The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-08-04

of shells left by the 1etreaIing army
\ through the vast serial auditorium cenguls-
ed with the commotion Of frightful souuds.
moved the gaTish procession of tbs grand
army, with brave music, bright banners.
and Wild cheers. A regiment Of negro
cavalry swept by the Hotel. As they
turned the street corner they drew theiT
isabers with savage shouts, and the blood
mounted even in my woman's heart With
Equick throbs of Defiance sid
+ Meanwhile the FIRE ragged with nueheek.
ed Jury Theleniire business part Of the
city was on FIRE; stores, warehouses. man
ufactories, mills. depots and bridges-all,
| covering acress the continuous thunder
of exploding shells sounded in the sea of
lsfiIe; and in the midst of it Was the long,
Threatening, hesrileafmy entering 20 seize
tits prey. All during the forenoon fame
and smoke, and burning brands, and
showers of blazing sparks filled the air
spreading further the destFnction. until
it had swept before it every bank. every
auction store. every insurance. Office. near
~ every commission house, and oet OF
the fashionable stores. Tbs atnlasnhere
was 'chokiBgs men, women aud ei5fidren
crowded into the square ofthe capitol for
a breath Of pure air; bat it was not OBJ
famed even there, and one traversed the
green slope blinded by the cnders and
struggling for breath. Already piles oil
furniture had been collected here, drapp-
ed from the ruins of burning houses: aud
in uncouth arrangements, made with bro
ken tables and bureaux. were huddled
women and children, with no other home,
with no other resting place in Heaven s
great holloWGess.
Some tsrdy attempts were made to ar
rest the couhagration; in the afternoon
the military authorities organized the
crowds of negroes as ERE corps; but the
few steam engines that played upon the
flames were not sufficient to check their
progress. Il was late in the evening " hen
the fire had burned itself out. It had
consumed the most important part OF
Richmond. Commencing at the Shockoe
warehouse, the FIRE radiated front and rear,
and on two wings, burning down Main
street, half way between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets, and back to the river,
through Cary and all intermediate streets.
Westward, on Main, the FIRE was STAYED
at Ninth street, sweeping back to the nv
er. On the north side OF Maiu, the flames
were stayed between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets. From this point the flames
ragged on the north side OF Main up to
Eighth street and back to Bank street.
The pencil of the surveyor could not
have marked out more distinctly the bust
ness portion of the city.
The evening breezes had turned the
course of the fire; and as these still con
tinued, heavy mist-clouds hung upon the
horizon, or streamed upwards ia the va
rying current of the winds. AS night
came on, there was a painful reaction az
ter the day 8 terrible excitement; strange
quiet fell upon the blackened cisst.S d It's
scenes Of destruction. 1t was tS Suiet
of great desolation, Groups dps6men
aud children crawled under shelters of
broken furniture in the capitol square;
hundreds of homeless parsons laid down 4
to sleep in the shadows of the ruins of
and worn out by excitement,
exhausted as by the spasm. of a great bat
tie. meu watched for the morrow With the
dull sense that the work of years had been
rnined, and that all that they possessed
on earth had been swept away. .gl /
While Richmond was filled with. horror
and destruction. and the smoke of its
assembled o-the skies, very diff.
ereDt scenes we're taking place far away
in the cities of the North. Il was
etrange reverse to the picture We have
been contemplating. With those feTvorst
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mind. Washington and New York were
the downfall of the Coufeder-
ate capitol. Bells we're rucg: wild and
congratulations ran along The
streets. and vast crowds collected, whose
fantastic exhibitions of Joy, not content
with buZzas, cheers, and daBcing1in the
streets, broke out in bIasphemous sing
ing of hymus of the church. In New
York twenty thousand pereons in the
open air sung the doxology. There was.
of course, an unlimited display of flags:
and as evidence of this characteristic ex-
bibition, it is said that half an hour after
the news of the fall Of Richmond was
known, not single large flag in the city
of New York was left uupurohassd.
These.symbOls of loyalty not only foated
over houses, but we're fastened to carts,
stages and wagons. The, newspapers
were mostly occupied with spread eagles
and maps of Richmond. The World sx-
pressed the opinion that the event of the
day more fully justified exbuberant re-
ioicing than any previous achievement in
the history of the var" The New York
organ par excellence of the
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that the taking of Richmond was zone
of the grandesl triumphs that had cIOwn-
Ell human efforts for centuries Il
SnARPENIxG EDGED TooLs-We trans
late the following from German scien-
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