Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1873, Page 2

“MARGIN." The Whimsicalities of the Thing. How You Pay Your Money and Don't Tako Your Choice. 2 Devastations of *Margin” In and Around Wall Strest, THE CHICAGO DALY TRIBUNE EATURDAY, NOVEMBER T5, 1875, volvot, bullt on ground worth s milllon, and loasad at hinlf o million or so mors, would haye had a hioavy pull for its first senson nnder tho bont ausplces; but, as it is, its builder has_ fail- od, it palatinl auites at from £20,000 & yonr down- wards aro vacant, and its propriotor TALTE QF OLOSING DOOTR, A fow hiardy souln kaop on. ‘Ilioro are thres now thentres still building, and business-houses in pracoss of oroction all along Brondway 3 but I fancy tho workMon are on board-wages—It as muich a8 that—to keop up apponrancos. ‘o catnte of Paran Stoyens—owninga mag- nificont property at tho corner of Fifth aventio and Thirty-voventh stroet, which hag stood nl- most idlofor so many yoars, torracod np from tho sidowalle, and eovored with a l;\lll nt old d mnnslon of a hundred yesrs ago (usod asa florist esinblishment)—Infely tore down tho tenemonts, and oxcavated for a aecond grand .| hotol lika the Stevens Honso on Twenty-sovonth A Blue Outlook in Gotham. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, NEw Yorx, Nov, 19, 1873, Houson, lands, bonds, mortgagos, harsos, dry goods, and grocerios aro all vory nico things to havo ; and an lucomo of cortaln thousands n yoor from any such propertlos as theso is very comfortable indoed. You can rocoive and dino your frienda on Murray Hill, and your drags nnd wagonets can como to bo known on the Broad Drive, whether you pay for thom by your profita out of the law, or gusno, or shoe-pegs. Dut Lthore is ono kind of proporty the especial invontion of Now York. Now Yorkers have put millions Into it of Into, aud it is romarkably remunora~ tive (in kind). Tho property is technically known ns MARGIN, Tho boauty of Margin 15, that it fs within tho reach of tho poorest, and its profits aro in- capable of ealeulation. A man may put $100 into Muargin of n morning, and ho may goto his couch that mpht worth $10,000—in Margin ; and ho may roalizo by the following ovening— sapposing he puts that Margin into Margin—a whale million of Margin. Ono can readily hecomo a Rothechild, Itisn simplo rulo; it ia *Afilluonce without a master." A single woclk at this rato will make you a richer man than all the nahobs in the world,—than all the old-fogy millionaires who own Iands, and parks, and railroads, and stenmboats,—rolled into o lump. A billion of money, or a trillion even, is not an impossible figure to your ambi- tlon. Duodecitlions are not without your grasp, Tt §s easior than lying, . What wonder, then, that Margin has become tho spocialty of New York; that millions pnt thelr fortunes into Margin, dower their daugh- ters, oroct hanking inatitutions, suvings institu- tions, trust companios, and venturo upon ail sorts of extravagance—in Margin. Thero is only one drawbnck to the benuly of Morgin, Thut drawback i¢ (also technically) kuown ss SUBINKAGH, And, should silly, old fashionod, pig-headed, idiotic poople,—peaple who are an ineubus on any cnlightenod community, aud who do not de-~ sorvo to livo in o country of Progress and Entorprise liko ours,—peoplo who have heaped up their fortunes pouny by penny and shilling by shilling,~should such peoplo, I sy, discover that banks are in o rotten and ricketty stato, that railroads are sbaky and trust companios bankrupt, and (clinging to tho absurd and ox- ploded fiction that o man may do what ho will with his own) bo o niggardly as to draw out their monoy and (this phrase, agoin, is tach- nical) hoard it, this terrible fiend of Bhrinkago may swallow up all your Margin in a single morning, and your grocor may soll you out. : To apeak soriously : Tho pregont panic, when bookkeopors aro going without their dinnors, and millionares aro rolling thoir livrios, hns hit tho balf-million or 80 of New-Yorkers who have been putting every pouny thoy could borrow imto Margin, PRETTY BEVERELY. Tor instance : It is in every body’s mouth'thnt tho estate of tho Jata Horace F. Clark, supposod to bayo been at least 10,000,000 in value, is in Rmcaas of going through the Bankrupt Court. woll-known gentleman whohas figured recent- ly, and is_gonorally alluded to by the press as “ Cominadore Vanderbilt's noxt friend,” from o capitalist_has become a borrower ; that ten or -tweiva dozen establishmonts in Wall street, ‘which have besu doibg animmenso banking businoes on o capital of Margin, have smashed hopelesaly ; and that thoro is not a soul in this vaat neighborhond, perhaps not in tho circuit of & hundred miles around our City Iall, whois pot retrenching his oxpenses, if nothing more. If, when Shrinkago canio, it did nothing moroe than dissipate Margin, it would amonnt to noth- ing ; in another veek ono might ba a billionaito again, But, unfortunately, although you paid nothing for your Margin, when you bayo lost it you have lost fust as much again in HAUD, BOLID CAH. For instance : By the iuvestment of $1,000 in paper, you may realizo 76,000 in papor ; but, if “you Yose this papor 375,000, you ars indebted to A, B, and C, with whom you may not even bave o noddiug acquaintance, in the exact figure of 75,000, and they are baso enough to demand Lhat sum in greonbacks. Tho broker has lost nothing by carrying you; the Central or Lake Bhore bonds aro safe in the vaults they have never left ; but you owe just 275,000, nut}, untit vou have paid it, every cent, you can do no moro usiness. Supposing, nav, instend of mere Murgin, yon ownod the stocks’ themselves, Very well ; you would be searcely any botter off. ‘Thoir value, and your fortuue, ure dopendent merely and solely upon whether you can go on buying moro of the same fort or not. As_long s you can take every sharo that is offered, you aro worth your millions; but, if yon cannpt, thon you wnust unload and dopreciato your own capital. Quoer property this! If you do nob sell it you canuot pay your buteher. 1f you do, it will not satisfy hia bill, Speculating in stocks is tho only game in which NONODY WINS. We nsed to complain, in the old days, before Kaiser Willium beedma virtwous, and soid wo should have uo more cakes and ale, of the threo Zeros at Baden-Baden. Dut sometimos you could win gold oven there. Tho gumo they play in Wall streot is ouo in which nobody wins s sou, and tho bank brenks too, This was Prcciau‘y tho trouble with tho Clark- satate-Behell-and-Bankor-Union-Trust-Company combination, Thosa three bad e little trinngular game with somo $2,500,000 of Lako-Shoro in the vaults of that wooden institution, Now, the extate i bankrupt, Scholl a borrawer, and Banker busted, The 2,500,000 is miseing from the Trust Company's safe, and the conundrun is, WIO 1AS JADE ANYTHING? Tmn not financier enough to answer, but I think tho_consideration above presaented, con- serning Margin aud Shrinkage, muy suggest & solution. I zm not old enongh to remember ather finau- sial origes ; but, they toll e, nono appronched sho magnitude of tha one now raging—It a erisis 2an bo gnid to rage—in this city. Happily for the othors, men thon had not learned the mysteries of Margin, Lven now, it only tho hundiul of speculators and specujntors- in-chicf (known_us operators) hnd boon fnvest- in Margin, they, and they only, would hava been crushed,’ But, unfortunately, these men havo bankod on o eapital of Margin; they have organized S;\vinxin Banks nnd Ponny Trust Com- pu]v‘:icu for the Poor thereon; aud so, in their tell, EVERYDODY—. you and 1, and your laundress and my barber— must be ruined Lo pay fof the year of prosperous aport which theee nlnurmnns have enjoyed on the greon cloth of Wall strect. Ilere wo all are, dat, ‘ti'-n onr backs, butchered to make a Itoman boliday! ™ Menxbmhllo, there aro twenty-four theatres, {onmaerablo star-lecturary, circuses, spoctacies, snd concerts to amuve us and Leep our minds offour troubles. 'hio Avenue, of & Buuday, is packed 88 ulwn{u. withnone the lesagaily-dressed. a throng, and the uuwep:\{mm toll us, in lended columns, that * the worst Is over." ¥ Aous verronsque nouk verrans,” saida grocer to & prominent brokor who liad beoh crushod, sud on Lis knees, trsiug {o make his logs agafn, ** 1 am all right ; buginoes never so fiuqd 5 cash ricce—cash profits.” *Ab, {cn! #aid the Piciers + but. ahout the middlo of February, you'll huve a viait frum abous a thousand cuato- mers yon nevar siw hofore, who'll come in with- out knocking, and - TAKE WITHOUT PAYING, Let us pray ho may not be among the seers, 1t you will glance with mo at tiie up-town ros- taneints of mievening—restaurants liko Dolmon- . icu's mud tho Cufe Brynswick—yon will sce no.| witters gt the tebles, waiters whispering to ench other In littlo grouph, and the cashiers nodding -Sa their throney, 4 Tho great Hotcl Windsor, all cut-class and ?‘tlruot. But, tho other day, work was stopped ore. Nowspapers have CEARED TO PUBLISI THE LIBT OF FAILURES. I fauey thoy are too numorous and too common to provoks comment. Only tho largor crashes, 1iko that of tho Spragues, the Grinnalls, or tho Paysons, attract attontion ; tho quasi-failura of ngreat bank liko the Contral Natlonnl, ovon, mnkes hardly a ripplo., Only Iawyors and pawn- Drokors nre busy ; bus'tho formor work without rotainar, whilo tho Inttor cannot find room for thelr pledges. Ask n gontleman of any other lino abont his businoss, and ho snys, “*Don't mention it1" I am casting about for somowhat cheorful with which to closo my lettor. This fs all T can think of: Tlho fall, so far, has boen like varly sum- mor,—#weet, ravishing wosther, in which young men and maldens can atill_bo inppy—Qu'on _est bien_a vingt ans, No senlskin yot, and no No- vember days. 8o, a8 yot, no suiciden. Anriion Bepe, PARRICIDE AND SUICIDE. Iorriblo Deed nt Monongnheln Olty, Pale-A Young Man Stabs Wis Father and Then Kille fimself. From the Pittaburgh Commeretal, On Friday ovening last, juat after dusk, s hor- riblo dood was committed at Monongahela Qity, Whashington County, tho porpetrator boing a young man named James Olomons, who dolib- erately stabbed his father, John Clomons, in the nbdomen, and thon himself in tho henrt, with o butcher knifo. 'Tho son died almost immediate- 1y, but up till Saturday morning tho father still lingored, although there ia littlo if any hapo of his recovery. ‘The partics, it appears, have not been on very frioudly torms forsomo time, there bping o dis- uto hotwoen them ahout certain xrmmeuy. Both pro said to have heen possessad of viglont tompors and givon to drink, tnd thoy had yo- ontod_quarrols, ~ At ono timo the son shof at in fathor. Latterly, Jomos claimed that his fathor lad givon him gome proporty, which, howevyer, tho Intter positively donied, " About a month since tho father marriod n Miss Elizo MeCluin, and this, as might be oxpected, causod trouble to broak out afresh, James, who was also married ond had ono or two chil- dron, lived with Lis fathor, nud, on tho coming_ of o stopmothor, the spartments wero divided hotwoon the two = familios, and they kept houso soparatoly, though under the ssmo roof. = A few duys sinco, the son and _stopmother quarraled in tho yard about tho coal, and blows were struck, e brought suit aguinat hor befora n Justico, and on TFriday, after n hearing, the cnse was dismissed. Ho became onragad at this, and drank considora- Dlo liquor, which, added to the sevming uir of triumph on the part of his [ather, soems to have erazed him. 1o visitod his butehior-shop, procured a knifo, sbarpened it, and praceeded in the _dircotion of Lis honso in search of his father. Ho found the old man an tho sidowalk a short distanca from hig hiome, and rushing at bim, with oaths, sni “I'm going to murder you." Mo then stabbed bis fatber in the loft sido of tho abdomen, near tho ribs. ‘ho wonnded man staggerad back againgt .a honse, cor 'iuH out, ‘*Ob, Iam mur- dered! My Godl Murdered by my'son | " Sovoral persous wera attractad to thospot, and findivg tho old man cut, cried out to the son that ho had murderad his fathor. James thon stabbed limself to the heart, and, walking_ toward his homo, foll within g fow foot of it. When lifted up a fow miuutes afterwards, ho was found to bo doad. hen old 3Mr. Clomens was taken Lome, and tho physician had been summaned, at the request of the injurad man Mr. Alexander, banl- or, was sont. for fo proparo his will. Tho old man was all tho while moauing snd oxclaiming,* Who douo this? who dane this #” When "Alexandor asleed how lio wanted his proporty loft, Clomens anid, **Mako it to my wifo—overything.” Hod| then did not kunow hig son woa dead. Heignored tho claims of bis family othor than his Jast wite. Whlen it came to the signature ho was too woak to sign, and mado his murk. To Mr. Hazzard ho snid, * Wil you sco that that hoy of mine is ar- rosted and havo justicedano #” When told that the son was dend, Clemons broke out with,* O Lord, forgivo him]' Denr Lord, forgivo tho boy who done thig, Ob, this is torrible| killed by one's ownson! Ob, don’t leave me, friends, don's leavo me.” Ho thon added, My peaco is made ith God. I nover wronged wan, O God for- givomol’ 3fr. Alesondor, give everything to my donr wife. You must not deceivo me. God will not bo deceived.” Tho Rov, M. Willinms came in, and Clemens Dbegged him to pray for him. ' Clemens then | burst out praying, and hegging that God would forgivo Jum, ~ 1118 will, as propared again on Sat- urday, Jeavos his praporty, about 910,00, to his reseit vifo duriug ior tife. After bos doath, his property goes to his grandchildren. Clem- ens has four daughtors besides Lis son, but he cuts them off without a penny. The wifo snd child of the son, James, aro loft penniloss, The oldor Clemeny is ubout 70 years of ago, and his son was about 27. —_——— WORKINGS OF THE RAILROAD LAW. Poxp Cae: , Nov, 12, 1870, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune ; 8in ¢ If wo, herenbouts, foel bitterly opposad to the Railroad law which our legislativeold henn incubated Jast wintor, it is becanso it bas given us that provocation which the universal law recognizes au o just canvo for fight: It hns picked tha pockets of many Burean County mon, nud refuses to withdraw its hand on dis- covery. This, its plundoring praclivity, st il points where cross-ronds bofore afforded tho peoplo tho henofit of compelition,—transporta- tion’s only trne snlvation,—is distinctly and amply shown by the testimony befare tho recont Princeton sitting of the fivst triumvirate of ofli~ cial informers, otherwise Lnown as Ruilrond Comumisgionors. It was in proof that wo, tho stock-dealers of this vicinago, aro by this law compolled to pay nearly 50 per cent more on every car of catile we sbip from this place to Chicago than we did be- fora July last. And yet wo are taonear Chicago to eucapa tho logal extortion by shipping to some othor market., But we wonld if wa could ; and it is certain that it in fdone' at points farther south which used to ship all stack to Chlunfin. Won't your eity holp us to force thin lsmantablo law into liquidation ? We yrod to pay $31.26 per car; now it in §81 por car. And the incronte of charges and doiermined discontont are about the samo at the noifhburlng places of Tiukilwa, Buds, Sheflield, and Wyanot. And hardly lees thau balf the counties in tho Stato aro_ns favorably traversed with competing roads, with tha consequent low rates whonovor competition is ubject to sailroad'volition, B, now that thero is no competition allowed by this jawr, ono Company might as well own all the ronda in tho Blato. Aud yeb it Iy this laws dis- criminations ngainst fully onc-half the people within tho great centra ‘of the btate that the Commiesionors, it is eaid, hove connnonced ox- pending sbout £500,000 in annually onforcing. “I'li0 nowspapors do no not scom to Lave put on their editorial spectacles long onough to de- tect the Intercsting atom of fuct, that this law htiets no auch as it holps; that its gain to ouo commumity is 1ts robbery of another. You all weem to think it a grest achicvement that every man Is compelled to. pay tho samo per milo v the mamo kind of curgo. Nut does not this taste of that unsavory talmagundi Intely 1rntalehml by Becclior Snd othar hovocles, that tha fuw of the land aught to step in and partially equulize eatates among the peoples, by putting a limit_upon the accumu- Iation of individual woalth? 5o this nefarions Iaw takes from ono man his advantage of loca- tion at a‘point of competltion, aud distributes it among won of Jess forceight, enterprivo, or good Juek, ut polnts with tnt nuiu};lu iron _tnw-ru h to tuarket, Lut is thoro moro Justico in tho Inw thet deprives mo of my damocratic right to save %10 by shipping my cattle over the liue of lowest rates than in the Jaw that should tax me #10 to help pay freight on the caitle of womo inan farther removed frota competing poluts? This lnw makes me pay him for living tnu tho wilder- nesy. THE PLATFORM. Mrs. Leonowens’ Lecture on “Siam, Its Court and Customs,” A Much-Married King--<The Form of Governmenti---Deseription of Bangkok. . The Paradise of Woman-Suffragists--A City Inhabited, Governed, and Guarded by Women, A very intoresting and instructivo lecturo was dolivored Inst oveniug in tho Rov. Mr. Wondt's Church, ab tho corner of Drairic nyenue and Thirticth strcot, by Madame Loonowens, the subjeet boing “Siam, its Court and Custorns,” Tho locturor bogen by stating that the late King of Biam sent to Col. Kavanaugh, thon Govornor of Singapore, for an English lady to undertake the oducation of his children, aud, owing to hor knowlodge of tho Oriental lan~ guagos, sho wag rmentioned ag tho fittest for the position, At fiest it was with much roluctanco that sho coneentod to ontortain tho project, but at last sho looked forward to undortaking tho work with a glow of cnthusiasm. Tho Ito King was eminontly proficiont in tho Orilental tonguos, and showed toward priosts, teachors, and preachors, of all ereods, socts, and scioncos, nn onlightenod oxomplar of tolerance. It was likowiso bis ambition to pass_for an nc- complishod English scholar, and, to this end, ho maintainod in bis patace o privato printing- oftice, which he wns nt no loss to keop in copy. -It may bnve been tho printing oftico which suggested tho idos of an Englich govarness for his elghty childron. In April, 1862, Mrs. Leonowens opeued her sehiool in tho heartof n city into which no foroignor had over beforo penotrated. Of the life within this strange placo stie was entirely unncquaint- ed, but gradually all tho dim lifo of the placo came to her ken until, by force of muoh contact, tho wholo stood out clear and truo, in nll its snd wignifieanco of light and shndo. Sinm is called by its people Muany Thai—The Kingdom of the Iroe. Tho appellation ** Biam" iy do- rived from a DMalay word, Ssyam, or the “Drown raco,” and s mover used Dby tho nolives thomsolyes, nar is tho country ovor so named in tho sncient or modern sunuls of tho Kingdom, 'Tho Sinmose, doubtloss, be- long to that powerful Indo-Buropean race to which Europo owea its civilization. 'They traco their gonoalogy back to tho flrst disciples of tho Buddhn, and commenco their records five cen- turies before the Christinu ra, ‘Tho Govornment of Siam consiats of a Ilouso of Lords, or & Semabodi, and a secret conucil of twelve of tho most powerful Princes in the laud. 'The seasions of tho Secret Council aro invariably hold at midnight, when tho doors of tho palaco aro clogod and guarded, and at theso seasions tho most weighty and important affairs of Stato are decided upon. The Court of the Su- promo King is composed of two distinct and entiroly independent organfzations, tho ono of women, the nther of men. 'Tho lattor consists of, first, tho King as its supremo head, the mighty Secrot Council, and, besides, 300 nobles with 400 pagos in waiting, comprising lictors, mace, fan, eup, and umbrolla-boavers, In addi- tion to thua thore is o private body-guard of 100 Japaneso soldiors, dressod in au iudescribably frightful mauner, their bodies heing covercd with painted armor, thoir faces Lidden by grotesquo masks, while on their foot aro & kiud of bronze shee made to reprosont tho luge claws of o tigor. Tho rulo of tho King is abolute, though tempored by law aud custom, bur every suvject has right of com- plaint to tho King, in person, agaist any ofii~ einl. Tho pordon of tho Kibg 18 sacred, aud aven the highest of his subjects approsch him in the most abject posture, crawhiug upon all- fours. No porson cio stand ereck in s pres- once, or pass over his Load, a rulo which cuukcs Siamoso royalty to inbmbit the uppor stories of bis palace. = In order that ho may not pass undur anything which human feet have trod, ull the Dbridges aro constructod with draws, The head is bhold particularly sacred in Siom, and tho hairof a royal pupil whoto Liead Jirs, Leonowens hiad approviugly Enucd, wag immediutely nftor shaved off. D, conowens experienced somo difiieulty né hor tirgt interviow with tha King on account of ber objocting to enter the royal prosence in the ab- ject attitudo nlready described, At lnst o com- promite was ofiected, the King pormitting hor to ntand crect if ho wero standing’ if not, that she should sit dowu on the tloor the moment she ap- proachiod him. "he lecturor gave an excacilingly intoresting description of tho singulgy Urieutul oity, Bang- kok, the presont capitel of Siam, in position us woll a8 in all other respoct the antipodes of tho City of Waushington. 1t is justly styled the Von- ice of the Iiust, a notwork of water-ronds taking the plico of sireots, intorsected with bridgos 60 Tight and fanciful that wo could imagine them to luvo been blown togothor by fairios, Slany of it inbabitanta live in tloating liouses which line both bouks of tho river Moninin. At night (the city i hungs with thousands of covored lighty which illumino the wido river from shore to shore, and with the floating houses and shops, tho gondolas nnd boats, tho tall fantastic pa- fodas and minarets, aud crowning all the towors of the grand palaces, composo n scono of mugio biowuty. 4o city itsolf s ‘surrqunded by a battlemonted and turroted wall16 foot high and 12 broud, Within the onter of two inaer walls are thio barruckn of the King's body-geaxd, tho magazines, the Royal Exchango, tho Mint, the Supreme Courts of Justice, thy prisons, the temples, snd the fantastio pleasuro-grounas of tho pulaca. Inside of tho third or innor wall stands the City of the Yeiled Women, whero live none but women and childron, and which it ne wolf-supporting and ns mdopondent as any oity in the world, having ity own laws, its Judges, police-guards, prisons, and oxoeutionors, nechanics, mor- chants of overy kind and degree, all women. In- to this city no'mai is permitted 10 onter save tho King and we priests, who ure admitted ovory morning nodor guard. 1lere tho Lonses of tho Princcsacs, tho wives, tho coneubines, end reintiven of tho King, with thoir numcrous slaves and porsonal witendants, form rogular stroots, Tho kacredness of tho city i prosorvad by & body of Amazons, 600 in number, divided into compeanies of fifties, onch compuny heuded by n Major-Gonernl, with tho titlo. er™ * Great Biother of War,” The Amazons ara solocled for their grent sizo und natural bardikood of divponition, and their drosy consists of looso groon trowsers trimmod with gold hraid, and over it u tunio braided and Lelted at the waist, the wholo surmounted by a very becoming cap or holnot. Their arms compriso shiolds, bucklor, bowa and arrows, spour and _daggor, nnd o long rifle. ‘Uheir duty is to guard all tho'gatos of tho inuer ¢ity and “the avenues to the King's pal- uces, How well they do the work ia attested by tho fuct that tha King's medical ad- viser, Dr, James Campbell, o trying once (o hor- 1y to the King through tho stroots of the hurem, way seized by thom and hurled into o diteh, and putin u condition which necossitated his retir- 1ug from tho publio gazo for soveral days. ‘Lo lecturor's description of tho harem of tho Su- prome King was highly interostiug, lloro ara found Circansinns of the most beautiful type und form, Lorsinns, Mulays, Peguuns, Cam- bodiany, Burmeso ond Hismeso, the. latter in the majority, toiling up to a total of 800 women. The totul nitmber of ouls who inhiobit the in- ner elty is ostimated at 9,000, and the woman'’s city is considered the locturer to ba'in ll its aspacts, social, political, roligious, and artintic, tho most singular commuinity on the faco of the eurth, Tha lifo of the lndies” of tho harem must hu yather manotanons, if, indeed wwounn could find lify monotonaus whato ona ol the conditions o hiolr pusition fa thut they **ap- pear lundsomaly‘dressed once u dny ot lont," when they wait upon their lord wid mnstor, ilo Visits them ouly on the veoasion of tho birth of o child, which Visit s nlways wndo with groat pomp and coremony, whon tho child iy n mouth otd, Tho ladies are oceaslonnlly gnilly of mis- domeanors, in whici cuno thoy’aro *urrestad by tho Amnzons, und rogularly tried for tho offonso, und somotiucs are uover hoayd of again.” ‘The lecturor told n ktos illtenting tho ox- tronio duvotion of tho Buddhixt wiven, of & prot- ty Littlo Binneso lower-woman, who, whon spo- ke to of heavan and;holl, waid, “Bhio cauhl not If you love frae trade, Sir Tnsvsr, help to vey levp me of thin dunnublo duty of £10 por car on cattle-shipmants above whut { pisd before this legal roblery set in, Bantox B. Monaisox. mako up hur mind 40 whieh sho would go, but viould tall to hor husband, nad to whiohover luco lie decided o go sha would ecomprny hiun” T'ho locturer denoribod tuily tho munnorh. audcustoms of tho Biamese, fllustrating thowm with a number of sncedoten. Tho roligion of tho neaplo Ig Buddhism, Ona singular “beliof i that tho souls mow Iu oxistonce worg crontod at the boginuing of time. Ono of Mrs, Loonowons' pupils,; the Princosa Ying Youwalnoks, thon junt 1 yonrs old, was hllthfly gray, o poculinrlty which sho oxplained with the romark, “ Do you not know that I amn my grand- mother? Tt {s sho who has loft mo thoso gray hairs, that T might not forgot who Iam.” In tho conolusion of her very lnlurnsllnq and valudblo lacture, Mrs, Leonowons lots hor hoar- org know of comparativoly Into_ovents, On tho doath of the Into King, Princo Somdotch Choufa Chullalow succeeded to the throno. That hiy roign will bo one of ml](fihlunmuut in ntteatod by tho following proclamation of the emancipa- tion of il Binmoso alaves, which ho uttored soon after ho camo to the thrano 4 Lot this our royal prociamation to our pooplo Vo proalaimed,and not as if wo woro doing i groat and lofly thing, but our simplo duty to our fol- low-mon aud subjecta. That from tho first day of January, 1873, slavery shall cono Lo bo an in- atitution 1n our country, and overy man, meum, and child shall hold ‘themselves froc-born citi- zon, and a tax, according to tho circumstances of onch and every mau, shall bo loviod on thonation to remuncrata tho mlavohiolders for tho loss of their alaves." How long n country under, such a ruler as this will take to got rld of ity relics of burbariem is o prnthinm ihat it will prove vory interesting to watch, 2 Throughont her lecturo Mru, Loonowens was frequontiy applaudod, Bho will locturo nt 3 o'clock this afternaon, at the Hall of tho Cliria- tian Union, 117 Madison strect, Lior subject heing #Asintia Womon.” JUNE, LEONOWENS' LEOTGRE TO-DAY. Mrs. Loonowous will lecturo this afternoon nf 8 o'clock nt tho rooms of the Christisn Union, 114 Enst Madison stroot, Horsubjectis ' Asint- fo Women," and is ono concorning which she lias much to sny that is of unususl intoreat. Mrs. Leonowens i an oxcoodingly attractive Tecturor, on account of hior own qualities and the ovolty of hoc subect, and it i Lo bo ioped thit an opportunity may bo given for tho delivery of another lectura In hor ropertoiro on tho Zoud Avostn. © KIND WORDRE FOR IS, LEONOWENA. 2o the Edifor of The Chicago [ribun B : Ideom it my duty to call the sttention of your many readers to_tho forthcoming lecturoa of Mys, Loonoyons, tho * English Govornoss in Biam,” woll and favorably known by hor contri- butions to Amorican literature, to be given in Ghlcnfn during tho presont week. It wns my foad fortune to hear the flrat lecturo given by hin gifted Indy in Joston, somo two years ago, when, in response to an invitation oxtended by such leading litorary mon as Br(nm, Ourtis, Parko Godvin, Wondll Thillips, Whlttior and othors, sho rond to o large and delighted andi- once some chaptors from hor raro aud intcrest- ing cxperionco, Introduced by Jamas . Tiold, Esq., sho held us for over an hour with a reoital that was as strange and romantic as a talo from the ** Arabian Nights." 'Tho Sinmess Ambassa- dor at the Court of Tingland las tried to dis- credit hor statomonts concerning the political and domestic affairs of that country, but no one can rend Lis late lottor without being couvinced of ita wonknoss and inadonquacy to moet the points at imsuo. Tho foscinnting atylo of our authoress is much onhancod by her excollent dolivory, and if onr Chicago pooplo renlly ap- preciate’ & finished, uniquo, and entortaining production, thoy should seo to it that the lectures of Jrs. Loonowons aro woll nttended, Tho socond lecturs is on * Bastorn Women,” and will bo dolivered at,the * Christian Union Hall,"” No. 114 East Madison streat, at 3:30 p. m., to- day. CEs A FEARFUL CRIME THAT IS INADEQUATELY PUNISHED, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune ; 8m: Among various oxcollent articles which have appoared iu Tue 'TRinuNE of lato, Auggest- ivg of reform, I particularly naticed oune recom- monding that the least punishment for thoerimo of incondiarism should be imprisonment for lifo; and I fully concur in tho opinion of the writer. Unless severcr ponaltios ure aitached to various crimes which abound in theso Iatter days, and nre oxecuted with cortainty and prompiness, wo shell soon, ns o nation, bo steeped in crime, and sink, if possible, boneath the lovel of tho dark ages. And thoro is ono erimo which etands ont boyond all othors, and is fonrfully on tho {ncrenso, but, atrange to mny, sooms to be almost entlroly ignored hy the com- munity at largo ; and yot it would geom that we might, with far groster safoty, ignoro the fero- clous tigor escaped from his cage and ronming at will through the conntry. We might far moro ronsonbly fgnoro tho midnight nssassin, his hand still recking with tho blood of his latest victim; for what mothor would not prefor, if shio must chooso, that her lovely, innocent young daughter should bo torn by wild beasts, or fall under tho nssnesin's knife, rather thuu meot tho awful fate that has overtaken so many, just as innocent and lovely porliups as our own, in this civilized, this Christian land? And yot thia hideous crimo to which I rofer, and which it would soem tho very dovils in Lol would shrink from, is never, I bolieve, punished with denth, unless tho hapless victim is so fortunate a8 to die ; aud gonerally its porpetraton eseapes with o fow years of Imprisonment, if indeed ho does not entircly cscapo e punishment of his most rovolling erime. Shamo upon our logislators, who, it would sieom, cannat b fathers, and brothers, that thoy aro not arouscd to tho necessity of action in this matter! Their indifferonco by amazed mo, and g0 grently hos my spirit burnod within me that it has seomed ‘“the very stones would cry out " should I longer keop silence. What little innacent child barely oscaped fram the nuracry, what blooming young muiden, or ovon woman of maturo years, is_safo unguard- od, whethar by night or " day, while such incar- nato fiends aro ut Inrgo? Lho subjoct is mich that [ cannot pariicularizo, or I could recount seores of instances in which this crime lins beon committed, under such o variety of eireum- stnncos, in' most of whioh no dangor conld pos- sibly have baen approhonded, as to prove that I am not exaggorsting itk frequency, Suroly, somothing must o dono to check this fearful ovil, or no mother will dure liave hor littlo daughtor ont of hor sight for a moment, lest sl bo decoyed away from her com- ponlons to a fata ten limes more ecrucl than denth itsolf, In' which it franuontly onds, as in tho caso of the fittlo girl of 9 years whicl acourred but a fow weeln hinco st Musko- gou, Mich, Andis it not irue thal wo emn ecureoly tako up o papor that doos nob contain gomo similar record ¢ ‘And yat apparontly niora time and money ave oxpendod, und far more offort mudo, to captiro & burglar or a shopliftor than the wretch gudlty of thus fiondish cvime, And, just so long oy it {8 punishod with auything sliort of death, wo nood not wondor ap its rapid und most slorming increaso, which only the nutural result of iminal'indiorenco. aman, who bad mother, sister, wifo, or dunghter, whom I loved sud reveronced; I wonld mako it my mission to 2id in ridding the world of ouch monsters, and, when- ovor succossful, should consider that I had done oy good wervico a8 though I bad slain o wild Dboust or crushed n seorpion. I nood bardly say that Iam a mother, for porbaps nono_bub & motlier vanld foel ag deoply, I trust I am o Christian mothor, and I cm\{d, I vorily boliove, undor somo circum- utancos, forgive tho murdorer who had strickon down my Joved ono; but I solvmuly declao that, wore my Jittle daughter, tho joy of my hrenrt and the delight of my oyes, to hie made tha vietim of such an outrago, wnd tho luw shonld dacroo anything lows than speody and cortain .death oy the ponalty, Leould noitler give stoep to my oyes nor slumbor to my oyelids so long a8 the vile monuter encundored and contaminntod this fair enrth, Moruen, THE EXPOSITION BUILDING, To the Edutor of Tha Chicayo T'ribune: gin: I would like to suggest, thrpugh tho me- dinm of your papor, that good we, us woll na profit, might bo dorived from tho Exposition Tiuding this wintor, i€ it could bo turnd into & shating-rink, What & glorlous ono it wonld make! Huch s transformation wonll not roquira muoh labor, a8 & water-tight floor is about all thint would bo necossary, aud this could bo laid over tho old ono st & comparatively small ex- ”°1"flf{va heard many peoplo spoaking of tha fonsibility of tho plan Tlive mentioned, und [ am confidont, if it werp earrlod ont, it would oot with as good succoss, pmpurlmnnlol{ ng tho grout Exposition did, A A1 Oifioaag, Nov, 1, 1873, \ —Tho snug winter weathor that commencoed lust ll\luudn; waek ayd _lanted untd Haturday, enmo_quito “unexpeetod to our fazrmord, and Found thom inmany roupoots un[:m}mred. A goad many of thom lind not yob dug thoir pota- toes, and csbhogo, beots, aud other lika produc- jons wore atill standing where thoy grew.— ‘(‘J?-:)‘wn Point (1L) Htrahfi BISHOP CUMMINS. He Leaves the Protestant Episcopal Churah, And “Trausfors His Work and Offico to Another Sphere of Lahor,” The following lotter from tho Rt. Rav. Goorge D, Cummins, Assistant Blshop.of Kentueky, and formorly Roctor of ‘U'rinity Church, Chiengo, ox~ ploing iteolf : e Nrw You, Nov, 10, 1873, 1o the Right Reeverend Renjamin Baseorth Smith, D. e Zihop af the Protestant Kpiscopal Clireh the 1~ ceannf Kentucky: Tz, iy, AND DEAR Braor: Under o solemn scnso of duly, and In tha fear of God, T hava to el yon that Imn about to ratiro from tho work in whish I havo heen ongaged for tho Inst sevon seara in (o Dioceso of Kontucky, ond thus to rovar tho relations which havo oxisted 50 happily and harmoniously between ws dur- ing that timé, 1t ia duo to'you, aud to my many dear frleads in tho Dioceso of Kentucky and clsowlore, thnt I should stato clarly tio caiseu Wl hoYo led o o thls determi- natioi, 1, Firat, thon, you well kuow how heavy s been tho trinlof hnvliig to axorelso my ofilco In certain churchea {n tho Dioceso of Kentuoky where tho ser— vicos aro conducted g0 as fo fymbolize and Lo tench tho peoplo dootrinen subvorsivoof tho * {rutl an it i ju Jesiie, " and:an it was maintained and defended by the Reformers of tha sixtecnth century, . On each ocensfon that T liave been called upon to offi- cinte lu those churchies 1 havo ben most painfully i preased by tho convjetlon that T was ssuctiontng and indorsing by my preseueo and offleinl acta the danger- ous orrars symbolized by tho sorviees oustomury iu itualistio chuirches, I can no Jonger, by my participation in such sor- vices, bo “a partalier of other men's siue_and must clear'tny own soul of all complicity in such errars, 4, 1 linvo lost all bopo that thin kystem of error now provalling 1o extensively in the Church of England, aud in ho Protestunt Eplacopal Ohurels i thl coun try, can bo or will ba ctadieated by any nction of tho aitharities of the Church legislaturo or execntive, The only trio rownedy. i my fudgmont, i thio udiciois, yet thorough, rovision of thio Prayer-Book, cllminating frony it ull tliat gives countonauce, dircelly of udirect- 1y, totho wholo nystom of Sacerdotalism wud Ritunl- fwin ¢ a rovivlon afier tho madol of that recommended by tho Comminslon sppointed in England undor Royal authority n 1089, and whoso worlk wis ndoraud by the great namen of Burnet, Patrick, Tillotson, and Stiillng fleat, and others of {1i Ohurch of Englanid,—n blessed work, whicl falled, nla#! to recelvo fhe approval of Gonvocation, but s taken up aflorwards by tho Tatliers of tlio Protestynt Bplscopal Clurcli in the United Stater, and emboidiod in tho Prayer-Book of 1783, which ticy sot forth and recommended for use in tln country, 1 proposa o return to that Prayer-Book, sanctioneil by Willinm Wiite, and (o tread in tho steps of that safutly man n he'acted from 1785 to 1760, ) 4, Ouo other reason for ny prosent aztion remaing to o glven, On tho lnet day of tho Iate conforenco of the Evaugelleal Allinnce, I participated in tho clebra= tan of thio Lord's Supper, by invitation, in tho Rev. Dr, Johu Lali's church, in'tho Oity of New York, and uiteil with Dy, Ilall, Dr. William Arnot, of Edinbirgh, and Frof, Dorner, of Berlin, in that preclons Feant, 1t a3 o practical manifestation of the real unity of *tho bloased_compnny of all faithful peoplo” whom God “lath Lnit together in ono communion and_fellow- ebip, {n tho myatical body of 144 Sou Jesus Chrit.” “Liie rosults of that participation have boen such ag to prove fo my mind that auch n wep counot be talien by oo ocunpylug tho postifon I now hold withont sads 1y disturbing the peaco and harmony of * this Church,” and without fmpairing my influcnco for good_ovar'a lnrge portion of the sumo Churel, very many of whatn aro within our own Dicceso. 3 A8 T cannot, surrender the right and privilego thus to meot my fellow-ChrisHans of other churches aronnd tho tablo of our dear Lord, I 1nuat takia my placo where Tenn do so without aliennding thoso of my own house hiold of fuith, I thcreforo leavo tho communlon in which I havo labored in the sncred ministry for over twenty-cight years, and {rausfor my work and ofiico to another Bphierc of labor, - I bave au carnest hopo and coufl~ doneo that hosin for the wnion of ull Lvangelcal Chrlstendom can b fouud in u communion which shall_rotain or restora s Primitive Eplscopacy and o pure Seriptural Liturgy, with idelity to the doctring of Justieation by ¥aith only— rticulus alantia vel cadentis Lieclesiae—n posstion townrda which tlio Old Gathalics in Europe are rapidly tending, and which lina aiready taken o deGinito forin in tho' ¢ Cliureh of Jesus? in Mxico, To this bleasod Work I duvoto the remnin{ng years of life, content if I can only sea the dawn of that bleased day of the Lord, T an, dear Bishop, faithfully yours in Christ, Grotia: DAVID Cuifnye, My address for tho present will bo Ko, 4 Biblo Houie, New York, LoutsvritE, Ky., Nov. 14.—Tho recoption of the circular letter from Bishop Cummins, of the Diocoso of Kontucky, announcing his withdraw- al from the Protostant Episcopal Chureh, hag created o profound sousation nmong the Episco- palisng horo. A private lottor from him in- timates his intention to continue his Episcopal oftico on tho basis of Biship White's prayer- book. Bishop Bmith, Senlor_Bishop, will’ bo written to at once to.return to Kontucky to con- timto tho Episcopnl suthority, Bishop Cam- ming’ withdrawal, it is thought, will create somo complicatious botweon tho two phases of thao- logy in tho Kentucky Episcopal Cliurclt, = il CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. T'o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : S1i: From the tone of somo articles publishod on rociprocal trade with Cenada, growing out of and in connection with the representution of tho Board of Trado of tho Dominion at the ro- cont National Board, thero would appenr to bo some misundorstanding or musconception of tho real issue oxisting botween tho two Govern- ments. To revort, for o momont, to tho old Trenty, it will bo found that it iucludod princi- pally or only native products in rww matoral, and that, 80 far, tho adyantages wero mainly in favor of Cannda; on nccount of hor geographi- cal position, and the clags of hor products which could find no other market thun that of tha “States ;" and this class is represented to-day in hor exporta of horses, cattle, sheep, wool, nawed lumber, barley, flax, and, in fact, in con- nection with necossity and preforonco, it may bo #aid tho entire products of the Proviuca of Outario. "Tho tormination of the Reciprocity Treaty, in MMurch of 1665, hud nat changed the necossity of o patronuge of tho marlets of the United States by tho peoplo of the Dominion, s thoir trade- roports fully tostify. D'roviows té Confedoration, the trado-roports of Canada East and West wero amalgennted, so that it was diflicult to doter- mino relatively tho trado of oither with the Unitod Siates; but, sinco Confederalion, the roporta of the " differont I'rovinces have beon mude separately, and their commercinl relntions can bo readily dotormined. — Aftor tho'termina- tion of the ‘Irenty, thero was a Commistion ap- pointed to it the Wost Indiea (of which tho Hon, Willinm McDougal was one), (o “open up” trade-facilitios, und report on any adynntages to be obtained by oxtended trade-relationy with that seclion, TTiore was au claborato roport made, and among the products includod as desirablo fo uxchange for thoso of tho Weat Indics woro flour, fish, and lumibor, when, at this vory timo, tho Dritish North American Provinees had not o barrol of flour to koll of their own product, mor had had for somo yesrs pasl, nor havo thoy had sinco of their own produotion, = as - can Lo easily verified by running over their imporls and cxports of whont and flour from 1862 to 1872, ‘Lhin statoment may uppoar a litcla strong, but it will bo readily understoad when it is known {lat tho Provines of Outario iy the only ono which produces it supply of broad and has & surplus, 'The Provinces of Queboc, Nova Heotla, Now Foundland, Now Bruuswiok, and Princo Bdward Island import n largo share of thoir bread-cousumption ; thon, whon On- tario_ produces its own supply snd & surplus equal to tho wants of tho sister-Provinces, thore would bo no necessity for import of bread sup- ply. But such o not tho caso with Ontario, and has not beon for tho past ton years, 'Tho Provineen aro largoly in debt, a8 & product, for thoir broud, As Tor back o’ 1864, bor imports excandod hor oxporty by 400,000 bervels, and in 1871 hy nenrly 1,000,000 barrals of flour, includ~ ing wheat. The milling capacity of Canada in lnigoly in oxcess of her whont-product ; aud the conumptivo domand, in connection, roadily ox- plains the winfublo dispasition of our Canndian noighbors in not obstructing tho export of whent to tho Dominion. But tholr amiability did not extend to tlour, for they lovied a duty of 50 conts & barrel on flour, o duty on corn and othor products, against imports from tha “Htates ;7 but the demands and nocossavies.of the Maritimo Provinces in tho Confadwntion Drotosted uguiugt this duty_in faver of Outario Inillors, and tho duty wok redueod 26 conts por batrel, and finally, throwgh tho protost of tho consuimers of thoso P cos, was ropenled e s Wil also on corn, mnking o virtuo of nocesulty, to concilate thoso in Nova Sootin un- willing o consont Lo Genfeduration, under tho omlip of tho lato TIon, Soeaph 1owe. But \oudorshi OF tho Govornmont. did met apato is tho uttempt at retatiation, for thore wis an ox- port duty pub on snw-logs aud uhinglo-holts, to Totaln, aw dur us possible, the manufaoturo of wumed Inmbor, An offort wus mado to piaco nn export duly on tau-burk, but the offeel was tob nll‘ulmry on Canadisn privos, 'Thoro was g dis- poxitiois to imposo o duty on sawod lumber, bub ik fnterest waa too stroug to pormit it. Tt will bo observed thut thore bos been o faie dinpotition oy ttiv pact of o Canadian Gavarn- neut {0 1etalists on tarills of husurt wdaxwm Lut dho varied infexests of tbe Domlnion co / ' not be mado to harmonizo, and the rosult is, onr Oanpdinn noli:mmrn aro amiablo, vory, whero it in commareinl Dut lob un take o viow of tho trado since the tormination of the I'reaty nud the act of Con— fedoration, Tho loading journals of Canndn gave thoir renders to undoratand that n market would bo ¢ oponod Upr” and hak thoy would ot Lo dependent upon the Amorleans, Lot us tako the result as shown by tho trade-returns of On- tarlo in 1809, four yonrs aftor the tormination of tho Trenty ; and wa find, out of the oxport-trade of tho Proyinco, 874,000 was oxportad to Great Britain and noarly £31,000,000 to tho United Hiates, or ovor 2,000 por cont in faver of tho Int- tor; and tho tablon of Ontarlo for 1870 and 1971 approximnto tho samo ratio; and that trado agninat & Unitod Btalos tavil of from 20 to 40 per cont, and at n cost, necording to an ostimato of tho Hon. John Young, of Montreal, of 24,760,000 to tho producors of Canadn, Cray tho Amoricans do bettor with a Treaty that Lrings vothing in roturn ? AMERIOA, Gitioatio, Nov, 11, 187, PN e CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. The Boller=-Explosigon in New Yoritas Soven Persons ICilled annd Many Wounded. . % From the New York Times, Nov, 13, Baven porsons wore killed yesterdny ovoning Dby the oxplosion of a boiler on tho weat bank of tho Undergronnd Railrond in Fourth avonue, Yotweon One ITundred and Twenty-oighth and One Hundred and ''wonty-niuth streots. o os- amine tho horriblo ocenrronce in all its dotails i to find that theso soven lives wero sncrificed, n neoro of other persons wounded, and n_largo quantity of proporty destroyod by n criminal nogligenco and o Ernnph:g Xlurcunn] of public saloty, Binco'the beginning of this railrond im- provement thirty-nine lives haye heen sncrificed, cither by passing traing, by blasling accidents, or from other cauges, and tho terriblo calamity of yesterday brings tho deatli-roll up to fortys eix victina of curolossness on tho purt of tho maunagoment of the work, o Tully comprehend ibis calamity In all its diro oxtont, it is necossary to oxplain whnt this improvoment is. At presont tho Albnny & Har- lpm Railroad has an up and down track on the cast pido of Nourtth nvenue, perfectly unpro- tected, and level with tho romsining portion of tho ntrect. 'Tho lmprovement is tha eulting of arailrond under the lovel of the streot, so as to guard ngamat accidonls. This cut i3 in tho contro of thoavenue. At oach street-crossing this cut nro tomporary bridges, constructed of wood, with plank roadways, Who earth taken from’tho cut 1 banked up on cach side. To romove this onrth from the cut, and to lower tho stonoe to be employed in the construction of the walla of the cut, tho rails, sleepers, and other matorials, dorricks have beon and aro used, and are worked by steam from movablae boilers. 'The borlor which wns used yestordey was one of these. In this respoct it may be woll to give a rasumo of all tho facts connected with the previous use of tho hotler, Itwas first brought to work on the improvement nbout threo weoks ngo, aud placod in operation 8t One Hundred and Lwon- ty-sixth ptreot. On n wooden platform with ‘it waa fixed the hoisting machine and the derrick. It worked up tho_svenuo, and yostorday was di- rectly in front of tho Iagor-neer saloon of J. Ormston, No. 2870 Fourth avapuo. The hoilor ‘was a peeuliar ono, an upright double tubular hoilor, high pressuro, with a quarter of an inch wrought-{ron shell, and mado a8 a special stonm~ pump, by A, 8, Cameron & Co., engineers, foot of Tast Twonty-third stroot. The oiutlnfi ma- chino used in conneotion with the boiler wis _also potouted, baving been in- vented by Mr. Dolmoro, of tho Harlom Gas-Worke. It is but just to say that tho acoi~ dont hos not shown in tho slightest way any im- perfection in the hoistor. This boiler was under tho charge of John Darnum, of Ono Hundrod and Twenty-fifth streot and Fourth avenue. Whother or not hio gave it the caro required by n high-prossure quri}m will undoubtedly be iho subjoct of offivial investigation to-dny. Ohergos of tho gravast character, and supportod by ro- putablo witnesses, in referenco to this point, waro publicly mado last night. T'he neeidont oceurrod about 4:20 o'elock in the afternoon. Fourth nvenuo was crowded with pedestrians, and it scoms almost a miraclo that only soven wero lost. - Up'to the moment of tho torriblo occurronca not tho slightest judication had boen observed that the botler was untrust~ worthy. Whero tho engino stood was alinost in the con- tre of the block. The wooden. platform on whioh it rested was bolng moved forward toward Twonty-ninth streoc by the workmen, who were 1uging woodon beams and iron crow-bavs to pry it onward, Around tho boiler wero Johu Gibson, 24 yoars old, and Jobn Yoloy, 24 years old, botl Toxiding nb Ono Huudrod and Twonty-ifth stroct and Fourth avenna ; Barnum, tho engiveor, who was talking to William Do{gm‘f, o laboror, resid- ing at Ono Hundrod and Y'wonty-soventh street and Sixth avenuo; Willlam Fallen, laborer, of Ono Hundred and T'wonty-fifth streot, noar Sixth avouno ; Bryan Melly, 22 years old, Inhorer, of Fourth aventie, bobweon Oho Huudrod and Thir- ticth and Ono Hundred and "Thirty-first atrects 3 Patrick Moriarty, laboror, of No, 2223 Sccond avenuo; Patrick Fion, laborer, 80 yoars old, of Ono Hundred and T oth street, near Fourth avenue, and Willinm Dritt, a school-boy, 10yoars old, residing at Fourth avenue and Ons Hundrod and Thirty-third strect. Botweon the bank and tho westerly sidewallk of tho avenue wero Philip Dlullor, 52 years of ago, of Tonth avonuo, botween Filty-third and Lifty-fourth stroots, and Goorgo Hooker, 23 yenrs old, of Ono Ilundred and ninth streat, hetween Sccond and Third avenues, laborers, in the employ of the Harlom Gaa Com- pnu{, who wore ]nyl'nf; gns-pipes, At tho south- ywest coruer of Ona Hundred and Twonty-oighth stroot and Fourth avenue, stcod Miss Louisa Dassford, o young lndy 18 years of age, Preparing to crosa the (omporary bridgo ot thub ntreot. Umaslug tho_bridgo, with her harp on hor back, was o httle Italian harp girl about 10 vears of aga. In tho shops, bustlo and lifo, on tho other sido of the avoune, trains and_engines thundering along tho track. =Buch was tho scono 2 momont boforo tho explosion. Swifl es o thundor-clap it chme—a cannon-like roport—and o denso cloud of steam end dusk shut out tho ghastly sight for n moment. When it cleared away, Muller and Becker woro lying over their fins-pipou. At the place where tho boiler had been Gibson and Foloy, the lnborors, lay horribly mangled; o fow feof furthor on lny poor little Britt, tho echool-hoy, bis boaks by his sido—nll dead. ' But tho culminuting horror of the seone was reachied whon the horror-striskon witnesses looked townrd Ono Hundred and I'wenty-eighth atroct 3 for on the cornor laid tho body of Miss Bausford, her fair fuce battered out of semblanco to himanity, and her goldon hinir covered with blood. Ou-the bridge lay tho poor Italiun ehild, doad, fallen on hor harp, Tho wounded wers endenvoring to reach some placo of safoty. This was iho scono a moment aftoy the explosion. Sergts, Long and Osborn, of the Twelfth Pre- cinet, had beets talking togother on tho bleps of the Fifth Dintrict Polico Court, and _bad walked down Oue Hundred und Ly, y-cighth strect whou they heard tho explosion. At fvat thoy thought 1t wan merely n blast, but, seeing tho people rnnning, at onco proceeded to tha sceno, and, noting the'extent of tho accident, run to the station-houso, in One Iundred and Lwenty- sixth streot, for holp, Unpt. Bonnott, with Sorgts, Ton Byck and Osborn and the reserve force of tho preeinet, at once turned out and did yeuman sorvico in romoving tho doad and wounded fo the station-house, The greator numbor of the wounded, howover, woro #o ulightly injurad as to bo nblo to proceed to their homes boforo the arrival of the police. “I'io gaono in tho station-honse on tho rocop- | tion of tho killod and wounded was of a very affeoting and exciting cbaractor. As eavh body way branght in, persons in the immonso_crowd, which fairly blocked up tha stroots, would faney thut thoy reeognized samo doar [riend or relative, and an indeseribublo oxprossion of grief nud pain, gonoral wong all, would follow. Tho nodies wero all taken baclk to tho prisou, In the roar of the station-houso, nnd placed en tho ilngged fioor of tho corridor, Lach ona nd tho load battored almost boyond recognition, and in many cases balf tho wknll carried away, Jheir limbs nud bodies, too, were manglad sud cut ia piecos, As tho hodios camo in, Capt, Donnett sant onk oflicors o ondonyor to find - ¢ Felntivos, My, Ceorgo Dagsfown » GIET manufaoturor, fthor of VB Lo yolng lady killed nt tho cornor of wno fundred and "I'wonty-cighth strost, eamo, and hov vomuing were takonta his rowidonco, I'hio hady of tho schoal-hoy 1ivitt was ulso claim- ed and takon to his paronts’ residence, Tho othior Lodies romained 1n tho station-houso until n luto kour, Lato Inst night tho body of tho Ttaliny harp-glel was rocognized a that of freno Boitt, of No, 74 Thompson streot, ‘T'hokilled are Philip Mullor, of Tonth avonuto, botwan Fifty-thivd and Lifty-fourth stroots ; Coorfo Beckor, of Oue Huudred and Ninth sirool, betweon Becoud und Third avonues ; Tahy Cibson and John Foloy, of No. 125 Fourth avesio ; Willimm Britt, of Fourth nvanue and OnoNundred und Phivty-third stroot ; Louiss Bassord, of No. 61 Edst Ove tmudred aud “Wwiepy-tieth uiroot and Irone Boltro, of No. 74 Loapson atreet, .'1':: Wounded talien to Lhe station-houeo woro 3 Wiljma Tullon, 80 yours, lubover, of Ouo Huue dreqnd Twonty-1ifth streot, newr Bixth nyonue, mvm neuldod, talon to Regoption Hospital ; 3 Dolly, 22 yourn, laborer, of Fourth ave. ‘ ly oonventont, K wott, all Toloy, Muedowoll, Bochm, probably German, nue, botwveen Ono Iundrod and Thirtloth ang, Ono Jlundred avd Thirty-firnt atroots, sovero! fealp-wound, takon to Rocoption Tonpital; Dag rick Morinrly, Inboror, of No. 3328 Roconil nyos * nito, slightly, wont home; Pattick Tinn, of On Hundred wnd Thirtioth’ treot, nane’ Fourtly naveune, slightly, went home; and Witliam Dag- gart, of One Hundred and ‘P'wonly-soventi krroot and 8ixth nvonue, slightly, went lomo,! An tho smbulaneo of D, W. L Oampholl, cons tuining Fallon mud Molly, drova sway, 1t wog fol. lowed for sovoral Llooks by tho crowd, In Fourth nvenno tho scono was not lage ox ofting, Tho immense crowd had assomblad, and tho sidowalk ou tho west sldo was thronged with ongor questioners, A numbor of polico guarded tho remains of the hoiler, Tho ontiro outor ensing of tho Loilor had boon entirely blown of bodily, sud tho platform torn “to piecos,, Tho ~upper portion of tho boller had! heen broken into_four ploces. o one which killed Miss Dassford was found nt the corner of One Hundred and Tyonty-cighth streob; anothor, which struck the Italinn slrl,{ Ircne Holftro, while crossing the bridge, hnd fallen Into tho railrond out, an two othor plecos lay mnear the = boilew! platform, which was o}l torn to plecos. Tho lnlcgll} i poles, on each wide of tha placo whera the boilor stood, ware torn down, anda nowa< stand overtnrned. All tho windows of R, W, Ridley's drug-store, No, 2365 Fonrth avenuo, wero whattored, and the colling broken down by tho force of the explosion. Tho windows aud ceilings of tho following storoa swora nlso come! g{lutn)y smaghed s Willinm Horn's butehor abop,| No. 266 Tourth avomne: J. Weslich's haire dressing snioon, No, 2308 Fourth nvonuo; and 1. Qrmston’s boor saloon, No. 2370 Fourth avenuo, | All tho windows of the Fifih District wero com+ pletely destroed. 1t it ntatad that the Loilor was owned by Mr. Bolmoro, who residos ot Virt avonue, awl Ong Hundrod aud onth giroct. 1t in unid to haye a enpncity of 120 pounds, wud to hoye hd on at tha timo of tho nccident forty pounds pressure, - [y in also atatod that it wnu recently tested and pros nounced alf right. Othors, however, stated thus thero wore eighty pounds preesitro on when tha nocldont ocourrad. Oflicor Garsido, of the Fifth Distrlct Conrt, and Mr. Ormsto snid they havo, during tho pagh waok, noticed thnt tho boiler was loft fn tho sola chasga of o littlo boy. On ouo occasion Offico: Garsido ioard tho boy toll o Juboret to look out) for tho staam-gango While he got somo watar, Coronor Keonan has nssumod chnrga of they easo, and will at ouce proceed to investigato, A TERRIBLE PLAGUE. Esquimaux Koy Depopulated by an Unknown BDi ‘I'welve Nissions aries Fall Victims. From the New York Mercurn, Invaloke Inlet, or Esquimaux Bay, ontho Aty Inytic const of Lubrador, bas beon uttorly dopopy uluted by n scourge, in many of its phados simi. Iar to Adiatic cholers, Moro Esquimaus inhabi thin bay thun any parb of tho peninsula, tho Tiaving heen, provious to tho visitation, 450 of them ut Invaloko and vieinity, Ab this bay thero) it n building crectod by the 3foravian mission-| aries, who lnnded on’ Lhnt frozon and barron uhoro in 1852, Thoy beeamo tho doctors, physi- cal and spiritua, of tho Iuzy pooplo they b como to tonoh. 'This missionary houso was frao- Iy turned into n ospital, and tho fathors attend- cd to the sufferings of thoso mysterionsly atricls en in their midst, Tho dwelling soon Locamo 4 houso of doath, and iwelve of them, who had Dheld almost ceasoless vigil over tho dying, foll ovan Lo tho Inst man, in harnoss, victims of| tho plaguo. On tho 15th'of October & donsn fogj oversprond the const of Labrador. Though in- tenso frost had been experienced on tho 13th and 14th ult., this fog brought with it an unac-| countablo warmth and dampness.” There was noj roin, yob tho rigging of tho brigantine Ann (tho) vessol which brought tho intelligence to St.| Plorre) was dripping, and tho decks woro slip pory. It was umpossiblo to seo tho bowsprity from the poop, and tho huts and pcople onl shoro wero lost to aight in tha imponetrable fog, On tho morning of tho 16th ult., the morning| which suceeeded that phenomenon, moro, than| - sixty men, women, and children, principallyy Lusquimau, woro proatrated with o disenso, thiy uature of which {ho most skillful of missionarien| could not defino. A vomiting of yellowisl: flud, nnunm(fnuicd by acute pain’ in th stomach and contraction in tho musclos, wero the first symptoms. Whe patlent waa suddenly prostrated, ond tho groaning ane writhing of many persons struck down by thol diseaso in tho snmo [w.rt of tho barbor wera heartrending, principally 80 in viow of tho mys- toriousnoes of their disordar. On the nfternoanot Ozt. 18 the Ann put inta Inyaloke Inlet again, To use the oxact words written by ono on board that vessal, * Tho s pect of that plagno-stricken sottlemont sl never grow less torrible in the memories of al{ thoso who beheld it and still live." Women wora tleeing with their children and littlebundles cons’ taining proyisions and alathes, In overy hul thero wora several dend, and others dying. Somo yollod for help, and others moaned piteonsly,’ unable to move a limb. The Captain sent in o’ cask of brandy to the house of tho missionarics, and, in grateful recognition of tho offering, they. raised o flag on tho polo in front of their houso. Tater thoy sont word to tho Uap tain not to’coma ashoro, - nor ézermit any of: Lig men, as airendy many of their peoplo hiad fallon victima to tho plagie. Tho mossons' or stated that a schooner from tho Unitedi tates lny insido tho harbor, and tho Captain,’ chiof mate, and nearly all her crow hod been' prostrated b{ the disenso. Tieforo night on the 18th ult,, the nowa reached the Ann that six of the missionarics lay doad that, on the inatant fter doath, all the corpes of thoso earried off becamo of n bluist-blaels lwo, and that decomposition had set in, Tha, Cu]»tniu of tho American vessel (tho Honry I7.| Bolton, of Gloncoster, Mass,,) and four of hid) crow diod at night. Tho noxi marning the Cap tain of the Aun ordered o signal to e raised fox & mossonger to board thom, Tho men of the Ann who volunteerd to go on, shoro wero givon plenty of rum. At the missionaries’ houso they “found an aged Eequimaux alone and sobbing. He spols very litlo nglish, bub the eailors could Jmderstand that the last of the fathers hadl ‘dicd, that all his people had beon cut off by tho awful plaguc, ouly tho few who fled oscaping.i “tho utonch in ovory dirootion was putrid andt wickening, 5 = The gailors with dosporaty reckleesness o tered sevoral of the huts in which there was not u living porson left to tell the talol Iu ono in- stanco thoy found & corpse of o white man in o' kneoling attitude with tho hands and head rost- ing an o bed, and a papor of pepper boside him' on tha flaor. TFinding his end near, bo must; liavo fallen on s kneoa to prepare for thoe othes world. 'Pho corpses of women ware: fmuu‘! strotehed in oll parts of tho huts, and the feo! and nms of doad men and women in many casoes' protruded oyt the opon doors of tho huts. A pe< culiar feature of this lamentablo scono was tho forlorn appenrance of tcores of trainod £a< quimnux dogs who lounged about in nttor be wildormont, Many of fhoso animals’olung ta tho doors of their doad frionds, sud hunges somotimoa ovoked a plnintive whine from tha pasterlos brate. The n]:pmssivo stonch finatly overcame tho men und they woro compellod to quit _the shoro, Capt. Richerdson of the Aunn conld do no moro, nnd tho vessel sob snil from tho dismal bay on’the morning of the 10th ult. QOn tho 21t of Oolober, John Casey, ona of tho mon who had voluntoorod to ga ashore at Invaloke, died affor only u fow hours® sickness, IIin body wes . launched overs bowrd mnd the forceastle wos dushed with spivits,” tho only disififocts ent on bonrd, On tho 25th tho lookout sighted the const of ~Miquelon, Boforo Ianding, Capt. Richardson und tho second mulo were tuken ill, 'T'ho oflicial doctor of the larhor of Miquelon (French) cumo on board and wrouonucad the Cupteiu's malady s vicwleng Tovor. Later the Cuplain way urtacked by o 6o vers vomiiing und Tho doctor then prouounaced it Asindi Botwoon 9 and inlf-pust O op R0 uight of the 25th ult., the Captsln <t mato of the brigantine Aun ‘wera deatt, ind tho physloian, Dr, Bonvior, was cone faunded, 1o bade the survivors leave the ship immodiatoly, and bad hor thavoughly fumigntoa, Up to the morning of tho 2ith ult, no othor casca bud devolopad. On that dato the mato and crow of the Aun salled for Sydnoey, Capt, Breton, on board tho Britlsh brig Taurns, i g 'Fho Pancity of Angle-inzon Paintors. Tho dosth of Landsoer has snggested tho rew murk hovw fow great painters hnve borne purely Euglish namen. Colts or foreignors have dig tancod the Anglo-Baxon. Landavor, n_Qlermmn v o, i prolubly of Jowish ongln, Roynolcs wan_probably Wolsh or Cornish, Alneliso, Willio, Dhiilip Wattn, Loightos, Millai, Watkor, ‘Paplam, Durto Mulendy, “Faod, Lirith, hivioro, Fildes, Grant, Turks, 1 Burhe, dJoncs, Ros. tely Triuh, Wolsh, Fronch, Bo, too, wmong sonlptore, and ono or two more, aro ol \\'unlnur.n"l‘haud, Dnlm[fle, ) I3 tho samao witlh urchitoees, Of “llving architacts, the . theea wha aro aithor Beoteh, Italian, or Jewinhy, Trisl - extraction, Luve attuinod o academical hionors sro Ar, Btroot, Bir G, (. Seoit, and Mr, Norman Shaw, who, nominally nt loust, belong to the other sida of tho Tweed, Engliaiimen nisy, howovor, aon- fort thomsolves with somo of 1hio groatoat artists on the list, Caipabayough, \Vren, Olaude oy, Turnor, aro cnough.