The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD —_—_-—_———_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ——- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——_—_ All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hepacp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubtished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIve Annual subscription price :— CENTS per copy. Qne Copy... Three Copies. Five Copies. Ten Copies. Postage five cents per copy for three months, ‘ADVERTISEMENTS, to 6 Umited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY Heratp and the European Edition. JOB PRINTING af every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly ana promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volame XXXVI... seseeeeee NOe SIT rs AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY, THEATRE, Bowery.—Counrmrreir; Tux anv Pause. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth ay.—Ror Canorte. UNION teenth and OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts—ALADDIN THR SECOND, or, UARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- ‘ourteenth streets.—AGNES. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tax Roap to Ruin, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Burraro Birt, Atternoon and Evening. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana Thirteenth street.—Our American Cousin, feat tot COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—A.appin No. NE, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Keney—Jessiz Brown. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth streot, near Third av.—Insrector Braxsia, MRA F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Sanatoca. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Qnanp Conogr. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE. Twenty-third st.. corner Cth av.—NeGro Minstextsy Eccentaicity, £0. 718 BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.~—Graxp Erniorian Eccentricitixs. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Necro Min- STRKLSY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Granp Vaniety Entertainment, &c. Matinee at 234. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, Corner of 28th st. and Broadway. ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth st.—Concert or Cnam- Ber Music. BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot ot Houston street, East River. IRVING HALL, corner of pane place and 15th st.— Lgcerurs, “Povanizen Licut anp Its Puznomena.” AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third ay., between 634 and 4th streets, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science ann Arr. TRIPLE SHEET. New Yerk, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON ! CAUSES OF THE INSECURITY OF GREAT CITIES’—LEAD- ER—SIXTH PAGE. BOSTON'’S CONFLAGRATION ! FURIOUS STRUG- GLE WITH AND CONQUEST OF THE FLAMES! BOSTON AND CHICAGO! FIRE- MEN AND SOLDIERS EXHAUSTED! VIVID DETAILS—SEVENTH AND TENTH PaGEs. RAVAGES BY THE FIRE! MAP SHOWING THE AREA OF THE FIRE AND THE PRINCIPAL LANDMARKS THEREIN—Tairp Pace. THE CURRENTS OF BUSINESS AS AFFECTED BY THE BOSTON DISTRESS! IMME- DIATE AID FOR THE SUFFERERS! FINAN- CIAL AND INSURANCE INTERESTS BUT = SLIGHTLY AFFECTED! NEW YORK’S PRE- CAUTION—FovurtH PaGE. “BULLS” AND “BEARS” AND THE GREAT CON. FLAGRATION! A TUMBLE AND SMART RALLY IN STOCKS: THE REASONS FOR THE BUOYANCY: EFFECT ON THE FOR- EIGN MARKETS: THE FAILURES—Firra PGE. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! THE BOSTON TIDINGS AFFECTING THE LONDON MAR- KETS: PREMIER GLADSTONE ILL: BOWLES BROTHERS’ FAILURE—Srxtu Paces, GRANT'S NEXT CABINET: THE CHANGES CON- TEMPLATED—SIXTH PAGE. GENERAL MEADE’S INTERMENT: THE DISTIN- GUISHED MOURNERS AND THE CEREMO- NIES—EicuTH Page. BROOKLYN'S POISONED TEA CASE: VAN SYCKLE FOUND GUILTY—ALLEGED MUR- DER BY A BROOKLYN CAR CONDUCTOR— Fira Paces. DR. ECHEVERRIA’S LET%ER ON THE WARD'S ISLAND TROUBLES—BUTLER'S SEIZQRE OF CONTRABAND—EIGHTH PAGE. THE BELMONT AND DERBY ART COLLECTIONS— DARING BURGLARY—EicuTH Page. Tae Fine anv “rae Warn Street Excrre- ment.—As usual in such extraordinary cases, the first reports of the losses at Boston prove to have been greatly exaggerated. The total Josses will not exceed one hundred millions, 4nd may fall as low as seventy-five millions, Of this sum the insurance companies of New York city and State will have to pay nearly fifteen millions and the English insurance companies about as much more, The rest falls upon the Boston and Eastern companies énd some few Philadelphia and Western com- panies. Wall street and Broadway will stand their share with only a few bankruptcies Qnd avert the impending panic, ° ‘Tae Onuéré or or rae Free.—As from small Acorns great oaks do grow, so it is that from most trifling causes widespread calamities are oftentimes derived. One account of the Bos- ton fire traces its origin to an overheated fur- nace in the basement of a building on the corner of Kingston and Summer streets, This of itself might have been insufficient to pro- duce 4 conflagration, but as there happened to be an elevator way above the furnace the draught therefrom fanned the heat into a blaze, which very soon communicated to the floors above, and the rest is sad and fearful bistory, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, The Great Fire in Boston—Causes of the Insecurity of Great Cities. The disastrous fire in Boston, like the great conflagration in Chicago more than a year ago, will provoke much criticism upon the ordinary methods of constructing large build- ings in our great cities and the general and absolute insecurity against similar calamities. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are in as great danger to-day as were these burned cities previous to their destruction. If a fire were to occur in one of the im- mense warehouses in the district bounded by’ Broadway and Chatham street, where the thoroughfares are narrow and sinuous and the buildings combustible, nothing could prevent its sweeping all that part of the city known as ‘down town.” Even Broadway itself, intersected as it is by narrow streets and offering constant tempta- tions to the flames, might be destroyed block by block. This should not be the case in any great city, the danger to life and property being too great to be disregarded «in view of the gwful warnings of these two great dis- asters, ; It is easy enough to teach the lessons of these conflagrations, but the lessons are apt to be forgotten with the disappearance of tho alliterations of “‘burned Boston’’ and ‘charred Chicago.'’ When the sensation is over the duties imposed by the calamity are disregarded. If Boston had learned from Chicago New York might not now be required to learn from Boston. For those places a like calamity may never come again, for neither is likely to repeat the error which gave it to the flames, though we are told Chicago is once more to be a hastily constructed town, full of danger. There is no real security against a repetition of the blunders of the past. Fireproof buildings which are not fireproof except in name may be built in either place, as they have been built year after year in New York. Besides, a fire- proof building has no chance to withstand the flame and heat of a burning city, when it is surrounded on every hand by combustible | structures. The most secure edifices both in Boston and Chicago crambled and fell because there was fuel for combustion everywhere round them. It follows from this that every building in a large city should be fireproof, and that no others should be allowed to stand. The safety of the whole people ig to be pre- ferred to the selfishness of a patt. A great calamity is not to be risked because individuals will not voluntarily guard against it. The law should provide for the removal of all structures which do not afford the most absolute security, and the law should be strictly and thoroughly enforced. If it were not for the danger of boing charged with mocking at the calamities of others, we should say this Boston fire wasa good thing. Sooner or later a calamity like this was certain to come, just as it came last Saturday night. The streets in the burned district were so narrow and so irregular and the buildings offered such constant temptation to the fire fiend as to make the catastrophe a possible and very probable accident. Now a new city will rise on the site of ‘old Boston.”’ ‘The narrow and winding streets have disap- peared with the structures which made them unsightly. Wider and better thoroughfares will take their places. Firmer and more sub- stantial buildings will replace the burned struc- tures. It is fair to assume that Boston will not allow combustible warehouses to be built side by side with fireproof edifices, The lives that were lost will become a sacrifice to greater security in the future, and the capital which turned to ashes in an hour will spring up again in renewed activity and beauty. The poets and antiquarians who used to brood over the historic ground and regard the un- safe buildings as monuments to be reverenced will miss their customary occupation; but Boston can go without her poets and anti- quarians in the newness of beauty and security. The first consideration in great cities is fire- proof buildings; but, surrounded by com- bustible structures, they are comparatively valueless. It is for this reason that we urge the necessity of making all buildings fire- proof, even to the extent of tearing down structures which are, in fact, unsafe, but re- garded by their owners as perfectly secure against the flames. The next thing to be done is to replace narrow streets by broad avenues. It is to-day almost impossible to burn Paris, for the reason that its magnificent boulevards are a strong barrier against the spread of fire. We may credit, without exaggeration, the safety of the French capital during the siege and while the Commune held the city to Haussmann—the expensive ‘Board of Public Works,” in the imperial reign of Na- poleon IIT. Had Paris been a city like some parts of London, or like old New York or old Boston, nothing could have saved it from the spark of the enemy or the torch of the incen- diary. Its wide streets and substantial build- ings were a better protection against destruc- tion by fire than the weapons or the courage of its defenders. So it must be with every city well and wisely built. If Boston had long ago exchanged its crooked cowpaths for wide and straight avenues a fire at the corner of Kingston and Summer streets would not, have swept everything before it from Wash- ington street to the water and almost as far as Faneuil Hall. Failing to take this necessary precaution, Boston now suffers as many other cities suffered before this latest lesson was added to the long list of the calamities of the past. There is one point in this Boston fire which must not be overlooked. It was a Mansard roof which lifted up and scattered the flames broadcast over the city. Any oue who will take the trouble to look up at some of the buildings now under construction in this cit will readily understand the dangers which lurk under these frail, insufficient and com- bustible roofs. In Broadway, between Union sqnare and Twenty-third street, and in the latter street are buildings recently covered which some day or other may do for New York what o similar structure has just done for Boston. One of the correspondents of the Henaxp, in describing the origin of the fire and the rapid spread of the flames, refers to this building as surmounted by a high Mansard, overtopping all the houses in the vicinity, Upon this elevated fire-box the flames roared and erackled and were at once carried by the high wind from roof to roof, block to block, corner to corner. An hour before it looked grand enough and secure enough, but the fire a Re by the flame than a rick of hay in the open field ignited by the descending bolt. There is nothing surprising in this, for most of these roofs are only immense tinder boxes for setting whole cities aflame. They make no preten- sions toward being fireproof, for they are built of wood, and are readily ignited either from within or without. This is a wrong so ap- parent as tobe criminal. Like tho new build- ing on the former site of the Hzmaup establish- ment, now in course of construction, all large buildings should be as seoure at top as at bot- tom, and the roof should rest only upon iron. If this had beon the case with ‘‘the high Man- sard, overtopping all the houses in the vicin- ity," sevonty acres of Boston would not be in ashes nor a hundred millions of capital re- duced to dust, We may preach as wo pleaso of tho pro- cautions against fire in our large cities, but we shall preach without effect while narrow, sinuous streets and dangerous buildings only serve as the conductors of flame. No fire- department, however efficient, no supply of water, however abundant and accessible, not even the admirable method finally adopted in Boston, of undermining a barrier against the flames, is a sufficient protection. What wo want is security against fire by making fire impossible. To do this many of our cities so laboriously constructed must in great part be reconstructed. The tumble-down and combustible buildings must disappear with the narrow, crooked streets. It is a desperate remedy, wo know, and one not to be rashly or carelessly undertaken, for it is like cutting a cancer out of the living, healthful flesh, In eithor case, if the remedy is applied with wis- dom and skill, the result is beneficial, Tho sick man grows well and strong after the pain- ful operation; tho imperilled city becomes secure and rich. If we had broad, wide streets in the slums which centre at the Five Points vice would retreat before the appre- ciation of property. Even the busy haunts about Nassau and Wall streets would become more valuable if there was greater sedurity against fire—security to be attained only by fireproof buildings and broad thor- oughfares, Thus it is plain that the interest as well as the security of New York is in oblit- erating old landmarks and building a new city on the site of the old. We failed to take the Chicago lesson to heart, and now comes the same lesson from Boston's misfortune. It may be our turn to suffer, as we suffered in the great fire of 1835, and as Chicago and Boston are suffering now, unless we act upon the warnings we have received, The Funeral of General Meade. The remains of General George G. Meade wore interred yesterday at Laurel Hill Ceme- tery, Philadelphia, as will be seen by our report in another part of the paper, with all the honors becoming the distinguished soldier and hero, General McDowell, commanding the Department of the East, had charge of the arrangements and carried them out in a fitting manner. President Grant and Generals Sherman and Sheridan, besides a number of other heroes of the war, both military and naval, and a host of eminent citizens, attended the funeral. We need not go ovey the details of this last and sad ceremony, as they are told in our columns this morning. It is proper to say on this occasion, however, that the grief over the remains of General Meade, both of the public and those who knew him personally and of his companions im, arms, was profound. Not only is General Meado’s name embalmed in the memory of his countrymen for his long and important services, and particularly for that crowning act of his military career, the battle of Gettysburg, when at the most critical period of the war he turned the doubtful balance in favor of the Union, but also for his noble and pure char- acter. He was the model of a gentleman, and one of the best and highest types of our Ameri- can civilization and institutions. In manner he was simple as a child, yet so noble, digni- fied and lofty in principle that he would have done honor to any country in the world, what- ever its form of government or however ele- vated its social system. He had such a delicate sense of duty and propriety as a high officer of the army that he was careful not to obtrude his political views, though no citizen could be more patriotic, and few, perhaps, knew what were his political opinions. No prominent man, probably, had fewer enemies or was more generally esteemed. The nation has lost one of its most renowned servants and best citizens when scarcely beyond the prime of his life, and may well mourn over the sad bereavement, Precautions Against Fire in New York, Public attention is just now thoroughly aroused to the necessity of adopting additional precautions against the danger of an extensive conflagration. We have been startled from our fancied security by the fate that has be- fallen Boston, which was supposed to be better guarded than even we claim to be. Now that the reliance of Boston on its admira- bly organized Fire Department has proved calamitous, we begin to be alarmed lest we also have been resting our hopes on an equally rotten foundation. The suggestion which we advanced yesterday, that the Fire Department should be authorized, in cases of pressing urgency, to blow down buildings where it might be considered necessary to check the progress of a fire, has been taken up by the meeting of citizens held at the Chamber of Commerce. In view of the experience gained at Boston the desirableness of attaching a section of engineers to the Fire Depart- ment cannot be questioned, and we Lope this reform will be at once carried into effect. But this precaution can only be adopted in view of extremé” cases, such ay 4 fire making headway in spite of the efforts of a well-organized fire service. Now we hold that, while it is well tc be prepared for the worst, we can avoid the necessity of having recourse to heroic measures by utilizing all the means at our disposal for subduing fires before they can make such headway as to endanger the safety of the city or any large portion of it. Our position, surrounded by water, gives us such facilities for fighting the flames that we need have no fear of the result if only we will use the advantages which nature affords us, By the aid of force pumps, with a thor- ough system of pipes lnid through the city in all directions, we could secure an inexhausti- blesupply of water, which would place us in a position to struggle with effect against the gave the lie to all its pretensions of grandeur and security. It was licked up more readily spread of fire and place us beyond danger from a failure in the supply of so essential an eloment as water. The Merchants’ Meeting for the Relief | ot Boston. A large meeting of our prominent commer- cial men was held yesterday at the Chamber of Commerce in relation to the Boston catas- trophe. The hoartiest sympathy and most effective assistance were proffered by the mer- chants of the metropolis to their Massachu- setts neighbors who are sufferers by this ap- palling and unanticipated blow. It was de- cided to appoint a committee to consider what measures can be devised for the relief of tho distress resulting from the enormous destruc- tion of property, of books and papers, and the interruption of trade, This committee will probably report their plan at the adjourned meoting to be held to-day. The sentiment ex- hibited by this assemblage of the substantial men who give tone to the commerce of New York was of that noble and generous sort which only was to be expected. All were anxious to do promptly, yet with the utmost delicacy and prudence, all that is possible for one great body of wealthy and enterprising merchants to do to soften a blow which has crippled a neighboring community of like kind and help to repair its damage. New York stood beside Boston last year in helping Chicago, To-day sho will not be wanting in efficient assistance to Boston in reconstructing her trade. And while they thus show a gen- erous sympathy with a stricken neighbor our merchants look wisely to their own combus- tible warehouses, and repeat inquiries so often suggested by the Hzgaup as to the feasibility of building our own city more safely and fur- nishing it better appliances for controlling fires, If the fearful lessons from Boston and Chicago find New York prudent and teachable she will ‘out of this nettle danger pluck the. flower safety’ by adopting means by which she may avoid a similar calamity. French Parliament Reassembled in Session. The members of the French Legislative Assembly reassembled in session, after the recess prorogation, at Versailles yesterday. The representative attendance was unusually numerous, there being scarcely a vacant seat in the Chambers hath at the moment of the official opening vf the sitting. The leaders of the more powerful and distinct political parties of the hour were present. Citizens tho Duke d’Aumale and Prince de Joinville wore in their places, as was M. Rouher, with his Bonapartist affiliations, and M. Gambetta, with his notions of democratic progress onward toward the perfection of the radical red idea of the republican system of government. His Excellency President Thiers appeared almost immediately subsequent to the formal pronouncement of the sessional power. The presence of the Chief of State was hailed on ali sides with cheers. The regular organiza- tion of the Assembly for the transaction of business will, it is hoped, be com- pleted to-day. The Duke de Broglio and M. Marc Girardin are spoken of as likely to be offered, one of them by the party of the Right for the position of President of the Assembly in place of M. Gravy. There is political cau- cus and, apparently, a very active canvass for the attainment of party power, so that the proceedings are likely to become quite ani- mated within a few days. The sentiment generally prevailing among the members, re- publicans and monarchists alike, appears to be healthily national for the sustainment of the democratic form of rule, and strongly opposed to any experimental tamperings with the constitutional principle which was vindi- cated by tho French nation against imperial- ism, and which has been cherished and nurtured by the French people to its present power of recuperative vitality under very dangerous “and most disheartening circum- stances. THE CONTEMPLATED CABINET CHANGES, ane eee Making Up the Slate for the Next Texm—Harlan’s Anxiety and the Col- ored Candidate’s Confusion. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 1872. The Boston fre has but momentarily inter- rupted the anxious discussion here of the changes through every grade of oficial position that are to mark the opening of the second term of the Presi- dent. In the inferior places there will be but little movement, but as the grades ascend to Chief of Bureau the prospects are brighter for the aspirants for place. With respect to the Cabinet the Presi- dent will be subjected to no other embarrassment than that of satisfactorily disposing of the retiring members without displacing other officials who ex- pect to retain their positions. The certainty, as it is admitted to be in the best-informed circles, that all the present Cabinet, except Secretary De- lano and Attorney General Williams, will be counted out with the present term, makes the task of placing such ag requtre suitable offices outside the Cabinet a matter of difficulty. Secretary Fish is said by his friends to desire nothing beyond the retention of the cordial friend- ship subsisting between himself and the President, and the kind treatment of the personal and political friends on whom he has bestowed oftices suited to their capacities. Secretary Robeson, who desires to go abroad, covets a vacant foreign mission, but will permit none to be vacated expressly to make @ place for him; and Postmaster General Creswell 1s said to be willing to take anything that an ex-Senator and Cabinet Minister can take with propriety. There is absolutely no relia- ble data concerning the successorship to the Cabinet offices soon to be yacated by the | The present incumbents, the Premdent evading all attempts to smoke ‘him out and manifesting no disposition to take anybody into his confidence except those immediately concerned, it being doubted, even by near friends, if he has exchanged & word with anybody as yet on the subject. Senator Harlan ts known to be anxious for q seat at the council board, and if he cannot get the State Department, will be content to relieve his fellow Iowan at the War Department, But the most care- ful inquiry fails to indicate anything in favor of his prospects, and it is known that fe fa personally disfavored, and must count on his assumed politi- cal Strength and party services in the last session and durfag the cdmpaign for support to his preten- sions. But to get the War Department he must be acceptable to General Sherman, as the President, with so many to choose from, will unquestionably be careful to put nobody over the General-in-Chief who cannot establish and maintain the same per- sonal relations that exist now, and must continue to exist, between the heads of the War Depart- ment and the army. The colored asplrant for Cabinet honors has met the fate that has befalien the jong line of white predecessors whose ‘‘ciaims” and chances were prematurely advertised by themselves or partisans, his name being only men- tioned with derision and his self-asserted rights repelled by the President's friends and the local politicians of his own color. THE MEXICAN TARIFF, MATAMOROS, Nov. 11, 1872, By order of the supreme government the tariff of 1856 for the importation of merchandise to the interior remains in force until the 3ist of Decem- ber, 1872, and the privileges of the Free Zone “ave | been fully restored, 1872._TRIPLE SHEET, GERMANY. Premier Bismarck’s Plan for a Reorganization of the Prussian House of Peers. TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, Nov. 11, 1872, His Excellency the Premier, Prince Bismarck, has forwarded a memorial to His Majesty Emperor William, advocating the immediate reorganization Of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet, and it is Stated semi-oMoially that the suggestion will prob- ably be adopted, MANHATTAN MARKET. The Great Market Thrown Open to the Public Last Evening—An Immense Building and an immense Crowd— Good Music and Good Order. The great Manhattan Market building, the prog- ress of whose construction has been noted from time to time in the HzraLp, was formally thrown open to the public last evening. The opening took the form of a promenade concert, the Ninth regt- ment band, of fifty pleces (D. L. Downing, leader), furnishing the music, The building is certainly 4 magnificent one in size and mode of construction. It is situated on the North River, between Thirty-fourth and Thirty. filth streets, and reaches back as far as Eleventh, from Twelfth, avenue, It is right on the water front, with a depth of water surrounding it sum- cient to accommodate the largest steamers. It is well lighted with ® suiliciency of windows and headlights during the day, and at ht by a vast number of gasjets on the walls and pillars, and ten immense gi ers, beneath reflectors, in the roof of the central arch, The floor is of Dr. Hayes’ perans compound of concrete, asphalt and Port- fand cement, sloping gradually towards the river side. The building cost @ million and a half of dollars, exclusive of the cost of the stalls, which tne butchers will erect them- selves, Scr aae to Rereern farnished. Overhead, at either end and both gides, are offices, one for the accommodation of the Market Company and one suit each tor a bank, an insurance com- any anda restaurant. The floor will be covered yy 800 stalls, to be let uniformly, but according to position, at'from $3 to $7 a week, with a lease of ve years and the preference foriive more. About one-half the number of stalls aro rented out al- ready, and business is expected to com- mence in two or three weeks. It is ex- pected that the means of reaching this great market from all rts of the city and suburbs will soon be fully provided, and already the Twenty-third and Bleecker Street lines have made aerangementy 0 extend their tracks to Eleventh avenue and Thirty-fourth street. e plaza for farmers’ Mercne will accommodate from 400 to 500 vehicles, With numerous doors, with gangways 10 feetin width, leading across the building side to side; a main gangway, 800 feet lohg and 20 feet wide, from avenue to avenue, and a central gang- way, 26 feet wide, from Thirty-fourth to ty fifth street, which divides the wholesale from the retail department, The htgh central arch, 93 feet from the floor, and numerous windows, afford both ample light and ventilation. The supply of water is abundant and conveniently arranged, and the drain: erect; addi the slope A Re "Hest fe ae ath Twelfth avenue, affords unusual facilities for wash- img and cleaning the market. The pier of 550 feet a ebath ond 60 ia with wean vi be ey for market purposes, W: the finest in the city, and, Sopothas with the Water front Of 200 feet on the bulkhead, will afford abundant facilities for the receipt and shipment of market produce. The following are the names of the directors and officers of the company, who, it will be seen, are all business men :— Paul J. Armour (President), of the firm of Paul J. & Alex. Armour. Wang Johnson (Treasurer), of Bradish, John- ns. on & William D. Bowerman, of Bowerman Brothers, J. F. Navarro, Vice President of the Commercial Warehouse Company. Courtiandt Palmer, 346 and 348 Broadway. Courtlandt Palmer, Jr. J. E, Flandin, Secretary. ‘The crowd of persons Who attended the opening peeaey evening was simply enormous. The esident told our reporter that over thirty thou- sand tickets had been taken at the door, and the latter certainly saw at least one-third of that num- ber together in the building at one time. The tickets were sold at twenty-five cents, and the gathering was rather a motley one, representing, agit did, every class and condition in city life, from the poor laborer to the wealthy merchant. About half-past eleven o’clock the crowd finally retired after Heartate following rcerenime exquisitely and :— rendered by Mr. Downing’s PART 1, 1, Overture, “Poet and Peasant’ 2 Quartetig, “Rigoletto, 8 Waltz “Blue 4. Galop, 5. March, “Tannhauser’ 6. Grand Selection, “Martha’ PART . Overture, “William Tell”. ‘hink of Thee’ The utmost good order prevailed throughout, ow- ing a great deal to the presence of Captain Mell- waine, Sergeant Combs and twenty men of the Twentieth precinct, FIRE IN EAST TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET. —_+-—___ Serious Alarm and Losses. The people of the Twenty-first ward were terri- fled beyond measure about eight o’clock last even- ing by @ quick-sounded alarm from the Twenty- sixth street tower, followed immediately by a second alarm, which told of danger and of the necessity of the best efforts of the Fire Department. The fire was in the sewing machine cabinet factory of Thomas Vandyke, a large structure, nominally Nos, 473 and 475 First avenue, but in reality occa- ying three lots on the avenue and three lots on Bast enty-elghth street. As the firemen got up steam and ran out hose the situation seemed a desperate one. The doomed building was filled with the most combustible materials, which, when partly calcined, were carried out of the already gaping roof and windows in sheets of rebrands, Around — were slimly built tenements, wooden structures of more or less importance, and a score of huge factories, while within a stone’s throw was Bellevue Hos- pital, filled with the sick, the maimed and the dying. THE WIND was about east by south, but gasty and treacher- ous, and lable to shift at any moment, and a@ simoon of sparks was only needed, with the wind west or northwest, to convert the institution into a heap of ashes. Lh or ey by the emergency, the firemen behaved admirably, and in spite of the dificult nature of the task fought the flames inch by inch till half-past nine o'clock, when the fire lulled suddenly, and the disaster was quelled, with the total loss of the building where it originated and an adjoining building constructed of corrugated iron, also used by Mr. Vandyke, THE LOSSES are estimated as follows:—Thomas Vandyke, loss on stock, $15,000; loss on ect 000; in- sured in the North British, Leg Hartford, Star, of New York, and Lycoming, of Pennsylvania, com- anies, The buildings, owned by the Manhattan rass and Manufacturing Company, of New York, were valued at $12,000, They were fully insured, but in what companies it was impossible to ascer- tain. The police, under Captain Williams, did eMfcient service, ay oe ae Miss Christine Nilsson Again a Loser. The buildings on Otis street were uniformly handsome and were substantially built of granite, four stories in height, with Mansard roofs, Every building was thoroughly destroyed and not a trace of the stréet’s former grandeur remains. It isan interesting fact that the two stores on this street, Nos, 12 and_14, owned py Miss Christine Nilsson, were burned. Miss Nilsson was @ heavy loser by the Chicago fire. be The Boston Post Hopefal. The Boston Post comes to us printed on a halt sheet, with its usual pleasant column of “All Sorts,’ and editorially expressing its congratulations in the midst of the ruins of its material edifice that the destruction is no greater. Says the Post:— With the demolition of brick and granite and the instantancous destruction of warehouses fall of merchandise, there is yet remaining even to the greatest sufferers an energy that will Wrest benefit from the flery trial. Among the causes of thankfulness discoverable even in the midst of such trouble is the compara- tive immunity from personal suffering that has been experienced, The flre was so closely confined to the business portion of the city that, while eat- ing me the millions of property with every advan- tage In its favor, it touched few dwellings and turned out few families into the streets, Shop Girls to the Rescue. One of the stores burned was that of W. H. Allen &Co., dealers in dry goods and trimmings, 216 Washington street, Two girls, who are employed in this establishment and live In Roxbury, discov ering the danger from the fire, gained access to the store, and, of their own accord, secured laces of the value of #20.000 and took them safely to Roxbury. rg ENGLAND. , The Boston Fire Beport News Circulated om ‘Change and Its Effect on the Money Market. SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE. TELEGRAMS T) THE NEW YORK HERALO, LOnpDoN, Nov. 11, 1872, The Stock Exchange quotations report, date@ at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to-day, reads as follows:—The news of the fire in Boatom causes dulness in the money market. United States five-twenty bonds, 1865's, old, 90%; 1867's, 9244; ten-forties, 87; new fives, 88, Erie Rallway shares, 40, SENATOR SUMNER'S HEALTH AND PREPARATIONS FOS HOME, Senator Sumner has left London to visit some friends in the country before his departure for home. He will sail on Thursday’s steamer from Liverpool for New York. His health is slightly im- proved, Shipwreck im the North Cnannel and Loss of Many Lives. Lonpox, Nov. 11, 1872. A vessel mamed the Mauritius has been lost im the North Channel, off Port Patrick, a seaport towm. of Wigtown county, Scotland, and twenty-three of the persons who were on board drowned. It is not known exactly whether the unfortunate wreck is the ship Mauritius, which cleared from Glasgow in the latter part of October, for Dem-~ erara, or the steamship Mauritius, belonging te Dublin. PREMIER GLADSTONE. The Chief of the British Cabinet Invalided by ’ Tiiness, ‘ TELESRAM TQ THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 11, 1872. The Right Honorable William E. Gladstone, Pre- mier of the British Ministry, is confined to his house by an attack of illness, Mr. Gladstone is sixty-three years of age. He has been engaged actively in public life, in placea of high official trust, at intervals during the past thirty-eight years, having discharged the duty of Lord of the Treasury in the year 1834-35, The Pre- mier has been and is a most laborious worker—se much so that it has been anticipated by his most intimate friends of late that his constitution woula 800n develop appearances of physical impair. ‘BOWLES BROTHERS’ BANK. Estimate of the Losses Sustained by the Failure. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRI, Nov. 11, 1872, The labilities of Messrs. Bowles Brothers, Amert- can bankers, who have suspended payment In this city, amount to $500,000. ° The losses will fall—as has been specially reporte already to the HenaLD—chiefly on American tour- ists, who are now travelling in different parts of Europe with drafts of the house in their possession for payment of expenses. FRANCE. + Parliamentary Reopening of the Session of the Legislative Assembly—President Thiers and the Chief Political Leaders Present—Party Caucus. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Nov. 11, 1872, The members of the French Legislative Assembly’ reassembled in session, after the recess proroga- tion, at Versailles to-day, at the hour of half-past two o’clock in the afternoon. The parliamentary attendance was unusually full, almost every mem- ber of the body being in his seat, ROYALISTS, RADICALS AND REPUBLICANS. Their Highnesses the citizens Duke d’Aumate and Prince de Joinville were present in the House atan' early hour, as were also M. Rouher, ex-Minister of State of Napoleon; M, Gambetta and other promi- nent politicians and party leaders, THE PRESIDENT’S ENTRANCE, His Excellency President Thiers entered the Chamber soon after the formal official opening of the sitting. The Chief of State was received with cheers by the members generally. PROSPECTS OF LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION, The Assembly will probably choose its President’ to-morrow. It is rumored that the Right will pro- pose the Duke de Broglie or M. Marc Girardin for President in place of M. Grévy. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AND NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL RESOLVE. A caucus of the republican deputies of the party’ of the Left in the Assembly was held yesterday at Versailles. An expression of opinion was made, from which it appears that there has been a steady growth of republicanism among the people of all the depart- ments of France, while the prefects and magis- trates have become more and more tinctured with: anti-republicanism. The Deputies resolved to wait upon President Thiers to acquaint him with the condition of affairs and to request such official action as will bring the people and their representatives in the Legislative Body into closer relationship. The republican members also resolved to oppose. by all means in their power and as strongly as do the monarchists the adoption of any constitutional reforms by the present National Assembly. Press Approval of International Arbitra« tion as a Means of Pacification. Panis, Nov. 11, 1872, The Temps (newspaper) of to-day contains an editorial warmly praising the English government for continuing recourse to arbitration as the means of settlement of international disputes. Pied » at ~ SE IG. var ighae OFee OFFICE OF THE CHIBE SIGNAL ria} WASHINGTON, D. C., ee 2-1 A M, Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Holl.’ The barometer has continued to fall from Lake’ Ontario to Virginia and over the Middle and East ern States, with southwesterly to southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and rain; in the South Atlantic @ud Gulf States variable south easterly and northwesteriy winds and partly cloudy Weather, with occasional rain, an the former prevail; in the Northwest and thenci to the Upper Lakes and Lake Erie and te the Ohia Valley southwesterly to northwesterly winds, partiy cloudy weather, with light rain in the Ohio vauey. and light snow in the Upper Mississipp® aah Prodanitities. ’ The barometer will rise in the Wengert ¢ wf Valley and thence over peiohigan and to the Ohid Valley, with cold, ary cloudy and clearin weather; in the Gul South Atlantic Stat clearing and clear weather, with light, variabid winds; on the Lower Lakes and thence to Wess Virginia clearing’ weather, with northwesterly winds; in New land and the Middle States southeaste! to southwesterly winds, cloudy weather and rain. The Weather in This City Yesterdays The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding da iat, as Ug hy Pe eEaomee at macy, HERA uilding :— Rarmacyy MAST. 18th 3 A.M. 6 A.M of last udnul's 1871, 18724 oe 44 4 5 5 “4 45 o 42 it ant 3:30 P. M M perature te Average temperature for corresponding dat ‘ast vear.....