Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1872, Page 4

_ THE CHICAGO’ DAILY “TRIBUNE: ‘TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1872. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE). Daily, by mal.....&12.00 | Sunday. R0 S1308) Shediy Parts of a year at the samo rate. To prevent delsy and mistakes, be surc and give Post Office address in full, incloding State nnd Counts. Remittances may be made eithor by drait, express, Post Office order, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERAE 70 CITY SUDSCRIVELS. & cepted, 25 cents per wee] Bl Solinered; Hondey faciaded, @ conts por woek. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ~Corner Madison and Dearbora-sts., Chicago, Til Tresowe Branch Ofice, No. 463 Wabssh-ar., n the Bookstors of Mossrs. Cobb, Andrews & Co., whers sdvertisements and subscriptions will be received, and Wi have tho samo attentlon ns if left at the Main Office.. A ey e CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE~Washington, New York, and Miscella- neous Telogroph Nows, - SECOND PAGE—Wsoming etter: A November on the Mountains; Diamond Hunting; Mining Exclto- ment—The Water Works [Commanication]- Dr. Rauch and Our Sanitars Condition (Communica- tion}-Boston: The.Question of Reliof; Chicf En- gineor's Report—The Storm at Duluth—Blethodist ‘Bissions—The Horse Diseaso: Bonner and Borgh— General News Items. THIRD PAGE—The Iron Rall: A Briof But Compre- ‘Tensive History of the Iron Horse's Track—Mansard Roofs: Mr. Architect Bosiogton Explains His Position—Condition of Our Horses—County Legis- lation—Railroad Timo Table—Advertisements. FOURTE PAGE—Editrials: The Cry for More Tor- ritory; Ciril Service Roform; Building Inspeotion; 1o Cauzes of Fire—Current Nows Items—Polit- ical. . FIFTH PAGE—The Chicago Press Club—Council Pro- cecdings, Advertisements. SIXTH PAGE—hionetary and Commercial—Marine In- tolligence. SEVENTH PAGE—The Law Courts—Small Advertise- ‘menta : Roal Estate, For Sale, To Rent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodgiog, Etc. . EIGHTH PAGE—Miscollaneous Telegraphic News. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, botween Stats and Dearborn. Miss Maxgie Mitchell, supportod b Mr. L. R. Shewell. ** Pearl of Savoy.” AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, corner of Con- grss street. G. L. Fox Pantomime Combination. ** Humpty Durmpty." HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph strect, be- twoen Clark and LaSalle. Third week of Abboit-Ki- ralfy Pantomimo Combination, ** Schneider; or dot Old Honse von dor Bhine.” AGADEMY OF MUSIC—Hzlsted street, southof Madi~ son. Eugagoment of Charlotto Thompson. *‘Oze Wite." AYERS' OPERA HOUSE-Monroe strest, betsweon State and Dearborn. Arlington, Cotten & Kembic's Minstrel and Burlesqus Troupe. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines street, betweon Madi- son and Washington, Vandevilie Entertainment. STAR LECTURE COURSE-Union Park Coogrega tional Church. Josh Billings' lectare on *“Tho Pensive Cockroa The @hieane Tribune, Tuesdsy Morning, November 19, 1873. An earthquake shook New Hampshire for ten seconds yesterday. President Grant, in conversation with Virginia politicians, has reiterated his determination to adhere to th rales of the Civil Service system. Not more ttan fifteen cases of dropsy, only one of them fital, have appeared among the horses in the principal stables of this city up to this time. Inhis annual report the Commissioner of Patents will ask that ais Burean be made & sepa- rate Department and ba reorganized throughout, B8 its work is altogethe: different from that of the other branches of the Depariment of the Interior, and bas grown far beyond the scheme of 1838, by which its operations are still regu- Jated. The Grend Trunk Railway of Canads, in order *0 make with railroads in the Usited States con- nections the want of which has beeu seriounsly feltinits business, has changed its gauge o - four feet eight and 5 half inches, This change ‘was made between Sarnia and Fort Erie, a dis- .tance of 200 miles, in one day. The Special Committee appointed by the ALCounty Commissioners to confer with the County Judges and the owners of tho abstract books report that the latter will sell the origi- ‘mal baoks, papers, and memoranda involved for £750,000. The Judges, thoy sy, agreed that it avas imperatively necessery for the county to obtain the property, bat declined to give any opinion concerning the price asked. ‘The most tender epistles have passed between iMr. 8. 8. Cox, the defeated candidate for Con- sgress from the Btate-at-large in New York, and Mr. Lyman Tremain, his successful opponent. PIr. Cox congratulates Mr. Tremain upon coming ont shead, and Mr. Tremain espresses BOITOw that Ar. Cox should not have been elected. Mr. Cox is “almost sorry,” s he expresses himself, -that he ‘““cannot be = colleague of Mr. Tre- main's,” and Mr. Tremain sincerely regrots it. IIr. Scammon is anxions that Secretary Bout~ el should issue a new lot of greenbacks, under .2 mistaken notion that that would mske the money market easy. If Mr. Scammon, Treas~ nrer of the Mutusl Security Insurance Compeny, wonld hand over Mark Kimball, Esq., assignee in bankruptey of that institution, the $40,000 of the Company’s funds in his hands at the time of the fire, he would do mors to relieve the money smarket hersabout than anything Ar. Boufwell 4an posgibly do with his new greenbacks. The Journal has advices from Springfield to the effect that Governor Oglesby is not distress- €d by the absurd rumor that Mr. Washburne is & candidate for the United States Senate. The ru- mor canxot be snid to be absurd so long ag it isa #act. It is possible that Governor Oglesby is strong enough to defeat any opponent, in which case, when that fact is ascertained, Mr. Wash- Aurne will, perhaps, withdraw. Meanwhile, the New York TWorld's Chicago correspondent has picked up an item to the effect that Hon. Shelby M. Cullom is & cendidate for Senator. — A correspondent of the Pall Moll Gazetle writes that the cholera epidemic of 1872, in the “Bengal Presidency, is virtuallyat an end. Though Zess fatel, a8 regards numbers, in comparison <vith some other seasons, the ettacks have been more then nsually virulent. The deatha among the civil native population are eet down at 2bout 100,000. The returns from the army ghow that twenty-four cantonments have been invaded. ‘The whole number of European $roops attacked was 750, of whom 480 died. The losses have been greatest in every instance where the sta- tions were overcrowded, and Where there %28 alack of pure air and water. “The dropsical malady which has succesded tl:e epizootic among the Lorses, while it has not liecome very general, is much more dangerous than the latter in character. The veterinarysur- geous pronounce it to be dropsy, and the natural result of the influenza in cases where the horses have been neglected or overworked, The first gradually extends all over the body. The New York surgeons say that care is required more than medicine, the latter consisting of saltpetre and glauber salts, and they recommend that the moment the horse is attacked he should be taken out of harness and put into hospital, or it will give rise to & complication of diseases and. Tesult fatally. e —— It will be seen from the report of the Com~ mon Council meeting, last evening, that Mance Talcott retires from the Board of Polico, and has ‘been succeeded by Charles A. Reno. The retiring Commissioner is & man of everyway t00 pro~ nounced characteristica not o have made his mark in his office, for he does nothing by halves, but we believe he long ago began to suspect, whet those who knew and esteemed him best in other relations to community were not tardy in discovering, that he has few of the trmts that belong to entire suc- cess in the delicate and difficult functions he hag just 1aid aside. He has forfeited nome of the confidence and reputation he had well earned, ag one of our oldeat and most eucceseful business en, by an almost utter feilure in his career in the Police Board, and as we expect to take him with us in this opinion, the statement iy the wore frankly mede, while with- out invidiousness we express the belief thaf Mr. Reno's appointment will lead fo quite different expectations from any that his predecessor ever vory gonerally awak- ened. The postis one that requires no ordi- nary class of human qualities, s paticnca greater than Job's,—end, cortainly, than Mr, Talcott’s, —a firmness that is not merely strength of will, an outspokon purpose that does mot expend iteelf in invectives. These, we trust, Mr. Reno has. If not, wo must search still further. The most recont aflliction, connected with the epizootic, is the announcement that it has seiz- ed upon the fowls, and that the bam-yards of New York, New Jersey, and Northern Pennsyl- vania are rapidly becoming depopulated of chickens, turkeys, geese, and ducks. The bipeds are seized in the same manner as the guadru- peds, exhibits the same symptoms, and are dsing by hundreds. The disease runs ils course in a very few hours, and the farmers, instead of applying any remedies, kill the fowlas soon as it is attecked and eend it {o market. Thisisa new and alarming feature. It is not only un- comfortable to suspect that we we may be eating roast, fried, broiled, and fricassecd epizootic,and that our ealads are compounded of celery, oil, and catarth, but what are we going to do on Thanksgiving and Christmas? These venerable anniversaries would bo siripped of all that makes them mem- orable without boiled turkey and roast goose. ‘There is no other obfective point around which e can concentrate associations or which affords & basis for thankfulness. With such slight oc- casions as there are just now for displays of gratitude, and with no chicken or turkey in the larder, Thanksgiving will be dreary. Asthe cat~ tle are commencing to come down with it, it only ramains now for the hogs and sheep to take it, and the sum of our diecomfort will be com- Pplete. The Chicago produce markets were generally higher yesterday, and meany of them more active. Mess pork was quict, but firmer for future ; closing at §14.50@15.00 for old ; £13.00 @18.25 for mew, end $12.3724@12.50 seller December. Lard wes more active, and a shade firmer, at 734c cash or seller December, and 75{c seller March. Meats were quiet and steady at 434c for part ealted shoulders ; 614@6%c for do short ribs, and 63@7e for do short clear. Bweet pickled hamawere dull at 914@10%4c. Highwines were guiet and steady, st 89c per gallon. Lake freights were moderately active and firmer, at 1lc for wheet and 10c for corn, by sail, to 2£nffalo. Flour was mors active, and quite firm. ‘Wheat was active and strong, advancing 4o, and closing at 21,073 seller themonth ; $1.073¢ seller December, and $1.08 seller January. Corn was dull, but }¢@34c higher, closing tame at 82)c seller the month, and 813¢c seller December. Oats were quiet, but {@23<c higher, closing at 220 geller tho month, and 2234 seller Devember. Rye wes quict and 34c higher, at33%c. Barley was active, and sdvanced 3¢ or No. 2, which closed irm at 642§@643c cash, and 63@63}c seller the month. The lower grades of barley were quiet and steady. The hog trade was fairly active, with prices stendy and uachanged, ranging et $4.00@4.20. Thers wasa good de- mand for cattle at lesi weel’s closing prices. Sheep were dull and nominal. THE CRY FOR MORE TEBRRITORY. Tt is given out that the leading policy of the Governmentduring the next four years willbethe acquisition of foreign territory. This meansag- gression, war, expenditure, Incresso of debt, the annexation of unwilling and hostile peoples, the multiplication of offices, and genoral dfs- turbance end embroilment. It is not difficult to understand the direction which territorial acqui- sition must take. It js not likely that any seri- ous effort will be made fo obtain any of the British provinces on our northern boundary. There are three points to which the hand of ac- quisition can be reached: These are, 1, the West Indies; 2, Mexico; and 8, Central America, In the West Indfes there aro several groups of islands, the purchase or geizure of which has at times, found advocates. In Andrew John- son’s time, Mr. Seward negotiated for the pur- chass of the volcanic rocks belonging to Den- mark, which scheme was defeated by the Senate. The price of thess was £7,000,000. In1870, Gegperal Babcock negotisted & treaty for the purchase of San Damingo, one of the Republics of the Island of Hayti, which purchase, when completed, will involve the acquisition of the other Republic. The purchase money, with the essumption of the San Domingo debt, fgnred up nearly $2,000,000, bot more likely 84,000,000, which amount, when Heyti is included, will be iner eesed to £10,000,000. The next group con- sists of he Spanish islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. Thé aeguisition of Cuba for nearly half a century was ardently desized by the slavehold- ing States as n means of etrengthening elavery. Fifteen yemrs or more sgo, in the hey-dsy of Franklin Pierce, the United Btates intimated a wiilingness fo pay £100,000,~ 000 for Cuba. With the ebolition of slavery, whatever excuse or pretext existed for the ac- quisition of Cubs also ceased. There is no part of her dominions to which Spain willmore tenacionsly cling thanto Cuba. Though that Govamiment i 80 neerly bankrupt that it has failed to piy inferest on its dedt for five years, though sheis withouj credit or money, there not be promptly given for the retepfion of Cubs. We cannot buy it. To recognize the ruffisns who claim to be the patriots in Cuba symplom is & 8Welling of the hind lege, which | 88 a Jegal Government, and_denl with them for the purchase of the island, would ba%n insult to the intelligence of the world. It'vouldin- volve us in & war with Spain. To acquire Cuba by this mesus will not costless than §500,~ 000,000. The Protectorate of Mexi i3 esnother; ‘end, with & certain clags. . -of - -persons, --a very - popular, ‘measure.”* Under guise of protecting “the fron~ tier, it is. assumed -that Mexico is nnable, or ro- fuses, to control .her .own citizens; therefore, an American_army ought to occupy so much of the territory of Mexico as is necessary to keep order on the frontier. This involves the disre- gurd of the laws and authority of Mexico in the tier of provinces next to the boundary line, and provokes an immediate war. The Protectorate, therefore, must be moved further south, until ab last it will involve the overthrow of the Na~ tional Government of Mexico, and the occupation of the conntry by an American army and a Mili- tary Government. Then will come the farce of State Conventions, and their admission into the Union, new carpet-bag Senators and Representa- tives, and Governors, with & steady accompani- ‘ment of eivil war 8o Jong a8 the Spanish blood continues to exist in the country. The Mexican Protect orate will not cost leas than £150,000,000 annually. Buch is the present range of proposed terri- torial acquisition. A Protectorate over the Central American States would naturally follow that over Mexico. But the term Protectorate, ‘when properly translated, means the conquest of all these conntries, and the extension of, our dominion over the whole of North America, and the iglands in the Eastorn.and Western océans. The mind can hardly grapple the immensity of the scheme, and there are but few who examine i ts detnils and trace out its inevitable conse- quences who will not shrink from it with the gravest approhension. In the train of such & scheme thero is everything that is fatal to Re- publicanism. There is war, debt, taxation, Dloodshed, increased pension lists, and the para~ phernalis of the seventeenth century, We have had a taste of thocost and desolation of warupon our own soil. ‘The consequences of that war will weigh upon us for half a century to come. A war with Spain or Mexico, or both, to wrest their territory from them—territory that we do mot want—will place us in arms against the moral sense of the civilized world. The Republic will become another name for the plunderer of the weak, the cruel invader of the helpless, the despoiler of nations, and the un-~ principled violator of human and national rights. The policy of the American Union is peace Any other condition is as hostile to our Republi- can principle as it ig dangerous to our unity. It is anomalous in our form of government to have direct taxes, or any Federal tnxes beyond the legitimate expenditures for an economical ad- ministration of the Government. Taxes to build and to maintain a navy to cut off the commerce and to blockade the ports and storm the cities of other nations, is repellant to tho purposes for which our Union was formed. It was never in- tended that wo should have aggressive navies, or standing armies, or military proconsuls, and, while thelast man and the last dollar may be wisely and legally employed for national defence, the people have & right to insist, and will insist, that not a man nor a dollar shall be expended in aggressive wars upon peaceful neighbors, for the purpose of capturing their territory or mur- dering thelr people. At this time, burdencd with a Naticnal debt of §2,000,000,000 ; paying interest on a Pacific Railroad debt of £60,000,000 more; with State and municipal debts counting by the hundreds of millions; with every person and interest taxed to the extremity of endurance; with a Govern- ment not yet purified of the laxity and ex- travagance fncident to & condition of war; with & voluminous issue of depreciated peper cur- rency ; with our whole financial system weak- ened by terrible destructions of wealth, and etrained to its ntmost tension; with the entire country suffering from financial goncy,—is this & time fo go upon a crusade to “extend the ares of freedom” by the overthrow of existing Governments, and the in- corporction of hostile people, spesking other tongnes, utterly ignorant of our institutions, and entertaining deeply-rooted antipathies to- wards us? Aro the financial and commercial interests of the United States prepared for such o state of things ? Is thatwhat they voted for in the recent election ? 'We think not, CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. The Preeident’s rebuff of the Cameron-Hart- ranft politicians in Pennsylvania in the matter of tho Philadelphia Post Office, and the Murphy gang in New York in the matter of the New York Barveyorship, and his declaration that he will enforce the Civil Service rules, are received with great satisfaction thronghont the country. 18 not s jewel nor s penny in all Spain that will ; They are the first anthoritative revocation of the fatal political heresy which was inflicted on the country by Andrew Jackson, and hes tended to~ ward its misgovernment ever since, that the offices which the President has the power to fill by appointment shall be considered as the “gpoils™ and plunder of a victorious party (ora faction of a party), instead of the means of administering government with the greatest shill and economy, ‘Unto the victors be- long the epoils” was o maxim which likened the Government pffices to & conquered city given over to be eacked by & public and ruthless enemy. Borrowed from the severest doctrines of war, itisno wonder that it has proved in- iquitous as o maxim of Government during peace. Wehope that President Grant’s action mesns that henceforth the offices of the Civil Bervice are not to bo deemed the provender of the politicians, but are to be filled on a system which shall look solely to the eficiency of the public service. The system of promotion ac- cording to experience and merit is business-like, and will please the business men of the country. 1t is the gist of the Cincinngti platform on thispoint. It is what every capable businees ‘man practices in the promotion of his employes, Let it be medo a part of the Common Law of our country, and it will be found that the Civil Bervice will be studied and followed as o profession by meny of our ablest men, instead of being an asylum for party strikers and spout~ ers. Letpromotion in office be won, mot by services on the stump, nor by getting up torch- light perades gnd ward clubs, but by ekill, ex- perience, competenay, and aptitude for the ‘Quties of office; and not oniy would our politi- cal campains lose much of their vulgarity and vonom, but we ehould soon see in office men who have mads the questions of administration bearing on their own offices & study and special- ty. As our country advences in population and area towards tho hundred millions of pzople we i}l number before the close of this century, the practical administration of the Government Faust become moro sad iore & specialty anda profecsion. The Civil Service must be the life- study of those who would o strin-" fitness for it, just as the Navy and Military Ser-~ vice now are. ‘Under European (iovernments, their arigtocratio orders mark particular citizens from birth for these walls «f ife, and their ed- ucation is directed to fit them for the sphere they are. -to fll It is impossible that the ‘details of our administration, diplomatic and - civil, in our Rove- -Due Offices, Post Offices, Custom Houses, and Consulships shall be perpetually in the hands of novices and araateurs withont perpetually disgracing the republican system in its competic tion and rivalry with the monarchical. Yet it is the fnsuperabls objection to our past system of using offices s the &poils of victory that the mass of office-holders are always apprentices, and, just as they come to know something of the duties of their offices, they are turned out to make -room for other apprentices. A village lawyer from Missouri, Who never saw an invoice or bill of lading in his life, and knowa not & ‘word of Dutch, is made Consul at Rotterdam, Aleader of county rings is made Collector ot Revenue, though every antecodent of his lifa indicates that he will divide the revenue ss fast 28 he collects It. ‘Wo do not contend ihat 8ll, or the chief nart of, Civil Bervice Reform is to be fonnd in the simple adoption of the rule of promotion in- stead of the previous rule of party plunder. But if the head of the Government once min- cerely desires and aims at reform, the other needed reforms will follow. We need some an- thoritative proof-that public office is not to he confined in its distribution to the few who may agree on all points with the President’s political views or personal policies; that assessments for party purposes are not to be made on office- holders; that good men are not to be dis- charged from their offices because of their divergence from the President’s views on questions not affecting the duties of their ofice. The President shows evidence of having profited by the real lesson d¥ the cam- paign. This was, not that the people oppose the reforms embraced in the Cincinnati plat- form. On the contrary, the mass of thoss who voted againgt Mr. Greeley sincercly desire those reforms. The attitude assumed by the Liberals revealed President Grant's weak points withont depriving him of his stronger ones. The weak points thus revealed he evinces a de- gire to correct, and we heartily congratulate him on his new deparfure. Despatches from Wash- ington intimate that his message will take lib- eral ground toward the South as well- as toward Civil Service Reform. If go, and if Congress shall follow in the same vein, the seed sown at Cincinnati will have grown into its most de- sired fruitage and harvest. THE CAUSES OF FIRE. The New York Times, in discussing the gen- eral subjact of fires end the question why they spréad more rapidly at certain times than others, geeks to account for them by sundry mysterious combinations in and conditions of the atmos- phere,—a certain chemical disbolism, for which 1o one can sccount and against which it is use- lesa to take precautions. This is simply super- stition. 'We heard the same kind of talk imme- diately after the Chicago fire, and there were not & few who satisfied themeselves that the fire was the result of & peculiar combination of torna- does, electrical phenomens, snd chemical agen- cies in the atmosphero, which could neither bave been guarded against nor controlled. The exact reverse of this was the csse. Every cause and characteristic of the Chi- cago firo is 28 clear a8 the cunlight. First, there was an abeence of rain for two or three months preceding the fire, 50 that every- thing inflammablo was completely dry. Second, & furious sonthwest wind was blowing at the time. Third, the extensive wooden quarter of the city, in which the fire originated, created an intense heat. Fourth, the supply of water was cut off at an early stage of the fire, Fifth, the combinstion of intense heat, & high wind, and vast volumes of flame, and the absence of water with which to check ita spread; and, sixth, the faulty construction of buildings. This is the plain enumeration of facts connected with the Chicago fire. Things that wers not combustible were not destroyed. There was no atmoepher- ical combination destroying eversthing with which it came in contact ; if there had been, human beings would have been destroyed. It was only where the fire came in actusl contact that damage was inflicted. There was no myste- rious destroyer in the atmosphere itself. Both the causes and their manner of operation are perfectly clear, and there is no resson to believe that the same combination of causes will not again produce exactly the samo result. The ides of atiributing to supernaturalism what is clearly due to obvious natursl laws, is as sbeurd as was the kindred attempt of some clergymen to at- tribute it to a visitation of Divine wrath. BUILDING INSPECTION. The general discussion of building matters that has followed the Boston fire should suggest to the Common Council of Chicago the necessity for taking gome further action inthe wayof preventing the recurrence 1n this city of exten- sive and disastrous conflagrations. There are two things needed: 1. An important amendment to the fire ordi- nance. 2. Provision for & system of Building ITnspec- tors, whose duty it shall be to report infringe- ‘ments upon the fire regulationa. The circumstance that the burned district of Boston was composed almost exclusively of granite, iron, brick, and stone buildings proves that protection against great fires requires some- thing more than the construction of the walls {rom incombustible material. In therebuilding of Chicago there are two notable defects, which are not sufficiently covered by the existing fire ordinance. In regard to the Mansard roof, the. ordinance simply provides that it *“shall be con- structed, as to its outside surface, of fire-proof or non-igniteble material.” The thin coating of slate which is placed upon these wooden super- structures is enough to comply with the law, but not enough to furnish reasonable protection sgainst the spread of fire. The provision should be amended so as to compel all who avail themeelves of {he ornamental Mansard to construct with & facing of iron before the slate is put on, or otherwise render it a8 nearly non- ignitable a8 any other story in the building. The benefits of tho beat of firo ordinances, however, must be somewhat uncertain without an adequate system for their enforcement. The pexslties are not enough. Many of the wisest provisions refer to interior construction, which can only be noted dnr'mg the process of build- ing. There is no other way to enforce the fire ordingnce rigidly than by the sppointment of public Building Inspectors. Tt is by this means that Earopesn cities gasure protection sgainst the spread of fire. The Stste Le, ture, prompted £ doso by tho falling of & Ghicags “or pretend any | building. suthorized the sPPointmens of such TInspectors by the City Charter of 1867, so thst there is ample mt.hnrir;y a8 well a8 necessity for them. When there is any public im- provement, as in the paving of streets, the Board of Pablic Works employs an Inspector f.r the job, whose daty it is to £oe that the terms of the contract are ful- filled by the contractor. Tle gas companies, though private corporations, take the precau- tion of refusing to place meters, or furnish ges, until after the pipes and fixtures shall have passed the inspection of an expert employed by them. Certainly, then, the City Government should take equal precaution in a matter which concerns the common welfare of all citizens. “What is everyhody'a business is nobody's; citi- zens do not voluntarily turn informers, and, without & regular system of public officers to watch the interests of the public in the con- struction of buildings, Chicago will derive but a partial benefit from & fire ordinance that might save it from s second destruction. To take single item in building, the case of chim- neys and flues will illustrate the necessity for rigid inspection. A prominent architect says that the provisions of the ordinance in regard to their construction, and 'with reference to their proximity to inflammsble material, are not fol- lowed in one case out of ten. Yetthereisno other source from which 8o many conflagrations take their origin. The construction of chimneys according to 1aw can only be enforced by close inspection. The cost to the city of a snfficient number of Building Inspectors to insura the observance of the ordinance would be comparatively trifling. They need not be expensive men,—sufficient in- telligence to comprehend the law, sufficient in- dustry to give their time to it, and sufficient honesty to make fair reports,—would be the only requisites. They should have certain dis- tricts of the city allotted to them ; divided ac- cording to the amount of building, and they should be under the snpervision of the Board of Public Works. Miss Emily Faithfull desires, befora sho leaves Chicago, to edd her contribution to the ‘many noble offerings it bas received, and for that pur- pose will give a lecture to-night, el the proceeds of which ehall go tothe Academy of Design, which, as all remember, lost its art treasures, ita building, and its means in the fire. Those who, with Miss Faithfull, are solicitonsthat one of the finest of our public resorts should speedily re- open its galleries, and would also like to get glimpses into the lives and characters of Lord Palmerston, Lndy Morgan, Disracli Lord Brougham, Mrs. Jamesos, Adelaide Procter, Lord Derby, Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir John Coleridge, and other eminent English men and ‘women, should give Miss Faithful the compliment, and the Academy of Design the profit, of their sttendance. So much curiosity is shown to Imow all about this gifted Englishwoman, that we give a few facts of her life. She is the youngest daughter of an English clergyman, and is 37 years old, having been born in 1835, A short time after reaching womanhood she was presented at Chart, and mingled for a while in the gaieties cf the London season. But tho same suffering \:at inspired the Song of the Bhirt inspired her . ; abandon this aimless life, and devote herseli and her moderate fortune to the csuse of the thousands of poor working- women of London. Her efforts have been directed to extending the sphers of employment for women. Her agitation has been for their industrial, not for their political, righta. In 1860, she collected aband of female compositors, and, in spite of great difiiculties, founded o typographical estab- lishment, in which women were employed as compositors. To ehow her approbation of Miss Faithfoll's philanthropic labors, the Queen has appointed her Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Her connection with the Vie- toria Magazine is well known, but it is ot gen- erally known that thoelittlo patrimony Miss Faithfull inherited was sunkin the enterprise. Miss Faithful hes writtens novel, “Change Upon Change,” which ran into a second edition within a month of its appearance. —_— Art and politics have become singularly and unplessant Iy mixed in Enrope, and both in Paris and St. Petersburg musicis now judged from the political point of view. At the last popular concert of M. Pasdeloup in Paris, the orcheatra played Wagner's overture to “* Rienzi” as artiats, and then, as Frenchmen, turned round and hissed it, and have now flatly’ refused to play any more German music, nob objacting to it from an artistic pointof view, but simplybecanse itis German. The public has indorsed the muai~ cians and refuse ‘to hear any more German mausic, and M. Pasdelonp has been obliged to make s public announcement that for the present all music will be adapted to French patriotism. As the French have scarce- Iy ever had a musician who was not of German birth or German education, they, of course, ara reduced to & meagre lot of indifferent music. Mallinger, the famous rival of Lucca in Berlin, hes been hissed in St. Potersburg, partly be- cause she bears a German name and partly be- cause sho belongs to the Berlin Opera Honse, ‘Tho jealonsy and hatred of everything German in Ruseia is rapidly increasing. A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazetle explains that Lucea wes mnot hissed abt Bt. Peters- burg, because sho is half Xialian by birth; but 8s Luces, at the time of her Prussian season, belonged to the Berlin Opera House, 8s her repertoire is very largely German, as her successes have been principally made in Germany, as she was for s long time the favorite singer of the Prussian Court, and sufficiently & favorite of Bismarck to be photographed side by side with him, and s she married & German military officer, the Baron Von Rahden, the point made by the Rus- siang is more nice than sensible. The facts only show what an extont of political bitterness ex- ists where a people refuses to listen to music, which i8 of no nationality, but a universal languaga, because it happens to be produced by their opponenta. —_——— A very tumultuous and exciting scene took Placo in London, on the 1st inst,, upon the oc- casion of 2 meeting, held by the Sabbatarians of East London, to protest against the opening of the Bethnal-Green Musenm on Sundays. The Babbatarians packed the meeting two hours be- fore the time of opening, as announced, and thus prevented the Sunday Leaguers aund ont- siders from getting in. The latter, 2,000in num- ber, held an ontside mesting, at which there was also a large crowd of Sabbatarians present. Speeches were made pro and con., the disputa- tion at last getting so warm that blows were {reely exchanged between the rival factions, This disgracefal conduct was kept up for & long time, and the end is notyet. More mestings are advertized and more disturbances are antici~ pated. Tt is mot difficult to seo that the Sab- batarians are inflicting immenss damage to their cause by such proceedings. The opening of a museurn on Sunday afternoons for the benefit and plessure of workingmen, who have no other day of recreation, is certainly not s sufficient moral provocation for such violence, The Nottingham Branch of the Workingmen's International Association has recently published & pamphlet entitled ““The Law of the Revoln~ tion,” and the Secretary of the Association for- warded s copy to Mr.John Stuart Mill, who ackmowledged its receipt in & very interesting letter to the Association. While sympathizing with the Association in ifs recognition of the claim of women to equal rights in all Fespects with men, and of minorities, propor- tionately to their number, with majorities, he | makes strong objections to the words ¢ the revolution,” ccntending that “the revolution,” a8 a name for any set of principles or Opinions, is not English, and that it proceeda from an in- firmity of the French mind, which leads it away by phrases and abatractions, as if they were realities. Ho takes the advenced ground that theve is no real thing cail:d “ifie ion," a0d that thero ara no sue. “hug- as * priuei des of the revolution.” 3Ar. Ml closes his letter with the following warning to the Association: There are maxims which your Association, in my opinion, rightly considers to be estential to just gov- ernment, and there is o tendency, increaslng ta man- Kind advances in intelligence and education, toward the adoption of the doctrines of just govérnment, These are all the facts that are in the case, and the more clearly and unambiguously these, and nothing but these, are stated, the better people wiil understand one another, and the more distinctly they will see what {iey are disputing ahout, sud what tiey are avowed toprove. When, instead of this, men range them~ selves under banners as friends and enemies of the “xevolution,” the only important question which ia just and useful is kept out of sight, snd messurea ara Judged, not by their real worth, but by the analogy they seém to bear to an irrelevant abstract. The New York Advertising Agency of Messra. Rowell & Co. have recently issued a catalogue of American publications which presents some interesting. information. There are 6,432 poriodical publications in the United States, of ‘which only 507 are daily newspepers. The bulk of this number is inade up of weekly newspapers, smounting, in the aggregate, to 4,750. There are 685 monthlies, and 55 quarterlies, the re- maing 831 being divided among the weokly, semi-weekly, and other occasional publica~ tions. Floridla has no daily newspaper, ‘The Territories have 87 publica- tions, including 18 dailies, and the British Dominions have 403 periodicals all told. The number of daily newspapers in the country has decreased 74 during the past year—a circumstance that may be useful as & warn- ing. New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chi-~ cago are the great centres. The State of Illinois tokes high rank in the comparative amount of the current literature it farishes, issuing 518 periodical publications,—s. larger number than any other State except New York and Pennsyl- vanis. Among the journalistic specialties, re- ligion has more organs than anything else, agriculture, education, Fres Masonry, snd 0dd Tellowship following in this order. There are 74 medical perioeicals and 80 that are published for the children. B The American Geographical Society propose tosend to the Vienna International Exposition 8 collection of maps, photographs, reports, State surveys, and other documents containing statis- tical or illustrative information concerning the various sections of our country. The task of making this collection has been intrusted to Mr. Francis A. Stout, the Vice President of the Society. He has already received valusble con- tributions from the railroads embracing new territory, and he is particularly anxious that the progress, prosperity, and material ad- vantage of the West should have a foll representation. To this end he invites contributions, illustrating productive capacity and geographical features, from all as- sociations, officials, and individuals who may be interested in spreading information concerning America among the people of Europe. As it is the purpose to deposit the collection in Vienna, after the exhibition shall have been closed, where they will always be open to those who visit that capital, the collection may be looked upon as an important stimulant for emigration,—a cause in which the people of the West are especially in- terested. All contributions should be forwarded to Francis A. Stout,Vice President of the Ameri- can Geographical Society, Cooper Institute, New York, i e S France promises us another * Iron-Mask ” mys- tery. The hero in this modern case is said to be M. Henri Rochefort. Everybody supposed that this bedlamita was rusticating in New Caledonia. At least, we had vivid accounts, several months ‘ago, of his voyage, eye-witnesses of his depar- ture, and a touching story that a lady had joined him from the coest of England, ready to sacri- fice the comforts and pleasures of civilized life o share with him the trials and sufferings of a penal colony, Now the London Slandard tells us that Rochefort recently turned up at Ver- sailles, still & prisoner, but voluntarily & bride- groom. The occasion of his appearance is said to have been that of marrying s woman with whom ho had lived for many years for the purpose of meking their children legitimate in the eyes of the law. As it isgcarcely supposable that the authorities would allow Rochefort to come 2ll the way back from New Caledonia to take part in this ceremony, the conclusion is that he hes been stowed away in some one of the many State prisons of Frence, where his preeence Las been concealed from the public. —_——— POLITICATL. The Presidential Electors meet in the several State Capitals, and vote, on the first Wednesday in December. —How Grant came by 137,575 majority in Pennsylvania is thus explained: 1872, Liberal. | Repub, [aj. Oct., Buckalew, 817,760/H: $53,387 85,627 Nov., Greeley, 212,014'Grant, 349,589 137,573 —The vote of Delaware: 1872, Seymon.. -18,980|Greeley. 10,208 Grant. « 7,623(Grant.” 11,116 —The vote of 82 counties in Tenuass:a, for Congressmen-at-large, is: Maynard, 72,225; Cheatham, 61,627; Andy Johnson, 85,759, ~—The vote of Maryland: Seymonr. ersifarecey... 2572 PR recl Grant. . 30/439|Grant 1. 66,440 Had thero been s Legislatare {o alect in Maryland, the Republicans would have carried it by 15 majority on joint ballot. ~—The story that Colonel Thomas A. Scott de~ sires to compete with Simon Cameron for the Pennsylvania Senatorship is wholly without foundation. ¥ —The Quincy Whig, and other Grant papers, are naming Shelby M. Cullom for Speaker of the Tllinois Legislature. He wes Speaker in the session of 1861, —TFor Speaker of the Wisconsin Legislature, the names of Samuel §. Brannan, of Portage, and H. D. Barron, of Polk, have thus far been mentioned. —The votea of the Mare Island Navy-Yard having failed, this year, to re-elect Congressman Coghlan, on the day after election many men whoe anawered roll-call received their money and ‘were discharged ; and as many as 600 have been turned adrift. —Congressman Rusk’s majority, in the TLa Crosse (Wis.) District, is 7,533, —The Memphis Aralanche is not satisfied with the classification of members elect to the Tennessee Legislature, and says: We would like to seo s classification based,on some- thing real—as, for instance, those who are in’ favor of a liberal system of free schools and those opposed to tho system ; those who aro in favor of & new Constl tution and those who prefer the presentone; Who belleve in reforms and those who are against em, —Now that the Radical party has been suc- cessful in securiog the election of General Grant, we may lno§ forward confidently to an early expression of that sympathy for the South 80 loudly expressed in their platforms and or- gons. 'The field is & very large one for its dis- DPlay, and the sooner they go about it the sooner we will become reconciled to the issues of the election.—New Orleans Times. —Senator Conkling's organ, the Utica Herald, is calling upon Senator Fenton, among others, to resign his seat in the Senate, because his State did not see fit to vote a8 he did on the Presiden- tialissue. Copsidering that, for four consecu- tive Btate elections following upon Conkling’s election fo the Senate, his State repudisted him by Igrger and larger majarities, and that, through this whole period, Lord Boscoa clung with firm p to his Senatorial chair, this demand upon Eonator Fenton is decidedly eool.—Syracuse Courier. & Financial Troubles in South Carolina. New Yok, Nov. 18.—Despatches from South Carolina say that the State Comptroller pro- poges_to raise o sum OBy equal to that re- Quired in $9,365,908 of the funded debt, leaving about £6,000,000 uoprovided for. These are of the conversion bouds, and largely held in the North, buk no satisfactory sccount of then salo has ever been made, and the Comptrollez ynclim\!ly repudiates them. The Tribune sa; “The taxes that are to 0’ collected to meet the interest on the remainder of the funded debt are wof to bo converted qfixu lléo State e withoat n el on the Treasury clear that even the officials do Dot trust ecch other.” ) ¢ ‘ THE CITY IN'BRIEF] Evervything. ¢ A new Presbyterian Charch is to be aganized at Riverside on Sunday next. General Sanford, our former excellen; Afiniss ter to Belgium, was in Tar TRIBONE yea- terday. . Sonator Harris, who ig to represent Lonisiana in tho Upper House of the Nation, i, a¢ 118 Sherman. { The Star and_Crescent . Club goiree at Snow’s Dancing Academy, Halsted street, to-morrow evering. Grace Greenwood, the charming writer, i8 v iting her friend Dr. William E. Giarke, Ko. 41 West Monroe street. The public schools, especially those of . South Disision, are overflowing with pupils, and. many children are waiting for sdmisaion to soma of the grades. Thers will be an oyster supper this evening a3 the Michigan Avenue_Baptist Church, for the benefit of the Ladies' Furnishing Fund. Pasgengers that reached this city’ yesterday were delayed several hours east of Baffalo by two feet of snow. They did not spesk of itas “ Beautiful.” The merchant tailoratore of J. P. Engart, No. 55 West Randolph street, was burglarized on Sanday night of 3130 warth of cloth. The Rev. Robert Laird Collier has withdrawn from all the lecture engagements he has made for the winter, and declines to make any new ones on any acconnt. Captain George Washburn, of the New York Police force, who has been visiting his_relative, Superintendent Washburn, for a few days, laf this city for Alton lust evening. _A literary and musical enterteinment will be given at thie Twenty-fifth Street Baptist Church, near Wentworth avenue, this evening. Resd- ings by A. P. Burbank will cccupy most of th evening. Mr. George Ashley, of Rochester, N. Y., w known to the Eastern clothing trade a3 & sac- cessful salesman and careful mavager of 1 establishments, has connected et with th Chicago branch of & Boston wholesale house. The roof of the great Rock Island depot at th foot of LsSalle street is nearly finished,~ ° trains will amive and depart from this nlag- nificent passenger house befors New Years eatly to the advantage of the public, ==, _ ly suburbans. The residents of the South Division msy con gratulate themselves upon the opportunity o; hearing Miss Emily Faithfall lecture this eve- ing, it the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, or “Glimpees of Great Men and WomenI H Enown.” The proceeds of the lecture are to bt applied to the benefit of the Chicago Academy o Design. . The Library Association of Centenary M. E Church to-night give their first lits = tainment, in the lecture room of the church The programme embraces music, readings, 8ays, etc., the proceeds to be used toward su plying the church with e free library. The put li¢ generally are invited to attend, The Chicago City Railwsy Company hag now large force of men at work laying the doubl track on South Clark street. They have:™ proceeded from Twelfth street north to Pol street, and will continne to Clark streat bridy, where s junction will be formed with the N Chicago Company’s lines, Among the notable arrivals at the M: ™ House, yesterday, wers Judge J. Monson Mas Secxe(nré:l State of Maryland, Aunapolis, Md G. H. Barker and lady, Cinciumati; J-_ Morgan _and Jady, New Orleans; G- Pritchard, Esq., London, Ont; L. Carriott %Iaasizm, taly ; J. B. Kendall, Esq., Lonisvill 5. - el 0. 8 No. 62Sotth Tho last of Mra. T.. B, Chandler’s meey - will be held to-morrow afternoon at 23¢ o' st the residence of Mrs. George Scoville, 260 Warren avenue. - Important business wi considered. _All interested are dosired ¢~ preeent. “Methods of Moral Education’™ be the subject discusted. Ificheel Hsgan, who was arraigned b * Commissioner Hoyne about a week since, oo & charge of uttering counterfeit money, and w" case was then postponed to afford him an oppc tunity to prove his innccence of criminal inten was bxma%?t before the Commissioner again ¥ terday. The examination resulted in the accus being held for trial in bail of 32,000 There is a stir among the dry bonea of of the Pennsylvanis oil companies organized the dozen in this city seve yearsago. It h been discovered, in two or three instances (o of ehout one hundred), that :g fellows b been working the abandons property these compsnies, and made a good thi onb of . it, It i3 rumored th & couple of hundred thousand dollars have t cleared in the %sac four seasons in one comp that even its Chicago Directors had for,, " the name of. An agent has been sent down 8see about it. On not a few of the buildings in process erection work is being pushed moat actively, & with large gangs of men to secure their b_ enclosed before the setting in of winter. E cept Patter Palmer's, on which work has b suspended, and the Castom House, only recent begun, all the hotel structures are being put readiness to be warmed and finished during t. winter. The Orient House isreceiving i:s far ture, and will be opened in about a month. T: contracts for the ranges and kitchen fnrniture the Grand Pecific were made yesterdsy, A neat and ingenious devige, worthy of & cago backman, has been introduced b some West Division Omnibus Company.- 14 not honest, but honesty cannot be looked 1 The devise is to purchase & number of om buses bearing the 'lg?:nd, ‘“Walash - and drive them from Nobey to State street. the West Sido passengers get cut before £ street is xeached, and South Siders, anxious s ride to Twenty-second-street, fe: in. Byt time the time they have paid their fare— cei:l‘fi—stlta is ’lauc%:d, the driver - * Fer a8 wo. go!” erenpon, the gentlem take the driver's number, and the lidies, w cannot sweer or thrash the crael deceiver, ¢ on an injured look, and wearit for the r the day.” Either the lettering on these v ' ° shonld be changed, or the Mayor's polics sha bring the offenders to justics, or His Hor But everybody kmows Low long it will be ba. either remedy will be applied, and until th safest way is not to be caught. Anadjourned meeting of the St. George’ugfie ty would havebeen held last evening, st the ers’ Exchange, but for the trifling drcumstin of the absence of a quorum. Meswhile, b and two reporters enjoyedan inte ing dinlo‘fle between Mr. Charks and I Cramp. ‘The former was canvassing fora b_ and offended the latter, wheroupon thel grew exceedingly irate. 'Many ecaching thir were said by both parties. For izstance, W’ Mr. Charles was pacing the room iu restles: tation, Mr. Crump suggested thet, if he did ¢l at home, he would drive his wife ceazy; Wk apon . Charles eaid he had no fearof | effect upon Alr. Crump, &s nature had forestal him. “Naturo!” repeated Mr. Crump _ times, and that wasail he eaid. Then Mr. taunted Mr., Cmmi with having run for a. the Society on the burlesqua ticket, Crump retorted that Mr. Charles had rush Chicago from Toronto v eloctioneer for 8: tary. And thus thege twa amiable boya amt themselves, until a dozen others came in, The gentlemen and ladies Iiving west of Chicago River are jbeginning to think that i all an illusion that they ever occupied a sbr car, and wonder what the tracks arc doing geveral streets. As they appear to bavo no ject in life in Iying, the gentlemen think £ might be removed without loss to the city + sold for old iron. Two orthres young men Western avenue snd thereabouts are hi ing abt" fried horse with roast b stufing, and other, monsirons di" Rather than outrage the palates tieso yonng men one would think the West vision Car Company. might .yun car now then, once a week say, in order to be re ed. If they lack the enterprisa to folly fortnighe behind the other sueet car comp' in the resumption of business, it would be i as well for them to spply to some gentlo , tioneer to assist them in ehifting the re.; bility somewhere else. Somebody might F chase the stock, who combined mdgyerprzge ., few dollars, and who Imew that to accommt the public was toreap & very rich reward. [t could not the stockholders arrangs to & fil 77 :::3152 ?t.ha Snpemtendency, or do sometl