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Show THE GREAT FIRE AT BOSTON- - Our issue of this morning ia devoted to an extended telegraphic account of the Boston conflagration. Our readers will find tho loport particularly full, iviDK everything received ainco our Sunday cditiou wont to press. The later accounts in regard to luwe, insurance, in-surance, etc, are ujuoU more cocour-. cocour-. aging tbao thopo at first received, and there is now a pro.-pect lhat through the aabistance of a fund raised by contributions, con-tributions, many insurance companies, that otherwise must have gone by the board, will continue business. The rumored danpor of a panic on Wall street eecma over, owing doubtless doubt-less to the prompt and decisive deci-sive position taken by Secretary Boutwoll, and, although stooks generally gener-ally have fallen from four to ten per cent, there is no proepeot of a farther decline. The losses of insurance companies com-panies are without doubt greatly magnified, and we aro, at this writing, inclined to tike a much more cheerful view of tho situation than seemed possible upon Sunday. All over the . oountry a movement for a relief fundi is working, and it is very gratifying to ; learn that Chicago leads the list with $100,000 already en rou tt. - Terrible as aro so great national calamities as the Chicago and Boston fires, they have a wonderful effect in strengthening strengthen-ing the ties that bind our people together to-gether and in calling forth the generous gener-ous and noblo nature that, beneath all the greed for gain, lies deep and strong in the hearts of the great American people. We must take the .most cheerful cheer-ful view possible, as we consider the Boston calamity, and with the foeling that neither fire nor flood, foreign nor oivil war, can crush the courage of our people or destroy the spirit of our free institutions, let the dead past bury its dead, while with unshaken determination deter-mination we press on toward the future. This is tho spirit which enabled the country to carry to a successful suc-cessful issuo its great oivil conflict, which enable it to outlive the Chicago fire, and which will carry it bravely through tho effects of the Boston oon- flagration. |
