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ACT I. E GREAT SHIP SCENF, [A wonderfully Feaiiatic and tucchasfeal’ effect: the entire stage & living ocean; @ moustrons ship in pking in the sea. [Designed and patented by G. Hinckley, of San Fancisco.} act mt. THE SHOT—THE CABAVAN. IV THE SEPARATION—THE F\REWELL—THE RED POCKET BoOK In preparation—NICK OF THE WOODS. _ Coming—THE LINGARDS, an ASHINGTION THEATRE COMIQUE, Eleventh et., south of Pennsyloania avenue. © BEST EFFOETS BEOUGHT INTO PLAY. GE VABIETY (COMPANY OF THE CHALLENGE LD A VAST AND UNPRECKDENT NATION OF EXCELLEN a. ‘T ENGLISH BALLAD OPERA THE GREA GUISE | COMBI A mammoth undertaking, but 9 prelude to @ con tinuous host of attractive novelties, THE GREAT SAPPHO TROUPE, And an Avalanche of Wonderful Sensat most pleasurabie. and I ever in a Variety Theater. ENDOUS BILL OF UNVARIED AT- OTOP EEACTIONS AND DELIGHTS. M'LLE DE GRANVILLE, ‘The Woman with the Jaw of Iron. A DENTAL PHENOMENON! FAIRY, THE INFANT VENUS. TONY HABVEY, the impersonation of Negroism HAWLEY BROTHERS, Song and Dance Drom os. FRANK HOWE, the Comic Dutchman. A NEW AND EXOELSIOR COMPANY. ntl INCGCOLN HALL. THEODORE THOMAS’ UTNEQUALLED CONCERTS. SIXTY DISTINGUISHED PERFORMERS, ‘The Isrgest and most perfect Concert Troupe which has ever traveled os this country or to J. Gorcuz, © lSrn. NCERT. jovember 151, STOCONCERYT, ‘The following celebrated Soloists will ap; MR GEORGE L. OSGOOD, ‘The young American Tevor. Bis first appearance. MR. BERNHARD LISTEMANN, The celebrated Violinist. Together with ONKIVALLED ORCHESTR. PRICE OF ADMISSION, ONE DOLLAR. ved Beate. Cents extra, ‘The sale of reserved and tickets will com- mence on TCESDAY MOBNING, November 12th, at Metzerott & Go.'s, Where the ‘Programmes can Bins te had rors open at Steinway & Boas” ray [Ts) h the To commence at 3 ABINE BAND WILL GIVE A CONCERT At Concordia Ball On every MONDAY and SATCRDAY EVENINGS commencing at 7 o'clock. eele3m, Oxp No.) On Exhibition (Nsw No 456 and Sale 439 7m St. at 7TH St. Bo. 416 rb street and & streots, etght between D above Odd Fellows Hall. Chotce O11 tings, Engrav: : - Bo ) = Steck Peper —- hy Window Bhades, P' ramos, Picture ‘ords and Fas Jel-ly™ LORS for Ludios’. SECOND-HAND LOTHING, BOUTS, at 619 D street, between 6th mail promptly attended to. SOULACEMENT PUUR LES PIEDS; - Cors enleves sans peine; docrilfons manvats ongles,scignes avec succes, par le BOCTECR WHITE, Chiropediste, No. 635 isth street. opposite the Treasury Departmert. Pour soins donnes cheziui, @1; a domicile, $3. Le DOCTEUR WHITE, est ¢tatili a W nehington nov: depuis sé = Opticians, #5 1227 Pexsevivania AVEN Spectact Genuine Brazilian Pebble SELES ol cl colors. commtaaee eee Of all colors, constantly on hand. Mus. 2 H Magen, 7 Seventh street, opposite Pateat Ofice. i ee FAMILY USE. janis ly THE HaLtLFornvp LEICESTERSHIRE TABLE Sauce, The Very Best Sauce and Relish Made im Any Part of the World. FAMILY USE, FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERS. Pi Gaaeear FLOTEEST OFFICE.—Aall per Ep det he hare EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. INTERNAL REVENUB.—The receipts from this source to-day were $4 73.03. SECRETARY Deano is expected to arrive to- morrow. Gx. J. H. Baker has returned from the but still lame from his west looking well, sprained ankle. Ma. M.S. Horsins, law clerk to the Com- missioner of Patents, has been promoted from first a:sistant examiner to principal examiner 4\-marks of the Patent office. Ixpiax Rat Rercisep.— Gen. Sheridan telegraphs to the War department that about attacked Northern P ilroad cro” souri river on the 4th instant, driven off without diffi Tue PResipen™, Gen. Porter, Gen. Sher- man, Secretary Roberton, Commodore Ammon and other promirent officers of the army and navy left here last evening for Philadel =~ attend the funeral of the late Gen. Meade. President is expected to retarn to-morrow morn- ing. Ges. COWEN, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, althongh urged to do so, has not yet decidea to accept the Commissionership of no Indian bog yee Reeegy is there is as vacancy im that office, and consequent elton has not been tendered unicss he did so from a sense of duty. NAVAL Orricers TRANSFERRED. —Com- mander Chester Hatfield ordered to the tem- porary command of the receiving ship Ohio. ical Inspector J. Y. Taylor ordered to dut me member of the medical examini boar tn . Cros ed session in thiscity. Ensigns Freeman and J. W. Danenhower have been detac! from the Naval Academy and ordered to the Porttmouth. ‘Tre TREASURY DRPARTMENT ANDTHE Fi2e. Secretary Boutwell will take no action in regard to the tinancial complications which may grow out of the Boston fire until he hears from Assistant Secretary Richardson and Controiler Knox, who will investigate the affairs of the national banks, &c., and recommend relief, should they deem it necessary. Mr. Knox has reached Boston by this time. “Assistant Secre- tary Kicherdson was en route home when he r Secretary Boutwell’s telegram und stopped in New York. He will return to Boston Secretary Doutwell docs not anticipate any eceived financial panic, although the heavy losse: of course seriously interfere with the business ‘An effort wes made in New York this morning to get up advices from taat city show that the tire has had no serious eflect upon the money market, Government securi:ies dropped about ene-haif per cent., but the gold interests of the conniry for a time. a panic, but it failed. Lat market is steady. Vinntz Ream at tHe BRooktyn Inpcs- ‘nm consequence of the interest manifested to see the operation of modeling from life by Vinnie Ream at the Brooklyn ers have in- there daily during the Fair, which is to te extended to the She receives &0 per 1 The increased attendance at the Exposition ia the afternoons, since Miss Vinnie Ream opened her studio on Tuesday last, shows the popular appreciation of @ novelty which is teresting and instructive. To see how picture would en who neatly and quickly letter a signin a public thorough- fare, are often the apparent unconscious lions of the hour, But to see the human form, the face and contour deftly moulded from clay, and that by the hand or a lady, is @ strange sight indeed, and attracts an extraordinary amount TRIAL Fair. Industrial Exposition, the mani duced her to continue her worl 20th or 25th of November. day from the managers of the Fair. A Brook paper says -— alike i any artist makes even anordi deiain a crowd at any time. of notice.” PERSONAL.—Mr. L. L. Orounse, chief Wash- ington correspondent of the New York Ti . has returned trom his extended campaign tour. | heard. Mr. Crounse’s letters and dispatches to the Times the campai, from the leading states during afforded the most reliable data sup; € post at the ng of the Mis- but were all en the him. Should it , it is not probable that iy would accept fe ied to the J. . Boston’s Great Fire. The Heart of the City in Ashes, One Hundred Acres Burned Over. | Some of the Finest Buildings in the City in Ruins. A Loss of $200,000,000. Terrible Incidents of the Disaster— Gunpowder and Gas Ex plosions— The Ihieves at Work. About half-past sever o’clock Saturday night @ fire broke ont in Boston, at the corner of Summer and Kingston streets, and soon spread rapidly, and by ten o’clock embraced the entire length of Winthrop square, including the well- known and extensive dry goods houses of A. T. Stewart, J. M. Bebee, Anderson, Heaths & Co., and Houghton, Perkins & Co. There was hardly a breath of wind stirring when the alarm was scunded, followed by @ second, third, and fourth in rapid succession; but the first engine was hardly on the ground when the fire broke out from the fourth story of a large, four-story | ssiwed Store, on the corner of Summer and — streets, occupied in the first story by Teb! , Baldwin, and Davis, wholesale dry dealers. It had caught in the engine- lightning rapidity seen climb- work of the roof. The at work before another store hi buildings in the vicinity were all of granite, four stories high, and each furmounted with Mansard roofs, none of them being over five years old. The detached splin- ters tew readily, as the air was heated by THE TERRIBLE HEAT. And coon the flames began licking the man- sard roof on the opposite side, far above the reach of the streams directed upon it from all quarters. The tire was constantly in the air, and one building after another caught in the roof, and the flames slipped rapidly along from one window-sill to another, so that in less than thirty minutes every cheek was blanched as it becai evident that the whole city in one direction at the mercy of the flame: gayly trom roof to roof, in; another. The heat now became infernal. Fre streets ran rivers of water, and every moment was heard the soundof granite blocks exploding and whole frames falling in the streets, making them impassable. ‘THE FIREMEN WERE DRIVEN from one station to another, and many an en- gine was kept yy at work while the hydrant was wet down by hand hose, and the engineer could only hold his place while the stream of water was kept playing on him. Blocks of granite, weighing tons, were split as if by pow- der, and hurled across the wide stree:s, and planks went flying throngh the air as if they were feathers. Firemen erected barricades anid worked behind them, but they were burned almost a8 goon as erected. An hour had hardly elapsed before it was evident that Beebe’s block, the finest business structure in the city, built of granite, tive stories in height, with the cursed Mansar« roof over all, must go. Within thirty minutes flames were coming out in FIERY BILLOWS and up the stairway lead- ing to A. T. Stewart's rooms, was a pertect column of nes. This building served but as fuel for the flames. Pieces of dry is went whistling acress the square, lodging on the window sills of the magniticent storeson Devon- shire street. Beebe’s block stood—a solid wall of granite. Several minutes after the inside fell, but the heat warped it, and two millions of dollars soon jay a heap of stone, bricks and mortar. The hurricane now raged, and owing to the intense heat and perfect sleet of coa Grove ever ing before it. Every building was now heated as if in a furnace, and CAUGHT LIKE TINDER. Four-story granite bloeks seemed like shav- ings, and deafening explosions were constantly A new terror was now added - to the babel of confusion. Tenement houses at the upper end of Federal street were fast bein, licked up by the flames, and women crazed an tainting were rushin; as v2 < to and fro, carrying chil- Eoneul at Nactee ieee ete Witbie Hoacs: |\dren, crockery, clocks, and bedding’ in’ their ~~ Mrs. Hallett Kilbourn and daughter, who | "nds. One ran screaming through High street have been in Europe for something over a ion t ast. sailed tor home on Thursday iss Harriet Risley, who is pleasantly membered by a large circle of friends in re- Wash- with a stove funnel in her hands, while another Was tugging a heavy chest, which would bave been weight for a strong man. Now and then a few pieces of goods might be saved by volun- : teers, who ran in and spent five minutes, durinz ‘dived Kodman, of Dedhasn Ss Gens which they could work in bringing out perhaps Alfred Townsend leit for Boston last evening, | §2U2dred pieces of cloth. One man, Marshall to wrie up the great fire for the Chi Tribune. =~ Hon. H. H. Stari Connectient, is at the Imperial Hotel. ~~ politan Hotel. ~~ at Wormley’s. ~ Hon. James B. Se Hon. Gharies St. John, wite and 4: Port Jarvis, Tue » ‘kweather, of Hon. T. A. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, is at the Metro- The Marquis de Noailles and family arrived on Saturday and took rooms and : a ter, of N.Y., are at the National Hotel. EWS OF THE Bostow Free mw Orri- CIAL AND BUSINESS Ctmcres.— The excite- || dangerous time, as they were crammed. ment in the city yesterday over the news of the great fire in Boston was quite as intense as that causea by the Chicago conflagration. Hundreds | Horse disease. Cotter, got out twenty-five thousand dollars’ worth of kid gloves, and had them placed on the sidewalk in a damaged condition. He ottered a hackman tive hurdred doilars in value to take the goods to a place of safety. In less than an bourhe had TO FLEE FOR BIS LIFE, , and the flames were once again cheated of their ‘prey. The fire was now in Federal street, and ithe wool houses were going like oll factories. They could never have mn attacked at a po ‘rom jcellar to Tp hundreds of thousands of dol- lars worth were in hand that might have been delivered to customers had it not been for the In one store alone there were & cf people thronged ile newspaper and telegraphs || wnich were eeaiting iter Mie eee on a the aye a. Sectetary | Hackett had their store packed full, having just se to details, and “during the day’ reodived | put in thelr eta at nee ee several dispatches relative to the progress of the || ere, enveloped it all. March, Brothers & fire. Dispatche: nies, both in Boston and New York, Secretar: reason telegraphed them that there them. The Secretary in connection with the Boston fire m: bis presence in this city. Assistant the Secretary to remain there. If he were also received by the Secretary from bankers and insurance compa- sayin, there was quite a panic in those cities, The was no or @ panic, and advised them not to yield, a8 he would do all he could to sustain intended leaving Wash- ing to-day to remain until Friday, on matters of importance, but be will not do so, as business require Secretary Richardson was to have left Boston for Wash- ington Saturday night. He was telegraphed by ‘already leit Boston le will be intercepted by a telegra: and requested to retarn. Controller of the Car. reney Knox and Mr. Bigelow, chief of the loan | Pierce had it eet their winter gootls in tne cellar, and sent their summer goods up stairs to be made up. The paper honses came next, and with them went the majority of the larger dealers. It had been hoped that the fire could be stopped short of Franklin street, but the stores there were as vulnerable as any of the others. The Freedman’s National Bank went at 10 o’clock, and an hour later the National Bank of North America was in as bad a condition. PROGRESS OF THE DEVOURING ELEMENT. Notwithstanding the labors of the firemen, the fire continued to spread, a northwest wind aiding it in its course. At cleven the fire had traveled through half a mile of the business portionof the city,ani was still continuing » | with fearful rapidity. Halfan hour later both sides of Summer street, trom High to Purchase, Soman ce oe Trees department, left for lowsrds Broad yerest. "Abeer wee Seems joston last night at the instance of the Secretar: i of the Treasniy, to look after the governments | S1aF™ became general. Fire-engines were tel- interests in Boston, and report to him the facts in the case. BowLes BRroruges Banxkevrt.— Bowles Brothers, American bankers, in Paris, have gy seven payment. The failure is attributed clay in receiving trom America the remit- tance ona bill cashed by them. They hope to It is believed ar- rangements have been made with Drexel, Mor- gan & Co. in favor of Americans on the conti- nent traveling with Bowles’ Brothers letters of credit. The condition of the Japanese govern- to restme and pay 75 per cent. ment business in their hands is bad. ———$<—<——— nn Boston’s BARREL Mrsterv.—Leavitt Alley egraphed for from Worcester, Providence, and other places. Goods were removed from the stores in the vicinity of the fire. At midnight it moyed up Franklin street nearly to the corner of Hawley, consuming the Cathedral building, spreading in Congress and Federal streets and reaching the shipping at the Broad street wharf, south of Congress, leveling the Hartford and Erie raiiroad office, which was in the neighborhood. It still contin- ued to increase toward Washington street, north of Franklin. All the splendid granite’ ware- houses on Frankiin square, Winthrop square and vicinity were burned; the Pilot office being also destro: 45 MILES IN 45 MINNTES, was fully committed in Boston Saturday after- At 1o’clock a train from Boston, to noon, to await the result of the inquest Into the carry the Wo tire department to the death of Abijah Ellis. Circumetancial evidence derzing chy, made the run of forty-four and a is strong against him. Barrett, the other sus- | balf miles in forty-five minutes. Many firms on ected ne had no connection ae with the mur. . Alley had recently moved into a house he ‘Washington street moved their on Milk and Water sresta, and even as bad ‘hased of and. owed latte: north as State street, did the same. All the, swaeee gvantios es yo newspaper offices had a forceon hand, prepared er “°At o'clock yesterday morning two build sachs: | af the ‘corner of Devonshire and uk erect investigation of tbe tiot be Baldmens ant wack | Saran aragt oe eae Bat eee nvestigt ry Y by which the colored ‘Boss was kifed:| Sides of Hanley and Morton pisos were resulted in not! soon under way. At3 o’clock a.m. the heat was a || 80 intense thatthe firemen could not success- on — > 7 Judge Bond, of North Carolina, is prose- cuting the Wilmington Journal for libel. It called bim a “scoundrel.” &7 A political pee onde eed an ber ‘otwithetanding the number of letters in the names of the horse disease, many express- Paper as “being pr! shoe pegs for type.” aN men invariably place two “ds” before them. Re 57 The young ladies of the Jackson Presby- weeeter. {ian Fetunle College have resolvedthemselves | Faring roo eee every minnte, and ‘into a+Cozy Club! carried Gown with them doors, one by 27, house was burned lately at Dubnque, | uml the walls became ieolated and aby into the cracks and crevices of which a woman | with s cr:ehe Whole biocks of buildings i eri ed ut $1,609 in greenbacks. ‘| peared in this aoe A% A western paper, with peculiar standards mstensal choked Of value, @axs that potatoes: are one cigar and a drink of whisky per bushel at Davenport. | Of Same. } ! INTENSITY OF THE HEAT. The fire engines were utterly useless, for no human being could stand near enough to send the streams of water where they were needed to do service. The firemen were utterly exhausted. Shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning a meeting of citizens was held in the mayor's par- lor in the city hall. A detail of citizens was authorized to take charge of all the streets lead- ing directly to the fire, and have exclusive con- trol of them, with the assistance of the police, with authority to take “y, action they might see fit in the rs we ‘he detail consisted of Genera! Burt, Alderman Jenks, Colonel Shep- ard, and other well-known citizens, with full iberty to use powder in case they should con- sider it expedient, At the above meeting Mayor Gaston expressed his willingness to call out the militia to relieve the policemen, and he even desired to iseue the order at one o'clock yesier- day morning, but as none of the military Officers resent knew how their men could be notified efore yesterday, the matter was held in abey- ance. PROGRESS OF THE PIRE CHECKED. At 5:12 o'clock yesterday mormmg the pro- gress of the fire southward had been checked, and also in a great measure toward the soath- east. The extreme limit of devastation in that direction was the Hart‘ord and Erie extending, however, out on the road and burn- ing the bridge. ‘Then it ran along Browil street to India, taking all the intermediate wharves d destroying a few vessels. The fire worked around the new post office building, and reached the northerly side of Water street. WORK OF THE PLAMES. 4 All the residences the Fort Hill section, so-called, including Gridley, High and Broad streets, have been destroyed, rendering hun- dreds of families homeless and destitute. On Washington street the fire was checked by 5 o’clock in the southerly direction. It had not reached beyond Summer street. The buildings on the southern side of the latter street remained standing, and west of them untouched by the flames, with the exception of the three nearest Chauncey street. On Washington street the sepen od the American wate! Merce on the northeast corner ot Washington and Sum- mer streets, had been completely gutted, but the walls remained. North of this,on Wa

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