ & a& friend of his, who knew him well, remarked that * Nature made him to elece ‘The Bible and the- tioneer in a grog-shop; . and ko could not Lo beaten in clecting a Constable.” Siill thero is no donbt but ha was o man of Iarge and versatile ability, o fair lawyer, and the Eest historian Ilinois has had 80 far,—which 1s, indeed, faint praise. His history i8 inferesting, and would be worth republishing, copics Leing now very scarce. Gonoral Shiclds is bolioved by some to bave written tho book; but, fu the pré: tace, the Generalscys he gave it to tho world without changing any of . Ford's sentiments, with many of Which Lis eutirely disnsreed. It ia = fair picture of the early timasof 1llinois; de- goribes the . habits, ~ customs, and drcss of the peoplo; bolds “tho “mimor up to . Nature in that respect; _gives rathier s graphic sceount of tho Indian and Momon Wars; bub i3 mado the vehiclo of porsonal spleen gnd animosity, out of place in nuy work pretending to bo historical. Tho styic is casy, and somo of {he stories narrafed nre very smueing. Ford 1ad not much respect for diguity in Limself or in any one elao. Ho went to Mamphis in 1843, or “theresbouts, with ..John Dougherty, the retiring Lieutenant Governor, (o attend 2 Reil- road Conveution where John 0. Cellioun was to fe present. Calhoun camo up from New Orleens in o special steamor, - fud, va ho ap- proached Momplis, standing Letween the smoke-utacks,—*a little bit of a fancy- looking metaphysician,” Governor Doughorty .v8,—tho Bonthern people, assembled in @ mal- titude, broko out in ringitg cheors that wero heard almost over tho entire Alississippi Valloy. Ford end. Duughnrtg ‘were Brectators of thescono. Ford was offended by tho air of dignity surroand- ing Calhonn. *D—n dignity!"” £aid hotoDongh- erty, I can't sland it. Just look at that feliow stauding tlero, a8 rigid a8 tho wmoke-stacks.” When his suceoesor, French, was taking tho oath of ofiice, Ford remarked to a bystander, * Look al that d—n fool swoaring alie.” Ilo was cyni- cal and vindictive ; his look showa it. GOVEENOR FRENCE was clected in 1846 ; and, whon the Coastitu- iional Convention abolished all the Stato ofiice:s, in 1848, ho was re-olected for four years, making his term of service six years, ending in 1852, He Las & broad, penial face, full of kinduess and amiability. 'Tho nose is' etraight, the mouth o ‘horizontal ling, the hair curly aud falling upon Lis chonlders. Hois in the attitude of stand- Ing, and the book i his hand is marked * Coke above Littleton,” indicating Lis profession. o s 2 good lawyor, and possessed fino scholarly attainments. ilo wasa lovablo person, gentlo- ‘manly in his deportment, courteous in lis man- ners, Jacksonian in politics, and conservative in ‘most of his viows on public questions. GOVERNOR MATTESON < comes next in order, from 1852 to 1856. Hoiss fine-sppearing man, of prepossessing, counte- nance, expuusive brow, Roman nose, and, in general, having a cute’ expression, Hia_unf tunate history in conrection with his Admi; tration has left a blot on his escutcheon which has never heen erased. Itis bolieved that he made restitution afterward, and that the Stale not loso vory beavily. The transaction mithin tho range of memory. The Exocutive ‘Mansion wes burnt during bis time, and is now soventeen years old GOTVERNOE BISSELL was ia the Gubornational Chair from 1856 to 1860. Trom this on, the history of the Stato is within tho memory of living man. His picture shows 2 men of martial Learing, of dark com- Elzx.inn, black eyes, 5 fine noe, knocked nwry a Mexican bullef, and » mouth shronded Ly & black mustsche, crowning it liko a Manaard roof. He was-a gallant soldier. He sorved threa years in Alexico, relurning covored with Jpurela won on mauy a bloody field. Fascinated. as the poople nlways are by militaxy heroism, he was scnb to Congross; ond one doy, when Jeft Davis, on tho floor of the = Houso, cluimed for the Mississippi _ troops, with which Le served, the honorof turning Santa Anuw's army at Buens Vists, Bissell sprang to his fest, 2nd warmly defended the Illinois sol- diers, who, ho claimed, performed that important duty, under tho command of Colonel Hardin, Bissell accugod Davis of misropresentation. The fiery Sontherner chailengod IDisecll to mortal combat. Biesell accepted, and it is generelly believed that General Hairison interposed and provenied the meeting. Thoro ars thoso, Liow- ever, of his contemporaries still living, who be- lieve that the duel sctually occurred, and that the paralysis .of ihe lower limbs with ‘which Dissel ~was afllicted in his lat- ter yeara was produced by o ball from the pistol of Davis. He alweys denicd the deed, Lnt may Lave done 80, 29 no one who participated in one could, under the Iny of the timo, hold an_oific in the State. He died beforo the expiration of his term, in the Executive ion, and was succeedbd by Licnienant Governor Wood., Goy- ornor Palmer's eulogy on Bissell is one of tho ‘best of his productions, aud ranks high among funeral orations. GOVEENOR WOOD still lives at Quincy. He eorved as Governor about thirteen. months. His fine, benevolent face is known to mauy in the State. GOVERNOR YATES was elected in 1860, and served four years. Itis unnecessary to sketch his career ds Governor, 88 Senator, as nothing,—his present position. His picture is good,—that of a handsame, fresh man, of exceeding good nature. : GOVERNOR OGLESBY served from 1864 to 1863. A sketch of his life will be found elsowliers. i pictare is poor. It does not do him. justice. o is much Letter looking, end his face far moro jolly. 3 QOVERNOR PALMER. "’ Last, bot not least,—probably in many ro- spects tho greatest of any of the Governors,— ia Jobn M. Palmer. Itis superiluous to remark that he was elected in 1568. His history is known to 21l. ' He rotires to public life to the Erncficn of the profession’ of which be is so right an ornament. TIE NLW ADHISISTRATION. On Monday next, tho old Administration ro- tires from power, and the new ofiicials assuma their dutics and responeibilities. Nowis the, fittest time to skotch the past lives of the men who are to rale the State, for good or for avil, duriug the next four yeers. The follawing biog- rapbies aro compiled from information dorived from tho best sources: GOTZRNOB AND SENATOR. Richard Jumes Oglesby was Lorn in Oldhem County, K., July 25, 1824, and is, thereforo, 48 veara of age. Ho lost Lis parents at tho nzs of B years, and removed, with an_uncle, to Iiaois when he was 13, settling in Decatur, where Lie hias ginco resided. Ab thot time Decatur was a village of 50 inbebifante. Young Oglesby worked for a living, first on a farm, thea in o livery- stablo, afterwards in a carpenter's shap, where ho became quito a skilfal mechanic. He had not many opportunities in cexly lifo. His lot was burd. Ho had to work when other boys were at &chool ; but Lis indomitablo cnergy, and his do- terminstion to be somebody, impelod him to study in Lis spate hours, o that, Ly tho timo ho was 21, Lo was propared to abandon the J}h\w and_chisel, aud take up Blackstone and Coke. Ho stndied law for a yoarin Springfield and Docatur, and was ad- 1nitted to practice in 1845, * Ho has followed tha profession off and on over sinca. Always read; to respond to the call of his conntry, he enliated in 1846 for tbe Mexican War, was clected Lieu- tenant of his company, nnd served, with other Tlinois volunteors, under tho command of Colo- nel Baker. He emelt powder at Yora Cruz aud Cesro Gordo, aud stood begide Genernl Shields whon the Jatter wasshot. Relurning from the war to Decatur, lie again began the practice of Lis profession, which h ho continued until the news of gold in California roused his ad- Venturous epirit. Ho determined to try his fortune in the now Eldorndo, and, with & com- pany of eight, started across the Plains in o six- mule team. He worked in the mines for two years, whero he says he got the first start in the world, Horefers with pride to hus Californis lifo, end uever wearies relating his experience. Whetavor he wandored, his heart, untravelled, finally turoed to his home st Decatnr; acd, when he hade his *‘ pile ™ at tho mincs, ko came homo by way of Nicaragaa and Cubs, Laving been abient two years. He voled for Geueral Toylor, his old Mexican commander, in 1843 ; and. when' ho resumed lis = law- business afier Lis return from California, ho mixed politics with it, and was sa Elector for Gonoral Scott in 1852, Ho was fascinated by the military achiovements of thego commanders, under whom hohad gerved in Mexico, Ho re- mained atl home four years, till 1856, when. ho started on & tour of thé Old World. 1fa visited every comm- of Europe, except Spain and Poriugal, was in the Mremlin at Moscow whea the presont Czsr was crownod. Ho also took quite s equint at Africs, sscending tbo Nile 600 mulos, as far as Thebes ; paid his respects to the Sphi: and the Pyiomids; returncd to Cairo; crossed {he Red Sea, and followed the route of the Children of Isracl on their flight from Egypt to Petres, whence Lo it the Land of ldumes and tho, Land of Promise, to say nothing of Palestine. Then ho paida fiying trip to Byxia and Damascas, creszcd Mount Tobe anon, examined the codars, of cearse, made for Bogront, whenco Constantinoplo s zoached, then vieited Greeco, Sicily 2nd Rome. Hecame ‘homothrough Germany, France, and Logland. He was away twenty monihs, and had s great time, piking op mucl informalion ebout sleces men: tioned in Haly Writ, and studying tho “effeta™ me hies.of Europe. In December, 1857, he dropped anchor again in Lis beloved Docatar, snd, the following year, married Miss White, of that place, the issue of the union being four children, two of whom—a darughter oged 9 znd son aged T—survive. Ho entered into another partnership at this time,—a law-pariuership with Judge Gellagher ard Major Wait. Ta tho szme year, Lo rea aatho Tepublican candidato for Congross against tha Hon, James C. Robin- s0m, and waa not clectod. Yn 1860, ho was clect- od-"State Senator. for 4 _four yesrs’ term,. bat sorved only one session, when he resigned, and buckled onr Lis armor’ for the Wer. He' was clected Colonelof the Eighth Hlinois Infantry, eand procceded immediately to tho front. ,Ho vas promoted to Brigadior General for gal- lant conduct at Fort Henry and Fort.Donal- son. At the ond of his eocond year, Lo was ogein promoted to . Major ~General for similar conduct st Corinth. lfere ho vas wounded,—en ounco ball cniering tho left side, just over tho heart, passing turough tho lungs, and lodging in the {horax, vhore it till romaing. ITe was an invalid, in consequence of bis wound, Trom October, 1862, to April, 1863, vlen Lio ro* ported for dufy fo General Grant 4t Vickaburg, sud way askigned to_commsnd of tho lefé ving of the Bixteeath Army Oorps. Ho remained in tho service until May 25, 1804, on wlich day he was nominated by tlio Republicsn party. for Governor of Ilinow. e served as Governor four years, Hewas candi- dato for United States Senator against Goneral Logan, in 1870, but Logan hod tho insido track ond best him. Oglasby rau for Governor in 1872, with the nuderatanding that ho was to go to the United States Senate, and ho 18 going. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOL AND UOVERNOR. Joln Lowerie Bevoridge made his deut in this salo of tears on July 6, 162¢,—tho place being Washington County, N. Y, His parents wero tillers of tho foil. 1ilo went to the common gchoole. In 1843 Dis fumily romoved to Illivois, and pitched their tents in De Kelb County. Iio was sent to Rock River Seminary to finish his schooling, and did go. Aftorrending Dlackstono, and otlier text- Dooks, ho was adwmiticd to the bar, and_begen practico in 8ycamore, Dakialb County, in 1851, o movad to Evunston in 1854, and hung out his Tegal shingle in Chicagoin tho epring of 1655, Ho pursued the noiseless tonor of bis wey until tho War broke out, when, believing that the sword was more useful to Lis country than his pon or his oloquence, he girded it on, aod Jlod & company of wmen in Tarnswortl’s Eighth linois Cavalry. After Mejor Medill was killed, ho was elected to the vacancy, and was at ono time in command of the rogiment. In November, 1863, ho was mustercd- out, and, under tho direction of the Secrotary of War and Governor Yates, organizod tho even- toenth Illinois Cavalry, which he commanded, in Ainzouri and elsawhere. o was finally mus- tered out in tho spring of 1566, end the samo year was rmustered into tho - offico | of Shoriff of Cook County, then o lucrative position. _Ta 1870 he was elected to the Stato_Senate, and the same year succced.d Benator Logan da Congressman-st-Large. At the recent election he ran for Lioutcnang Gover- nor, and will succeed to & soft thing as Governor when Governor Oglesby abandons fhas bfiice. BENATOR AND LIEUTENANT COVERNOR. Jobn Early was boru in Oiio, 4t years ago, aud accompanied bis family on 8 peregriu to Canada, whence thoy returned their native land _ tweniy-soven _yoars ginco, end planted themselves in Buone County. Mr. Early, aftec his marriage, scttled in Winnebago. He bozsls of no mora than & 0od common-sehiool education, and his path in ifowas rugged, and ot timos he had s hard tussle to'keep his hoed abovo water. Still he enrvived, and is the stronger for tho strugglo. Ho was engazed in carponter-work, building sud cantracting, until ten years ago, When ho was appointed Genorsl Agent of the Now England Lifo Insurance Company, which placo Lo etill Lolds. I was dlosted to the tote Seuate in 1870, and again in in 1672, The Republican cancus nominated him for tha Prosi- dency of the Sennte, to which ho will be elccted, and succeed Governor Beveridge s Licutenant Governor, r, Early's fathev served in tho War of 1812, boing o_member of the Ninotcenth Regiment.. Luie old gontleman died & yerr ago, aged 7). JECRITARY OF BTATE. George Herry Harlow bogon Lis career in this world at Sackett’s Herbor, Sept. 5, 1830. His father was o ecabineb-maker ond furnituro- dealer. George was sent to the commoa school, whero he remained until he was 18, whon Lo greduated in the highest department. Thio carpenter aud joiner trade run in tho fam- ily, and young Harlow studied tho manufacture of 'tables and chairs until ho knew all_about it, ond had developed o higher order of talent in the shspe of an aptitude for orchitectural dosigning. He promoted himsalf to the ofico of O. L. Whealook, then of Catakill,. now of Chicsgo, aud become a draughtsman. Tn 1664 hie packed up his traps and came to tho Wost, to the Land of the Fres and so {orth, passing through Chicago, wlon the cholora ruged, and stopping at Pekin, whers bia relatives had gono -before. Archifect 2acquirements did not find a ready market at Poldin, then o diminutive bit of s raral village; but there is always something to -bo dong in the carpenter profession, ' aund at it went Harlow -until something bottor should turn up. The turn-up camo in the guise of a dry-goo clerkehip, and ho messurad calico and linen for the country lassics with ability and success. At thia timo e was young snd_hiandsome,—traces of Lis beauty hang sround him still,—end an- doubtedly was in {imsolf & megnet which drow the fair sex to his counter. 'Soon after, he started on his own hook, in the firm of Gill & Harlow, in tho town of Delaven,Lozowell Coune ty. Forfifteen monthsthe dry goods and grocories in which he deals brought him profits ; when tho impendiug crasn of 1857 warned him to stand from under, and he sold ont. His next venture was & _commiusion honse, which was burned out without any ‘insurance. Then he was olocted Clerk of tho Circuit Court of Taze- well County, against & Democratic majority, and aboat the saino timo was elovated to be Al derman 1n the Townof Pekin. At theend of four yours ho was renominated for Circnit Clerk by the Republicans, and did not get it, Heen- listod in tho srmy previously, but Governor Yutes rofusad to let him go to war, as hie nceded his gervices at hamo. * Ho vns ond of the eleven who organized tho Union Lesguo of America st Pekin. ~ Tu 1865, he was clected onc of tha Secre- taries of tho Benato, but resigned fo becomo Private Secretary to Governor Gglasby, who aleo appointod Lim Assistant Tnspoctor Goneral, with tho renk of Colonel, and pub im in command of Camp- Datler, thon located near this city. Ho ran for the nomination 08 Becretary of Stato in 1863, but was besten by Mr. Rummel, who subsequently mado him Asyistant Sccrotary, and Le scrved tbreo years. He is thereforo thoroughly. famil- iar with the dutios of the department, and will be able to conduct it with satisfaction to the State. Mr. Harlow has been moro or less con- mectod with tho press for tho past fen yesra. o was at ono time rogular corresponent of Tue uN: At the Capital, also of tho Rt Louis Democral. The Tooria Transcript has also beon enlivoncd by his contribations, aud letely ho Las neceptably filled the city editor’s chair in tho oflice of the Jour- nal, of this city. Mr. arlow is more proud of is conmection vith tho pross than of his e on with carpentering, architecture, dry or cnything olso ho 5% fouchod. : ! AUDITOR OF STATE. Cherles Eiliott Lippincott is a gonnine “Back- er,” having been born st Edwardsville, in this Btate, Jan. 25, 1825. His father was editor of the Edwardsville Spectalor, s pepor oppoeed to * tho introduction of Blavery into the Siate, and slso n preacher of the Presbyterian persuasion. Most of young Lippincot!'s schooling was dono at Jncksonville, where thore was & college, which he 16ft before finishing Lia course, though ho has since _been . reccived | among the olumui. Ho- studied medicino, at Chnndlersville, unt and practised it five years il 1852, when Le put ont for Californis. Heim-- medintely becama mixed up intho Broderick- Gwin figfit. and, having been eent to the State Serato by Yubs County, a3 ono of “the Twelvo' Apostles of Broderick,” who stuck by him until ho was defeated for tho Sonatorship. When Broderick waa elecied by tho next Legisla- ture, Lippincott returned with him *“to the States,” - and ‘resumed the practice of medicing nv Chandlersvillo, intending to makeit the businees of his life, The * recent nnpleasantness " broke out, and, 83 soon a8 he beerd of the Ball Run affeir, he volunteered, and becamme Colonel of the ‘Ihirty-third Illinoia. He wes in all tho engagements of the regiment, except one which camo off while he was sick,— beginning in Tomnossee, and winding np with the capture of Molile. Returning home, he was broveted Drigadier. He ran for Con- ress in the old Ninth District, against ewis W. Ross, but was beaton by a reduced majority. This put him upon the politi- cal track, and secured him the nominstion for Anditor in 1868, and sgain in 1872, ’ BTATE TREASURER. : Mr. Ratz was born in Germany, and bas been for many years a highly-respected citizon of St. Clair County. Want of material explains the Lrevity of his biography. 3 ATTORNEY GENERAL. “j’l.uma K.Lrflc and Ecclsfll' \:M"n;n gflonfih lifln mdhn(infi Greono County, N. Y., Aay 10, 1831, fnther was a tauner.) He a%u{nfled the common_schools in Plattaville, and then read Iaw in the office of Judge Bailoy, at Cats- Kll. Ho was admitted to practice in 1852. He came West in 1853, and tried Milwaukse, Fond du Lec, and Bt. Paul; but business in thess laces wes dull, and he wont to. Ka.n!la‘ where 0 lived during the * Bleeding Kansas” excite- ment from 1854 to 1556. M was clected to the Territerial Legielature, and was in Topeka when that body was dispersed by Colonel” Samnor, of the Unitod States Army, acting under ordars from the War Departmeat, whera Jeff. Davis. Alr. Edaall was_on the Committea appointed to revise the Kansas Code, having been elected again, as 2 Froo Soiler, after the Btate was admitted to the Union. "Ha returned to Illinojs, and, Laving married, gava up wandering, and settled down in Dixon, Where Lie has since lived. He was elocted to the Senate in 1870, served two years, and secured the nomi~ nation for Attorney Genéral. ‘Al thesc ofiicors wore clocted for four years, except the Stato Treasurer, wkose tarm is two cars. Or. Early will probably cease to bs ieutenant Governor on tha expirstion of hix 1wo yeats’ form ns ‘Senator, and the Banato will ‘have to select his succeasor. RETIGING OIFICERS. The names of the retiring oficors aroy. . Governor—John M. Palmer. Lieutenant Gocernor—John Dougherty. Secretary of Slate—Edward S. Rummel. * Auditor—Charles E. Lippincott, re-slocted. Treasurer—Erastus N. Bates. . ~ Altorney General—Washington Bushnell, Governor Palmer will at once resums tha prac- tico of tha Ia, in partnership with hisson, John Mayo Pehner; Mr. Dun’fhcrw ia understood to bon candidate for Federal employment; Mr. Rummell will take 2 trip to Europo; and Mr. Bushnell will return to his pmlenaimg UL presided as - Secretary. 3 MISCELLANEOUS. . A Californis Chinaman committed suicide b; cramming paper up his nose. —In Philadelphis, lest yoar, there were 701 fires, causing a loss of $6,598,419. e number of marrisges in-Ohio in 1872 was 26,303 ; divorces granted, 1,026; births, 61,- 210 ; deaths, 25,202, e —About a year since the Modoc Chiefs, in & “ big talk,” rogolyed not o scalp and mutilate tho bodies of their victims, —The DesMoines Wator Worka have cost, to tho present dato, £210,000., Eleven milos of water-pipe aro laid. ’ —This question agitates Lawrenco, Kansas : “Sliould » young man learo his music leszon to eplit wood when his mother is at home and in perfoct health 7" . —Thacitizens of Maplewood, Kansas, keap col- orad children out of their schools without re- sorting {0 extrome measures. They simply burn tho school-housee. —8t. Louis peoplo carry frogon apples in thelr poclkets to avoid the rheumatism, ou through with the fruit they give the spples to poor litfle ya, —A charitableinhabitant of St. Lonia)atelysent o bandle containing & watorfall, & susponder, nacktie, and & shoo-string to & committes * for tho relief of the suffering poor.”. .. —Mrs. Fonu, of Chostor Cantre, 3fich., while ill, waa burnod to death Christmas by Cliristisn neiglibors, who put somo red-hot bricks in bed with her to keep her warm. —A woman at Macon, Ga., dared her husband to commit euicide, and Lie had her arrosted and placad in juik for six months, the Judge holding 1ilat her action was a grave offeaco. —An eccontric man_ ot Edingham, TIL., whoso wife and children had desnrmg nim, lately dug uptwo of his dead cbilden, and, dressing tho colctons, set them down ss his {able com- pauions, —TFrederick Douglass was lately refueed en- trance to a palnce car at Corning snd was sbont to walk in, refusal or 1o refasef, when tho con- ductor was told who he was and raised no furthor objections. ~The mpn‘-Xy of knowing whom ono marries 15 vorified in tha czse of an sged couple in Iowa, who, a3 widow shd widower, married, and who, it was aftcrward proven, woro brotier and sister, separated iu cl 100¢ ~—His lnto 1onor, the Aayor of Neutes, France, loat his oftice becauso he did not afford suitable protection to the multitude of pigrims who tlocked to do homage to ““ Our Lady of Lourdes ™ & fow weoks ago. —A. California paper cnnll;' ives the following 28 & morning nows item: 3 party of young lioodlums en Minns stroot hed considerable gport on Saturdey afternoon by running down a Chinamsn with a bull dog. “The victm wes severely bitten and his clothing much damaged.” —Oregon hag 6ent one of its oldest, most in- telligont, aud most eloquent citizens, General E. L. Applegate, to the Esst as an emigrant com- missioner. His lfl:rpoae is to make speeches in the towns and villages of the older States in ex- position of the attractions of the soil, climate, and commercial promise of Oregon. —J¥he Neow York Commercial Advertiser is responsible for the following : A young men in the Custom House, who was to0 20 examined for ‘promation to the position of chiof correspondent, tnl‘%grl hed from Brooklyn to-day ss follows: “Won't bo. over to-dsy, min't home yesterdsy yot." The place was reserved for him. —A story is told of two men £t Bellow’s Falls, Vt., who. su ting that o debtor of boih at Chicago was likely to fail, sought to get ahead of ench other and first secure his money. One went north by the Vermont Central Road, and tho other came to Springfield, £ud went west on tho half-past 6 train, got to Chicago, sccured his money, and, a3 ho sct out t> retwrn, met his rival just entering tha city, o —Schenectady bas the latost Enoch Ardenism. Husband was gone sixteen yeara ; wife became the third spousa of a wealthy citizen, and when her firgt husband returned to look into the win- dow, (Sguratively, for be wont_squarcly into the door), she asked the wealthy citizen to whom he should leave hia property. “ To my children,” 8id bo, #children bywmy first wife.” ¥ Then'T ehall have to leave you;” and she did, in com- pnn{‘\)fim hor first and carlicst. —The Amcrican Agricullurist suggests that the girla wear “thicl, home-mado woolen stock- ings," instoad of tho gauzo sbsurdities with which they now cover their rory and dimplod (7) little extremities. The Agriculfurist thinks thes it would give us o healthier set of mothers. ‘This is. true, and tho girls might as well, while they are covering up their feet, throw some- thing around their nacks and chests. It woald be botter in more ways than hygienic. —The Windham County (Ct.) Transcript talls the extraordinary story of & Lyme young nun, ‘named James Havons: who hae fasted of dags, In the early part of October e began to show symptoms of montal sberrafion, and in o fow days refused food or_drink. - His condition was such that his phyeician and friends deemedit prudeat Lo keep im iu his room, and to hwtes constant watch over him; and it is certainl known that for 57 days he did. not take one flr\\lZ low either of food or drink, He is, of course, reduced to a mere skeleton. For a little more than a month ite has conssnted to.take foo snd is ulmzlfi itproving, both physically an moutally, Al of which 5 vonche for by & gon- tlomzn ““whoys veracity is unquestionable,” —Dr. John M.Woodworth, Supervising Surgeon of tho Marina Hospital sorvice, has just pro- pared the first anuuel roport of that branch of the Treasury Department. It contains a cone donsod history of the United States Marine Hos- pital servico sincs its creation in 1798, incindin) 8 briof ketch of each hospited from the timo E was built or_purchased; also copious tablen - from which it appears that during the year ending June 50, 1872, 12,802 wero cared for in hospitals, and 85{ received out-door relief. Of these 10,945 were discharged, and 621 diod. Ths averago daily number in hospital was 1,111. The number of ‘ports at which sick seamen woro treated was 8L The numbor of ports from which tho hospital-tax was collected’ was 123, Total amonnt of tax collected, $323,700.05.. Cost of gervice for the yoar, $306,263.11being 856, 819.31 less than 1671, . —That the rigor of the winter in_Alabsma has increased isa factthaiis altested by all the early settlors now or: the stage of life. Inthe eatly ecttlement of the Stato’ corn wea- alwsys glmted in Fobruary, and cotton was planted in [arch without lni‘nfprahemiun of either being nipped by frost. . Not only was the rigor of tho winter less than it is now, but late frosts were unkoown. - In 1849 there was a killing frost in the month of May ; in 1852 thero was asovere freeze, killing all ths vogetation, on the 16th of March; in 1854 thera was a frost so Iato ss the 19th of Apni, snd in 1857 a hoavy snow fell on April12. In February, the ground .was frozen_for ovor aweek ; in January, 1856, the gronnd was frozen for ten days, and the cold ‘waa intense ; in January, 1856, tho cold was also protracted and intense. Snows have become much heavier, as well a3 more frequent, of lats yeara.—Lelter Lo the Molile Register. A Man Suspended by One Foot for & Period ot Eight Rours. From the Popler Blug (io) News. On onday night an unfortunete Irishman ) wandered into the Court Honse scarching for a place to pass the night. He found his way \r& stairs, ware the doors wers closed, and turned retraco his steps, when ba atruck’ the Tailing of the stairs, and ing it & fence, as ha says, ho climbed over it at a place where it was sbont eight feet to tho stawrs below. Luckily, or un- luckily, as the case m!gl::hnvu ‘been, 15 he feoll from the railing one of his feet caught betwean the balustors, and he hung between heaven.snd oarth, head downward. His position was & very gmxlu.!, and at the same time, a dangerous, one, or, had his foot loosencd, ho wonld have fallon .the cntire distance, to strike on his head. In spite of his many and loud calls for help, he re- mained in that terrible position all might, snd Tas released next mo; been as cold as it had been a fow days befors, it i8 quite likely be wonld have died before mofa- ing, a8 no efforte were made by those who heard his agonizing cries to relieve him, g. . Had the weatner - WASHINGTORN. The Louisiana Bother---Cur- ' rent Opinion. _ What the President Did When He Saw Pinchback's Proe- | ! lamation, Probability that the Semate Will Adwmit the Kellogg Candidate, .. Flagrant Judges of the Period. From Our Qwn Correspondent. z .. . Wasurvarox, Jun. 8, 1873, ‘The Senate hey finally acted in the matter of the-Lounisisna troubles, but what opinion tho Administration Senstors hold upon Judgs Durell and his extraordinary performances it is impos- siblo to find. Our Judicial system in many Btates is bad aa it can pousibly be. In Alsbama, Dick Busteed is the highest and most frequent sutharity known to men, In'Arl “tho cost: of the Court of the Western District has climbed up to 8250,000 = yéesr. In" Noirasks and some othor States, the Marshal's control over polling juries is svailed of by all mannar of Tolks, to get free transportation znd comfartable subsistence from remote points.. In two Statos, theJudgo is o candidate for the Senafe. Tt & high- 1y necessary that Congress kesp the run of thoze District Judges, snd pounce upon‘one in his cups to say ¢ *¢ Ceesto, T'll mako thee an example! - SENATOR TRUMBULL, g Mr. Farnsworth, and others are promounced in their expression that Durell's behavioris scandalous and extra‘judicial; and, on the other side, not an individual expression has been made in his fevor. He lies in the vaguo and vast quasi-protection of, the President, like the giant who was guarded by the dragon. . SENATOR FENTOX exprosges the opinion that the better class of Eenatora_are repelled by Judge Durell's action, 28 well in the case of recognizing the Kellogg Government a3 in the matter of the New Orleans Times, He thinks that, for the present, this in- dignation is confined to the thinking class,— thoee who reserve some individual charssster and opinion, the party notwithstanding. SENATOR WINDO, of Minnesota, 62id to another Senator last weak, as I em told, that tho President hed put his foot into tho Louisiana matter. JomN BHERMANY rose in the Senate, Monday, to move that the Comnitice on Privileges and Eloctions be au- thoiized to detail a Sub-Committeo to.inguire into tho Louisisna matter, or, at theirdiscretion, appoint three private persons, not resident in Louisizna, to fully examine into the same. , SERATOR WEST i rose and objceted tothin. Iasked the laiter gentleman, at the closo of the session, why ke had mado abjecticn, and horcplied that ho didn’t -oppose Sherman’s proposition, but that he ought to be consulted abont it, in common courtesy. Tt is Senator West's opinion that the proposition ill bo agreed to, and that theso ontside persons will bo commiesioned 0s proposed, who will ap- pear befora tha Senate after the 4th of March and enlighten it, so that it mey nct discriminate~ li abont admitting a Benator. Mr. West cays that, when he rcad Pinchback’s proclamation, whore he forbado tho Fusion Lezislaturo to meet, he took hia newspaper around amongst several Republican Senators” and consulted with them. They sll said that Pinchback’s proclama- tion was without judgmont, und showed that person to be an imprudent bully. They further advised Mr. West to goup to the White House and talk to ¥ TRESIDENT. THE 2Mr. West found the President entirely una- waro of Pinchiback’s precipitation; -and, whon the newspaper was handed to him, the President read Pinchback's exercise in the Envglish lan- guage from beginning toend. Thon he turned around and wrote three Ylugna of instructione to General Sherman ap to the attiteds of -the com- manding officer at New Orleans. - Said the Prosi- dent: “Idon’t want the traops to be used to prevont that Fusion Legislature meoting; they ought to bo allowed to meet in form, 50 ea to maintsin their legal stalus.” Mr. West says that this was the best instanco he ever saw of Grant’s promgl dacision and fa~ cility at official business. He instructed the Commander of the trug{ls not to make alliznce with cither side, bat only to keep the peace. TIE LOUISIANA SENATOR. - West was sent to the Senste by Warmoth's partiality, and ke is quite a different man from tho mafority of the corpet-baggers. He had made quito a fair fortune in mereantile and logal fiumum before he went to Louisfans, and there romained quiet for some time, and very uncxpectedly sicceeded Harris. Ho has an interesting femily of rofined daughters, and ‘o built himself & proper sort of -residence in Washington. During the last campaign,-he supported Greeley, with the expectation that the nomination of tho Philosopher would divide the colored vote, end Ropublicanizo to somo ex- tent tho ex-Rebels. But, since the election, West has served notico on Warmoth thathe- should act with the Ropublican party again. - « WEST'S PREFIGURATION. . He expressos the belief that the Kellogg can- didate presonted to tho Sonate will bo sdmitted, proyvided ho be not any person who could hnve mado the Durell combination for the sako of n}m.flm lumfialf oé lxxt,—snr_h E:mfllxl:, for éxmn- ple, a8 Durell, or Kellogg; or Lowell, or Cuse; or Packard, of Norton, or Billings, The election of any euch person, Pinchiback included, would prove collusion in the preliminaries for tho snke of offectingit. Mr. West thinks that, if a * prop- er” porson ba choeen by the Kellogg party, the Senate will decide that the Kellogg govcmman: i de facto, and accept that man na the least awk- ‘ward course to take. JUDGE DUBELL, the United States Judge who made this revolu- tion, is a Connecticut man, who went to Lonisi~ ana beforo the War. Hohas a kind of Georgo Washington face, grave and judicial to look apon, bluo eyes, ‘Saxon hnir, and ho s 55 yeurs old. 'He i not an intemperats man, but 8 good table-drinker, and, after dinner, he seldom breaks off the festivities until a Iate hour, which bas led some of the politiciana to hope that he will off with the apoplexy. The point on which he has been both suspected and atirred up is the matter of controlling the vast bankrapt business which came before him. His official assignce is-the man Norton, of New York, an army Quartermaster, into whose hands Dur Wn every case which came along, while, meantime, Billings, s practitioner from Connecticut, acts &3 lawyoer for this official segigneo, Theso three, whether by design or unavoidably, have managed to cut up bi &upt affairs in anch a way that the lion's share stops with the assignee. It is now charged in this city that, ‘it Durell were to be im- peachod by Congross, a5 has been moofed, or it 6 shonld die suddenly atter an excessive din- ner, & now Judge going down to New Orleans would play havoe with Durell's rs{nnfian acd estate, and dip bucketsful of restitution out of Billings and Norton. To make the futurs as fair 25 the past lins_been' mysterious, it is now believed to he the aim of tho Confederntes to elect Norton to the Benato, and make him the insirument to have Billings put ou the Benoh in Daurell’s place,—for the Iatter will be entitled to zetire honorably in 1673, when he will havs been a Judge ten yeers. KORTOX, KELLOGG, AXD BILLIXGS, It Norton should come to the Senate and work forhiasole. gfioinlment,he ‘would grobably gat it, and then Billings wonld dmf ‘his judicial ermine over the rotten of bankruptcy cases which D\;fi'l_! has been sitting on so Iong. = lings was pever heard of in itics until the Republican Conventicn met ot Hatom Rouge, when he appeared with asmall tub of mon: nearly carried the nomination awsy from! x3 ORE- Hellogy, mesntimo, was the same shufiler bo always wiz, and mx sh&!ca made him romise asvay a large p: e tronage Frsdvence. ” This Pinchpack, nalik Do (b decezsrd negro, whose office he fills, is nearly white, and he looks like a Cuban or 8outh Amer- fean, * Ho has no character whatsver, but plenty of profligacy, irresponsibility. and vieu}mmtlom cro is 10 appeal from Durell's Izfo sation recognizing the Eellogz Retuming Board, o8 it was in tho form cf an iaterlccatisn, . West says that Lonisiaze Les been so g.’cked to piccea by successive larconios on tho body politio and an . ; s individurls thereof, thot Hellogg and 'his | mates pleced tholoss at fx troops will have oaly half yations. GATIL | £35,000,000; but it is now beli:-a?li’;’fio{m @ 2ot moro s 575, CCO0M. 11x. Thowsttoa THE BOSTON FIRE. Cairman of the Board of Assessors, lmbhfi < e R eyt ety Peliu o S ‘2‘.& statément. on . tho _1lth _of _Sovem, Summing Up the Insurnnce Losses— bu{gdh;:""‘l‘i,‘;‘&gud e .,da‘;;flm o e They Amonnt to Over Eifty: iho porsonsl property, on ity ol ot fonse - ong ~Array-of- Swifexinir oral ealrulations, ‘st abont §10,000 et B Companics =~ Fecovery . ivom the | recont noloto tho Secretary of (r g i3 5 A Wreeke ¢ rade, Mr. Tills eazs, referring to fioid! > oatar: (Juan. 10) Desgateh to the New ¥o. s Tribune, | meat: % Tho figares wire made ut q tas Tu complidnco with s resolution of the last {.most extravagudt accounts woro nzed o ZLegiclatare, tho Iusurance Commissioner pro- | tion with the subject of lfoss. I found eanted, this aftarnoon, to the present Legtale- | Very rauch below the eatimates of rentl tore bis roport showing “the standing tud con- { whose opivion 1 had o bigh ragucd sng. el B dition of tho fro ineuranco corporstions in (o | o tendency on my pert o alotesiimme a2 Commonwealth, insolvent or olhicriso.” +Im- | every doubt I entartained, with s saierp ¥ mediately after tho :fire, .the Commissioner, | into tho columa of loss. 3y opinien gl Julius L. Clarke, undertook s special report on | aud now is, that $75,000,000 s tho bast caT2s data farnishod by deveral statemonts of com- | of the total Jois” OF this smeg it panice. _After tho Logislative oction an_oppor- | 318,500,000 may bo taken at the ot ;T funity was given to companios to reviao their re- | of the buildings destrorod, which, heyn | ports, and tho present tabulation is based ontho | it wilt. probably cost 318,000,000 fo LT . 3 test information, though full roturns have not | and tho remsinder is tho' valns ‘of g | been recoived from tho Californis and forciga | persazal proparty. The _ascosel vty | companies, nd their Boston loases arsaccording- | the land burned over was 325,000,00, Taitf A Jy derived from their local agencies. Of tho 57 | enco to the merchandise dosiroyad, it barse® | mutusl fire companies in Maagachusetts, 21 suf- | estimated that tha boots, shoes, ang | H fared from tho fire, whilo tho joint stocl: compe- | amounted to $11,000,00; fha woollen goog L% nies, numbering 81, were all, 8ave one, involved, | similar valoe, and tho wool (abows raos Tho report shows tho condition of the 187 com- | pounds) to 83,503,000, Ko estimate of o panies doiug business in Musaachnsetts, of | ton goods burned Lias yet boen made | 0%F g which 147 reported losses ranging from 500 to | Strange to say, the inferruption to buge, o £5,000,000, the Dediam Mutual beiog fhe mmall | and the' confasion resuifing Trom-thy by cst and tho Jferchsnts’ of Boston the lorgest | tion of €0 largo an amountof property, ey, - B Toger, tha lsitars loss being $2,844,000. Tho | 80 many of the most availablo warehomerad ¢ wholo amount of properly insuréd within the | offices in the city, wero but tempor 2 on burn¢ distriots is not roported, aud-probebly | tle first woek liad passed almost wrery oy e goanot bo fally scertained. thaln tho actual | which Liad beew divon from s 0l premiy, i losses adjusted or nearly adjusted for payment | fouud s now:temporery liome, very unifke, oy iz shiow o close approximstion. ~Theso, after | deed, in most rospocts, that which 1t had s . ™ deductiop,§of sulvnfius represent an aggregate | and ofien very circurscribed fn its limg tg © FF smounting to nearly $55,500,000. Wiat per- | still enough for tho transaction of buciges | le contago of thia 1arge amount will be finally re- | tho timo being, and for tho wintor s co alized hyth%gmpe'rty losers cannot now bede-- | setting in. The greatestinconveniance raggl P termined. ey will’ bo fortunate if the maxi- | from the goneral change has bean Loz um should sesch 70 por cent. IMr. Clarko-| to be in - commection with tho satiany O ‘thinks it ia likely to be less. . all over the city of particular branches of fad 2 The report of course gives oficially anly tha | ness which had concentrated upon or near iy B losues snstained by thonaurauco gompanios, tho-|'now dovastated torritory; but both tyey g c2 aggrogate of all losseaby tho fire.hoing esti--| sellers Lave already began to bo sooutmary oo mated st from 380,010,000 to 890,000,000, The | this, and it is eomotbing nos Licly oboof ky <o “estimato ia about £5,000,000 in excessof the As- | continuanco. Tuo cetablishments in whih 1§ gessor's ostimato, §75,000,000, accepted. by the.| boots aud shoos, and tho cotton od waie, Secretary of the Board of Trade in his roport.- distribated in this market, being sistg * Tho twonty-six home companies which Lave | far beyond the limits of the city fire, fresh gy ¢ fallen incliude four mutuals and all but eleven | plies of these articles were soon fo 0. of the joint stock com&-nies of the | and those firms which hsppened io havo't, E' i State. Tho Fapoul Hall, of tho | houeos in Now York, Chicago, wnd other dig - Inttor " class, was placed undor . tom- | wore uble to Gl their orders immediakdly fry B orary in junction, which will soon_be removed, | those points. The losses to the coton mily &t B¢ o Compiuny having made Arrangoments for th { rect and indirect, will not exceod, mad peagy .+ ke prompt ettlement of the Tosses and the rostora- | mot: aqual, 25¢ por cent upon ther cspity g~ by tion of its capital. ~The New ‘England, clso s o B B oot their dividendsd heayy loger, has been rolieved by a spocial act of 4 the beginning of the- current year. The sty © L tho Legislature authorizing the iesue- of pre- | upoathawoollen milla hag beenmmerounfavoss: b: forred stock; all of whichhas been promptly | but only ono or two of them hsva becn oil; e taken up.- Of the 115 wmg:nioa which survivg | to passtheir Januery dividends. The only iz w their logses, more than 30 have been compelled | terest which has boan serionsly disarranged iy " to sdopt mehsures for tho restorntion of thelr- | ita ions is the ready-made dlothing s, capital or assets, in most cisos by ssseasmonts | Several very estzblishments wereburst fy | B xanging from 29 to 75 per cent, and in s fow | Which men's clothing wes menufactued farty | & others by reduction of capital. e Union, of | South and tha West, and it has taken somsfiny : L San Froancieco, has ceased writing ' in | toroconstruct the machinery and toreorsin | @ Massachusetts, ' and reinsured ifs Eastern | tha labor for the restoration of this ity | ¢ rieks in the Liverpool & Lomdon ' & | But the work has made satisfactory progreas, < Qlobo. tha lntter promptly pasing the | Thero hasa been fox failures in Soriruts | £ losses of the former. Among tho losges by the | result of the firc, and thess havebsafaime ] I Boston firo nre 83 insurance companies which | exclusively zmong the dry goods oboem v | d wore not authorized in Afassachusetts, their | woro caught at the height of thoir watimy § ™ losses amounting {o €537,000. This insur- | season, with very. hesvy tocks and. with st § 5 ence was in #ome cazes effacted ontside the lim- | equato insurance, ard who, with~ ot i’ itaof th State, and in others clandestinely se- | hnd to nccept part psymeént oo pes cured within it. Thirty-one of the insurance | of their . insurance. concloding £3 - 2 companica represented in the State aro nowin |.part of iho veport, Mr. Hil mys: - . [ tie Lunda of Rocoivora. Of thoso, 26 aro Aas- | will be enongh to 827 of the firg, initsTehses | 1t eachusetts companies. Tho total loases of Afas- | to the business of Boston, that whils thomrs . s sachusetts companios 03 provionsly given in the | focturing and finencial interosts of thaciy i ; & ribune aro 985,700,000, of which the joint stock | Commonwealth *have suffgred butelightly, : & comapanies loso sbout £39,000,000. Thio only mu- | shipping trade, foraign and constirisg, tho & {ual fire marino Sampany losing was tho Indis, | ness of the Corn Exchange, icludiogprs ; § which lost £345,000.* Tho distribution of loases {ions, the West Indisand grocery, thofih s ¢ o outsido the State ia about as follows: v z\ounikurnl,“!;gs ix;;n, znd the lumber trades s ) 50,000 o considerablo’ oxtent - the bardmage. si /150,000 | earthenware, and the general retail frady b T 3,000,000 | not beon diretly injured or impaired bythatz | & 1,000,000 | Nor js thero ths elightost réason fo bslieve tis | 3 420,000 | the businesa of the city, as a whole, will sz | 250,000 | 8O, pemn‘;:n‘ka i’:flur; mmz l!l;a um:;mmr‘;t 2 . Now Hsmpshiro, Tliinots, -Wisconsin, Minno- Toport takesa most hosefnlviawcityf ¢ sots, and Californis _together loso loas ‘than g;"?:’i?”fi"fl%?&?}mfiflm g $200,000,” and New Hampshiro. geta off with.| 490 0§ property by tho rocent ek b n| 28,500, Twenty-eight compunics have been 8d: | {17431" valuation of Boston duringiks | © mitted to do business in the State sinco tho fire;-| [REYT T NIOR, OF Foston furog el Under the general Insuranco law, recently en- | SUUSS o0 the 1ot OF oy lask. From b8 Laf’ wied, twelvo new companios have been orgen- | [ripioo SeCIERS S monsy BEL ot lape] {zed 2nd chartored, and nino haveslréady begun | Cummonwealth, 1n order to ssceliaip theks A ~ 4 3 actually eustained by our community. Thowd & & A Teview of the Effects of the' Fire | of seconstmetion in the bumt districtha on tho Dusiness'of Boston—The Ul | ¥d7 commencod, and will Lo prosocutadunty ot - timate Reesult to the Intorests Xnvoly- | 108t vigor durlng the eoproachiog sprizsc! {1 d—Annual Report of 1He SCCIOINTY | fhatiasio ot s ooat b Tt ol 4 e 4 *Y | the tracos of tho great conlagration. shillin o©f fhe Honrd of Trade, - . | 'Bacn reaved,, | = 5 3 & Boston (Jan. 9) Correspondence of the New York Trilame. ———— The Becretary of tho Boston Boerd of Trade, z g Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, haa just _completed his 2 annnel report, and will publish it on'Saturday: | - - - 5 ‘The report has been compiled with much czre, | The Latest Novelty in Trads I i3 thorough .and eshaustive. It refers.to the |~ 5 i o 5 condition of business interests at the time im- mediately preceding the fire; to the fire itself in its relations to thio business of the city, aud to the duties of business mea in . relation to the fira and its results, 5 - ‘Works are ot the: present momens_cn.a K= _Tho valuation of resl and personal estate on [ for higher woges. Itis amusing torefeg &= tlio 1st day of Dlny lust, s givan by, tho Gity [ theas heathen have -bean buf thres me=t Assessor, amounted to £652,731,200, This indi- | in learning the trick of combining.o & cated an increaso during the precoding year of | tho real worth of their labor. Therd"H s upward of £70,000,000, o sum equal £6 the entira | indignation manifested in working circles 5= valuation of Boston in 1833, The increase for | six months sgo over the trensportsiica ¢ tho decennial period, which ended in May Iast, [ coolies by this manufscturing finm, which &2 was more than 240,000,000, or st the rate of } ploys soveral -hmudred hands. - On - Jms ! about $£40,000,000 per annum. The increass, | of .lsst Jear soventy-five Chinamen’ 7o theroforo, for tha years 1871-72 was 75 per- cent | Beaver Fslls and at once.iodk & in advance of the average annual increaso dur- | places of that number of whitomen. Theps ing the preceding ten yoars, Tho record shows | and'the public wero unanimous in theis &2 that there was 5 gain on both personal estats and [ demmation of the movement, but the opposiis roal property in every one of the sixteenwardsof | accomplished nought, for the managors of B the city.- This is believed to have been almost, if’| concern were determined to “introdnca aceh 2 not altogother, unprecedontod. Tho gain in per- - | bor, and the result wastho coolies went guE: Sonal property was sbout £48,000,000; and i real to viork, and thoir wluio beothers in daees3, estate sbout £22,000,000. The total In exact fig- | of time securing othor employment,~the & tres was 76,030,730, - The gain from' 1870 to | culty was soon forgotten. Tho scrvices ofe! 1572 was upward of £98,500,000. The total val- g of Orientals was secured for ‘8. CODSSS, “uation of “the city has doubled sinco 1861, and | tion of 75 conts per day in gold, each.: Bt the valuation of tho real estate ainca 185." It | were industrions and performed the work i should bo remembered that the calculation of | ted to them in a most skilful wanner, £4% Inst May given nbovo, placing the taxablo value | com, oy wero 80 thoroughly eetiafied wilh & of tho property in Boston at nearly $700,000,000, | result that they reaolved toimport anothers is for municipal population of abont s quartor of | The sccond instaiment of choap Iabor, sigfe million of people, and nok for our metropolitan | fn number, arnved about the lst day of Deg . population ¢f half & million. : . { ber, 1872, and these, though notlcas clevar relation to commerce, the foreign connec- | men than the former, were paid but 60 s tions of Boston have been made still mora com- [ day in gold. - The. Iast inyoico of almosd#- pleto than they were in 1871, A larger numbor | gentiemen soon learned that there wass@ : of ocean steamors arrived and doparted from | ence in wages peid to respective ganghss . Boston during 1872 tban in_any preyious year. | considering that onc Josa woxal\igfu s Throngh the instrumontslity of the Doard | good as another, & delegation call n-pfl'_s . armengemonts, have fust been completed for a | Superintendent ‘and requesied that bo ¥ .: line of steamships from London to Boston, to | give thom alift in their wages. The B start early - this yoar. To accommodate the | dent informed them that he would Iay the 5 . Cenadian trade thoy will call at Portland for s | ter boforo tho propor purtios, an o while. Tho dutishle value of forsign merchan- | surance that the inareass thay ‘asked forwcl diso imported into tho port of Boston during the | bo granted, -they roturned and ramumad year was sbout 72,000,000, against lers than | worl , abiding thels tmo, The maifoesubsés, 6,000,000 in 1871, and $48,500,000 in 1870, This | 1y was brought to tho attention of tho Bosid shows & gain of one-sixth during the last twelvo | Managors, nd after some dolteration1t=8% months, and. of 50 per cont on tho lpst two | fused. It was feared that if the CoSFT, years.. Tho exports from Boston to foreign | would knucklo in this instance, John Chi conntries during 1870 amounted to about &23,- | might put on sirs and covet a furthor fncresst? i~ % e T Gatontals wore aaiiod Mg% wages. : ‘demn:g could not. bwm ljedlgiiilxh, md £ ‘upon they congrogal ig, littls, youdg of1, and sesolved o knock 5 uatl, s B American brother, they wonld get liko o fair day's wages for & fer deys 4 out the neighbocidd {2 600,000, ngainst $19,500,000 in 1869, and 313,000, 000 in '1870. . This 'shows & gain of 20 per. cent during the lsst year, and of more than 80 per cont since 1870, “The gainin tho entire foreign trade of the port during the Isst two years has been 68 per cent, Since the United States, tax upon xaled was | They wander now ol 6 e taken off, it bas been impoasiblo to arriva at a’| the works with' their bands in. thelf i irouser's pockets,” turni s def BT E close eatimate of tho general commercial transac- ming biht 4 tions of tho city. These amonnted to 900,000, | tho 'arguments of thew hppz, Bigh’| g 000 in 1867, and, assuming’ that our domestio | countrymen, ands equally- trade Las increascd since that timein the samo | threnta,or 'expostclations. Troy Wast proportion a5 our foreign commerce, it is o fair | * payeo,” and won't return to, Yok : inferenca that the former amounted to €1,100,- | until-the Compeny eignify thoir M1’ 000,000 or £1.200,000,000 ir: 1872. . to, comply with their demzpds. oo great firo and its relations Lo the busiisy| smusing strike; but an instrectivo ave: Big of Bosfon aro treated ot some langth. It is espe- | lost the white skilled Jabarors, tho Compsify cially rich in statistics founded on sceurato | now at the mercy of tho Mongoiisns, ¥ ME_ inquiry or close estimate. The report shows | but fair to presume, will nof be slow £ that tho value of the property destroyed was out | and improve tho situation. The sirias of all proportion fo the oxtent of tho lsnd burned | son which workingmen will not, neglee sud a3 compared with other great firesin other | for it strikingly illuatrates tho eitica. Tho Chicago fire of 1871 burned over 2,100 | fears that they era toLe ruinod by £ 1352 scres, and the {otal-loes was 216,000,000, of | of Chinese cuozp labor. Tuis e, i which £53,000,000 was' eatimated os the value of | other labor, will, to some exient st le2st ths buildinga and 143,000,000 as that of the | level and demand its comparative worig A | emorchandiso aud personal effects destroyed. Tho | also an avidence that the Chinsmsn o conflagration in Portland in 1866 covered 200 | covering that his work is almoat a8 RIS scros, tnd destroyed property to fho valuo of | that of tho whito man, 3adin conz e 10,000,000, ‘Tho firo'in Hamburg in 1842 de- | entitled to domand noarly as much{arlk o, stroyed 61 streets and 1,740 hounses, render- The lesson will not be lost on IrsUInL, o4 Ing one-fifth of the population homeless ; tho | hero, who had in contemplation fhoimpifich. Ioas was estimatod st £35,000,000, of which | of chesp Inbor from Asia, scd whomsh By £15,000.000 waa the value of {he housea. The | isfed fo work with tho labor materid & fire of London, in 1666, raged for four days and | resdy have. It is reported this arcwflam resy nights, and reduced to. asives five-sixths of the | managers of (he Dazvor Falls Works © ity within tho walls. ‘The ruins covered betwaon | fo the nltimatum of the Ouissmes, B, 800 and 400 seres, o, e» Macaulay describes | will go against their gran with & V3T the stes, from the Tower to the Temple, and | That portion of tho works, bowever 8% from thoriver to the purliens of Smithficld. | the Celestials were employed, i8 -w!,i,, [ Four hundred sfrests and more than 18,000 m:]] 23 the Company have no dispoidip ;- houses werc destroyed, and thelosswasplacodat astete of - affairs ahounld continR® < £10,000,000 to £12,000,000 sterling, according to | length of time, they will abida by HE%G the value of money at that day. ducnces of accoding to tha demands ‘The territory burnt over during the -late Bos-. {'imported employes. o ton fire vas about eixty-five acrcs, comprising o ———*‘—“W 3 776 buildinga, At tho time of the fire, and im- | —Vanderbilt “has’ commenced et s fhe goods® g mediately after, thero was much exaggeration | bacco, and Jaments that fifty of stalerment in reference to the amount of | were wasted without knowiog vioperty destroyed. Tho moat’ careful esti- | the weed,