Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1874, Page 5

REAL ESTATE. - of the Largest Auction Bales of the Season. gomparative Statements of the 3 Loan Market. Taws Concerning Foreclosure Hew £ * Bales and Advertisements, ;nm Market In New York---Building in 7 St. Louis. Taoke Forest this Week gale at : of 400 Acres, Ths n.e; 0. Railroad—-A Real Estate 2 Story. et Miscellaneous. SOME SALES OF THE WEEK. b Inigest sele of the week has been the ¢ ealo at suction by Ebison, Pomeroy & Co. ot 50 lotsiin this city and the vicinity, by the order of C. W. Upton, Assignes of the Groat estern Insurance Company. The sale was :’;lfl on Taeedsy, June 23, and was well at- fanded: Lots1to s, on Puliman avenue, be- twoen Forty-Afth and Torty-sixth streets, were gold st $60 oach to Willism H. Morrell, of New York; Lots 25 to 48, betweon the same, front- fug oech on Sheridan svenue, at $62.50 each, fo A. Murison; Lots 49 to 72, botween the sama streets, fronting west on Sheridan avenue, 24 857 each, 10 E. C. Cole ; Lots 73 to 78 to E. 0. Cole for 868 exch ; Lota 79 to 96, between the game streets, fronting east on Sacramento strect, 3t §65 esch to John Sard : Lot § to 24, south \ of Forty-fifth streets, and botween MecKibbon and Sacramento avenues, at $G5, to S. Simons, and Lots 26 to 41 to Bobort Douglas, 8t §65 each ; Tots 56 to 89, between Harney and McKibbon svenues and Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets, ¢ £65 each, to A. Murison;; Lots'36 to48, {ront- fng esst on Wolcott avenue, betwean Forcy- forth_and Forty-fifth streots, at $66 each, to Wiliam H. AMorroll; Lots 52 to 48, fronting on gms svenus, between Forty-fifth and Forty- fixth stroets, at 6 each, to William Gilman ; ots 49 to 96, frouting on Wolcott and Pullmsn avenucs, south of Forty-fourth strect, to Mrs. Z. A. Gee, at £(8 each; Lots 97t0 120, fronting esst on Pailman avenue, sonth of Forty-fourth stront, at $70 each, to John Sard; Lots 50 to 95, froating on Wolcott and_ Pulimsn aveuues, be- tweon Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets, to J. A Mayer, for $55 each; Lots 1 to 45, frooting on Everots street, between Slocum and Custar svonues, at S0 each, to Jemes Baxter; ZLots 4, 5. 6, 7, on Hunter avenue, betwoea Ever- . ettand Wordsworth streets, to Bradford Hancock, ? for €78 each ; Lota 1 to 24, 0n Wordsworth street, between Mernitt snd Cosiar avenucs, to George B. Flershein, for $62 each ; Lots 25 to.48, be- twoen the same svenues, and on Ewing streef to Bd Partnidge, for §60 each ; three acres al Lawadale, on the Chicazo, Barlington & Quincy Bailroad, and betwoon aowry and Cock svenaes, to Johu 5. Hair & Co., for §2,500 2n acro ; Lots 5,6, 7, between. Prairie snd Calumet avenues, and aonth of- Sixueth street, to George Cohen, for #50 each: Lots 1, 3 “in the eame block, to A, Murison, . for §532 each ; Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, south of Sixticth siroet, and east of Calumet avenue, to- Robert Douglas for 8425 each: Lot 2 in the same biock ©on Esnkakes avenne, to Georgoe Coben for $545, s0d Lots 8 aud 4 to_ William Weivert for $551 ¥ enchi: Lot 16 on Atlantic street. betweon Forty- pinthand Fifteth, to Bradford Hancock for $335 ; oot 85, nearivopposite, to H. E. Manuing for€925; Tot16 on Wenumorth avence, between Yorty- pinth and Fuftieth streets, to William Gilman for €380 a n West Iudiana sireet, corner of thealley between Jeflerson and Desplaines stroets, having & frontage on Indiana street of 15 feet, and a depth on the ally of 135 feet, to Jnmes Baxter for £4.500. Brown & Hall havo sold Lots 5, 6, 7, and 8, in Pomnick’s Subdivieion of Sheffield’s Addition 40 Chicago, for 83,175. Lion & Havlinson have sold 50x104 feet on Beldon avenue, 96 feet west of Larrabee street, wth 3 weet front, at 7l a foot, cash; also, L0 feet on Dunning street, west of Lincoln avenue, for £700. A gale of five acres of property on Harr- pox stieet, between Troy and Albany streets, was wmade yesterday to the Domigican Or- der of Catholics. The property will be im- _ pruved by tho erection of a Catholic church and collega: Messrs. W. D. Korfoor & Co. made the sale in bebalt of the Coucu estate. D.N. Bash & D. W. Potter have sold cighty acres in the 5. }f of S. W. 3¢ of Sec. 35, 38, 13, 2t £600 per acre. e A & A D. Bellamy haye gold five acres in Bec. 17, Bellamy's Subdivision, at $1,450 per acre, Kerr, Davison & Welch havo sold three lots outheast corner Oakley snd West Polk streas, a1 51100 per scro, cash; aiso four lots corner Dashiell and Thirty-third streets, st £700 each ; and U150 on Canal street, 160 fect south cf Bandsfph street, at 3700 per foor.” A. & L. G. Dierce have sold 200 feot at Ridge- awn, formerly Cantield. at 310 per foot. W. D. Kerfoot & Co. have soid five acres on Harrison, between Troy sud Albany streets, ab £5.000 per ncre, Wiipple & Castle bave sold four Jots in Whipple & Castle’s Bubdivision ut Evauston, for £500. These lots are cheap, und are elogauciy nita- ated witlun one mile of the depot; alsy lot 1n the west half of Dlock 6, in Coclirune's Subdivision of Sec. 6, 89, 14, tor 31,100. Morton Culver a3 sold three lots in Culver & Johpsou's Audition to Glencoe, for $1,100. J.AL Sceist hag sold 1,500 feet 1n Culver's Addi- dition to Glencos for £10,700; 275 feet in same Additlou tor §1,600; lot on Sixty-third street, nesr Englewood depot, for §3,0005 2 lots in Se crist’s Subdivisiou, at {rving Park, for £1,400. * W.A Travis has sold 2 houses and lois on Gaion stzeet for £10,000; and i5 lots at Wash- 1ngion Heights, at £300 each, 34,500. W. W. Wateon hau sold a mail cottage-house :xid% g/):sou feet, at Washingion Heights, for - Eben F. Runyan has sold a tract of land, be- ing the east 3¢ of the northwest 3 aud the west 26 of ihe southwes: 3¢ of Sec. 20, 36, 12, to Har- low P. Smuth, for $56,000. Chas. L. Hancock has sold 100x55 feet on South Water sireet, near Fifth aveoue, south front, to E. N. Neiziceon and Jobn 31, Shields, for & 422; also 20x55 feet on South Water streot, {eet west of Lasallo street. to Solomon and \. O. Baow, for §10,033. This property coustitutes 4hs gapon the north side of Water street, be- twean Lasialle staeet and Fifth avenue, aud will ‘be unmiocintely filied up with business blocks. y p R. D. Hildrolh bas sold south 3§ of Block 122, HUaywood, for £3,900. Jobn Bauman has_sold 25x76 feot on Milwan- ke avenue, west of Erie street, to Christopher nman, for £10,000. Semuel Hoard aud J. N. Barker have sold 50x 125 feet cn Jackson street, uear Saugamon, for Nelsen DeGolyer has sold house and lot on disus avenue, morth of Thirtieth streot, to Charles H. Lawrence, for $30,000. Sm!nnl W. Kroff bas sold 365 feet front north 2 Ohio street, on Phinney avenue, for 310,500. _C. W. Coleliour bas sold, in Colehour’s Addi~ Eon to South Chieago, 6 lots at $300 each ; 1lot l:rsgasgo 3 1lot for $375 ; 2 lots at $400; 2 lotu Bobert C. Givins bas sold Lots 8 to 8, Block 2, bouth Englewood, for £5,000. John J. Foster has sold in the sonthwest If of the southeast 37 of Sec. 12, 41, 13, 363( acres, to™ BEN'E!L ite, for $45,690. B. F. Guyton has sold 124 scros in BSec. 2, 36, to James H. Bowen, for $9,043. ¥iC. Pituor has sold Lot 19, 20, aud 24, Block 2, Pitner's Sccond Addition to Evauston, & Ara €. Fairfield, for $1,500. . A. Gilbert has sold 47 acres in Sec.2, 53, 33, 14, and Blocks 31 and 46 (except Lots 10 to 13), Halsted Street Addition to Washington Heighta, for §37,000. Gsorge H. Hess hus sold 1871200 feet st the i . outheast corner of Seventy-seventh street sad Cales avenue, for §2,000. 5 NEW LAWS. Inthe ctatutes of Illinois, enacted by the Leg- 1 lelature just adjourned, some changes are made ! it the law respecting the sale of proporty under ‘mmcu or trust-doeds, and in the lama for ad- < SUNDAY, JUNE: 28, - 1874 vertising them.. We give the sections in ques- tion below. They go into effect July 1: Under the title Aavertisement, the new law Brc. 4. Whon any notios 15 required by law, or order of Gourl, ur sy canteacr and 1 1o nOF Slheiee pros vided, it shall be sufiicient to publish the same ina weekly newspaper, and in Do case shall any greater amount be chargeable a8 costs for the publicition of such notico than will be puficlent to publish the samein much weekly newspaper. . When any notice 1s required, by law or con- trach, to be published 1n & Bewspaper (unicss other— wise expresaly provided in the contract). it slail be intended tobe in a sccular newspaper of geners! circu- Iation, published 1o the clty, town, or county, or some ' paper specially authorized by Lw to publish legal notices fu the city, towa, or county. S nder the head of Mortgages, Sec. 14 says : In all sales of real eatate under a mortgage, or trust dich Th tho mabues oF 5 MOTIRL e, orvoeey el thy taking effect of this act, which may bo made pursuant to 3 power of eale, atleast thirty days® previous notice of such intended salo shall bo given, whother 8o speci- fied in the power of salo or not. It ahall Le suftient to insert in_such notice the ‘date of the instrument, namea of the grantor and grantee, and of the assigns, if any, the ainouns of indebtedness the instrument was giken to secure, the amount claimed to be due, & deacription of the premises to be sold, and the time, place, and terms of the sale ; and no sale shall i made except_in the county m which the promises are aitu- ated. The notice ahall bo given hy publication once in cach week for four succesaive weeks in sonie_newspa- per or othér paper authorized to publish legal actices,’ ‘published in the county or counties where the are gituatod, or, if no paper ia published in such coun- ty, the nearest Déwspaper published in this State ; but i2'no case sball & motice be given for a shorter time than is requiréd by the mortgage or deed of trast, And 1n nocase shall the mortgagee, trustee, or the pervon making the sale be entitled to charge us casts of uavertisemeut more then the rctual cost noceasarily wxpended in giving notice 35 herein required. . THE LOAN MARKET. The instruments representing liabilities_on ronl ostate “filed for record the past week have ‘been few in number and small in smount, thres only exceeding 825,000 each, the general averago being 92,3%0. ‘Trust deeds, which especially rep- resent actunl loans, have shown the most decid- ed falling off, while mortzages, which are gener- ally given to socure part of the purchase-moncy of property, have held thetr own with remarka- blo uniformity. The average amount of each instrument filed in thefourth week of June, 1878, was £3,220, and more than one-fourth part, of the aggregate consideration was against eix parties only. ‘There is no change in the rates of teal eatate loans, viz.: 9 to 10 per cont, the lat- ter being.tlie ruling figare. - s g’ - Below are the usual comparative ststoments: COMIARATIVYE WERELY STATEMENT. . FOURTH WEER 3JUNE, 1573, _1Conmider| Consider- No. | ation. ||Ne. | ation. 263§ 892447 5| 250,658 345781,123,503 28] i . 202| i TROM JUNE1 TO DATE. | 4USE, 1874 ,|] JUSE, 1873, Tnatruments. | Congider-, | Consider- . No. | anon. if No.'| ation. Trust deeds. 1.151(83,408, 454 1136153, 721, 530 Mortguges 2200 630,896 Aggregate......... |1,410/$£,010,360 . NEW YORK AND ST. LOUIS. . Thers is little markec in New York for rea} estata forcod for sale. Tha latest auctions there bave been failures, and very differcn: from tha Mott sale, & fow iweeks ago. The New York Herald of last Monday says, beginning with the Mott sale : ‘Here was a tract of land, more than five and & half miles'from tb_City Hall, slmost unregu- Iated in the matter of streets, save & frontage of less than 300 faet on the boulevurd, realizing at snuch a tinie the large tigure of $5.500 per lot of 25 feot by 100-feet, mostly fronting on cross streets,yot unopenod, and tho ‘opening nf which might, wéll be regarded =5 remota and uncertain. With such & result under such circumstances thare was certainly good ground for the expectas tion that e 7 THE ADMITTED FAITH OF OUE OWN PEOFPLE in the fature of New York really would find car- Hef, Turther ~exprenon 7 & demsad_for city properts, we located, baviug & clear ritlo snd wirly offered, withont restrictions or danger of collusivo bidding tha would provoke numerous other sales and_cronte once more for s an Aac- tive market. Yet thus far this Lopo has failed wholly of realization, and the past week fur- nished & most pointed exbibition of the extreme indifferenco -with which capitalists regard real estate investment ai the present time in the failure to sell the Haflem Heighes property of- fered on Monday and Tueaday last. Here was some of ths choicest property within tho cor- porate limits of the city, nvaiing in its attrac- fiveness for villa rowidences suything 1o the neighiborbood of Pans or London, having casy water communication with the business portion of the city, sold Literally “ for & song,” and that piped £o Iow and so indifferently thet the own- ors, in dingust, aficr disposing of & faw lots for less than an average of $450, withdrew the bal- ance from the market. If this property be not worth more than 430 per- Jot Low_fictitious ‘must be the high valuation put upon Fifth ave- nus . BOULEVARD PROPERTY. Take boalovard propercy, particularly above Central Park. What sustains 1t? It certainly s not:its more rendy zccesebility, it is not its superior patwzl sarroundings. . Far superior may be found in the Twonty-third and Twenty- Tourth Wards, and purchaséd by the acro for the Price of & single lot in s distric: that ir. Green does not thunk will need- strects for tho next ten yoars. Itis oot its fashionable neighbornood. Fufeh aveune still reigns as the choscn abode of the cleme de I cremo of sodiotv, except for such 28 chooss to go boyond Ono-Hundred-and-Fitts- 1ifth street and oujoy tho rus inurbe. This briogs us, in coonection with the incident of Messts. Tarner Brotbers' failure, to & consider- ntion of the subject : upon what do REAL ESTATE VALDES IN NEW YORK CITY AND VICINITY, rest? And tho soorer that isunderstood clearly hie taore quickly are wo likely to bave revived activity in this market, In the mesntime,vo Jiave doubtless a painful experence Lo BO throogiLin the readjustment of values. s B BUILDING 1IN 8T. LOUIS. : Ins recent issue. the St. Louie Republican given some statistics of the buddiag Tecord Tor The half year. It says : - The whole number of houses buit and in course of erection now, commenced since the 13t of January, ex- oods 3.000, containing upwards of 23,000 apartmenta. ¢ must be remembered thut we are dealing only witd imick and alone and iron buildiags. There was 3 lirga ‘number of weod houscs outside Lie fire limits, Persona fally famifliar with building operations estimate thy Dumber of frame bulidings built during the present Sear within tho corporate limlts of St. Louls to amount Toat Jeast 400, This makes the total number of houscs etoctea and beiog erected in the city » few more than 3,500 sinco the 1st of January. Thiese bouses average » large number of apartments. = Less than 5 per cent of the wholo pumber givea sverage fewer than Bve apartments, 2 per centof the number averagh more thsn = twenty rTooms, 10 per cent emore than twelve ronms, and 15 per cent more than ten rooms. The range of the remalning 53 per <ent is from six to eight rooms to each hoase. The whole average is nearly seven rooms to each building. Thus it will be seen that, allowiog only one person to esch apartment, sccommodstions havo been provided Quring the first’ half of the present year for nearly 25,000 people. RECAPITULATION. Value of buildings costing $5,000 and up- wards ... <+-...$7,030,000 Value of buildiugs costing $2,000 and up- warde, 10 53, - 1,422,600 Value of buildings which cost iess than Valus of church buildings commenced since Jan. L.ceceees Grand total. IMISCELLANEOUS. AUCTIONS TO COME. There are five auctions to be held this week by Elison, Pomgroy & Co., which deserye the at- tention of those who have money to put into roal estate cheap, 88 all resl estate goes at auc- tion nowadaya. On the 1st of July 400 scres of Lake Forest property will bo sold on the grounds, 1n plata of 1t0 80 acres each. This land is the property of the Lake Forest Hotel and Manufactunng Com- pany. The beauties of Lake TForest are well inown. The fine taste with which the town _was orginally lsid out sdded to its natural advantages make it one of the most beautiful suburban places in the West, The high bluff which gives so command- ing & view of the lake, and the diversities of the surface affording 5o agrecable a relief totho monotony of the city's surfaco, are nataral ad- vantages of great importance to the fature value of Take Forest property. The lake shore from Evansien to Waukegan is deetined, with- out & doeubt, to become to Chicago what the banks of the Béulsan River are to New York, the summer retrs of its wealthiest citizens, fnd the site of its most elegant suburds. Thers is not anywhere elso in the West a finer suburb than Lako Forest. - Its residents are among the b_egt citizens of Chicago ; its educational and re-* ligious advantages ure very fioe ; its scenery is most beautifal ; and it is altogether free from any of the dangerous or unpleasant features of public houses or drinking shops. Recent oxperienca shows that property offered 2t auction 1n theso times is almost certaln to go as figures below its,nominal value at least. If this proves Lo be the case at Lake Forest no ono who buys at the snction next Wedneaday will fail to buy to grest advantage, for there is no other suburban property within $0 miles of this (city that is more certain to advance in value, with ths growth of Caicago. " On the 4ith of July, Elison, Pomeroy & Co. mell for Robert C. Givits, st Sonth Engléwood, fronting on Vincennes avenue, Eighty-seventh stroct Boulevard, and all the best streets in tho ornginal town-plat. Also, all the land where the Transfer Railroad crosses the C., R. & P. R.R. The termsof salo bave been especially ‘arranged to accommodate bnyers of small mesns. _ TALTIMNORE 4 OHIO BAILBOAD. . No decision has yot been reached in the arbi- ;tration of Messrs. W. M. Dorby and . D. Ker- foot, between the B. & O. Bailroad and the land- owners, at. Onkwood Park, whose - property is wanted for the right of way. Pendiug tho settloment of this question, the Railroad CamEmy will do no work on their line between-South Ghicago and Parkside Station. In consequence, re: mains dull as ever. estate in that quarter re- < DUILDING. 5 Burling & Adler have mado contracts as fol- lows: Oo Maditda street, 80 feot esst of Frank- lin stroet, for Jamoes W. Scoville and Seth Wad-~ bams, a firet-class business building, with all modern_improvoinents, five stories and pase- ment in height, 40x17) on the ground. The front will be of Columbiau stone, and the build- ing will cost $37,000. It will be fininhed in Sep- tember.. The Illinois Chantable Eye and Ear Infirmary, uorthwest corner Adams and Peoria rtreecs, will be'a brick buililing, 15x104 feet on the ground, with sub-cellar, basomoat, throo etories, and Mansard roof. It will be finished in October, will cost £45.000, and will be a verv good substantial bulding, heated by stesm in every storv. - There will be crected at the cornor of Mil- wauiteo avenus and Will strect 8 four-story and ‘basament brick building, for stores below, with +tenements of 8 very superior finieh above. This i8 a triangniar bwldive, fronting 70 feet on. Mil- waukee avenue, and 60 feet on Wilt street. Tt will bo completed in October, and will cost £13,000. Burling & Adler have plansforn Louse on the northeast corner of LaSulle atreet zhd nlaple street, for Madame Bintchford, the mother of E. W. Blatchford, Esq. 1t-will be built of pressed brick, in the stylo so much i’ vogue at Boston,’ and will cost, with bara, £16,000. =T On LoSalle straot, 80 fcot north of - Oak street, they will build a resdence for J. B. Hobb#. Esq.. 35363 fast, with cellar, two stories and Maaward roof. The front is of Columbia swne. Thia bouse will'coat 210,000 At the southweet corner of Desrborn and Maplo streots_Edward Hempstoad is building s frst- Z“,,"]) damb.lé oS with stone fzont, at & cost of §20,000. . On Peoris strest, near Jackson strset, Messrs. Witkoweky & Adamsa are bullding two two-story a0d basement stone front, houses, each 25xi2 feet. They will cost $9,000. s TIE KENDALL : BLACK. The negotisttons for this property have been completed and the transfer of deed will be mado o 1st of July. : A REAL ESTATE STORT. - The “modesty, bordenng on-ecl{-distrust,” to use one of Arlemas Ward's exprossions, with | which real ostate men, the world over, piv their trade, is known to overy oue.” A ead illustration of this combined indusiry aud simplicity of char- acter 8 giveu 1 a story told by The Drawer— Harper's Magazine. i i The last instance that has come to our knowledpe in which enterprise_and seli-possession - were admixably mingied oecursed =t the recent execution’of a cnuuinal 1n Wasbington Territory, Just as he waa about to he swuagz otf, and aftor“Lé had remarked to the Sheriff that he bzd nothing £ jer to eay, n real estate agent, ‘whose oflice was in b hat, forced himsolf to the frunt and up the steps of tha scaffold, und Jointly addressing the criminal and the Sherlff, said, * [7 the gentleman who occupics the platform will kindly yield for a sew mmanutes, I would ks to make a_few remarks upon the chesp bomestead Jois at Dobeou's Hole I am now offering for ale.” 'The polits Tequest was asscated to, and, afier s triof summary of ths advnntiges pre- senied by tkat locality, the Bheriff resutued his duties, pulied the cup over the * gentleman’s countenance, Andpermitk bim. tadrop! . o .. 7 _THE CINCAGO & BOUTHERS RAILEOAD COMPANY. *“The Chieago & Souibera Railrosd Company vesterduv closed o contract with J. B. Brown for tho building of thewr road from toe ciby to inter- section with Chicago, Danvilie & Viucenues Koad at Thornton. It 1s expacted traing will be run- Ding 1n 60 days. fe g TR ANSTERS. . Tha following iustruments were flled for rec- ord on Saturday, Juue 27 . CITY PROPERTY. Consideration. “West Madison st, 463 ft w of Fall st, s f, 22x118 t, dated May 27....00eenn eeeea§ 2,200 Yerry st,J38 ft 8 of Fullerton av, 1, 50x125 ft, dated Jun. 20.... vosngesvus. 00 Wade at, 86 {t n w of Currier st, & e f, 25x125 ft, dated June12, 60 Thirty-second &t, 1411 20390 ft, dated June 20, 8,000 Blate st, 6 & cor of Thirtedi 3 dated June” 10, 36,000 The premires No. 9,000 Tudivided 15 of Osborn’s w 5 of e 10 acres of W 13, 5 of Lake st s no 19 ereesees 6,000 West Madison at, av, 31, 13 X135 ft, with tlires brick etores, dated June 0 (P. 31. McDouald to Jawes C. King) 48,000 Eieventh st. opposite Sholfo st, n f. 24x80 it with improvewmeuts, dated My 5, 1878.....0 1,300 Crippin st, near & w cor of Alichiganav, B 1, 253105 £{, dated Juné 5. . 2,000 Crappiu st, near the above, n f,G5%105 ft, dated June 25.. Ceews 10,000 Lexzington at, 303 €-10 ft w of Westernav, n f, 5051245 11, dated June 27.... o200 West Tndiana st, 144 1t westof Wood at, 8 T, 24x100 ft, dated June 3..... 3,000 Same as the above, dated Jutie 2,500 Asblundav, n e cor of Congress gt, wf, 130x 149% £t, dated Jume 27 (Bichard Edwards to Owén K. Williams)..... ... .. 52,600 Weat Jucksou at, u w cor of Winchester av, B £, 217 4-1021%5'6-10 ft, dated Juue 18 18,250 NOKTI OF CITY LIMITY, WLIIIN A TUD: BEVEN 2 MILES OF COURT-HOUSE. Lots 21,22 and 23 (no-Block) of Lake Shcre Subdivision, Lots 24 to 26, Pine Gro dated June 36......... 9,700 BOUTH OF GCITY LDAITK, BEFEN MILES OF COU Tots 3 and 4 in Biock 1 of Pryor & Hopiina' w ¢ of nw & of Sec. 3, 38, 14, duted June 10.. 12,500 Lots 2 to 4 and Lot 1, oxcept 20x105 {t, in Block 14, 1n Cieaverville, datod June 20. 24,000 ts 13 and 14 Rico & Valentine's Lota 11 €020 of Doblius’ n X 8 e 3 of n e X Sec. 3, 28, 14, dated June %' .. 15,000 Lots 3 and 4 in Rozet’s Resubdivision of Biock - 7, of Drexel & Stmith's w 3 1 w X, etc., Sec. 11, 38, 14, dated June 20.0... 14,000 T.ots 1 aud 2, in same block, dated June 20 14,000 Tots 11,14, 15and 18, Block 3 Peter Smith'a part seifofne ) Sec. 9, 33, 14, duted Juved... 4190 SUMMARY OF TRANSFEDS FOF. THE WEEK. The folinwing s the total amonnt of city snd suburbau property, within a radious of seven miles of the Conrt-touse trausferred during the week cnding Saturday, June No. sales, Consideration, City properts.... 9 15 North of city ifinfis Bouth of city limits. Weat of city limits. .+ Total....... For the weck ending June For the week ending June 1 Tor the wcek ending June 6. For the week ending May 0, 907,177 1,508,117 Tall $wearing. The Fricnd of India gives the form of an oath taken by s Burman in court: ** I will greak the trutn. If I speak not the truth, may 1t be throngh the influence of tho laws of demerit— passion, unger, follv, pride, false opinion, im- wodesty, hard-heartedness,” and skepticism—so that when I and my relatives are ou land, laud- animald—as tigors, elephants, bufTaloes, foison- ous sorpents, scorpions—shall seize, crush, and bite us, so that we sball certainly dis. Let tho calamitica occasioned by firo, weter, rulers, thieves, and enemies oprrees and destroy s till e perish and‘come to utter deatruction. Let as be sabject to all the calemities that aro within the body. and all that _are without the body. May we be seized with madness, dumbuess, blmd- noss, desfness, leprosy, znd Liydrophobia. May we bo struck with thunderbolts and lightaing, acd come to sudden death. In the midst of not eaking truth may I be taken with vomiting clotted black blood, and suddeniy die before the sesembled people. When Iam going by water may the water-spirits assaul: me, the boat ko upses and propeity lost; and may alligators, porpoises, sharks and other sca-monsters seize and crush me to death; sad when I change Worlds may I not arrive among men or angels, bat suffer unmixed punishment and regret, in the utmost wretchednese, among the four states of punishmont, Kell, Prots, Bosete, sad Atl- , wao klept 1n the store, aud 5. D. Wolls, Al SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. Tnvestigation of the Burning of M. D. Wellg', Store, The Committee Attribute It to Greasy * . Rags, Their Views About Fires on Upper Floors of High-Buildings. © Recommendations- Made. - On the 1st of this month & fire._broke out in the store of 3. D. Wells & Oo., corner of Mad- ison and Market streets, which destroyed the building and its contents. Some circumstances connecied with the fire ssemed to desorve the special inquiry of the Board ,of Underwritors, aud Mossrs, Georgs E. Ciarke, C.‘W. Case, and J. C.Montgomery were selected by that body to investigate that subject. This they have:done with great thoroughnoss, and have prepared the fotlowing exhaustive report for the consideration” .of the Board: Your Cominittee sppolpted to_investigato the ‘cause and_circiwmstances attanding the recent dre inthe! buliding occujied by 3L D. Wella & Co,, herewith. re-; port: That they first hsked 10 sppear Lefore thepn Coief Fire Marsbal_Brenner, Atulitaut Fire Marshal Musiem, Assistant Firs Airshal Sweeale, the foreiman’ of engine No, 1 (the Iearest ongine L0 Lae fire, aud the, first op thy groand), Capt. Buliwinkle, of tha Patrol, the foreman of ML D. Welin & Co.%s factory, the two men ‘arland, Esq., £ioinoers of toe frm useif.. Toess gentlenien all revponded very wiaingly, to our requont Yor thelr apposrunce, They Wers eactr examined seps- Tately before Lue Jull Conmitiee, aud, iu answer to very searchiug questions, wuve vy the fulleat inferma-, tion, which was ell_tecorded and preserved. Your Committea thun, to gain additfounl igat on-ihe subject tuey wers mvestigating, and to corroburats coriain statements made, Vislied togother severdl of the priu-. Cipal nov-fuctorics of this city, and_exumined Vary carefaily into matters pertsiniug ta their operatiucs wad comstruction. The desira of the Coannitles Was A £0 sscortuin the facts (cspecially 38 many false stato- Dients puve been made), and secotd, to deduss from these facts such conciusions as would serve s valuable lossons fu the fature to the Uderwriters in whosa be- Dhalf we wers actg, * & . ane racrs. The fire was firstscen about 4 o'clack Monday morn~ $ng, Juse 1, breaking oat from 4 witidow on thie fous th' Ho0r, ou tue Markst sirsct tide, a little wouth of the centro of the building The first engine on the pround was No.1, from corier of Adams street wul Fitth avenue, This euging probably reached ths 8o in atout three minuses from Lae time the winim was givea. Tha foreman sttachod his Lose to the hydrant on thy routhiesst corner of Alarket and Miadison streots, di- rectly at the buildfng, He shoutd bave bad steam enougi—say 50 or () ponds—Dby-the tuneho was Teady to1lay, to veach, with his srream, the upp story of the building. - AR a mistter of fact, howes: Lie conid searcely Teach 1he third story, and’ there was bably uu 1mierval of tive minutes Leforednere was utticient head of ateam to command the fourth Hour, waoro Lhe fire was, and this doutiess gave rise 10 tne report, to whick soms of the paj-ers guve currency, that thete wad a Ecarvity of ‘Water—whescss the testimony 21l agrees that there was an_abundance of water from the very first, which, with soilicient stem, could Davo been Luryown over the roof of the buiiding. This Jack of power Was Uwing totwo causes : out, that when the eagize left tho enmne-lcuse thers wan Dot gnite a3 much #team as-usudl, Or u {8 Tequired ;.another, that the engiue is of a patcern that does Tof make, Kteam o fust a5 80mo of the eugines—not bs Listas it slould, * « - Eugine No. 1, after playing-some time upon the Mar- et street side (and, in.tho opinion of your Commitcee, Qolug but Littls gaod, since the siream, siarting. trom the street, and being’ tarown almoat parpendicuiarly the fourth and fith story windows, could cu- 6 toom but s very short distance, and bave but slight offect upon the fire within), wan ordered away by the Chicf, through fear that the west wall would fail, and withdrew, taking suction from the river, which was only u few hundred foct distant, and' put thelr stream upon the frout of the building, Aout the same time with the acrival of Eagine No; 1, ‘sax within four or five minntes from the alarm; ar~ Tivad the Babcock engine from West Lakestreet, ‘ihe bose from this was taken up tlie front stairway into the third story, where was 1o fire, the fire being con= fiued to tho two upper Hoors. Assistant-Maurshal Sweenio weat, at the sams time, by the same starway, into the third story, He gaw 1o siairivay nor mcas of accese to tho fourth stors (the ssme Delug pnrtl- tioned off at fuo south end of the building, as will snpear bersafter), and told by the Captain of the Patrol, who wus In this story with his men covering foods, that thbre wan no.scecss .to the upper floora Irom this story, and that he wanld bave to go dewn outedde torthe slde of W buiiding, Ho did zo, with- drawing the Batcock huse, and wit 1o the side of the buldiug, but ound Do citrance nor stairway to the upper £ioarn 1the sume being, UNknown €0 hiz, in tio slicy in tize vemt). 1 Mastiem went with hosemed of No. 10, and with Hoik and Laddor force up through Keiti /os.! builaiay (tue tocond building cast) on (he roof, 20 thenve o the roof of the burnivg bulldiuy. Tae Toof being of irun, very thick and very boi down, there was great difiiculiy in cuttiig boles. sufil- clentiy Iarge to get o stream Upoa tas fire, Several /apte were mado, and small Loles cut, Lut no open- ing of sullicteat ize could be mrde, Birides, the tire s burning 50 flercely below that tha fire una smoke, coming througa the ruof whers the Lolss were cut, Tuade 3¢ almost imposible for the men 1o work on it, and smoke appearing on the roof the vert buiiding east, the men were ~et to work to cut wirough this roof snd sava it from burning, in which thoy were auccessful. - ‘Atan carly perlod during the fira Assistant-Marshal Buweenie utteinpted to raive the Siipner cscaps on the Market street #ido, s0 as to get & Honzoutal siresm nto ‘fourth and fifth story windows, The attempt docs uot scem to have been niade early enough, and there Nas perhiaps considerable time spent in raiting the ma- chine (soasibly neresenrily), bty before the wen wers Tealy for acticn, the west wall fiving eigs of being abiout to fall, the machins wan crdered from Market Sireet to the front of the bullding. Taere it was made Findy for use, but the bose of No. 3, which was ele- Vated upon it, burst, and before this could bs remedicd the roof and floora {eil, #0 that tha Skinuer excipe could render no service. There waa azothier machine for similar scrvier locatod at No, 1 Engine-House (car= ner Fifth avenvie and Adam stréut), whichs might, and Probably would, have proved moro available than the Siinner bad it been rought mto requisition, but the Sturshal did Dot thitk of it tll it v:an 0o Jate. %o atarin bad been given, the ssond by Assintint- Marshal Mushem ot once on his Arrival st the fire, Frobably in five minutes or 0 efter lhe first alarm was Firen, €0 that there were pleaty of, engines on the firounid, ind there was plenty of water. Capt, Bull- Sinkle, of the Vatrol, was on band wiih his force s momeiit OF two after (Lo fSrst slum was struck. The two men slzeping in the atore on the lower story hrd been aroured (being firet swakened by hoarig glass dropped from upper storics), and, unlocking the front door, Jet in Capt. Bullwinkle, who, with hls min, pro- ceeded by the front stairway st opce to tlo third floor (o fire or sinoke could be seen then—it was full day- lghy, ‘e commenced coveriog - the_goods, Ho Lad covered puccessfully tures foors, snd was worldng in the bntement (at which' time the burning sparks snd ecals wers droppiug down the elevator into the_basement), when warning was given {hem that the builling was avout to 1ail, and ho With- drcw his men, just as thie Toof with the floors and part o tie wallcafe crashing dow, the fatl being precipt- tated, If not cansed, by a lege fron water-tank in the Aifth oor, holdiug, perbaps, 300 barrels of water, bo- Teath which the supports bad_berm burned sway. and hich faliing, carried with it the {ntervening fioors. Thus the burlding became a total wreck, and all its contante, inelnding forty-slx covirs of the Patrol, to- tally destroyed in lers than forty minutes from 'the time tls first alarm was given ; aad duriug this time 1ot one single stream bad been’ put upon the fre in & way to scrve any purpose. The entrance to the stai; Tay onthe alley, which gave Access {o the upper slorez, hnd not been opencd. Ko much for the fire itsclf, THE CONSTRUCTION OF TITE BUTLDIXG, Tho bullling was constructed by 3L.D. Welis & Co., to e nsed in ihis mauner : The first fioor and bave meut for their own alesrooms ; the second and third to e ronted ax mallesrooms ; and the fonrth and Afth finors for ther factory. A stalrway ran from the front of the bullding to the third story, where itended. Another stairway ran from tha Tear of the bullding {entrance in the allcy) to the Aifth floor, for the use of {ho factory workmen, This stairwoy, below the fuurth Bory, was inclosed with a matched and besded parti- Hioa. the design being to allow of Do paserge from faia’ orirway 1o the Ealecrooms o the sscond and thira floors. A person golog up the front etairway to the thid story would bave found (as Marshal Sweenie did) that stairway termiuate, znd no visible means of reaching the upper storicn ; he would have se.n, hot- e atehed partition inclosing 3 siace along tin Southeant side of the building, and, if be bad been of 0 fvquiring minc, snd bad with ax and hooks pulled Hown this partitios, he would have found belind it a conthtious stairway reaching; from the street in the Toar to the top of ihe bullding. On the morning of {hia are inquiry was not pushied to this extreme. Ain. it 1he Chief Marsbal, or his saglatants, or {he foreman of No. 1. had been familiar wirh the (0n- struction of this building, they wonld probiiy hava Fona at once to tho docr on the alley, and carried thelc foe up that stairway to tue fireitself, Whether, when They resched the passage from the third to the fourth Hoor, they could have made their streame available 24 ebtained a foothold for advancs agaiust the Serco fire raping above them, expeciaily since the men on tho Toof were tnable to cut an open sufiiciently large to Five vent to the fire and smoks ahove, can’ never be §onn, an the attempt was mever made. It iu by no Thoara imposafble that if it had been made the fira Couid have been conquered, ‘Ia this connection your Commiltes wish to ay, tb a5 article recently appeared in the Chronicle, of ' Ne Tork, in which it i charged that the building oc- cupicd by M. D, Wells & Cn.” wax erocted in_a shabb; manner ; that tha walls were weak, the stairwaya pi {hat there wzs Do stand-pipe, ew. Your Commi hare taken pains to ascertain the facts in the case, and 13y them before you. "he thicknes# of the walls of tho varions sfories was 28 fallows, vi Dasement..... Principal sio Secord etory. Third story. Fourth and i The nre-wall, extending above roof, was 16 inches thick wnd coped, and there was & tand-pipe, With hose sttachment, Upon each s10Ty, And 50 foct of aid_not return sgain. Dose, regulatiicn size, for each story, attached. Thers wasatsnk on fifth story, capaciiy 1,500 gallons of water; its welght, full of water, waa 6 tous. THo Touin stairway was 6 fect 6 inches wide to_thind floor, and from third to Afth, 4 feet, in clear, Stairs of bard Wood—ath ; curb ruil ‘of ash treads. The height of butlding was £0 feet from ground to roof ; width, 66 feet ; depth, 100 feet to alley. The building was fOrst- class in every: respect—Philadeiphiu pressed brick front; sions tricmings: Baltimors and Chicago pressed brick sids: roof of thick fron, B CATSE OF THE YIE. ‘Thers wes no fire in_the buildmny after the previous Priday night, Ssturdsy being Docoration Day, the ‘elevetor was ot zun, though the busiauss of the fae- tory was coutinacd as usual The workmen left the factorypt 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. snd from that time 1o one went 1n:o the upper sories of the building wxuept the forcman. This foreman wegt up elone into the factory Saturday evening sbout 7 oclock, fonnd ieverything all right, spparentyy, and went bome. Sat- ‘urday, abont 19 o'clock, he came to the bailding, 25 was .| his custom, unscdompanied by any one, and went alona into the fourtl and fifth stories of the building. He Jooked over the work done by the me, found every- tling appareutly all right, and went home, snd Thia foremsn does’ not einoku—never unoked in his life. Thero was no watch- mian about the preiniacs, but two young men slept in the private office on the Arst fivor,” They had 3 key to the lower fuciory door, which was ket in the otfice, but they only used 1t to let in the workmen in the mornig. (The only other key to the factory was in posagssion of the foreman nbove d-ucribed), These 3oung men did not go futo the *fuctory at all any tme Baturday or Sunday. - They cane into the sfore Sun- day night about 9 o'clock and weot to bed, and were awakeued, as Lefors stated, ot 4 o'clock Houdsy morn- ing Uy falllog glass, WLat, then, waa ths cause of the fire 7 ~On the fourth floor were two five-gullon cans of ail (aue of castor, oil and oneof Labrzdor ou), set ina Juotal-lined trough whose edges were ruised—the oil Deing used In treving boots, Thera was also blucking in which, perhaps, besides lamp-black, was_some lin- socd oil aul_turpentine, a3 ingredicnts, The work- {men put on the oilsud blacklig with brushos; but ‘they wiped their hunds and tools with cloths, whi iwhen they becawe (oo black and filed with oil anc blacking, _they tbrew upon the floor with the jchips and’other rublish. The gicls using seming wachin:a kept their machines from belng gummed with ol - by ‘raubing the oily parts at night with cloths, cloths become 100 anly for ‘When these further use they were thruwn on the floor il other rubbish, Occasionally the cutsing-board bad to be ‘plancd smooth, and the few chipa thus made paturally Went in with tne chips on the fioor. It was ne cuse town in this factory, every night sfter work houmm, to Bweep up the scciitulated rubsish of the day into & wooden Lox, which was sent down on ths elerajor to the botler-room. . This box would comtuiu chiefly Isather acraps, but with them ocouionally an oily clow from the treer's Lench, an oily cloth from the sewing- nuechize beneb, pernapa a faw shaviuis, and may b a grossy paper of twy from the mew's dinuer-buskels, il all chus light'y Wt 70 Spriakling Leforo swecy- e A % Saturday night this box wes carriod to the clevator, bt did not go duwn, o the elevator Was not ruuniug, The box was Ifton tho fourtis floor, near the windows v viest side, somewhat back of the ceutrs of tho Intial box were the materials for spon- taueous eombuaiién, Doubtioss Leat was goperated il b0 tliak When the foreman eutered the factory hoou o did not discover sny aignn o But ix tims the beat hecame fire, burned through the Tox, through the fioor, eropt along. klowly, feoding, periaps; on heavy rather than light matersal, so that when at laat, at & o'clock, the fire buist out through the windows in'the. fourth floor (close by where thin Loz was pluced), the fire had pechaps Leen burning fur many Bours, sud, rapidly epreadiog to_the ffi flour, where air was given to it, burned the flcor frum Delow the water-tuni, aud 80 hastenod the compisis dest nction of the building. Tais is the theory of your Committee. To verify it they viiied, a8 before stated, several factories, and wera most’ thoroughly . confirmed in their convictions, In one of the lirgest, 'snd oue whoso reputation 3a & risk has been of - the best, they found s barrel of cotton-seed oil, used by the treer: they found o can of linseed-uil and a can of turpen- tine, to be used when mixed with the blacking ; they found the oilycloths on the treers’ benches, and Lrought sway two samples so thorouglly full of oil and biacking that they are, to lock at and feel of them, the, best proof of the theory of rpontaneous combustion. They found the olly clotl ifng the sewing-ma- cirines, und cutterad shavings from the cattitg- board, and they found the wooden box and barrel into whick these, with tha leather scraps and dinper-pa- pera, were vollocted, once & week to go the furnace- room, They found also, in two of these factories,in first~Class boildingr, 3_similur’ construction of st ways with that of M, D. Welln & Co., and were iz~ pressod with the conviction that, if & fire had oo- Curred in_the upper storics of gither of them, tho same inatnlity (through iznorance of rocstruction) to reach the fire would have been experienced. - Doubt- lesa thero are many,more that your Committee did not sce, 5 THE DEDUCTION? made by your Committco from the focts so fally set forth ure these Tuat in every building where there s & factory of any sort thero siouid be s watchman and watch-ciock, d that a beavy charge should_be made foF tiseir ab- cnce, Had there bean_one in Wells’ building the iro would havebeen quickly discovered and easily extin- guished, Taat in every shoe factory, at leust, the rnb- Lish should Le gathered into an iron box or can, raised from the floor, and provided with a cover, and ihat this shonld be carried zway and emptlod every night 1z soue sate placo where o dnange cun resll, Tont e use of.colton-ge 301 disco: Toat T Bty b ahoe Gebortv ronis ba maad eistiome ary. Tut the frons should be hested over metaliic supporta, and not resiing upon or against wood, That acharge should be mude for the nse of keroeena ofl Iamps in facterics sutlicient to discourage, and eve: Jrobibit, their use. That 1ron_ stand-pipes should al- wWaya have a coupling outaide the buiicing for use of city engines (which Wells’ did net), That tie commu- nication between one Soor aud anotherahould pever bo conceaed, but that, if it 16 necessa~y (g parsage to bs ahut off, it eliil be douw by & lucked door—plainly in view—showna to every onethe méans of passage, thongh not aiving it to every one. _That it fs impera~ tively neressary ihat (b foremen of eoginea should bo familiar wiih the coustruction of every buikiing in the immediate district in which their engins aru iocsted, They do estecm the effart to make 044 man famil sat with all the buildings in the business part of the city ua of practical utility, but that each engine shomd have its discrict, and the Foreman and the Assistant- Foreman confiued at first o that district in their sur- ey, 0 that he wio would naturally arrive frstat s fire'In a business building, sbould be fumiliar with its construetion, though no one elss s, When this rur- vey is accomplirhed, the Foromen aud Assistant-Fore- men could interchange and survey each otuer's dis- tricts, until each was familiar with the buildings in the business portion of the city at least; thatsteps should be taken to procure some more quickly aud miore casily-handied machines than_thote now owned by the city for hoisting men and heae, and com- manding fires from the lovel of upper stories of buildingn, TOUR COMMITTEE ALE COMPELLED TO ACKSOWLEDGE that if a fire were to-day o be discovered razing in the fourth or fAifth story of 3 firstclass bullding, if it Diad gained nny hesdway before being discovered, it ‘would bo a mutter of some doubt whether it could’bs extiuguished. The question would nutarally be asked of our Chiof Marabal, * How would you baudle such & fre?" 1o would probabiy reply, * Attack first with hose from the jnside, and send another force with hose und hook 2nd Iadder company to the roof to Sttack it {rom above.” - “ But supposlng you did not Xuow the construction of the bullding, and could zot find the stairway, or suppose you did find the atalr- way, but could not muke progress up those staira agalnst the fire, what would you do2? < Attackit tlirough the roof, he would exy, * Cuta large opening suilicient to put & dozen st1eams - throngh, and drown out the fire from above.” *But suppase the rof was the moat approved metal oo, through which you could not cut, what would you do?” * Would have to deyend upon’ reaching the firs from the outside.” “ How conld yon do this?” * Either by hose from the eet, or from n hose elevator on the level with upper storles.” ~ * Well, would tweuty streams thrown iZom the sirect level into windows of the fith stors of & building do much good 77 4 No, for thes would strike sgzinre .be cciling, and not peneirate into the room to tha fire.,” “Can you always depend upon your hose elevatora?” % No; they are clumsy, Dot easily handled, and rerely have been of grest service.” * Can yon have Iaddera long enough to reach upper atorfes 77 + Yes, there are such; but if the fire 15 under much headway the men cannot work from them diractly in front uf windows through which fire. may be burst- ing.” i S0 we clore onr report by saring that much can be done, but wheu all is done, the sure means of escaping great loss from fira occurring in upper stories of Bigh buildings is not discovered. 3 The New English Twin Ship. The London Slandard of Juno 3 has the fol- lowing in roforence to the mew twin ship just lauuched: 3§ . *“One at least of the many rival schemes for traneporting passengers scross the chaonel in moderate comfort is likely to have a fair trial. The English Chunnel Steamsbip Company yester- day launched thewr twin ship Castalia from the slip of the Thames Iron Works and Ship-building Comuany, in the preseaco of & very large as- semblage of spectators. This building is buils upon what is known as Capt, Dicey's principle, but which, as far a8 the general scheme of o double ship is concerned, is no_novelty what- ever, although it hag never bofore been tried upon 5o larze & cale. We can perfectly remember & steamer of about the size of tue ordinary Groenwich steamers upon exactly the same prin- ciple—namely, tbat of & ship cut in balf loug ways, the two balves being connected by a deck, and hlwgfil water- way between them iz which the paddles worked. Tlus stesmor '3y for two.or three yeara at s short distarce from shore off the Isle of Dogs. This mas: have been eightoen years ago, and the fact & did 0 hie idle would seem to prove thi a failure. - We are uot arguing from this ttattho Castalia will be a failure—far from if, foc we be- lieve that she ‘will prove a great smccess; tho fact bewng thatin a emall craft there would bo no advantage whatever 1o slacivg the vwo halves of n vessel atzome distanceapartiu: tead of anit- ing them, for even when 80 wideued .the ship Would mot be sufficiently large 0 mee' or- . dinery waves withoat being iefluenct: by them. In a ship of the size of th Castala, 200 feet long by G0 foct wide, tho grec: uesideratum of steadiness in anything liks an crdinary Chan- nel sea milt, we think, ba attaised. We dr ot thigk that Bhe would be 5 good ses-boat sic gule, forJarge asehote she isby o I 8o to dominate Atlautic waves; but fa muvtbiig buta very heavy gale she o1ght in tho Char: &l to be aimost absolutely steady. ‘Ihe fact, tuerai- ro, that the precarsor of the Casts- lia msy, perhaps from want of eagiie power, bave proved a failure a8 & river hoat, in.Zo W, militates sgainst the chance of succuia ol she Castalia_sa n Channel sieamer, and no doubt Capt. Hely has ‘produced varions improvementa which * will go- far to insare suocess. The sdeck, - or,- rather, the nei-work of iron “which supports’ tho deck and con- nects the two compartments, is of immense strength, and bad well need to be so. . The atrain when & great wave takes ono comoartment upon the broadside, Lifting it up whilo the other re- mains in the trough, will bo enormous, as ihe portion which riass must, as it does, 8o keel over the otber compartment to the ssme angle Which itself tukes. This strain frould, 1n heavy ocean scas, bo vo sreat that it is hardly likaly tbac the principlo can ever bo avplied.to_great seagoing Bteamers ; but in the Chanfél the seas, even in storms, are 80 short snd chopping that a vessel of the size of the Castalia may be expected to ride [airly over them. o as sLe is, sha can enter the harbors of Dover and Calais at all times, for she will draw only five feet of water. Both ends aro alike, and provided with rudders, 5o that_she will mot have to turn in harbor. The engines, nominlll!ol 260-horse power, con- structed by Mesars. J. & A. Blyth, work up to 1,500-horve power. Her outside lines are clean 2nd promise speed. and a8 the inside works are perfectly straight, and will offer no remwtance whatever to her passage through the water be- youd that of friction, there is no reason why she ghould not be as fast as she would have been had her halves been placed togetber, instead of be- ing separated by an intorval of 26 feet. In this interval are her paadles. They are not, of course, a8 yet in position in the Castalia herself, but, as shown 1n a large model exhibited in one of the oitices, they appoar to be altogetber dis- proportionataly small for the size of the vesseL” A TERRIBLE CONTEST. Xow Connt Casivione Was Attacled by Bandits in Eis Castle, and Iow Sio Defended Himscll und Saved His Family. The Island of Sardinia, 1 the Mediterranean, for centuries past has been the scene of many wild and terrible adventures, and its chronicles, 85 tho Italian historian, Schiavone, said, shounld be written in blood; but conspizaous among all there episodes of & half-barbarous island life stands the tragical event which occurred in 1824, and in which Count Casavione bore the leading part. . It was on the 22d of July of that year, at a Jate bour in the afternoon, that tho .people of Nori, o amall town in the eastern part of the island, were startled by the sirivalof s young man, Taounted on a noble stecd, covered with foam. : Ho shouted to them in a panting voice : “All of you who wish to save the lives of Count Casavione and Lis family mount at once your horses and hasten s fast as they will carry Jou to Castlo Manza, whero the Count is bé- dicged by Ltocen and his gang of. robbers and murderers; and may God give that you do not arrive at the castle too late!” Thus stirring appeal was received by thoso who lieard it with shouts of mingled dismay and ap- proval. For Couut Casavions, of Castle Mavzs, was popular in all that part of theisland, becanse he was a man of the greatest benevoleace, who, but tho year before, wheu a long-continued droughs had exposed tho people of Eastern Sar- dinia to the danger of famiue, had generously relieved the peopls of the necdy communities by tho princely gift of one hundred thonsand scudi. Pocea, his sssailant, oo the other hand, was universally detested, on sccount of the blood- thirsty and ferocions manner in which he carried on his infamous business as chief of A GANG OF MOUNTAIN BRIGANDS. Within a few minutes after the arrival of the mossenger from Castls ilanza, who was the body-servent of Count Casavione, the mariet~ place of Nori_ was filled with excited people, to whom tho messenger explained more at leugth the startling occurrence that had led him to the town. He said that about noon threo men, wearing tho garb of pilgrims bound for the Holy Land, had knocked at- the gate of the castlo walls, and had ‘been’ unhesitatingly admitted, for the Count was a pious and hospitable man. The pilisrims had sdid they bad come froia Corsica, and had cenducted themselves with strict pro- priety at the family table, to which tne Coant, after the fashion of the country, had invited them. After dinner, however, &8 they were “walking with the Couut in the walled couzt-yard, one of them hud suddealy drawn from his pock- et a silver whistle-and given with.it & shrill sig- nal, to ‘shioh another whistls on the outside of the walls bad immediately respondzi. BeZora the Count had been abls to ask the p frims what this mennt they had thrown of their upper gurment; drawn long stilettos, and threai- ened to take hi life in case ho did not at occo oren tho hesyy iron door closing, the entrauce to the castie. "Connt Casavione, n very powerful man, had at fires consentod to do 8o, and, as ths outlaws— for such they were—had turned to drag him to the door, he had snatched the stiletto from the hand of one of them, snd had buried it into the breast of another ; and then, after giviug the firut, tho disarmed one, a torriolo gash in tho abdomen, he had ‘pounced upon the third of his by telling them that he. would sscure them sd- mittance to the conrt-yard of the castle throngh aruse; that they wonld easily overcome ths ra~ sistance of the Count and his four servantss that the boaatiful Countess and her three on::g danghters should be surrendered to their lust. _Aud then he disguised thres of his ruffians 28 pilgrims, and sent them *o Castle Manz. Connt Casavione knew who Rocca was; he knew also that nemight look for the woret, rnlesa e conld 0ld ont Wil 6 men until succor arri mfin No rL 5 until & arrived eanwhile, the bandits were thunderin the butz ends of their muskets sgainst, tho ?:lé: door. They nad easily forced open the outside gato, and they were 10w, a8 it were, in the nto- rior of the wall which had been built thore— Castle Manza was an old, medireval stronghold— of extraordinary thickness. Thers was between the outside gate and the inside door s spaca abont 12 feot long, 9 feet high, and 7 fect mde. Rocea could not think of .scaling the wall, for its top was fringed withsharp iron spits. As yet he had no idea that two of his disguised pilgrims wore dead and the third a helpless prisoner. Buddonly be ordered his men to stop pounding againat tha iron door, and he shouted in & thun< dering voice : _ “Melro, S8acchi, Nerdo—what are you doing inside? Answer, I tell you!” This time Count Casavione replied. e Roces,™ he.cned, 1n & calm, but terribla tone, “two of your emissaries have paid with their lives for their wickedness. Ths third lies hera belplessly on tho ground. ‘Take warning by their +, fate, you and your compaaions, for death awaiss all of you withoue fail."” } Tho outlaws were considerably startled by this annonncement. But Bocca cried ont : “Don't believe him, men; ho lies! Case avione,” ho then added, 1n & voice of terribla rage, " you know you cannot escape us, for, it you try to jump from the rear wall, my mon there will shoot you down.” The Count know this was false, for the servanl girls told him that none of the outlaws wera posted in the rear of the castls, and that Logari- Do, his messenger, had safely gotten away. Rocca continued his threats. He told tha Connt he would gouge his eyes out and cut of- his nose ; ho would hack him slowly to piect Lie srould flay him alive : he would use his wife and cluldren as targots for his and his men’s ‘musiets. He offered the Count’s servants their lives and a large reward if they would open tha door to him and bis fellow-bandits. Butall was in vain. The besioged saw tha% tho iron door wonld hiold out for hours yet, and they hoped that succor would arrive from Nori intime. Kocca then ordered his meu to como outside, sothat & fire might be puilt between the gate and the door, when the Leatod hingex wouid xnap. This dangeroua schemehad to ba thwarted Er once. 5 Count Casavione for this purpose scaled up to the small-looking turret, which stood on l.hnptnp of the wall, near to tho entrsnce. It bad long ‘been out of use, but its small windows allowed a siugle man with a suflicient quantity of shots to prevent the bandits from getung out of the gita or standing nearit. Ho took six loaded musieta with him. As he got up to the turret, ho saw Rocea and two of his men there. He fired, and one of the Iatter fell. Kocca and the other bandif uttered ferocions oathy, and hsstened back into the gate. THE BANDITS WEBE OAUGHT IN A TRAP. Count Gasavione shouted down "to them ta surrender. They answered with fierce oatha. Four tried to rush out, but another bullet from the Count’s musiet drove them back. Then the bandits made fresh desperate effarts to forca open the iron door; but s they had to stand 8o closo togother, they had to work at a considerable disadvantago. Finallv, seeing the fruitlessness of their ef- forts, the bandits becams very still. Every now and then one would put their head ont; but a bullet from the Count's muskot drove them back again. Then they bold a loog deliberation in excited tones, ending in low whispars, and finally in profound silence. ¥ The Couunt divined that the bandits were wait ing for the metting in of dusk, to Jffect their oBcape iu perfect secarity. The day was ons of tnose delicious, clear July days, euch as can only sbound in the Mediterranean. At 6 o'clock it was still a8 light almost as al noon., Shortly _afterward Count Casavicos espicd at a considerable distance a cloud of dnst, from which, 10 about fifteen minutes, & caval emerged. . Tt was the long-expected relief. The Cormt was almost overcome with joy. He whispsred t0 lus servants in tha court-yard that the end of the struggls was drawiog nigh. Bultn:ow 1t bocame ilrlll-in‘;gurtun!k for him ic give his approaching frionds timely® warning of the poeition in which he had pent up Rocca and his mep, 80 that they might not rashly ventars within range of the bandits”gans. P » A winding roadway was leading up the rook, toward the entrance of the castle-yard. When the men from Nori went balf-way up, they gave s rmging cheer. As soon as tueir voices had dicd away Count Casavione cried, in a thrilling toue: “ Friends, the bandits are trapped in the wall between tha gase and the iron door. They can- Dot got out, because 1 and my mon are in tha turret here, So, boware ef rushing directly at them.” villainous guests, aud, ofter a brief strugglo, had succeeded in disarming him. - He held the outlaw in A TERRIELE GRIP BY THE THROAT. and called Joudly for help. His four servants at once came to bis assistance. They bound the third outlaw hand and foot.. The other tiwo Iy dying on the ground. Meanwhile the cause of this sudden ssssult upon Count Casavions had become avparent. Loud knocks at the castle-door caused 1t to tremble audibly. A house voice shouted ina ‘menacing tone: ) « Edgardo Casavione, open this door! Rocca is heve mith bis twenty men. Open it Yolua- tavils, and only your own life shall be taken. Tut resist me, sad L swear by the Holy Virgin of Loretto that I will torture vour wife and five children to death before putting an end to your own life! You know why I am here. You know, wo, that there is no help mear. This door will not resist us very long.” Count Casavione made no answer. Hnbeizod his wife, who, with her children, two litilo boys and three young girls, had hastened i terror into tho court-vard, to retire to tho castle and sond bis six muskets and sll his pistols by the thres servant girls into the court-yard. He then hastily whispered to Logarino, his body-servant, to take lus Less horee, aud, feaving the castle by 2 secret door in the rear, gallop to Nori for succor. 5 A Logarino had reached Nori, as'ws know, in due time, and half an_hour after uus arrival be started on his way puck to Castle Manza, ac- companicd by fifteen well-mounted and well- dresacd men, who, under the leadersinp of the only royal carabiniere that was stationed at Nori, were extremely anxious to snccor the be- sieged Count, and to inflict o terrible lesson upon the outlaws that had infested the country for years past. While they are on thelr way to ths scene of the struggle, wo will brietly state the cause of TIE MORTAL FEUD 3 betweon Count Edgardo Casaviono and Roces, tho bandit chief. In the year 1812, both the Count and Roccs ‘had been ofticers in the Sizteenth Italizn Regi- ment, which. uoder Napoleon tae First, had par- ticipated in the disastrons Bussian campaign. Count Casavione had boen Lieatenaut-Colonel of the Regiment ; Rocea only a Secoad Licuten- aut. Dunng the battle of Smalensk, Rocca had boen caught in the act of robbing a wounded Russian General. He bad been tiied by a Court- Martial, presided over by Count Cssavione, and had been cashiered and sontenced to be sent to the galloys at Genoa for six years. When his epaalets wero torn from his shoulders, Rocca bad exclaimed: £ 5 “ Egardo Casavione, this is your work—you shall suffer forit! " ) Gutil 1815, Roces nad_undergons his terrible punishment ; but thea the King of Sardinia bad Pardoned bim on_condition of leaving his do- miniops. Roccs had then taken up his abode in Corsica, and had at first led an houest lifensa farmer, but in 1622 he had joined a gang of out- iaws, and bad finally been compelled to flee to Sardinia, & large reward having been offered for ‘his apprebension, dead or alive. On the Island of Sardinia he had learned for the first tiwe that Couut Caszvione, against whom he bad sworn such TERIIDLE REVENGE in the year 1512, wes now proprietor of the castle and estate of Ma where ho lived Jeacofully and bappily wita beautiful wife and 2 family of charming children. From that moment_hia principal object was to murder the Count. He had_twenty-ive ruffians about him, than whom no viler cut-throats could e found. Tues were the dregs of the robber auge of the Italian peninsula, who had found o fass_ asylum in the mountain fastnesscs of the 1xland of Sardinia. Rocea, a handiome, daring, powerful man, had earily become their chief. ' They readily fol- Jowed him whenever he told them to rob a peaceable farmer or s traveling peddler. But when he told them they mast belp bim to mur- ‘The men from Nori shouted *Bi! 8i! " in or~ der to indicate that they uoderstood the Count. Meanwhile the bandits were perfecily beside themselves with rage and torror. They cursed Hocea in the most horrible mauner for enticing them into this trap, aod finally one of them shouted out to the Connt: _““We will surrender if you will spare oux irst push Roces, without arms, out of the gate,” was the Count’s reply. There was s moment’s pause. Then Rocca was heard to utter a fearfal vath, » brief struggle ensued, and then the bandit chiof was thrust out of the gate. He threw up his arms and cried for mercy. Count Casavione aimed at the bandit chief's left leg, and planted a ballet in it. .. ROCCA FELL TO THE GLOUND, «attering a piteous moun. Meanwhile the men from Nori had dismount- ed, and_cautiously cropt up to the rock, slizhtly 10'the right of the gate. AS so0n as they stood with their guns ready to fire, Count Casavione aid to the baudits: “Throw your muskets out of the gate. 1 pledge vou my word as & uobleman that your lives sliall be spared.” Tners was a brief pause. Then tho bsndite flung ont their fire-arms. ‘Ihe next moment the men from Nori rnshed up to the gate, while Count Casavione descended from the turret into the iuterior of the court- yard, and ordered Lis servants to open tho iron- door. b ) The bandits allowed themselves to be bound. All they uttered was appeals for mercy. Rocca, who was found writhing with oxcru. ciating 'pain—for his left lez had been shat- tered—way carried into the castle, where his wound was dressed. Ho was siretched g¢n a Joungo, and sccurely fastoned toit. He spoke ‘but voce. % +- Edgardo Cnsavoins,” he sxd, * true nobleman, etioot me doad cow! + am a0 executioner,” was the Count’s som- bro reply. - * “The captured bandits and their wounded chief- tain were conveyed next day in_eix wagons to Nori, where they were received by the inhabit- nnts with lond threats and execrations, while Count Casavione aud his servants received a perfect ovation. Rocea's leg bad to bo amputated. When ba Dbad fully recovered from the eXects of. the op- eration, he and the other bandits were tried for their crimes. Owing Lo Count Caravione's promiso that their Lives should be spared, Rocca's Inen were sent to the galleys for thirty years, whilo he himself was seztenced zo bave lus right hand cut off, aud then to be bokeaded. Ho was executed on the 5th of Deceraber, 1824, in'the prescuce of en immenso concourss of people. Ho died with great frmuesss and wten the execationer chopped Off Lis 1gist Land, lio exclaimed sneeringly, *Canaot you do your work better? Grind your ax befors you go for my neck I” you area PR s A Rich Beggar Dismantlcds From the Detruit Free Preet. * Yesterday an old man, poorly dresscd, limping asif very lame, aud weaning green glaesey, eu- tared a saloou on the river road and asked for rmoney, snsing that he lived 3t a certain nomber on Saventh atreet. and that his wife was very il and hs too ola aud lame to work. In the ealocn was & mau living a: the verv number given on Seventh strent, and Le branded tho old man 23 § liar. The beggar then said it was Beventcentk street, bot he was 80 confused that {he balt dozer ‘menpresent determined i> sce how Lie was ma:l& up. He shonied * polico™ as they prreacied him, but the men Jocked the door and thresw hims down. The green glaskes covered as yood & pair of "eyen as were in the room, aad 1o canse for his limping could be fonnd. ' He kad hisleft hand tied up, but they jerked tle rags of dud foand uo hurt or vound. Lastly, they fisked out of his poczety £33.45 in small monsy, 88 he had bag- gad it, and discovered that Lo had & bank-Ecok der Count Casavione, even if it abould bocome necessary to ETORX HIS CASTLE, X they had demwred. for Castle Manza, ‘besiden being situated on a steep rock, wes sarrounded b7 high malls, and conid be entered cnly by a eingle gate and door, than which nothin Btconger could be imagined. Roccs, however, overcams their repugnance ©n a Chicao savings oank wita $420.50 credited tohim, He made a great faxs 29 they woni cg to ex1.080 him, and sually promised that ke wouid lesve Detroiz by the Pacific exprees and never cowe hero agun. He claimed ta haye hegged most of the money in To'edo. One of the men accompaied the old knave to the Central depus Sod remained there until he saw him move aw, train. on th