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The Children. To grown-up beauty men are fond Of sinsina frequent praises ; Alike they laud brunette and blonde With pretty, high-flown phrases, to ma. though such ripo loveliness. No doubt, is far the rarest. Of lt things fair. I malt confess. The children seem the fairest. The children, with their happy looks, Their little ioys and sorrows, Their frank dolight in story books. Their wealth of bright to-morrows What heart but in their tiny hands .Is soft as wax for molding 1 W hat eye that sees their elfin bands Bat joys in the beholding ? Would those kind powers that dispense Aladdin-gift befriend me. No thorn-crown o! pre-eminence In letters should they send iuo : Only the skill to wake delight Like gome old ftery-teller. That for the darlings I might writo Such tales as Vindirila, No bland interviewer's suavity ()f eulogy I'd covet ; -ith their eaer gravity, K ' read my book, and 1-ivo it: lh ; should come aboat my chair, CTh-londnos8 all my glorr, Andclrmb my knee, and ru I my hair. And thar.k me for my story. To them, whon summer timo was broagut Among the cowslip meadows. Or round the winter 'fire at night. While rose and fcdl the shadows Their faces all toward mo bent. Their eyes with pleasure glistening. Their obeoks aglow with wonderment. And all intently listeningWould I discourse of gallant knights. Their their triumphs and distresses; W giant foes, and tourney fights. And beautiful princesses; Of wide enchaited wanderint; In distant topic irairies: Of fairies, and all fairy things, To them that are my fairies. And when, in far-off after-days. My tales should all be over, Though no rich cenotaph of praise . My memory should cover, la some few hearts my name should wake A touch of old affection. And kind remembrance, for the sake Uf early recollection.

The Grave. nov th gf.suan or salis. The grave, all still and shadowy, lies Beneath its hallowed ground; And dark the mists to human eyes That float it precincts round. No music ot the trove invades That dark and weary way : And fast the votive flowrot lades Upon its heaving clay. And vain the tear in beauty's eye, The orphans groan in vain; No sound of clamorous agony Shall pierce its gloomy reign. Yet that oblivion of the tomb Shall suffering Man desire ; And through that shadowy gate of gloom. The weary Soul retire. The bark, by ceaseless storms oppressed. Ruts madly to the shore ; And there the grief-worn heart shall rest,There. where it beats no more. Jtelhcup.

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Established A. 1)., 1835.

BLOOM1NGTO.N, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.

lew Series.VOL.VI.--NO. 30.

A DASHING EXPLOIT. When the Revolution of 1830 set in, Alexandre Dumas, then a very young man, and seeing nothing in life but one series of tableaux, took his share in the more stirring scenes, ic the capacity oi s. skirmisher. He tells the whole story in his memoirs, and his account seems an anticipation of the best portions of Rabagas." But his narrative of his expedition to Soissocs to seize some powder will be found one of the moBt stirring bits of adventure in modern (times. He had heard Lafayette say that if the King were to advance on Paris there would be no powder to meet him with. Alexandre conceived a bold scheme, and proposed to set off for Soissons a town he well knew and seize on the magazine there. Lafayette laughed at the idea, but consented to f ive him a pass to Gen. Gerard, to which )umas coolly added : "And we recommend his fccheiae to you." From Gerard he with some difficulty obtained a requisition addressed to the authorities of the town for the powder. In this he ingeniously interpolated the words Minister of War," a rank which no one but himself had conferred on the ieneral. With this official document " iie returned to Lafayette, and persuaded the old patriot to write himself a sort of letter of introduction to the citizens ofSoisscDB, recommending to them " Alexandre Dumas, one of our combatants," as a fit and proper person to whom they should hand over the powder. Then our hero for such he was on this occasion prepared himself for as spirited and dramatic an adventure as can be found in the books of romance. It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th of tfuly, 1830. As he

w.as hurrying away, he met a young painter named Bard, who Was only 19. lie asked him to join. The other greed with alacrity, and Alexandre, sending him back for his double-barreled pistols and his hori?, set off himself in a capriolet for Le Bourget, then the first post on the road to Soissons, and which has since obtained such a disastrous notoriety. Arrived there, he exhibited his Lafayette and Gerard letters to the Postmaster, and demanded a chaise nd horse ior bis mission. The Postmaster was friendly, and even em presse, and supplied him at once with what he asked. He went out to buy some pieces of calico red, white and blue which were sewn into a tri-color flag fixed to a broomstick, which latter ras tied oa to the chaise. With this ensign they started, in hopes of getting to Soissons about midnight. Tho Postmaster shook his head, but, as he sagaciously remarked, "so many miracle? had been performed during the last lew days that it might bt possible." As they hurried through the various villages the 11 caused the greatest excitement. His fellow-traveler, delighted, declared that all was gaing splendidly," but . that tney ought to have some sort of cry." "Shout away, then," said Dumas; "and while you're shouting I'll take some sleep." The only difficulty was, what was to be the cry, and with some hesitation the now well worn and tattered " Vive 1 Kepublique" was decided on. Accordingly the young painter, his head out of the window, and his flag waving, ' roared on. On the high road they met a chaise going toward Paris, and a traveler of some fifty years old asked for BOWS. "The Louvre is taken, the Bourbons fled, Provisional Government established. Vive la Repubiique !" the excited planter poured out. Tbt, gentlecian fifty years old scratched his ear and continued his journey. For the next stage they bsd an old postilion, who persisted it) going at a steady trot, and at every remonstrance answered doggedly t " Leave it alTto me. A man knows bit own business best." Dumas at last, from

his chaise window, laid on the backs of

the horses with a stiok, and made them gallop. In a rage the man pulled up,

swore ne would unyoke hi beasts, and actually proceeded to do so. Dumas fired at him with a blank cartridge, and so seared him that he rolled on the ground in terror. Alexandre then put on his huge posting-boots, and, mount- ' ing, galloped on to the next post. They soon reached the oid familiar VillersCotterets the whole town, as may well be imagined, being thrown into intense excitement by the appearance of the chaise with the tri-colov and the excited Alexandre Dumas. Late as it was, every house poured out its inhabitants,

wik rushed to the post-house. A thousand eager questions were put to h m what did it mean, this flag and the gun's? Ho knew all the townspeople, and told the story of the last few days. It was initiated that he should stay a ibort time, and have something to eat, and he was carried off to the house of a:i old friend, where a hasty supper was got ready. A number of old companions, who had been boys when he was ir. the

little townr .gathered round, listening

eagerly as;

old friend declaimed

and recounted between every mouthful. As he dashed in for them, which he could do admirably, vivid sketches of these thrilling scenes, tho rustics listened with delight and wonder ; but when he came to explain the object of his present expedition '' when I announced that I meant to capture, single handed, all the powder that whs in a military town, containing 8,000 inhabitants, and a garrison of 800 men, they looked at him doubtfully, anil thought he was crazed. This was, of course, welcome to Alexandre, who always delighted to put himself in a theatrical attitude, and be the center of a dramatic situation. He turned to his companion, Bard : What were my words when proposing this expedition to you ?" ' You asked," was the reply, " was I inclined to get myself shot with you." . " And what do vou say now ? ' ..V That I am ready still." " All were confounded at such gallantry. One of his friends now stepped forward, and offered to get him into Soissons, as he had a friend at tho gates. Then Alexandre, always anticipating his D'Artignan, raised his glass and drank to his own return to them on the next evening. " Have dinner ready," he called to the host, "for twenty people : and it is to be eaten just the same, whether we are alive or. dead here are 200 francs." The other answered th it he might pay on the morrow. "But if I should be shot?" " Then I shall pay." A shout arose, " Hurrah for Cat tier !" Dumas drank off his wine, and, we might add, the act-drop fell. It was now about 11 o'clock. The horses were put to, the chaise was waiting, and the bold trio, Dumas, Bard, and Hutin (who was to pass them through te gates), drove away on their daring expedition. By 1 o'clock they had reached the gates of Soissons, through which they were allowed to pass, "the doorkeeper little dreaming," sayB Alexandre the great, " that he was admitting the Revolution." They went straight to the house of Ilutin's mother, where their first business was the manufacture of a huge tricolor flag. She contributed her blue and red curtains, with a table-cloth, and all the women of the household were set to work to sew the pieces together. By daybreak the task was completed. The pole, of course, gave no trouble, as the one from which the Bourbon white flag was floating would answer. " The flagstaff," as Dumas says, " had no political opinions." The plan they had arranged was really Quixotic in its extravagance, and indeed seems almost incredible. Making all allowance ior Dumas' bombast, it will be seen that at the most he has only been guilty of tho novelist's exaggeration ; and though at the time the story of the adventure was all but scouted, it could not be disproved in ita facts, which are given with the most minute details of dates, names and places. It was settled that Bard and Hutin were to take the flag and contrive to get into the cathedral, under pretence of seeing

the sun rise lrom the tower. It the sacristan made any resistance he was to be flung over the parapet. Then, having dragged down the white flag and set the tri-color floating from the tower, Bard was to hurry on to lend his aid to Dumas, who would be engaged at the powder magazine. Such was the dashing plan of these three men. They started at daybreak, and Dumas made his way to the Fort St. Jean,

where a small pavilion, close to the gateway, was used as the magazine. He dared not attempt the gate, but, stealing round, climbed up the wall cautiously, and took a peep into the fort. He saw two eoldiers busy hoeing a 'ittle garden at the corner. He let himself down again, and looked over at the distant cathedral. He saw distinctly against the sky a dark outline of some figures, then tho white flag, after being tossed about in an extraordinary fashbn that could not have been owing to the wind, finally disappeared, and the tri-color took its place. Now was the moment; his companions had - done their part. He slung his double-barreled gun about him and began to climb the wall. When Le got "to the top he saw the two soldiers staring with wonder at the strange flag on the cathedral, then cocking both barrels of his gun, he leaped down ODd stood before them. One was named Capt. Mollard ; the other Sergeant Ragou. He advanced on them, presenting his piece, and made them a courteous but hurried speech, explaining who he was, and his errand, lie was lions. Alexandre Dumas, son of Gen. Dumas, etc. He came in the name of Gon. Gerard to demand the surrender of the powder, and there was his order signed by the General, which he presented with one hand, holding his cocked gun in the other. The pair were much taken back, and knew not what to do, when theOolonel, D'Orcourt, who was in command, was seen approaching. Tho matter was explained to him, and after many courteous phrases a treaty was arranged, by which the three officers promised their neutrality, and engaged to keep within doors. Thus the powder magazine would seem to have been captured by

Dumas single-handed. It has the ,iir of

a very brilliant achievement, und the

picture ot tlie nero aloue in the iort

his finger on the triggers of his gun, courteously but firmly controlling his three opr. .meats, is a most dramatic scene. When writing the account of his adventure, from which which we take these particulars, ho'.veverDuin;:s forgets that in the official report furnished to the official journal twentythree years before, he had stated that three of his friends were waiting at the gate.

Thus successful, he opened tho gate and found hiB friend Bnrd. To him he handed over the charge of tue magazine, and went away to deal with the commandant of the fort, Liniers. He found this officer just rising, and discussing the news of the sudden appearance of the flog on the cathedral. Dumas laid down hU gun at tho door, introduced himself, and made his demand for an order to renuve the powder. The other declined to acknowledge Gen. Gerard's order, and said that there was scarcely any powder in tho maca zine.

The commandant seemed, in fact, rather amused, and smiled scornfully when Dumas answered that the party at the magazine were his prieoueri), Alexandre, replying that he would go back at once and bring proof under their hand that the powder was there, made his bow and retired. Ho ilew back, found that ho was right, and re

turned presently with satisfactory proof that a large quantity of powder whs in the magazine. But when he reached the commandant's office he found that the party had been increased during his

absence, and that Lenferna, an ofPcer of gendarmes, and Bonvilliers. Colonel of tlie Enpineers, were there in full uniform, and armed. The commandant addressed liim in a sort of bantering tone, telling him that ho had sent for these officers, who, with him, were in command of the (own, in order that they might have the pleasir o of hearing M. Dumas explain his m.ssion. Th? young mp.n saw that boldness was his only resource, anil corlly toid him that he had been engaged by Lafayette to bring thrt powder to Paris, or to los9 his life, ar d that he insisted on the commandant handing it over to him. The officers passed oti Gerard's order from one to the other with a sort of smiling contempt. " And so," said the commandant, in the same tone ; " so, single-handed, Monsieur Dumas I think you said that was your name you propose to :"orce me to do this ? You see that we are four." The young man saw that matters were coming to a crisis, and took a prompt resolution. He stepped back, pulled hi3 double-barreled pistols from his pockets, and presented them at the startled party. ' You are four, gentlemen," he said. "But we are five. If that order bo not signed in five seconds, I give you my word of honor I will blow your brains out, beginning with the commandant's there !" He owned he felt a little nervous, but he was determined. " Take care," ho went on ; "I mean what I say. I am going to count, One two three " At this critical moment a side door was flung open, and a lady flung herself among them in a paroxysm of alarm. " Agree 1 agree I" she cried. "Oh, this is another revolt of the negroes ! Think cf my poor father and mother, whom they murdered in St. Domingo 1" Alexandre owned that the lady's mistake was excusable, considering his own natural tint (deepened by violent browning from the sun), and the peculiar character of hair snd voice. But we may wonder ut the insensibility to ridicule which could piompt him to set down such a jest at his own expense. The truth was, he was so filled with vanity, that all the nicer senses became blunted, and he was even unconscious of the roars of laughter thee foolish confidences produced. The Commandant could not resist the entreaties of his wife. Alexandre declared that he had infinite respect for the lad y, but ntreate 1 her husband to send her away, and let the men finish the business. The poor Commandant protested that his self-respect must be respected. He could not decently yield to a single man. Alexandre then offered to sign a ptiper, to the effect that the order ha'I been extorted at "tho mouth of tie pistolbarrel." "Or would you prefer,'' he added, "that I should fetch two or "hree of my companions, so that you should seem to have yielded to a more rcepect

able force l.ae Uommandant accepted this proposal, and Alexandre le.t h im, bluntly declaring that no advantage must be- taken of the delay or he would return and "blow all their brains out," and that the whole party must give their parole of honor that they would remain exactly as they were. "Yes, yes," cried the lady. Alexandre made her a low bow, but dec lared that it was not her parole that he wanted. The Commandant gave what was required of him, and Alexandre hurrying away, speedily returned with two or three of his men, whom he placed in the court. Opening the window he called to them, arid bade them inform the gentlemen insi.le that they were ready to fire on them at the first signal: an appeal answered by the significant sound of the cocking of guns. The Commandant understood, and, going to his desk, wrote a formal order. After this tho ret was comparatively easy. The magazine was broken open, carts were procured and loaded, s.nd at about 5 o'clo.'k hiy were outside the town. Dumas was so exhausted that he sank down on the grass, under a hedge,

and tell asleep. Roused up pnently, he started on his journey, and by 8 o'clock reached Villers-Cotterets, where they found the supper ready, which had been ordered the eveniig before. After a jovial meal they set out once more, and by 3 o'clock in the morning were close to Paris, at tho pot.t-house whence ihey had started. At 9 he had presented ihimself with his powder at the Hotel de Ville, having triumphantly acccomplished tho daring exploit he had undertaken. When Alexandre told this adventure, there was many a shrug of the shoulders and loud scoffing laugh; such a romance as this was not thought worth serious refutation, as coming i'roni so amusing and notorious a gasconader an uncomplimentary appreciation which he owed to the incurable vanity which always made him set his own iigure in the most effective and dramatic positions. But the story is perfectly true, abating some harmless exaggeration. It is to be found set forth in V modest official repoit addressed to La Fayette, published by his direction in the Aloniteur of Aug. 9, 1830, and signed by Dumas and the friends who assisted him in the expedition. The names of the various oflicers whom he forced to submit to him are given at length. When the

memoirs wero published, in I fc 33, the son of the Commandant, Liniers, did, indeed, come forward with an indignant "reclamation," to clear the memory of his father, who was llicn dead, but hir. testimony, for he was notually present at the scene in the Commandant's cabinet, only confirms Duma,' account. The purpott of the sosi's letter is merely thif: that the town was already ripe for revolt before Dumas' arrival, and that when the latter returned with his friends, these wero assumed to be chiefs of tho National Guard, already known to be disaffected. In short, that the officer yielded not to Dumas, but to an overpowering force behind him. His son describes Dumas as parading his pistols, and menacing the Commandant, but declares. :hat the presence of the four oflicers aimed, and intimidated, was a fiction of the novelist. He admits, however, that he himself and the Secretary with Madame do Liniera were present. On the whole, the adventure may bo accepted in all faith, and reflects credi', on the great raconteur. All the Year Pound.

THE FIRE FIEND.

Terrible Conflagration in Boston.

One Hundred Acres in the Heart of the City Destroyed.

Loss Upward of One Hundred Million Dollars.

Thrilling

Details of gration.

tho Confla-

Some of the early English Bibles, as Mr. Disraeli states, contain as many f,s 6,000 errata, which were irtentional, consisting in passages interpolated and meanings forged for sectarian purposes, sometimes to sane! ion the new cre-od of a half-hatched sect and sometimes with the intention to destroy all fceriptural authority by the suppression cr omission of texts.

The calamity thai bsfell the city of Chicago thirteen months ago has boon repeated in Boston with almost fearfil exactness. Tho following dispatches tell tho terrible story of r.iin and devastation : Bostos, Nov. 9. A lire broke out this evonin? in one of the large dry goods warehouses on Sumner street, wliort alaro number of stores bave been burnori, with their contonts. It spread on Sumner street, sweeping in its course several large buildings occupied by dry 'goods, leather and other wholesale commission mnrchnnti. Thence it spread eastward and southward, consuming all before it. The efforts of the splendid fire department -appeared to be useless, for the conflagration kept on ITS'.RM01tSEI.ESS WAV, as it di'.l in Chicago, reaching Brood street, a ?mrterof a mile from whence it. commenced. t was soon raging among tho wooden buildings-which extend for a mile on the edge of the harbor toward Bouth Boston, including coal-yards, ood-yards, grain-iltores, Mack-smith-shops, carpenter-shops, end such tinder-like material. It will probably soon reach the gas-works, but the most herculean efforts aro making to prevent .no dames f. om reaching it. The fire has spread toward State' street, and has swept to Kilby and Milk streets, tho mngnificeot granito buildings on Federal, Franklin and Water streets seeming to offer no impediment to the flames, immense bodies of water are being thrown on the buildings threatened, the fireman being powerless to conquer the flames w aere they are raging. The great grani'c dry goods house of Beebe & Co., and other equally heavy mer chants havo succumbed to the flames. Nearly all the agencies and stre-houses of the various cotton mills and print works of Lowell an 1 Lawrenco have been burned, with immense stocks of goods, aloso .worth IIII.I.IOSS of noi.MRa. In Kilby stroet the buildings were of oldfashioned, heavy granite construction, mostly occupied by the hardware trade, whoso losses are simply immense. At the loot of Sumner streot, and Kingston, High, and Turchase stroets, ami on Broad streot, quite a large number of dwellings have been burned, the inhabitants DARELT ESCA-P-ISO WITH THIIR IIVES. Thjir household goods are nearly all destroyed, cither by the llsmps or falling walls. Tho fire departments of Cambridge, Somervillo, Charlestown, C'hoisea, Watertown, Walthnm, Brooklyn, Mcdford, Maiden, Lynn, and Salem aro all on duty, doing herculean service, and Chief Engineer Daurell and Mayor Gaston have telegraphed to Worcester, Providence, Taunton, Fall, River, and other places having sieaui firis engines, for help. The dilfcront railroads have sent SPECIAL LOCOMOT1VBS to different points on their lines to rring engines. The tugs in the harbor ard several steamships aro busily engaged in towing vessels into tho harbor snd archoring them in safety from the flames. the waoi.s irt;LAriox or Tar. cirr has turned out, for the gener.il alarm'hns been sounded several times, and 13 never sounded hero unless thore is ninv. NEED op UK i, p.

Thn scene is one ol the grandest that can bo conceived, the territory which is being devastated by the flames bcin; a level plateau, extending from the Custom-Houao, at tho fot of State slieet, to Dover street bridge, embracing nearly two miles in extent, the main portion of which is now a SEETD1SO iiell or FLAKE, licking up the fortunes of thousands of our best citizens, who have struggled hard nil their lives to ancumulste a competence. The flames can be seen a distance of fifty miles cut in Massachusetts Bay, and by iheir light every island and vessel in tho harbor can bo

diatiuetly seen. Up to the present writing tho ravages of the devouring element are confined mainly to business portions of tho city, but it seems inevitable that the flames will extend to localities occupied as dwolling places. The streets aro erowdod with vehicles conveying away frm tho track of the tire-demon tho

ellects ot tne unlortunates woo are every moment expecting that their homesteads will bn inva led. To make any estimate of losses at this moment would be SIMPLT PaEPOSTEROl'S, aa even now millions worth of property have been destroyed. As midnight the flames werestill raging uncontrolled, threatening to involve the whole city in one common ruin. Boston, Nov. 10, l:,0 a. iu. There is no abatomcnt in the violence of the conflagration. The firo is sweeping everything before it, stone and iron appearing to offer no impediment to its progress. The Transcript building and the Pilot buildin;, both of granite., are gone, ami tho probability now is that the Journal and Herald buildings will be destroyed. The urea involved in flames at present overs fully a mile and a half square. 3:10 a. m, Lurid columns of flamo and Bmoke, detonations cajsed from blowing up buildings, and the crushing and falling of walls makes the scene CBANn ASI TERRIFIC. Tho whole of Pearl streot is in ruins. Tho heat i so intense thst the firemen cannot

ugnt u Buccessiuny, ana me names are raging with fearful effect. Building after building is beinx blown up, witli tho only

apparent effect ot lncrsasin? the terrilile

volume of flame. Every newsnsner office in

the city except ono has been deUroved. The

old State Houke, the Postoflice and the "Old South Church," dear to all Bostonians, havo

uiso oeeu swopi away.

uostom, jsoy. io 1 m. The district .

ered by the fire may be said to include the largest part of that improvement of Boston

wnicn lias Decn m&rto neccssarv bv the re

cent development of tho commerce of the city. The streets which have been thus Car

destroyed incliRlo all the now stroets devoted to the wholesale and jobbing dry goods trade, tho boot and sioo trndo, and most of those devoted to tho wool businena. With a few exceptions, the warehouses destroyed are those occupied by jobbers and wholesale dealers, there being scarcely a retail store in tho (at present) burnt district, and very !w

dwelling houses, None of tho latter, indeed, except s.inio tenement hnunes near tho water

line, ai mo eastern end of Bummer street, and in the neighborhood of the Old Colon v Station. Persona who have no; lived hero for some years will remember Summer street, Arch street, High street, Franklin street and Pearl street, as occupied by the residences of some ot the best citizens of Boston. They contained at one time soma of the most elegant mansions in the world. Tho recent advance of tho business of Boston, and, in particular, its development since tho war, lina rendered it necessary (or the shoe trade, tho dry g .ods trade, and the wool tride, to overstep the bounds to which they were formerly ronnne1, end to est aid it h "then-selves on these streets, ome tho faverito dwelling places of the citizens. It is lt;t six year since Summer street, w.is chauged from a street of quiet homes to one of the moat active wholesale business streets. As late as lutii, Oov. Kverct, Rev. Mr. Vrothingham, and other gentlomen of quiet literary tastes, resided in Bummer street, but for tho pint

two or th roo years there k as not boen a single dwelling notice in that sl roct. It has been wholly rebuilt with the most substantial granita warehouses. Trinity Church still stood in Summer street, but arrangements had been made for its rc jonstructionjn another part of the town. The destruction of Pearl and High streets has wiped out the largest boot and shoo mart in tho world, for this industry in this country was centred there. A very largo part of the leather trade, of the trado in shoe-findings, ond otrher trades connected with tho boot shoe trads, olso lound their

centre in tho same locality. Tho great ojtabli8hmenta of tho New England cotton and Woolen manufactures are all swept away. Within a few years now Devonshire streot was laid out through the district burned, and this thoroughfare seems to be tho very centre of tho periphery of tho fire. Tho noble warehouses on both. sides of it, as well as those in Otis street a id Winthrop placo, hove pen's hod. - m"!. , n,l.,ln.1 mnnl w n wal. rt, i floa V..1, All'

tSnFete i-nd Fed&rat streets, and part of those streets is also in ruins. At this moment it would seem that, tho fire bus been chocked on th eastern side of Washington stroet, and, although it has consumed the rear of some of the warehouses on that street, it has not brokon through into the stroet. In Broad street, Kirby street, and nearer tho water, are largo Btores containing stocks of iron and imported goods, but the fire has not yet reached tbem. Old residents of Boston, who have not bees here for five years, shou'd understand that the whole of Fort Hill has recently been dug down and carried away, and in its place is now s level plain not cot . rod with buildings. The crowded pauper population, which, till lately, filled every tenement on Fort Hill, has been removed to othsr and, at present, safer homes. The swarm of the poor, which, till recently, crowded the cellars of Broad street, have nearly all given room to the gr wth ( f trade, and thai; street is no longer to be regarded as one of the lairs of this degraded population. To these two facts is it due that so few people i re left houseless by this iliBister. Not mots than five hind red families have been unh m sd. Tho real sufferers are the mostaetiv businessmen of Boston. They represent mainly tbat ycunger class of merchant!,, and to whom, in the last fifteen years, the city owes its remarkablo commercial development, a development which, not perhaps so noticeable to outsiders, has been a marked feature of Boston growth. These men, conscious of the immense advantages which the city had for trade, had availed themselves of largo resources to construct a system of warehouses which had no superior in this country, perhaps none abroad, and to open new streets wiiich should answer their needs. Tho old byways in the more northern part of tho city had become crowded and inadequate. They looked with pride u -on Pearl street, Franklin street, New Devonshire street and Sumac er street, ns business thoroughfaros nowhere iixcellcd. Every new year the development cf tho manufactures and commerce of the country and their own city had shown that th;y built on no false hopes in constructing such solid and expensive storehouses. Of this city, more than any other in this country, it is true that the diftorcnt branches of industry liked to remain together and work aide "by side. To speak of a Boston man of Milk street and Franklin Btreet, was to call to mind tho large wholesale and jobbing establishments of the dry goods manufacturers of New England. Pearl streot and High street were to bim the centers of the

boot and shoo industries of Now Fngland ; Bummer stroet was lhat of the latest advances of domcitic dry goods. Theao streets were occupied almost distinctively for these respective purposos. TQH BOUNDARIES OP THE TIRE. To strangers, the consolidation of these difloront interests canuot be better explained than by saying that here, in tho region bounded on the water side, two-thirds of a mile, on Washington street noarly half a mile, and on the northern side and southern side nearly half a milo each, lay tho very richest part of Boston. It was, perhaps, the wealthiest section in the country. In this district there were few dwelling houses, no hotel of importance, no thcator, no church, except Trinity and tho old South Church, which ha' as yet scaped tho ll-imes. Tho Cathedral Block, w.iich is

destroyed, was a magnificent collec ion of warehouses. The sito was formerly occupied by the Roman Catholic Cathedrel,the ground having been purchased a few years a(;o for $21 a square foot. No banks have been destroyed except the Revere, North America, and Continental'. The North Bank and the Bank of Redemption were in peril, but havo not yet suffered. It is rumored that the old South Church is destroyed, hut I have no reliable information ot the fact at this moment. The name of the ehureh indicates a period whon Boston was confined wholly to what is now known as tho North End, when this church, the third built in Boston, was regarded as tbo most southerly of the three. It waa established about the year 1660. The present edifice was erected in the early part of the last century. With the advance of tho growth of Boston, the old South Church long

since found useii in me northern pari oi (no city, and it is a melancholy reminder of the origin of its name, if it be spared to-day,

that it is at tne southern point ot mat pan of old Boston which remains. Opposite tho old South Church, in the time of the Revolution, was the Province House, which was used by the Knglish Governors aa thlr residence of state. When the Em-lieb army took possession of Boston, findi ig, in the winter, no other building large enough for the training of cavalry, they sei ted the old South Church, and used it as nri .ing school. This insult to tho people was one of the most bitter inflicted by that army upon the Colon' sta. The congregation own a great deal of real estate in the neighborhood, and, like that of the Trinity Chu-ch '6T New York, are very wealthy. They maintain other churches throughout tha city, and wore contemplating tho orection of a very fine church in the region known as Back Bay. As a landmark of the old times, there is no building in Bonton the loss of which would bo inoro regretted by i'.s older citizens. Immediately opposite the old Bouth Church was a building, in the roar of tto Transcript office, which was built on the scene of the birthplace of Benjamin Franklin. From this Ionise, it is known that he was carried, on the day of his birth, to be baptised in tho old South Church. Kocent visitors to Boston will recollect that that there was an inscription on the grauite warehouse erected there, to show that it was the spot where Franklin waa born.

Tho new postoflice, which hau been, bo far, a barrier to the flames on the north, ia a magnificent structure of granito and iron, tho coriier-slono of which wus laid little

more than a year ago. A considerable part

oi i no ground burned ovor oast, ot tnis building had, tboantiquiies say, been gradually reclaimed from tho walor, but this was done

long hefiro tho preoeot generation was born

from an intimate acquaintance with tho commercial interests ol tho city, I am able to Btule that the fall trade in dry goods was

considered Buccesafu . and that tho different

houses hud probably reduced their stocks of

uinm-nuc goods to as low a point as at any

period in the year. It is not yet time for tho

K" ''I mo Bprin;; trade to accumulate

warenou'es wore the points ol delivery tor the great mm ufaeluring establishments

i an parts ot new KnglaiM, and thoy held

goods in very lar;e quantities at tho place of

mmiui.ioiuio, to he drawn upoi. incase ol

aa.es. This is true, in u limited degrto, also, cf the boot aud shoe business. . The store of wool was prolubly at its very largest, as dealers hail neld wool lately for

a r se. 'the recent liiflicuity ia transporta

tion, onset bv the horse oistniupor, had in

many instauurs prevented tho delivery of

wooi, an riiuiga st was aoBouuo j neeimi in the ma mil'-iciuri"c c3tublis!imeuts, and larger qimntitioj of goods than havo over acrumulntcd h-.-toro are now in storo from

the same came at the railroad depots, which, so f ir, have escaped destruction. Tne Cotton Tmn.fCript office, a very line structure, recently erected, has been partialiy doitroytd. The office c f tho Pott is in dagger, but at this writing, it is believed to bo Bi, in. The I'ilnt, a Boniun Catholic pjper, having tho largest circulation of any

paper of that denomination in the country was engulfed, as fflso the establishment of Donohue, tho well-known publisher of Catholic books. The largest paper establishments are gone, and that trade is also crippled. So far as can be learned, no steamships can have been destroyed, their dock) being at some distance from the fire. Many smaller crafts are reported to bave been lost. Should the wind change, or control of the flames be lost, the next section to go will be State street, in which are almost all tho banks and insuraaoe offices. There is not the least danger to tho residence portion of the city as yet apprehended, but if the wind veers to the east tome from the sea they will fall benoath the flames. HANSARD ROOFS. That the solid structures of iron and stone, which fill tho burnt district, should havo boen so easily consumed, is attributed here to the pernicious fashion of capping them with the frail and combustible Mansard roof, wince serves to carry the flame from building-to building. - -

Current Items. Newfoundland has just held her first agricultural fair. An Augusta, Me., man slung a stone at a rat; and snap went his arm. After the horse business nobody will cry for Canadian annexation. Tnr, New York papers are full of advertisements of oxen for sale. Many a man who thought he had made a bargain buying silks, finds that he has cot worsted. There were twenty-five thousand dogs in New York city before the mince-pie season opened. In South Bend, Ind., money is scarce, and quinine is used as legal tender, quinine pills answering for small change. Distilleries in Bourbon county, Ky., are shipping whisky direct to France, The number of hogs in Iowa is 1,244,169, valued at 2,521,240. Sufferers from " hay fever," or autumnal catarrh, say that the horse disease is that and nothing else. Chicago is to have a squad of colored firemen. Husbands are probably the most illused of all classes of persons in the world except wives. " Below Fourteenth street, $10 ; above Fourteenth, $20; and funerals, $25 each" were the hack rates during the h rss malady. Cork cobs are an article of merchandise in request at Paris, and several New England firms gather them for shipment. After saturation with tar and resin they are used for kindlings. Of the 4,218 graduates of the four leading educational institutions of New EDgland Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Wesleyan University 33 per cent.

nave Deen lawyers, 20 per cent, clergymen, nearly 14 per cent, instructors,

and 13 per cent, physicians.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company

effer $10,000 and a life pass over all

their lines to any one who will impart information leading to the arrest of the parties implicated in tearing up the track at Garrett's Siding, on the main line of the road, about two weeks since.

One hundred and twenty-two patents

have been granted on windmills in the

United Stales fiince 1854.

A Boston woman, who has been read

ing in the papers that Sunday marriages are illegal, writes to the papers to know how it is with a baby born on a Sunday.

it so, which Hhouid be pumsned, tne

father, the mother, or the baby ?

Soke figures given by the Boston Ad

vertiser show that the profits of the

manufacturers of the State were $102,000,000 in 1870, or about $68 per capita

to the population. The wages paid

amounted to $18,000,000, which, to those employed" in the factories, was equiva

lent to 9421 each.

Extensive works will soon be estab

lished at Baltimore for the manufacture of Portland cement, which has come into very general use, of late, in the building of sidewalks, platforms and flagging, and for floors, cisterns, reservoirs, rooting, etc. The genuine Portr

land cement is made near Lionaon, in part from she dredgings of the Thames, but it is believed as good an article can be manufactured in this country.

Cornell University already possesses

four large stone structures. The walls of a fifth massive edifice the Sage College aro now rapidly risine. It will

be, in its architectural features, one of

tho hnest academical buildings in tne

country. It is quadrangular in shape, with an interior court, and will contain,

in addition to dormitories, several hne

rooms for lectures and cabinets.

TYbv Destroy tlie Republican Party I

Why destroy such a party, with such

a magnificent record? Its history has

been a history of the triumphs of great reforms, year after year and canvass after canvass. And now, aa in the past, it has the will and the ability to correct, from time to time, all existing abuses and to enact all needed reforms. The very men who demand now that it should give place to another organization, to be controlled and dominated by the overwhelming majority of oar opponents, would reject such counsel in every other sphere of life. Suppose you were improving your farm, to make it the model farm of the State, amid the derision and malignity, the misrepresentations and obstructions of antagonizing and unfriendly neighbors. When you had succeeded over their

-.opposition, and in spite of -it, they were

to demand tbat you should retire and that they should then enter upon its management and control, would yon assent to it? Suppose some great railroad enterprise is finally carried through to success over the bitterest and most relentless opposition, would you think it right to turn out those who had triumphed by their perseverance and have the nearly finished work controlled by those who had so pereveriiily opposed its construction? Let me make a historical illustration. When the German armv.

flushed with victory, were at the gates of Paris, the Communist rose against the Government that was striving to j save France, and sought to overthrow

it. At last they were put down and !

peace came. What would yon have -

said, then, if the Communists, while ac

cepting the situation, had demanded that the Government they had warred I upon should abdicate, and that they !

should govern France in its place? Allow me to add one more illustration,

from the sacred record. When Jerusa

lem had become a reproach among the

nations, its walls broken down and its name a by-word, Nebemiah and his faithful associates determined to rebuild its waste places, to reconstruct its dilapidated walls, and to again make it an honorable place in the world. But Sanballat and Toliab ridiculed and derided them, pointed the finger oi scorn and contempt at them, and sought to thwart them in their patriotic work. Nehemiah answered them, grandly, that the work they derided and opposed should be a success, but that these enemies of it should have no power in the reconstructed city. The work was carried through in triumph, and when Nehemiah, after a brief absence, returned and found that Sanballat and Toliah, through an unfaithful high priest, had dared to exer cise power and authority there, he drove them out. Those only who had been faithful in the dark days were allowed to rule in the hour of successful pros perity. But when you ask why the Edpublican party shall be driven from power, the answer is that a' change is needed. And the saddest thir g in the canvass is that some who have been with us in all the contest of the past, sharing with us in the opprobrium and invectives that our opponents heaped upon us, but sharing in our triumphs also, have joined hands with their old enemie in this work. A part of them insist that they have been read out; but no one has p wer to read out even the humblest members of our organization. If they turn their backs upon us it is because they read themselves out, and, for one, I should gladly read them back again into the ranks, and as many more who would indorse our platform, support our standard-bearers and prove, as tney can only prove, by their ballots, that they are earnest and sincere Republicans. Schuyler Colfax.

A Race for Gold. A rather interesting race is going on

between the New North Clunes and the Maedala Company, in the Colony of

Victoria, to see who is to get the sum of

$5,000 which is said to nave been onerea by the Government to the firet mining company which finds gold at or below 1,000 feet from the surface. The Magdala's shaft is down 905 feet, the New North Clunes' pump shaft is 1,004 feet,

and the latter has apparently a great advantage ; but some people think the Magdala will get the gold first, because, they say, that their shalt is right over the lode, and must pass through it either above or below the 1,000 feet while the New North Clunes may have to drive a long way before they find golden stone. Then again, if the Maguala should strike golden stone before they get 1,000 feet down, the chances are that the reef will have such a heavy underlie that they may not got through it before they go to the 1,000, or a good deal more. The Pleasant Cieek News says : " A singular and unaccountable feature in connection with our deep quartz mine is being developed daily, which must surprise those well experienced in mining matters. It is the decrease of water as the greater depths a.e reached. In the Magdala shaft,

)f0 feet, the water has decreased to a

minimum: in the Crown Cross Reef

Coninanv' shaft, at 800 feet, notwith

standing the two reefs recently struck, no extra water has been met with : and

in the long drive of tho Extended Cross Beef Company, at a depth of over 800 feot, the water is lighter than it was nearer thn surface. This, if a general rule, is very important, to companies

eognged in deep-sinking operations."

The number of papers published in

the Empire of Russia is 337. Of these, M reviews and journals are in the

Russian laneuace. There are forty pub

lications in Polish, six in French, thirty

in German, four in Lettish, five in Es-

thonitui, two in Finnish, and three in

Ilebrow.

The Uselessness of Bargains. The recent Republican victory means two things: the universal vindication of definite principle in party politics, and the universal repudiation of political bargains undertaken by individuals for the benefit of individuals. No page in the history of the American Republic, in the history of any people, more convincingly demonstrates than did the recent election tbat a party suspected of dishonesty cannot and will not command the suffrages of the intelligent and virtuous mass of the people. That the Liberal-Democratic coalition appeared in a dishonest role from its birth to its death, the fathers of that wretched fraud will hardly dare deny. The Republican masses knew its heart had much of the old copperhead in it ; that the poison of secession, of dishonesty, and general unpatriotism was in its veins, and that it was worse than the routed Democratic party, for to all the unrepented vioiousness of that organization it added the lie of & good new name, and the hypocritical pretence of a pure motive. The honest men, the decent rank and file of the Democratic party, despised the coalition as a cheat ; as a brazen insult, proffering them nothing in return for their all; a deliberate declaration by a dozen demagogues that the whole Democratic party could be put in a bag, labeled with a Republican name, and sold for the pittance of a constableship, and an office at the tail of the Cabinet. The fraction of the

Democratic vote which was resolutely

not cast, was not significant enough to teach the managers of the party that at Baltimore they reckoned without their

host.

Now let a man with the eye of a snail look over the nit onal battle-field and say " the Republican party is .dead." hjveniny Post. Lyauta TraBsball. To all men of sincere convictions and honest purposes, one of the moe satisfactory results of the political Waterloo of Tuesday lust, is the " remission " of Mr. Lyman Trumbull to the pursuit of an average- attorney and counselor at law in his Congressional District. To no man more than to Lyman Trumbull was the stoppage of the Democratic revoluticn at Cincinnati owing. To no man more than to Lyman Trumbull was the capture of the rubra movement by the worst enemies of rV form due. To no man more than to Lyman Trumbull will impartial history ascribe the cause of the most fraudulent and corrupt political conspiracy of the age. To no man more than te Lyman Trumbull is Ulysses S. Grant indebted for his return to the Chief Magistracy. To no man more than to Lyman Trumbull does the Republican party owe its unexampled triumph ; its retention of power against the wishes of an honest majority of the American people, and he elevation from a simple majority nartv to an absolute domination by the

unchecked sway of more than two-thirds power in both branches of Congress. Of more than any other one man, all this is the work of that supremely selfish demagogue arid offioe-beggar, ' whose serpent-like conduct at Cincinnati was that only which rendered the 'corrupt Blair-Fenton Greeley-Brown bargain and

sale a possible consummation. True to his Satanic nature, tigs Illi

nois office begguig 4mWIMM throughout-the shameful contest, worker for his own political, aggran

dizement, at the expense of everir sense

of fairness toward others, and rat the sacrifice of every conception of honesty, justice, manliness and truth. His desperate but wholly preposterous hope of getting back to the Senate by the practice of fraud in the election of members of the Illinois House of Representatives became notorious toward the close of the contest, and excited" not a little alarm amone Republicans wLo did

not thoroughly understand -the intrinsic

mmta ot tne proporuomu kjhusui m

representation, and the possible ana impossible effects of the free rote. The

utter 1 oilure ot every attempt o anect the rank bv fraudulent mesvna. and the

almost scientific exactness exhibited, in spite of all attempts at fraud, in the

representative proportions m tne re-sun, furnish overwhelming testimony in fa-

vor ot tne new system. -vmergt iima

(Democratic).

Greeley Loqaibur. It is a thsnklaoB task to bone: a defeated

candidate before the pnblio in any attitude whatever, and when the defeat has beco so overwhelming as to possess an element of disgrace, to drag the gambhng politician who has staked everything- sad lost-md lost hon

or beeida before tnupeopte, woqjo ce a refinement of cruelty. But Hr. Greeley himself hastens once more before tho public: be makes his bow as tho editor of the Mew Yoik Tribune. Etc declaim the Tribune " a thoroughly independent journal," and promises

to treat " all paraet ana ail political more. menta with iudicial fairaaes aad candor."

This has not been Mr. Greeley" auoag point heretofore, nor has it been a dngomhing characteristic of Ids newspaper. Scce tha election is over, Mr. Greeley admits that there are " two great political parties" in the country, and tbat one of them is the Democratic party; because be says he is "not in eoord with either." Ee irUin!y waa " in accord" with the BO-cailed Liberal psrty, and he nance admits mat there it- no duch -party in exist ence, or at least tint it is not one of the "great parties of the country," an opinion which will obtain wide credence in tha light of the events of last J'nesday. Mr. Greeley declares that "he will be able and wm endeavor to give a wider and steadier regard to the progress ot science, industry and the useful arte than a partisan joonat can k, and bo will not ba provoked to . indulgence in thoee batter penonafities which are the reeoecized bane of tonroablsai.'" Bat,

Hn the BMe,prSiph, l4mchSJni noEk.

bes by asserung mat -lasTicwnsas VS in the late contact ess hardly fail to take the whole subject of Southern rights and wrongs into early and earnest conaderation." Too American people bave just decided very emphatically that the Sooth has no "rights and wrongs" different from other sections of the country, and that upon the Soothem paopie alone depend the question of the regenertion and rehabilitation of the Southern Butea, the Government having done all which comae within the scope of its authority. It ia not only idle bat insulting to the great army of journalists in this country for Jtr. Greeley to say "he wilt not ba prevoked to indulgence in those bitter personantiss which are the recognized bane of journalism." Horace Greeloy, more than any other man in America, ia reaponsibla for the "bitter perBonalitiea" winch have disgraced joornahsm, and what be baa, during the last 'fax months, suffered from journalistic bitterness, is only commending the poisoned chalice, prepared by himself, to bis own lips. If the sentence "If be ean hereafter say anything that will tend to heartily unite the whole American people on the broad platform

KlCaJ

tt.Ill m.a Mm-nimWUIBl Anmit PA.

suit indicate the sublime fidelity of mil- (

lions upon millions of American citizens . . i . i T -

to snarp cut political priuoipiw. i w not merely men and ballots that were at the polls ; it was the clear, honest

brain, tne neart, tue integrity, wiu iuo force of the whole American people. A few pigmy politicians ' were nothing against an army inspired by a single lefty motive. 11 ad a handful of senseless demagogues essayed for their own

benefit to make tne rtepuoncan. party assume a hypocritical part in the campaign, their success would have been no

better tnan tneir aisgraoea ana overwhelmed opponents. Little men in an intelligent nation are of no account ; great principles alone are national mctxr. The people hare demonstrated that the Republican party is not the party of a few men, of a single President, of a brief day. They have fixed their signet upon it as the party of the nation, as the nation itself. Its principles, because right in the abstract, were made the shining banners under which the most stupendous political victory ever witnessed has been won. Equal rights for all men; the abolition of class.ea ; a vigorous, just, courageous, humane government; civil service reform ; education free to the whole people ; religion uninvaded ; economy in taxation and thrift in administration ; personal integrity ; and, above all, honest political principle, are hat this victory has j asserted and proclaimed.

male suffrage," and enter into a crooaaa to force Congrats to remove thedibiUtieH from Jeff.BaviB and his bandied confederates, who, of all the late rebels and traitors, are alone debarred from holding offtee. Mr. Greeley promieee "neror acrain to be a candidate for any office." Xhs promise is of very little conseqaence to anybody. Mr. Greeley's nc&tical engagements have not been so faithfully kept as to entitle them to any grett degree of ooondeooe ; it ia of ne account to the peoohi whither he is a candidate or not ; if he keeps his promise this than, well and good; if he breaia it, and again beoomee a candidate, he will be very likely to be defeated. At an early period of the sar Mr. Greeley arrogant!; assumed iiewtmepyr oemmand of the Union armies sad ordered Freetdent Lincoln to move them "on to Bichmond.'" They moved, were broken and shattered, and retreated upon Wasbingtat.a darorganized, holpless multitude. Mr. Greeley then humbly promised never to sasnaee ooujmand of tho Union forces again, . Bat this pledge did not prevent bim from future exhibitions of duitatoriaJ arrogance, which were a constant oomne of annoyance to the Aoministration Mid tlie country from the beginning to the end of tts rebellion. Mr. Greeley'a influnee upon the polities of the country is gone forever. He ha traitorired to hia par at a timo of ito greatest usefulness, and no resaunable man eaa deny that the only apparent motiT) for his defection waa a deem foroAca ni power. He may be forgiven, be bis treason to pt rty and principle wiH not be forgotten, ana be will never secure the confluence of the American people. Bis jejunal may eentinne 1 3 be a great newspaper, but it will never be a great poUtisal infioenos in the land. It has violated Us convictions snd tta oonseieaee, (.Uaderedand maligned it sought te dragoon public sentiment into fc false and unnatural channel, and its power for rjolitiear (rood or evil is Rone forever.

JBxcTkange.

FrusJca aa frtmekmm. An incident occurred yesterday which reminds us of the siege. A tawrdnsae in the Roe Trouchet had enfMpl two Germans, who were duly provided with Swiss passport". They had been at work some months ere their nationality was ascertained. Day before yesterday same three hundred barbers' boys and barbers assembled before the shop, armed with

curling tongs and Shears, ana reenaea the delivery of the two Qermnne.' Tbo doors were closed and an immense crowd blocked up the street. . The threatened violence waa only averted by the promise of the boss barber to discharge his German assistants. On getting a written pledge the erow went away saying they should return in two hours to tear down hia shop unless his pledge was faithfully kept. This .scene endured :'or an hour, and no gendarme came in eight. How many minutes would have elapsed ere tho whrte force would have arrived had it neon whispered that the Prince Napoleon was being shaved witMnT Pari Lett the New York Times.

What becomes of the Indiana hi as unanswei- tble a question as wlrjtr bocomes of the newsboys when they grow up, or of nil the pina mannfaotored. In I860 there were 44,020 1 It 4 25,731 nearly half Of tW wmtft

having dwappeareci an.

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