Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1872, Page 1

s { VOLUME 26. REMOVAL. ) : = HIMOV AT HEREAFTER, the Business Office : andvEditorial Rooms of THE TRIBUNE WILL BE IN TEE NEW TRIBUNE BUILDING . COmNER Dearborn and Madison-sts. INSURANCE. ESTABLISHED BY ROVAL CHARTER, AL ID. L720. Lanin AsstraeCompreto . LONDON, Total Funds, Gold, - $13,234,425 Fire Assets, Gold, - - - 5,064,000 “This Corporation offers complete indemnity to those de- tring the proteotio n cf the best fosarance. Its 5ge of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO years, 2=d fia immense accumulation of astots;’are suficient uareaty of the security offered by its policics. The Carporation commenced doing business in this county 1n the summer of the prescnt year, aad has ap- potated the undersigued its attorney and agent for the Btato of Dlinois. Palicles issued st the Chicago ofice, 3and 4 BRYAN BLOCK. GEORGE C. CLARKE, Agent. HAMBURG-BREMEN Fire Insurance Co., OF HAMBURG, GERMANY. [Despateh from Company, per Cable.] HENRY GREENEBAUX & CO. B draw on Schroeder, of Londou. o s e S S S e, [Despatch from Company's Agents in Boston.] | GREENEBAT & CO.: B s Bremuin losea 16 thau Forty Thonsand Dol- e Rlgned) STEARNS BROS., Agente: ‘We .ccatinus to write, as beretofors, on Mrcantile Rlsks, Dwellings, Elevators, and Warehouses. HENRY GREENEBAUN & C0,, Agents, 16 N. Canal-st. EZNBY GREENEBAT. CONRAD WITEOWSEY. WEATHER GUARDS. O Weather Goar for windows and doors 18 EASTLY APPLIED, ISSTHPLE, IS DURKBIE, T8 CHEAP, 1§ PERFELE, ‘Those who @ee try it will have no other. It has been tally testod. 1t1a indorsed by tho. Leating -Architerts, fie Leading Builders, » ‘the leading citizens. Itisbeing fitted in the Large Hotels, in Large Stores and Offices, in Dwellings of all sizes. Nobaildingis complete without them. Call and , and be convinced. A fow good canvassers #nd store agnts wanted. WILSON, PIERCE & 00, Principal Office, 104 1.2 Clark-st. TO RENT. " OFFIOES IN THE Trjine Buling Are marly finished. Several are yet untaken. - Fire-proof, with vaults English tile floorsthrough- out. Jo cffices in the city equal these in every first-class respect. Plans)f the Tribune Building can be seexnat the office of i W. C. DOW, Reom No. 1, Nevads Block. TO LIGEIT MANUFACTURERS ! Aboutan. 1,1873, I chall vacate my prem- fses, condsting of first and second lofts and basemeniat 83 and 85 South Canal-st., to re- move, to my new building. A first-class Boiler anl Engine, forty-horse power, and an Elevate go with the lease, adapting it to slmost ary light manufacturing business . which nedlsa central location. Tenants will ! Jease all mrplus power. Terms very moder~ ate. Callupon, or address, at the premises, 1 A N. KELLOGG. REMOVALS. CREMOVATILL : FASHIONABLE |FURNITURE! . W STRONG FURNTIURE (0, 266 & 268 Wabash-av. [ CLOTHS -AND CASSIMERES., Clotls & Gassimeres DEPARTMENT. FIELD, LEITER & (0. Are now offering a large assort- ment of Foreign Goods, their own -importation, at the following re- duced prices: 3 ain s0d Fane simeres, markod down from $6.50 to 50 pieces English 6-4 Plain and Fancy Cas- simeres, marked down from $6.00 0 $5.00. _75 pieces Scotch 6-4 Plain and Fancy Cas- simeres, marked down from $7.00 to $6.00. 60 pieces Scoteh 6-4 Plain and Fancy Oas- simeres, marked down from $6.50 to $5.50. 50 pieces Scotch 6-4 Plain and Fancy Case simeres, marked down from $6.00t0 $5.00. 40 pioces English i 75 pieces English3-4 Plain and Fan simeres, marked down from $3.35 to $3.75. 60 pieces English3-4 Flain and Fancy Cas- simeres, marked down from $3.00 to $2.50. 35 Yorkshire 6-4 Meltons, marked down 54.50 to $3.50. 2 A cent assortment of Beavers in all desirable colors, suitable for Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s wear, at 30 per cent less then present value, 150 piaces Cassimeres, suitable for Boys® wear, at 75¢, $1.00, $1.35, and $1.50, worth $1.00, $1.25, S1.60, and $2.00. State and Twentioth & Madison and Market HARDWARE. MAY & CO,, Hardware and Netals, 14, 16, 18 and 20 Oliver-st, BOSTON. ‘We hereby sive notice that our stors WAS NOT DESTROYED By the recent Fire,and we are prepared to fill all orders with our usual promptness. TOYS ANDFANCY GOODS. Schweitzer & Beer, IMPORTERS OF Toys and Famcy Goods,Bohe- mian Glassware, China and Lava Goods, Baskets, Ac- cordions, &c., &c. 154 ST ATHE-ST. Near Monroe. FORNITURE. RUDOLPH & THOMALEN 163 WEST WASHINGTONST. FINE AND MEDIUM FURNITURE. Small expensés, small profits, low prices.| BUSINESS CARDS. WELLINGTON BROS. & 0. ‘Were uninjured by the fire, and are doing ‘business as usual at 68 Chauncy-st., corner of Bedford, Boston. DR.W.C.EXUNT Hss removed to the CLARENDON HOUSE. Telo- graph office in the Hotel, where messagas can bo received from all stations of the W. U. Telegraph Co. West Side Office; 318 Madison-st. . FOR SALE. Cancelling Stamps, At Culver, Page, Hoyue & Co.'s, 118 204 120 Monros-st. Chicago. FLOUR. Choice brands white winter and spring flour, for sale by LYON & KING, Commission Merchants, 183 South"Water-st. MISCELLANEOUS. The Steamer GREAT REPUBLIC lesves T. LOUTS Tuesdsy, Nov. 19, and CAIRO Satur- day, Nov. 2, 8t 10a. m., for NEW ORLEANS, THOMAS MORRISON, Agent, . 200 North Lesee, ‘St. Louis. i EANOUGEAL, C ILoans Negotiated On roal estate, in the city or suburbs, at current rates, G. S. HUBBARD, Jr., 163 Ease Washington.st. MEETINGS. e Ehicago Daily @ CHICAGO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1872. WASHINGTON. The President’s Message to be More Liberal to the Souths Territorial Acquisition the Key-Note of the Second Term. Civil Service Reform to be Applied to the New York Custom House. The Congressional Influx, ' Special Despateh to The Chicago Tribune, THE EANSAS SENATORS. Wasarsatoy, D. C., Nov. 17.—Senator Pom- eroy, of Kansus, arrived hero to-day, and will remain until the meeting of Congress. Heis in very cheerful spirits, and speaks with confidence of his re-clection. He says the canvsss in his State moved wholly upon the election of Sena~ tor, and that the war-crics of the campaign were “Pomeroy ” and * Anti-Pomeroy.” Ho knows nothingof the Committeo on Priviloges and Elec- tions, which was, at the close of the lnat session, instructed to investigate, during tho recess, the charges of corruption in the election of bis col- near Kansas during the recess, and the indica- tions are that nothing more will be done toward an investigation. CONGRESSIONAL INFLUX, The Senators and members aro arriving smail numbers, in order to seels quartors for the winter, o i Morrill, of Vt., Edmonds, .Cole, Windom, Cam- ‘eron, Spencer, Harlan, and Stockton are already here, and Sherman will arrive on Tuesdsy. A quornm of the House Appropriation Com- mittee are here, and will begin their sessions on the appropristion bills on Tuesday. Y AN INTERESTING CASE, ehowing the liability of hotel keepers, was de- cided yesterday by Chief. Justica Carter, of the Districs Supremo Court. Several years ago & noted female lobbyist puf up at one of the hotels, then kept by Marshall Brown, After staying long enough to incur a considerable bill, and her business being dull, she took her departure, the proprietor retaining her baggage in lieu of the Smbunt of her bill. The trank wes retained for s long period, but was finally returned to the voman, the propristor supposing bo would . méver gov his pag. . Tha woman, ten years afterwards, brings smit to recover 8217, the value of certain articleti which she alleges were sbstracted from her trunk. Judge Carter, in deciding the case, said the landlord’s lien gave him the night to detain the baggage & reasonsble time, and then sell st | public sale, and_the botel bill paid out of pro- ceeds. If he detained baggage beyond such reasonable time, he was responsiblo for the loss. The jury gave the plaintilf S50, althongh she confessed she had not vet paid_ the boatd bill. The defendant will now bring suit for his bill THE PHILADELPHIA POST OFFICE. Senator Camoron, and the last of the delega- tion which came hera to Jook aftor the Philsdel- phin Postmastership, left last evening, thor- Sughly eatisfed that tho Presidont will sppoint George Fairman, the Civil Service candidate, a8 the succeesor to General Bingham. Senator Csmeron and Hon. Chas. O'Neil visit- ed the Whito House yesterday, and made anoth- er appeel to the Président in favor of the ap- pointment of Mr. Trueman, but without effect. The manner in which the public press, with- out regard to politics, has sustained the course of the President, has had the effect to strength- en him jn his determination to_enforco the rules snd regulations of the Civil Service. TEBRITORIAL ACQUISITION. Those who set at the right hand of the Presi- dent, stato that territorial extension will be_ the key note of the second term of Grant’s adminis- tration. It is eaid that the President points to our present territorial acquisition, especially in the Southern_direction, 28 being go valusble, that the peoplo would not part with them st the ‘prosent time for a thoussnd times tho amount of the original purchase money. o far as tho Northern frontier is concerned, the President is content to await the development of the annex- ation sentiment_among the Northern people. Ho thinks that Ben Butler, in _his Canedian annexation resolutions was simply a Low years ahead of tho opinion of the Northern eople. P Sen Domingo, as & separate scheme by itself, will not receive special mention in the forth” coming message of the President. Fe thinks league, Senator Caldwell, This Commities, of | gapitalstock.... which Senstor Morton is Chairman, has not been | Surplus tand. ut'their houses in order. Senstors | Due o Navonal Baniks, Undivided profits. 45,6237 Ntional Bank nofes outstan WI495,027.00 State bank notes outatandin , L5GT143.00 Dividends unpai - 3,149,749.61 Individual deposit 613,200,671.45 in ‘| United States deposi . ..Fe T8saTI2al Deposits of Tnited Staiss disbureiag {¢y Officar. ... 7 4,563,833.10 110,047,347,67 Duo to Btate banks and ban 789,083, Notes and bills rediscounted. 5,549,431.88 | Bills payable, 6,040,562.66 $1,755,857,098.24 are protected in our country. It is the des; lay this proposition, befors the Austrian Gov-|. erbment a the eatliest esmclxcable period, and the telegraph may be nsed to facilitate the nogo- tiations. Should this measure be consnmmated, our Government will propose to the various na- tions of FEurope that some international atrangement be made.to secure the rights of the respective countries under similar circum- stances, i BRITISH-AMERICAN® GLATNS. “The Mixed Commission on'the American and British claims have made $4,000 additional avwards against the United Siates in favor of ‘Pritish subjects. - THE NATIONAL BANKS. 3 WasmingroN, Nov. 15, —Absiract ‘of reports ‘mado to the Comptroller of the Currency, show- ing the condition of the National Banks in the TUnited Btates at the cloge of business on Thurs- day, the 3d day of October, 1872 =" RESOUBCES, Loans and discounts. <3 $5872,620,104.35 Over-drafts ..... ch SITEI2 United Btates bonds £o secure circuls-} % N S «e0 +0 171 382,046,400.00 United Bfates eposits. 1t 16,479,750,00 United States bonds and securities o hand....... 712,142,550.00 Other stocks, bonds, and mortgages. . . 73 23,533,161,73 Due from redeeming and reserve BGEDE. ve, venres seene i 80,117,071.30 ‘Due from other Nattonal Bania, 5 u4e500 -4} 12,976,878.01 “ snareuse 1T 18,546,848 14,910,784, Exchanges for Clearing Houso.. 5110,085,315.07 Bills of other National Banks. . 15,734,008, Bills of State banks, 53)198.00 ‘Fractional currenc, 2,151,747.88 10,220,757 Tegal 102,074,104.00 Clearing House certificates. d 8,632,000,00 Tnited Bistes certificates of deposit, 6,710,000.00 Threo per cent certificates. . 565,000.00 ++e0:81,7T55,857,008.24 FOREIGN. ITALY, New Yoms, Nov. 17.—The London Zimes.of the 5th instant; in an editorial on the flood in Ttaly, says two-thirds of the province of Man- tus and one-third that of Ferrara have been flooded. More. than 20,000 families are honse- léss. Vast tracts in thewritories of Par- ma, Reggio, and Modens are turned into lukes, om the surface of which ma; bo seen tops of trees, roofs of. houses, an floating carcasges of drowned catile. Not only ‘solid burns and substantial farm honses, pecu. liar to those districts, but even churches have huve in many cases been unmable to withstand the violence of the floods. Many human beings have perished, bath of those who allowed themselves to be caught within tlie lower building, and of those who fled for safety to loftier edifices. . But hardly less wretched is the condition of the survivors. The cattle they have rescued from the flood are perishing from want of fodder. They themselves are thrown for sustenance on the neij;hbors’ charity. The harvest they have Intely gi.mersd, tho fields they have just sown, are laid waste. What was, a month ago, the rickest of plains i8 now a chaotic marsh, not wnlikely to bear for many _years the ‘marks of a few howrs’ havoe. Nor are ithe ravages limited to the lower lands of tho Pi>, but all arcund over the vaat level, and ugxtothu mountuin sides, the devestation extends. The rivors are everywhere breaking their bounds, and the waters are out through- out the peninsula. The distress is immense, and threatens to exhaust the ordinary reccuree to publio and private charity. Torepay.| the damages done to their dikes by the Po and the Oglio in the Province of Mantua alone, during the present inundation, it js estimated that a suna of §120,000 will be required. : —_— FRANC: ¥ramrs, Nov. 17.—In all the cathedrals of Frunce, to-day, special prayers were offered for- thes Nationsl Assembly, snd the blessing of God ‘was invoked on its ;rocs!flingu‘ The Govern- x3nt officials sttended the services, escorted by de.tails of troops a8 guards of honor, The con- -egations at all the churches in this city- wero viary large, The several parties into which the Asgembly is ddvided held meotings here last night to sum mp the events of the past week and decide npon stheir future policy. The Monarchists confees ithat they have been defeated, and will secure an Ihonarnb{e retreat by giving their support to the this latter subject can be postponed for a yeer, or at least until & mew Congross has been lected. The authority for this latter statemeut isin the wayof a xefiresonmtion made by those who are engaged in the development of the na- tural interests in the island alluded to. CIVIL SERVICE. The Presidont is o . well . pleased with the reception of his enforce- ment of the Civil service rules, in the appointment of the Philadelphia Postmaster, that he has concluded to apply them in the New York Custom House. The resignation of Cor-. nellwill be followed with-the appointment of " James L. Ruseell, next in the line of pramotion, g successor. It is expected that Cornell will be elected Speaker of the New York Assembly, in the Conkling Senatorial interests, and that this will be followed by the tender of an appointment. to s firat-class foreign miesion. THE GENEVA AWARD. The active members of the American delega- tion to the Geneva Congress, suchas Caleb Cush- ing, Charles Francis Adams, Wm. L. Evarts, and Bancroft Davis, are now here. They proposo during ihe coming week to draw up & Plan, for submission to the President, for the dlsbursement of the Geneya award. These ‘members do not think that they will have_their Plan organized in time for the President's an- nual message. PROPOSED WASHINGTON IMPEOVEMENTS. Among the first measures to be introduced in Congress will be a bill appropriating several millions of dollara to aid in the improvements of Washington. The claims will be based upon the fact that the Government owns a largo smount of property here, at least 40 per cent of all the. property in tho city, which does not pay any taxes, and which will share in the apprecia- tion in the value of private property, on account of the improvements. The citizens, withoub distinction of party or politics, favor this move- ment, and it i6 belioved the bill will pass Con- gress without much opposition. {To the Associated Press.} ‘THE MESSAGE AND BEPORTS. Wism1Natox, D. C., Nov. 17.—Tho only report of any of the Heads of Departments [completed isthat of the Secretary of War. The others areina stato of forwardness. Nearly all the reports of the Chiefs of Bureaus have been sent to the Public Printer. i r ] ;s The _President has recently been arranging the points for bis mossage, but has not yetcom- menced writing it. Somo contents.of the doc- ament can be inferred only from his recent pri- Vate uttorances, and it is safo to say that it will o - ‘MORE LIBERAL in its tone, especially towards .the South, than his former messages, the recent vote in that sec- tion being indicative of s better feeling than heretofors- toward. the General Government, while the press is -more moderate in its utte Buces, not taking into sccount the popular ma- Jority of the entire country. B "Tho recent pardon oft Apploton Oskemmith is regarded by Southern gentlemen as showing & ‘more friendly policy and foreshadowing Executive action relative to some of the Ku-Klux prisoners now serving out sentences in the Albany Peni- tentiary. DECLINE TO EXHIBIT. . Meny inventors of the United States have ex- ressed their reluctance to contribute to'the Vienna Exposition for the reason that, owing to the stringent character of the patent laws of Austris, American patentees would have no Temody against the appropriation of their provements by persons of otber nstionalities without compenaation. In order to overcome this difficulty our Government, yesterdsy, pre- Masonic. f Gourgas Sovereign Chapter of R Sfifi:‘fafihn ¢ tho )blh;gmexf:mmwg; o Bandalphata.. Mo 3eialeined sod Baoclphisit MUY R, Beo. arod the draft of o tresty, O convention, be- ween the United States and Austria, in order'to secure in that country the right of American in- ‘Yentorstothesame extent that Austrianinventora \enservative Republicans. All the Conservative oloments have been uni- ted in favor of amotion, which will bo introduced this waek by Deputy Changarnier, condemning Gambetta's speech s Toura. —— s GERMANY. : 1 Beruw, Nov. 16.—The Government has issue ministerial decree, signed by Itzenplintz, Min- ister of Commerce, commanding German rail- way compenies to discontinue the practice of transporting omigrants unless full rates are paid for persons and Hitherto ths railway aggsge. conpanias have caiel emigrants from the L forior to the sesboard nt very low rates, and baggage freo; thus encouraging emigration. The decroe is arbitrary, and_obstructs emigration by Incregaing the diffcalties in Yeaching the sea- 0: 4, POLITICAL. ALABAMA LEGISLATORS ARRESTED. MoNTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 17.—Messrs. Morgan, Kimbro, and McNeill, Conservatives, who havé certificates of election as members of the Legislature, were arrested by a United States Deputy Marehal to-dsy, between Selms and Unioptown. It is reported that the Marshal is to take them to Mobile. The'Marshal said that he hsd instructions not .to take bail.. The offence charged ' is some violation of the’ Elec- tion law, This will make the po].\g.icll complexion of tho Legislature doubtful on its organization, as _the carrying . of the presoners to Mobile will involve several days’ delay. The Liberals and Conservatives wonld bave amajority in the House if the arrested parties were allowed to take theirseats. The Legislature meets io-morrow. THE NEW ORLEANS VOTE. ‘NEw Onreaxns, Nov. 17.—The total vote of the Parish of Orleans is: Gran, 15,296 ; Greeley, 52,687. _Greeley's majority in the State, as far 28 heard from, is 6,707, including returns (most~ Iy official) from all but two parishes. Beauregard is elected -Administrator of Im- provements. ———— The Epizootic Among the Chickens Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. NEw Yonx, Nov. 17.—Tha report that the epi- Zootic has broken ont among the fowls in South- ern New York and New Jersey and Northern Pennsylvanis is found to bo true. The diseaso rups its course very swittly. Thefowls are taken with staggering fits, o running at the beak, and bearing all the symptoms of the epizootic. Thess fits recur with de- cressing intervals and increasing vio- lerice, until . death, which . generally - ensues in o fow .hours. 'AS Boon 38 the chickens are ettacked they hide in holes or crawl off to somo corner and die. With regard to treatment, none has been adopted. As soon as the disease is noticeable the fowls are killed, and, it is charged, merketed in this and other cities. A reporter who.visited the New. York markets yosterdsy, says many dressed fowls had discol- ored and c:‘):fiesl:ed heads and necks, with harsh and unnatural appearance of skin. ZThe Bangor Insuranee Companies, Baxaos, Me., Nov. 17.—Tho following are the sseots and losses of the various Bangor insur- ance companies: ~ Bangor, zssets, $255,000; losses, $50,000, Esstern, nssets, $516,000; losses, $130,000, - Union, assets, $550,000; losses, $150,000. Notionsl Capital, 'assets $200,000; losses, $166,000. 5 Except the National, all these Companies’ losses fi'm been made good by the atnckhglda;s. The National is in the hands of a receiver. — The Era of Great Fires---The Ex- cellent Example of Chi- cago. : NEW YORK. Outline of the Next Grand Flame-Feast in the Metropolis. No Mors Veterans on the Cily Pross-The Writers Nearly All New- Henry Ward Beecher’s Notion of an Armor of Bank- " Notes. 1] From Qur Ouwn Correspondent. New Yonx, Nov. 14, 1872, a8'if to show its miraculous power of recupera- 7| tion. Thinking, perhaps, that even tho nine-3 teenth century might profit by & splendid lssson ) of lindomitable courage, energy, and enterprise, ., sho gaveitin the royalist fashion, and moved ] the globe to admiring wonderment. STAID BOSTON Chicago has seb the example of Great Fixas,‘J has teken yon ss a pattern, and bumed up< her business-quarter in order mot bo outdone by her youthful Western sister. Time was when Boeton would not have recovered in & generation from the ca- Marble, David G. Croly, Ivory Chamberlain, illiam Henry Hurlburt, Eugene Schugler, and many of the subordinatee . haye been on the daily almost from its incep’ Journal of Commerce, fossilized as had numerous changes; and the popul: that it is still edited by 0ld Adam i8 protiudi... an suthority to be without foundation. William Cnllen Bryant and Parke Godwin are the only ancients connccted with the Erening Post, and Mr. Bryant has for some years restrict- ed his editorial duties to writing an occasional paragraph. Sydnoy Howard Goy, John B. ‘Thompson, and 1r. Sedgwick, who now fill tho principal dopartments, are new-comers to that, jonrnal The aftaches of the Commercial _ Advertiser, barring Chester Devwoy, ate of late importation; Hugh J. Hast- ings, the publisher and principal proprietor, hay- ing himsel? not long since been a citizen of Al~ bany. James and Erastus Brooks have followed thofortunes of the Zuening Express,—begun as & morning issue,—from the very first, and will Qoubtless remain at their post until the under- taker has need of them. The'othor dailies are 80 modern that the men who condnct them must be modern, t00, 80 far as their present journal- istic relations are concerned. A writer for tho press who remainson the same paper for three or four years is now regarded here as s hoary veteran ; and some scribblers call themselves old journalists aiter they have worked in one office ‘six months. Tt is natmral to inquire what becomes of sll the journslists. They are certainly dianpg:nring from the ranks. Perhaps they die, or perhaps they tum their at- tention to some pursuit requiring less Isbor, and inguring more money. BALMAGUNDIL. An absurd story, taken from some inventive correspondent, 18 now circulating, to the effect that, in the Eighth Ward of this city, there ate 3,000 white women married to negroes. The story would be true if the number of women wero reduced 2,998, It is whispered that the Metropolitan Hotel is -800n to chunge hands, 2s e odium of the' name -of Tweed has frustrated all hope of its becoming «profitable. Iamity she has just endured. But the splendid examplo of Chicago is before her, as its before all the world, and she nocepts the calamity with patienco and with hope. What Chicago did, she is doing ; what Chicago marked out, ehe will follow. Within & twelvemonth, she will place hergelf by the side of ‘the Garden City, asa model of the sccomplishing capacity of pride, porseverance, and pluck. THE BAPTISM OF FIRE seems to be needfal to the mew birth of our American centres. Chicago and Bostonhave suffered what no doubt New York, Philadelphia, Cincinoati, St. Louis, and_other leading cities Dave yetto suifer. I trustl am in error ; but I cannot belp believing that Gotham is doomed to semi-destruction’; that, ere long, our hesviest business portion will be Iaid in ashes. Our fathers and mothers used to talk of the Grent_Fire of Dec. 16, 1835, until it seemod sometbiag " appilling. But, when wo loamed that only.the First Ward, east of Broadwoy and below Wall street, including less then 700 build- ings, was destroyed ; causing loss of not much moré than S18,000,000, we refused to be stertled by such an nsignificant arrey of facts. We for got that the city then contained hardly 250,00 inhabitants, and_ that SLO000,000 then ropre- sented as much a8 $10,000,000 does to-dsy. Thus woseo that the disuster of thirty-geven yeats ago was ag_severs to the Metropolis &4 WiS your grand illumination thirfeon months since. ‘WHEN OUR NEXT GREAT FIRE comes, it will be lisblo to sweep away 400,000, 000 or ‘$500,000,000 worth of property; snd then wo shall robuild s Chicago has _dons, and. a8 EBoston will do ; so that the probabiliiy of still amother ropetition of the fery catasropho will be materially diminished. The district bounded by Canal strcet, the bay, and tbo two' ivers, represents such manifold attractions to the Demon of Flamo thatI sm surprised he has not, long since, cast into it his infernal torches. He s biding his time, unquestionsbly. Some intensely cold night, when tha greator part of the city Is fast asloop, hie will awake us with 3 crimson flash, the roar of famo, tho sound of tumbling walls, and the terrific din of & mighty city fated to fiery sacrifice. Tho conflagration of 1835 wil, I foar, be repested before the end of the centary, and our solidest structures be swept amay like emoke-mreath in a blast of wing Ong thing we have learned_already: that fire- proof bulldings aro first-class frauds; that they ~ resist fire admirably when the Are is far away, but that they burn Jiko pine when girt withfame. The peatest approfely, probably, o fxe-prdot build- ing here i Harper & Brolhors’ establishment, in Frankiin“Square. It is all stono and iron conld not be made more incombustiblo, and yeb it a firé swept, throngh theawamp, 1 am sure tho great publishing houso would be Chicsgoed like any other structure. : NARROW POLICY. All-the Liberal nowspapers haye discovered that the_election is over, which is much more than can be said of some of the Radical Republi- can organs. Victory can afford to bo not only generous, but cheorfal and complacent, hard a3 1t i8 for defeat to be amiable and graciohs. Among the city journals, the opposite of this has_been shown, Tho Tribune, of all papers having tho most reason to fool sore and tigly, bas been, and is, perfectly good-natured, oven jolly, over tho discomfiture of ita' party, and 1ho’ political subvarsion of its chiok.- Oa the othorkiand, the Tinies, which ought to have been jocund with emiles, and which certainly might ave boen magnanimous in itshour of friumph, Das ovinced the narrowest_and meanest spirit. 1t bas gone on belaboring Horato Greeley (the Tosult of habit, no doubt,) as if it feared that, with & mero handful of eloctoral votes, he might be chosen Prosident after all. T présume that the Times, twelve months hence, will still be setting up bags of straw, and knuck.initham over with bludgeons of bombast, under the impression that each-one of them Tepresents the editor of the Tribune, It is ru- mored thst both the publisher and editor of Grant's Own start wildly, souf? the air, and pew the osrth, whenever the name of Greeley meots their oye or ear. It is even whispered that those gentlemen arw monomaniacal on the subject, and that s vision of ‘& copy of tho jour- nel they 80 dresd and detest sets them foaming 8t tho mouth. 3 ‘Jesting aside, the course of the ZTimes is 88 impolitic as it is foolish and contemptible. . I know a number of srdent Republicans who did their utmost to re-elect Grant, that are so dis- gusted with the Times, since his re-election, that thop refuso to take the paper_sny_longer. They say, very justly, thata journalist who, after winning his fight, continues to insult. his foe, i t00 narrow to be esteemed, and too bese to be trusted, . TRE RESULT OF SLANDER. One of the practical ways in_which Hemry Ward Boecher's congregation_wished to ehow their sovereign contempt for the Woodhull-and- Clafiin slanders was toinsist on raising his salary $5,000 8 yesr. He peremptorily._rofused, it is said, to have this done, snd lsughingly remarked that his friends seemed snxious to mako him invulnerable to vulgar -abuse from irresponsible sources, by covering him with an armor of bank notes. Nr. Beecher avas never #0 popular as ho is to- dsy; and Theodore Tiltow's Golden Age has received, I understand, nearly a thousand new subscribers since the publication of the sssault upon himself and his family. g _“Meanwhilo, the blackmailing fomales languish in prison, and. write cards to the newspapers, which nre seldom printed, sppealing to_the. public for commiseration in their spiritual and Pecuniary distress. Everybody ssye theb they will be sént to prison; but, &8 they are 80 com- plotely crestfallon and crugkod, and a8 their last sting has boen drawn, perhaps it might be just 25 wel to restoro the liborty Hisy no longer bave the power to sbuse. They.declare thoy are penniless now, thongh they had $150,000, they allege, when ihey ceme to the city. A BHIFTING TRADE. . Thinking over the matter, the other day, [ was_impreased by the trsusient quality which has marked journalistio positions in this city of Iate years. Before the War, one frequently met menwho had been connected. with this or daily half their lifetime; but now, such veterans aro Tarely encountered. . 3 -The - Herald staff is mearly all new, with the exception of Drs. Wallace and Hosmer, who have been there for nearly & quarter of a cen- tury. The samo is true of the Zimes, for nestly all its writers either rtired, or were permitted to resign, after Henry J. Roymond’s death. The Tribune _ editors, excepting Horace Greeley, Goorgo Riples, had Charles T. Congdon, sre men almost of yesterday. -Whitelaw Reid is s noyus homo ; 80 are John R. @. Hassard, John Hay, Noah Brooks, William F. G. Shanks, Will- iam Winter, and most of the corps. The World's scribes appear to have in them an sdbesive eloment. Beginning with Manton Mrs. John Wood, the once vivacious and popu- Jlar actress, will refurptoEngland after the with- ‘drawal of *“Le Roi ¢arotte” from the boards of ‘the Grand Opera Heuse. Charles Astor Brsted (“‘Carl Benson") is the ‘richest literary men in America ; having an in- ~come of 60,000+ year. A prosperousmérchant in West Broadway has, iin_a commercal career of fwenty-seven years, ‘failed eleven times. He does not believo in -Richelieu's dctum, CoLsTOUN. «Overhavling the Fire Brigade—Raid on the ¢ Waiter Girl» Saloons—Conw tempinted Changes in the City Gove ernment—Snits Dismissed — Xmpor= tans Decision. Special Despatch to The Chicago Tribune. N:w Yomg, Nov. 17.—Louis L. Todd, & re- .pretnble insurance man of this city, has bronght exit for 20,000 damages against J. O. Quigley, droker at No. 20 New street, for inducing his wife to lesve him and assume improper relations with himself. The parties were married in 1863, and lived in harmony until he went to board at a ‘hotel, where Mrs. Todd became acquainted with the defendant. In 1870 she abandoned her hus- ‘band withont explanation, and it was several months before he comld as- certain ber residence. Finally he saw Jer walking in the street with Quigley, and dis- covered that they were "boarding together st a hotel in Jersey City.” Quigley was arrested, and after spen ulg two nights in jail, was released on $6,000 bail. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a striking ser- mon to-night on the subject of labor. He eaid from the applicstions he received daily from young men out of work, it must be the general Impression that he owns Central Park, Prospect Park, the Custom House, the Navy Yard, be ond Post Office. He desired it to known that he . had no_. personal or poliical influence at Wufli_u on. Yot ho acknowledged -foeling sympathy with the 25,000 idle young men in New York who want to e bookkeopers and can't induce themselves to iry to be anything else. He did nob hold up his hands susterely and sy, “Youngmen, go West" dpreat langhter], but many of them had rushed away from their fathers' farms before they had Iearned to work. Many of them were of a sort that would starve on a hundred scres of good Iand, be without shelter in 8 lumber yard, asd be ’'bawofooted if they owned il tha leather in the “swamp.” The nseless man simply lies whon he declares ho is 88 good as any ofher man. Mr. Beechers ‘test was Ephesiamy, 4th chaper, 28th verse, ; The 160 girls who were arrested at'a Iate honr last night in nine of the principsl concert.saloons of Brosdway, apent theremainger of the nightain the tation Honses amid » strange the police S Foxe iz bae, - NUMBER 9 1. of thé Rev. Dr. Brinton Smith, of poisoning hiry to death, has been dismissed by Judge Watts, there not being the slightest evidence againsy s"‘)»&lé?afl?og - Y . Iorse Discase, D0 UOIr " b to The Chicago Tribune. New Yonk, Nov.. 17.—The deterioration of blood in the casesof horse dropsy now prevail- ing is instanced by the fact that where leeche ; aro applied they soon drop off dead. Ono theory of the dropsy is, that it is cansed by tco much aconite, but it is admitted by the best iu- formed persons that it results from prematur. return to work. The viluable trotting b “T,ottery,” which died of dropsy, yesterdsy, ‘been sick with the epizootic for two weeks, a8 very carefully nursed. On Thursday mor: ing, however, dropsy appeared, torminating tally in forty-eight hours. * Lottery” balong. to Samuel Trmesdell, was 9 years old, sl had a record of 2:37, He was valued at 315, Commondore Vanderbilt's *Mountain Boy died of epizootic lung fever, no dropsical symy-- toms appearing in his case. The Japanese Consul here has engaged seve:-- al voterinary surgeons to write a treatise on tha' cause and “cure of the horse diseae, which wi'l bo forwarded to Japan to bo used, if the epizoz— tic breaks out in that cmm%r. In the car sinbles in New York, tho horses gen- erally are improving. They are kept on Bo's Qiet, such as chopped hay given in & masic with some prepared compound food of o vegetable naturs, mired in to act o tonic. The Third Avenue stables have be: the greatest sufferers. They have lost ov thirty horses ; the Second Avenne have escapcd with very few losses, and the Fourth Avent have lost geven horses. The Sixth Averue Li: have lost twenty-one borses, thres with tho dropsy. The Superintendent 'says he has curci some of the worat cases of dropsy. The loss.s of the other car lines have been less severe. ThL.o stage lines have lost from gix io fifteen horscy each. Angust Belmont's horses at Babylor, Long Island, have thus far escaped, thoug:x some of tho yearlings are coughing. Near Pat-: erson, N. J., where W, H. Sanford's stabla i8 located, almost all the horses have been sick, £ Greatness” having had the worst attack of the lot, but-at last acconnts all were doing well. The same may be said of the McDaniel stable,- now in winter quarters at Princeton, N. J., and st Saratogs, N. Y. S The stesm dammy innovation is widely- favored in-New York. The few trial trips by the Remington steam dummy on tho Bleeckers streot line were perfectly satisfactory. Alr. Bergh is a strong sdvocate of & permazent change from the horse cars to steam care,. and s -mow backed = by s largd' majority, of citizens. o cor facilities of New York have been fer from sufficient for several years, and tcas of thou- sands are now compelled to_walk daily. The. discomforts of the coming winter in Naw York and Brooklyn will probably compel the introduc- tion of steam Aummies, though none have been ordered 8o far of the manufacturers, on account their heavy cost, and the limited term for which their use was ‘authorized by the Aldermen. Their comglete practical success is mob ques- tioned, and it is believed they musé soon ta adopted in all large cities. EW Yomrg, Nov.17.—Among the well-known. trotters who died of the horse disease are Western New York, G. L. Faxs, Sontag, Lottery, Voorhees, and Al No noted Tunuin horses have died. Many have been atiacksd, but are doing well. 3 = Toy, N. Y., Nov. 17.—The dropsy has attick- ed the sick horses here, and the diseaseis worse. Cormmus, 0., Nov. 17.—The epizootic kas ab last madeits appearance in two livery stables here. About fifty horses are now affected. War Department. Prognostications. Wiz DepamtvEsT, OFFICE OF THE CHInF 810NAL OrFICEE, DIVISION OF TELEGRAMS AND REPoRTs FOR THE BENEFIT OF COMMERCE.. WasaiveroN, D. C. Nov. 17.—Probabilities— In the Northwest and thence to the Lower Ohig Valley, northwesterly winds, partly clondy and clearing westher with occasional snow, extand«< ing to the Western lakes. In Michigan and on the lower Iskesand thence to the Ohio Valley, slowly diminishing pressure, incressing clondy weather snd sonthwesterly wind. In Naw Enge land and Middle States, Sonthwesterly to north. weaterll winds and clear, cold weather. Inths South Atlantic and Gulf Btates, high baromater, partly cloudy weather, northerly to easterly winds Wwith occasional light rain and increasing temperaturo on the Western Gulf. Warning sig- nals are ordered for Milwaukee, Chicago and Grand Haven. Felegraphic Brevitien. . _ The silk-weavers' trike, at Paterson, N. J.. is abont over, all the employers but one having hubbub of Weeping and noisy ribn!dg. They yers permitted to go' unpunished by the Police Justice to-day;, but the well-dressed scoundrels ‘who run the hulls were placed under bonds for trial. These concert-saloons have recently become more brazen in theiroperations, the girls appesring dressed as pages, or in some other semi-nude costnme. nblunh.:.lag robberies in. ‘making change was the rale insil of them, whils larger crimes were planned by the thieves in league with the . fallen women, who acted a8 waiters. The Canterbury, ab 632 Broadway, is the largest concert saigon in the city, and employed forty female attendants, in *Black Crook” at- tire. This, like eight similar but smeller dens, was pulled by police in citizens’ clothes.. The customers were permitted to rotire, but the girls, after resuming their sirest dresses, . were marched to. the lock-up, in company with their employers. There are scores of other. concert saloons equally vile that were not raided, and it remsing to be seen whether this descont is & mere spasmodic occurrence,” or the beginning of a determined War on a metropolitan evil that has thus far de- feated the puthorities. Another of the irepressible reporters, who ‘make investigations rogardless of personal in- convenience, has just turned up in the Times office. Having heard constant complaints of bold robberies - committed by _skin game gamblers, ° he professionally = played faro at a sloon ' kept by Haryey Young, and was coolly fleeced out "of $38, the ealor not-even taking -the trouble to disguise his cheating. The reporter proposes mow to make a test case, and has caused the arrest of Harvey Young, the oldest skin gambler in New York, and his dealer ¢ Yorke.” Young was con- cerned in the “ Bill Pool” murder, aud abont three years ago he shot - Bob Willis, keeper of a rival gambling houss on Broadvay. He-has never been tried for either offence. S NEW YomK, Nov. 17.—General Newton, United States Army, in an_imferview, yesterday, ex- preasad the opinion that tho use ‘of gunpowder i8 injudicions to stop the progress of fires, givin; preferenc to dualine aud giant poder, whic o not scatter the combustible debris, but cat the building off close to the foundations and Eiers,}nd let it fall vertically. He did not be- eve in the organization of & separate corps of orkmen, thinking the fremen able to do the | work.., The Fire Commissioners of New York have ap- pointed two Boards of Examiners totest the com- potency of the officars of all the comPenies, and ©f the pasistant engineers. The police raided nine Broadway concert sa- 1oons, last night, arresting the proprietors, bar- keepers, and 160 female waiters, who are held for exsminstion. 1 < 1t is stated that the fire, building, police, chat- ities, and dock deparéments of this city are to be abolished by legielative action this winter. The testimony_given, yesterday, before tho commission appointed by the Supreme Court, showed that over ten millions doliars worth of property had been given fornothing infranchiges to strest railronds. 3o Tn - the United Btates- - Circuit Comrt yesterdsy, Judge J. Shipman docided against the Government in & suit to recover $25,000 from Benj. J. Cahoone, o allogod dofeulting Paymastor i the navy, and sureties, holding that Cahoone was & luna- tic, snd unable af the time of entering into his ‘bond, to make any contract whatever. Judge Blatchford dismissed the cases of sev- eral persons indicted for conspirscy to defrand the Government by false invoioes. Judgo Shes, of the Marine Court; has decided that knowledge on the part of ansgent not com- municated {0 bis principal, thst the premises aro to be used for improper purposes, cancels the claim for commiasion on brokerage. "The stesm caual propeller Wilkam Baxter, with 200 tons of corn, arrived here yesterday, in five Qays and seventeen hours frori Buffalo. —_— Honorably Acquitteds Rarzos, N. C., Nov. 16.—The charge against 3Mre. Smith and Mre. Mano, wifeand dsughter concedad the old wages to the workmen. _The business portion of the town of Abbey- ville, B. C., was destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss $50,000; partly insured. = Four_ children of Patrick Cunning gham, of Bloomfield, N. J., died on Thuraday and Fridsy from a mysterious. disease, resembling poison- ing. Several complications sre going on smong tha Shakers at Mt. Morris, N. Yg, ungrl ib i8 nntgi.'.n- probable that a general division will shortly take place on the marriage question. The poultry are eaid to be dying on the banks of the Busquehanns, in Pennsylvania, by thon- sands from an epidemic disease, which appecrs general. The wife of Joseph Wittman died in Newaik, on Saturday, from an overdose, administered Ly Dr. Fredolton, a prominent German physiciai, in the process'of resetting a dislocated shoalder. Royal White, of Crown_Point, Ind., the msa who Wwas ehot, by the accidental disclirge of & gun, while hunting, died on Saturday. e de- ;:elsed leaves a wife and child to mourn hix 08, At 2 o'clock yesterday momning, an alam of fire in Hopkins® store, Cincionati, called the stears fire engines ont.” No horses could be used;. men got out of bed and drew six engines to the 8pot in only three or four minutes longer tims -than it would have taken the horses. ~The fira did no serious damsge. —Tha Army of the Cumberland Committea mai -on ersé.hmmday iy Igt, r:d;hyn# d:nil d;apoma- ove would be on Wednesday morzi- Elifi. '.l'begind.icnfions are that the lteeyndln:.‘o be large. General Bheridan telegraphcd thathe will answer at roll call. General Jos Hooker, Senator Morton, General Meigs, Gov-, ernor Noyes ,and many ofher distinguished pe- sons will be present. ' The Committes have ar- ranged to spend the second day at the Soldiers’ Home, where the veterans will give them s grand Teception and entertainment. About 8 o'clock last night, while s large num- ber of ganflemen were congregated in the vesti- bule of the Southern Hotel, &t. Louis, Captain Edward Dix, s well-known steamboat man, walked up to Robert W. Estlin, of New Orleans, who was consersing with some friends, and de- Liberately shot him in the left jaw. Estlin fell, and when down Dix fired another shot, which struck the prostrate man’s left side. After the shooting, Dix gave his pistol to one of. the clerks of the hotel, and was taken by his friends to the ~ Chief of Police, Who _ordared. him . locked up. Estlin was taken to his room, where his wornds were examined by & surgeon, and found to be very slight. The cause of the shooting canmot be ascertained, both parties being very reticent; but it appears the gentlemen had s quarrel . few dsys ago over a game of dominoes, and it is thought the affair grew out of that. Fiendish Attempt to Wreck & Passenw ger Train. + New Youi, Nov. 19.—A fiendish attemapt was ‘made on Friday night, by depositing three heavy cross-ties'across the Harlem track at Williams® Bridge, to throw off the Boston express. ~For- ‘tunataly they were not fastened securely, and: werareadily displaced by the locomaive. " A ro- ward of 31,000 is offered for the arrest of tha ilty parties, who, if caught, are quite LiLely to Iynched. u Death on the Rail. Dayrox, O., Nov. 17.—A locomotive on the Atlar‘ic & Great Western Railroad exploded ‘at Bovlesvillo, six miles north of Spri tordsy, tearing up the' track, wrecking the train, killing tho engineer, -John M. Maynes, the breakman, L. D. Carter, and fatally ecalding o fireman, J. Dovoss. —_——— e ,oc;;m TMarine News. NEW YoE, Nov. 17.—Arrived, steamers City of Bristol, from Liverpool; Hoh and, from Lon- don, and Hanes, from Bremen. eld, yea-