The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1867, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorg Hera. Letters and packages should be properly vealed. Rejected communications will mot be re- turnéd, Volume XXXII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN!) WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway » BROADWAY THEATRE, Broatvay Dons | FRENCH THEATRE, Fo: street Ta Fanauta | Bunoiton, a BOWERY THEATRE, Mowery, —-Haeant or rae Gueat Crrv—Caitoren ty 7 ¥Oou, NIBLO'S Gar NE ay.—Brace Cao NEW Yor posite New York fHotele Unvge tik Gasur Broadway.-A Mivsvsaer BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Gaano Ducexss. STEINWAY HALL NEW erreu Equesteianis, &. FISTA AVENUE THEATRE, Nos, 9 and ¢ Weat Sth street.’ Uxann Queen Bess. 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Th # report by tho Atlantic cable Is dated yer day evening, December 16, Attompts were made to fire several London warehouses on Sunday night, It is supposed they wore organized by the Fenians, Great alarm prevailed in tho city, al- though the plot was unsuccessful, and hundreds of gpeoial constables were sworn in, Tho London press re- peated its call for vigorous government measures against tho Fenians. Tho Bavarian government urges tho reorganization of the army. Prussia and Denmark have renewed a vory active and important correspondence relative to Scbles- wig. Tho president of the Irish Reform League and eeveral prominest members of that body h. been ar- rested for the utterance of seditious language at the Fenian fuaeral demonstration. The Italiaa liberals assailed the cabinot severely in Parliament, Conzois at 92 11-16 for money, with the market weaker, ies were at 71 in London and 76) in Frankfort The Liverpool cotton market closet frm, with mia- dling uplands at 74d, Breadstufs quiet. Provisions without ‘ked change, CONGRESS. Tn the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, | introduced a resolution amending the constitution so as to create a trituinal of jurisdiction to decide questions of constilational power between the State and federat gov- ernmente. 14 was lad over. and ordered to be printed. | Mr, Wilson introduced bills to reorganize the Stato Do- | partment and to fix the compensation and define the | duties of diplomatic officers, cotton grown afier 1867 from (a up, and, penaivg discussion upon It, jouraed. To the flouse, und solations for ref The bill to exompt raw | in was then taken the Senate ad- call for bills and re- nthe bonded ware- house system, another of inquiring into the expediency of relocating the eapital avd several relative to tho finance aud currency questions were referred. A reso- lution declaring that the House will never retrograde from its position relative to reconstruction was adopted by a strict party vote. A bill char he time for the election of directors of the Pac fc pad warm passed under @ suspension of tho rub Appropriation bill was then passed, A rocotiti n of Ine reducing the pay of mem- offered, but objection was made, ‘ead tho House adjourned, THE CIiY. The Boara of Steamboat Lng; port relative to the collision between the Vaederbilt aud Dean Re tember inst, They find that the collision was 0 el by tho culpable carclessness | of Charts Beasovette, pilot of the Vanderollt, and his license bas consequentiy been revoked. lo the Board of Councilmen yesterday some debate ensued on the revolution approving of tue purchase of St. Thomas, and it was referred tothe Committee on Nationa! Affvirs. A donation of $1,000 cach to the Cor. missioners of the Sink ng Fund was aot agreed to, but a downtion of $250 to certain clerks for extra services was passed. A tenement house, No, £96 Second avenne, was burned down at an exrly hour yesterday morning. It was crowded with poor people, al! of whom had a narrow | escape with their Hives and pine of whom perished ta the flames, It i# not known how many more bodies are yet in the ru Three childrea were among those who perished, and their mother is not expected to re- cover from tho injuries she susteined, A baker who occupted the tower floor has beon ted on suepicion of are have made a ro- | binond in S& hante who a amou Two frauding W Orleans mer rms in that ¢ 5 $150,000, were brought to Now York yestetday by de- tectires, wh ing themselves Nkely to bo detamed By & Writ of habeas corpus in Now O nted their prisoners away, potwillstanding the e ot Genornt Hancock to interce)t thom, | ‘Tho investigation ta the polsoning case of Mra Fall | acd her daughter was resumed ia Brooklyn yesterday Price, the wife of the prisoner, con od her testi mony, She stetes that her » 2 at various times treated ber badly, and once attompted to hare her taken © Asylum, being provente! by the va refusing to receive her, that | efforts to poleon her, and kept | atinuatiy with Mes. Pali. Me. Price's | ns 4, Admiral Palmore fagship of the x tivedat thie port yesterday She was last from ma a8. In tho Court of General Sere yorterntay Neary | Sharpe was convicted of robbery biy abstracting © gold watch and revolver from a W. Stmpron, fn aroom tn Rose sireot, on the 4th iost, Be was ven- tenced to twonty yoars! impreontoent in the Blete Prison, Several m{nor c Wore dicposed of by the award of much smaller penaitias, Tho hearing in tho Peterbot errs Commissionor 0 Wedaoeday, wh closed. ‘i Sixty-fvo camfidates for admirsion to the har were sworn io a9 attorneys apd Covnse!lors-ntiaw of the Stace of New Yoru yesterday ‘a ‘uprome Court, Genera! | Term. Ia the Brookiyn Superior Court Cireait porierday W. W. Wade sued Edward Malloy for $400 due on a pro- missory nots, Matloy denied the gomuinenoss of his signature, but the jury rendered a verdict for piaturiff in a remomed before orm yesterday aud adjourned again to \ ls probable, the evidence will be tifed that he bad heard Mra. Fal! bint at | NEW -YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1867., ernment securities were firm. Gold closed at 13435 13435. Busioess in aimost every department of trade im commercial circles was remarkably light, but a3 @ general thing previous prices were sustained, MISCELLANEOUS. Uur special telegrains over the Cuba cable contain news from Cuba, St Thowas aud the French Antilles. ‘The probibitory duis on imported cattle in Cubs will pot be enforced until four months’ previous notice is given, Achy caplain had been arrested at St, Thomas for failing to report o cholera case on board his vessel. Shocks of earthquake were felt at St, Kitts, President Cabral, of St. Domingo, was marching against Haytt, » Consti(utional Conveution Inst evening @ resolu- ton prov. ding that after the payment of the canal debt oly enough revenue shall be collected from tolls for ry repalr and necessary improvement, was laid table by consent of the mover, No quorum being preaeut the convention then adjourned, In the Virginia Reconstraction Convention yesterday | a resolution was referred, the preamble of which locked to female suffrage, The Convention has been carried in South Carollaa. Th democratic members of tho Callforn'a Logisiature aro yet Unable to decido upon a United Senator ia caucus, Governor Haight 13 strongly urged to accept the position, A negro named Shorter, the leader of the tate insur- | rection in Bullock county, Alabama, has been arrested, He claims to have beon sent from a Northwestern Stato toorganize a black government for Alabama. One of his letters was discovered, in which he orders the killing of the treasurer of his proposed government The negroes in the neighvorhood tried to lyacn him, but were prevented by the whites, Admiral Palmer, of the North Atlantic squadron, died at St. Thomas on the 7ih inst, A fisherman of Tul, Mass., got stuck in the mud io shoal water a few days ago, and the tide rose and drowned him. Sigler, the keeper of the Paterson almshouse, who was indicted for cruelty to his patienta, has boon discharged, Land sold at Ove to twenty conts aa acre at a sherif’s sele in Alabama recently, The schooner C. G, Alvord sprang a leak in the enow storm of Thursday on Lake Ontario when near Oswego, and becoming unmanageable drifted tho entire length of the lake and was beached near Hamilton, C. W. A block of houses in Guelph, Canada, was” burned on Saturday, involving a loss of $150,000, The Coming Political Revolution at Home. At the time of the Connecticut State election last spring, when the republicans puta hum- bug showman upon their ticket for Congress, we predicted that the people, already begin- | ning to be dissatisfied with the policy of the radicals, would repudiate the party thus abusing ifs power and reject the whole of its candidates. The result verified our predic- tion, and the rebuke administered to the re- publicans was so severe that we at once dis- covered in it the indication of a coming politi- cal revolution throughout the country, directed against the atrocious legislation of the radical Congres3, In the elections that followed in “Maine and Cabfornia, and subsequently in Pennsylvania and Ohio, this revolution began to take form and substance, and, despite the desperate efforts of the republicans to account for their sudden reverses on the plea of local issues, or the indifference of their supporters, oceasioned by over confidence in their own strength, it became evident that a deep feeling was at work among the people, and it seemed as if the doom of radicalism -were already sealed. The tremendous change that followed in the votes of the States holding their eiections in November, and especially the disastrous over- throw of the radical State ticket in New York and the complete annihilation of the party in the metropolis, put the matter beyond ques- tion or dispute, and so alarmed the radical leaders as to summarily stop the impeackment agitation in Congress. It is clear, however, that che republicans still remain resolved upon carrying out their reconsiruc- tion policy at the South, and will persist in their efforts to bring the Southern States back into the Union under the political | control of the brutalized and ignorant negro population, in order that they may add to the strength of their party in che approaching Presidential election. Under these cireumstances we predict the culmination in November next of the political revolution of which we have already telt the first shock. From all the symptoms that sur- round us it is easy to foresee that the violence | and folly of Congress, in forcing upon the country a policy entirely foreign to our insti- tutions, and in conflict with all our ideas of freedom, justice and generosity, will unite the people upon the democratic and conservative nominee for the next Presidency, and that ho will be elected by a large majority, The radi- cals may hope to save themselves by calling to their aid the great name of General Grant; but if that distinguished military leader should accept « nomination upon the African su- premacy plattorm of the present Congress he will be defeated at the polls as easily as Chase or any other eandidate would be. The princi- ples that agitate the conntry at the present time are swonger than men, and no personal popularity can for an iustant blind the eyes of the people to ihe importance of the issue. The reconsiruction policy to which the radical party promiaes to adhere is an atrocious out- rage upon civilized society. It degrades the white race, and, by giving political power into the uncontrolled possession of hundreds of thousands of ignorant and debased negroes, breaks down all the safeguards of society, obliterates the progress of half a century, re- duces ten States of the Union to a condition of African borbarism, and demoralizes the na- tional government. It is against this policy that the people will record their votes, and it fe to save the countcy from these evils thay they will defeat the radical Presiden(iel candidate next fall, whoever he may be. We do not believe that Generel Grant will consent to represent such a party or such a policy in the important canvass of next year, He is shrewd and sagacious, an! as he begins to compfrebend the coming revolution he is indicating through his nearest friends bis un- sto sland upon euch a platform as are preparing for him, In thiv be willingn | fe right. nowned eolilivr, wae defeated by the almost solid vote of the Union—four States only enst- opponent was © New Hampshire nonentity, unfit for the position, without any political repatation in his owa State, and unknowa to the rest of the country. The overthrow of the radical negro supremacy candidate next year will be ag complete ae that of the whig nomi- nee in 1852, Ut is to be hoped that General Grant may be spared tho pain of mol a de- feat, and that the conservatives ond democrate may put before the country @ more desirable man than poot Pierce, In proportion as thelr suctess is assured they owe it to the nation to ‘the full amount elaimed, The stock market was firm but dull yesterday, Cor. present none but « patriot and statorman for the anffrages of the people, Tho election of 1868 would be but a | repetition of that of 1852, althoug’ on a broider | and grander scale. Scott, » popular and re- | ing their electoral vote for him, althongh hits | ‘The Latest Tenement House Murder. Another tenement house fire has resulted. in adding yet another to the list of those shocking tenement house calamities which from time to time startle the community and awaken a breez9 of public indignation agaiust those infamous traps known as tenement houses, for the suffocn- tion of men, women and children. The lives of the poor people sacrificed in this Second avenuo trap, whether chargeable to carele-sness or incendiariem, cannot be restored. They have been murdered, we may say; but fearlul as the responsibility may be of the party against whom the direct accusation of negligence in reference to this firo may rest, or horriblo as may be the crime, if the act of a ekuiking in- cendiary, the responsibility at last must be divided between the officers whose duty it is to enforce the law concerning tenement houses and the owners of these villanous dens. Had the law beea enforced in this Second avenue tenement house for its security against fire, the fire by accident could not have oc- curred; but supposing it to be by design, hod the law been enforce in reference to ventilation and fire escapes, there would have been no poor helpléss women and children suffocaicd; not a soul would have been lost. How, then, fia it that the law has been disregarded? Have the officers charged with its execution bocn tampered with by any such body of men as a tenement hous9 associition? Can it bo that tenement house owners are saved the expenses incidental to a fulfilment of the law by bribery and corruption? Can it be that the officer is blinded by hush money or persuaded to pass by on the other side? These are questions which our law and ordor fellow ol'izens, as well as our professional philanthropists, should look into and sift to the bottom. If it is true that everything good in human society has cost more or less a bill of human lives, we have the right to demand that the sacrifice of the30 unfortunate fellow creatures of yestorday's smothering shall at least result, among our poor people, in groater safety to the living. The Wer in Paraguay. | The war in Paraguay, which has dragged its slow lengih along for theso two years, his at length encountered an incident that may hasten its termina‘ion. The Pareguayan forces under the command of President Lopez have achieved a comp!ete success in the offensive operations which they had assumed. Attacking the Brazilian camp, they carried it by storm, taking fifteen hundred prisoners and soveral pieces of artillery. The Brazilians obstinately defended their camp and lost nearly four thou- sand men killed, wounded and missing. A very complete history of the origin and progress of this war, which Brazil, with the aid of Uruguay and, for a time, of the Argentine republic, has waged upon plucky little Para- gusy—twelvo millions and a half against one million and a half—was given by our special correspondent in the Heratp of the 15th of September last. Both sides have made proof ofa valor and an endurance which would have done no dishonor to the armies engaged in the bloodiest strifes of the Crimean war. Bat the devotedness of the Paragaayans to the'r favor- ite chief, their sacrifices, their perseverance, the strategic and engineering skill with which they have resisted overwhelming nambery, must, together with their latest victory over the Brazilian forces, tend to convince the world of the justice of their cause and of the resources for defence against foreign invasion possessed ‘vy them in their unbroken spirit of determina- tion as well as in the peculiar advantages of their country, which, with its impenetrable forests and ibe narrow defiles between its deep morasses, is fortified, as it were, by nature itself. Paraguay is defending the integrity of ber nationality and hor territory. Holding as she does tho key to the whole upper Paranda and the superb valley of the Paraguay rivor, her overthrow by Brazil would bo fatal, at least for a long series of years, to the valley of La Plata; because it is nol improbable that the prediction of our correspondent would be fulfilled in such a ease. The allies wonld begin at once a contest for the spoils which would destroy the prosperity of a valley second in its productive wealth only to the valley of the Missiszippi. The Paraguayan war, as we Rave previously had occasion to say, bad its’ origin in the attempt of certain European Powers to take advantage of our own civil war to overturn the republics of the Western World. It formed part of the plan conceived by Napoleon for the establishment of an empire in Mexico. It was not unallied to the onslaught of England and France on New Granada and what we have called “the spileful dash of Spain against her old colonies of Chile and Peru.” And it now seems doomed, like the Mexican expetli- tion, to disastrous failure. Without foreign aid the allies cannot hope to conquer Paraguay, which we have already described as in itself a natural fortification, And foreign aid is likely to be withheld, now that our happy issue out of civil war has deranged all European plans for establishing and strengthening monarehical institutions In the Western World. A Valuable Present to Napoleon, Now that Napoleon’s proposition for a general conference on the Roman: question has failed, and “all the great Powers,” in re- same verdict as we did long ago, nomely, that Napoleon has no business to meddle with the affairs of Rome, which belong exclusively “to Rome and Maly, some.ot his kind friends in | England, sympathizing, prota with his want of enlightenmen', have presented him with a | copy of the Bible, The Emperor received the cift from a deputation of the English Bible Society very graciou assuring them at the same time that his principles were in favor of protecting all religiong--a delicate hint, per baps, that the version of King James was quite | aseceeptable to him as the Douay version, Considering the repeated failures which have befallen the Emperor's many schemes of late, and his experience in the mutation of human affairs, It} may be that the Bible Society chose the present opportunity of recommending to bids the consolation to be fonnd in Holy Wilt, especially in the Book of Joh. Napoleon's last attempt to selile the dit- culty between Rome and Iisly, which really did not concern him at all any more than it did Garibaldi, who assumed to settle it for both parties, but belongs to Pius the Ninth and Victor Emanuel, has met with a severe rebuke | from the other Powers in their positive re- fasal to bave anything to do with his confor. one, | underst: . fusing to take part in it, have pronounced the | understand that ft does not create public | opinion here, The Dickens Ticket Sale-How te Prevent Further Troubic. There was a great gathering the other night at Steinway Hall around some pediers of political nostrums, and George Francis Train was the Merry Andrew of the occasion, who was present to keep the public in good humor. In the course of many sallies and somersets he touched upon that great topic, the sale of the Dickens tickets, in these words :—“I say Mr. Dolby is interested with Palmer and Jarrett in the sale of these tickets.” Here the Merry Andrew gave expression to a thought that seems to be in the atmos- phere; but we do not believe there is any truth in the charge. Dolby, Dickens and the “Black Crook” men are all in hot pursuit of dollars, no doubt, but we do not believe there is any disposition to get them in this case by unfair means. But it is certain that there is great dissatisiaction with the results of every sale,and much suspicion of something wrong; and the latest proposilion to have a registry made of the names of those who wish to secure seats does not promise much better results, There is but one good and safe plan, and that is to have the tickets sold at auction—the best seats for the highest bidder. This plan has always worked well. Mr. Dickens does not wish to secure more than two dollars for each entry to the readings, and he need not, He can give all that is received over two dollars per ticket to some good city charity, and thus at onee prevent dissatisfaction, please all parties and do good to the poor. Our Latest News from the East. Acable despatch which wo printed in yes terday’s Heratp informs us that “the great Powers have addressed a note to the Sublime Porte requesting that the navigation of the Dardanelles be made free to the shipping of all nations.” Like most cable despatches, this is as vazue and indefinite as a despatch can well be. Some time ago we wer? told that the great Powers had addressed a collective note to Turkey, offering certxin offensive sugaes- tions in regard to the internal administration. of the affairs of the empiré, Fuller informa- tion, made us aware that the note was signed only by a section of the Powers usually called great. Whether this present despatch refers to the former note or to a fresb note, or whether all the Powers or only somo of them have signed it, we are left to conjecture. Since the Crimean war Russia has been excluded from the Black Sea, and the ehips of war of other nations have not, except by special favor, been permitted to enter the Sea of Marmora. The opening up of the Sea of Marmora, to which the Dardanelles i3 the entranc2, to the shipping of all nations is not compatible with the con- tinued exlusion of Russia from the Black Sea. The natural result, therefore, of the free navi- gation of the Dardanelles would be the subjec- tion of Turkey to the disintegrating, or as she herself would doubtiess have reason to call it, demoralizing-influences of Western and North- ern Europe. It is a flank movemont not un- skilfully conceived, and if the Porte yields it must prove either the salvation or destraction of the empire. Much, of course, depends on the question whether the note has been gen- erally signed. Further information is needed before we can hazard a judgment of the case. Misery in the South, Reports from the South, no doubt but too well founded, tell the old story of want, misery and starvation coming upon tho people with the coming winter. Naturally the overwhelm- ing proportion of distress will fall upon the nogroes, not only because they are the landless and houseless race, but because they have been less provident even, so far as was possiblo, than the whites have. They have depended upon the delusive promises of their radical leaders that they would be provided for by Congreas—that land, houses and crops showld be divided, and they should have tie lion’s share; and led by euch hopes they have not only been indifferent to labor, but have spuraed it.” Much of the responsibility for this lies at the door of thoss radical campaigners who, following the example of Mr. Henry Wilson, went through the Southern States early in the (Season making political harangues, Hundreds of men of this class went in every direction in radical pay; and while tho negrocs should have been ploughing and plantiog they were going over the country from court house to court house, following the speakers, sponding what money they could gather on th» railroads, and enjoying generally a political jubilee, Hence, not one in fifty made provision for tho winter; and now that Iabor is stopped, and the planters are not under the old obligation that slavery laid upon them to support the laborer the year round, the negroes are without food or the meaus of getting it Sharp misery will knaw them to the bone, and those whom the Freedmen’s Bureau can keep alive will, maybe, be somewhat wiser next year, and will underftand the politicians better, The London Times’ Opinions Again. The Associated Press agent in London still keeps annoying us with the opinions of the London Times, just as if there was no news of importance to be sent by cable exoopt what the Times enys. The Zimes may make public opinion for all cockneydom for aught we know, but the agent of the Associated Press should If we can get no better news than what the London Times says and thinks, t 1 sooner the cable is cut the betier. THE NEW YORK CENTRAL GASNT CLUB. ar moeting of thie body was held last evening ariors, corper ci Broadway and Tweaty- Street, Rufus PF. Andrews, Pi at of the club, ees was followed, ¢ reporting the tol- « J. Creamer, Mr. George White, A. W. Pultia, James Mr. Henry smith, General ur P, Strong and John M. tLe committee was adopted and The President, under the head of A reg Castor, The report o} the names eoplirmet unfinished business m/ttees (etandtog) h be ready at the (bet called for, ar purpoae ef the club. eteeied announced that the let of com ry OBITUARY. Hew. The telograph anve Chester Dewey. eighty-fourth year of his age born in Berksht gradoated at Wil tutor and subeeq country, Since 1 the University of Rochester, turer on Chemistry and Hot Vrotessor Dewey was unty, Mave, in 178 Coiece in 1900, whi ferred upon hin the degree of M.D, Union that of D, D., and Wiliams that of LL.D. He had been a teacher and preacier for more than C4 ian aud shousands of his pupils eurvive to lament ee the Geath of thie eminent seholer, which occurred ai Rochester on Sunday, in the |° CONFLAGRATIONS. A Woman, Five Girls and a Boy Smothered to Death. ‘Five Other Persons in the Hos- pital. SUPPOSED INCENDIARISM. Great disasters are, if not @ consequence, a concom!- tant of inodern civilization; but as everything 1s notice- avie only by comparison, a succcesion of astounding events has 60 prepared ug againgi surprise that matters of great import frequentiy pass our cbsérvation Lnnce noticed and wntbought of. Occasiunally, however, something happens 80 sudden 10 its nature and fearfal in its effects that the most callous imagination is appalled and the most hackneyed mind arrested in con- templation, Of such a nature was a disaster in Second avenue yesterday morning, In a tenement house not differing from the ordinary plan of bulidings of that character the various families occupying apartments there retired at tho usual hour in the full vigor and strength of health, many of them to wake no more. No donbt fatigued from -tho recreation they had indvigel in the previous day, and looking forward to a week of toil, slumbor visited them without muoh wooing, and dulled their senses to ali outward perception, Tbe never ca‘ ing current of departing time rolled its incroas!ng mo- ments ito hours, and miduight found the occupants of this dwolling wrapped in peaceful slumbers, Some Unree or four young ladtes, boarders, who bud in tho true spirit of 1eminine coquetry adorned their persons in the expectation of seeing, probably, a proferred friend, ex- ibited even in their unconsciousness signs of the (asic which had been exercised in their toilette. One o'clock struck, bat awaked no ccho in the ears of those who slept here; two o’ciock paszed, but had not long registered its’ testimony of departing time upon the stience of the night, before a cry rang out sharp and cicar in the early morning alr, ‘Fire! Fire. * “Fire! fire,’’ was repeated inside in smothered accents, and forms wero Gn atthe windows in frautic gesticu- Jation, and {earful efforts visible on the part cf the ia- mates Lo escape {rom what seemed tnevilablo doom, No flame was to be seen, no spark, no sign of fire, but poaring from every chink and crevice and loophole dense volumes of smoke broke forth thick and menac- ing, giving harrowing testimony to arriving witnessess of what was being endured in-ide. In this house, and from suffovation thus cat "aba Mra, O'Meara aged 69, Eliza oged 19, Mary lon Murphy agod 17- Mary aged 14, and Thomas aged jurphy a lary gi and Thomas 10 Besidos. these Cornelius O'Meara and Rosanna ie taal are now in hospital in a very critical con- ition, No. 596 Second avenue, the scene of this calamity, was occupied as follows:—Basement and fires floor, bakery aud resideace of Maximilian Miller and wife. Second floor rear rons being unoccupied), Jacob Camp- beil and wife with two boarders, Emma E:dridge and Alice Davis, ‘ihird floor front, John O'Meara and wife, three daughters and one 60n; "rear, Mr, Thomas Kelly, wife and two children, Fourth floor frout, Lawrence Cunningham, wife and four children; rear, Patrick Mur- phy, wife, four children and Eilen Dufty a boarder. THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. AS near as can be ascertained the fire broke out very soon after two o'clock in the morning, whep all the inmates of the upper portion of tbe house wee wrapt im procound stumber. At that time the attention of the police was attracted tothe vicinity by piercing shricks, and by cries of “Fire” and “Murder.” The alarm was sounded, and » number of the Twenty first precinct force hastened to the corner of Second avenuo and Thirty-third street, For some momonts they were unable to ascertain the ee locality of the fire, the strong northwest wind which was prevailing at the time, keeping the smoxe from issuing into the etreet, Atieagth the frightened faces and agonized voices of porsons fn the house directed them to the fated 596. Bursting in the hat! door, an ¢tlort was made to extricate (be endan- gered tenaute; but tho stiflng smoke rendered ali at- tempts at entrance futile until the tire engines bad suc- ceeded in subduing the ames in the basement. During this Intervai the eccapants of the back room behind the store, a3 well as several of the tenants up slairs, suc- ceeded in making A portion of the police force mounted tot buildt.g, and by means of rop in the front room of the top floor by bodily hi ing each person to tho roof through the win- dows, How far the loss of iifo might bave been lessened had it not been for an accident at this ime is a mattes of surmise Ono of the occupants of the uppor story procared the ladder tead- ing to the skyligh:, and placed 4 tn position for aa exit upon the roof. He had ascended only a few steps wheu it broke in pieces beneath bis weigut and precipitate 1 him to we floor. A subsequent examination of the lnddor showed that it was @ most frati affair, Tue wood form ug tke sides bad been cut diaz to ihe grain, and it is @ wonder tnt it bad not bere.olore proved its weak. ness, As it was, the weight of the man bad snapped it across two places kt did not break. The wood split, owing to the grain being at an acute angie to the iength =An investigation Oo! the basement showed ive woodwork charred to such an ex- tent that ove of the girders had broken and fa.ten osiaat floor. The fire, however, was entirely confucd to tois portion of the building, It did not even make ita way above the ground floor except in the vicimiy of the staircase, wnere it climbed up toe surrougdiug wood- work. inthe froutof whe basement was the oven of the bakery aud ip the rear Was boarded off a small apart. ment used by We jouraeyman of tho baker, as @ bod- room, A dead-igbt opened out into the yard, and # nar Tow stone stairway atthe front, covered wita a wooden oor, itb-in:o tue streot, DESORPTION OF THE PREMISE, ‘tricaied the somily The scone of this fearful tragedy ts a four atory brick tonement hour of what ts knowa as the second or tuird class, The floor 18 & store, With siitieg room in tho rear, The a; per three siories are contrived for tenes ment oeuene, In the front, on each floor, isa littie parior, ing two of the windows, with a kitcben taking in the third, and two dark bedrooms in the mid- die of the house occupying tne space between the wail and the hailway, both opening into the parior, Tue width of the house enabled this very comfortable divi. sion Of the space, The house is wwenty-five fee wise by forty-Aive im deptn. The rear apartmeats are cua- trived &s counterparts of those in front, and eact com- prise sitting room, kitchen aul two bedrooms. The bouso is substantivlly bait aad is unobjectiouable on this score, TOR SCANE INSIDR, Aa the visitor mounted the dingy stairway he had fearfut evidence of ihe destructive uature of the doath. ae ee ~ lg) * cam bad ascended from the barolog basemen: e Yellow or greenish ton the wails was stirive!led aod scorched, wale in ey hoe its color had been ULatered io a different Bue, w BO much beat could accompany the ali amore ia one of the most Femarkavie if not joatures ‘of the disaster. 9 interior of the house, from what ‘waa apparent to the spectator, must bave been as hot as the furnace of @ foundry. Ju the fromt room, on the evidences were piainly visible of the unex- pected ity which had eo suddenly Visited its in- mates, The apariweut was tue comfortable home of a working Man 80d bie family who had Crgae bape d to 110 repose, A little boy's sled waa in the corner, w a jaunty jockey hat, with a red flower, and the coll a comb of ® chignou,~ laid aside from @ female toilet to. ow uulooked-.or at ibe time ot re- tring Waa the terrible vievor death, Even the mora- ing’s meal, ready for cooxing, waa set apart vu stray. The feartal fri¢h ven coulusom: hog ensued whea ibe overed Was too truly pentayes in he tis aad general disorder the room. , when the alarmod inmates open he door, rushed tio deatuesmden siroveo of sinoke, fling 1M ap sstent (Lose who Inhaled it, and blistering and discoloring the pulnt ou the woodwork and even (he ure. Everything wag napregnated creosotedike odor, afd tne smell rug of the visitor long alver be emerged bar toto the open a FISDING THR RODIRG, Immediately opr arrival of the police and fre. iu@@ ab OMors Hae ade to give succor to tue uDfoltuaate poopie WOO {t was Capiaiy Allaire, of (he Twoat early of the ground, and Deputy Hhodes essayed to mount the stars, but were forced back by Bate of be apse whch filed the entire pane er mauel fiually eveteedo:, and, hav eed epectacie esvented to their ¥) girls, Eliza, oi and Catharine 0 the foor ip agenies of dss! mother bene while their ta hor, Cormetios, Was wiry with the most tear. fal myecolar efort, against suffocation, In this copnection a very touching eireummance was observa. ble. The giris wore, of course, in their might cotuing, Dat one of them still bore tn hair evidence of the feminine jo hopetat desire that some sparks of ihe poles aad Sromen te ro roan jarpby. re: life ta ght rea, Yho fourth oor, where, im the back room, # three moro dead, Filen, Mary and Thomas r Of these (Mrs Ky 0 a hey a oe hgh. vanes orate otate, e)F father,-Fattick Murphy, having escaped baiting by jamping from the windows was Mi seriousty injured. THR EACAPE OW TRR FORVIVOUR The circumstances under which some of the inmates of this buiiding ecaped are truly remarkable. Patrick Murphy, who occupied the fourth Hoon, rear, out of the simple incinet of eeif-preservation jumped from thi Window, but hay no revolieeion ‘of bis 4. the Cun family, ne parents sad four , whe frout, were pavern a tipere ie itgtoue of the But by far Jeremiah Murpby, —— feet dispiay ta eudeavoring ensure his own walet, woriny of a protessioual. Finding bia re- trestout off by tbe door, and bewg ly opposed to from sufloeation, this httle fellow, with » or will drew hims:if up to a piace of safety. ‘THB SCENE AT THE HOSPITAL, Those who have not reen the results of death by auffo- cation can hardiy pict:re the revolting spectacie which the dead im such cases present. The seven unfortunate beings whose sad fate has been narrated above were enclosed in cofiing at the hoopita, ani duriog vi were visited by throngs of relatives aad l/ieuus a+ Well aa Numerous strangers attracted by moroid curiosity, The coifiny, with the faces exposed, reveeling in the ghastly, awoilen features aud scorche! nostrils the awiui nature of the doom which had befalien the dead, wire depusited in the yard of the Morgus Bevies of young wo: the iate playmates aud irlends of tho hapiess flocked to the dismal spot, bending 1u tears over the re- malng, until the police at leogth were forced to require the cromd to pass in procession by and asay from the mournful group ‘he scene of the catastrophe, on Second avenue, was likewise the centre, of popular attraction. Crowds remaiued throughout the day im front of the house, peering into the Windows, wa:chlog the ingoing and outgoing teoants and speculating upow aud discussing the whole atfair, Toe cai whe, with is dire revul s, is the occasion of tue utmost excitement ia the vicinity of its occurrence. ¥ THE COYDMION OF TH SURVIVORS. Apart from the spectacie of the seven corpses, which fo med such as d at r. ction et the Borg ‘ve, nothing was more Caleulaied to give BR ImMpressivu Of ihe latense horror of this diester than a Visit to the bedsides of (ha various lajnedionee in the Lospital, Numbers of the phitaotbropic both sexea periormea this work of Morcy verterday, while tve freuds and relatives of the hurt haunted the wards and e3 In uncontrollable anxiety respecting their condition. In ward No. 28 Juiia Keily ani Honora surphy bevered om the copfiags of that unknown world from whica Do messenger retarn- eth, so affiicted that but iittle aid to determing {cir status could be gained even from the bast medical sxill, Mr3, Kelly showed most sigus of improvement im her condition, Leing, although much raduced and seem. ingly very weak, iu an spovumeaing: Biante of convaics- cence, Her companion in misfortune was, however, 10 @ most critical state and exhibited but scant ible recovery. In ward No, 7 Cornelius O'Meara led in almost death throes, It was paioful te ‘watch the agony of aman strack down in his streagth, gasping for biosth, panting and writuing wth conval- sive enerzy to overcome tha influence that had pros traced him, It is extremely doubtful whether he eee Pad not, op fojured, Pitee a an Mary on ery, are " pa ue ero in a tair way’ of recovery. THR ARRESTED PARTY. The baker, Maximitian Miller, in whose premises the fire originated, seen, it ta all |, on the streot, fatly drezsed, about the ume of the first alarm, ‘The ap- surance of the fire and other circumstances induced the ‘ire Marshal to cause bis arrest, aud be was apprehended by Captain Ailaire and lodged in the station house, His wite, who rushed out into the street in time to escape the dangers. a emt rie Bgl f- be ng Subsequently discharg.t by Voroner.. duller, however, ie still hed to await the result of the Coroner’s investigation. Mrs Miller, who speaks English imperfecily, «1va sho was awakened tue smoke, and cs :d out to her husband several times, but recei: 1 no auswer, and rushed out inte the street. Miler bougnt out the previous pro- rietor in September lest, aud has since carried on the Basiness with the aid of @ journeyman until last Satur- day, when the latiecieft his situation. The bakehouse ‘was not in operation on the morning of the fre, which fact helghiens the mysery of ite origin, Miller waa murried about four montus ago, and, as above stated, entered into business in September, Ou being takea to the station house he was searched, when two silver watches, abou: a hundred dollars im ereenbacks, tone leiters end @ memorandum book were found upon nis 0: the Fire Marsuai he ws prev. cutirg with avydody. so that tuo public aro for the pres- ent deprived of bis @ azoment of what be may kaow con- co-ning the origin of the tire Hehad au smsurance of $1,500 upon his stock aud furnivure in the Baltic Insue Taoce Company, and his lose will amount to ee ers Tho building is owned by Charies % Insured for $4,000 in the Eazle Insuranco Company. It is das to we extont aut $500. ‘The loss to the tenants by damage to furniture will not exceed $.00. Whether tne fire was the work of az diary ree ‘mains a matter for the investigation of Marsaal, THE CORON+R'S INVESTIGATI Corover Witdey proceeded to Beillev' ia tho afternoon, and summonel a jury 4 ‘the fol- lowing gentlemen :—D. B, Arould, 15: ‘Twenty- seventh street; John C. Otia, Believue Hospital; C. Moron, Believue Hospital, samuei Trittendat Eighth avenue; John Goll, aven Barnard, 227 East rwenty-sixth streot; T, Bingham, 344 Sec nd avenue; N. Goldsmith, 650 Second avenue. The jiry having made an inspectioa of ibe bodies, sae jdquest was de.erred until Thursday moroing next, REFLECTIO! INS, To tho authorities of rigbt beionga the duty of investi- ting the occasion of so wantou a@ sacrifice of humen if. But he who chronices what bas been written xbove may be permitted at this tihve to touch, howover lightly, Seiayt of pat ea Cie is A prevent : ‘may uot be wholly guarded in ite terehote celfontel or nlentional may be shorn of much of its fa’ proper procautionary expedieats. ‘The bouse in ques. tion, although @ tenement house, was not provided with the roquisite means of e@capo m cas> of fir, The exit through the rovf, one ot the simplest expedieuls in such circumstances, was frustrated by the fnsuffictency of the means, An apology for a iadder, an flt-construc'ed affair, was the only meags at band, and it is doubtiul if evoa this appliance had ever besa tested 10 prove its aval abilt:y, ta the roof inaccessible and the street unapproacha~ be, the wretched iamates were enciosod ia what has already boea described asa cul d+ aac from which tuere ‘was no escape. The dark and unventilated bodrooma were only traps within tuls cul de exe, Tne bouse, it ts true, is DOt of the superiative cluss of tepement Loa: bing intended for only six families above the gro: floor; batthe necessity for proper means of escape existe ed none tho less, Fire ts Willintsb org—Loss $12,900. Between. twelve and one o'clock yesterday afternoon the toy factory of 1. P, Hill, 69 and Cl South Fourth street, EF. D., took fire and a loss of $12,000 on building and stock resulted. The property was insured in Bait. more cofpanies as follows:—U! $1,500; $1,000; United Sta es, $1,500; Lafayetie, $2,000. The ire was of accidental origin, A large number of giris and young men were employed in the . The boilding was well known by the old residents of the district as tue Old Kiding Scbool, The Fire in South Oxford Street. Breoklyn, The following are (he insurances on the lossessustained by the late conflagration ia Sout: Oxford street, which occurred on Sunday morning last, 1. D. Mc Clase key was inured for $12,000, of wnich amount there ie in the Fireman's Trust Ins. $4,690; Nassaa Ios. Co., He Brooklyn Ins. Co., $4,000; Loug Iaiand Tos. Co, 000, Henry (lucas was insured for $9,300 in the uk Ing, Co. srs, Wilcox’s loss is $10,000; insured fa tho Continentat fully, B, F. Mason, bad for $6,000, in the Exonango a Large Fire tn Bost: n=l.o, Estimated at $250,000. Boston, Dec. 16, 1867. The losa-by the fire yestorday at No, 77 Franktia street, bofore reported, is pow estimated a: $25),00. Barnes, Merriam & Co, lose over $200,000 worth of woollen good, Whit Burdett & Young, clothing Cealera, estimate their toa: at Barnes, Merriam & in Boston iM $09,000 In "Ne ¥e soaius and $60,000 13 ol i Ld Providence and Hariford py itten, Burdett & Young are also fuily insured. Five jn Gactph—Loas $150,000. Gueira, Veo, 16, 1867, The Alma block, occupiet by J. Massie & Co, grocers, acd H. Matholland, hardware, was burned to the ground Sisccon” aftercoon. The jose is estimated as IMPORTANT O3DER FROM GENERAL ORB. Concealed Weapons Forbidden to be Carried.’ General Ord bas taken the right course to pute stop to the indiscriminate slaughter of men by the pistol and kaifo in bis department by forbidding the carrying of concealed weapons, and attaching secvere penalty to@ violation of the order, We need precisely such a law ta this city, vigoronsty exevuted, to put down the rowdy element and protect the lives of peaceable citizens. Viexanvnc, Miss, Deo, 6, 1897. Hereafter all persone not in the miliary service of the United States and not properly ea; In the execu. thon of the lawa ,are pro!bived from carrying concealed weapons usder penalty of a forferture the arma found upon them, aod of bo ng tried and punished by = mulitary comattes on for bing the Pepe peace, Any person found gulfty of @ violation of this crder wil be liable ton fine oi not more shan $100 and coni im not more be ae Monta, at the discretion wil.tary commission. Justices peace, magis= trator aod avert aro authorized aud direcied to erecuie bis order, in so far as the arrest and couttnement of of- feudere and se:zure of tho afm jound Hpon tein aro concerned. It is expected that this order wiil be exo. ented regardless of race, color Of opinion By command of Brovet Major General ORD. WeWs FROM FORTRESS MaNnoG Safety of the Steamer F the Road WA ,. Poxr Mosxog, Dec, 14, 1867, ' he steamer Folu wen shore Thursday afternoon on tho fli's st ibe mouth of the Kass river, ‘wag gotten off by her captain on the mont tide, The steamer Adinirai, which tums between Baltimore re reported Foo Bt the mouth of r The report, however, is not generally credited, and no particuiars can be ‘There are very fow veeasie in the Roads at as “the recent siorm woald tend to drive thom off; hence © Great many may have veon prevented from making (his sistas tena aation have Det beva arvort is-Bow Vessels ta